Post by Dawn on Dec 20, 2009 4:27:49 GMT -5
First Name: Robin
Last Name: Hastur
Age: 10
Height/Weight: 4'6"/ 92 lbs
Eyes: aqua green
Hair: Straw Blond
Persuasion: Good
Powers/Weapons:
Mutagenic Regeneration: In a normal person when tissue is damaged, the body responds by having the surrounding undamaged cells divide until the damage is replaced. The new cells are slightly stronger than the original, and so, over time a repeated wound results in a greater resistance to damage. In Robin, the process goes haywire. Instead of a controlled replacement, her body overreacts to damage and in its high speed regeneration, divides to excess, mutating wildly. The result is that the damaged area produces new anatomical features as a response. In this way, upon finding itself in danger, it grows its own means of protecting itself.
The process by which these changes take place is to a great extent, uncontrolled. Robin can, with concentration, instigate a small degree of control over her changes, nudging it in the direction she desires. She could, for instances, favor a hulking muscular arm as opposed to a writhing tentacle mass. Finer control, such as the actual appearance and function of the limb, is beyond her ability to control. The actual transformation is unnerving, if not outright frightening to watch, an uneven, asymmetric grow, bubbling outwards, often growing internal features which burst out of external ones. For Robin, it’s actually painless, feeling similar to the sensation when you hit your funny bone. Of course, it’s no more visually appealing to her than anyone else, although since it’s her body, she does find it less terrifying. Even so, she prefers not to watch.
With practice, Robin will learn to be able to instigate lesser changes though concentration, using the mental image of trauma to provoke a response, albeit one that is considerably more dilute and less useful than actual trauma.
In situations of massive trauma, her power progresses to an exponentially more chaotic level, moving beyond just the injury to the entire body, producing an entirely nonsensical body, a myriad patchwork of forms combined into a jabberwocky. It is not a pretty sight. The process is mentally traumatic for Robin, resulting in loss of any ability to distinguish between friend or foe, losing all sense of identity. She’ll lass out at anything and anyone in this state. Continual mutations of form eventually burn out her body’s energy and leads to unconsciousness. Any memory of this transformation is lost upon awaking.
In any case, mutagenic growths are not stable and fixed and form, but shift continuously in subtle and not so subtle ways. Bones shift position, skin squirms as new, minor features emerge and disappear. These changing anomalies slowly degrade the growth until it eventually disappears and Robin’s normal body is restored. Such a change takes at least ten to fifteen minutes, even for minor changes, and more major changes might take hours or more.
There are two major drawbacks to this power, beyond its reactive nature which Robin cannot suppress, and her inability to instigate any real control over the resulting form. The first is that, while Robin does gain some instinctual understanding of the changes her body undergoes, she lacks the finer degree of control that people normally possess. In the same way that an amputee victim have to learn to use artificial limbs, Robins new anatomy doesn’t come with instructions. Her level of dexterity and ability to manipulate her new limbs and features depends largely on the degree of variation from a normal human body. If she were to have her arm transform into a generally humanoid arm, than despite changes in strength, scale or joints, she’d still have a reasonable level of control over its movements, given that her hand-eye-coordination is scalable to such a form. Limbs with a greater difference from the normal human body have a proportional distress in fine manipulation. Even moderately estranged anatomical features can make tool use difficult and basic abilities to write or operate machinery impossible. This lack of control means that Robin must also be able to adapt quickly to whatever form her body gives her, trial and error learning how to use a given body design, often under stress to do so, especially when a limbs function is not always readily apparent. Anyone can figure that a club shaped limb is good for smashing. Learning that a cluster of spinney growths can be fired as biological arrows is not nearly as apparent. Adding to this difficulty is that she’s often dealing not with one new feature, but three or more at the same time. Sensory changes can be particularly problematic, since suddenly having multiple sets of eyes, or echolocation, can radically and unexpectedly alter her ability to perceive the world around her.
Though less of an impact than the first drawback is that grossly modifying the body design takes its toll on her stamina, and while she seemingly violates the conservation of mass in her body modifications, it still takes some of her body’s stored energy to make such transformations possible. Multiple, large scale transformations leave her weakened and fatigued, and further changes might make her weak enough that she can hardly move. Though its impossible to say for sure, since her regeneration is automatic, its possible that if it were to continue being damaged long enough, she’d die as her body burnt out its resources and began a feedback as it was forced to devour itself, which would in turn trigger regeneration and snowball out of control until it was damaged beyond its ability to repair.
On the matter of regeneration, her ability to heal from wounds is considerable. Ignoring that she easily regrows new, vastly different limbs, her body is exceedingly difficult to keep damaged. Seemingly fatal wounds, notably having most of her internal organs crushed as happened in the car accident which triggered her powers, have been recovered from with enough haste to keep her alive, albeit in a form that was impossible to recognize as human until she reverted. One stratagy which does have a good chance of success is going for a knock out. Head trauma, especially early on in a fight before she grows the means to protect herself, can render her unconscious. This is a condition which, while physically repaired quickly, she does not awake from with great haste, often regaining consciousness at only a slight degree faster than a normal person. And since a mass of violent body parts is no threat if the mind controlling it is blacked out, this is a convenient means to remove her from a fight. The other option is to hit her hard and fast so that she mutates faster than she can keep up with and has to spend time figuring out her current body shape.
Regardless of her mutations, they are strictly physical in nature, and the development of other mutant powers (laser vision, Telekinesis, Elemental control, etc) is not something she can do. Only physiological changes.
Superhuman stamina: One of the greatest limiting factors for a person’s endurance is the fact that whenever a person uses their muscles, they rip at a cellular level. As with other tissue damage, the cells grow back stronger than before, allowing a body to become stronger over time. Of course, in the short term, these tears add up and weaken the muscles, resulting in muscle fatigue and weakness. In Robin, these tiny tears are almost immediately replaced, but the same mutagenic effect is present, only in a more internal measure. A normal person’s strength declines over time. Robin actually gets considerably stronger and bulkier as she exerts herself. Because the tares do not have time to add up, she can exert herself almost three times as long as a normal person. A drawback of this is that unlike a normal person, whom can improve their baseline abilities over time, eventually becoming stronger, faster, and with a greater endurance than before, Robin’s body ‘resets’ when the mutagenic form reverts. Regardless of physical training, she cannot improve her body’s baseline strength.
Superhuman strength: Given her changes in form, Robin’s strength can change greatly. In her normal form, she’s no stronger than a normal girl of her build. By adding monstrously bulky and muscular limbs, she can easily toss a car, and under the best of circumstances, lift 50 tons, perhaps even more. But it’s just as possible her random form changing will not grant her these levels of strength. Also, along a similar line of thought as her stamina, Robin can become stronger in short term though physical exertion. As she pushes her strength and her muscles tear and regrow, she becomes noticeably more muscular, but often in asymmetric ways, given that her body’s muscular layout is transforming. This is not a quick change, but a slow crescendo, which continues until she stops from fatigue as her body runs out of nutrients to maintain the speed of growth, she overcomes the obstacle she’s been fighting against, or actual external damage triggers external mutations and causes a greater change in her physiology.
History: Robins biological father was never in the picture. For as long as she could remember, her mom raised Robin by herself. It didn’t matter, they were happy. Her mother had a decent wage, and though they didn’t live richly, they had enough to keep a warm house, a stocked fridge and presents for every Christmas. They were very close to each other, almost like sisters.
As Robin grew older and went of to school, she made her own friends, and her mother, while still an important part of her life, was no longer her only companion. So as Robin began to grow into her own social circles with her peers, Robins mom began drifting back to more adult circles. She started dating again, putting whatever had driven her and Robins biological father apart behind her. Robin has few memories of the occasional men whom was brought home. Years passed, and eventually She found a guy she liked. He was a nice guy, a bit reserved, and held some very strong antimutant sentiments, but was very kind to Robin and her mother. In time, the two wed.
It was at this time which things turned ugly. While on the way home from school, Robin and her mother we’re caught in a terrible car accident, hit broadsided by a couple of drunk party boys. Robin took the worst of it, having much of the two cars crashing in on her. Her mother didn’t fare much better. The cars rolled, and she suffered major head trauma as they were bashed about.
The paramedics arrived on the scene, and pulled the two from the wreckage. Robins mother was rushed to the Hospital. Robin took another half hour to get free. Nobody expected to find her alive. Then again, nobody expected what they found either. The crash had activated Robins latent mutant powers. What they pulled from the wreck wasn’t even recognizable as human. Internal organs were on the outside, limbs and body parts grew haphazardly out of the torso. Far to many eyes and mouths were prescent, often in disturbing combinations. Two of the medics fainted. Nobody knew what they had pulled out, but it was very much alive.
Robins Step father arrived at the hospital shortly after Robin herself did. He was beyond horrified to see his stepdaughter as such an unnatural abomination. Part of him certainly wanted to disbelieve what he was seeing, but as the hours passed, the unnatural mass changed, its body assumed a humanoid form, its features retreated back below the surface, and it revealed itself to be Robin, laying asleep pacefully.
Robins mother was not so well off. She was in a coma, and it was unlikely that she’d get better any time soon. She was on life support, but even that was no guarantee that she’d pull through. However, Robins Stepfather had more to worry about. Robin awoke, and since it was now painfully clear that she was some kind of mutant, he found himself in a difficult position. On the one hand, he was responsible for her wellbeing, especially given the condition her mother was in. On the other hand, the very sight of her, even in her human form, was repulsive to him. He felt sick talking to her, almost as if he could be infected by her.
To his credit, he held out for a long time. For almost two months he looked after Robin, seeing that she was taken care off, even managing, though he struggled greatly, with explaining what she was and endured her little experiments with her abilities, as much as he tried to dissuade her from doing so. But at the end of the two months, Robins mother passed away. The life support failed and she’d died. It hit Robins Stepfather hard, cracking his already strained mind. He couldn’t bear to be around Robin for another minute. He told himself he was doing what was best for her, keeping her mother’s death a secret, deluding himself into believing that he was protecting her. He decided that he’d send her away, to a school where they housed children like her. He wouldn’t be responsible for her anymore.
Robin, of course, knew none of this. She believed him completely when he said that they were going on a camping trip to new England. She did as he said, packing up her things and loading them into the car. Perhaps the only sign that something was wrong was the long silence on the trip there. Yet, she didn’t put much thought onto it, and was thinking about marshmellows and campfire songs.
Upon arrival at the X mansion, her stepfather instructed Robin to unload her stuff and head into the main building. He said he was just going to go put some gas in the car, and would be back soon. As he drove off, Robin didn’t realize that he had no intention of ever coming back. If she had any doubts, they were buried deep behind a wall of denial.
Comic character is from: X-men based
Last Name: Hastur
Age: 10
Height/Weight: 4'6"/ 92 lbs
Eyes: aqua green
Hair: Straw Blond
Persuasion: Good
Powers/Weapons:
Mutagenic Regeneration: In a normal person when tissue is damaged, the body responds by having the surrounding undamaged cells divide until the damage is replaced. The new cells are slightly stronger than the original, and so, over time a repeated wound results in a greater resistance to damage. In Robin, the process goes haywire. Instead of a controlled replacement, her body overreacts to damage and in its high speed regeneration, divides to excess, mutating wildly. The result is that the damaged area produces new anatomical features as a response. In this way, upon finding itself in danger, it grows its own means of protecting itself.
The process by which these changes take place is to a great extent, uncontrolled. Robin can, with concentration, instigate a small degree of control over her changes, nudging it in the direction she desires. She could, for instances, favor a hulking muscular arm as opposed to a writhing tentacle mass. Finer control, such as the actual appearance and function of the limb, is beyond her ability to control. The actual transformation is unnerving, if not outright frightening to watch, an uneven, asymmetric grow, bubbling outwards, often growing internal features which burst out of external ones. For Robin, it’s actually painless, feeling similar to the sensation when you hit your funny bone. Of course, it’s no more visually appealing to her than anyone else, although since it’s her body, she does find it less terrifying. Even so, she prefers not to watch.
With practice, Robin will learn to be able to instigate lesser changes though concentration, using the mental image of trauma to provoke a response, albeit one that is considerably more dilute and less useful than actual trauma.
In situations of massive trauma, her power progresses to an exponentially more chaotic level, moving beyond just the injury to the entire body, producing an entirely nonsensical body, a myriad patchwork of forms combined into a jabberwocky. It is not a pretty sight. The process is mentally traumatic for Robin, resulting in loss of any ability to distinguish between friend or foe, losing all sense of identity. She’ll lass out at anything and anyone in this state. Continual mutations of form eventually burn out her body’s energy and leads to unconsciousness. Any memory of this transformation is lost upon awaking.
In any case, mutagenic growths are not stable and fixed and form, but shift continuously in subtle and not so subtle ways. Bones shift position, skin squirms as new, minor features emerge and disappear. These changing anomalies slowly degrade the growth until it eventually disappears and Robin’s normal body is restored. Such a change takes at least ten to fifteen minutes, even for minor changes, and more major changes might take hours or more.
There are two major drawbacks to this power, beyond its reactive nature which Robin cannot suppress, and her inability to instigate any real control over the resulting form. The first is that, while Robin does gain some instinctual understanding of the changes her body undergoes, she lacks the finer degree of control that people normally possess. In the same way that an amputee victim have to learn to use artificial limbs, Robins new anatomy doesn’t come with instructions. Her level of dexterity and ability to manipulate her new limbs and features depends largely on the degree of variation from a normal human body. If she were to have her arm transform into a generally humanoid arm, than despite changes in strength, scale or joints, she’d still have a reasonable level of control over its movements, given that her hand-eye-coordination is scalable to such a form. Limbs with a greater difference from the normal human body have a proportional distress in fine manipulation. Even moderately estranged anatomical features can make tool use difficult and basic abilities to write or operate machinery impossible. This lack of control means that Robin must also be able to adapt quickly to whatever form her body gives her, trial and error learning how to use a given body design, often under stress to do so, especially when a limbs function is not always readily apparent. Anyone can figure that a club shaped limb is good for smashing. Learning that a cluster of spinney growths can be fired as biological arrows is not nearly as apparent. Adding to this difficulty is that she’s often dealing not with one new feature, but three or more at the same time. Sensory changes can be particularly problematic, since suddenly having multiple sets of eyes, or echolocation, can radically and unexpectedly alter her ability to perceive the world around her.
Though less of an impact than the first drawback is that grossly modifying the body design takes its toll on her stamina, and while she seemingly violates the conservation of mass in her body modifications, it still takes some of her body’s stored energy to make such transformations possible. Multiple, large scale transformations leave her weakened and fatigued, and further changes might make her weak enough that she can hardly move. Though its impossible to say for sure, since her regeneration is automatic, its possible that if it were to continue being damaged long enough, she’d die as her body burnt out its resources and began a feedback as it was forced to devour itself, which would in turn trigger regeneration and snowball out of control until it was damaged beyond its ability to repair.
On the matter of regeneration, her ability to heal from wounds is considerable. Ignoring that she easily regrows new, vastly different limbs, her body is exceedingly difficult to keep damaged. Seemingly fatal wounds, notably having most of her internal organs crushed as happened in the car accident which triggered her powers, have been recovered from with enough haste to keep her alive, albeit in a form that was impossible to recognize as human until she reverted. One stratagy which does have a good chance of success is going for a knock out. Head trauma, especially early on in a fight before she grows the means to protect herself, can render her unconscious. This is a condition which, while physically repaired quickly, she does not awake from with great haste, often regaining consciousness at only a slight degree faster than a normal person. And since a mass of violent body parts is no threat if the mind controlling it is blacked out, this is a convenient means to remove her from a fight. The other option is to hit her hard and fast so that she mutates faster than she can keep up with and has to spend time figuring out her current body shape.
Regardless of her mutations, they are strictly physical in nature, and the development of other mutant powers (laser vision, Telekinesis, Elemental control, etc) is not something she can do. Only physiological changes.
Superhuman stamina: One of the greatest limiting factors for a person’s endurance is the fact that whenever a person uses their muscles, they rip at a cellular level. As with other tissue damage, the cells grow back stronger than before, allowing a body to become stronger over time. Of course, in the short term, these tears add up and weaken the muscles, resulting in muscle fatigue and weakness. In Robin, these tiny tears are almost immediately replaced, but the same mutagenic effect is present, only in a more internal measure. A normal person’s strength declines over time. Robin actually gets considerably stronger and bulkier as she exerts herself. Because the tares do not have time to add up, she can exert herself almost three times as long as a normal person. A drawback of this is that unlike a normal person, whom can improve their baseline abilities over time, eventually becoming stronger, faster, and with a greater endurance than before, Robin’s body ‘resets’ when the mutagenic form reverts. Regardless of physical training, she cannot improve her body’s baseline strength.
Superhuman strength: Given her changes in form, Robin’s strength can change greatly. In her normal form, she’s no stronger than a normal girl of her build. By adding monstrously bulky and muscular limbs, she can easily toss a car, and under the best of circumstances, lift 50 tons, perhaps even more. But it’s just as possible her random form changing will not grant her these levels of strength. Also, along a similar line of thought as her stamina, Robin can become stronger in short term though physical exertion. As she pushes her strength and her muscles tear and regrow, she becomes noticeably more muscular, but often in asymmetric ways, given that her body’s muscular layout is transforming. This is not a quick change, but a slow crescendo, which continues until she stops from fatigue as her body runs out of nutrients to maintain the speed of growth, she overcomes the obstacle she’s been fighting against, or actual external damage triggers external mutations and causes a greater change in her physiology.
History: Robins biological father was never in the picture. For as long as she could remember, her mom raised Robin by herself. It didn’t matter, they were happy. Her mother had a decent wage, and though they didn’t live richly, they had enough to keep a warm house, a stocked fridge and presents for every Christmas. They were very close to each other, almost like sisters.
As Robin grew older and went of to school, she made her own friends, and her mother, while still an important part of her life, was no longer her only companion. So as Robin began to grow into her own social circles with her peers, Robins mom began drifting back to more adult circles. She started dating again, putting whatever had driven her and Robins biological father apart behind her. Robin has few memories of the occasional men whom was brought home. Years passed, and eventually She found a guy she liked. He was a nice guy, a bit reserved, and held some very strong antimutant sentiments, but was very kind to Robin and her mother. In time, the two wed.
It was at this time which things turned ugly. While on the way home from school, Robin and her mother we’re caught in a terrible car accident, hit broadsided by a couple of drunk party boys. Robin took the worst of it, having much of the two cars crashing in on her. Her mother didn’t fare much better. The cars rolled, and she suffered major head trauma as they were bashed about.
The paramedics arrived on the scene, and pulled the two from the wreckage. Robins mother was rushed to the Hospital. Robin took another half hour to get free. Nobody expected to find her alive. Then again, nobody expected what they found either. The crash had activated Robins latent mutant powers. What they pulled from the wreck wasn’t even recognizable as human. Internal organs were on the outside, limbs and body parts grew haphazardly out of the torso. Far to many eyes and mouths were prescent, often in disturbing combinations. Two of the medics fainted. Nobody knew what they had pulled out, but it was very much alive.
Robins Step father arrived at the hospital shortly after Robin herself did. He was beyond horrified to see his stepdaughter as such an unnatural abomination. Part of him certainly wanted to disbelieve what he was seeing, but as the hours passed, the unnatural mass changed, its body assumed a humanoid form, its features retreated back below the surface, and it revealed itself to be Robin, laying asleep pacefully.
Robins mother was not so well off. She was in a coma, and it was unlikely that she’d get better any time soon. She was on life support, but even that was no guarantee that she’d pull through. However, Robins Stepfather had more to worry about. Robin awoke, and since it was now painfully clear that she was some kind of mutant, he found himself in a difficult position. On the one hand, he was responsible for her wellbeing, especially given the condition her mother was in. On the other hand, the very sight of her, even in her human form, was repulsive to him. He felt sick talking to her, almost as if he could be infected by her.
To his credit, he held out for a long time. For almost two months he looked after Robin, seeing that she was taken care off, even managing, though he struggled greatly, with explaining what she was and endured her little experiments with her abilities, as much as he tried to dissuade her from doing so. But at the end of the two months, Robins mother passed away. The life support failed and she’d died. It hit Robins Stepfather hard, cracking his already strained mind. He couldn’t bear to be around Robin for another minute. He told himself he was doing what was best for her, keeping her mother’s death a secret, deluding himself into believing that he was protecting her. He decided that he’d send her away, to a school where they housed children like her. He wouldn’t be responsible for her anymore.
Robin, of course, knew none of this. She believed him completely when he said that they were going on a camping trip to new England. She did as he said, packing up her things and loading them into the car. Perhaps the only sign that something was wrong was the long silence on the trip there. Yet, she didn’t put much thought onto it, and was thinking about marshmellows and campfire songs.
Upon arrival at the X mansion, her stepfather instructed Robin to unload her stuff and head into the main building. He said he was just going to go put some gas in the car, and would be back soon. As he drove off, Robin didn’t realize that he had no intention of ever coming back. If she had any doubts, they were buried deep behind a wall of denial.
Comic character is from: X-men based
