Licorice

Name Licorice

Gender Male

Homeworld Aperture Labs

Class Junior

Nut Positively Crunchy

Totem none

Smarts 6

Bod/Feet 5

RWP 4

Luck 3

Drive 2

Looks 5

Cool 6

Bonk 3

Powers Mind-Altering Substances and Scents - Like his father, Virus, Licorice is a master of messing with humanity and other living creatures. Unlike him, however, and more like some of his half-siblings, his abilities aren't necessarily deadly. He can produce chemicals that waft through the air and can be alluring or revolting, causing people to hallucinate or vomit, get aroused, or become afraid enough to flee from it. This can come in the form of liquids, vapors and gasses, dust, or even edibles. He must have some time to produce these, but the substances actually remain on hand until they're released into the air or set out somewhere, and only then start to decay. He has dozens of little vials of these things for such purpose, he's quite the mad scientist. The substance lasts around 4 hours, which is usually long enough to do some considerable damage, but it also can be whipped away with wind or sprayed down with water to dilute or remove it. Only in its purest created form, do these have any effect. He likes to put 'lip gloss' on and kiss people with it. Try removing that.
Change Substances to other Substances - given enough time and rest, Licorice can take water and turn it into wine. Or poison, or just fruit juice, or blood (though it's 'generic blood' and for the following reason cannot be used as a substitute for the real thing except for vampres to drink). A volume about 2 gallons per half-hour of concentration and effort can be mixed up by his Vortal ability, and this will last for around 1 week untouched. If it goes without being 'used' it will revert to its original condition. If it is ingested, used in whatever way it's meant (oil in a machine, pure water to drink) and worn away (absorbed by cells, evaporated into the air) it will simply 'be' that thing. If it doesn't get completely absorbed or used, however, it will revert to that - after being opened/exposed - within 2 days. Thus blood is meant to 'stick around' longer, and can't be said to be 'used up' by transfusion into a person, and if you leave that nice bottle of 'clean water' open without drinking it long enough, it'll turn back into toxic sludge. Any liquid substance - at room temperature - can be changed into any other liquid. He knows a lot of chemistry.
Taste Him, He's Sweet! - or salty, or... whatever. As a number of Sangers, of which he's not, he can alter his own ... extrusions to be flavored, even to the point of poison or nutrition. This includes tears, spit, blood, sweat, and anything else that comes out. Normally his flavor is in fact black licorice, which is a turn on to some, to others not so much. He does typically give off a smell of that same substance.

Clusters Catalog All The Chemicals! +3

Skills Remember Where He Put Stuff +2
Remember Who He Put Stuff In +2
Scientific Curiosity or Just Evil Genius? +2

Knacks Oh jesus he's going to lick it again +2

1 Nexus Geohistory / T. Kshau

2 Pre-Pre-Med / Walsh

3 Technical Writing / Leland

4 Advanced Interrogation / V. Sanger

5 Measuring Up / Haital

6 Allergies Are Everywhere! / Virus (dad!)

7 Alien Evolution / C'thain

8 Modeling / Urd

Pets Nope

Parents? Virus (but not Ihrinnah)

Siblings? Oh so many, including Algae

Story

Dragon

Name: Velvet Ant
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium 11' s / 40' l / 62' and 50' ws
*Colors: Belly armor from chin to under tail, backs of legs blood red; face and fringe armor medium crimson with white insets*; fin spikes, main body/neck/tail armor, wing arms deep crimson, body with black and white insets; limb armor brilliant yellow; wingsails and neck fins blood red to yellow-orange grade with dragonfly cells; horns, claws, spikes very black; face inset white; eyes copper orange
Features: Hive-Rainwing Hybrid, almost entirely Hivewing in features, has Rainwing neck frill and venom, lacks Hivewing tail stinger
Powers: Winged Flight, Velvet is not quite like her namesake in that she has wings and knows how to use them. Speedy, though only for bursts, and strong, though again only in fits and starts. She isn't known for her lengthy flights, because she doesn't do them. Prefers to quickly get from one spot to another she can see, and rests while watching for anything interesting. Licorice could ride between her horns, but he chooses to live dangerously while she's flying and ride right on her back with those sharp spikes... She doesn't carry other people. And she doesn't lift stuff for anyone but him.
Communication, using a scary sounding voice, she has a strong English vocabulary including a lot of the technical language that her rider uses. She can speak Draconic and understands Vort and some Latin. She does also have the ability to shriek in warning, though sometimes she just does it to watch people jump. Her mind is keenly aware of Licorice and his siblings.
Venom Like Crazy, Velvet's name comes from her likeness to an Earth-born wasp species, and takes that to an art. She looks beautiful, but those colors are there to warn enemies. Her venom cannot be spit, but does come out in drool sometimes so if she licks a thing it's definitely going to be coated in it for a time (about 24 hours) before it becomes inert. That venom if injected will kill anything smaller than a horse within hours, and in those hours it will be in incredible pain, well aware of its own demise, and still ambulatory: which she loves. Because that way it'll pump through their body even better. The lab guys at the Rookery handle this material with extreme care - but they do handle it, in fact they wait for Licorice to alter it into something slightly more safe to move around, and then let it revert to its 'normal' state after being tucked away behind layers of glass and rubber gloves. They can and do use this stuff, weaponizing it even more than it already is, for use with some sniper weapons. A bullet can pierce heavy Combine armor, but possibly not kill its target: but this can kill it with ease. Notably Velvet Ant can not produce this if she wants to just bite something or just lick it, but no one's come up and asked her how she does this, if it's a gland or what.
*Warning Signs, while all of her red shows up as the important part, those small dot insets on her neck can flare into a brilliant yellow from their normal bright white. Those can be used as signals, warning lights, or indicator of her mood, and she only lets that happen when she's really scared or really angry.
Parentage: Unknown, likely Hive mother and Hive-Rain sire? Unrelated to any others in the Rookery
Origin: Adopted from Moonshimmer981 on Deviantart, WoF by Tui Sutherland
Other Info: She is absolutely as cruel and scary as her rider, and his 'father', Virus is quite happy with this one and she likes impressing him. Honestly she's a lot like Ihrinnah.