Basic Information
Name: Chloe KnightLamia, 'That creepy snake girl'
Age: 17Gender: FemaleAppearance: At first glance Chloe could be mistaken for normal. She has medium neck length hair that definitely hasn't seen much more attention than an occasional brush. She has Caucasian facial structure, with a soft oval face and mostly soft features, an average sized nose and mouth. While she could be considered pretty she doesn't have any of the features that would get her called 'cute' or 'beautiful' and she can often fall into the background when compared to other girls. Her eyes are a light brown, set a normal width apart.
She has a thin athletic build, though without much of the muscle a true athlete would had. Some in fact might just call her a bit skinny. Shes not dissatisfied with her appearance however, as she does have some feminine 'attributes'. Nothing impressive but far more than some of the girls shes seen.
Her one annoyance beyond her incredible averageness is her height. Standing at 5'4 she isn't far below the average and many people don't know why it bothers her so much. She believes that if shes going to be cursed with average looks then fate could have at least given her a normal height.
She often dresses in T-Shirts and shorts, though she will wear most things, including dresses. She particularly likes bird themed designs on her clothes.
This is her appearance most of the time, however it has an annoying tendency to change when she gets emotional or stressed. The most common change is in the eyes, with them taking on the appearance of a variety of snakes. This can be rather off-putting to most people, as they can seem very cold or uncaring. In more extreme cases fangs, stretchable jaw joints and body covering scales (anything from brown python to rainbow boa). In this state she can occasionally smell of reptilian musk, which necessitates frequent showers.
Skills/Talents:Amateur Chef: Chloe is a bit of an aspiring Chef. She is always keen to try cooking new things and prefers to try food from as many different cultures as she can. She knowns how to cook a good range of foods, though mostly spicy and hot dishes which she prefered before gaining her powers. Now her sense of taste is too sensitive to risk such things.
Bird Watcher: If you can point out a bird, Chloe can name it. Extensive knowledge of native birds isn't her only talent however, she also knows a lot about bird-care and breeding. She is definitely thinking about setting up a parrot breeding business once shes back from camp.
Mixed bag: Chloe has tried lots of different clubs and sports, though shes never managed to stick to any. Thus she has beginner knowledge in many martial arts, crafts, sports, trivia and games. Her short attention span is both a curse and a great incentive to try new things.
Brief Backstory: Chloe was born in England on the 31st of October. Her Father was an accountant and her mother a schoolteacher, so she ended up with quite a bit of pressure to always do her homework and behave in lessons. She wasn't a perfectly behaved child of course, as she tended to enjoy taking risks to show off to anyone who would watch. She was rather outgoing and tried to make many friends and try all the clubs and activities in school, though she never achieved any great successes.
She was generally happy with her life, until her 16th birthday when her parents announced that they would be moving to America to the dream house they had been saving for. This did not amuse Chloe, who tried her hardest to convince them to say. All her friends were in England after all, and she had planned which college and university she was going to apply for, and what job she wanted to get. It would ruin everything.
They still went of course, but Chloe was rather put out.
As with her life and looks, the awakening of her powers was rather boring. One day she simply woke up as a Cobra. After an initial scare and some confusion her parents found out and got her registered with NEST, who determined that she was likely not a threat. Things would have gone back to normal if not for one fact, the college she was attending was in a primarily anti-metahuman area, with a large Saviors presence.
After an accidental change in lesson, her life became somewhat more difficult, with notes going mission and friends finding excuses to leave when they say her. It all came to a head when a local 'Pure' wannabe decided to show the 'creepy snake girl' she wasn't wanted. What Chloe hadn't known was in times of extreme stress her instincts could get the better of her. Before she knew it the boy was in hospital with rare anti-venom being flown in, and Chloe was in custody.
Since the nature of the incident was mostly self defense NEST offered an alternate to jail time. Go to a camp where she could be with people who wouldn't discriminate and learn how to control her powers fully.
It was no choice at all really.
Power Information
Super-System - Bestial
Power:Serpent FormChloe's power is to shapeshift into any known snake. This gives her a range of abilties such as swimming, gliding, climbing, constricting, hiding and of course the fangs and venom of some increadibly deadly animals. In addition to the normal forms, Chloe can make some slight changes, mixes aspects together or just increasing the size and toughness of the forms. This never quite enters into metahuman levels of toughness however.
Partial ShiftingChloe can also take chosen aspects of serpents and apply them to her human body. This power is something she had trouble with though, often activating it by mistake when emotional or pulling more aspects than she wants when using it on purpose. The main features she considers useful is infrared vision, incredible reactions, enhanced smell/taste and slightly armored scales.
Limits:Chloe can only turn into real and near real snakes. So far she has never managed any of the mythological variants like basilisks or any of the snake gods. She does think that being a feathered serpent would be cool, but unfortunately her efforts to add wings haven't met success.
Also her ability to enhance the strength, toughness or size of her forms is rather limited.
The limits of her partial shapeshifting are twofold, first there only so much you can get from a single animal group like snakes. Second is that the ability seems to be rather temperamental.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks:The main weakness to her power is that even with the slight increases in strength and toughness, any metahuman with a combat ability can probably kill a snake. They are not the most resilient of creatures, and when in human form she is not really any tougher or stronger than normal. The scales and enhancement could stop a knife wielded by a non-metahuman, but guns and above would be just as dangerous to her as anyone else.
Chloe also suffers from some residual serpentine instincts whenever she uses her power. On more than one occasion shes found herself curled up by a radiator or grabbing a passing small animal without meaning too. Whats rather disturbing is how tasty looking the rats she sees are becoming.
The last weakness was developed recently. When trying partial shifting for the first time Chloe somehow managed to perminatly apply a snakes cold blooded physiology to herself and hasn't figured out how to remove it since. Thus she finds it rather difficult to wake up on cold mornings, and if anything brings her body temperature down her reactions and thoughts will slow dramatically. An ice-user would be her bane.
Relationships
Family: Mother: Katrina Knight
Father: Micheal Knight
Dynamics:Basically your character's relationship with other characters.
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Other
- Interesting fact: Chloe doesnt really care for snakes that much.
Quote: Oh shit, I think I broke my homeostasis
