Vanimai

Born on Neres 10572

^numerous multigenerational common ancestors

Powers

*Note all powers function at PR 0 Special level, regardless of normal tier

Minor - Animal Manipulation#, able to sense and control animals of INT under 20 (so nothing with a conscious or highly-trainable level of innate intelligence) within about 200 meters, and with touch can insert his personality into it for a brief time to control the animal's body directly

Minor - Genetic Manipulation#, works mainly among his family bloodline, or with animal genes that are similar to those which they have in their line. He has not practiced this power on anything for breeding or health purposes, and has entirely different uses in mind for it later...

Minor - Sonic Attack / Manipulation, a focused form of his father's side of the power spectrum, aural illusion strong enough to actively disrupt matter. This attack is close range only (under 20 meters) and can break fragile or wave-sensitive items such as thin glass or eardrums. Additionally he can manipulate existing sounds within a sphere about 10 meters radius with him at the center, causing illusionary sounds, boosting some or counteracting others, he cannot completely destroy the sound but can reduce its volume significantly; he uses this power to muffle his motion through an area and sneak up on prey, or to add snarky bits of background sounds (cheering, laughing, crickets) for effects much later on Planet 20

Major - Shapeshifting / Specific, able to take his own mass and move it around, mainly to grow his smaller sized wings into massive ones capable of lifting off and flying with a body as large as an adult lion's. He could also use it to remove the wings, pull in spines and claws, or even become a two-legged creature, but it would be with the mass of three large Zekirans! Best to just leave it at the wing thing, there

Major - Genre Observation / Portal@, he can casually look sideways into other dimensions that are 'near but not quite' this one, and this effect is particularly useful if there are others who have multidimensional bloodlines or are from another dimension entirely; he seems able to sense weak points in physical locations, and steps through them...

Special - #Shifting Personality Transfer, if he really needs to, he can reassemble his own whole-ass body into a new fresh version, but he needs to have other biomass to do this. Usually he chooses a prey animal and moves on it, since they have a lot of mass and not a lot of resistance to his power. His old body basically rots away into nothing within an hour or so, and his mind is busy with changing all the genetics needed to create himself over again. He can do this with human-sized creatures too but it's much more difficult to both latch on and control the body, kick out whatever is in the brain space, and then aslo gather enough actual raw mass to become 'himself' again. This would be incredibly painful, particularly if someone is trying to resist him doing this to them - which is why he just doesn't do it, at least more than that couple of times he ported to a place whoops...

Special - @Dream Port, since he is a genrehopper by bloodline, and has at least one ancestress who has dream-walking capabilities (Kaytcha, who also appears in other genres, what a coincidence?), he can move himself while dreaming into virtually any realm he imageines. He doesn't have to be around anyone or anything from other places for this to work, but he has very little actual control over it. However he can allow others to guide him, and in this manner can go on jaunts with groups to other dimensions. He cannot take anyone with himself but if someone is doing the work, he can contribute to a large pool of power that allows someone else to do that as a team. Also note... he can and has occasionally accidentally jumped from one dimension to another while also geneshifting something on the receiving end. This has not gone too well for that person or creature, it was entirely automatic and he didn't have enough knowledge of or warning that this would happen, so he's had to live with that shame for millennia. (Had he still been on Zekira in the olden days it would have counted as a 'deep dark secret' worthy of exile, but he's also always been sort of in exile anyway, self-imposed, until the immortals took over and left the world)

Physical Mutations

(no minor all major-special)

Major - Full Head: long ears (hearing 2x), muzzle (scent 2x, taste half), teeth (bite impale 4 pts), jaw spines (impale 1 pt each)

Major - Body (and facial sort of) Hair in addition to fur, this is a mutation that only some lines of Zekirans have, it basically adds more fluff and color to him

Major - Lots Of Spines - he's got pokey bits coming off him, mostly centered on his back, jaws, and forearms; all can do 4 points of impale damage if speared, and 2 points scraping damage as they're not really 'edged'

Vanimai spent thousands of years alone on Neres, watching the natives slowly die out, watching his family members become gods or squabble among themselves. As time passed, he knew that there would be deeper enemies in their ranks and he did his level best to avoid getting involved. He knew he was, for instance, a disappointment to the Kstet clan, even if half of them were on Neres with him at any given time. He also knew, without a doubt, that some day he would have to get closer to them all than he liked.

That day eventually came, but he was in mostly-good company. Many overly sensitive telepaths, genrehoppers, shapeshifters, and manipulators were among the immortals that Viridia brought together, though there would still be tension among a few.

But now, on this new world after another eternity of travel through the stars (they might spend a hundred years on a world, ten thousand on the next, or spread themselves thin across a number of teleported-to-locations), they had settled where they would do some good. Planet Twenty was a good place, it very much reminded him of their birth world but early, not the later, nastier and polluted version... And not the one in ruins after then. It was wild, huge, sparsely populated at best. The locals were Kin, and some of them quite powerful in their own right!

Eventually however as the dragons began being needed for the occasional incursion from alien life (or protection from the humans that treated this world as a prison dump) many of the Zekirans started looking at the skies once more. It was one sky that could never possibly be seen from this planet, that he and Superb went to - he took her for a nice jaunt, they might even come back to the Spectral Wilds! But they both returned with dragons in forms that both of them were very, very familiar with!

Cloudshimmer and Vanimai would fly through the mist and fog, she would attain far higher altitude but he could be the only one that might spot her up there!