Vanya

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Quote: "Come on, at least try to get my blood going!"

Position: Underground Fighter

Affiliations: Groups

Inspiration: OC

Rating: R

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Identities

Vanya is a common face in underground fighting circuits, an occasional day-laborer, starter of bar brawls, and dabbling hunter. She's perhaps too fond of beasts and painfully easy to bait into contests of physical prowess. Her status as a were-beast is common among those in the more superhuman fighting circuits.

Vanya's only secret is where she keeps her money in an outfit with no pockets.

Background: An Overview

Vanya was born on the northern edge of the Soviet Union in 1943 and at age 18 in 1961 she was nuked by the largest bomb in human history while exploring an Arctic island within its blast radius. Injured but far enough away to survive the explosion itself, Vanya eluded the military patrol surveying the aftermath and fled into the Siberian tundra. With her DNA unstable and mutated from the radiation, she partially transformed into the first animal she managed to catch and eat. That would be her last clear memory for over fifty years.%r%rOverwhelmed by the mind of her own prey, Vanya wandered the world a feral beast until the haze finally lifted along the warm coast 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 has adapted… and swam across the Atlantic to see what the mythical 'United States of America' is really like.Your Overview (Background 1)

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Powers

Beast Transformation
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.

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 comfortably with the increased load. This adaptation has made her inhumanly strong, tough, and fast at the cost of weight and a tremendous appetite (Voracious Vegetarian). In effect, some of her body is permanently transformed.

Dekayed 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.

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.

Skills

Mixed Martial Arts
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.

Wilderness
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.

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.

Tracking
Similar to her Wilderness Survival skills, Vanya's studied knowledge of hunting and tracking has combined with her decades of feral living and bestial senses to form an exceptional tracker.

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Cons

Forced Transformation
Whenever Vanya consumes a new animal 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.

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.

Feral Period
From immediately after her chimeric abilities emerged in 1961 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.

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.

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Logs

Title	OOC Date	Rating	Who's Involved	Summary
Between Two Tigers	December 23, 2017	PG-13 Language	Vanya, Tendril, Okhotnik	Enroute to track down her friend, Okhotnik, Lexi runs across another tiger scent and curiously follows it, running into a slightly drunken Vanya….and then Okhotnik follows.
Russian Wolf Babushkas	Fri Mar 09 18:32:46 2018	PG-13	Lexi Nemo Vanya	Lexi Nemo manages to track down the shapeshifter Vanya, and the two get down to chatting over an all you can eat Chinese buffet.
Start of a Punchworthy Friendship	Sat Mar 17 10:39:01 2018		Vanya Grace Choi	Grace is looking for Klavdiya, and winds up encountering Vanya for the first time instead. The two kind of hit it off.

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