Name: Yulia Romanyshyn
Gender: Female*
Age: 23
Nationality/Country of origin: Ukraine, but now a citizen of the US
Ethnicity/Appearance: Caucasian, but also perfectly average. She no longer remembers exactly what she looks like before her "edits", and since she can't emulate specific people, she can't even change back to how she originally looked. This means she looks...completely generic. The only thing that sets her apart from a nat -- and this is only because she chooses to express this -- is whatever her "feature of the moment" is. Honestly, without that and her distinctive black-trenchcoat-bordering-on-pink-mohawk cyberpunk wardrobe, she'd blend in with any crowd. She'd hate that.

Wild Card Status: Ace
Power Gain:
Alias: None.

Abilities/Deformities: Modular Shapeshifting. Replaces body parts with proportionally-sized animal equivalents, like bear arms with working claws, vestigial wings (the shift would be pretty dramatic to allow flight) replacing her arms, a prehensile tail, or cheetah legs. These don't alter her natural build too much; bear arms on her would only possess her strength, for example. She cannot produce poisons. She can switch out with human body parts, too -- we're monkeys who don't believe we're monkeys, and lie a lot -- but not with those of a specific person; often the result is the average of her experience with whatever she's trying to emulate. Most of the time this means nothing, but she is sterile as a result of messing with this too much.

Weaknesses: Most changes are cosmetic, and at best only enhance what she can already do. Even her "base" form is cosmetic. All her powers are based on her memories of and experience with whatever animal she's switching parts for, amnesia and false memories could easily affect how her powers work, or negate them entirely (at least for a while).

Public presence: While she always has some part of her changed -- she almost always has a fox tail, and occasionally cat ears -- she tries not to make her ace nature any more obvious than that...unless she's surrounded by Jokers, when she goes all out.

Personality: Dry, black humor. Anti-establishment. Too poor to own a computer, but too resourceful not to have used one. Not the most feminine of girls, but she was never the most masculine of boys when she considered herself one, either. Likes to stand out, but doesn't like to be the, as she says, "only lit streetlight." If something goes down, her fault or not, she doesn't want credit for it, good or bad, nor does she want to take the heat. Also, she doesn't share personal information unless she absolutely trusts someone.

History: Born male, and while her parents have accepted that she has trouble staying male and that they can never get their boy back because of how her power works, they're not really cool with it and still usually refer to her as her birth name, Yuri. If they were particularly religious, she would have been disowned. Since she ran away and smuggled herself to the US them after she drew the ace nine years ago, she has maintained only minimal contact with them.

She did not complete school, but has spent a lot of time in libraries since she "taught herself" English (as she sees it) with extensive help from a small group of other foreigners. She gained citizenship at 18, while living with her boyfriend at the time. They ended the relationship as a matter of convenience; his minor power of being able to poke his fingers one inch through any material ended up being useful in the medical field. Imagine that.

Relationships:
-- Mother -- nat
-- Father -- nat
-- ex-boyfriend, friend -- deuce

Base of operations (bunker, warehouse, their apartment etc): Ex-boyfriend's house, if you can really call it a base. The local library would be more useful.

Why do you want to play this character?: That question is far too difficult to answer beyond "I gave birth to her, and now she deserves time to be alive." Also, for fun.

Name: Natalia Rorchev

Gender: Female

Age: 28

Nationality/Country of origin: American, but parents came from Russia.

Ethnicity/Appearance: Caucasian. Due to the Wild Card effect, she has become deformed, her skin has turned red and her hair has become disheveled and almost completely gone, save for some scraps covering her head in small, blonde clumps. She has light green eyes. She has an average frame for a young woman, standing at 5'10'' and 130 lbs. The effect has left marks over her red skin, small blood gashes that, while aren't painful, look like they should be killing her.

Wild Card Status (Ace, Joker etc): Ace-Joker

Power Gain (how did they attain their abilities/deformities?): She had the virus in her from birth, but the deformities and powers manifested when she was inside a bank when it was being robbed. One of the robbers took her hostage and the panic transformed her into her current state. She didn't know she had powers until a while later, until then she just assumed she was disfigured. After this, she assumed the role of Alicia Daniels and took over her life. In her parent's eyes, Natalia died in the robbery.

Abilities/Deformities: Natalia has the power of Bio-Morphing, or turning into any other living being. She has to touch the person in order to be able to get their appearance. Due to the virus, her skin has turned red and gashes have appeared on her skin. She also has lost majority of her hair. She maintains her morph to be able to walk in the world without being stared at.

Alias: Due to her powers, Natalia has taken on the alias of Alicia Daniels, a young, wealthy heiress who lives in a penthouse apartment in New York City. Natalia has taken out Alicia and assumed her identity.

Weaknesses: In her normal state, Natalia is pretty weak all things considered. She doesn't like her normal form and, while in it, it causes her pain, both physically and mentally. Natalia also needs to be able to touch the person to be able to morph into them, and that comes with it's own sets of problems.

Public presence (public, secret id, doesn’t use powers at all yet etc): She goes out in her different forms. Rarely, if ever, in her normal state. She doesn't morph publicly, only a select few people know.

Personality: Natalia is very appearance driven, this was true before her mutation and is even more true after. She likes to maintain a well-balanced lifestyle due to growing up in lower class. She is vain and manipulative, not afraid to get her hands dirty in order to maintain her lifestyle, which has led her to a life of crime.

History: WIP

Relationships (friends, family, other aces/jokers): Natalia has very few friends she trusts. She has one friend who is a Joker named Cole who has mutated and can turn invisible, but has become deformed in his face and the left side of his body. Despite this, the two have become friends and they help each other out, Cole helping Natalia with her "missions" to take out people and support herself, and Natalia for providing Cole with a safe haven he can live in since he was kicked out of his parents home. As her alias Alicia, she has friends in the higher ups of high class that she can't stand, but they don't know her secret and she puts up with the charade to be able to live her life normally.

Base of operations (bunker, warehouse, their apartment etc): Alicia's penthouse apartment in New York City serves as her headquarters. It is a safe haven she can run to and resume her life if she needs to.

Why do you want to play this character?: It would be a new change of pace for me in terms of character and story. I began reading the book recently and I am liking it a lot, it's not a typical superhero story we've all come to know. It takes a new spin on it by making Jokers and Nats into the equation. Not everyone is a supermodel or an Adonis, the powers come with a risk of being deformed or having your life spun out of control. After all, only 1% of the population is an Ace.