Post by ToxicZodiac on Oct 24, 2012 14:52:33 GMT -6
Name: Selena Hunter
Age: 23
Codename: the Siren
Gender: Female
Species: Mutant lizard [ 2/3rds Komodo Dragon and 1/3rd alligator snapper ]
Occupation: Detective, ex-military
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
PB: Susan Egan [voice], Scarlett Johansson [disguise]
APPEARANCE
Eyes: Gold
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 125 lbs
Build: toned
Selena is a mutant lizard, appearing anthropomorphic as she bears a human structure and behavior. Technically, she's a hybrid like her father but not quite as obvious. She resembles more as a lizard, the Komodo Dragon to be more precise. Her tough skin is a rusty maroon brown, rather dark but the color is more visible and vibrant. Light colored spots decorate her skin, these spots are rather large and apparent and act almost like freckles; but not quite abundant as they are on her face, tail and a few areas on her body. Selena's skin seems almost flawless if not for an uncomfortable mark on her lower abdomen, a scar still seemingly fresh and looked like it had been recurring or cut into more than once. Looks as though it was a surgical scar and rather recent. Her tail is long but only about as long as her legs if not longer, not enough to be dragged around however.
While she is a small part turtle, she has no apparent shell; the only thing close is the flexible imprints on her back and front that do have the texture and design to some degree, only that the shapes are apart from each other almost like a tattoo. Her almost black carapace is abit more bulbous and are made up of triangular shapes, and has the texture of the shell from mere touch. The pale orange plastron, however, is not quite as apparent to looking like a shell or being part of the shell as there's only a few big shapes covering parts of her front; two curved triangles over where her breasts would be, two thin triangles on her mid section, and one little one closer to her groin. Her plastron is softer and smoother than the indents of the carapace, but is clearly there.
To be able to mingle with the humans and work her dream job, she has a holographic disguise that makes her look completely human as provided from a rather high-tech gadget made by her father. In this disguise, she appears as a woman in her mid-twenties with curly brown hair and blue-grey eyes. Usually wearing her work clothes, which consist of a light grey or brown work suit; sometimes with a skirt that reaches to her knees, or pants. When not working, she wears casual tops and skirts, dresses, etc; usually clothes best suited for less formal wear.
PERSONALITY
She very friendly and social when necessary, moreso around people she likes or trusts. She can be rather springy and full of energy even around strangers on occasion, but being very collected and vibrant despite hardships. Rather pleasant and tolerant, yet observant. Despite her seemingly gleeful air, she's actually rather calm and very calculating. She has an affinity for manipulating her own emotions just to get responses from others, making her a rather talented actress of her own scenes. But it is more useful for her to hide any shred of pain or weakness she has, should she be in a moment where such things would come to her.
The siren has an interest in details, being fore-mentioned as very observant. While she never seems to be, she will usually take in account of things from seeing them to be able to prepare herself or use such information she gathered first-hand at a later point. More effective for detective work and finding clues. She loves solving mysteries, and makes her observation more of a habit rather than just something she can do. Very intelligent, though while she's more into the more investigative subject, it wouldn't be against her to know a thing or two in some of the more sciencey fields like forensics. She had studied forensic science in the past while she started her military career.
Collective and calm, she can be rather cold and manipulative. Being able to mask or control her emotions rather fluidly makes her capable of influencing or exploiting others for her own wants. Whether to hide her true agony or want the subject changed, she would follow with the more appropriate expression to fool others into believing what she wants them to. While her skills are not going to be completely effective, she's rather adept with it and has been; making to easier to fit into other identities whenever she was undercover as an agent. But of course, that life is past her and yet that part of her remained.
Selena is not beyond having her flaws. Past trauma and misfortunes made her terrified of being able to have children through natural means, or even be fit to be a mother; and even mention of sexual assault would make her furious, sad, or terrified. When it comes to those who were almost as unfortunate as her, she will find harsh justice for the culprits that caused such things; making her very prejudiced against sex offenders. Selena of course, is fond of children and wishes to have them in the future; but at this moment she's terrified of having them now and may be rather hysteric about the subject. She has mild post traumatic stress disorder that was developed from past hardships during her military career.
POWERS AND SKILLS
Like komodo dragons, she has the abilities predetermining them; like a thick scaled skin reinforced with bone, superior sense of smell, poisonous saliva or venom, heightened hearing and taste, etc. While she has sensory plaques on her scales to allow feeling, it's not quite as easy for her to notice certain touches or even certain wounds as pain sensory is muffled compared to average for humans. In regards to her smell and taste, like these magnificent lizards; she can smell with her long tongue aside from just her nose. Her tongue provides extra leverage for smelling, and is also particularly sensitive in the taste department to be able to detect food or danger. Unfortunately, also much like the Komodo Dragon, she has venom and/or rather toxic saliva that can be dangerous to humans and various species.
While her skin is tougher than a humans, she depends more on her speed. Komodo Dragons are pretty strong, but Selena is not so much; a small little defect with her birth. But all and all, her reflexes are faster than human and allows her to preform feats that most human bodies aren't able to accomplish. Selena is quite unique considering her capabilities, and not just the ones more relative to the species she happens to be. She was code named the "Siren" for she developed powers that are relative and more similar to the mythological creatures from the greek tales, she has a good control over them; but not completely.
Hypnotic Call - sound, usually musical, that lures anyone who hears it towards the user. It's effective on any type of person, but may take more power and strain on Selena if she's trying to lure someone with a stronger willpower. It's not so effective if the persons are wearing ear plugs to block any sound or a special piece of ear coverage that blocks the hypnotic effect of her song or voice should she utilize it. It is more potent when she sings, and more possible to trigger automatically if she does; it would rarely do so if she's casually speaking.
Ghostly Wail - a very shrill and deafening scream. More potent as an emotionally destructive power rather than physically, it's sound is more ghostly and out-worldly to make it more terrifying. It's more of a supersonic scream that's capable of causing damage to most creatures, normal or otherwise, and such damage is varied depending on the individual. This power may also be potent against certain energies, should it be used but not quite as effective. The effect can be reduced should proper protection be used and even silenced if possible. It would be particularly hard to mute hearing a ghost-like scream that causes more emotional damage, but is possible. Unfortunately for Selena, using it causes more strain on her even if it was for a very limited time; it's even more so if and when it triggers on its own.
Aside from her very unique and particular powers, being formidable on her own in some degree. she wouldn't be able to execute utilize her gifts if she wasn't already trained to become an exceptional hunter, survivalist, and secret military agent. Selena is very skilled in combat, having learned various forms of techniques while training to become an agent for the militia. It's unlikely she'll hesitate to attack or defend herself should it be necessary, and it makes her very formidable in combat. While she's not particularly exceptional at espionage, she can utilize what she had learned when she sees fit.
But that's not all, as she also has a very unique memory; able to memorize most everything and store it without the nodes connecting to that information being severed from not being used. It keys into her high intelligence and allows her to learn things very quickly, as well as point out details. She has a photographic memory that is constantly utilized and becomes very useful for her observational and detective skills. During college, she studied Forensic Science extensively; and knows quite abit about it to understand certain situations involving bodies or damage to be able to preform medical service if needed. She even studied other languages during her youth and when she was undergoing training in the military, such as german, russian, french, and morse code.
Selena is more talented as a detective than an agent or soldier, however, due to her skills in observation and detail detection. Without much effort, she is able to piece together events and clues to find out what happened and is very effective of discovering the culprit should there had been any. She makes a habit out of creating a scene in her mind to help her understand the details even further. Her skills solving mysteries was what made her to be very exceptional in the police force. If it so happens that she found the wrong person, she can look into the case even further to prove their innocence.
LIMITATIONS
Selena Hunter is nothing like her father, she does try to follow in his footsteps; but she's nowhere what he is. Not as strong as she would be considering her species, but is fast. Due to the traumatic events in her past, she's a scared little girl hiding behind masks to avoid suffering more pain. She's more of an emotional wreck and subject to breakdowns despite that she's now able to properly recover from the events. But even with her current situation, she's actually more distant and closed off; using her manipulative skills to keep people from actually knowing her and what she had suffered. More than likely she'll refuse to talk about her trauma and change subject constantly. She has an irrational fear of becoming a mother, losing children, as well as rape and may be very hysterical or infuriated when such things are mentioned or occur. Very pretentious against sex offenders, and will be very cruel and harsh towards them. She is self conscious about the scar on her lower abdomen.
Her emotional instability is also amplified from her mild post traumatic stress disorder. She'll occasionally suffer flashbacks, random hysteria, emotions from any specific events she suffered trauma from, etc. These episodes will occur, though not frequently. But when it happens, she loses her usual persona completely and falls a part if not for minutes or hours. It doesn't happen for any longer than a day and can be very concerning or terrifying. She also becomes more anxious during these events and after as she is very superstitious about them.
Even though she has a good control over her powers, she can easily lose control if she's feeling severe emotions such as anger, pain, or sorrow. Even the major strain from using them can do it as well. Because of how easy it is for her to strain or lose her grip, she doesn't use her siren-like powers as much. In regards to her other powers, she does have very sensitive senses, a majority of them anyway and her venom/toxic saliva is not as potent as it would normally be for Komodo Dragons due to the fact her mouth is actually cleaner. It's more possible for people to survive from her bites or kisses than it would be for them to die.
STORY
The daughter to Augustus and the late Wayla Hunter on an island inhabited by a society of mutants that kept themselves hidden from the rest of the world. Selena was raised by her father, being provided the care and education she needed. She was taught to become an effective hunter and survivalist, which was utilized as she pursued a military career when growing up. Her life was fair and normal as it would be for a human child; a caring father, childhood friends, a decent growing environment, etc.
She was popular among the other children during her growth, as she was attractive and highly intelligent. Her unique skills in detail and memory made her a notable mystery-solver as she had solved mysteries that had occurred in high school. Selena excelled in her classes, made high grades that provided her the means to gain credits to grant her closer to the career she wished to be in. An addition to the brilliant minds that had been in the school. Her talent mostly lied in the police force as a detective, but she felt she could be a soldier like her father was.
She enrolled into college under a scholarship provided by the Militia, taking a degree in law while having taken studies into forensic science, combat training, and other things she needed to become a soldier... and probably have a back up plan in case being one wasn't all it was cut out to be. She later completed her education and got into the Mutant Militia, where she became a secret agent to complete tasks that regular soldiers couldn't do.
Big mistake. Selene wasn't as good as an undercover spy as she was cracked up to be, somehow ending up snuffed out and captured. She was subjected to abuse and sexual assault each time, which she later managed to escape from to only learned she was with child and had miscarried during the traumatizing event. She always went to see her father who had long retired from the Militia to undergo surgery to properly remove the embryo and ensure her womb was working fine. It was like this for a couple years, consistent abuse, miscarriages, and surgeries. It took a huge toll on her and she developed mild PTSD.
Augustus, her father, decided to pull the plug in her Military career and had her relocated to New York where she found work as a detective in the New York City Police Department. Fortunately for her, her father was a genius and had fashioned a holographic disguise so she would be able to blend in with the humans with no trouble. Her new life was easier and less traumatic than the events she had suffered in the past, but the wounds remained. She had changed much since she was the little girl her father remembered her as, she was still his daughter... but she was now just a more terrified one hiding under masks to keep from suffering more pain she had felt.
It was going to take awhile before she could heal.
NOTES
The Benning Islands/Mutant Militia is essentially a secret society of mutants that had been around since the Cold War. But they aren't exactly important enough to be more elaborately explained here, so I wouldn't worry about it. Jade Green [greysight] is actually the creator of this society and it is better to ask her for details if you're curious.