Feral
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| Vanya (Scenesys ID: 201) | |||
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| "Come on, at least try to get my blood going." | |||
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| Full Name: | Vanya | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Species: | Metahuman | ||
| Theme: | Original (OC) | ||
| Occupation: | Prize Fighter | ||
| Citizenship: | Russia | ||
| Residence: | New York City (Wanderer) | ||
| Education: | Incomplete High School | ||
| Status: | Shelved | ||
| Groups: | {{{Groups}}} | ||
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| Apparent Age: | {{{PAge}}} | Actual Age: | 82 |
| Date of Birth | 11 November 1943 | Actor: | |
| Height: | 172 cm | Weight: | 163 kg |
| Hair Color: | Brown | Eye Color: | Brown |
| Theme Song: | {{{Song}}} | ||
Contents
Profile
Violent, hungry, primitive, and selfish, Vanya could at best be called an unfettered wanderer out to master her own body, or at worst a self-centered thug enslaved to the basest instincts of feeding and conquering - a wild animal in human skin. Only truly alive tasting her own blood in the shadow of a beast larger than herself, she lives for adrenaline and the clash of sinew and bone, but Vanya has gained her share of vices that blunt her feral passions and the siblings of boredom and disinterest keep her claws sheathed out of sight... most of the time. Stories that pass in underground fighting circuits and backwood communities in her wake hint at the messy results of drawing them out.
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Description
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Discarding the garbs of civility, Vanya's pure, animal form is on display. Her tightly-bound hair is now a loose and wild brown mane that falls around her shoulders, sunglasses have been thrown off her sharp brown eyes, and under the suave and conservative jacket and slacks there's nothing left but tattered red pants and an over-sized gray tank-top hanging loosely from her shoulders. Stretching the full span of her face, her large black runic tattoo looks ever-so-slightly closer to dark-red when the light strikes it and smells faintly of fire and blood.
The young woman's body is primed and coursing with the oldest of human energy - thick muscles rippling and flexing across her bare arms, naked toes squeezing the ground, and her baggy top flutters and twists at every movement of her dense torso. The half-together rags of her pants expose peeks of fair skin the whole way down until they're roused into movement by the body underneath. When she does move, it's slow and effortless grace - or it's an animalistic blur.
This is humanity at a primal apex.
The young woman's body is primed and coursing with the oldest of human energy - thick muscles rippling and flexing across her bare arms, naked toes squeezing the ground, and her baggy top flutters and twists at every movement of her dense torso. The half-together rags of her pants expose peeks of fair skin the whole way down until they're roused into movement by the body underneath. When she does move, it's slow and effortless grace - or it's an animalistic blur.
This is humanity at a primal apex.
History
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Vanya's past is a broken tapestry of faded dreams and another time. Born in the Soviet Union in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, her formative years were ones of austerity, upheaval, the brutal repression of Stalinism, and the black market faux-capitalism of Khruschev. Vanya's early life was ugly, overcrowded, but also all she'd ever knew, and so against the backdrop of long breadlines and grim winters, she found a measure of happiness and community.
One happiness, exploring the vast wilderness beyond her family's Arctic home, would spoil that. On October 30th, 1961, the largest man-made explosion in history occurred four kilometers above a Siberian island - and Vanya was within the blast radius. Partially shielded by friend who'd snuck out with her, fire and radiation ravaged her body, leaving her badly injured and deteriorating at a genetic level. Vanya's friend was less fortunate and died from the blast. With frigid arctic waters separating her from civilization and nothing left alive for miles, Vanya did what she had to to survive until Soviet military discovered her while inspecting the blast results.
The helicopter and truck rides that lead her back towards the nearest military base would be her last coherent memories for fifty years. Stunned speechless, inconsolable, and alienated by the changes taking over her own body, Vanya escaped and fled into the Siberian wilderness, with only instincts left to steer her.
In that time she lived as an animal; hunting, feeding, killing, and aggregating each new prey into herself. The closest she came to human interaction was stealing crops or food, and for the rest of the 20th century, Vanya was a bogey-man that ranged across Asia and Europe - a werebear, a sasquatch, a devilfish...
The spell finally broke near the warm coastal waters of Spain in the modern era with cell phones, hybrid cars, internet... and no more Soviet Union. No longer herself or even fully human, it was sensory overload for Vanya, but half a century of wild living had primed her body if not her mind and the relic of older times adapted.
Using her abilities and new physique, Vanya's chosen to continue living only a slightly more civilized mode than her instincts had dictated. Working odd jobs, fighting, and hunting for income, money passes quickly through her hands and into food, pleasures, and martial lessons. Some might still call it a base existence but in Vanya's view, why fight her instincts?
One happiness, exploring the vast wilderness beyond her family's Arctic home, would spoil that. On October 30th, 1961, the largest man-made explosion in history occurred four kilometers above a Siberian island - and Vanya was within the blast radius. Partially shielded by friend who'd snuck out with her, fire and radiation ravaged her body, leaving her badly injured and deteriorating at a genetic level. Vanya's friend was less fortunate and died from the blast. With frigid arctic waters separating her from civilization and nothing left alive for miles, Vanya did what she had to to survive until Soviet military discovered her while inspecting the blast results.
The helicopter and truck rides that lead her back towards the nearest military base would be her last coherent memories for fifty years. Stunned speechless, inconsolable, and alienated by the changes taking over her own body, Vanya escaped and fled into the Siberian wilderness, with only instincts left to steer her.
In that time she lived as an animal; hunting, feeding, killing, and aggregating each new prey into herself. The closest she came to human interaction was stealing crops or food, and for the rest of the 20th century, Vanya was a bogey-man that ranged across Asia and Europe - a werebear, a sasquatch, a devilfish...
The spell finally broke near the warm coastal waters of Spain in the modern era with cell phones, hybrid cars, internet... and no more Soviet Union. No longer herself or even fully human, it was sensory overload for Vanya, but half a century of wild living had primed her body if not her mind and the relic of older times adapted.
Using her abilities and new physique, Vanya's chosen to continue living only a slightly more civilized mode than her instincts had dictated. Working odd jobs, fighting, and hunting for income, money passes quickly through her hands and into food, pleasures, and martial lessons. Some might still call it a base existence but in Vanya's view, why fight her instincts?
Personality
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Violent, impulsive, egotistical, and pleasure-seeking, Vanya has wasted little time in absorbing modern vices in this bountiful age of plenty. With no plan for the future and a marrow-deep understanding of what she truly needs to survive, money passes through her hands like water through a sieve and the primal old woman is quicker to run to a bar than others would be to run to a bank. Thanks to her inhuman physique and in part her long period of feral amnesia, the sheer scale of Vanya's life is a weight that's mostly kept from her shoulders, if only by keeping herself living in the moment.
The roots of old-world, Stalinist life still poke through the pavement of her psyche from time to time, but before anything else, Vanya lives for and from her body; training it, refining it, testing it, indulging it, and yes showing off, it's become her one anchor to the world she used to have in the crazy westernized world she's now in. While she can be trusted to honesty and forthrightness, and blunt to a fault, Vanya views most of the world through a predator's lenses; the strong are to be challenged or avoided and the weak are stepping stones for her desires. This makes her paradoxically safe to those deemed beneath her notice, and to the rest... this apex predator likes having her ego well-stroked.
The roots of old-world, Stalinist life still poke through the pavement of her psyche from time to time, but before anything else, Vanya lives for and from her body; training it, refining it, testing it, indulging it, and yes showing off, it's become her one anchor to the world she used to have in the crazy westernized world she's now in. While she can be trusted to honesty and forthrightness, and blunt to a fault, Vanya views most of the world through a predator's lenses; the strong are to be challenged or avoided and the weak are stepping stones for her desires. This makes her paradoxically safe to those deemed beneath her notice, and to the rest... this apex predator likes having her ego well-stroked.
Abilities
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AMALGAMATE
Vanya can copy the features of an animal by eating their DNA. A few bites of meat, blood samples, or hair are enough for her body to unravel and memorize a genome, and any time afterwards she can reconstitute it as part of her body, granting her qualities like a tiger's claws, carapace armor, or the eyes of a hawk.
Vanya can only morph as much flesh as she's gathered from the target animal; to form a three pound turtle shell, she'll need to eat three pounds of turtles.
BORROWED FORM
Vanya has eaten a single human and assumed its form permanently.
CHIMERIC PHYSIOLOGY
Vanya's body has sequestered pounds upon pounds of animal biomass into her bones, muscles, and organs, forcing them to adapt a hybridization of human and animal traits to function under the increased pressure. This adaptation has made her stronger, tougher, and faster at the cost of weight and a tremendous appetite (Voracious Vegetarian). In effect, some of her body is a permanent amalgam.
CHIMERIC REGENERATION
Vanya can use her stored animal mass to quickly replace injured tissue, allowing her to regenerate rapidly by sacrificing the cells used by her Amalgamate.
DELAYED SENESCENCE
Vanya's unique physiology, blended from animals with wildly different aging rates, has adopted the greatest common denominator. By human standards senescence sets in very slowly for her, keeping her body young and vital well beyond her years.
Vanya can copy the features of an animal by eating their DNA. A few bites of meat, blood samples, or hair are enough for her body to unravel and memorize a genome, and any time afterwards she can reconstitute it as part of her body, granting her qualities like a tiger's claws, carapace armor, or the eyes of a hawk.
Vanya can only morph as much flesh as she's gathered from the target animal; to form a three pound turtle shell, she'll need to eat three pounds of turtles.
BORROWED FORM
Vanya has eaten a single human and assumed its form permanently.
CHIMERIC PHYSIOLOGY
Vanya's body has sequestered pounds upon pounds of animal biomass into her bones, muscles, and organs, forcing them to adapt a hybridization of human and animal traits to function under the increased pressure. This adaptation has made her stronger, tougher, and faster at the cost of weight and a tremendous appetite (Voracious Vegetarian). In effect, some of her body is a permanent amalgam.
CHIMERIC REGENERATION
Vanya can use her stored animal mass to quickly replace injured tissue, allowing her to regenerate rapidly by sacrificing the cells used by her Amalgamate.
DELAYED SENESCENCE
Vanya's unique physiology, blended from animals with wildly different aging rates, has adopted the greatest common denominator. By human standards senescence sets in very slowly for her, keeping her body young and vital well beyond her years.
Skills
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ACROBATICS
For fun, fitness, and function, Vanya has practiced free-running and acrobatics - skills she enjoys showing off.
ANIMAL EMPATHY
Familiarity has taught Vanya how to read body languages and moods across the animal kingdom - mostly those of predators.
MARTIAL ARTIST
From years of picking fights, finding teachers, and even fighting wild animals barehanded, Vanya has syncretized a fighting style that favors her sharp reflexes and unnatural physique. What she lacks in disciplined experience, she makes up with pure physicality.
MULTILINGUAL
Vanya fluently speaks Russian and English.
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL
Vanya knows what a human would need to survive in frozen tundras, dense forests, open plains, and even out at sea. Combined with her ability to adapt traits of the local wildlife, she can be trusted to get along in most biomes.
For fun, fitness, and function, Vanya has practiced free-running and acrobatics - skills she enjoys showing off.
ANIMAL EMPATHY
Familiarity has taught Vanya how to read body languages and moods across the animal kingdom - mostly those of predators.
MARTIAL ARTIST
From years of picking fights, finding teachers, and even fighting wild animals barehanded, Vanya has syncretized a fighting style that favors her sharp reflexes and unnatural physique. What she lacks in disciplined experience, she makes up with pure physicality.
MULTILINGUAL
Vanya fluently speaks Russian and English.
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL
Vanya knows what a human would need to survive in frozen tundras, dense forests, open plains, and even out at sea. Combined with her ability to adapt traits of the local wildlife, she can be trusted to get along in most biomes.
Resources
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GENETIC VAULT
Vanya's one true possession of value is the accumulated corpus of genetic material from peak predators and unique creatures that resides inside her body.
NONE
Money in Vanya's hands is short-lived and her earthly possessions could fit in a day-bag. Some dogs have more resources than her.
Vanya's one true possession of value is the accumulated corpus of genetic material from peak predators and unique creatures that resides inside her body.
NONE
Money in Vanya's hands is short-lived and her earthly possessions could fit in a day-bag. Some dogs have more resources than her.
Weaknesses
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FERAL PERIOD
From immediately after her chimeric abilities emerged in 1961 (Amalgamate) until over fifty years later, Vanya existed in a feral, animalistic state living on pure instincts. She has no clear memories of this period. She does however have old bounties on her head from this time - most fortunately describing her as an abominable creature.
FORCED TRANSFORMATION
Whenever Vanya consumes a new animal (Amalgamate) her body involuntarily expresses its traits. Since no two animals are ever quite the same genetically, this has made her an obligate vegetarian in human company and while the transformation isn't physically painful, even alone she finds the process extremely annoying.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
Vanya carries no identification and her Soviet citizenship is over half a century old and difficult to prove.
SIMPLE-MINDED
While not unintelligent, Vanya enjoys a simple and unfettered existence. She eats when she's hungry, sleeps when she's tired, picks fights when she's playful, and generally indulges her senses and fancy with little concern for who or what is around her. This can sometimes make her difficult to deal with and easy to predict.
VORACIOUS VEGETARIAN
Vanya's inhuman physiology is enormously calorie-hungry, needing a diet on par with professional athletes or mountaineers to sustain itself, and even more when recovering from heavy exercise or injuries. Getting all those proteins and calories purely from plant sources (Forced Transformation) is an even greater challenge.
From immediately after her chimeric abilities emerged in 1961 (Amalgamate) until over fifty years later, Vanya existed in a feral, animalistic state living on pure instincts. She has no clear memories of this period. She does however have old bounties on her head from this time - most fortunately describing her as an abominable creature.
FORCED TRANSFORMATION
Whenever Vanya consumes a new animal (Amalgamate) her body involuntarily expresses its traits. Since no two animals are ever quite the same genetically, this has made her an obligate vegetarian in human company and while the transformation isn't physically painful, even alone she finds the process extremely annoying.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
Vanya carries no identification and her Soviet citizenship is over half a century old and difficult to prove.
SIMPLE-MINDED
While not unintelligent, Vanya enjoys a simple and unfettered existence. She eats when she's hungry, sleeps when she's tired, picks fights when she's playful, and generally indulges her senses and fancy with little concern for who or what is around her. This can sometimes make her difficult to deal with and easy to predict.
VORACIOUS VEGETARIAN
Vanya's inhuman physiology is enormously calorie-hungry, needing a diet on par with professional athletes or mountaineers to sustain itself, and even more when recovering from heavy exercise or injuries. Getting all those proteins and calories purely from plant sources (Forced Transformation) is an even greater challenge.
Logs
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| Pintos and Salsa | April 13th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Old Beasts, New Haunts. | April 6th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Log 4034 | March 10th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Saline and gauze | February 24th, 2018 | Claire drops off some medical supplies at St. Margaret's, and Vanya and Juggernaut get a chance to catch up on mutual hobbies. |
| Animal House | February 1st, 2018 | Summary needed |
| An Offer for the Big Leagues | January 21st, 2018 | Shadowlite looks to recruit new talent for a team and offers Vanya a chance to move up to the big leagues. |
| Log 3674 | January 17th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Bars and Bad Ideas | January 16th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| If You Give a Bug a Vodka | December 26th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| untitled | November 29th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| 'Boxing' in Central Park | November 25th, 2017 | Vanya and Lar 'box' in Central Park. |
| Grand Central Conversations | November 22nd, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Creepy Creatures | November 5th, 2017 | Peace is kept in Sunnydale, despite a small catfight. |
| What Goes Bump in the Morning | November 4th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Central Sparring | October 14th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Chasing a Trail | September 29th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Social Drinking | September 28th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| 2 Russians, 1 Bar | September 24th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Mutant Town - Heisenberg | September 9th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Not the Tiger He was Looking For | September 9th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Fast Food, Shark Style | September 6th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Just Cloudgazing | September 4th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Log 2272 | August 31st, 2017 | Summary needed |
| 3 Russians, 1 Coyote | August 21st, 2017 | Mercy, acting on impulse, tracks and assails the Winter Soldier after running across the result of one of his jobs. The encounter is complicated by the fact that not only was the Soldier talking to Akula at the time, Vanya followed Mercy's trail as well. |
| Tiggers on Parade | August 20th, 2017 | Diya runs into yet another Russian in mutant town. Originally concerned this might be an operative for Russian Intelligence, she instead realizes that Vanya is some kind of thug, possibly for the Bratva. They do not part on good terms. |
| Cats, Angels, and Spies Oh My | August 18th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Aftermath, Thy Name is Vanya | August 13th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Fight Club: Bloodsport | August 5th, 2017 | The Fight Club is used as a battle between Roulette and the one behind Blood and the Tall Man, the one controlling the Hellspawn. |
| 13's a Lucky Number | August 5th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Log 1732 | July 30th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| A Herald's Help | July 29th, 2017 | Vanya joins the fight against the Winter Soldier. |
| Teenage Wildlife | July 29th, 2017 | Yana gets accosted by a gang, she and Vanya beat them up, and they bond, somewhat, over being Russian, hungry, and money. |
| 2 Russians 1 Park Bench | July 18th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Fight Club: Part Deux | July 16th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Just a Little Hot Soak | July 15th, 2017 | What better way to celebrate a promotion than a naked soak in a hot tub? Well, maybe a big dinner too... |
| Earning the Title | July 13th, 2017 | Vanya takes the next step and accepts a challenge to earn the title of 'Herald of the God of War'. |
| Just a Flesh Wound | July 9th, 2017 | Sparring between gods and animals: always fun and safe! |
| Stick Around for the Stick Up | July 8th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| strange visitor from another country | July 7th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Faeries, Chimera, and Magi, Oh My! | June 25th, 2017 | Paisley introduces Traci to Vanya, and a roadtrip is planned. |
| A Lesson in War | June 23rd, 2017 | Summary needed |
| A Cat of a Different Stripe | June 18th, 2017 | Again near the town closest to Cat's Lair, Tigra meets another feral type sniffing around. |
| Dinner | June 14th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Cool Down | June 13th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Not My Pack | June 11th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Tracking Rover | June 11th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Investigating Rover | June 9th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Log | June 7th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| A Trip to Yin-Yang Spa | May 30th, 2017 | (Continuation of 670) Sibilance puts up with some snake-face prejudice but gets some long-overdue pampering for her troubles. Some people just don't mind. |
| Memorial Day Hangout | May 30th, 2017 | Following a wild animal around can lead to all kinds of places. In this case it leads to a massage parlor. |
| A Chansssce Meeting in Gotham | May 28th, 2017 | When you've got animal super powers, even eating apples is fun! |
| Here Comes Trouble | May 24th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| ESCAPE from the Savage Land | May 19th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| An Unexpected Catch | May 15th, 2017 | A chance encounter on a beach turns into dinner and a camping trip. What did mom say about talking to strange animals? |
| Rousing the Bar | May 13th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Splash Fighter II | May 13th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Cats and Dogs in New York | May 7th, 2017 | Zhao meets someone new while roaming a park and it is tradition, when meeting a fellow martial artist, to challenge them. |
| Evening At The Bar | May 6th, 2017 | Carol can't help herself and goes out to an evening at a bar, where she runs into other people. |
| Super-Splelunking | May 6th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Crash, Man! | May 5th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Medic Medic! | May 4th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Sunday Brunch | April 30th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Ready, set, FIGHT! | April 29th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Cutscenes
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