Insect Queen (OMara)

Violet O'Mara (Scenesys ID: 132)
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Violet: (discussing rent) "See? I made it. I made it in the big city. I'm no longer living with my parents. I'm paying all this /on my own/. With my work. Every month. Bang on the dot." She cants her head slightly and her eyes roll up in thought. "Well... ok, bang close enough to the dot. Ish." Insect Queen: (about a hero believed to have died during a scene) "Mmmm. Plasma-roasted human flesh." she comments, licking her lips. "She seemed powerful, maybe I will be able to absorbe some DNA samples as well. A proficuous business lunch."
Profile
Full Name:	Violet O'Mara
Gender:	Female
Species:	Human
Theme:	DC (FC)
Occupation:	Struggling Freelance Visual Artist
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Residence:	{{{Residence}}}
Education:	{{{Education}}}
Status:	Approved
Groups:	Just Cause
Other Information
Apparent Age:	23	Actual Age:	23
Date of Birth	16 April 2002	Actor:
Height:	170 / 190 cm	Weight:	57 / 72 kg
Hair Color:	Black / Red	Eye Color:	Blue / Green
Theme Song:	"Flight of the Bumblebee"

Profile

Violet O'Mara is just your average girl. Dreams big, lost in the clouds, not remotely strong or fast, but one of the nicest people you'll find: caring, selfless, ready to help anyone at any moment.

The Insect Queen, on the other hand, is a selfish, haughty super powered woman without scruples.

They disgust each other. The problem is, they're the same person. Kind of.

After accidentally bonding with an alien artifact, Violet O'Mara is now able to transform into the Insect Queen for a limited amount of time! Not that she /likes/ to do so. But sometimes it's the only way to save innocent people. Insect Queen, on the other hand, knows she cannot stray too far out of line: when the effect of the artifact runs out, that hateful goody-two-shoes Violet will be back in control, and if she is /too/ unhappy with Insect Queen's actions, well, Violet /will/ decide never to shift again; the powered woman had better bite the bullet and save those pathetic mammals if she wants to be summoned again in the future.

Stuck in an unlikely stalemate alliance with herself, she teeters in a gray area between hero and villain, while each of her two personas wishes she could simply get rid of the other. Forever.

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Description

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History

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Personality

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Abilities

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FLIGHT

The Insect Queen can grow wings at will, and fly.

INSECT CONTROL

The Insect Queen's powers allow her to telepathically control insects. As for non-insects, there is a sliding scale of control: the closer an animal is to an insect, the easier it is for her to telepathically control it. For instance, arachnids are controllable with roughly 99% accuracy.

INSECT MORPHOLOGY

The Insect Queen has the ability to shift her shape to develop all sorts of insect-like features. Grow multiple limbs? Check. Develop chitinous armour and spear-like appendages? Check. Wings? Check. Feelers? Check. Stingers? Oh, very, very check. As a note, it is possible for her to also /shed/ her chitinous growths, which is a way for her to produce items. Her abilities are based on her absorbing specific genetic templates. The templates of Insect Queen's home planet are of course already built-in, and it turns out that the templates pretty much overlap with Earth's templates, so Earth Insects are available at the onset. Other alien insects from different planets are possible, but those will require a genetic template to base the transformation on.

INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

The Insect Queen has the ability to do whatever insects (or arachnids) can do. Produce silk? Check. Develop chitinous armour? Check. Secrete all sorts of poisons and anesthetic chemicals? Oh, very, very check.

SECRET BRAIN

Even if their personalities and morals are deeply different, Violet and the Insect Queen are the same person, who share the same memories. Insect Queen remembers having been Violet, and everything she thought, felt, and did as her, and vice versa. This makes keeping secrets from each other pretty much impossible, but there is a catch: the Insect Queen has an additional secondary brain for strategic thinking that has its own, separate memory. When turning back into Violet, the whole secondary brain disappears along with other insect traits, thus allowing Insect Queen to hide her long term plans from Violet's memories. Sadly, things do not work the same in reverse, so Insect Queen has full access to all of Violet's memories.

SHAPE MANIPULATION

Not only the Insect Queen can alter her shape at will, provided the result is insect-like, but she can further convert other animal lifeforms (humans included) into insects. The latter process is usually not instantaneous and takes time (days or weeks, usually), but it is technically possible for her to turn animals and humans into insects or insectoid-like beings.

SIZE MANIPULATION

The Insect Queen can alter her size at will. She can become as small as the smallest mites, or seven feet tall without suffering particular drawbacks. Growing larger than that will require a specific genetic template of an insect-like creature to turn into (maybe even partially), and will drain her energy much faster.

TELEPATHY

The Insect Queen uses her telepathic powers to control insects and similar animals. The more similar a creature is to an insect, the easier it is for her to control it. As for humans: it is possible for her enter the mind of a human, but it is hard to predict whether the attempt will actually succeed or not, and how deep the effects will be. (OOC: this is mainly meant for low-level NPCs or plots. Telepathic control of PCs who are not weak to telepathy will most likely fail, and, of course, require consent).

Skills

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ART

Violet has an online degree in visual arts, and she earns a living by doing illustration and web graphics. She is a skilled artist, her skills spanning drawing, painting, scultping, et cetera.

FIGHT

Violet is completely unable to fight, but Insect Queen is a highly capable fighter.

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CONNECTIONS

Violet rents a tiny flat, shared with five other girls. Really tiny. They often joke that the elevator is probably larger than the flat, but that is only barely false. Needless to say, she often needs to do most of her work elsewhere, be it at a library, at the park, or the oddest of places. Luckily, she's such a nice person that her friends and acquaintances often let her temporarily work in the most disparate places (for instance, a small business owner friend of hers might lend her a desk while an employee is on vacation). She doesn't have /powerful/ connections, like the Mayor or heads of large industries (yet), but what she has already helps her a lot.

Weaknesses

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INSECT VULNERABILITY

While actually stronger and more resistant than an actual insect, and able to enhance this further through the clever use of chitinous armour, when the Insect Queen is in her powered form is vulnerable to anything an insect would be vulnerable to, although it will take a larger quantity of it. For instance, chemicals which are poisonous to insects but not to human will affect her powered form (even though it will take a larger quantity of it than for a normal insect).

OTHER PERSONALITY

Each of the two personalities keeps the other in check, allowing them just as little as they can get away with. For now. Violet understands that she will develop villainous tendencies after shifting into Insect Queen, but she accepts this in exchange for what she believes is a greater good, convinced that she can somehow limit the damage of her other persona with appropriate negotiation. Conversely, Insect Queen is disgusted by her human form's morals, which she sees as nothing but a senseless hurdle to her rightful claim to rule Earth and enslave its inhabitants, but since she transformation is only temporary, she knows Violet will eventually be back in control, and she has to keep in line just enough to make sure Violet will not refuse to turn into her again.

PREDATORS

While the Insect Queen's people are the dominant species on their planet, they also have predators. Equally shapeshifting abominations that smell and devour them. And, guess what, they developed a program to send eggs into space. Some of which reached Earth. There are not /many/ of them, on Earth, but they are there. They work like spores, whereby they can remain in suspended animation indefinitely, and wake up in the presence of a member of Insect Queen's species. They can sense them, and will stop at nothing to devour them. They will not hurt humans, though. While in her powered Insect Queen form, she will be a potential prey to them.

Logs

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
The importance of art	April 19th, 2019	Summary needed
The Mandate of Heaven	February 10th, 2018	The truth of the Red Jade Dragon is revealed
If You Give a Bug a Vodka	December 26th, 2017	Summary needed
Tangled Webs	November 5th, 2017	Summary needed
Flap Flap Murder Death	October 7th, 2017	Summary needed
Window of Opportunity	September 22nd, 2017	Summary needed
Wandering Souls	August 26th, 2017	A chance encounter of the weird kind has Violet and Dean fighting an artist... who collects golems.
Stick Around for the Stick Up	July 8th, 2017	Summary needed
Doom and Cookies	June 8th, 2017	Summary needed
Aftermath: The Lesser of Two Evils	June 2nd, 2017	Summary needed
Troubling Food	May 25th, 2017	Mercy and Violet O'Mara have a bite to eat at a local cafe; trouble of the magical variety appears.
Spider In The Corner	May 24th, 2017	Bruce and Emma discuss work with a spider in the corner
Opening Day	May 20th, 2017	Summary needed
Lost Things Are Always In The Last Place You Look	May 18th, 2017	Summary needed
Rousing the Bar	May 13th, 2017	Summary needed
Tabletop C&C	May 13th, 2017	Summary needed
Super Zeroes	May 7th, 2017	Gotham's Minor League team wants a superhero mascot. They can't pay much. Tryouts ensue.
Home Is Where Your Stuff Is	May 6th, 2017	Summary needed
Late For the Train	May 1st, 2017	Summary needed
You're Better Than This	May 1st, 2017	Summary needed
Park Days	April 27th, 2017	Summary needed.
Firelight	April 21st, 2017	Marinette gets to meet a few new friends as well as one from Paris! An Akumatized Firelight makes some Fire Zombies!
Discoveries In The Park	April 20th, 2017	Summary needed.

Cutscenes

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