Name: Riia

Age: Appearance and mentally around late teens. Chronologically unknown.

Gender: Female

Race: Artificial Human

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 135 pounds

Appearance: She has flowing white hair that reaches to her lower back and no other hair besides her eyelashes and thin eyebrows. A very distinguishable trait is her irises are wavy yellow that looks remotely like a rounded six pointed star with white speckles in them. She has a fair, Caucasian skin tone with soft features. Being artificially created her body doesn't have natural birthmarks or a belly button, and her face is oddly symmetrical, where most people have minor deviations. People often pick her out as unnatural at first glance and some might even be off put by her.

Personality: She's generally gentle, quiet, and polite. However, she doesn't mind having fun and she's not shy even though she doesn't run around laughing and talking to everyone very often. She doesn't see herself as being able to fit in very well and doesn't want to mess things up for everyone. Sometimes she makes things harder on herself than they need to be. She never lets things get her down, though, as she somewhat enjoys doing hard work for the sake of others.

She finds combat as necessary in certain circumstances and can unemotionally eliminate threats as they appear. She will often try to peacefully settle situations before things come to that. She's not one to hold grudges for very long.

Abilities

Physical Abilities And Body- She's peak human level, including strength, agility, flexibility, reactions, hand eye coordination, and durability. Her senses are all at very healthy levels but her sense of pain is only half. Beside her great physical strength, she doesn't appear at glance to be very muscular, but pinching her flexing arms would reveal them to be sturdy.

Her body is biological, even if artificially created, so still needs all the natural functions of a human. If one were to get tests done on her then differences are detectible in her body's makeup, such as having small traces of a strange metal inside of her, like glowing specks with light too faint to make out with the naked eye.

Intellect- She's around average in smarts, capable of coming up with some clever plans or face palm worthy mistakes from time to time. She's able to remain calm under pressure very well.

Combat Training- She was "programmed" at birth in self defense and had additional training for four years by an elite organization that was the main focus of her time there. As such she's very skilled with a sword, pistol, and hand to hand, as well as having a familiarity with many other weapon types. Her programming isn't as valuable as real world experience, however, so a wise master of any weapon she's trained in would still wipe the floor with her unless they were simply too physically outmatched. She has a balanced fighting style rather than excelling at any single point.

Random Job Skills- Practically useless in a fight, but expect her to have some skills in random jobs that don't need degrees or much special training. For example, she has been a waitress, maid, traveling circus performer, etc. as she goes from planet to planet.

Equipment

Outfit: Her outfit is only as protective as leather armor but is very thin, light, and flexible, almost as if she wasn't wearing anything at all. It has a white and light blue motif and looks like an athletic person's uniform. She wears a sleeveless turtleneck under a short sleeved jacket that zips down the middle, which provides the most of her protection. She wears shorts and a belt. She has fingerless gloves that go up to the middle of her upper arm that has some padding on them. She has knee high flat soled boots and socks that go up to mid thigh level.

Hands and Feet: A sleek white device around her ankles and wrists, taking up about half of her forearms and calves, emits blue energy out towards the elbows or feet to partially negate gravity, allowing her to fall at half speed and jump twice as high as a normal human, carrying her across a city street in a single bound, but this doesn't equate to much increased kicking power. They burn out after repeated use of around thirty seconds without giving it a chance to cool down more than three seconds in between uses. Overdrive bursts on her feet can allow her to leap over three story buildings, this time with explosive energy to also allow increased kicking power, while using it on her hands allow her to outpunch a gorilla. However, these overdrive moves only allow a single quick burst and must recharge for around 60 seconds to use again. Their defense is on par with steel, but feels and looks more plastic-like.

Weapons: Her weapon looks like a pencil sized cylindrical rune covered object attached to a necklace. However, it can be removed and activated with her soul, exploding vibrantly into one of two forms in two seconds time; a pistol or a hand and a half sword that retain the sparkling white rune covered look. This sparkling energy is used as bullets for the gun form, allowing it no reloading time needed and as many bullets as her energy can sustain, which is around fifty shots, but she's working on improving her stamina. She can fire bullets off once a second. They hit as hard as what would be expected of normal handguns and can damage things not hurt by physical bullets. The power, unfortunately, wears off more than normal bullets over distance so has an effective range of only 60 feet, further than that more than likely nonlethal. She can willingly decrease her power to get more shots in accordingly. In it's sword form, with a blade length of 2 feet 3 inches, it can increase in power by surrounding itself in her energy, allowing her to cut thick through steel breastplates after a couple good whacks. She can sustain the energy for ten seconds. This weapon system is twenty times as durable as steel and dulling is not considered a problem.

Other: A circular device, same size as a stopwatch, in the left inside pocket of her jacket, can be activated to open up a portal to allow her to travel the multiverse. However, hers is weak so requires around 24 minutes of motionless as it calculates all of the spatial warping needed.

All of her weapons and other devices can be stored in a single white briefcase that's locked using her fingerprints.

Bio

She was created as part of a biological weapons program by a dangerous, powerful group known as Chevlar. They mixed DNA of ancient beings and humans to create super soldiers that would follow their every command. However, her creator, Lord Alxon, did an unauthorized experiment and used a second human as part of the DNA mixing process. The human used was his deceased wife. Thanks to this unusual mixture, Riia had the free will of normal humans despite pretending not to for some time, as per Alxon's wishes. She also retained some human experiences as vague memories that left her not as much of a blank slate as her fellow creations. On the downside, she wasn't as strong as them either, being on the level of failed experimental soldiers.

She was intentionally left in the dark about Chevlar's goals due to this weakness and the higher ups catching on that she's not as controllable as the others, making her almost worse than useless to them. They also saw Alxon as power hungry and a possible source of betrayal, putting suspicion on his creations by default. Riia herself was more like just a fly on the wall compared to him, so was able to escape during the battle as special forces stormed Alxon's mansion in an effort to kill him before he carried out his own plans. She doesn't know what became of the battle as he teleported her to another location while it was still ongoing. He warned her to stay well away from Chevlar and not to go looking for him.

She has little doubt he managed to survive, as he was one of the strongest of Chevlar. She is unaware of their location anyways so hasn't returned even if she wanted to. As long as she minded her own business, no trouble seemed to come to her, but she knew that if they did happen to cross paths then she could be in trouble. For the time being she took any odd jobs that she could find, warping from planet to planet in search of what to do next and helping others both because it's the right thing to do and to hone her skills in case trouble eventually finds her.

Birth Name: Thaddeus
Alias: Xiomara
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Age: Mid-Thirties
Gender: Ostensibly Male
Ethnicity: Nethla

Physical Description:

Xiomara stands at six feet and three inches tall with a body that celebrates both the male and female aspects of the human form. Broad shoulders and powerful muscles line his form without being ostentatious enough to detract from the subtle curves that flow steadily downwards. Aside from the unusual blending of genders Xiomara is a picture perfect example of human health with two arms, two legs, and a head. His skin is a pale shade of brown with a tendency to bronze over the course of an encounter while his face is that of a woman with predatory features and given to stern expressions but beautiful nonetheless. A head full of wild red hair follows his every step with individual strands that writhe with a mind of their own.

Xiomara prefers to wear furs, trinkets, and trophies obtained over the course of his adventures that often result in him appearing as something of a half-armored savage.

Personality Description:

Xiomara is an shockingly honest person. Blunt to the point of being rude with a complete inability to understand metaphors, allusions, or other obfuscating tools of language. Though not quite a luddite he is derisive of modern values and lives by a strict code of honor, stubbornly so, even when proven wrong. As one might expect he loves combat. Despite a slew of negative personality traits, largely centered around savagery, there is a streak of humanitarianism running through the core of his being; one that while harsh is nonetheless fair.

Powers, Skills, and Abilities:

[Favored of the Sun]

When Thaddeus beseeched the gods for their help he never expected a response but a response he received and an emphatic one at that. Savage Vorsours descended from heavens and breathed her holy fire into him with a kiss, destroying the man he had been and forging him into something more than human, all so that he could carry her gift inside of him. Now his heart is an engine that pumps liquid fire through a body built like a machine. He is stronger, faster, and more durable than he could have ever dreamed of with dire magic pumping through his veins but in exchange Vorsours tore off that face and stole that voice that had enchanted her so. Realizing that it would not do for her favored to wander without a face she gave him her own and fashioned his new body so that it could better represent her. In a sense Thaddeus is gone and he has been replaced with the avatar Xiomara.

Xiomara has a number of natural abilities afforded to him which will be presented in list form for the sake of brevity:

*Increased physical strength, speed, and durability.
*Immunity to disease, toxins, aging, weather, and other natural hazards.
*Flame generation and manipulation.
*Steady out of combat regeneration.
*Communication with and control over non-sentient predators.
*Increased resistance to mental incursion as well as a complete immunity to subversive tactics.
*Able to manipulate his own physiology in order to create extraneous limbs, weapons, and defenses.
*Untapped blood magic to perform minor magical tricks and rituals.
*Able to grasp, manipulate, and otherwise damage supernatural energy forms including the magical and the immaterial.

[Eclipse of the Sun]

Though Xiomara is certainly powerful all of this power comes with a serious drawback. Over the course of battle Xiomara steadily deals damage to himself with the most obvious sign of wear and tear being the steady darkening of his flesh. Though resting in the middle of combat can allow his body to cool down the effect is constant and the final stage involves complete calcification at which point Xiomara himself is completely vulnerable, both to outside attacks and to the vicious will of Vorsours.

Equipment:

[Bloodwood Sword]

Carved from the Bloodwood tree, so named for the way that it feasts on corpses and the rusty red of the wood it produces, the Bloodwood Sword is a five foot long double-edged monster of a weapon. Though dull along each edge the Bloodwood Sword produces a natural sap that hardens the edges to a keen point that is capable of cleaving through stone and steel alike. Though incredibly durable the Bloodwood Sword can in fact be broken, in fact it regularly suffers damage throughout the course of battle, but as the blade is alive it will eventually regrow so long as it remains connected to the hilt. The magical nature of weapon allows it to cut and cleave through the magical and other energy based constructs while still dealing maximum damage, if not more given the tendency for most immaterial creatures assay defense.

Finally the Bloodwood Sword while not particularly intelligent is malignant in its own manner. The blood will soak up any blood that it encounters and if it finds purchase in an opponent it will attempt to take root within the foe and swallow them whole. Any blood that it drinks is transformed into energy which Xiomara has full access too.

[A/N: Though Xiomara is technically a hermaphrodite I will refer to the character using exclusively male pronouns. This because the character still thinks of himself as male but also because I find gender neutral pronouns to be completely obnoxious.]