Name: Petya Alkaev, her friends call her. Definitely not a legal name though, as she made it up.
Codename: Shifter
Age: She doesn't know. Her first face was that of a middle-aged woman, but nothing about that body feels right to her.

Gender: Male, female, it doesn't matter. Ambiguity works so well, she rarely bothers with the private parts. She doesn't even truly care which pronoun others use, though usually her own tastes lean towards the feminine.
Place of Birth: She remembers waking up in Russia and speaking the language with an atrocious accent. Beyond that, she doesn't really know. The fact that no-one can really pinpoint her natural accent doesn't help.
Affiliations: She has some connections to both the criminal underground and the heroes in Russia, specifically Lady Fortune, a well known telepath famous for taking on only super villains. Whenever she visits the US, she commonly partners up with the Orchid, a League member known for his healing powers.

Occupation: Does thieving count as a day job? Pickpocketing and cheating people out of their money is how she makes her living these days. Those who know of her occupation actively question her hero-status. Thankfully Petya isn't one to share private information with just anyone.

Appearance: As a shapeshifter, Petya doesn't feel the need to stick to a single body for too long. Changing appearances is a good way avoid getting caught, and you don't want to get caught when stealing important information or money.

She has a ”default” of course, something she built for the days when she doesn't feel the need to steal or spy and goes for the heroics or a casual night out instead. At these times, Petya is an odd, ambiguous combination of both masculine and feminine traits, which makes it impossible to tell her gender. Her thin body is described as ”boyish” by some, ”girly” by others, loose clothing hiding any possible (and non-existent) indication feminine and masculine traits as well as the wiry muscle she's gained over the years. She has a fluff of brown hair that curls around the ears and stops before reaching the jaw. Her face has a look of something inhuman, interesting or unsettling instead of attractive, all soft angles and sharp edges at the same time.

Considering her powers, having a suit made of anything but her own body would be incredibly expensive. Just imagine all those suits destroyed after a single transformation! Instead she uses her ability to manipulate her own body, using her hair to build a full body suit, gleaming with the natural color of her hair. Easy to retract, easy to put back on! What's not to love?

Her voice changes as her body does, especially when she lets loose, but outside of the heroics, Petya's voice stays warm, inviting and annoyingly gender-ambiguous.

Powers: Petya's entire life revolves around her ability to shape her body to her own will. Her abilities aren't unlimited, but they put her far above any ordinary man. If she wishes to, she can take the shape of anything she can think of. What she can't do is change her body weight. Creating inorganic body parts is also impossible. She may take the form of a motorcycle, but she'll still be made of meat and bones. Beyond that, her own creativity and anatomical knowledge are the only limit she has. Petya is able to transform as quickly as she wants to. While the shapeshifting can look and sound painful, the aches she feels during and after the transformations have never slowed her down unless she's badly injured.

To put things into simpler terms: Biomorphing without the plant morphing and elasticity(gotta stretch them body parts for them to take on a new shape). She's unable to create substances she doesn't already create in abundance. Taking the shape of a scorpion is all good, but creating the venom isn't possible.

Skills: Quick on her feet, Petya is great at hand-to-hand combat that she mixes fluidly with her powers. She has a specific love for knives, and a skill to match it. She would most definitely bring one to a gunfight. Observant and a ruthless opportunist, Petya is good at making plans on the fly. Most of them are pretty good, too, at least for her. A masterful liar and manipulator.

Equipment/Resources: Even a simple utility-belt would fall off as soon as the shapeshifting would start. She wants to carry knives, but for now she's needed to lean on her own body and any weapon she can find around her, improvised or otherwise.

Weaknesses: In the end she's just as vulnerable as any human. Shoot her enough times and you will be able to stop her. Cold weather seems to slow down her ability to shapeshift.

She's not too big on working with people she doesn't know either, especially if she doesn't gain anything from it. Solo is the way to go, unless you're speaking of her dearest healer or a specific heroic telepath from Russia. She rarely takes things seriously either, unless it's a matter that directly involves her.

Psychological Profile: For someone who hasn't had the easiest life, Petya's surprisingly joyous. She seems to take the most out of everything, enjoying life while it lasts. This tends to lead to long nights in bars, expensive meals, traveling and flirting with just about anyone. She does what she wants to do, whenever she wants to do it. What matters is that she feels good, and if other people happen to enjoy it at the same time, that's even better.
For someone so flighty, she's surprisingly loyal. The only reason she's in the superhero business to begin with is due to a promise she made to someone she trusts. Big on grand gestures, being her friend is either extremely enjoyable or horribly awkward. This blends to her superhero persona as well. One-liners are known to happen.
There's a slight undertone of desperation under all this, something Petya purposefully tries to ignore. She can't seem to choose what she wants to do with herself, so she tries to do everything at once. Sometimes it leads to her rushing into things without thinking them through. Thankfully she's good at thinking on her feet.
It's important to note that she won't take the form of anyone who exists or has existed. She finds it incredibly disturbing when people recognize her as someone she didn't make up. Not only that, she can't really stretch her creative muscles by just copying someone.

Biography: Petya doesn't know anything about her past. The first thing she remembers is waking up in some alley-way in Volgograd wearing a body she didn't recognize and speaking a language she didn't know she could speak. Even more odd were the powers she had, the ability to stretch and change her face and body into something it wasn't before.

At the start, Petya's goal was to figure out who she was, something that ended being pretty much impossible when you had no name, no identification to start with. She didn't even know if the first face she wore was a real one. More than that, apparently you needed money to do anything. Even worse, you couldn't really get a job when you didn't even know your real name.

Petya found herself taking others money instead, and found that she was really good at it as well. If you wore the right face and acted in a specific way, it was easy to fool people out of their money. The money helped, but you needed more if you wanted out of the country. After a year of searching for any type of clue, she gave up. There was nothing she could find, not a single clue she could fallow Angry, she did her best to forget the difficult first year, opting to change faces often. She created some ties to the criminal underground, creating plenty of mayhem as she went, leaving before things truly blew out of hand. Some of these ties still hold strong, specifically inside the Uralmash gang, though said ties aren't under the name and face of Petya herself. It was during this time when Petya made her first contact with Lady Fortune. Through a series of (un)fortunate events, Lady Fortune was able to track Petya down, recognizing her as a metahuman and wishing to put an end to her before her influence within the gang grew out of control. She tried reasoning at first, as was her usual routine. What Lady Fortune didn't expect was that it worked. Suddenly, a man by the name of Mihail Ilyich Polzin disappeared for quite some time. A few months later, Petya Alkaev appeared on the scene, and quickly left Russia behind.

What Lady Fortune had offered her was not only a way out of Russia, but also a chance to figure out who she was. The only thing she asked was that the shapeshifter stayed away from the life of crime and tried to do some good in the world. Petya agreed, and Lady Fortune accepted her answer, seemingly trusting the shapeshifter enough to let her go. Odd choice, considering everything, but Perya wasn't going to question her good luck.

For the last few years, Petya has traveled the world, looking for answers and making both friends and enemies on the way. While in the US she had an opportunity to make a small mark in the world by helping the Orchid with a minor villain in the south. This lead to the creation of Shifter. The name stuck with her, as did the heroic deeds. It was fun to put her talents to some good use.

Petya's travels have led her to the US once more. She hopes that her current lead won't be yet another dead-end.

Name: Chris Alesto Lan

Codename: Rolling Girl, but Chris really doesn’t like the name. Blame the local newspaper. Lately she’s been trying to spread the name ‘Break Neck’ but it’s not going so well.

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Place of Birth: England, Basingstoke

Affiliations: She’s well liked at her local police station.

Occupation: Previously a baker, Chris is now a volunteer police officer for her local police station, but she will take weekends off to just do some baking as a way of income.

Appearance: A little bit on the chubby side, probably because of the numerous cheesecakes she loves to bake and loves even more to eat, this pear shaped lady stands at a respectable 5’6” with elegantly dark locks, descending to her shoulders, framing her brown face. Round eyes sparkle happily above a slightly crooked nose, and her lips always seem to have a smile ready and waiting.

Most of the time Chris will wear comfortable clothing after struggling to choose from her range of many band t-shirts, cool looking designs and the occasional dress for the perfect summer’s day or special event. Topped off with a pair of shoes, most of the time being simple sneakers.

When on duty however Chris will dress in robust blue jeans, a short sleeved shirt of some kind, a leather jacket and some good running shoes which may need replacing more often than she’d like to admit. In addition Chris wears knee and elbow pads, because honestly who running at the speed wouldn’t, along with a bicycle helmet, pilot goggles and slide gloves which are very useful for those tight corners.

Powers:
Super Speed - An absolute classic. Going at high speeds Chris can run up and along walls for a short period of time until her momentum peters out, the idea of suddenly falling prevents Chris from doing this often.
While Chris can break the sound barrier she has yet to do so because it is a very scary prospect to go so fast especially in densely populated areas, plus the wind hurts! She might do so at a later date however when she’s braver, more skilled, better prepared and in the right place.
Spin Attack – The power that is the basis of her name. This is one of Chris’ ways of attacking an enemy by curling up into a ball when running at high speeds or by simply spinning from a standstill, a recently learnt trick that Chris is very proud of. A few occasions Chris has used this technic to break through wooden doors but any other material stronger than that will only result in a (worse) back ache. While actually stopping is still a problem for her Chris has learnt to slow herself down whilst still spinning and can go for about five minute without getting dizzy (after that pray you have a sick bag somewhere).

Skills:
Parkour – well not quite, she’s still learning to get the hang of it so is likely to make a few mistakes but she has vastly improved this ability since her last encounter with the League training room.
Hand to hand combat, sort of – She grew up with two older brother so you know she can hold her own in a fight. Recently she’s been taking boxing lessons to better prepare herself in fights prompting her to come charging at the enemy with fists ready for punching.
Cooking – while decent at most meals, Chris is one of the best if not the best at cooking sweet things such as cheese cakes and meringues.
Faster reaction time – While not hugely better than an average human reaction time Chris is simply faster than most.

Equipment/Resources:
Little backpack to hold things such as phone, purse (both are very useful no matter where you are) as well as some chocolate bars, energy drinks as well as a spare change of clothes because you never know.
Car. It’s a little car that may be a bit old, but it does the job of getting her places and holding her shopping.

Weaknesses:
Heights – Damn that is a long way down, but Chris has learnt to ignore this fear for the most part.
Stage fright – That’s a lot of people.
Metabolism – Her body is breaking down food and drink at a much faster rate than she is used to. While before the awakening she could happily get through the day with the simple three meals she now has to eat more often in order to gain the nutrients and fat her body needs to survive.
Exercise – It’s tiring and it hurts to be running around everywhere, there is a reason why she still owns a car, so Chris will need a day or two now and then to just relax and not do anything too strenuous.
Heart Rate – When running it’s obvious that the human heart speeds up, the same applies to Chris whose heart pumps a lot faster to cope with the speed of her limbs, and injecting poison into the blood stream will guarantee it to reach all the vital organs quickly and efficiently.

Psychological Profile: Chris wants to be liked, and admired, and adored, and looked up to by so many people. But, she’s afraid of being the centre of attention for fear of being judged harshly by others so unless she’s literally thrown at it Chris is unlikely to enter the lime light, and even then may need some moral support. But lately she’s been pushing herself to really get out there and improve the way she interacts with others.

Chris is, overall, a very practical sort of person with her costume being made to help her deal with her new found abilities rather than look brilliant. Furthermore if there is a problem Chris will work almost tirelessly to correct it and weighing the different options she has against each other to find the best one. Since the awakening Chris’ confidence has grown with each good deed she does and each new fan made, but her confidence is still fragile so a snide comment or criticism could make her withdraw into herself for a while.

Biography: Chris grew up in a town in England with a name easily forgotten and somewhere where the winter storms forget to visit at the right time of year. Being the youngest of three kids and the only girl, Chris quickly learned to stand up for herself when her brothers descended with water pistols and plastic swords which often lead to her teaming up with her older brother to attack the eldest.

Chris had always been a rather hefty child but was too busy running about to pay much attention to the adults with their sighs and disappointed shakes of the head. But very soon the little whispers began to seep their way into her mind crushing the poor girl’s confidence. And so she made her way through school keeping her head down and trying to draw as little attention to herself as possible tacking comfort from the delicious foods she could make.

When the few friends Chris had made found out about her skills they started to keep an eye out for any and all baking competitions in an effort to get Chris to join them. At first Chris was resolute against going to them but over time her friends insistent nagging finally broke through and Chris attended a baking competition with a rainbow cheesecake as her entry. She didn’t win first place unfortunately but she did win third and she had managed to stand on stage in front of a crowd of people without saying something stupid, and counted this as a victory. Pretty soon it was Chris on the lookout for competitions she could enter, while requests for her legendary cakes and biscuits quickly piled up so high Chris decided to make a proper business out of it.

She was at another baking competition when the event happened and burnt her hand on a pan during the few seconds she and everyone else were dead to the world. After that the UK went through its little phase of trying to capture and catalogue all supernatural and meta humans, but of course that didn’t work. There were far too many to be contained whilst still following basic human rights and some were too powerful to listen to reason from screaming corpses. The little Island nation descended into chaos for a time locked into a war between people of the old and new, with many fleeing the country by any means they had at their disposal. It was here that Chris became aware of her power and used it to her advantage to get herself and anyone nearby out of the latest barrage of crossfire she found herself caught in, before making her way to the coast and hiding away in some small part of a ship.

The UK is a lot better now but Chris doesn’t see herself going back anytime soon. She now lives in another town in America, also with a forgettable name and geographic location, where she volunteers at the local police station working with other metahumans to keep crime down in the local area.
While the League did accept her Chris decided not to join as the training session had brought many flaws in herself that she hadn’t noticed before. Since then Chris has been working very hard to improve herself to a point where she feels she can actually make a difference in a fight rather than just running around dodging everything. However despite still not feeling quite ready to be tackling big villains Chris has decided to try joining the League again in the midst of rising reports of the Legions actions.

Other: Do not start a poke war with this woman, this is not a mutation but one of the many laws of the universe that she will win every time!