Name: Eliza Edison, AKA Polymer
Age: 23
Affiliation: Hero
Appearance: An attractive woman who changes her style regularly to keep up with freelance modeling and acting jobs. As a strange quirk after being kidnapped by a supervillain, her hair is naturally green and can shift into any style, growing or retracting as needed.
shuangwen.deviantart.com/art/Sti-1927…Costume: Polymer is a tall and eyecatching woman in a green bodysuit that leaves her shoulders and thighs bare. She also wears elbow-length gloves and knee-high boots. Her long green hair reaches her waist.
Powers:
Super-Hair - Unlike her other abilities, when Eliza's ability to morph her hair first developed, she didn't try to hide it, insted using it to gain an advantage when applying for modelling and acting jobs, or showing off for her friends.
Elasticity - Polymer can stretch, compress, shrink and grow her body in all sorts of ways. This typically involves squeezing through narrow gaps or tying up crooks with elongated limbs, but can also be used to glide, hide, block paths or any number of things Eliza can imagine.
Materiel shifting - Polymer is capable of changing her body's molecular structure. In theory, she could turn into anything but she needs to have a thorough understanding of what she becomes and it's a slow process. It would take her around a month to turn back to being flesh-and-blood, or living steel, or anything else radically different, but altering how rubbery her body is can be done much faster, going from hard rubber to near-liquid in a few moments. This is also how Polymer changes into her costume, morphing parts of her body into plastic-like coatings and being technically naked.
Durability and exotic biology - Polymer is perhaps immortal. She's not the sort to try something just to see if it kills her, but her new biology doesn't need to breathe or eat, can withstand an industrial press, and rapidly heal from being pierced and cut, even reassemble from being in pieces.
Strengths: As well as her powers, Eliza's desire to be a documentarian means she has some training in science and acting.
Weaknesses:
Despite her durability, Polymer can be beaten. Sustained attacks can overwhelm her ability to heal or provide so much stimulus that Polymer is effectively unconscious. In addition, she is especially vulnerable to heat and cold, which leave her paralysed as a puddle or ice sculpture until her temperature normalises again. Finally, her body is naturally elastic and a punch from Polymer feels like she's wearing boxing gloves. It doesn't take much super-stamina to ignore her blows altogether, and force her to rely on grapples.
Personality:
Eliza is a quiet and kind type, or at least she tries her best to be. At odds with this, she's also something of a showoff. She takes pride in doing a good job, and knowing that people know she did a good job. She's easily frustrated by the indecision of others, and wants to take charge of a situation that's going nowhere.
As Polymer, Eliza's ego is unleashed. Superheroes are people that get stared at, so Polymer makes sure that when they do they see a confident heroine who knows what she's doing. It feels good to set an example. When stealth isn't an option and time isn't critical, Polymer loudly announces herself to give the villains a chance to surrender and let civillians know that help has arrived.
Bio/History:
Eliza always wanted to host a documentary, to be famous for teaching people. She studied the sciences and acting, dreaming of telling people all about space, or subatomic particles, or rare lizards. Of course, she had to get industry experience so her first few jobs were freelance modelling work, or as a background extra.
It was at one of her modelling jobs that she was set on the road to becoming Polymer. The photoshoot was a ploy by the villain Data Miner to use a cobbled-together alien teleporter and analysis device to upload the fashion models and designers and analyse their data to create the perfect costume. A hero team saved the day and all the captured people were returned from the alien technology, albeit with a few glitches. Some people had switched bodies, or been partially merged with other data. Eliza's dyed green hair had become her natural colour, and that seemed to be all, so she declined the heroes offers to try and fix her to let them focus on the more seriously altered.
Over the next few weeks, Eliza learned she had gained the ability to control her hair, changing it's length and style at will. It wasn't until months later that Eliza learned she could do the same with the rest of her body. She had been studying elastic polymers for continued studies, and they were all she had thought about for days until she woke up to find she had twisted herself like a rope in her sleep.
Two years after the supervillain incident, Eliza had been training her abilities and decided she was ready to use them for real. To fight crime and set an example for others, she'd teach the whole world as Polymer.
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