[hider=Rachael Kerri]
Appearance:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/ehIpRpU_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium[/img]
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Occupation: Nighttime Waitress
Plant Essence: [i]Rafflesia kerrii[/i]
Superpower(s):

[b]Scent Creation[/b]: This has two applications, one passive and one active:

[b][i]Passive[/i][/b]: By exposure of bodily fluids - such as sweat, blood, or saliva - Kerri releases the scent of rotting meat, unwillingly, as the fluids evaporate upon making contact with the air. As her body heats up, or the most time she spends in an area of extreme heat, the worst the smell becomes; easily nauseating all but the most iron-willed or those without a sense of smell.

Because of her current lack of control, she habitually chews flavoured gum and sleeps in a shower.

[b][i]Active[/i][/b]: By forcing the growth of the parasitic [i]Rafflesia Kerri[/i] flowers on her own body, she can set the bulbs to bloom, or detach the bulbs, and use them as a biological grenade to take root in another living being - using their flesh and blood to bloom.

Regardless of how it is done, drawing on multiple blossoms can cause downright bio-hazardous levels of smell that can trigger intense nausea, cause unconscious, and other physical reactions without an extreme strong resistance or no sense of smell. 

However, because this takes Kerri’s flesh and blood as nutrients, she is unable to support more than five blossoms at the moment.

[b]Vermin Control[/b]: This is an Active power, as Kerri focuses on a singular command, while heating her body up or producing a bulb, which then becomes a scent that attracts a species of vermin within the area, such as rats or flies. Because this isn’t direct control, but instinct influence, Kerri can only issue very simple commands, such as: Swarm, Attack, and Seek.

Because of Kerri's immense dislike of her power, Kerri tries to avoid using this power until she is unable to handle the situation. However, vermin are instinctively drawn to her, as she reeks of rotten flesh and blood, and can be commonly found tracking her down whenever she starts to sweat.

Personality: Prior to developing her Powers, Kerri, while not the brightest flower in the patch, was personable enough, and open to conversation with her nighttime regulars as she was trapped in her dead end job as a waitress. However, once her Powers bloomed, ironically, her personality wilted with it. Socially withdrawn due to her smell, Kerri finds it hard to attempt to converse with even her regulars, as she focused on staying cool, and almost impossible to make new contacts.

History:

A sickly child, Kerri was never one of high spirits, but was never starved for attention. Private schooled through most of her childhood, Kerri didn’t do the teenage rebel phase with any true passion, but simply to pass through peer pressure, and the look stuck. Although her health recovered as she reached adulthood, but, the damage done would stay with her, making her prone to sickness with the weather change, as well as having impacted lung capacity, so she becomes easily winded.

Uninspired by much, Kerri dropped out of her private college in the middle of her first year of a “recommended” degree in Literature Studies for a dead end job - waitressing for a Mom n’ Pop dinner - and vanishing from existence, as far as her friends and family could understand. For five years, Kerri bussed tables and took orders for nights on end, until she started to get a summer cold...

At least, that’s what she assumed.

A week of the scent of death and decay took her in a nightmare, as her Flower Power developed without any more warning; uncontrollable growth of rotting smelling flowers covered her skin, vermin of all form invaded her motel flat like a plague, and her sweat was becoming a slimy goo. By time her fever broke, Kerri’s power had solidified in its current state.

Through only the effort of living in a rundown motel flat, some serious deep cleaning, and a routine of sleeping in her shower, perfumes and deodorant, was Kerri even scraping back some of her substandard lifestyle. However, she withdrew even further into herself...

Miscellaneous: Kerri never goes by her first name, Rachael, with strangers or ever close friends, and always makes a point to emphasize, “It’s Kerri with an I, not a Y. I’m British, mate, not Irish.”

She's had two months of "practice" with her power, thanks to her living arrangements and generally unfriendly disposition.[/hider]