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| Player: @ag167 | ||||||||||
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| Biographical Data | ||||||||||
| Real Name: | Rose Thorne | |||||||||
| Known Aliases: | Orchid | |||||||||
| Gender: | Female | |||||||||
| Species: | Human/Plant Hybrid | |||||||||
| Ethnicity: | American | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | Ocean Ridge, California | |||||||||
| Base of Operations: | Floralis Labs, Michigan | |||||||||
| Relatives: | N/A | |||||||||
| Characteristics | ||||||||||
| Age: | 34 | |||||||||
| Height: | 5'10" | |||||||||
| Weight: | 156lbs | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Teal | |||||||||
| Hair: | Green/Red | |||||||||
| Complexion: | Plantlike | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | Athletic | |||||||||
| Physical Features: | Rootlike growths/patterns across face and skin | |||||||||
| Status | ||||||||||
| Alignment: |
Neutral Good | |||||||||
| Reputation: |
Memorable | |||||||||
| Identity: | Secret-ish | |||||||||
| Years Active: | Varies, 2-4 | |||||||||
| Citizenship: | American | |||||||||
| Occupation: | Botanical Geneticist | |||||||||
| Education: | Doctorates in Botany & Genetics | |||||||||
| Marital Status: | Single | |||||||||
| Known Powers and Abilities | ||||||||||
| Chlorokinesis | ||||||||||
| Equipment and Paraphernalia | ||||||||||
| Messenger Bag | ||||||||||
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Contents
Appearance & Personality
Rose sticks out in any crowd she's in. With her dark green skin, and wildly colored hair, it's quite obvious that she's more than your average human. To round it all out, glowing blue-teal eyes complete her unusual ensemble, leaving any viewer convinced she's more than meets the eye. Rose's skin, while thicker and fibrous in nature, retains most of it's human smoothness - perhaps even moreso now that she's entirely without hair besides her head. Nails and teeth remain, giving more weight to the fusion of flora and fauna that is her body. Her fashion sense is simple: jeans, t-shirts, coats. When she does 'dress up', it's usually in light, billowing dresses and long gowns.
When working, her hair is usually pinned back. Most eerie about her 'work' is her constant use of her chlorokinetic powers. Plants grow and wilt from her arms and back rapidly as she synthesizes and tests new genetic qualities of each one. It's a terrifying process to watch for the first time!
All in all, Doctor Thorne is a dry, somewhat sardonic person. She's quick to point out flaws and problems in a plan, albeit usually politely. While not self serving, Rose is hesitant to put herself directly in the line of danger - preferring instead to leave that to those durable enough to take it. Overall, she values the ability of her powers to change the field of science more than to change the field of justice. She views herself as a scientist first and a hero second - something that sometimes leaves other heroes annoyed at her.
Rose's Myers-Briggs Personality type is INTP.
History
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Powers & Abilities
Chlorokinesis: As the chosen avatar of Yggdrasil, Orchid is granted complete control over all plant life found on planet Earth. Her powers grant her dominion over a variety of things, including but not limited to:
- Animation: By imbuing nearby plantlife with small amounts of the mystical power flowing through her, Orchid can give them a semblance of 'life'. Plants amplified in such a manner move slowly (roots aren't made for walking, after all), but defend her and any of her allies at any cost. Their attacks are limited to simple smashing and bashing, unless that particular plant has specialized appendages for something else.
- Spores: By replicating the ability of some plants to generate pollen and spores, Orchid can flood the air with a variety of toxins. Paralytic, poisonous, choking, you name it. In a similar fashion, she can generate plant pheromones to nominally affect some forms of insect life - normally bees or wasps.
- Growth: As one might expect, Orchid can rapidly increase the growth of all plants. What might normally take centuries of time can be accomplished in mere moments as she opens herself to the floral kingdom - and the magic of Yggdrasil follows through.
- Armouring: By covering herself in heavy duty bark, Orchid can 'armour up' to defend herself from most small arms fire or martial weaponry. While by no means impervious, the bark coating can take the edge off of most fights she finds herself in.
- Generation: Perhaps the most impressive of her abilities is the power to generate new plant life within herself. By using her already formidable intellect, Orchid can rapidly genetically splice plants together and create seeds for them, which she can then plant and speed-grow to test our their new capabilities. While tiring, rapid synthesis of plants has earned her quite the reputation at her workplace as the go-to for idea realization.
Weaknesses
Much like one might expect from a hybrid of plant and animal DNA, Orchid is immune to most things that effect either: diseases, poisons, et cetera. However, even her unique recombinant DNA has it's weakpoints:
- Fire: Like most plants, Orchid's fibrous tissue is vulnerable to the ravages of fire. While she can slow the burning process by emitting sap from her pores, a raging inferno will quickly overtake her and eat away at her 'flesh'.
- Sunlight Dependance: As a plant-based lifeform, Orchid requires routine amounts of sunlight in order to properly function. Within a week of being denied sunlight, her intellectual and physical capabilities will have rapidly declined, and she'll enter a coma-like state of hibernation until sunlight can be re-introduced to her body.
- Extreme Temperatures: Sudden temperature shift can have devastating effects on her physiology. If given time, Orchid can adapt her body for either extreme (and her human makeup helps alleviate most problems), but a rapid, drastic increase or decrease can leave her stunned and ill-prepared.
- Pesticides/Herbicides: Her most dire weakness is the chemical constructions known as herbicides. As effective on her plant cells as it is on all plantlife, things such as Agent Orange will kill Orchid within a half hour of exposure.
Floral Foes
Enemy: HERBICIDE
"What I am's worked against your kind since 'Nam, Thorne. Just because you've learned to walk doesn't mean you're better."
Real Name: Ken Grenier
Powers/Abilities: Toxikinesis (Specializing in herbicides)
Occupation: Terrorist, Mercenary
Origin: Science
Sergeant Ken Grenier was a former US Army trooper, dating as far back as the Vietnam War. He served his country loyally, if not always faithfully or promptly, until the fateful day that his squad was positioned inside an Agent Orange drop zone. Their radio malfunctioning, Sergeant Grenier's troop missed the call to retreat, instead pushing forward in hopes of discovered a Viet Cong base deep within the jungle. Only when their skin began to boil did they realize their misfortune - and by then it was too late. Most of his men died that day - but Ken was the 'lucky' one. Something in his genetic code absorbed the herbicide blighting his skin, internalizing it and beginning a tortuously slow mutation that would, several hours later, leave him broken and bloody, but alive. He swore revenge on his commanding officers that day, leaving a trail of floral devastation in his wake as his open wounds bled toxins into the landscape. As many as sixty US officials died the day he returned to base, and then....he vanished.
Years later, a mercenary calling himself Herbicide appeared on the scene. He soon made a name for himself doing the dirty work for corporations and companies willing to pay his price and get their hands mixed up in illegal business - prime candidates being ARGENT and, on rare occasions, VIPER. Herbicide became the go-to hitman if your business was being struck by eco-terrorism: send him in, and by night's fall, your problems will have asphyxiated or worse. Ken had found a new way to earn a paycheck, one that appealed to his toxin-ridden mind. On a routine job for Monsanto, he clashed with Earth Liberation Front's own terror, The ELFin King. Surprisingly, Orchid appeared as well, sparking off a three way battle through the Monsanto warehouse. When the smoke cleared, Ken had been forced to retreat - and had lost a hefty paycheck.
Since then, the man known as Herbicide has taken every job that he thinks might get him his second round with the King and his floral fatale. It's only a matter of time before the trio clash again, and perhaps the next time, Orchid won't be so lucky...
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Orchid's Notes:
"Herbicide is literally my worse nightmare. At a thought, he could poison the entire ecosystem of a region so bad that it would take decades, maybe centuries to regrow, even with my help. And to top it all off, I have a time limit when fighting him! With the amount of chemical that he sprays in the air, it's a race against the clock to make sure I don't wind up just as dead as everything else that surrounds him. God, I hate him. And I hate owing King for saving me."
AT LARGE
Enemy: THE ELFIN KING
"Ah, mi amor. If only you would see the same way I do! You could change everything for us. I pray that someday, we can end this game of cat and mouse."
Real Name: ?????
Powers/Abilities: BHP-35 Handgun, H&K G3 Rifle, Explosives Expertise
Occupation: Terrorist, Mercenary
Origin: Non-powered
The mysterious eco-terrorist known only by his callsign - the ELFin King - has remained pursued and aloof for well over four years. Local police, military personnel, government agencies and even superheroic efforts have all turned up nothing on the man's background or identity. All this is known is that he's one of the leading figures in the Earth Liberation Front's North American operations, and has stymied every attempt to arrest or capture him. Neither police, heroes, nor villains have been able to put any sort of permanent rest to his actions. The ELFin King specializes in eco-first activities - he's fouled up logging operations, bombed corporation warehouses and headquarters, dismantled heavy machinery, and, supposedly, committed several assassinations of high ranking officials in many business conglomerates, although no solid evidence has ever linked him to their deaths.
His first run in with Orchid was a balmy summer evening, on a job he had taken to upset local GM Foods researcher and distributor New Frontier's operations. Doctor Thorne happened to be on-site as his attack commenced, the resulting bombing and hacking causing her to seek out the source. Their fight was brief and suspicious, as he escaped without a scratch and she was hard prssed to explain herself as to how she lost - either she didn't know, or she didn't want to tell. Since then, the two of them have had what some tabloids describe as an 'on again off again' relationship. He helped her in her first clash with the mercenary Herbicide, but has also fought against her just as often. Just how deep their 'relationship' goes, neither of them are telling.
Whoever or whatever the ELFin King is, he's not a foe to be trifled with. Only time will tell if he can eventually seduce Orchid to his way of thinking....or not.
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Orchid's Notes:
"I--I don't know what to make of King. He's not a bad guy, not really. First of all, I've never seen him take a life - ever. Even at his bombings he makes sure no one is in the blast radius before it goes off. Sure, he causes untold amounts of structural damage, but heroes do that too, all the time. I think he just needs a better cause to fight for. Humanity is part of Earth too, and I know what it's like to be between both worlds better than anyone."
AT LARGE
Enemy: AGENT VINES
"Just because you're some hippie freakshow who lucked out on the power roulette doesn't mean you can just waltz in here and ruin ARGENT's op, bitch."
Real Name: David 'Vines' Barrera
Powers/Abilities: ARGENT Pulson Pistol, ARGENT Pulson Rifle
Occupation: ARGENT Employed Enforcer
Origin: Non-powered
David Barrera started life as a bad kid. Born into wealth, he was used to getting what he wanted, and when he wanted it. His family, both parents full time bigwigs at differing corporations, left the task of his 'raising' to media and whomever they could bribe into watching him. By the time he was an adult, Barrera was on the fast track to being a professional asshole. Big, tough, and loud enough to get just about anything he could ask for, Barrera enlisted in the military but was dishonorably discharged from Boot for harassment and gross insubordination. He couldn't hold a desk job to save his life, and other options looked just as bleak - that is, until he found the perfect match: working for ARGENT as muscle. Thus began a beautiful relationship between Barrera and the company who paid him millions just to be himself: a sexist, self-righteous prick. ARGENT equipped him with the firepower and manpower needed to 'take care' of their problems when everything went south, and he took to it with a gusto that frightened even the most stoic of his companions.
Barrera would earn his callsign - Vines - during his first few jobs where he battled Orchid. He showed tremendous 'bravery' and 'selflessness' in the line of duty, routinely throwing himself into harm's way for his squad. On one such occasion, despite Orchid entrapping his unit in thick vines, Barrera managed to not only free himself, but bludgeon her into near-unconsciousness with a nearby pipe. She escaped only by stabbing him through the leg with an oversized thorn, which he's kept in his office as a memento of his 'success' over the heir apparent of Yggdrasil. Vines has worked with the super-mercenary Herbicide several times, but dislikes the man, thinking him too dangerous to trust and too deadly to let go. He's also sour about ARGENT's possible favoring of a metahuman over himself - a hard working soldier for years. His clashes have not only included Orchid, but the ELFin King as well, who has humiliatingly gotten the upper hand effortlessly each time.
All in all, Vines, while a potentially fearsome foe, has no desire nor drive to do anything ARGENT doesn't tell him to do. Such 'loyalty' keeps him contained and restricted, for now.
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Orchid's Notes:
"What a pig. What a god-damned pig. Vines is an asshole through and through, and I think I still have the bruise from where he beat me over the head with that pipe. He's lucky I don't have a need for fertilizer at the moment, or I'd have a mind to feed HIM to the next plant I make that's carnivorous. ARGENT's 'top dog' when dealing with me is getting too big for his proverbial britches. Did I mention he's an asshole?"
EMPLOYED: ARGENT
Enemy: THE SOLSTICE
"As it always was, it shall always be. Ever Green Knight, thou shalt attend to we. The cycle turns, the seasons changed. In fate it has all been arranged."
Real Name: King Oak, Queen Holly
Powers/Abilities: Dominion over Summer & Winter Plantlife, Commander of Armies
Occupation: Lords of Seasons
Origin: Magic
To ask from whence King Oak and Queen Holly came is to ask whence the Earth was born. They have always been, and always will be - arbiters of the very changing of the seasons. In Faerie, they would be called Titania and Mab - rulers of their respective Courts. Yggdrasil cares not about human wit and whimsy, however. Summer is guarded by the wizened and merciless King Oak. Attended by legions of soldiers clad in leafy boughs of oak, spruce, maple and cherry, the Oaken Order wields shields of palm and blades of sharpened grass. Flowers bloom in their path, and sunlight e'er graces their steps. Opposite stands the youthful, malicious Queen Holly, herald of Winter. The Holly Horde stands with spears of pine and shields of withered bark - mistletoe dangling from withered, gnarled branches. Poinsettias and the telltale red berries of their Queen's namesake decorate their regalia - and a blizzard thunders as they march to eternal war.
For as long as Orchid has been the avatar of Yggdrasil, twice a year, on the eve of the Summer and Winter solstices, she lapses into a slumber from which she cannot wake. A full twenty four hours pass, and during this time, she dreams. Her dream places her between the battle of King Oak and Queen Holly - and she is their Ever Green Knight. Garbed in bark armour, wielding a blade of solid redwood, she marches alongside the King or Queen to lead them to victory. What she thinks is a dream is in actuality a ritual passing of the torch, from Summer to Winter, and back again. The Ever Green Knight always stands with the army to be, and has done so as long as the cycle has existed.
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Orchid's Notes:
"I always have such an odd dream around this time of year. What's even more eerie is that it always seems to follow the same path, except...sometimes I'm with the old man and his green beard, other times I side with the girl in white. I don't know what to make of it. I should write a book about it or something, it seems right up the alley of some people."
ETERNAL
Enemy: WOODWOSE
"I was the chosen one! ME! Yggdrasil had picked ME! Why do YOU get it's power, now?! WHY, ORCHID? TELL ME!"
Real Name: Emre Lundström
Powers/Abilities: Chlorokinesis (Diminished)
Occupation: Former Avatar of Yggdrasil
Origin: Magic
Doctor Rose Thorne wasn't always the avatar of the realm of plants, Yggdrasil. Before her, a Swedish woodsman named Emre Lundström served the role. In fact, he served the role for over fifty years - until Rose was old enough and had proven herself more capable of serving as the avatar than he. Emre served faithfully as a defender of the floral kingdom, fighting against pollution, construction, and other environment threats while maintaining a positive relationship with the world at large. He too served as the Ever Green Knight in the constant war between Oak and Holly, and remembers his time of it fondly - for him it was no mere dream, but a waking reality. Nothing living, however, is meant to last forever, and Emre and his enhanced lifespan are no exception. When Rose was elevated to full avatar in 2012, Emre lost control of much of his power. The sudden depowering and eruption of plantlife occured in the middle of a press conference with Swedish officials and members of the press. While many escaped, many more lost their lives as a thick alpine forest tore through the building. Emre escaped in the confusion, terrified.
Imagine his surprise when he found out the reason why: a new avatar had been chosen, and Yggdrasil had no further use for him. He was discarded, thrown aside by a realm that cared not for his continued existence. All he had left was a shred of his former power, and a twisted appearance. Everyone he had loved had died, passing peacefully while he continued. Perhaps he could have let it go - gone quietly into that good night, were it not for the passing of the Winter Solstice that year. He found himself drawn back into the war...but on the losing side. For all his former glory, Emre, now called the Woodwose by King Oak, was fated to fill a new role: eternal failure. This would not stand. Woodwose travelled the globe, using his weakened chlorokinesis to teleport betwixt greenery, to find this 'new' Ever Green Knight.
And when he did, he was going to kill her.
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Orchid's Notes:
"I don't understand what he's always roaring at me about. Yggdrasil is a myth in his homeland, not mine. Whatever happened to him must have warped his mind, made him think he and I have some kind of...connection. He freaks me out, honestly. Is that what happens to someone who lives as long as I will? Am I going to wind up being some deranged madwoman later in life?"
AT LARGE
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