Name: Kyanin Medzol
(made using Rinmaru Character Creator because I am a beacon of sin)
Title (or official designation, rather): Biological Adaptive Organism (BAO) C04-2911047
Tier 3: Kyanin is capable of manipulating his flesh to reconfigure himself into a form that best suits the task at hand.
Groups: Kyanin hails from a technologically advanced nation comprising a single star system. He feels loyal to it, but as of now it has little influence and is more or less irrelevant in galactic politics.
Description (this describes how he looks unless otherwise specified):
Height: 5'9
Weight: 477 pounds (despite the high weight, the density of his tissue allows him to assume a shape that does not at all match what the scale says. An astute observer would notice some things, though. On soft ground, his footsteps would be far too deep for someone of his build, and if they shook his hand it would feel much heavier than it looks.)
Age: Kyanin is 22 years of age. 10 of those years were spent in an artificial womb as his body stabilized, but his mind was free to interact online thanks to neural interfacing (wires connecting to his nervous system and hooked up to a virtual reality machine), allowing his mental age to match his physical age.
Race: Kyanin is a vat-grown artificial life form comprised of trillions of cells, as most organic life is. However, each individual cell is capable of configuring itself into a brain cell, muscle cell, digestive cell, or any other needed type of biological tissue in mere seconds. His "species" is termed a Biological Adaptive Organism, or BAO.
Appearance: Kyanin is typically a slender, androgynous male with delicate features, white skin and medium-length, somewhat wavy white hair that almost touches his shoulders. His irises are a light, pale grey, and his pupils are covered by a sort of lense of stark white color. He could be mistaken for female by a casual observer. On the right side of his collarbone is a set of black letters that read: BAO C04-2911047. Every so often, his body might bend in a way that a normal body simply couldn't, or one might catch something shifting or squirming beneath his skin.
Personality: He is typically rather amiable and polite, but can also be incredibly pragmatic to the point of callousness, especially during a crisis. He has a strong curious streak, especially regarding magic. He enjoys reading fiction, listening to music, and spending time online. He does not see anything sacred about death or the human body (or any body, for that matter.) He likes making trophies out of body parts (knucklebones mostly). He has no sense of dignity, and will happily kowtow to a more powerful entity if it gets him what he wants or simply lets him keep living, though he draws the line at permanent servitude. He'll sometimes look lost or even afraid, but only for fleeting instances before his typical personality reasserts itself. He will sometimes act odd or eccentric due to his lack of experience dealing with other living beings. In a fight, he will often behave savagely, attacking like a wild animal. Despite this, he'll often act cowardly and try to avoid fighting if he can. He can be somewhat nervous around new people. He does not know how to respond to acts of compassion. He considers himself to be a human and will become saddened when people do not treat him like one, but on some level thinks they are probably correct. He is often shy about using his abilities in front of other people.
Abilities:
-rapid regeneration (limited): So long as there is excess mass in Kyanin's body, he can use it to restore limbs or create new ones. To explain, here is an example. Kyanin currently weighs roughly 3 times as much as a normal human of his build due to muscle density. So in a fight, he can lose 2/3rds of his mass before he no longer has enough to maintain a human form. Of course, this can be fixed by consuming more biomass, which can be gained through normal eating and drinking, devouring the flesh of fallen enemies, or photosynthesis/roots.
-size growth and shrinkage: If Kyanin consumes more mass, he obviously grows in size. So long as there is a steady supply of edible mass available, Kyanin can continue to grow. If having a lot of mass is bad, he can shed excess flesh in order to decrease in size.
-flesh configuration: Kyanin is capable of shaping his body into various tools, or even transforming entirely. An example would be reshaping his arm to fire bolts of hyper-dense bone using chemical ignition, effectively creating a firearm of bone and muscle. Alternately, he could simply produce a spike of bone to use as a melee weapon. Further still, he could transform himself an entirely different body. For example, he could quickly dissolve his bone structure and simply become a tangle of muscle tendrils, allowing him access into a tight space. Or he could have bone outcroppings burst out from his skin and cover his body, creating biological armor. Of course, this matter has to come out from somewhere, so he must actually have the mass required to perform the transformation. He could not turn from the size of a normal human into a weaponized abomination the size of an elephant, for example, unless he consumed an elephant's worth of biomass. Here is an example of how he might transform himself:
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-durability and strength: The material's that make up Kyanin's body are somewhat stronger than a normal human's. Any given tissue can be considered to be three to four times as durable as their typical counterpart by default. However, with sufficient determination, advanced technology, magic, fire, or raw strength, it can be damaged. Kyanin can survive deep space by enclosing himself in a protective cocoon and going dormant, but is effectively helpless in this state.
-split bodies: With sufficient mass, Kyanin can inhabit multiple bodies, controlling all of them through a passive psychic link (it should be noted that this psychic link only works with his own bodies. Beyond this he has no psychic abilities, though it is possible he might develop some should he be trained under a more skilled user). Kyanin can see through the senses of these bodies in real time. A disadvantage would be the fact that this psychic link can be interrupted. Such an even would cause Kyanin's consciousness to retreat into one of the bodies (he would normally be able to choose which, but an incredibly powerful psychic event might force him into whichever was farthest away from the source. The range of the psychic link depends on the amount of brain matter Kyanin has available. By default it is roughly 5 miles, but it could be extended by creating a "shepherd" body with excess brainpower devoted to maintaining the link. The conversion ratio is roughly 5 more miles of influence for every 50 pounds of brain matter added to the shepherd body. Multiple shephard bodies can be created. If a shepard body is destroyed, any further bodies within its range of influence will deactivate and expire. A further weakness is Kyanin's own limited mental abilities. Kyanin can only actively control 7 independent bodies at once. Any more will have to run off of automated instincts or programs. Kyanin can add new programs, but this requires actively controlling the subject in order to make adjustments.
-no aging: Due to his nature, Kyanin is incapable of growing old, as his cells can simply be replaced by newer ones ad infinitum. Disease is something of a problem though. Infections can be consciously fought off, but doing so can be difficult if the disease is severe.
Items: Kyanin will typically wear loose clothing such as sweat-pants, baggy t-shirts, robes, slippers/loafers, or other clothing that does not hinder movement, unless otherwise stated. He'll usually be carrying around a laptop or other communication device. He will often wear square glasses, not because he needs them but because he thinks it makes him look better. He also will wear a bracelet or two of knucklebones on his right wrist. These were usually taken from people he had to fight. He's quite proud of them.
History: Kyanin Medzol, or BAO C04-2911047, is a vat-grown synthetic life form that was created in a distant star system by a people who see no distinction between flesh and machine, and experiment freely on them both. Kyanin was different from the typical synthetic of that country, however, due to his being a type that was fully biological. BAO entities have a simple mission; explore the universe outside their home and bring back data to the homeland whenever they discover anything of interest. Because of this, they cannot depend on mechanical implants or upgrades, which can break or wear down without the means to repair them. By being entirely organic, Kyanin and his ilk could operate independently. And so he does, wandering from world to world and relaying data back to his distant home, and perhaps pursuing some personal agendas along the way.
