Orchid
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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 eerily 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 for.
History
WIP
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.
Allies & Enemies
Opinions
Thoughts/comments from Orchid's superhero peers go here!
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| Founder: Captain Collider | ||
| Frontiersmen: Aliona • Atom Man • Bullet Ant • Crawdad • Desperado • Katsuo • Orchid • Particle Man Primordo • Prism • Rocket • Roadrunner • Soldier Celsius • Starlancer Tryton • Ultima King • Uplift • Watchman • Wildling | ||
| Allies: QUARK | ||
| ... Ad Infinitum ... | ||
