Post by Azura Amarantha * on May 20, 2013 23:31:24 GMT -8
The Changeling takes many forms, has no gender, or sense of own individuality withing the Great Link. On its own, it has formed its own individual self but also has broken down and slit into four seperate distinct individuals each with different personalities and species they like to masquerade as. It has one primary form that it has chosen, a young looking female named Azura Amarantha.
It is a default female and male form, plus two favorite female forms It likes to taken almost exclusively on a daily bases.
Main default form it takes
two alternate forms it will take on occassion.
The Lovely Azura Amarantha
The Head of the main four. The leader, the brains behind it all.
Cold, Calculating, merciless, ruthless, bloodthirsty, sadistic to the extreme, severe apathy and totally Amoral, loyal to her people. Likes to get her hands dirty and make a royal mess of things. Smart business woman and helps run her company of Mystery Change Inc.
She has a monsterous alien looking form she likes to take, a personal favorite of hers but she also enjoys posing as a Draconian, a dragon species that could mimic human form or so the legend says. She enjoys using a dragon like or alien like form when she is on the hunt or wanting to kill. Sometimes just for personal fun. Out of the four main individuals the changeling splits into, she is without a doubt, the deadliest, most dangerous of them all.
Default male form
Name: Reese Smith
Purpose : Be the Muscle, when brute force is needed, he is called in to take care of "problems"
Pattern behavior : Beastial, savage, extremly violent, favors tearing his victims apart. Often task with taking care of the wine vineyards that are the property of Mystery Change Inc.
Masquerade species : Hybrid, Chimera, Enjoys taking man bat, man wolf, or vampiric form. Sometimes merging batlike vampire form or a vampire lycan hybrid.
Her favorite form to take alongside the redhead Jane form in its various incarnations
Name: Amara Amarantha twin sister to Azura Amarantha
Hobbies: Dancing, partying, and have fun.
Role: Being the twin sister to Azura. Running the Mint & Mystery when Azura is not around. Primary job, secondary, being a people person, social butterfly. Seduction is also part of the game she plays , the game of "Black Widow" . She also serves as a scout for potential new faces, new female body forms for which she and her sister can assume the apperance of, as well as those to be "Replace".
Pattern Behavior: Unlike the default incarnations, Amara is one of the nicest of the four. The most social with people and the party girl. She likes to have fun and sometimes will shrug off her duties. She is also the laziest of the four and many times does not care about the "mission" although she does her job well running the Mint & Mystery shop. She is also the most sensual and sexual of them all. Sometimes highly sex or oversexed if she is assuming her demoness form and persona. She will often mimic a Succubus in behavior and feeding supposedly. She is lethal only in bed or the bedroom setting. That is the only secluded place where she often likes to reveal her " True Nature." She is one of the four that is easy to get along with beside Jane and often enjoys the company of others, especially beautiful women. Rumors is she got a certain fond spot for vampires and demon type women along with the Fae.
Masquerade species: Saurian, ancient legendary, creature of myth. Dinosaur species that was able to take human form to living among human kind during the middel ages and modern times. Raptor seem to be her personal favorite type of this form.
She mainly likes to pose as a demon. Having encountered a demoness once, and got a large enough DNA sample of demon blood to mimic her form and later replicate some demonic abilities. She likes to pose as a Succubus demon of all things which helps the "Black Widow" game all the more.
main appearance for Jane with alternate one as well
Her favorite Red Head form
Name: Jane Reese
Job: Personal Assistant
Hobbies: Painting and Drawing. Playing with animals.
Role: Primary information gatherer . Scouts out hostile species and local inhabitiants of any given area she ventures to. Learns all she can about the humaniod sentient life forms A.K.A. " The Solids" . Will pose as one of them, gain their trust and learn all she can about them. Hobbies, abilities, strengths, weaknesses, anything and everything is catalogue and documented for further study.
Her main goal is to interact with people, befriend them, learn all she can so that the others can take matters into their own hands.
Designed Behavior : The nicest one of them all and the most harmless unless provoked or threaten. She was design for the sole purpose of being sweet, cute, shy, and innocent. Someone no one would ever expect had a hidden agenda, evil or otherwise. The definition of a wolf in sheeps clothing could apply here. She plays the role of shy, timid, virginal girl extremely well and can play the party dance girl role as well. She likes to work for the Solids and often enjoys their company as she was design to. She like Amara, also have a great fondness for plants and animals, with Azura liking plants the best. She is the most adorable and loveable one of them all. Which makes her the perfect candidate to work for and live with , the humans and human like races. No one ever suspect that sweet angelic face of hers and school girl charm to be the work of something much more sinister.
Masquerade species: Interesting enough, she perfers an animal type form. More like a werecreature, she likes to pretend to be, when she does not have to pretend she is some mere run of the mill human school girl student. She has a liking for felines and cold environments. Tigers and panthers are her absolute favorite. So the species she chose to masquerade as, is a Frost Tiger. Base on legends of Norse mythology. The frost giants that existed and the wolves, rumored frost wolves due to the place they lived. A myth arouse of other animals of an ice frost disposition, one of which were the Snow Tigers. Frost Tigers as a few commonly came to call them as. Taking the form of a Snow Tiger, modeled after the Siberian Tiger, has become her personal and dominant species form to take.
Job skills: Resume'
Name: Jane Reese
Age: 18
Personality: Very clean and professional, great with animals. Intelligent, punctual, loyal, trustworthy, hard worker, pleasant demeanor, unflappable, slow to anger. Easy to talk to, laid back, not judgmental, and great listener.
Skillset: Eidetic photographic memory.
Vast aquatic skills= sailing, excellent diver.
Type hundred words per minute. Great computer skills. [vast hacking skills along with lock picking and hot wiring vehicles. not public knowledge.]
Great with plants and animals, pets.
Reliable, always shows up to work on time and never calls in sick.
Good driving and piloting skills.(Got her flying license at a young age and upon turning 18, was now legally able to operate and pilot a plane or helicopter for commercial and recreational use)
Can read Brail and knows sign language in each of the languages she speaks, reads, and writes.
Known Languages = English, Spanish, Japanese, Latin , Italian, German, French, and Russian.
Skilled camera woman and photographer.
Efficient Organizer and good at multitasking.
Job title: Personal assistant, glorified secretary. Your Girl Friday.
Young red headed female, ethnicity unknown. Suspect Russian Italian base upon frequent accent usage.
One Jane Reese looking for employment.
Number: 187-555-6712
Email: GingerSnaps@Hacker.net
Her resume would be mysteriously sent to various job employment agencies and various high level people looking for a good assistant.
Special Abilities
- Shapeshift - Changelings can alter their form to that of anything or anyone (living or dead, organic or artificial). They are indistinguishable from that of a real object or person, even supernatural abilities to distinguish a race or species cannot tell the difference.
Changelings can take virtually any corporeal form, ranging from humanoid aliens to fog to reflective surfaces. Changelings can also mimic the form of fire and clouds.
They can not however, exist or change to forms of energy or any non corporeal form. Only something of a solid, liquid, or gas state of being, can it change into.
- True Form - A Changeling's natural state is that of an amorphous liquid.
- Immortal - Changelings do not age or decay, suffer disease, or retain injuries. For example, if an arm is severed, the limb returns to its natural liquid form, rejoins with the body, and the arm is regrown. High amounts of energy, such as fire or electricity, can harm or kill a Changeling. They are also immune to all forms of poisons, toxins, and Venom.They can even survive in the vacuum of space. Due to what it is and the mystical energy that gives it a "life force" , that life force, energy, or chi, is infinite. It is never ending, completely self sustaining, and constantly renews itself. It is virtually impossible to drain it dry. It is believed, that if it dies, its essence will return to The Great Link, were it will be remade anew.
- Eternal Link - Changelings are in constant contact with each other within a certain distance (a couple of miles at the most). They communicate telepathically with each other via this link and can read each others thoughts and know their location.
- Mirror Ability - When assuming the form of something non-human (ex. a Vampire), the Changeling gains limited use of that forms powers, namely the inborn abilities of the species it is mimicking. These are typically limited to passive powers such as enhanced strength and speed. Mainly only physical abilities are copied, like a vampire strength , speed, endurance, a spider's ability to crawl on any surface and make webbing and venom, etc. It can not mimic abilities that are non physical or non body related in nature, such as flying without wings or throwing fireballs.
The Changeling must have some form of DNA of the copied non-human in order to use the more active abilities. If the changeling wished to use a creature ability to lift something by telekinesis or fire electricity for example, it needs to acquire the DNA of the creature in order to do so. In most cases, it needs the creature's blood if it wishes to truly replicate its abilities and the amount of blooded needed for this depends on the powers it's trying to replicate and the creature's physiology.
There are limits to what it can replicate. It can not copy magic, as magic exist on whole seperate plane from natural or supernatural abilities. Mental powers, take longer to replicate then physical abilities do. Due to the fact that an organic brain is often required for the use of Mental abilities and Changelings do not have organic brains or any type of tangible brain. It has to grow / mimic one in order to use the mental powers it has replicated. Also certain divine and celestial beings can not be copied by their powers, but the apperance can be. Angel powers can not be replicated but certain demonic ones can. Granted if it had access to a large supply of demon blood, especially one inside a human host, then it could replicate demonic abilities.Race abilities and bloodline abilities within a species can be replicated if ample amount of DNA is obtained ; however, an individual who has abilities that is very rare or unique only to it, and not the rest of it's species, then that power will only be copied for the duration the changeling holds that form for. The moment it changes form or reverts to its natural state to recharge, it will lose access to the power. It can change back to that form, still keeping same apperance and memories, but will no longer have access to that special unique power and ability until it comes into direct physical contact with the Individual's DNA once more.- Replication - If a changeling can get a DNA sample of something it wishes to mimic, it can fully replicate it completely. In the sense, it can have the same blood type, scent, mannerism and behavior, even their skills and talents, which it would normally have to learn by observing and being around the target it's trying to mimic to pick up on these subtle's traits by osmosis. They can closely mimic humanoid personalities to the point where even close friends and family often can not distinguish them from the originals.
By having the DNA of a subject it is impersonating, not only can it pass for the real thing, it is able to download the memories through the blood, blood memories, and learn everything it's target knows.
The changeling will need a blood sample in order to access the memories of it's target and being in close proximity to the target that it's "downloading" the memories from, will speed up the process, otherwise trying to gain access to all the memories will take time depending on how large an amount of blood sample it was able to consume.
- Chimera - The changeling is able to mix and match different forms to a chimera like effect, making it a hybrid of different species, like a griffin. A example would be having the wings, tail, and front claws of an eagle, but the head, body and back legs of a wolf.
The changeling is limited to only the physical abilities of the species it hybridized and can not use any of the active special powers.
- Form Perfection - A changeling will often have one very special go to form that it changes into on a daily basis or often. A form that it favors above all others. This one form the changeling can fully replicate, anything the species [creature form it is changed into] can do, the changeling will be able to do, even rumored to be able to reproduce, though it would be done in an asexual manner. A maxuim number of four forms for form perfection can be done by the changeling at any given time. If it wants a new form for form perfection, it will have to replace one of the four it is "holding" in exchange for the new one.
- Manipulation - The thoughts and emotions of a Changeling can not be read by any creature except another Changeling due to the eternal link they all share. Not having a brain or central nervous systems, Changelings are immune to any form of manipulation. Mind reading, mind control, memory altering, emotion control, hypnosis, etc, even paralysis has no effect on a Changeling as there is no central nervous system to paralyze.
- Split Form - The changeling, due to its liquid nature and morphogenic properties, is capable of splitting itself into multiple parts or forms. A version of self replication or cloning as it were. Each Individual form is different from one another. Having its own thoughts, feelings, behavior, roles they perform, and personal preferences in the creature forms they like to take. A total number of four Individual forms can be made by the changeling. It can not split into any more or risk severe degradation of self. As long as the forms stay within close proximity to each other, they can remain as four separate entities almost indefinitely. It they move away from short distance to long distances, they have a set time limit, before separation anxiety occurs.
If the Changeling is split into four forms, it can stay apart from one another over vast distances for a total of three days max. If the changeling is split into three forms, they can remain apart for four days maximum. If the changeling only splits itself in two, it has a maximum number of five days it can remain apart and separated from one another. One day is loss for each form it is split into.
If the individual forms do not merge back together into one, they will deteriorate and peel or "flake away" as their forms begin to degrade after separation anxiety becomes severe.
- Elemental Attunement - As the changeling creation is still unknown and a total mystery. It has been heavily hinted that the species or this one in particular has elemental properties, specifically Water & Ice, as both are related. Being a liquid life form, created by a god as legends have it, it has been discovered to indeed have water and ice elemental abilities.
Hydrokinesis - Ability to generate and manipulate water. Often times can manipulate blood and other liquids.
Cryokinesis - Ability to generate and manipulate ice and cold. The ability to Slow down the vibrations of particles/atoms in matter to alter temperature, possibly to the point of freezing an object completely. Psi power to control frigid temperatures and the element of Ice. A specific telekinetic form of Thermokinesis .
Thermokinesis - Typically goes directly hand in hand with Cryokinesis. The ability to decelerate the molecules in an object to cause the object to become cold. This can be used to freeze things or make them colder, like a hot cup of tea, a hot cup of cocoa, etc. It can make an object so frigid that it shatters on contact. Conveying cold upon an object to cause it to become as cold as desire or to the point of freezing, solidifying ( I.E. Water), shattering, etc.
- Shapeshift - Changelings can alter their form to that of anything or anyone (living or dead, organic or artificial). They are indistinguishable from that of a real object or person, even supernatural abilities to distinguish a race or species cannot tell the difference.
Weaknesses
- Form Limit: While the changeling can copy and replicate a species form and abilities, it can only use them in said form. If it wanted to use a spider's ability to crawl on a wall and make webbing, it has to be in a spider form or hybrid part of a spider in order to do so. The same goes for using active powers which are immediately loss when the Changeling changes form and can only be used when it shifts back to that form that it wishes to use the abilities of. The chimera state interferes with the Changeling ability to use the special powers of a species, like fire making or defying gravity without the use of wings, as the abilities clash and cancel each other out. The changeling is therefore limited to only what can by done by the body itself, like making venom or webbing for example.
- Recharge - In it's natural state, a Changeling's body is a formless gelatinous mass, to which it must revert to every eighteen hours in order to regenerate. If a Changeling remains in solid form for longer than eighteen hours, their body begins to deteriorate and peel or "flake" away. For all intent and purposes, the changeling has unlimited stamina and can engage in intense physical activity nonstop for eighteen hours straight before it must recharge.
- Energy - Unless the Changeling is in a form immune to fire or electricity, a high amount of energy in the form of fire, ( such as that from magma, being drop in molten steel or stuck in a blast furnace) the changeling will suffer damage and eventually die from prolonged exposure. Intense High voltage of electricity can interfere with a Changeling ability to shape shift and render it back into a liquid state. A powerful energy base attack, ( high degrees plasma burst for example) can severely harm a Changeling, often reverting it back to its natural state.
- Magic - Much like humans and most creatures, Changelings have little resistance to magic. Elemental magic (that is not water or ice) can have the damage reduce or negated, if it's in the form of a creature that is immune to the element being used. If the Changeling is not in such a form or in its liquid state, it is highly vulnerable to an (non water or ice)elemental magical attack. Other forms of magic can have an effect on Changelings as well.
- Containment - Being a liquid life form, it can suffer being contained the same way water or any other liquid could. If the Changeling is trapped inside a container that is enchanted with magic, it will be unable to free itself by shape shifting or other means. If the container has a very powerful electric current running through it, it will negate the shapeshifting abilities of the Changeling and keep it stuck in its liquid form, effectively trapping it inside the container, until it is freed.
- Detection - Since Changelings can perfectly transform into anything they are mimicking, when they are scanned or sense, they merely read as the object being modeled would normally. The best test of a Changeling is through a simple blood sample; once separated from the body, a small amount will quickly turn back to its natural state. Though Changelings can work around this by draining a creature dry of its blood and storing it within its body to use to pass blood screenings.
Not much is known about the species often dubbed by many as "Changelings". Their origin is unknown but many speculate they are alien in origin or from another dimension and they would be right. They are a race that have met with suspicions, hatred, and violence from the "Solids." Being hunted, beaten and killed, have forced the changelings to find their own home to inhabit at. They have a severe distrust and hatred for all solid base life forms from the millennia of abuse suffered by their prejudice.
It is unknown how many of them exist or how their race came to exist. They are skilled at hiding in plain sight and often rumored to hold various high level positions within the power structure of civilizations. Any society govern by rulers and those in power, often may have a changeling among them, subtly changing and manipulating events to their own benefit. They are secretive and mysterious, very few have seen one and lived to tell about it.
One particular changeling has directly inserted itself into the world of the solids and infiltrated the world of humanity. It took the form of a young woman. It chose this form as females can often go unnoticed in societies where the males tend to be in charge. The form works to make those around it lower their guard and think off it as harmless. It chose a name for itself to better assimilate among the humanoids.
Azura it chose as it recalled it meant a misguided spirit and a bane in the world of darkness. Amarantha was Greek and meaning Unfading. The names fit the changeling it felt and from hence forth assumed the form of a lovely young woman forever known as Azura Amarantha as its individual identity. Sometimes nickname Amara among its peers. Its thoughts and actions are is own. Very little is truly known about her, but she is known to be many things and nothing. Being dangerous and highly manipulative is one of them, among secretive and protective.
In modern days, Changelings are more of a myth than anything else. The idea has become more of a tale to frighten children, that someone they know may not be who they say they are or even what they are. Even adults feel uncomfortable with the thought of being replaced by something that looks, sounds, and acts like you...but isn't you.
They stories about what changelings are varies between cultures and times. Some claim them to be an evolutionary mistake, others an evolutionary triumph. Some claim they are a remnant from the creation of the universe, perhaps the Gods themselves taken on physical form. Others say they aren't even from the planet, that they came long ago from a distant world and never left.
Nobody except the Changelings know the truth, and they do not reveal their secrets.
It is currently believed that, whatever the origin, the Changelings hold more influence on the world than anyone ever suspected; that they control important events and manipulate the pace of the world. Conspiracy theorists would claim every person in a position of power is one of them, secretly controlling the people, places, and objects of the world to their liking. But then again, it isn't technically required to be in a position of power to change things. That would be too obvious...wouldn't it?
But of course, a being of such intelligence that can change form at will couldn't possibly exist...could it?