Alias: Cybele
Age: 25
D.O.B.: 5/21/98
Place of Birth: Baton Rouge, LA
Sexual Orientation: Demisexual
Species: Homo Sapien Superior
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 132lbs
Hair: Green, waist-length, 3B
Eyes: Green
Scars: Many, covering her body
Body Mods: Various piercings; tattoos tba
Anya is a wild-spirited individual that refuses to be contained. She can come across as shallow, prideful, and elitist. And she absolutely is all of the above, but those qualities do not detract from her positive traits. She displays an unmoving sense of compassion for the disenfranchised and is just as likely to give money to the homeless as she is to remark on someone's poor color coordination abilities. Her way of speech is flowery, much to the chagrin of those around her; it's not an attempt to make others around her feel stupid – even if they don't believe it.
When she's in a foul mood, angered or otherwise, she's not the person you want to be around. The more upset she is, the more volatile she grows. Anya is prone to channeling her negative emotions through violent means. She does her best to reign in her temper, easily told by a tense jaw, fake smile, and tapping fingers. Once her violence subsides, she likes to grow flowers and find peace in solitude.
Otherwise, Anya is incredibly friendly. For the most part. As uppity as she can be, Anya does have a deep love for life, and she admires those that choose to live theirs to the fullest. She often expresses her affection for others through showering them with gifts because she doesn't know any other way to do it.
L I K E S
Music; Art; Combat; Eating Reading; Candy; Flying; Parkour; Musicals; Quoting; DIY videos; Baking; Lava cakes; Instrumental cover songs; Dancing; Wine; Cute summer dresses; Nature; Soccer; Body art
D I S L I K E S
Bologna; The smell of Pinesol; Black licorice; Watching horror films alone; Being without her stuffed panda; Disorder; Nihilism; Feeling useless; Black licorice; Advanced darkness; Doctors; Being examined or stared at; Being all alone; Empty night skies; Itchy clothes; Being stereotyped; Being belittled; When people undermine her authority; Being told what she can or can't do
Q U I R K S
➳Humming
➳Reciting random facts
➳Quoting random things
➳Scratching her hands when she's nervous
➳Babbling when she's hiding something from someone she cares about
➳Cooking when stressed
➳Not looking where she's walking
G O A L S
Slaughtering her enemies. Abolishing the Registration Act and the Sokovia Accords.
F E A R S
Dying in her sleep – Because she is so dead to the world when she finally lays her head down to rest, she fears that something bad will happen and she will end up killed in her sleep.
Fire – She's fine with fire that is held under control as with stove fires and such. However, she all but shuts down when a fire gets out of control.
S E C R E T S
∞ She used to be in the Brotherhood and was known as The Big Apple Psychopath; She was never identified by the NYPD.
Her life was never meant to be simple. From the very beginning, she was doomed.
She was born to a wealthy family that was balls-deep in the United States government; her father was a geneticist for Trask R&D, her mother was a weapons developer for Hammer Industries, her elder sister was an agent of SHIELD, and her brother was a lawyer fast-tracking his way up the political ladder. Needless to say, her family expected her to pursue a career that would allow her to work closely with the government, wanted her to reach a position of power and influence. Unfortunately for them, Anya had absolutely no desire to follow such a path.
During her formative years, her time was spent studying intensely and fashioning herself into a masterful socialite. With her big green eyes, there was little she couldn't do; it was almost too easy for her to wrap adults around her dainty little fingers. She enchanted her parents' peers with her knowledge and grace, all the while pulling invisible strings. To her family she was a disgrace; Anya was considered vapid and lazy, believed to be training herself to be a trophy wife. Unbeknownst to them, Anya had been carefully culling secrets from everyone she could. Knowledge was a weapon, and secrets were the most dangerous knowledge of all.
Despite pushing back against her parents' will, she wasn't that rebellious. She toed the line so very carefully. There were a lot of things she wanted to do but could not; the things she wanted would ruin her family's image and she would have hell to pay. Besides, she had a secret of her own: Anya was a mutant.
Her family thrived on supporting that "Human First" mentality, even before the rest of the unwashed masses realized that they were not, in fact, alone in the world. The Aurieuxs believed that sentient non-human beings -- "anomalies" -- were beings that needed to be captured, monitored, and tagged. Her father dissected them for a living, her mother created weapons to use against them, her brother challenged their rights and supported politicians that wrote bills subtly condemning "the others", and her sister spied on them. Family dinners were not spent discussing who was going to the Superbowl that year.
Anya's family always ran a blood test at birth, every year up until the age of eighteen, to ensure that their bloodline remained "pure". Fortunately for her, the doctor delivering the tests had some semblance of a heart and would constantly report negative findings. To believe that the Aurieuxs wouldn't subject their own flesh and blood to the same horrors as they did others would be the equivalent of believing in the Tooth Fairy. But the fact couldn't be hidden for very long. Anya was seven when her mutation manifested and eleven when her family finally found out; it was hard to explain why she'd woken up with moss-green hair and her room covered from ceiling to floor with vines and flowers. Her father personally carted her off to one of Trask's secret facilities where she underwent numerous forms of tortures and was the subject of countless experiments.
Three years later, at the age of fifteen, Anya made her great escape. She had been part of a program that worked jointly with Alkali-Transigen. she was what they called a Hound. Anya was part of a group of mutants that had been trained to hunt down, detain, and even kill other mutants. They'd made her into a weapon. As they scrambled to get the World Security Council to agree to release the Hounds instead of the Avengers (or a fucking nuke) in New York, Anya aided in leading the breakout. They lost a lot of friends in the fight for freedom, but they weren't alone. By a stroke of luck, their prison break occurred at the same time as The Brotherhood's break-in. Trask was overwhelmed and that particular facility was permanently shut down.
Following that, Anya stayed on as a member of The Brotherhood and fell back into her old ways, though this time she was far more violent than before. Trask had a lingering effect on her that would remain for the rest of her life. Between her own personal experiences and watching the world around her, she had a growing disgust for humanity and sought to change things. When she felt The Brotherhood wasn't as effective as they could be, especially after they retreated to a private, mutants-only island, Anya stayed behind and fashioned herself into a vigilante.
During the events of The Black Order's attack on New York, Anya made no attempt to aid in defending New York although she was nearby. From what she could tell, that whole thing seemed like a "human problem". When The Blip occurred, she was among those that remained on Earth. Actually, she thought it was better that way. More peaceful, even. She had very little empathy for the lives taken, being more concerned with the environmental growth; Anya enjoyed seeing pods of whales passing through the now-clean Hudson. Over the course of those five years she mostly wandered and did some vigilante work here and there; with so many world leaders missing, enforcing the Accords and Registration was made more difficult. Sentinel Services was still fairly new when The Blip came about, so they were a bit scrambled as well. All-in-all, it was a good thing for her.
Now, with everyone back and in recovery, life for "anomalies", who previously lived openly post-blip, has been made more hellish than before, as if they somehow played a part in the event that rocked the universe. And Anya ain't having that shit.
E C O K I N E S I S
Ecological Empathy – [Passive] Anya has the ability to innately sense the state of the world around her, though it is entirely localized. She can tell where there is pollution, which plants are dying, who is sick, and if something is simply off. She can immediately identify various flora and fauna by touch or a single glance and their uses. She can sense the overall well-being and conditions of their immediate environment and natural setting stemming from a psychic sensitivity to nature, including all biomes (forests, deserts, tundras, wetlands, mountains, etc). A tree naturally falling or predator catching their prey in a nearby forest is felt by her, leaving her feeling calmly relieved. Unnaturally, it leaves with a sense of hurt. She can detect natural changes as well (raise in temperature, humidity, etc).
Slowed and Halted Aging – [Passive] She stopped aging when she was eighteen, her cells constantly rejuvenated by drawing in life and energy from nature around her. However, because she's so young, this isn't very obvious yet.
Nature Enhancement & Manipulation – [Master] Anya can manipulate plants, even the ones that she is not in physical contact with. She can also generate plants from her body as well as from nothing at all. She can enhance or diminish the health of the plants. She can sap the life force from plants around her to heal and empower herself as well, though she hasn't learned to redirect the life force to heal others yet. She can sense the sentience within plants that others cannot, able to speak to them as well as enhance their sentience.
Elemental Transformation – [Expert] She has the ability to transform into a flurry of lily petals. During this transformation, she can still control her movement and retain sentience. However, she can only turn into a burst of petals, not a full flower. The only full flora transformation she can make is into various trees including weeping willow, oak, and dogwood.
Zoolingual – [Adept] She can morph into any animal if she's eaten its meat first and she can understand and communicate with them. She bonds with animals faster than most but she cannot command them, no matter how intense the bond.
Earth & Metal Manipulation – [Expert] She can manipulate the earth and its minerals with ease, having trained long and hard under the tutelage of a friend, Petra. She has yet to be capable of generating them from nothing as she can with plants. She can create small earthquakes and open up the earth a bit as well. However, her abilities limit it to being localized. She can also manipulate different types of metals except for copper.
Water Manipulation – [Expert] She can manipulate and control different liquids so long as there is water in them and she can create water from nothing. She is capable of controlling and generating large volumes of water as well as altering the state and temperature of it. Combing her ability to manipulate plants, water, and earth allows her to create devastating attacks. It also keeps her from suffering thirst or hunger.
W E A K N E S S E S
Bad Arm; She knew a mutant once upon a time who could heal and who also didn't know about her healing factor. She had broken her arm and the young mutant tried to heal her while Anya's own body was in the process. Doing so didn't work out so well and now when her left arm is hit with enough force it goes numb for days.
Insomniac; She cannot sleep. She might get tired, but she cannot sleep for any longer than three or four hours a day. It's on the last seven days of every month when she just shuts down, her body entering a state of self-preservation as she recharges completely. It's these seven days when she's at her weakest. You could throw her done a flight of stairs and she still wouldn't wake up. She can stave off that sleep for a few days if she must, but she'll sleep for every day that she missed.
Allergy; She's highly allergic to copper. Touching it causes her skin to burn.
Clean Eater; Anya can't properly digest food or drink that isn't wholly organic. In fact, it rarely makes it past her gullet. Trying to eat/drink foods as simple as bologna or Dominos' pizza causes her to become violently ill.
In the Air; Pollution is another major blow to her strength. She's basically a flower and, therefore, is weakened in areas where pollution is high. She does her best to draw in energy from nature around her to keep her on the top of her game, but Anya tends to avoid venturing into smog-filled cities.
