Name: Autumn Smith
Appearance: 5'11" tall, looks to be about a hundred twenty pounds, lightly tanned skin. She has bright green, curious eyes, and belly length, straight black hair with undertones of a deep red. Fairly lanky build, but athletic at the same time, with B-cup breasts, a little bit of muscle, and fine-fingered hands. Looks to be about 18.
Personality: Usually shy and withdrawn, though she does warm up to people quickly once she gets to know them. Always quiet, especially when singled out. Steps quietly and carefully, but always seems to find the creakiest board(s) in a room anyways.
Bio: Growing up in a military family was never easy, and it was a releif to Autumn when her father declared that he had been given a permanent posting on American soil. The small town of military families numbered a couple thousand and some, and Autumn quickly made new friends among the other teens. A few months in, however, things changed. Her father had started looking at boarding schools for some reason, and had declared, in his usual no-debate-necessary manner, that she was going to attend some boarding school off in Britain, to get the kind of education she deserved. Smart as she was, Autumn knew there was some ulterior motive, but packed her things without complaint anyways. The day after, however, changed things entirely.
The entire base was quarantined for medical reasons, after some people started getting sick. Before too long, the entire base started showing symptoms, and people started dying. Things got worse, wierd stuff started happenning, and eventually the military moved in and burned the place to the ground to sanitize it. Autumn had been changed, like most of the population, but the changes seemed deeper, more subtle...
She slipped past the cordon and escaped, without the military knowing that she wasn't a pile of ashes. With no other family, and nowhere else to go. She came to the boarding school her father had enrolled her in, Gossamer Falls, gambling that he had wanted to sneak her off base before the tragedy, and as such wouldn't have told anyone. She figured she would try and start new, try and forget what had happened, both to her life and to her...
Abilities: She doesn't know it, but Autumn is the remnant of a symbiotic virus created by the United States government. Everything she remembers stems from the original host. She is the virus, though she wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Her body is extremely dense, she actually weighs closer to 120 kilos than 120 pounds. The virus is mutagenic, and allows her to reshape that mass in certain ways, though she may be able to do more.
Cosmetic- Autumn can shift herself to appear like anyone she can see, or at least has a picture of. Most of the time the resemblance is imperfect, unless she has a fair amount of time to study the detail, but is always enough to pass at least casual inspection. Even clothing can be assumed in this way, the mock fabric even feeling realistic to the touch.
Defense- Autumn has two defensive abilities. She can only use one or the other, and both completely blow her cover if she's seen. She can shift her biomass to either form a large shield out of her left arm, completely replacing the appendage from the elbow down with a blackish-red, organic impedance to attack. Alternatively, she can shift the entire biomass to form a gyver-esque suit of armour to protect her from every angle, though this reduces the amount of punishment any one area can take, over what the shield can absorb.
Offense- Autumn has three offensive abilities, all of which modify her arms. As such, she can only have two instances at once, be it two of a single power, or one of two different ones, with two exceptions. The first is if she's using the Shield defensive power. It uses up an arm, so only one arm left for offense. The second is if she's using the Blade ability. It requires so much biomass that she cannot sustain two at once.
Autumn can create razor sharp, eight inch claws to extend from her hands. She doesn't have the fine control required to alter just that however, and her entire arm changes as well, becoming a blackish-red, spiny appendage whenever this changes.
Alternatively, she can shift her entire right arm to become a massive blade, almost as long as she is tall. It extends from the elbow back and the hand forward, and makes the appendage completely unrecognizeable as an arm, the upper portion changing similarly to the claw ability.
Finally, she can change one or both arms into retactable whip-like appendages, capable of reaching somewhere between twenty and thirty feet. This ends in a lamprey-like grouping of grasping claws, and can support her weight enough for her to use it to climb structures and other heights fairly easily, or to grasp and throw people from a distance.
Healing- Autumn can heal from the most greivious of wounds, even to the point of becoming a puddle of mush, simply by replacing and rebuilding the injured areas with biomass, but enough of this, and she won't have the extra mass to use. The virus can survive from even a few cells, though if that were the case, it would take months for those cells to find a new host and overcome it, gaining enough biomass to reform completely. If low on mass, she can absorb any living tissue, though she refuses to do so for any human being, usually resorting to hunting and 'eating' wild animals.
To be permanantly killed, she needs to be incinerated to the point where the entire room she's in is hot enough to sterilize down to a cellular level, no mean feat. This has also caused her to have an aversion to open flame, partially as a biological imperative, and partially from her memories of the 'clean-up' at the army base.
It is also possible to freeze her solid, but the temperature required to do so is also quite prohibitive. The virus' cell walls are sturdy enough to prevent being punctured by microscopic ice, and enter a state of dormancy. It doesn't kill her, but as long as the temperature is maintained, she can be held in stasis like this indefinitely.
Is your character going to start the game as a new student at the school? Yes