Dr. Elenwen
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 145 lbs.
Age: ??? (Appears late 20's/early 30's, but some speculate that her gene-editing nanites have kept her artificially young)
Race/Species: Human
Tier/Influence: 1 (self)
Group(s): Cambria Conservation Front
Appearance:
Personality: The best word to describe Elenwen is "eccentric." While she displays bursts of autistic focus and savant-like brilliance from time to time, more often than not she is constantly distracted and jumping from one strange fixation to another at rapid speed, so quickly and randomly that she completely bypasses any sort of social mores or consideration for others around her. Likewise, she can become surprisingly lucid and self-aware if sufficiently motivated, but generally seems to have quite a mismatch between reality and whatever's going on in her head.
More than one person has speculated that she used to be somewhat more "normal" but has steadily fractured her own mind through repeated self-experimentation.
Items:
(3) Nanite Host -- A rectangular object which resembles a thick black book at a distance; upon closer inspection, the black spine and "cover" sections are a polycarbon case, while the white strips running along three of the rectangle's thin sides are actually a filtration mesh with microscopically small pores, allowing nanites to come and go while preserving the host's interior from any unwanted substances. It floats using a tiny anti-gravity engine, is self-sustaining, incredibly resistant to damage, and capable of extensive self-repairs.
This device is Elenwen's masterpiece creation, forged when most of her sanity was still intact, and those she has worked with since frequently attribute her mental deterioration to overusing and abusing it. The swarm of nanites that it houses are designed to interact with and alter biology on the most fundamental level, capable of entering a host and editing its DNA rapidly to a nigh-infinite range of different purposes. Elenwen can use it to "possess" nearly any lifeform and control it remotely. It can also reanimate corpses that are fresh enough to create "zombie" minions. However, the supply of nanites is limited and therefore only a certain amount of biomass can be hijacked at a time. Likewise, the technology can be willingly resisted without effort by sapient lifeforms.
Nanites enhance a possessed target with heightened physical capabilities as well as the ability to ignore pain completely and heal at an accelerated rate. Elenwen can use them to enhance herself, but since she is fairly worthless at physical activity normally, this only brings her up to the level of a large and healthy adult (but not superhumanly strong) male. Sustained activity from nanites can eventually re-construct an organism back from even a single DNA sample--including Elenwen herself--but the process takes longer the more extensive the damage that must be repaired, up to a period of weeks for "printing" and incubating an organism from scratch.
When not used to interact with a lifeform's biology, the nanites can coalesce into three-dimensional constructs of nearly any shape, creating weapons, armor, tools, or even artificial limbs capable of moving independently. However, the amount of matter that can be created in this way is highly limited, enough for no more than a few such objects at a time. Objects printed into existence through nanites possess the same strange matte-black consistency as the host's outer casing and are likewise extremely durable, while having strength about equal to twice that of an adult male's arm when acting independently. Larger or smaller limbs may be stronger or weaker as corresponds to their size.
The nanite host is controlled by an implant in Elenwen's brain, with her thoughts alone being sufficient to pilot it. It is, for all intents and purposes, an extension of her body. It also possesses pre-programmed sub-routines that may run without need of input from her (as if, for instance, she is knocked unconscious). The above capabilities are its default functions, but it can be altered to perform a wide range of tasks with enough time and effort from its creator (if she can be bothered to actually sit down and open it up for a while).
History: No one is quite sure where Elenwen came from or who she really is (or used to be). She has edited her own genetic structure so extensively that it is impossible to tell what she might have been born as, and she tends to give a different story every time she is asked about her past (though she also seems to believe each one that she tells, with no apparent awareness of the discontinuity in her own narratives). Whether she truly created her trademark nano-technology herself, or merely stole it, or some combination of both, is not clear, but she does display a genuine ability to achieve remarkable feats of science on the rare occasion that her mad genius chooses to reveal itself.
Though she has bounced between all manner of various endeavors over time, most recently Elenwen has volunteered her rather questionable talents to the Cambria Conservation Front, as she is very excited about the prospect of harvesting an entire world's worth of biodiversity to catalogue within her--err, rather, she's very excited about, you know, conserving life and nature and saving planets! Yeah, let's go with that.
Some speculate that Elenwen was in fact never a natural human at all, but is actually a "self" body printed by the nanite host to express its gestalt consciousness after gaining some limited form of self-awareness, creating a hybrid lifeform of sorts between the two.
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@Circ
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