Appearance:
Name:
-Veronika Cornikova Tolstoy
Nickname:
-White Mantis (Due to her hair color and tendency to murder all that get close to her at one point or another by fear of betrayal)
Age:
-32
Gender:
-Psychologically Female, physically null.
Side:
System
Race:
-Project
Abilities:
-Extreme Regeneration: Her health is cancerous in nature and thus she can regenerate pretty much any injury short of being vaporized and this, extremely quickly. Any injury she suffers however pushes her limit break farther. It is notable that if she should lose a limb, she will desperately do anything she can no matter how suicidal to regain the bones contained by the severed limb.
-Genetic Mimic: By skin contact she can absorb the very being of a person and copy it. Physically have a mostly flawless copy of the subject but also, on projects, copy their powers. While it is perfect in nature, it can be considered 'Too perfect' and by touching people she will also absorb some personality quirks and habits through RNA, making her mind lose itself in the people she absorbed. She can manage 1 absorption with some ease, 2 is a challenge and 3 is the absolute limit she gives herself since more will make her mind lost itself in the information absorbed from others and rather than becoming someone else, becoming an erratic blob of regenerating goo.
Even after Curing the Limit Break, it is notable that she still keeps a relation with the one she got to mimic, should he still be alive. A quirk, the impression of knowing this person like a twin brother despite maybe knowing very little of him. It is notable that some of of herself remains with the one she entered in contact with and while this is harmless, the effects of post-mimic stage are still there and as such, those that already had an encounter with her will tend to see through her disguises somehow, she reminds them of someone they always knew very closely although they can't say how exactly.
Bio:
The daughter of a prosperous CEO and board chairman that unfortunately got cancer. It could not be cured easily and when the possible treatments failed one after the other, the man began to desperate. The Projects were in their infancy back then and it hadn't been perfected but he decided it was worth a shot and so, he acquired a company specialized in genetics, got the best scientists he could and ordered them to save his daughter somehow. At first they tried to fight the cancer, engineer a way for her body to beat or adapt to it but the stage was so advanced it proved futile. Another approach was attempted, rather than engineer the body to the cancer, engineer the cancer to the body. It succeeded, more or less. They made the cancer so it would be functional as her organs failed and engineered it to drain from her pristine bone marrow DNA and RNA so it would keep the form of Veronika. At first it seemed like a miracle but as the cancer attacked her brain it became clear this was flawed. She tended to lose memory and act more out of reflex than by thought. When asked questions she could answer them but when asked to say how she knew the answer it became obscure and difficult. She knew people were scientists and that the man before him was her father but it began to lose its meaning, she had affection for him but couldn't say why.
It turned out that the cancer was draining and mutating the bone marrow itself, her brain was almost entirely gone and without something, a direction from her DNA instructing her how to keep thoughts, she was becoming nothing more than cancer itself, alive only in the sense that she wasn't dead. This was the physical limit at which her body would break, the limit break. Without fresh DNA to serve as a code of operation, there would be nothing left and not any DNA would do as the draining of another DNA would cause her to change as this person. With what was left of her intact bone marrow, her DNA was archived and regularly she would be injected with this ersatz of DNA as to keep her going.
Eventually, her father passed away and Veronika inherited of his part of the Corporate Empire, becoming a merchant princess among men. At this point she began to be paranoid that she wasn't really her, that her very being could be changed into something else entirely without her noticing. After a period of existential dread this evolved into paranoia. She killed the scientists working on her Ersatz and automated the process, she dealt with her close advisers and replaced them with yesmen. Ultimately as her memories blended more and more and concepts became more vague despite her ersatz intake, she began broaden her paranoia, someone somewhere was always trying to get to her, rather than giving her great power, she saw her almost endless supplies of money as to give her all power, including the right of life and death over the planets she ruled over. Those bellow her served since she payed them and those above didn't really care for she didn't really realized anymore that the universe was bigger than what she knew (She has lost the ability to think about the broader concept of universe and that something she doesn't know about actually exists. She knows there are billions of humans but can't really scale that into perspective.).
It was only a question of time before she set her murderous sight on the Rebellion, seeing anyone fighting against the system fighting against her, herself being in the 5th most powerful CEO. Of course, anyone plotting against her had to be put down. White Mantis became the nickname of the one producing one project after another and abusing of serum to keep them as slaves, sending waves of mercenaries and security agents after anything that she as much as suspected as being related to the Rebellion. Luckily, her mind being ravaged she is often short sighted and 90% of the time strikes at innocents and when she actually gets a decent commander to work for her, it isn't long until she sees him as a possible menace and traitor. All of this contributed to make the Corporate forces under terrible command and make the population more and more angry at the corporations due to random acts of violence due to suspicions of rebel presence.
Extra:
-Skeleton Relic: She was engineered to hold her bone marrow as her source of life. With the Ersatz she could rid herself of her old skeleton but she killed the scientists before they could make some adjustment to this behavior. As such she will religiously try and keep all bits of bones within her viscous cancerous mass.
-Limit Break: As she is constantly shifting her DNA as the cancer lives, Veronika needs something to keep herself from becoming a sterile and feral blob of goo, the stages of limit break are multiple:
1A: Normal, more or less sane with the personality closest of the 15 year old Veronika, albeit twisted somewhat.
2A: Dull, hard to reason with and living on instinct and reflex, very short memory span.
3A: Feral, living only on the basest of human reflexes: Eat, survive. IQ of a predatory animal, very little humanity left.
4A: Inert, intelligence on a cellular level, doesn't do anything but grow until it lacks nutriments and die, will get nutriments from those unlucky or stupid enough to get in contact with the blob.
1B: When absorbing another genetic material than her's at stage 1, Veronika will mostly keep her personality as the prime one, although on stage two that of the absorbed subject may take significant place.
2B: Absorption of foreign material at stage 2 will revert Veronika to stage 1 with roughly equal parts of Veronika and the subject's behaviors.
3B: At this point, reversal to stage 1 with the subject's behavior and some imprinted memory, Veronika will believe that she is the absorbed subject and objection to this will be met with delusion.
4B: The blob will only absorb material to feed itself and although there can be some change, it will be too limited in scope to return Veronika to any form of sentience, only a considerable amount of Ersatz (About equal to the blob's body size) and significant scientific attention will return it to sentience.
Name:
-Veronika Cornikova Tolstoy
Nickname:
-White Mantis (Due to her hair color and tendency to murder all that get close to her at one point or another by fear of betrayal)
Age:
-32
Gender:
-Psychologically Female, physically null.
Side:
System
Race:
-Project
Abilities:
-Extreme Regeneration: Her health is cancerous in nature and thus she can regenerate pretty much any injury short of being vaporized and this, extremely quickly. Any injury she suffers however pushes her limit break farther. It is notable that if she should lose a limb, she will desperately do anything she can no matter how suicidal to regain the bones contained by the severed limb.
-Genetic Mimic: By skin contact she can absorb the very being of a person and copy it. Physically have a mostly flawless copy of the subject but also, on projects, copy their powers. While it is perfect in nature, it can be considered 'Too perfect' and by touching people she will also absorb some personality quirks and habits through RNA, making her mind lose itself in the people she absorbed. She can manage 1 absorption with some ease, 2 is a challenge and 3 is the absolute limit she gives herself since more will make her mind lost itself in the information absorbed from others and rather than becoming someone else, becoming an erratic blob of regenerating goo.
Even after Curing the Limit Break, it is notable that she still keeps a relation with the one she got to mimic, should he still be alive. A quirk, the impression of knowing this person like a twin brother despite maybe knowing very little of him. It is notable that some of of herself remains with the one she entered in contact with and while this is harmless, the effects of post-mimic stage are still there and as such, those that already had an encounter with her will tend to see through her disguises somehow, she reminds them of someone they always knew very closely although they can't say how exactly.
Bio:
The daughter of a prosperous CEO and board chairman that unfortunately got cancer. It could not be cured easily and when the possible treatments failed one after the other, the man began to desperate. The Projects were in their infancy back then and it hadn't been perfected but he decided it was worth a shot and so, he acquired a company specialized in genetics, got the best scientists he could and ordered them to save his daughter somehow. At first they tried to fight the cancer, engineer a way for her body to beat or adapt to it but the stage was so advanced it proved futile. Another approach was attempted, rather than engineer the body to the cancer, engineer the cancer to the body. It succeeded, more or less. They made the cancer so it would be functional as her organs failed and engineered it to drain from her pristine bone marrow DNA and RNA so it would keep the form of Veronika. At first it seemed like a miracle but as the cancer attacked her brain it became clear this was flawed. She tended to lose memory and act more out of reflex than by thought. When asked questions she could answer them but when asked to say how she knew the answer it became obscure and difficult. She knew people were scientists and that the man before him was her father but it began to lose its meaning, she had affection for him but couldn't say why.
It turned out that the cancer was draining and mutating the bone marrow itself, her brain was almost entirely gone and without something, a direction from her DNA instructing her how to keep thoughts, she was becoming nothing more than cancer itself, alive only in the sense that she wasn't dead. This was the physical limit at which her body would break, the limit break. Without fresh DNA to serve as a code of operation, there would be nothing left and not any DNA would do as the draining of another DNA would cause her to change as this person. With what was left of her intact bone marrow, her DNA was archived and regularly she would be injected with this ersatz of DNA as to keep her going.
Eventually, her father passed away and Veronika inherited of his part of the Corporate Empire, becoming a merchant princess among men. At this point she began to be paranoid that she wasn't really her, that her very being could be changed into something else entirely without her noticing. After a period of existential dread this evolved into paranoia. She killed the scientists working on her Ersatz and automated the process, she dealt with her close advisers and replaced them with yesmen. Ultimately as her memories blended more and more and concepts became more vague despite her ersatz intake, she began broaden her paranoia, someone somewhere was always trying to get to her, rather than giving her great power, she saw her almost endless supplies of money as to give her all power, including the right of life and death over the planets she ruled over. Those bellow her served since she payed them and those above didn't really care for she didn't really realized anymore that the universe was bigger than what she knew (She has lost the ability to think about the broader concept of universe and that something she doesn't know about actually exists. She knows there are billions of humans but can't really scale that into perspective.).
It was only a question of time before she set her murderous sight on the Rebellion, seeing anyone fighting against the system fighting against her, herself being in the 5th most powerful CEO. Of course, anyone plotting against her had to be put down. White Mantis became the nickname of the one producing one project after another and abusing of serum to keep them as slaves, sending waves of mercenaries and security agents after anything that she as much as suspected as being related to the Rebellion. Luckily, her mind being ravaged she is often short sighted and 90% of the time strikes at innocents and when she actually gets a decent commander to work for her, it isn't long until she sees him as a possible menace and traitor. All of this contributed to make the Corporate forces under terrible command and make the population more and more angry at the corporations due to random acts of violence due to suspicions of rebel presence.
Extra:
-Skeleton Relic: She was engineered to hold her bone marrow as her source of life. With the Ersatz she could rid herself of her old skeleton but she killed the scientists before they could make some adjustment to this behavior. As such she will religiously try and keep all bits of bones within her viscous cancerous mass.
-Limit Break: As she is constantly shifting her DNA as the cancer lives, Veronika needs something to keep herself from becoming a sterile and feral blob of goo, the stages of limit break are multiple:
1A: Normal, more or less sane with the personality closest of the 15 year old Veronika, albeit twisted somewhat.
2A: Dull, hard to reason with and living on instinct and reflex, very short memory span.
3A: Feral, living only on the basest of human reflexes: Eat, survive. IQ of a predatory animal, very little humanity left.
4A: Inert, intelligence on a cellular level, doesn't do anything but grow until it lacks nutriments and die, will get nutriments from those unlucky or stupid enough to get in contact with the blob.
1B: When absorbing another genetic material than her's at stage 1, Veronika will mostly keep her personality as the prime one, although on stage two that of the absorbed subject may take significant place.
2B: Absorption of foreign material at stage 2 will revert Veronika to stage 1 with roughly equal parts of Veronika and the subject's behaviors.
3B: At this point, reversal to stage 1 with the subject's behavior and some imprinted memory, Veronika will believe that she is the absorbed subject and objection to this will be met with delusion.
4B: The blob will only absorb material to feed itself and although there can be some change, it will be too limited in scope to return Veronika to any form of sentience, only a considerable amount of Ersatz (About equal to the blob's body size) and significant scientific attention will return it to sentience.
