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Overview

A possessor of transformative powers, theone who goes by 'Shift' or 'Shifter' identifies themselves as neutral, but has been known to do the 'good' thing when they are the only one who can intervene in a situation.

UNTIL Meta incident file #1783

Police had a building containing a gang of gunmen and hostages surrounded. They state they did not see anyone go in or out. However after 1 hour 17 minutes of standoff a hostage yelled that they were coming out: they had been saved by a hero. Hostage accounts state that the gun of the criminal keeping them tied up in a room had simply vanished, replaced by, by all accounts, a marble.. which fell immediately to the ground. One witness reports seeing a fly right before a small humanoid lizard appeared by the confused ex-gunman who was swiftly felled by a series of blows from the agile humanoid reptile, who then picked up the marble and by all accounts turned it into a rope with which he used to bind the unconscious gunman. They were apparently told to 'stay in the room and be quiet' before the reptile exited the room. They heard a brief scuffle and a gunshot before the reptile returned and told them it was 'safe to go now' after removing their restraints. One hostage asked him who he was, at which point he replied with the name 'Shift'.

This is one of a handful of reports we have of this 'Shift' acting heroic, however the individual seems to not identify themselves as such. End File

Background

Of unknown background, shift reveals little.

Opening UNTIL Meta Report #482

Operative Name: Agent McKen, affiliated with Project Mindgames, Empath and minor Mindreader

Location: England, a small town in Yorkshire

My partner tracked down the individual known as 'Shift' or 'Shifter' (both have been used as identification, seemingly depending on the meta's mood) to a small town pub in Yorkshire. The individual appeared as a human female of approximately 25 years old with brown shoulder length hair. I was able to identify the individual at first by the bag they were carrying, which had been seen one week prior during the last sighting of the individual during a meta combat incident in Manchester, where they appeared as a young man with short sandy hair. I the tried a brief sensing of their emotions and mind. However the individual seemed to notice the mental scanning and raised a clear mind block: side note, Shift/Shifter seems to have a very strong willpower and seemed to be able to notice my mental probing, likely has experience with or dealings with a psionic meta.

When approached Shift seemed guarded, my empathy could pick up their unease. I introduced myself by a false civilian name, and they did likewise. I then proceeded to engage the subject in conversation, using my empathy to gain as much information as possible. Shift however seemed fairly experienced at deception, but I could make out a few things. First, I am reasonably sure Shifter is English: their accent and knowledge of lingo etc seemed too good and Shift has been reasonably confirmed in England more than any other place. Secondly, the individual seemed socially uncomfortable and has a weak personality, with more incidents of anxiety than usual even before I mentioned I was an agent of UNTIL. When I did mention that fact I was from UNTIL my empathy picked up an uncomfortable amount of anxiety and distrust, soon ending the conversation and leaving the pub. I was not able to track their location afterwards.

End File

Appearance

Shifters appearance can vary at will.

Powers

Transformation Set

Shifts power is transformation power. This power requires copying forms to work. Shift can acquire a form in two ways, and once acquired a form is available for transformation permanently. The first is via touch, which acquires the form instantly. The second way is via mentally 'scanning' something in visual range (this scanning is technically classed as a magical sense and can be blocked via a barrier vs magic). This takes between 30 seconds and one minute, depending on the complexity of the thing being 'scanned', so a normal animal or a basic vehicle like a car would take 30 seconds. Something highly complex (such as a humanoid form due to their higher brain functions) or a high tech thing like a super jet would take one minute. This duration need not be consecutive.

Once they have acquired a form they can use the form perfectly and may even use its traits (such as by scanning a lizard and a human they could become a humanoid lizard man.) If copying a machine, they only acquire the base software required for it to run, and not any actual data that would be on a machine, such as important files.

Shapeshifting

Shift/Shifter is a true shapeshifter, able to transform into anything: animal, vegetable or mineral. They can even become such things as the primeval elements such as water, fire or air. Regardless of the form, shifter is able to control their own body even when such control would be unnatural (such as when they transform into water). They can even transform into fully functional machines.

Touch Transformation

Shift is able to transform other things they touch in the same manner as their own body. The one transformed has control over their body as natural when transformed into something living such as an animal. If transformed into something inanimate, they are unable to control themselves unless the inanimate object could potentially move, such as a machine/vehicle.. at which point shift can choose their level of control (from none as the normal machine to effectively being an animated machine/vehicle).

Regeneration

Shift does regenerate damage sustained, and can also regenerate from mental and mystical/spiritual damage. However this is only at a low level in general to the body, an average level to the mind and a high level to the spirit. They may also regenerate limbs and complex body parts such as eyes. The power also confers a very high resistance to poisons, venoms and diseases and they can adapt to combat these things very rapidly. However shifter is able to literally transform their body/mind/spirit to a healthy state rapidly via concentration, emulating a much higher level of regeneration.

Standard healing rates: 1 body/3 hours, 1 mind/30 minutes, 1 spirit/ 5 minutes

Enhanced healing rates using transformation: 3 body/round, 4 mind/round, 5 spirit/round

Immortality

Shift can also regenerate from a state of death: to mind, body or spirit, even where none of the latter two would remain at the original. Should either of these occur they will automatically regenerate from a place where some of their body remains: usually the largest part if mind/spirit death occurs. If it is merely body death Shift is able to consciously choose to regenerate from a remaining body part of their choice. Due to this, Shifter keeps small hidden parts of their body from various forms around the world: long lasting parts such as locks of hair and feathers etc. This effectively makes them a type 2 immortal[1] (in that they can be killed but only by a special means).

Skills

Shift / Shifter does fight with more skill than someone untrained. A skilled martial artist would recognize a hint of jiu-jitsu and taekwondo amongst a hybrid combat style.