Chinchilla the I Am Sneaky But Please Do Not Immerse Me Fully In Water Or All My Fur Will Fall Out In Clumps totem, secretive, quiet little freaks, the chinchilla often manifests itself in the form of the Dark Arts: skullduggery, subterfuge, telemarketing +1 Bod, +1 RWP, +1 Luck, -1 Drive, +2 Looks

Teleportation - Marlon is adept at moving between spaces without physically traveling. In other words, he seems to have a ‘built in teleportation device' somewhere in his DNA. His works very well for short range localized distances, he is seen to pop across a room numerous times in a row and not even seem to notice that he's done it. For longer distances, over 50 meters, he requires a little bit of effort and can only do that range about once every minute. But he also can do very long range ports - anything from a mile to 500 miles - that exhaust him proportionately, from ‘needing to sit down and breathe a little' to ‘collapse unconscious for a full day'. He can however return to their ‘home' in skin-side New Mexico 's Black Mesa facility without more than a moment to recover, and with practice he has been able to reduce his cooldown and recovery times for classes and locations at Carramba. It's unknown whether he will be able to break the interdimensional barrier and return to these places from off-world. He cannot currently take more than half again his own body weight/mass with him, so his briefcase and maybe a backpack with stuff in it, perhaps a small pet? He will be working up to being able to take along his two on-site bros, but that will be a ways off for him to develop fully

Stealth/Invisibility - Sometimes, a scientist needs to observe without being observed, and this comes in the forum of remarkably good visual invisibility that bleeds into the video and electronic spectrum. Even eyes or sensors that are able to see heat signatures cannot detect him, though he still has mass and weight, so any weight detection or movement he does can still be faintly heard and definitely noticed if he lands on something that crunches. His ability to elude electronic detection is equally good, he is likely also going to be able to actively manipulate electronic images or data. He can only hide what's near him, so his clothes and gear, and if he tries very hard (and wraps his arms around something) he can block out a smaller item or person

It is for those reasons, that he has become... Favored by Lane: not just the Carramba instructors, but Black Mesa's local version too. Given that he is a teleporter that can manipulate electronic devices with ease (being an energy-based species, the Convocation, even if he is in humanoid form), he wants to make sure that this clone gets the right attention and training. Lane seems to take particular delight when the boy realizes some new way to do those things, and has begun placing challenges in the form of cryptic messages in his briefcase... yes, the kid also wears a tie and carries a briefcase, can he be any more endearing to Keenan? ‘Find x thing, solve for y', and a series of coordinates on campus - some of which are unreachable just by walking around, but visible through heavy security glass or behind layers of scanning equipment... And Marlon comes through. Marlon does know that Lane is responsible for these challenges, but perhaps hasn't had a talk directly about it yet. Maybe he will, at some point, just come up and ask why all the mystery. The Mystery will grin and tell him everything if he asks the right question.

Location Location Location +3 Marlon knows exactly where he wants to be, and how to get there. He seems incredibly well tuned to ‘don't materialize inside other people/things' and ‘moving past observers without being noticed'. Not just with his teleportation, but with everyday walking around or crowd weaving. Even if he seeks to avoid those hallway crowds, if he has to carry a tray of delicate experiments around he has never once let anyone else's elbow hit him or prank tripping screw that journey up. He can read maps like nobody's business, though don't ask for directions from him, they will be very complex

SCIENCE! +3 If there's one thing that Marlon likes, it's scientific research. He isn't the ‘smartest' of his group but he definitely loves the theory and research angle more than the others do. He knows how to apply the scientific method to his daily routine, memorized safety procedures (even without having to take Dr Beck's lab safety class - that's just for the losers who can't pass the entrance exams for the classes that require it!), and gleefully reads test results with an eye to seek out new questions to ask

Computer Subterfuge +3 Even if he's been seen on camera, he can make sure that those images don't get viewed by anyone else. Surprisingly sneaky, though not for negative purposes, Marlon can use code brilliantly and develops quite a number of programs in his spare time. Some of them might garner him a lot of money, if he'd be able to do it without notice... huh, imagine that, a guy capable of going unnoticed, with three separate bank accounts that not one of his superiors at Black Mesa know about...

Why DON'T We Have To Wear These Awesome Ties +3 He remembers hearing those scientists back at Black Mesa complaining that they all ‘have' to wear those ‘ridiculous' ties... Well dudes get used to it, science should be formal! At least ‘business' attire! Not necessarily a suit jacket or whatever? But he dresses well and holds himself in a manner that is quite professional all the time

Read Legalese +2 Marlon considers contracts to be quite fun. But then he also likes sudoku and word math, and wouldn't a contract kind of be like those two fused together? Don't let him make puzzles. They would wind up being just exactly as horrific as you'd imagine...

Name: Lonmiath
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length:(?)
Colors: Gold, high contrast sunflower with very bright highlights and quite dark shadows possible across her entire body and limbs; wingsails paler yellow-gold; ** other features following adulthood; eyes white with black sclera*; claws light
Features: Dark Court purebreed, *altered by Shan to include Opal-court genetic memory
Powers: Winged Flight
Teleportation
Telepathy, Verbal Speech
Venomous Bite/Poison Stinger
Genetic Memory, Trance
Parentage: unknown, engineered out of pure Dark Court dna
Origin: Empyrean Stair Court clutch 2022
Other Info: critical thinker, empirical
(from the hatching) If you don’t keep all the most excellent puzzles to yourself, I think we shall get along quite nicely. A golden lady of the Dark Court declared to Marlon, promptly upon spotting him. I should hope that two minds will be more efficient than one, when it comes to research. Call me Lonmiath, if you please.