Once upon a time, in a far away land, a mercinary/spy/special operations agent lived in a military-owned testing facility. All though he had everything his heart desired the agent was lonely. But then, one winter's night, he noticed he had aged overwhelmingly in the past few hours. When he frightfully questioned the enchanting scientist, Dr. Naomi Hunter, of the source of this predicament, she told him that he had undergone a sequence called advanced cellular degeneration caused by the cloning process that created him many years ago. She dismissed him and worked hard for a cure. After many hours she emerged from her lab with a bottle filled with a glowing pink liquid. Holding out a dark pink needle with a flowery shaped push-handle she spoke, saying the potion was called ROSE (Redemption and Order, Snake's Epidemick). He was told to inject a very small amount each time he began aging again as the cure was only temperary, and that he could make it permanent if he injected himself while deeply loving another, for that would open up a certain neccessary part of his brain for the potion to flood into.
Repulsed by the 'temporary' factor the spy smeared at the gift and turned the cure away, demanding a permanent one. But she warned him not to be decieved by appearences for beauty is found within, and when he dismissed her again the doctor proceeded back into her lab. Before she could find a permanent cure, she died of cancer.
The spy tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she was long gone from his world. Ashamed of his monstrous attitude and form the spy concealed himself inside the abandoned testing facility with a dimension portal as his only escape into the outside world. The ROSE epidemick she had offered was given to him in her will along with the information that if he would inject it periodically and fall deeply in love before the last of the potion was used up then the aging process would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a constantly aging man for all time.
As the weeks and months passed he fell into despair and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?