[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/f2WRL3w.png[/img] [h1]Runa Yggdrasil[/h1][/center] [b]Age:[/b] 16 [b]Appearance, supplemental: [/b] Runa is a teenage girl, standing about average in height and with a lean, athletic build. She has dark skin, and hair that is a dark red, almost as if it's trying very hard to be black or brown, but can't quite manage, particularly when the light catches it. Her eyes are almost reptilian, with golden irises and vertical slit pupils. While she is asleep or otherwise unconscious, one can occasionally see bones and muscles move beneath her skin in unusual manners. Her hair sometimes moves on its own, particularly the long ahoge, which seems to move around involuntarily in response to her emotional state. The tentacles and tendrils of flesh she usually creates tend to be a pale pink rather than sharing any of her usual pigmentation. She also often extends any additional limbs from her back, or from her hair, which tends to function as a prehensile limb as-is, often enough. Her armored form, which she often prefers in heavy combat although it likely isn't really much tougher than she otherwise is, tends to look similar to a knight's armor, if it were constructed of flesh and bone, rather than segmented metal. Usually, her living armor is white and red in color. [b]Personality:[/b] Runa grew up in a lab, and as a result is fairly naive and childlike. She simply doesn’t understand too much about how the real world works, and definitely doesn’t understand that everyday citizens may find her abilities disturbing. To her, growing a tentacle or two if you need an extra set of hands, or walking around covered in blood from what would appear to be grievous wounds are perfectly acceptable behaviors. She’s curious about things she doesn’t understand, and has a sort of youthful bravado when it comes to the same, often at least pretending she knows what others are talking about. She is friendly, energetic, and outgoing, and feels that it’s her responsibility to help and protect others. She insists she’s an adult, and tries to do adult-like things. It's pretty easy to bribe or distract her with food, particularly sweets. [b]Biography:[/b] Runa is the result of a black project to create an ultimate living weapon, using advanced biological engineering applications. A number of old, (and possibly now rare) samples of alien genetic material left over from the Alien Wars were used to create her, and are likely responsible for most of her abilities. Her creator is something of a mad scientist who, in the aftermath of the recent events, believes that humanity must adapt itself and take control of its own biological destiny, as a species. While his transhuman intentions are, in a way, good, they are extreme enough to make him a threat. The Final Five eventually had to take him down, only to discover his rather innocent creation. They’ve kept an eye on her ever since, and while her residence has moved, she’s still been rather sheltered. She tended to get along well with Citadel and particularly Lotte, because they were closest to the same age. Although she interacted more with the FV’s own scientists, in an effort to figure out what makes her tick, Runa did train on occasion with anyone who’d be willing to let her. Her own abilities didin’t quite map to anyone’s, so she had to figure out her own ways to practice, most of the time. Runa eventually begged her way into active duty, and her abilities have rapidly evolved in response to the pressures of combat. She’s fairly handy in a fight, even if she’s...not as useful elsewhere. She seems to naturally draw in and expend the supernatural “aether” that continues to leak up from below, and which also powers most of her (and other creatures’) monstrous abilities. She also emits some sort of radiation to which Abyssals and her other inhuman relatives are sensitive, which often will draw them towards her, and thus, to Shanhu. While she can be a useful member of the team, it goes without saying that her overtly inhuman nature is likely to make others uneasy, particularly if they have bad memories from the past upheavals. Her role in the current team is something of a skirmisher. She’s not necessarily the strongest or toughest, but her versatility allows her to take on a variety of opponents or tasks, and she can outlast just about anyone. There are ongoing betting pools within the Final Five’s support network as to whether she or Tian return with the worst injuries after a mission. She goes to a local high school, where she at least pretends to be normal, although she never really established a secret identity, either. [h3]Abilities:[/h3] [b]Shapeshifting Horror:[/b] Runa has direct (and usually conscious) control over the tissue that makes up her own body. While she does have a rough organization of organs, and some sort of “core” that’s important to keep safe from harm, arguably she’s more just made up of the same bizarre, multi-functional tissue throughout. She can alter her form more or less at will, although she usually does lean more toward the combat applications. Runa’s abilities clearly violate conservation of mass, suggesting a full-on supernatural origin. [hider=Specific powers] Runa can grow claws, teeth, mouths, tentacles, and a variety of other appendages for the purposes of attacking things, getting around, or whatever else. However, this tends not to be pretty. If you’ve seen The Thing, you get the idea. Extreme Omnivore - Runa is capable of deriving sustenance from just about anything organic. While she prefers actual food (notably chocolate, cup ramen, and popsicles), she can eat practically anything. Cafeteria food, fuzzy blue-green meat, and even Gigakill’s cooking won’t harm her, although she may not enjoy them, either. Runa’s alien physiology makes her extremely adaptive and hardy in most any environment. She is unbothered by extremes of pressure and temperature, doesn’t need to breathe, and is immune to poisons and diseases unless they were specifically tailored to affect her. It’s possible she doesn’t need to eat, either, instead deriving sustenance from ambient energy fields, but that doesn’t seem to stop her enormous appetite. Runa heals extremely quickly, recovering from injuries in seconds to minutes. Tian-Gui is an impenetrable wall, Runa instead relies upon healing faster than she can be damaged. Star Jelly - Runa can use her own body to make food that tastes good and provides for all of one’s dietary needs. She’s pretty shy about it, though, and tries to make sure nobody knows what she’s doing or where anything she “finds” in a survival situation comes from. Cosmetic Shapeshifting - Runa can change her appearance to some extent, just to alter what she looks like. She has a “default” form that she tends to stay in, and a specific armored form she often uses on official hero duty. While she can alter her body proportions and shape, she’s only really able to perfectly disguise herself as someone else if she has a sample of their genetic material to work from. Given that this tends to mean eating little bits of them, attempts to do so are frowned upon. Universal Donor - Runa can use her own tissue to heal others, by altering it into a perfect genetic match on the fly and filling in injuries. The equivalent losses do cause her to suffer roughly the same damage as she heals herself (although not necessarily in the same form). Good thing she heals quickly. [/hider] [b]Gravity Manipulation:[/b] Runa’s ability to manipulate and alter gravity developed some time after she started her active hero duty. Some of the scientists working with (or on) her suspect it’s a further evolution or awakening of her abilities. While used primarily for flight, Runa also uses her powers to generate blasts of gravitons as a ranged attack. Most uses of her powers tend to be accompanied by bursts of multicolored light. [hider=Specific Powers] Flight - Runa flies by generating a localized gravity well to pick her up. Usually it’s above her head, and surrounded by a ring of multicolored light, with additional rings forming and dissipating behind her when she accelerates or puts on a quick burst of speed. The gravity well also tends to pick up small objects and drag them along within it. Gravity Blast - Runa’s usual ranged attacks fire bolts of energy. Gravity Field - Runa can alter the local gravity in an area, either increasing it to pin down foes, or reversing it to send them flying. Giga Graviton - An extremely powerful attack launching a black hole -like anomaly. While good at taking down tough targets, it’s also very good at putting a cylindrical hole through the scenery and causing plenty of collateral damage. Runa can’t fire this off too often without taking a rest, as she pushes herself every time she uses it. [/hider]