Zarek was more than a little surprised by what he saw. A Variable Mutant was a rarity, a true one, even at the start of the apocalypse.
Variable Mutants were the result of an evolutionary screw-up on the part of the system, though technically it was serendipity on the part of the Variable Mutant themselves… well, other than the fact they were dumb as rocks.
Mutants could grow to be quite intelligent, but Variable Mutants were exactly how dumb people assumed animals to be, except they were actually so dull, while animals tended to be more intuitive and clever than they were given credit for.
The problem with Variable Mutants was clashing thoughts and ideals. They were the result of accidental fusion between several immature Turned in the process of becoming mature Turned.
Because of the, well… variables involved in their formation, Turned almost never reached this point.
