Name: Helen Floyd

Gender: Female, Straight

Age/DOB: ~18, aged, 2023

Origin: Repurposed Earth AAEC

Family: Fraternal twin Adam, probably has other relatives based on their appearance and power types, though none so strongly that she'd be unable to be paired up with them in a lab

Other: Part of the Reborn group of kids

Height: 5'7"

Weight: 130* though a bit lighter than she should be, she's still curvy and pleasant to look at, hardly any fat, but also not skinny; much stronger than she looks particularly at her height

Hair: Black, wooly, kept in a variety of braids, dredlocks, or just left to be frizzy curls everywhere; usually rather long, she doesn't like having short hair

Eyes: Medium to dark brown, cheery, over high chipper cheeks

Appearance: Dark brown skin with moles and freckles, but virtually no scars or other markings; a heart shaped face and slightly buck teeth but who cares, she's gorgeous and usually smiling; Prefers less clothing than some think is prudent in the wasteland, but she doesn't take damage from things while in her alternate form - none that remain when she's flesh again anyway

Icarus Processing: Yes, at the age of 3 along with Adam, she was given the full treatment and her physical traits were dramatically improved. It clearly aided her Vortal power level as well, much more so than Adam's.

Image Credits: Rinmaru / Pichichama Post-Apoc

Genetic Abilities: Though she is certainly a bit stronger than normal, her speed is around 3x quicker than a normal person's, and she has never been known to be ill. She can be injured, but heals around 3x faster than normal. While she lacks external Vortal powers beyond being able to sense and communicate with her brother Adam, her Vortal powers include similar telekinetics to his: she can at close range pick up or manipulate items that are small or easily held (not more than 1 lb worth at 2 meters distance). But once she does have an object in her hand, she can physcally become that substance. Mainly inorganic items such as crystals, metals, and the like are of use to her, and she can still move, feel, and communicate as normal in this shape. It's clearly a shapeshifting power but she cannot do this without having been in contact with that substance directly before using it. Though she's tried to emulate living things, it's much more difficult and she winds up ... basically looking like a ball of hair, a pillar of skin, or something else equally unpalatable, since her power emulates only one or two select parts of a creature and she simply cannot manage more than a few cell types before her Vortal power runs out. She can keep up a single 'gold' or 'steel' shape for hours, allowing her to walk unhindered through a dangerous place or just looking stunning for an audience. She is working on but hasn't yet mastered turning merely single parts to these substances, such as crystalizing her eye lenses to have a perfect 'scope', or making her fingers and hand bones steel to cut through things. According to scientists as well as anyone who can sense biological factors, she's literally all gold, or all steel, but all of her organs and cells are still absolutely fine, present and accounted for. Melissa is just itching to mix those cells with others...
Skills or Profession: With her abilities, Melissa decided that a strong chemistry and physics set of downloads were in order. She's used these to great effect, and has added civil engineering and artistry to her learned skills over the years. She is really wanting to be much more fashionable than they can be in this post-apoc world, and has studied color theory, textiles, and the like as well as tailoring and other practical skills. She does, however, still enjoy being out in the field as a scout or sniper.
Personality: She is a very typical girl of the Pantheon, if one can be typical and still have an actual full-blooded sibling. Who is ultra-overprotective, jeez Adam back off will you? She likes being more social than he is, and is flirtatious to an extent that he really gets nervous about. Far happier overall than Adam, but can get serious if things require it.

Events or History:

Lives at Lane Mansion though spends a lot of time exploring the local area particularly in industrial parks and downtown, experimenting and testing her abilities. With the later addition of the hippies, she takes up monitor duty at Dragon Tower 11 trading off with Herc and Chip among others. They think it's fun to jot down only their initials (H/C and... H/C) when checking in. She has a good rapport with the Xen Crater right near the Tower, and has made note that the crystals there help her work her weird powers much more effectively. She keeps some tiny ones as beads in her hair for this reason - not attuning to them to become a crystal, but because they seem to make changing in and out of other things smoother.

Dragon

Name: Chai
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium (compact) 11' s / 44' l / 90' ws
Colors: Neck, belly, backs of liimbs, under tail, horns and back spines dark olive green; limbs including wing arms and face very dark teal blue; armor, tongue, claws black; eyes yellow and orange; side (*) spots glowing lime green-yellow; wingsails black with backlit white patches, and a generous sprinkling of white, yellow, brown, and cinnamon red stars
Features: Nightwing standard
Powers: Winged Flight, Chai can say she's among the lighter fliers of the Nightwings, she flies more like a Silkwing than a Night honestly. Her wings don't make much of a wake anywhere, for whatever reason, and can help with deliveries as long as they don't require a lot of padding because she does jostle a bit. She's a surprise element in a fight, since she can spring into the air or suddenly dodge incoming fire even if she doesn't seem to have noticed it. It takes effort for her to get anywhere in a straight line, too. She prefers walking, let's just walk.
Communication, (*) her stronger suits however are in her skill with words and Vortal thought. She has a very big vocabulary, though she doesn't try throwing around the big words, and prefers to just baffle people with bullshit rather than impress them with her knowledge. She is very smart, though, and it shows in her ability to ask just the right question even of a group of scientists or engineers. They often don't consider that she's able to keep up, but she certainly does. Vortally she has a tight pair bond with Helen, and can sense her within 100 miles. Other Vortal minds including telepathic dragons or creatures she can sense easily and communicate with them at 50 miles away, and non-Vortal minds she can do the same within about 500 meters at most. They all claim that her mind is just as tingly-smelling as her body!
Firebreath, with a roast-coffee colored cinnamon-looking spritz of 'flame' Chai tends to use her flame as a distraction rather than anything more, mostly because it's not strong enough to actually harm anything bigger than a human-sized thing in significant ways, and if that soldier or creature has armor of any sort, they just shrug it off as if sparks from a grinder. It does look a lot like grinder sparks or welding glow, in a bright set of colors about the same as those sprinkles on her wings. So she can dazzle things with visible-light sensors pretty well, while she's blending in with the surrounding plant life.
(*) Camouflage, unusually for a pure Nightwing, she has a strong sense of just where to put herself in order to blend in, and remains eerily still for long periods. The hemp crops and forest, as well as the higher reaching wilderness overgrowths are best for this, but she can also bury herself in underbrush even in Autumn, and let her wingsails pretend they're fallen leaves. She's an exceptional ambush hunter in that regard.
Parentage: Unknown Nightwings; possible but not super-likely to be related to some other Nightwings in the Grounds, as those sprinkle patterns seem familiar enough
Origin: Adopted from HufflepuffHannah on Deviantart, Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland
Other Info: Chai can lull you into thinking she's just a totally laid back dragoness with a spicy comfort-food scent about her. And then she will pull a prank such as digging a ditch and covering it and waiting for a dragon to fall in, or catching a Strider, killing it, and then walking around with it like a puppet... She's a bit weird.