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[Color=#dcd0ff][b]What’s your name?[/b]
Nalini Nortman

[b]How old are you?[/b]
19

[b]What do you look like?[/b]"
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Perfectly parted, midnight brown hair and a soft, round jaw line frames a full and even face. Although her caramel skin is a shade darker than others and her bright, steel gray eyes are rarity, her ethnicity is difficult to place. Traces of African, Indian, and others blend together in a way that sometimes provokes a curious second glance. More striking than cute, a hint of soft curves barely conceal the physique of a natural-born athlete.

[b]What did you do before the Recluse incident?[/b]
"What everyone else does at my age I guess... I was figuring shit out. Still am too."

Born to a restaurant owner from South Africa and an Administrative Assistant to the Indian Consulate, her life so far has been a wild ride. Her father was an outspoken man, excellent chef, and obsessed with spices around the world. Even so, he always had time for her and many of her memories were spent working in her father's kitchen. Many of the cooks and managers were so much like family that they attended her highschool graduation. While her friends and the kitchen staff understand the situation, her relationship with her mother is tenuous at best, her father describes it more as a "cold war". Working for the consulate means Nalini's mother rarely comes home to visit, a fact which has strained their relationship to the breaking point. Despite the cold distance between the two and years of simmering resentment, she admires her mother as self-made woman, just not much as a parent. 

Freshman year of University wasn't all it cracked up to be. Not one to mince words, she freely speaks her mind. Her friends have always been few, and despite enthusiastic promises to stay in touch, many of her old highschool crew slowly started to drift away into their own lives. None of the people she knew and actually liked made it to ESU, neither were they pursuing a math degree. Her classmates were a dull lot. The people she found most interesting she didn't get along with at all, and the friendliest ones were the most boring.

Her feelings of isolation were beginning to peak when the chemical attack happened, and her life hasn't been the same ever since.

[b]What happened after the incident?[/b]
"I put arsenic in my pad thai today. It was another one of those weird cravings. I was really surprised. The nutty flavor of it blended well with the peanut sauce and the noodles.

It worries me still, but it's better than starving. I already tried that, and my stomach still ties itself in knots when I think about it too much.

I'm still pissed about the coffee though! The last time I got an expresso, I was tripping over myself like an alcoholic, and I woke up the next morning with a pounding headache and a worse hangover. I couldn't even make it to school.

I can eat rat poison and be fine, but I can't drink the one thing I love the most? 
These powers are so stupid!"

-- Diary entry #157

"Okay, now I'm worried.
I've felt like garbage for the last few weeks. It started with a fever, but more recently it felt like there was an elephant standing on my chest. With all the stress, my roommate thought I might have pneumonia.

She took me to the ER, and the nurses put me in front of the xray machine. I don't know what's going on, but I could feel it. Right when I entered the room, before they ever turned it on, I could feel it on my skin somehow.

When the radiologist finally turned it on, I felt a sudden rush. It was warm, like sitting under the sun, except I could hear my heart pounding and the entire room brightened. Colors popped out at me in 3D. It was surreal.

It only lasted for a few seconds, but it felt amazing. Apparently, it also cured my pneumonia. All the ER nurses were shocked. I had to escape or they would've asked a lot more questions I don't have answers to.

Like... What am I?"

-- Diary entry #209

[u]Abilities[/u]

Strength [15/100]
Durability [10/100]
Agility [10/100]
Poison-Eater* [40/100]
Healing Factor (Altered)* [10/100]
Spider-sense (Altered)* [15/100]

[i]Poison-Eater[/i]
Nalini's mutations, while not immediately visible, are well beyond the extreme.

Her already dark skin instantly darkens further in the presence of harmful radiation. More to the point, it heals her and makes her stronger, faster, her senses sharper. Most toxic things do. From rat poison to a mouthful of carbon monoxide to clinical radiation, she absorbs toxins and experiences a temporary boost in power while in their presence. The more of it there is the stronger the effect. 

This also causes her to get bizarre cravings for things most people would consider inedible, or in some cases outright lethal.

Unsurprisingly, her new powers has had other side effects. Her body is poisonous to most animals, and typically fatal. The last time a mosquito bit her, it died within seconds. Her pet dog, Momo, who eagerly tries to lick people in the face, was paralyzed for over an hour after licking the drool off Nalini's sleeping face. 

[i]Healing Factor[/i]
Nalini doesn't heal from injuries faster than the average human, and can catch a cold the same as anyone else. However, a heavy dose of poison can trigger her typically dormant healing factor. Her poison-eating ability fuels it.

[i]Spider-Sense[/i]
Although Nalini's senses have been enhanced, she doesn't possess a 'danger sense'. She can however see UV light, which makes walking down the street at night more like taking a VR adventure through the world of Pandora from Avatar. Even in the dark, she can see a vivid technicolor landscape, bright and fascinating against a backdrop of dull blue tones.

Additionally, she can sense nearby toxins and radiation, which are typically accompanied by some kind of unique scent, or taste.

[b]Do you believe in aliens?[/b]
"I guess it depends on your definition. We already know extremophile bacteria can survive in space almost indefinitely, and there's strong evidence to suggest they do exist all over the place. If you were to ask me "Do I believe in tiny green men", I would say yes, but only if they were microscopic and dine on space rock."

[b]What are your goals for the future?[/b]
"I've always liked math. There's a subtle beauty in numbers, a rhythm and cycle to things everywhere, and it's an adventure to uncover them. If I'm being honest with myself, I don't really know [i]what[/i] I want. I just know what like and I know who I am. Hopefully, that's good enough."

[b]You lived in New York for a while now, right? What do you think of the city?[/b]
"It's like an experiment in trying to fit the whole world into an Urban Wildlife Preservation, and it failed so miserably that it managed to work."

[b]How much technology do you use on a daily basis?[/b]
"Yes" 
(e.g. it's excessive...)

[b]What do you like?[/b]
[list][*]"Cooking isn't a hobby for me, it's my heritage."
[*]"Running, jogging, whatever... It helps clear my head. I'm also told it's good for me, go figure."
[*]"Everyone seems to think math is scary. I like to prove them wrong."
[*]"I prefer my Stand-up Comedy with a side order of suffocation from laughter. According to the internet, it also cures cancer."
[*]"Experimental music from across the world always finds a way into my playlists. Although, Imogen Heap is definitely one of my favorites."[/list]

[b]What do you dislike?[/b]
[list][*]"Not being able to drink coffee without regretting it later that day"
[*]"People who can't think for themselves are ignorant, but redeemable. People who [i]won't[/i] think for themselves are a public menace."
[*]"I hate liars, unless they're good a it."
[*]"Food without spice is not real food."[/list]

[b]Do you think true evil exists?[/b]
"My Dad once said to me: 
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people. 

I don't know if he's right, but so far no one has proven him wrong."

[b]What’s your favorite color?[/b]
Lavender

[b]Favorite song?[/b]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-BWXT3UBns]Feather by Nujabes[/url]

[b]Anything else to add?[/b]
(Miscellaneous. Anything that wasn’t covered upstairs, or anything you think is worth mentioning.)

[b]What are your thoughts on these people?[/b]

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