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[b]Full Name:[/b] The scientists principally responsible for studying Dandelion gave them the scientific name [i]Xenoproteus taraxus[/i].

[b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] They prefer to go by the nickname they were given under scientific observation, "Dandelion," sometimes shortened to "Dandy."

[b]Age:[/b] Unknown, Dandelion has been unfrozen for about ten years.

[b]Gender:[/b] Dandelion is still working on understanding the nuances of human gender expression. While they are trending toward a more feminine persona based on what they understand so far, they refer to themselves in the plural in most cases.

[b]Division:[/b] Stealth

[b]Powers:[/b] Being an amorphous, shapeshifting alien, Dandelion's powers are bizarre to say the least. Essentially a colony of protean, amoeba-like single-celled organisms, many of Dandy's powers are dependent on their current "biomass," how much raw organic material they have access to. They can gain biomass by consuming organic material, and can shed it by regurgitating this matter into dormant "flesh eggs." Every one of Dandelion's individual cells is a muscle and a brain cell at once, meaning that its strength and intelligence both scale directly with its size and weight. Under normal circumstances, Dandelion is intelligent enough to decode a human genome in a matter of minutes, and powerful enough to smash concrete. As their entire body is more or less homogenous, it is difficult to permanently wound Dandelion, as they can just use their existing biomass to replace damaged flesh.

Dandelion's cells are amorphous and capable of reshaping and specializing themselves, allowing it to create a variety of organic structures such as muscular tentacles, hardened bone and keratin, or assume a plasmic semi-liquid form. Dandy can imitate the organic structures of any organism it has sampled and decoded the genetic material of, but this process generally works best with animal life. This ability allows Dandelion to replicate humans almost perfectly, as they will even pass a DNA test while transformed.

Lastly, Dandelion can infiltrate and parasitize living organisms. This requires some of Dandy's biomatter to enter a living body in some way, and then for that biomatter to adapt itself to its host body and graft itself into the host's biological systems, such as its nervous and circulatory systems. This process can take several hours to complete, as portions of Dandy small enough to ingest only carry a rudimentary, instinctual semblance of intelligence. Dandy can inject others with larger samples, but not without essentially invading their body. Once a host is parasitized, Dandy can consume and repurpose their biomass while inside of them, gradually taking over more of their body, or reshaping them the same way Dandelion can reshape themself, though both are time-consuming processes that are difficult to go unnoticed by their host.

[b]Description:[/b] Dandelion's "natural" state is an amorphous, fleshy blob that can grow new appendages and other features spontenously, giving it the impression of a massive amoeba made of meat and bone. Dandy likes to keep their usual level of biomass sitting around five-hundred pounds, which means that when they assume a human form, their body is very dense and heavy. Dandy has a "unique" human persona that they typically wear around people, which was synthesized from several genetic "samples." Their human form is an androgynous chimera, around 5'8", with short brown hair, coffee-colored skin, and heterochromatic eyes in yellow and green. Their voice is high and generally feminine, and they have a bizarre accent given their small but growing understanding of human communication patterns.

[b]Personality:[/b] Dandelion is surprisingly pleasant and cheerful in social situations, and is possessed with an insatiable, childlike curiosity about the Earth and all of the living things that walk, fly, swim, crawl, or grow on it. While they are far from perfectly adjusted to living among humans, they get by well enough, and are happy to learn from their own mistakes. They like humans, and find them interesting, but understand that many humans are not equipped to understand what they are or even try to get to know them. Dandy's feelings about their situation, being stuck on Earth with no memory of what they are or where they come from, are mostly represented by frustration, as well as a sense of loneliness and longing. As nice as many humans are, Dandy can't help but feel isolated from them, as they find human communication to be very limiting.

[b]Crush:[/b] Dandy loves everyone and everything, but has no concept of human relationships.

[b]Skills:[/b] Geared as a living genetic sequencer, Dandelion is a highly intelligent creature, able to store and process massive amounts of data. They do their best to learn human habits and skills, but have a difficult time picking up on subtleties that most Earthlings take for granted. Given that Dandelion doesn't sleep, they spend most nights awake on the internet, trying to learn all they can about human culture, history, and socialization.

[b]Weaknesses:[/b] Dandelion's natural form is not particularly durable, and while they regenerate quickly and are difficult to hurt beyond flesh wounds, damaged flesh still costs them biomass, and so they are not capable of regenerating infinitely. Unless they adapt to give themselves some sort of protective shell, they are only as durable as normal flesh and bone. While Dandy enjoys hot, humid environments, fire is particularly harmful to them, as they cannot regenerate carbonized flesh. Extreme cold forces them into a state of dormancy, and their body has a somewhat high freezing point, though they are capable of freezing solid and thawing out without any harm done to them. Other things that would be damaging to organic material, such as acids, poisons, or electricity, work on Dandelion as normally as they would any other living thing. Dandelion's parasitism is limited by the lengthy process that it requires, and even if it succeeds, Dandy is as vulnerable to immune systems as any other invader organism or pathogen. Dandy's ability to sample DNA is limited by the viability of the sample, as DNA degrades very quickly in dead organic matter, requiring its samples to be "fresh."

[b]Brief History:[/b] An ecological expedition into the melting arctic were the first humans to discover Dandelion, though at first they did not know what they were dealing with. A melting glacier revealed an ancient meteorite that had been frozen into its heart millions of years ago, and was now thawing and exposed to the open air. Investigating the massive, surprisingly spherical structure, they found that its rocky exterior concealed a metal core of unknown composition. The core had deteriorated after millions of years frozen in ice, and they found a dormant mass of flesh hidden within it.

Using the arctic climate and liquid nitrogen to keep the organism dormant, they retrieved it and its meteorite, and secured them in a governmental research facility. There the organism was finally unfrozen and allowed to become active. At first timid and anxious, the creature spent most of its time trying to escape, until scientist began speaking to it and it seemed to settle down. Recognizing language but being unable to speak it, the creature spent its first few weeks in isolation, listening to scientists speak to it through a speaker. Once it was able to grasp enough human language to speak, scientists move to the next stage of their examinations.

The creature, which was nicknamed Dandelion by the scientists, was thoroughly studied and tested, not always in ways Dandy found particularly pleasant. They tested their shapeshifting and parasitic powers on livestock, and fed Dandy a pig carcass once a week. Some scientists even offered them some of their own blood to allow them to take human form. When asked about their origins, Dandy professed ignorance, as they had been frozen so long that their memories had been damaged, and had no idea where they came from or what their purpose was.

Life like this continued for some years, until a supevillain caught word of the research facility testing some kind of organic superweapon. A team of villains collaborated to break into the facility and steal the weapon, and succeeded in their plan, until they found that their prize was not a weapon, but Dandelion. Empathizing with the imprisoned alien and recognizing its "humanity," they freed Dandelion, and put them in the custody of the Lanius School, which they thought would be the best environment for it to continue to learn and develop while avoid the persecution of most of humanity.

[b]Other:[/b] Dandelion cannot imitate superpowers, unless said powers are written into a host's DNA, and are therefore organic structures that Dandy can imitate.[/hider]