It all began in this sunny city on June 25, it just started with a simple festival to hail in the start of the summer and good days. And all that changed once the Fiends, a violent gang of drugged up maniacs, attacked the fair. They violently attacked civilians, and began a storm of blood and death. They were, however, combated by the Agents of NEST, an organization dedicated to maintaining order within the Metahuman world, civilians and other superpowered individuals, and the VPD. A violent battle occurred, which ended once the leader of the Fiends, Khan, joined the battle and paved way for the Fiends to escape. Which left many calling for justice.

The next day, the National Guard pushed in on the city, and NEST planned to eliminate the Metahuman leaders of the group known as the Lieutenants. While raid after raid was launched at the gang, they were whittled down operation after operation. That night, a mercenary group known as the Dreadnaughts were hired by NEST High-command to lend a hand. NEST, assisted by the Dreadnaughts managed to successfully carry out an assassination against one of the Fiend lieutenants. On the civilian spectrum, a party was thrown for the teenagers of the city to take their minds off things. Fun was had... but, a group belonging to the Hands of Science, an organization dedicated to exploiting Metahumans to create a new age of science, preyed upon them at the party. Kidnapping several people from the party for the purpose of experimentation. And everyone was none the wiser.

A day afterwards, a raid was launched against the Fiends, which ended with another lieutenant being captured. After interrogating the lieutenant, a few secrets about what motivated the Fiends were revealed - they were apparently being rewarded with serums that give people powers. While the Hands of Science got their hands on their crown jewel, and kidnapped many teenagers for their nefarious experiments. A deal gone wrong with the Fiends, and eventually it was revealed that the power granting serums were fake. This is what made the Fiends especially desperate. They gathered what little resources they had left, and prepared for a last ditch effort to spring their captured alley from the NEST Headquarters.

That night, Khan got in contact with a contact within NEST, who let the Fiends in through a secret entrance. Another bloodbath began as NEST and Fiends did battle with each other. High-ranking NEST Agents, and Dreadnaughts did all they could to quell the situation. However, that same contact - the Changeling Heartbreaker - arranged for the death of Khan, and used an ally in the Hands of Science to make sure that Khan doesn't leave. That ally arranged for a local vigilante to kill Khan for her. The Fiend Lieutenants went down one by one, killed, or captured. Soon, Khan was killed by this mysterious vigilante.

Meanwhile, the kids kidnapped by the Hands of Science sprung out of their cages, and with a drugged alley, they wandered the base. Until they came in contact with a scientist, and managed to steal a phone from him. They managed to call for help, before they were confronted with the Hands of Science finest experiments and did battle. They were pushed to their limits when help arrived in form of a mother - Lihua Zhao - coming to retrieve her child, and her friends. She did battle with these monsters to buy time for the kidnapped to get away, and defeated both her opponents. Before moving onto leaving this hellish lab. However, on her way in, she found some incriminating files, planted by a traitor within the Hands of Science.

This evidence told her that the Director of NEST was in on the Fiend's attack on the festival, and was a member of the Hands of Science - a partnership that got NEST new and experimental weaponry to combat Metahumans. The Hands of Science wanted the Fiends disposed of, because they had outlived their usefulness, and the Director suggested a plan to cause a massive scene, and destroy the Fiends in order to make NEST look good. Once this evidence was submitted to a higher level, the Director was arrested, and the Hands of Science (And by extent, the Changeling Unit) were revealed to the world.

The fight was far from over.

The offensive against the Hands of Science began right after their revelation to the world. NEST had launched a counterattack against the organization of mad scientists, and were making little progress against them due to their secrecy. What's more is that the Hands of Science had their own security force to combat NEST - REAPER. So far, they weren't making any progress against the Hands. In Verthaven, there was a shortage of NEST Agents, so the agency funneled Agents from all over the country. Some of their Metahuman agents with a history with each other formed a bond with each other. They soon were to become the group that would change the tide of the war after the Hands of Science.

Two months later, in August, is where the real magic happened. After a fundraiser that didn't go as planned, the NEST day a small conflict with REAPER snowballed into all-out war with the newly revealed Changeling Unit after a NEST Agent's daughter was nabbed by the Changeling unit. They managed to capture the Changeling responsible - Mark Emerson. In an attempt to bargain with them, he managed to convince NEST not to arrest him by selling out his Changeling Unit buddies. That very night, NEST launched a raid against the Changeling Unit, lead by Heartbreaker. The NEST Agents used a plan to sneak bombs in using Mark. After the bombs were planted, NEST gave the Changelings an ultimatum: surrender the infants they've taken, or die. The Changelings chose to surrender - only for NEST to attack them afterwards. A battle took place up until NEST had eliminated the Changeling Unit.

However, Heartbreaker, and the Mannequin - two leading members of the Changeling Unit - had escaped, slipping through the cracks of NEST. NEST had pursued them, but the Hands of Science, in the interest of defending their partners, the Changeling Unit, sent their experimental Metahuman superweapon - PR-1/Peter - after them. A brutal battle occurred ending with the deaths of many NEST Agents, with many others injured in the process, and the Changelings. However, NEST had managed to capture the Super weapon.

A few weeks later, and NEST had formed their brand new Task Force, RAVEN, specially created to battle the threat created by The Hands of Science, and the Changeling Unit. They made some progress against them in small ways - but their biggest accomplishment would have to have been tracking down the Hands of Science base in Verthaven. They prepared for the operation, coming up with a big plan... However, during a botched interrogation, PR-1 managed to escape and wreak havoc throughout NEST Headquarters. Another confrontation took place, which ended in the captured Miranda Caryl being killed.

Afterwards, plans for the raid of the Hands of Science base were put into motion. Using a young Metahuman, and his older sister, the Hands base was sedated, and another Metahuman to lock down the computer systems. RAVEN managed to raid the Hands base, and they split into two groups that went in two different directions. The first group came face to face with the leader of the Verthaven branch of the Hands, Dr. Cross, and her REAPER generals Ignatius and the Wendigo. A brutal battle occurred which ended with the Wendigo getting killed, but Ignatius and Dr. Cross escaping. The other group encountered what was left of the Changeling Unit, and managed to capture most of them (Excluding the Mannequin). The end result of the raid was that the Hand's main headquarters were removed, their REAPERs captured, and a great chunk of their organization being reduced to nothing.

RAVEN and NEST enjoyed the publicity boost as they dealt a major blow against their arch-rival. However, by capturing Heartbreaker, NEST had drawn the rest of the Changeling Unit to the city... including Luis, the leader of the Changeling Unit. His very first act in the city was to murder Mark Emerson, and his daughter, to send a message to those who betray the Changeling Unit. Afterwards, he and his Changelings sunk into the shadows.

All while a mysterious rain had been appearing for weeks now, and the hearts of Metahumans were being torn out by something...

The greatest tragedy the world has ever known began two weeks after the raid on the Hands base. A battle between the Hands of Science (and their Changeling) and RAVEN ended when a threat, the Devil of Verthaven, had revealed herself after gathering power. The Devil of Verthaven possessed such immense power that she was capable of ending the world on a whim (With the ability to control the weather on a large scale, and produce armies of monsters). The battle was concluded when the Devil turned her army that was waiting underground on Verthaven. A literal army of demons tore Verthaven apart, and killed thousands of people in the very first hour. NEST and RAVEN worked together to create a safe zone for civilians.

After that hour had passed, the Devil retracted her armies underground, while NEST created a plan to get everyone out of Verthaven. They figured a mass evacuation would be in order, so they gathered everyone they could onto trucks and tried to push their way out of the city. However, the Changeling Unit, not wanting them to leave the city, sabotaged the evacuation. What was worse was that the Devil threw everything she had the evacuation. Many people died, and despite those odds, the evacuation pushed on. However, NEST High Command chose to activate a secret system known as The Shield of Light. Which encased Verthaven in a seemingly impenetrable dome of energy that was immune to all forms of superpowers. All out of fear that the Devil would end the world.

With NEST being trapped with a literal demon, they had no choice but to gather everyone they could, and launch a counter-offensive against the Devil. However, she wasn't the only threat. They were locked in Verthaven with the Changeling Unit as well. After going on a rampage in a Church, the Changeling Unit forced a young girl, Jennifer Caspin, to work with them by kidnapping her family. Then, while NEST was launching an operation to track the Devil down, the Changeling Unit launched a massive offensive against them in an attempt to liberate Heartbreaker. Taking advantage of all their resources, the Changeling Unit caused an untold amount of death and destruction, with their attack ending in many of the survivors dead. They used Jen to track exactly where Heartbreaker was, and liberate her, and the other Changelings.

Even though NEST took a defeat, they managed to find out where the Devil was, and poisoned her. They immediately went into planning, and eventually launched their operation. However, the Changelings used Jen to track down where the Devil was. While NEST's plan was almost in motion, the Changelings used Jen and another hostage to prevent them from killing the Devil... which gave the Devil enough time to recover from the poison and call every monster to the city to one point. The NEST Agent came up with a clever plan to liberate the hostages, and they set off the explosives - but it turned out that the Changelings were stalling while their members disabling the bombs. They didn't set off all the bombs, as they set off enough to injure the Devil.

In the middle of the confusion, The Changeling Unit snuck into the Devil's lair, nullified her powers, and Luis revealed his grand plans for a "Perfect World." Which involved using the Devil's ability to burn all to ash to propel himself to Godhood. When the Devil refused, a NEST agent who tailed them sprung into action and nearly killed the Devil with a grenade.

However, this act didn't bode well for anyone, as it merely triggered an immense boost in power as the Devil transformed into a titanic tower of pure power. All organizations were forced to retreat, however RAVEN weren't able to escape without losing Jennifer. The day after it all went down, it was deemed that the only way to save themselves was to form an alliance. NEST, The Hands of Science, and the Changeling Unit put aside their differences and pooled their strength with the gangs of Verthaven for one final stand. The Hands had a weapon they've been developing since the raid on their base, and planned to use it.

During the battle itself, the Devil proved to be an incredibly powerful opponent - she managed to downright slaughter most of her opposition. However, the collective organizations were able to heavily injure her enough s so that she retreated - firing a bolt of lightning so powerful that it damaged the Shield of Light. However, she went straight for NEST Headquarters, and slaughtered her way through the safe zone. The Devil then destroyed NEST headquarters - before the Hands weapon was used on her (And the Hands promptly pulled out of the fight afterwards).

NEST moved in to confirm the kill - and it was revealed that the Devil had survived, but was quickly taken by the Hands teleporter. The Changeling Unit ambushed them and killed two of their own. A massive battle took place... which ended with the death of many RAVENs, but the Changeling Unit were brought down for good. Luis, Heartbreaker, and many who followed him were killed.

After the battle, the Shield of Light finally gave out due to all the damage it had received, finally freeing them from the disaster.

After the Verthaven disaster, news of what happened shook the world, and altered the entire status quo.

NEST was disgraced by their actions - locking thousands of people inside the shield to die - to the point where they were easily the most hated organization of all time. It was decided that NEST had too much power, and they were disbanded, replaced with DOVE & RAVEN - two organizations meant to succeed where NEST failed. Furthermore, due to the extreme amounts of damage done to Verthaven (In the trillions range), and the population being reduced to a small fraction, it was decided that Verthaven will be condemned.

The Hands of Science took a "sample" of the Devil of Verthaven, before being contacted by a mysterious benefactor that ordered them to give her the sample, kill the Devil, and abandon the organization. The Hands executives did as requested, and what was the Hands left of the Hands were taken out by a combination of RAVEN and DOVE. Afterwards, RAVEN and DOVE immediately went to work.

The remnants of the Changeling Unit assembled within the Ghost town. Their teleporter, Flashbang, suffered the effects of ashing, before she was finally put out of her misery by the Mannequin. He attempted to call his contacts, when he was interrupted by Baron Moreau, one of the Dreadnaughts that assisted in the Verthaven disaster. He killed the Witch Mother, and persuaded the Mannequin into believing that Baron wanted to join him. That was when Baron stabbed the Mannequin through the eye, believing that the machine was dead for good. However, the Mannequin survived with little damage done to him, and escaped. Using the news of his apparent "death" to further his own goals.

With news of a Metahuman who can end the world springing up, many people quickly changed their stance on Metahumans from tolerated, to outright hated. The Pure and Savior movements immediately received a huge boost in support as more people than ever before were beginning to follow their philosophies. Metahumans from all over were being killed left and right for little reason. Thousands of Metahumans were brutally killed out of fear, and it showed little signs of stopping.

What was the most curious event was that the rate of Metahumans had gone up after the Verthaven disaster, almost like the Devil triggered something...

The Tyrants shortly disbanded a few years later, and Stadium City fell into disaster. Along with a variety of new organizations rising to take it's place. The main organization that had arisen was the Allegiance. An idea that formed because Metahumans were getting tired of all the murders. They shortly went to war with the Pure and caused countless amounts of death and destruction in their crossfire. The Allegiance also became a target for RAVEN due to their acts of terrorism.

In the middle of this, the newly formed DOVE organization had to try their hardest to keep Metahumans sane and healthy, but that was very difficult given all the hatred being directed towards them. This is where they really shined, and began to succeed at giving Metahumans the regulation they desire. Having a hand in killing the anti-metahuman hysteria.

In the recent years, however, the anti-metahuman hysteria had died down a tad. That didn't last long since another event popped up in Europe. A few months before the start of the story A Metahuman with immense pyro and terrakinetic abilities showed up in Prague named only The Beast, and tore the entire city to pieces. Prague was in flames, but their military was helpless to stop it. Which is why they put out a call towards everyone who was willing to help. And they got the American NEST/DOVE, the German Collective Metahuman Services (KMD), the British Metahuman Intelligence and Social Welfare (MISW), and the Russian Wurdulac. The several organizations teamed up to come up with a plan to end this Metahuman, and put it into action. After a grueling battle, the Beast was killed, and peace was returned to Prague.

Birth name was Arianna. Her surname is impossible to track at this point.

Various. State dependent. She usually just goes by the androgynous 'Ari' for anonymity's sake.

Originally and functionally female, but she can appear as either.

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Various. Tends to be around 5'7 as a woman and around 5'10-5'11 as a man.

Changes. Normally around 300lbs give or take. She certainly doesn't look it though.

Changes.

Brown, N/A, Various

Brown, N/A, Various

European, Various

Oh boy.

Due to her ability to appear as nearly everyone, I'll be describing her 'Arianna' appearance.

Arianna is a woman of class and relative beauty. She tries to remain unassuming at all times and keeps the appearance of the 'girl nextdoor' rather than a hyper attractive young woman. She never looks done-up in terms of makeup, and keeps a fairly natural look to her features. She has large almond shaped brown eyes with long eyelashes and the typical feminine nose. Freckles can be seen along the bridge of her nose. The only semi-defining feature of her appearance is that her hair is fairly short compared to most women.

Shameless faceclaims. All credit to Ctchrysler and the photographer.

Don't even get me started.

I cant stress this enough. Arianna is smart. Like- really, really wicked smart.

Being born with the gift of intelligence has granted Arianna the ability to learn, and to learn quickly. Her mind operates like a well oiled machine and there is usually very little that she cant understand given a few hours or so. And to top it all off, her mind seems to be hard wired for photographic memory. However, Ari is a horrid teacher. She has very little patience for slow learners, and tends to become frustrated easily. She is also opinionated- and often will refuse to see another person's side if she thinks that it's 'dumb' or 'stupid'. She is excellent at insulting people in creative and different ways.

Arianna however often doesn't have a good deal of original thoughts that aren't insults. She is a born copycat. She's the thief that never gets caught. She's that person you see a bus pass and is gone in the blink of an eye. She doesn't have a whole lot of people she calls friends- not because she dislikes people, but because most of the time she doesn't want others to get in her way or slow her down. The fewer people who know about her, the better.

Overall Ari is one of the least trusting people around. She is acutely aware of people and what they are capable of regarding lies and deceit (considering that's how she rolls in general). Because of this she just... has trouble forming long term relationships. Most people, for understandable reasons, don't like people like her. Even if she does meet a person who puts up with her antagonistic behavior- she often doesn't stay in the same place for long. Overall, Arianna just isn't a super good friend. Even if her path in life is taken out of the equation it is quite obvious that Arianna did not attend any etiquette classes in her youth (if she attended any schooling at all). She is often rude, brash, and sometimes generally volatile. She tries not to be mean, but often times she doesn't want to waste time on people for a variety of different reasons. It could be that she just doesn't see them as worth her time, they frustrate her (through a lack of understanding or otherwise), or because she's pushing them away so they don't get caught up in her web of lies. Her heart is oftentimes in the right place, even if her mouth is not hinting at it.

Pretending to be your mom, dad, brother, sister, dog, cat, fish, chair, you, your house, etc. You get the idea.

Acting! Arianna is a master at bullshitting her way through situations. If she isn't naturally good at it or if it's not something she's learned well enough through age, then she can sure make it seem like she is! Lets say baseball for example. If she was imitating a professional baseball player she's capable of watching another person throw a ball or swing a bat and copy the technique almost perfectly. But how far it goes is a whole other factor entirely.

"If I cant get what I want by asking nicely- then I'll get what I want by asking nicely as the right person."

Arianna is a woman who represents true, unadulterated freedom. She does what she wants, when she wants. Just try and stop her. Years of trickery, deceit, and generally taking advantage of the rich and stupid has allowed her to set up hundreds of bank accounts- all under different names, of course. So if she cant fake her way in, money talks for her.

She's British by heritage if the accent isn't a give away, and honestly that's the only telling feature about her. She's excellent at masking it though. To the perceptive- you know you're talking to a person's body double if their words seem slightly crisp or if she's imitating someone of hispanic heritage, has trouble rolling her r's.

Arianna was born in Britain and was born with her powers. She came over to America with her parents at a very young age and has been there ever since. How she's been able to stay without any difficulty since then leads to further questions. But that's nothing she'd tell you about.

Unknown. If she keeps contact, she sure as hell makes sure no one knows about it.

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Super System - Biological

Arianna loves her powers. She's basically made of Flubber - with properties of an insulator to boot. Like a combination of Monkey D. Luffy, Mr. Fantastic, and Jake the Dog. Her body can warp and shape into several different shapes and forms, stretch incredible distances, and take the form of it's container. If you hit her face with a frying pan, her face would be shaped like a frying pan for a few seconds before reforming. Because of this she has a form of pseudo-regeneration in that if she is injured or loses a body part she can make every middle aged woman jealous with a weight loss program that cuts weight and replaces her missing body part almost instantaneously. Because she is rubber-like as well, if you hit her in the right position the amount of force you hit her with can be redirected back into you. Kinda like a massive rubber band.

Arianna's body, if you cut pieces off, is actually a blue jellow-y solution that alters how much light is absorbed or reflected to match the color of human skin tones. She doesn't actually NEED to wear clothes and she doesn't because of this ability to change shape and form on a pretty damn complex scale. When this liquid solution is separated from itself, it seeks itself out to rejoin. Ari's combined intelligence manifests in a way completely different to our own in that every cell of her body is part of his super organism that works in perfect synchronism with the other cells. This is why it's able to move on it's own and communicate with other cells despite not being directly connected. Much like an Octopus' arm, each of her limbs have minds of their own and while she might not be in direct control of her arm when it's fifty feet away, it's still going to do exactly what Ari would do. Ari can also stretch herself, and her limbs, to an absurd degree. This motherfucker can out dunk Space Jam Lebron James without breaking a sweat. I'm talking bitch slapping people from sixty or seventy feet away. Arianna's body is also a living stomach. Think about it this way- if you were to punch through her, their hand will probably be raw by the time they pull it back. The 'skin' and other clothing are composed of cells that are not in 'digest mode', making them okay to touch. But because Ari is a superorganism- they can change at a moments notice. Now, these cells are great at digesting organic material- but most things such as concrete, while digestable, take much longer to break down.

Being fat in Ari's world is awesome. On one hand she can literally eat and digest anything to temporarily add to her mass. On the other hand all the weight she gains can be used to create larger constructs of her own body. She can turn her hand into a fucking hammer if she wants to. The only issue is, these constructs often need to be dense af in order to really hurt and she needs to be strong as hell in order to use them effectively- so most of the added mass she gains goes to density and strength. Because she can eat and digest nearly everything adding this mass isn't super hard. If she eats enough she can achieve a size much larger than regular. Which, in other words, is enough Ari to fill up a swimming pool. This form also be used to create a gigantic fucking version of herself. I'm talking over twenty thousand gallons of HER. I'm talking anywhere from twenty to thirty feet tall. And if she's not feeling like being a giant dude, she can be MANY normal sized dudes! Or she could be the obligatory tentacle monster. It's really up to how she's feeling that day, because her ability to control her external appearance isn't hindered at all despite the size.

Because Ari has no true 'form' per say, she can completely change her appearance to mimic that of... anyone else's. It's pretty nifty. Her mass isn't even an issue if they're not too far above or below her relative weight. She can condense her mass into a smaller volume, or expand it to create the impression of increased size. She can even sound like them by changing the vibration length and size of the echo chambers in her body. This ability also grants her the ability to change color and texture at will and camouflage into her surroundings by pretending to be various everyday objects such as but not limited to- trees, rocks, chain link fences, etc.

Ari’s body's biggest limit is that any part of her that's stretched out is especially vulnerable to being torn off or cut- because the mass is thinner. Regarding her strength, the farther he stretches, the harder it is for her to apply force. If she hit you from twenty feet it'd hurt a lot more than it would a fifty. General stuff like that. She's not superhumanly strong unless she wants to be. Arianna also cannot straight up eat anything that is thrown her way. She has to be bigger than that object. So she can't just run up to the ground and eat enough to become a giant at will. That can take a lot of buildup. Ari also sometimes has to get used to doing certain things to pull them off correctly- namely pitch matching and copying a voice. This is often the most difficult part about mimicking a person because she sometimes has to go out on a limb to match what a person sounds like when they're saying different things. She is an actor, and therefor does a lot of improvisation in situations like these. And sometimes saying things differently than how the person does can get her in serious shit. Ari's ability to mimic objects and people is also limited to who she touches. Her body is hard wired to adapt- and most processes are handled automatically once she has the right idea of what the object should look like in her mind. But this 'right idea' can only be acquired by physically touching an object for a few seconds so her body can create a three dimensional image of the object in her mind. Ari is capable of mixing (and miss-matching) textures, colors, and shapes once she has them, but she can only copy them. She's unoriginal in that respect. To a person who has extra-sensory powers and doesn't rely on visible light to see- it is easy to tell her apart from normal people. Thermal vision in particular makes her stick out like a sore thumb- because unlike normal people Arianna's body retains a temperature of around 115F.

I'd also like to state that Arianna is not capable of copying someone's power. She can mimic super system and maybe some of the more animalistic or appearance altering powers. Theoretically if she were to shed enough mass or slit into enough forms she could achieve (or in some cases simulate) flight. But beyond that she can only mimic the appearance. It's a good way to call her out if the person has any inclination that who they're talking to is not who they originally thought.

Ari is unable to adapt to any new forms of ranged attack that are not electrically based. And some energy based attacks are especially effective against her. Now, let me explain.

Arianna is a living energy well. Ari is like, toasty warm at all times because of this. Being cold is actually harder on her because it forces her to use up more energy to remain mobile. She CAN be frozen solid and thawed out and be perfectly fine, but in New York, cold + cold = immobile Ari if she's dealing with someone who is a cryomancer. Fire and energy based attacks are almost meaningless to a certain point. As Ari consumes more and more mass, she produces more and more heat as she gets larger and larger. Because her body is, technically, a liquid- evaporation is how Ari sheds off unnecessary mass that is consumed and forces her back to her homeostatic form from being a fucking giant. Fire and energy based attacks (That aren't electricity, she IS an insulator) can actually harm her by raising her body temperature and not only force shrinking her to a regular size or below, but can also turn her into a god damn gas if they can get the place hot enough. Once she cools down she will precipitate. So honestly the best way to deal with her is to freeze her and put her in storage somewhere if she hasn't run the fuck away already.

On a personality level, Arianna is not going to be getting into any fights unless she absolutely has to. Her power allows her to be creative, and adapt to her surroundings in ways that are only limited by her imagination. She can change shape and texture on a complicated level almost as fast as you can think- but fighting? No way man. She's squeamish. She cant stand the sight of blood. She wants to make money and make it through life without having to work for anything (and who can blame her for that?). She's the ultimate thief, liar, and she is the definition of untrustworthy. But she's not going to hurt someone.