Orchid

Orchid
Player: @ag167
Frond Fatale
Biographical Data
Real Name:	Rose Thorne
Known Aliases:	Orchid
Gender:	Female
Species:	Human/Plant Hybrid
Ethnicity:	American
Place of Birth:	Ocean Ridge, California
Base of Operations:	Floralis Labs, Michigan
Relatives:	N/A
Characteristics
Age:	34
Height:	5'10"
Weight:	156lbs
Eyes:	Teal
Hair:	Green/Red
Complexion:	Plantlike
Physical Build:	Athletic
Physical Features:	Rootlike growths/patterns across face and skin
Status
Alignment:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Neutral Good
Reputation:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Memorable
Identity:	Secret-ish
Years Active:	Varies, 2-4
Citizenship:	American
Occupation:	Botanical Geneticist
Education:	Doctorates in Botany & Genetics
Marital Status:	Single
Known Powers and Abilities
Chlorokinesis
Equipment and Paraphernalia
Messenger Bag
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Appearance & Personality

Rose sticks out in any crowd she's in. With her dark green skin, and wildly colored hair, it's quite obvious that she's more than your average human. To round it all out, glowing blue-teal eyes complete her unusual ensemble, leaving any viewer convinced she's more than meets the eye. Rose's skin, while thicker and fibrous in nature, retains most of it's human smoothness - perhaps even moreso now that she's entirely without hair besides her head. Nails and teeth remain, giving more weight to the fusion of flora and fauna that is her body. Her fashion sense is simple: jeans, t-shirts, coats. When she does 'dress up', it's usually in light, billowing dresses and long gowns.

When working, her hair is usually pinned back. Most eerily about her 'work' is her constant use of her chlorokinetic powers. Plants grow and wilt from her arms and back rapidly as she synthesizes and tests new genetic qualities of each one. It's a terrifying process to watch for the first time!

All in all, Doctor Thorne is a dry, somewhat sardonic person. She's quick to point out flaws and problems in a plan, albeit usually politely. While not self serving, Rose is hesitant to put herself directly in the line of danger - preferring instead to leave that to those durable enough to take it. Overall, she values the ability of her powers to change the field of science more than to change the field of justice. She views herself as a scientist first and a hero second - something that sometimes leaves other heroes annoyed at her for.

History

WIP

Powers & Abilities

Chlorokinesis: As the chosen avatar of Yggdrasil, Orchid is granted complete control over all plant life found on planet Earth. Her powers grant her dominion over a variety of things, including but not limited to:

• Animation: By imbuing nearby plantlife with small amounts of the mystical power flowing through her, Orchid can give them a semblance of 'life'. Plants amplified in such a manner move slowly (roots aren't made for walking, after all), but defend her and any of her allies at any cost. Their attacks are limited to simple smashing and bashing, unless that particular plant has specialized appendages for something else.
• Spores: By replicating the ability of some plants to generate pollen and spores, Orchid can flood the air with a variety of toxins. Paralytic, poisonous, choking, you name it. In a similar fashion, she can generate plant pheromones to nominally affect some forms of insect life - normally bees or wasps.
• Growth: As one might expect, Orchid can rapidly increase the growth of all plants. What might normally take centuries of time can be accomplished in mere moments as she opens herself to the floral kingdom - and the magic of Yggdrasil follows through.
• Armouring: By covering herself in heavy duty bark, Orchid can 'armour up' to defend herself from most small arms fire or martial weaponry. While by no means impervious, the bark coating can take the edge off of most fights she finds herself in.
• Generation: Perhaps the most impressive of her abilities is the power to generate new plant life within herself. By using her already formidable intellect, Orchid can rapidly genetically splice plants together and create seeds for them, which she can then plant and speed-grow to test our their new capabilities. While tiring, rapid synthesis of plants has earned her quite the reputation at her workplace as the go-to for idea realization.

Weaknesses

Much like one might expect from a hybrid of plant and animal DNA, Orchid is immune to most things that effect either: diseases, poisons, et cetera. However, even her unique recombinant DNA has it's weakpoints:

• Fire: Like most plants, Orchid's fibrous tissue is vulnerable to the ravages of fire. While she can slow the burning process by emitting sap from her pores, a raging inferno will quickly overtake her and eat away at her 'flesh'.
• Sunlight Dependance: As a plant-based lifeform, Orchid requires routine amounts of sunlight in order to properly function. Within a week of being denied sunlight, her intellectual and physical capabilities will have rapidly declined, and she'll enter a coma-like state of hibernation until sunlight can be re-introduced to her body.
• Extreme Temperatures: Sudden temperature shift can have devastating effects on her physiology. If given time, Orchid can adapt her body for either extreme (and her human makeup helps alleviate most problems), but a rapid, drastic increase or decrease can leave her stunned and ill-prepared.
• Pesticides/Herbicides: Her most dire weakness is the chemical constructions known as herbicides. As effective on her plant cells as it is on all plantlife, things such as Agent Orange will kill Orchid within a half hour of exposure.
  

Allies & Enemies

Enemy: HERBICIDE

HERBICIDE

"What I am's worked against your kind since 'Nam, Thorne. Just because you've learned to walk doesn't mean you're better."

Real Name: Ken Grenier
Powers/Abilities: Toxikinesis (Specializing in herbicides)
Occupation: Terrorist, Mercenary
Origin: Science
Sergeant Ken Grenier was a former US Army trooper, dating as far back as the Vietnam War. He served his country loyally, if not always faithfully or promptly, until the fateful day that his squad was positioned inside an Agent Orange drop zone. Their radio malfunctioning, Sergeant Grenier's troop missed the call to retreat, instead pushing forward in hopes of discovered a Viet Cong base deep within the jungle. Only when their skin began to boil did they realize their misfortune - and by then it was too late. Most of his men died that day - but Ken was the 'lucky' one. Something in his genetic code absorbed the herbicide blighting his skin, internalizing it and beginning a tortuously slow mutation that would, several hours later, leave him broken and bloody, but alive. He swore revenge on his commanding officers that day, leaving a trail of floral devastation in his wake as his open wounds bled toxins into the landscape. As many as sixty US officials died the day he returned to base, and then....he vanished.

Years later, a mercenary calling him Herbicide appeared on the scene. He soon made a name for himself doing the dirty work for corporations and companies willing to pay his price and get their hands mixed up in illegal business - prime candidates being ARGENT and, on rare occasions, VIPER. Herbicide became the go-to hitman if your business was being struck by eco-terrorism: send him in, and by night's fall, your problems will have asphyxiated or worse. Ken had found a new way to earn a paycheck, one that appealed to his toxin-ridden mind. On a routine job for Monsanto, he clashed with Earth Liberation Front's own terror, The Elfin King. Surprisingly, Orchid appeared as well, sparking off a three way battle through the Monsanto warehouse. When the smoke cleared, Ken had be forced to retreat - and had lost a hefty paycheck.

Since then, the man known as Herbicide has taken every job that he thinks might get him his second round with the King and his floral fatale. It's only a matter of time before the trio clash again, and perhaps the next time, Orchid won't be so lucky...

Threat Level:

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Orchid's Notes:
"Herbicide is literally my worse nightmare. At a thought, he could poison the entire ecosystem of a region so bad that it would take decades, maybe centuries to regrow, even with my help. And to top it all off, I have a time limit when fighting him! With the amount of chemical that he sprays in the air, it's a race against the clock to make sure I don't wind up just as dead as everything else that surrounds him. God, I hate him. And I hate owing King for saving me."

AT LARGE

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