[b]Character you have created:[/b] Aubrey Adkins-Grant
[b]Alias:[/b] Arachne

[b]Speech Color:[/b] [color=B22222]Standard Forum Text, FireBrick (B22222)[/color]

[b]Character Alignment:[/b] Hero

[b]Identity:[/b] Secret to the public, known by several individuals

[b]Character Personality[/b]:
[hider=Personality]
If you were to ask Aubrey to describe herself with one word, it would be religious. Because she grew up in an orthodox Catholic household, she therefore is a devout Catholic. To those who are not quite as religious as she is, she might come off as a little bit too much sometimes. She is also on good terms with her family. She’s loyal to her friends, family, and to God, even if she get’s paraded around by a Greek goddess.

Aubrey has a complicated relationship with her superhero career. She reluctantly began fighting crime as a superhero, essentially pushed to action by the Greek goddess, Athena. Yet ever since she became a drider, she discovered that her nights on patrol were one of the only times she could be herself. Any other time, she has to hide behind her power nullifier. Although her anxiety over her arachnid appearance is not as severe as it had been when she had first been transformed, she still struggles with the duality of her physical appearance and nature.

Aubrey has slightly above average height for a woman (five foot nine) and her comic book-like physique was the result of a negative reaction between her own healing factor and a metahuman's ability to a person's appearance to whatever the metahuman desired. She has blonde hair and gray-blue eyes.[/hider]
[b]Uniform/costume:[/b] 
[hider=updated costume][img]https://orig02.deviantart.net/6292/f/2017/227/9/b/superheroine_arachne_by_blazbaros-dbk72cl.png[/img]Image created by [url=https://blazbaros.deviantart.com/art/Superheroine-Arachne-699049893]Blazbaros[/url].[/hider]
[b]Origin Info/Details:[/b]
[hider=Pre-Metahuman]
Aubrey Rose Adkins was born into what most people would consider a normal life. She was from a middle-class family around the Columbus, OH. She was heavily involved with sports, was Homecoming Queen her senior year in high school, even went to college at St. Henry’s University, a liberal arts Catholic university in Columbus. Everything seemed to be extremely normal, until late January this year arrived.

Aubrey’s life was turned upside down when she was kidnapped by a mad scientist (same man who gave Raptor and Wasp their powers) and subjected to an experiment involving the finally stabilized serum. Luckily for Aubrey, the Raptor and Iron Knight had infiltrated (not coordinated) where the scientist was holding her. Now, since she has escaped from the clutches of the mad scientist, Aubrey must attempt to learn to assimilate herself back into her ‘normal’ life. Or is this even possible?

Sports have always been part of Aubrey’s life, especially during high school. When she was in high school, if she was not currently at one sport’s practice, she was probably running off to another one. While this had given her practice at juggling multiple aspects of life at once, nevertheless it sometimes negatively affected her grades. Once she got to college, she had to pick one sport and stick with it. She picked softball (one reason why was that she received a scholarship at her small university to play that sport). Therefore, she had to drop the others and focus on soccer (and school).[/hider]
[b]Season 1 Summary:[/b]
[hider=Acquiring Her Powers]
Whether it was just some dumb luck or a fate dictated by the laws of the multiverse, Aubrey was one of the individuals who were abducted by the scientist that would be later known as Doctor Diplodoc.  Once she was in his captivity, she was injected with a serum that the doctor had developed to naturally give regular humans powers.  However, she did not need to wait long to be rescued, the combined efforts of Raptor and the Iron Knight helped free her along with Kelly Brown and Veronica Arthur.  But before they escaped, Aubrey, along with the villianess Black Widow, fell into a vat full of Doctor Diplodoc's serum, resulting in the two women swapping powers.  Although she did not immediately transform into the drider-like humanoid that the Black Widow was, she would soon find out that she eventually would.

After being freed from S.T.R.I.K.E. custody, Aubrey discovered that her liberator was actually the Greek goddess Athena.  At that time, Aubrey had no idea what type of trouble that the daughter of Zeus would drag her into, but she would soon learn.  During the D-Day invasion of Lost Haven, Athena brought her into the middle of all the craziness that was that day.  After taking down a Leviathan-like demon snake with the help of War-Pulse, she confronted Iron Knight (Christopher Arthur), who had placed her in S.T.R.I.K.E. custody in the first place.

After D-Day, Aubrey tried going out to let off some steam.  However, since Athena had empowered her during the fight against the demon snake, Aubrey blacked out during the night.  As a result, a group involved with human trafficking picked her up while she was out cold.  Although Aubrey was able to escape her cell and contact the police and the FBI, her actions resulted in the leader of this group, a metahuman who had the power to change the appearance of anyone in anyway, started to showcase Aubrey to group's potential buyers by transforming our hero into a variety of real and fictional characters.  Once the authorities arrive, the leader of this group left Aubrey in the appearance of the Sorceress from [i]Dragon's Crown[/i].

However, her healing factor would not leave Aubrey with this fate.  Slowly, her innate metahuman powers began reverting Aubrey back to her original appearance.  However, when the metahuman, who had changed Aubrey's appearance in the first place, used her powers to change Aubrey back, Aubrey's healing factor became confused by a contradiction: it needed to revert the changes made by the metahuman's powers, but Aubrey's original form was also restored by this same power.  Since it considered her original appearance as an alteration by the metahuman's power, Aubrey's healing factor created a new 'default point', mixing and blending any of the previous transformations where the healing factor had not already fixed.  Therefore, Aubrey was left with a body that was not her own, except for anything from the neck up, her skin, and a few others parts.

And this nightmare did not end there.  When she woke up the next morning, Aubrey was horrified to find that her entire lower body had been replaced by that of a giant spider.  After concluding that her healing factor would prevent her from the easy way to escape her fate as a "freak", she tried to hide her condition until she could locate her power-nullifying wristband(which would make her look "normal" again).  However, this did not go according to plan, as Aubrey accidentally revealed her drider form on a Skype conversation to Will, with whom Aubrey's alternate universe doppelganger had set up this 'date'.[/hider]
[hider=Month One]
Once all of these transformations had ended, Athena had finally gotten another task for Aubrey.  In Lost Haven, a shape-shifting metahuman, in the guise of Ares, was trying to spread the worship of Ares against the "Prime Directive" of the Athanatoi.  This "Ares" also had an empowered follower, named Polemos, whom Arachne had to trick into thinking that she had injected lethal poison into him.  With the aid of the hero Icon, Arachne and Athena were able to stop this wannabe Ares' unauthorized activities after a hard-fought battle. 

During the downtime between Athena's various tasks and missions, while a little buzzed from some caffeine she had recently ingested, Aubrey accidentally slipped that she (and her roommates) thought that her friend's roommate, Danielle, was in the "adult film" industry (to put it nicely).  However, it turned out that this was not the case and Aubrey received her just desserts when Danielle guilted Aubrey into doing some modeling jobs.

Furthermore, just for the fun of screwing with Athena's pupil, Aphrodite sent her son, Cupid, to Aubrey's residence. While Aubrey was chatting with Will via an instant messenger, Cupid made sure his aim was true and let loose his love-inducing arrow at Aubrey.  As a result of Aubrey and Will set up an in-person date.  Due to the distance between where the two of them lived, Aubrey guilted Athena into taking her because of how often Athena had dragged her around.

When Doctor Diplodoc had revealed his intent on transforming every person on the Earth into metahumans, Aubrey was recruited by War-Pulse for a team of superheroes who were organized by Christopher Arthur III (Iron Knight).  She helped the other heroes assault Doctor Diplodoc's base and apprehending him and his allies.[/hider]
[b]Season 2 Summary:[/b]
[hider=Welcome to Pacific Point]
In the aftermath of the Pax Metahumana, Effigy, one of Diplodoc’s metahuman allies, masqueraded as Aubrey at a casting call for the [i]Viera[/i] magazine and successfully signed her up as ‘Ms. May.’ Although Aubrey first thought it was a mean April’s Fool joke, she soon found herself moving across the country to the city of Pacific Point, California.

Aubrey’s first month in Pacific Point was challenging, to say the least. First she was attacked by a mysterious octopus woman while she was taking a stroll on the beach with her boyfriend. Then, on the last day of Will’s visit to Pacific Point, Aubrey and her boyfriend were almost kidnapped by a criminal by the name of the Pacific Ghost. Finally, a local group of heroes, called the Immortals, mistook Arachne for Black Widow. After the Immortals apologized for the confusing her for a villain, Arachne begrudged agreed to join their team on a trial basis.[/hider]
[hider=Game Genie]
When Aubrey was driving Kyra (Firefox) home from the airport, they heard on the radio a villain named the Game Genie challenging a hero named the Blue Blur to a fight. At the same time, the Game Genie had unleashed an army of video game characters onto the city. After the Immortals have defeated some of the video game characters, including Captain Falcon, Tracer, and some generic Final Fantasy characters, the Game Genie unleashed hordes of floating cubes that began to digitize people. Both Aubrey and Kyra were zapped by these cubes and trapped inside them.

Meanwhile, Odysseus, Gajana, and Talus were able to infiltrate city hall and Talus discovered a temporary way to free Aubrey and Kyra. The only catch was that they would have to inhabit a video game character’s body. With the arrival of Voyager and Pendragon, the Immortals did battle with the last of the Game Genie’s video game thralls. In the end, Talus tricked the Game Genie into surrendering by fooling him in thinking that Sonic was the Blue Blur.
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[hider=Troubles in Pacific Point]As part of her role as a Viera model, Aubrey and Emily attended a fundraiser event at the Roy Walley Convention Hall. While there, the two ladies ran into Christopher Arthur. Although the evening event began without a hitch, a villain named Newton interrupted the event’s festivities. Newton used his gravity-controlling powers to send Arachne and some police officers flying up to the ceiling. While Arachne was preoccupied while experiencing a lack of gravity, Newton kidnapped Maya, Chris’ girlfriend and made a run for it. Now unaffected by Newton’s powers because he had left her immediate vicinity, Arachne went after Newton. However, this time Newton incapacitated Arachne by increasing the effects of gravity on her. He then proceeded to unmask Arachne, although her hair hid her face from him. He was about ready to put a bullet in her skull, but Newton was miraculously knocked out. Aubrey discovered that Maya was actually a Nagi, although she promised not to reveal Maya’s secret to Chris.[/hider]
[hider=The Hounds of Humanity]
While Arachne was making her way home from the fundraiser event, she ran into Slipstream and some Hounds of Humanity goons. Slipstream tailed the retreating Hounds and discovered one of their hideouts at an abandoned gas station outside the Pacific Point city limits. Upon infiltrating the Hound’s base, the two superheroines discovered cages filled with trafficked metahumans. Arachne momentarily had a panic attack from her several experiences of being kidnapped and transformed, but she pulled herself together and the two women successfully freed everyone. After Slipstream and Arachne finished off the final Hounds goon, the two women make their escape.

After Arachne’s little adventure with Slipstream, Aubrey needed a brief break from superheroics. She had planned to meet Emily to go shopping at the 5th Street Promenade. However, this was not meant to be, because the Hounds had planned an attack on the public shopping center by using a device that would send a metahuman or mystic’s powers into overdrive and drive them insane. During the ensuing fight, Aubrey discovered that her friend and fellow [i]Viera[/i] model, Emily, was actually a superhero, too, named Pinup. However, Pinup’s powers began to affect Aubrey, creating physical manifestations of Aubrey’s insecurities.

The enraged ice-metahuman gained an upper hand against the two heroines because Arachne was dealing with the effects of Emily’s powers, but the timely intervention by an immortal samurai, named Kensei, helped even the odds. He had been tracking Arachne because he had mistakenly believed she was a Jorōgumo. With the combined effort of the three heroes, Arachne, Pinup, and Kensei were able to defeat the enraged ice-metahuman.[/hider]
[hider=The Mandela Effect: Part 1]
When Aubrey went to bed early so she could wake up early to pick Will up from the airport, she was transformed into an alternate version of herself that hailed from a world modeled after the 90’s Dark Age of Comics. When the 90’s Arachne woke up, she was confused why she was in Pacific Point instead of Nautican Island, where she worked as a stripper. She tried to pretend being this world’s Aubrey while hanging out with Will, with varying degrees of success.

That night, after 90’s Aubrey went to bed, Will, who had also been affected by whatever was turning people into alternate reality versions of themselves, snuck out of Aubrey’s apartment and tried to figure out what had happened to her. After running into Emily (while patrolling the streets as Pinup), Will and Emily decided to find the Immortals and see if they could help out. When they ran into Odysseus, who had just picked up a miniaturized version of Iron Knight’s detection device, they discovered that they had been affected.

The next morning, Will, now with his mind restored to normal, explained to Audrey what was happening to them. Combined with the dreams Aubrey had been having, she was started to have an identity crisis, although she tried her best to hide it from Will. 90’s Aubrey managed to convince Will to agree to a superhero patrol date. To keep her memory problems off her mind, she did a [i]Viera[/i] photoshoot that had been rescheduled for that day, allowing Will to get some much-needed rest. Later that night, while they were on patrol, 90’s Arachne ran into an affected Firefox. Because of their different appearances and memories, neither recognized each other. Only after Will returned after handing over Moon Bunny to the authorities did Firefox flee from the scene. 

90’s Aubrey then tricked Will into a wild goose chase after Firefox and caught him in a giant spider web in an abandoned factory. She tried to coarse Will into sex because she wanted to experience it once with him before this persona would become erased from existence. Although she was able to initially successful in convincing him through her emotional arguments, Will’s conscience prevented him from doing what he thought would have been a betrayal of his girlfriend’s trust. Therefore, they just lay in each other’s arms and sleep the night there.

The next day, Will tried to leave and go get the Immortals to restore Aubrey’s correct memories, he was snatched up by the affected Firefox. Meanwhile, Aubrey woke up with her original memories restored thanks to her healing factor. She obviously was freaked out by her altered appearance and the days she had lost. Right after Firefox arrived, sent by Will to get Aubrey out of there, the factory blew up, as it had been rigged by the Hounds of Humanity the night before. Trapped underneath the rubble, Aubrey and the affected Firefox have a heart-to-heart conversation, until the Son of Osiris removed the rubble. The Immortals took Firefox back to their base to restore her memories, while they left Will and Aubrey alone so they could go home.[/hider]
[b]Hero Type:[/b]
Muscle/Acrobat (i.e. Spider-Girl)

[b]Power Level:[/b]
B. City Level (Ex. Spider-Man, Cyclops)

[b]Powers:[/b]
[hider=Powers]
-[b]Wall-Crawling[/b]: Arachne has the ability to create atomic attraction between herself and other objects, allowing her to adhere to numerous surfaces.

-[b]Spider-Sense[/b]: Arachne possesses the ability to sense people’s movements through the miniscule vibrations she feels in the ground when people move and changes in air pressure. Along with an uncanny 6th sense that can detect danger (but not pinpoint it – Arachne must rely on the vibrations and air pressure for that), this allows Arachne to be quite an allusive target.

-[b]Hybrid Bio-Mechanical Web-Shooters[/b]: Arachne has natural spinnerets in her wrists; however, she cannot eject them from her wrists like Spider-Man does in the original Spider-Man films with Toby McGuire. She can only pull the threads out like pulling out floss. However, Christopher Arthur III created a device that would draw the webs from her wrists and eject them, just like Spider-Man’s web-shooters.

-[b]Superhuman Strength[/b]: Arachne can easily lift approximately 50 tons. She can lift more weight if she exerts herself. Arachne must also pull her punches against opponents without similar levels of durability and strength.

-[b]Superhuman Speed[/b]: Arachne’s natural speed exceeds that of modern Olympic athletes. In other words, she could give Usain Bolt a run for his money. 

-[b]Superhuman Stamina[/b]: Arachne does not produce as many fatigue toxins while she physically exerts himself. She has to spend several hours under strenuous circumstances to feel impaired by these toxins.

-[b]Superhuman Agility and Reflexes[/b]: Arachne is twice as flexible than a normal human, allowing her to perform acrobatic maneuvers that high-level gymnast would envy. Her reflexes are 20 times greater than an average human’s would be.

-[b]Superhuman Durability[/b]: Arachne can take punishment that would severely injure or otherwise kill an average person. Arachne must roll with punches against her in order to prevent the assailant from breaking their limbs.

-[b]Superhuman Sense of Equilibrium[/b]: Arachne can retain a perfect state of equilibrium, allowing her to remain oriented while crawling upside down and performing acrobatic moves.

-[b]Resistance to Foreign Chemicals[/b]: Arachne’s metabolism allows her to be less effected by drugs and diseases.

-[b]Immunity to Vampirism[/b]: Arachne has nothing to fear from the characters of Twilight...

-[b]Superhuman Healing Factor[/b]: While not anywhere near as efficient as mainstream Wolverine’s healing factor, Arachne can significantly recuperate from injuries more quickly than they would otherwise normally take. She will eventually heal from any wound, however, the more serious the wound, the longer it will take it to heal.[/hider]
[b]Attributes:[/b]
[hider=Attributes] 
[i]Height[/i]:  5’ 9’’ (human), ~6’ (drider)

[i]Weight[/i]: [color=b22222]Didn’t your parents tell you not to ask a girl about her weight?  Rude![/color]

[i]Cup Size[/i]: [color=b22222]WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?[/color]

[i]Strength[/i]: Arachne has the proportional strength of a spider. If she can leverage her arachnid half, she can lift up to 50 tons. 

[i]Mobility[/i]: Arachne’s drider physiology allows her to outrun even Olympic athletes. She has the ability scale walls and other flat surfaces. Although she could use weblines to swing about a city skyline, her drider physiology makes such an activity awkward.

[i]Intelligence[/i]: Average (undergraduate degree)

[i]Fighting Skill[/i]: Untrained, 6 months of “on the job” experience. 

[i]Resources[/i]: Minimal[/hider]
[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
-Vulnerable to Pesticides, especially ones targeted towards spiders.
-The effect of caffeine on Arachne is similar to alcohol.  
-Able to “run dry” of web fluid, if she uses too much.
-She is vulnerable from attacks from behind because she cannot turn her body all the way around to deal with it.
-She is (over-time) invulnerable in body, but her spirit and mind do not have the same luxury.

[b]Supporting Characters:[/b]
-[i]Emily Prichert[/i]: One of the Viera models and a friend of Aubrey's. She is also originally from Ohio. As of the beginning of Season 3, an unknown entity has transformed her into a parallel universe version of herself who goes by the alias Pinup.
-[i]Ashley Winston[/i]: One of Aubrey’s ex-roommates.
-[i]Felicia Blackwood[/i]: One of Aubrey’s ex-roommates.
-[i]Kristin Harding[/i]: One of Aubrey’s ex-neighbors and friends.
-[i]William Grant[/i]: Boyfriend.  Aphrodite's joy in uniting people into an unlikely couple brought Aubrey and Will together.
-[i]Athena[/i]: Greek Goddess of Wisdom. Still feeling guilty about the transformation of the ancient Arachne into a spider, she has decided to provide her aid to Aubrey, whether or not Aubrey likes it.
-[i]The Immortals[/i]: A superhero group to whom Arachne belongs. Includes the Son of Osiris, Odysseus, Talus, Gajana, and Firefox. As of the beginning of Season 3, many of their members have been transformed into parallel universe versions of themselves.

[b]Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?:[/b]
[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/rFsVPbQ.png[/img][/center]

[b]Sample Post:[/b]
[hider=Arachne]
[center][b]The Worst Week of My Life[/b][/center]

My name is Aubrey Adkins. Welcome to the worst week of my entire life.

After I had been kidnapped and injected with some weird serum that was concocted by a mad scientist, you might have thought that I had faced the worst of it. But if you thought this, you would be dead wrong.

When I got back to my apartment near St. Henry’s, right when I opened the front door, my two roommates rushed over to me, embracing me in their arms. Before I called them a few hours ago, my two roommates feared that I had been kidnapped by a certain trafficking operation that had just all the sudden sprung out of nowhere. Once they saw me, they over overcome with joy.

“Hey, Aubrey,” Felecia said, “Why don’t we celebrate your return by going out to eat and then getting some liquor?”

“Well, I think I will pass on this one. All I really want to do tonight is sleep.” I really wanted to go with them, but considering all the craziness I had experience over the last 24 hours or so, all I needed was to rest.

“Well, suit yourself.” Felecia said, “We’ll just celebrate for you.”

---
Another strange occurrence happened while I was preparing to go to bed. After I threw on my pajamas and brushed my teeth, I noticed that there was a small white box sitting on my bed. I have already seen that box before. In fact, I had left that box behind at that rich billionaire’s mansion. While I would never admit it to anyone, I left it there on purpose. I mean, I had zero intent to become some spandex-clad super-heroine.

Since my two roommates were out of the apartment, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to try it on once. I mean, I would wear it once and then trash it. Well, within that box were three items: the costume itself, two web shooters, and this device that would nullify my powers, although I think the purpose of it was more focused on the others who could not blend in with normal people. Unlike me, who pretty much looked like a normal person.

The web shooters were kind of unique. Unlike Peter Parker in the original Spider-Man movies, I couldn’t eject webs from my wrists. I could pull it out, but I can’t shoot a drag line to swing around on or something along those lines. Well, these little gadgets work just like how Spider-Man’s web shooters in his most recent movie, except instead of using artificial webs it uses the webbing in my wrists. It is kind of weird if you think about it, but what can you do about it?

Once I had changed into the costume that was in the white box, I checked out how I looked in the bathroom mirror. To be honest, I thought I looked like a genderbent Spider-Man. It was just a tad bit weird. I had my hair tied back into a ponytail that flowed out the back of the mask I wore. The costume itself did not look too familiar. It showed a hint of Spider-Man, but it wasn’t the ‘classic’ look, if you know what I mean. The only thing going for me was that since I had a somewhat athletic build, I didn’t look like some fangirl cosplaying a comic book character.

“That costume fits mighty nicely on you, Aubrey.” A heavenly sounding voice said. That voice made me jump in place since I thought I was alone in my apartment. Once I turned, I realized that there was someone else in the apartment.

Standing in the living room of our apartment was an extremely tall woman with titanium blonde hair and gray eyes. She wore a dress that fell to her ankles, along with a glimmering breastplate. She broached a blue cloak with rather large pin that had a large face on it, which kind of looked like an extremely ugly man. On her head, she had one of those classic Greek helmets and she wore it on to of her head just like how a football player does when he allows the helmet rest atop of his head, but does not allow it to come down over his face. Finally, there was an owl sitting on her shoulder, its head cocked towards one side, as if it was examining its surroundings.

“Who are you?” I asked, kind of freaked out that someone was in our apartment, especially someone I didn’t know.

“Why, I am Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and the Patroness of Athens, of course.”
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