Name: Runa Yggdrasil
Other Names: Project Y,
Hero Club
Gender: Female.
Age: 15
Real Age: 15
Species: Human/alien hybrid
Genre: Scifi/Horror, Battle
Description: Although her abilities might suggest otherwise, Runa's human appearance generally doesn't change. She stands at around 170 cm tall and masses somewhere between 55 and 60 kg. Her hair in general sometimes moves on its own, with her long ahoge in particular moving around depending on her emotions. The jewelry-looking metal bits on her face are in fact metalized protrusions of bone. When not at school, she usually dresses simply, if at all. She's left handed. Her hair won't cooperate with being neatly styled for very long, and will eventually settle back into being an unruly mop.
Personality: Runa is an energetic idiot, first and foremost. A typical genki girl, she has plenty of energy and enthusiasm, even if she lacks much else. She is definitely naive, and doesn't know some basic things about how the world works or other bits of education one might take for granted. She's very friendly and curious. Generally, Runa behaves as if her own abilities are completely natural and nothing out of the ordinary, meaning she will casually use them without thinking about how it would look to normal humans. As a result, she is anything from suicidally reckless to absolutely terrifying, and doesn't really understand why others would think so. She loves food of all kinds, and is very easy to bribe with snacks.
History:
Runa is the culmination of a multinational project which began with the discovery of an alien lifeform buried deep beneath the Antarctic ice. A research organization quickly sprung up around this evidence of extraterrestrial life, studying it and trying to prise out what secrets could be found from a monster which is remarkably still alvie despite being what is likely millennia old. It wasn't long before a few...incidents showed just how dangerous their discovery was, and people quickly adapted their policy to include preparation for more alien monsters and similar emergent threats. The organization grew over time, and is currently known as Ratatoskr.
One of Ratatoskr's projects, generally dubbed the "Y Project" or "Yggdrasil Project", began in Ratatoskr's early days. Led by Dr. Hasegawa, the project focused on understanding alien and monstrous physiology by careful genetic engineering, with the goal of producing useful and practical results, and finding an effective emans of combating any monstrous threats that would eventually appear. The development of a human/alien hybrid was kept top secret, even within the project itself, as they developed other novel lifeforms and began creating an entire laboratory environment, as genetic modification techniques advanced by leaps and bounds. When Dr. Hasegawa's human experiments were discovered, he was summarily removed from Ratatoskr's organization. If his work were destroyed, the story would have ended there, but it was decided that, as he had already succeeded, it would be best to keep his creation for study, and thus Runa was allowed to remain in the world, if only as a research sample.
Runa's early life was a strange one, growing up mostly in various labs, and playing in toxic forests full of strange engineered flora and fauna. As she grew up, one of the scientists eventually took her in as a sort of adopted family member, giving her a more normal and stable life, although she was still carefully watched and monitored and did have a very restricted schedule. A few things eventually forced her out of her "ordinary" life. First, it appears her proper father, Dr. Hasegawa, has resurfaced elsewhere and is continuing his mad, transhuman ambitions to create the ultimate lifeform and replace humanity with something better. So far, he's mostly been successful at creating monsters, and he wants his original work back, which makes things complicated and means a lot of things to fight. The recent arrival of the same species of alien which started it all has further complicated matters.
Equipment: Clothes, mostly. A large lab notebook in which she keeps a diary.
Abilities: Runa is generally tougher faster and stronger than an ordinary human. She regenerates quickly, recovering from most injuries in a matter of minutes to days, depending on the severity. She has an acute sense of smell. She is immune to most any disease or poison, and while she still needs to eat, she can eat just about anything organic and derive nutrition from it. Runa's physiology quickly adapts to most environments, and she isn't particularly bothered by extremes of temperature, pressure, etc.
Her body is mostly some sort of shapeshifting proto-flesh, and although she has a few "fixed" forms, she can otherwise alter herself to some extent. The results are inevitably disturbing in some way (ever see The Thing? ...pretty much like that). If she needs to fight, she'll grow armor and weapons of some sort, usually teeth or claws, or just enhanced muscle mass. If she wants to just be frightening, it's easy enough. She also commonly grows tentacles for use as additional limbs for a variety of reasons, or if she's thinking enough to be subtle, just uses her hair instead. Though it is perhaps more proper to say her hair isn't hair at all, and is instead just mimicking it.
Skills: Runa is decently athletic, good at close combat with her own ever-changing natural weapons (or just unarmed), and is fairly sneaky, but that's about it. She doesn't have a clue how to cook unless you can follow instructions on the packaging, and she has some gaps in her general knowledge base.
Companions: None, unless one counts any government-types who keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't break curfew, etc.
Reasons for joining club: It looked like fun and she enjoys helping others.
Other Information: Favorite food: instant ramen. Often refers to herself in third person.