Name: Runa Yggdrasil
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Powers:
Rapid Adaptation: Runa's body quickly adapts to any environment, allowing her to survive just fine in most any place. Extremes of pressure, temperature, and most other environmental conditions hardly inconvenience her. She can even survive in space without issue. She is also extremely resistant to poisons and diseases, as her body can quickly adapt to and stop them, too.
Regeneration: Runa heals extremely quickly, and can recover from most injuries in a matter of days, at the worst. If she suffers something truly severe, such as the loss of a limb or an even larger percentage of her body, it could take her quite a bit longer. For a behind the curtain look on things, this generally pushes up the sort of injury she feels is inconvenient, so to her, a flesh wound is just getting shot, not getting grazed by a bullet. She's going to suffer violent, bloody injuries because those are the sort she won't just shrug off. I'm going to try and keep this from getting too ridiculous either way, though.
Limited shapeshifting: Runa can alter her body in various ways, at will. She can't just look like anyone she wants to; she only has one natural human form, and her armored inhuman "hero" form. She can grow claws, blades, tentacles, or thick armored hide to get an edge in a fight, and her hair is also prehensile, as it's technically not just dead tissue like normal hair should be. She could grow an extra eye on a hand or the tip of a tentacle to glance around corners, or probably find one or another way to cling on walls with relative ease, at least for a while. Anything particularly complex is beyond her abilities at the moment. She can manage alterations that put horror movie special effects to shame, if she just wants to frighten or intimidate someone, sometimes without even trying or meaning to.
Flight: Run has achieved that lifelong dream of many, and can fly under her own power. A side-effect of her flying creates a gravitational disturbance ahead of her which can pick up and collect light debris, such as leaves or raindrops.
Weaknesses:
I'll preface this by saying that I hate that the majority of these are more personal quirks or personality traits, than something as concrete as Kryptonite. I'll do my best to include ways to just generally trip her up or keep her from being particularly effective, whatever the case.
Put bluntly, Runa's a naive idiot. She doesn't have much of a clue about the world, or about the people in it, and is easily tricked. She's the sort of person who'd take candy from strangers because it means she gets candy. She doesn't really "get' the whole maintaining a secret identity thing, nor does she always understand that everyone else might think it's a little strange to walk into a convenience store when one is covered in one's own blood or looks more like a monster than a person. Similarly, jumping off a two story building to get to the ground is much faster than taking the stairs, and so it goes.
She needs to eat quite a lot, in order to maintain her metabolism at its usual rate. Biomass doesn't just come from nothing, and while she can derive nutrition from just about any organic matter, she still needs a lot of food. And obviously prefers something decent, when she can. Her photo may well already be posted next to a few warnings at many all you can eat establishments.
She might heal fast, but Runa is not immune to pain. Getting shot won't likely kill her, but it still
hurts, so it's not a completely ineffective threat. She'd eventually reach a limit and need to stop. It's also really easy to torture someone who doesn't die easily and will get better really quickly.
Some general ways to deal with her: Threaten people around her. Have a clever plan, because someone else would have to figure it out. Keep at range, she's primarily dangerous up close, but can't shoot back. Any drug specifically tailored to her physiology will work as intended.
History:
Decades ago, an expedition in Antarctica excavated a strange lifeform from deep within the ice. Although ancient, it was still, somehow, alive. A multinational organization grew up around studying the find, and determined a few things: it was definitely of extraterrestrial origin, and it could be extremely dangerous. This organization eventually grew, becoming something of a contact preparation and defense think tank, because if something like what they'd found was out there, the Earth needed to be prepared in case they came back. Much of their research centered on their alien sample, which led to breakthroughs in biotechnology, if nothing else.
One researcher, Dr. Hasegawa, spearheaded the Yggdrasil Project, which pushed the limits of these developments beyond what any thought possible. And, it turned out, beyond what most would consider ethical. His development of a human/alien hybrid was deemed going too far, even if it did hole promise for a means of dealing with future threats. He was quietly removed from the project, and attempts were made to destroy his creations, with...unsuccessful results. Since killing her proved to be more trouble than it was worth, Ratatoskr instead kept their new pet monster, codenamed Runa, for further study and observation.
The majority of Runa's life so far has been spent in various laboratory environments. She was subjected to various tests and examinations to see just how her body has been developing, and for the most part, everyone is quite thankful she hews closer to human than not. She's been given a basic education, but grew up largely sheltered from the world, until recently. With all these other superhuman beings running around, she was deployed as a "hero" (her own idea, to be fair, likely inspired by comic books), to try and put a stop to some of the criminals and other undesirables running around. She hasn't been active very long, but has a fair bit of leeway in her actions. As a Ratatoskr agent, she gets a good bit of support, but also has to actually follow their orders ,when they do have specific ones for her.
Nemesis:
Not exactly a nemesis, but her biggest threat and enemy at the moment is her own creator. The man is an extremist who believes that humanity must take control of its own evolution to control its destiny, and will push the world there if he has to. He wants to create the ultimate lifeform, or transform mankind into it. The guy is very much a transhumanist. Of course, without access to things like his Yggdrasil project or the alien from which it was derived, he's taken a major setback, and would love to get his hands back on his research sample. Or the lab notebook she uses for a personal journal. He's not much of a fighter himself, although his knowledge of biological and genetic engineering allows him to create various monstrous creatures to handle that job for hm.
Plot Hooks:
Runa emits some sort of signal that will attract the attention of the alien species she's based upon. Said aliens are regarded as quite dangerous and generally some sort of menace that can wipe out a planetary civilization easily enough.
Speaking of alien menaces, experimenting on them is probably forbidden by Galactic law, not that anyone on Earth is familiar with such things. On the plus side, most other aliens are likely to react in...interesting ways when they figure out just what Runa is.
Technically speaking, she does work for Ratatoskr, and could be compelled to do things by them, or by their allies.
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