Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy (Scenesys ID: 63)
Quote
"Life endures. It adjusts and grows stronger. The weeds you try to kill become super-weeds, immune to your poison. And so you increase your toxins and poison the world in a cycle of madness. I call it forth, the power of the plants, even from the terminator seeds that should not grow. I am the guardian of the Green. I am Poison Ivy."
Profile
Full Name:	Pamela Isley
Gender:	Female
Species:	Metahuman
Theme:	DC (VFC)
Occupation:	Botanist, Vigilante, Troublemaker
Citizenship:	American
Residence:	Gotham City
Education:	Ph.D. in Botany, University of Washington
Status:	Dropped
Groups:	Gotham-OOC, Batman Family, Hench
Other Information
Apparent Age:	32	Actual Age:	32
Date of Birth	7 May 1999	Actor:	Lake Bell (Voice)
Height:	177 cm (5'10")	Weight:	52 kg (114 lb)
Hair Color:	Red	Eye Color:	Green
Theme Song:	"Poison Ivy" by The Coasters

Profile

Pamela Isley was once a very bright and promising botanist and toxicologist, complete with a research position at the prestigious Wayne Enterprises. However, she never played by the rules, and conducting unethical research. She was fired from the laboratory by Bruce Wayne, and in trying to save her research, there was an accident that transformed her utterly. Arise Poison Ivy, a seductress with the ability to manipulate plants, with a penchant for violent eco-terrorism and vigilantism. Defeated time and again by the Batman, she's appearing to turn over a new leaf by going legitimate...

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Description

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Description:

Poison Ivy is a red-headed, green-skinned babe who does her best to look like you should leave her alone, but a lot of people seem to take that as a challenge to thaw her out. Her expression is terminally exasperated. She likes black leather, and green tights with a plant motif. She always wears high heels, even when they don't really work with her outfit, but everyone is allowed a bad fashion choice, right?

History

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History:

Pamela Isley was born in Seattle, Washington, a metahuman with an affinity for plants and green skin that made her a freak no one wanted to be around. Her parents were wealthy and distantly cruel, disappointed in their daughter from the day she was born; she's pretty sure they only kept her because it would have been more socially mortifying to abandon the baby than to just pretend they love her, and put up with her until something could be done about her.

Pamela went to school, got good grades, made no friends and engaged in no extracurricular activities. She got doctorates in botany and toxicology, thinking she could use them to save the planet whose cries of pain she heard in her mind; but her bitterness overcame her, and she settled happily into the role of ecoterrorist, using her ever-increasing chlorokinetic powers to kill the people killing the planet. Or at least, the ones she blamed for killing the planet.

She got sent to Arkham a lot for that. It's a terrible place that does have one bright side: they actually do try to rehabilitate the inmates there. Ivy (who abandoned "Pamela Isley" as a name because she doesn't want that connection to humanity) has been trying to work through her phobia of humans, and it's been mostly working. Maybe it's even time for her to give up on wanting to kill them all.

She's not ready to stop being an ecoterrorist, though.

Personality

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Personality:

Everything about Ivy's presentation advises you to take off and leave her alone. The perceptive will notice she's trying too hard to be cool and stand-offish; that it's all a mask hiding something deeper. She's cynical, bitter, and quick to anger.

Abilities

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Chlorokinesis:
Poison Ivy has gained a semi mystical connection to the force that is called the Green, connecting her to all plant life and giving her the ability to manipulate and animate all forms of plant life in sometimes drastic ways. She can use root structures to burrow and support tunnels for her, she can cause drastic growth of plant life, at the extremes she could even tear down an entire skyscraper with enough plant. She can also create strange plant creatures, carnivorous plants, or to go from seed to giant tree in minutes. Or strange hybrids. She can also use vines and roots as snares or weapons, including several she has on her person. Most of all, any plant, anywhere near her, can be weaponized.

Genetics:
Ivy minored in genetics, and knows much about the subject of human and plant DNA. She has even experimented with combining plant and human DNA together, with the help of some human friends she was even able to create children her sporlings who are a blend of plant and human like her.

Plant Avatar:
Ivy can create an avatar version of herself from plant life. For all intents and purposes this is a duplicate of Ivy which has all of her abilities, but is grown from the plants that exist in a location. Whilst channeling a plant avatar, Ivy cannot use her own body, and she is completely immobile. She can create an Avatar up to a thousand feet away and can maintain it up to a mile away from herself. Any damage to her real body can cause the entire thing to collapse.

Talking To Plants:
Being connected intimately to the Green, the elemental plane of all plant life, Ivy can communicate with plants in her vicinity, up to half a mile away. She can learn about them, talk to them, reassure them. Close plants she can even channel her awareness through them, even using them as distant 'spies'.

But this has a downside. She can also hear their screams of pain as they are getting hurt. Feel them. It is one of the main ways to enrage Ivy - by hurting her precious 'friends'.

Toxikinesis:
As a result of the overdose she received in the lab accident, Ivy has developed the ability to make her very touch deadly due to an secretion of poisons. She can create the most potently powerful floral toxins, often administered as a kiss, and in a number of varieties from instantly fatal, paralyzing, to rejuvenating. Just touching her skin can expose someone to the toxins, rarely fatal with incidental contact. She can also exhale spores that are capable of doing many of what her direct-touch poisons are, but at a lower intensity.

Unique Physiology:

Like a plant, Ivy inhales carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. She is immune to most toxins, viruses, and bacteria. She also uses photosynthesis as a source of energy.

Skills

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Athletics:
Ivy is athletic in the way all superbeings are kinda required to be. She's a better runner, jumper, and climber than someone of her build and training should be. She's not an Olympian or even a state-level athlete, just as good as she needs to be to do the kind of thing a Bat-rogue should be able to do.

Botany:
A genius in the field of Botany, and a graduate with honors from the University of Washington. She had extensive experience with exotic plants, and the various structures and chemicals they produced, as well as the methods to grow and nurture these exotic flowers. Knowledge she puts to great (or ill) use as Poison Ivy.

Genetics:
Ivy minored in genetics, and knows much about the subject of human and plant DNA. She has even experimented with combining plant and human DNA together, but such research is in its early stages.

Hand-To-Hand Combat:
Poison Ivy has developed some basic skills at martial arts. She can defend herself from a nameless thug, but would probably lose against any character who has a name or dramatic presence in a scene.

Toxicology:

Within the field of Botany, Pamela specialized in Toxicology, the practical applications she applied these skills to was the production of perfumes, medicines, and make-up. She has since expanded on this, with the aid of her new abilities to cultivating strange hybrid plants with vicious thorns, and a variety of poisonous plant based traps. Recently, she is using these skills for their initial purposes of creating perfumes and medicines once more.

Resources

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Isley Greenhouse:
After several defeats at the hands of the Batman, Ivy was tired of fighting. Tired of losing. Tired of breaking out of Arkham. So - she is trying something new. Going legitimate. She commandeered an abandoned greenhouse, restored it. Created a garden around it. Fortified it. And... just wants to be left alone. She is making an Internet company to sell healing draughts and love potions. And... to all appearances she is now being a perfectly legitimate businesswoman.

Pheromones:
Ivy can create plant-based pheromones in her lab, given time and resources. These pheromones can be used to provoke a specific emotional response in people depending on what she brewed them for, but they are explicitly NOT mind control: just like someone who's stoned has a choice not to go eat their weight in Cheetos, someone who's been turned on has a choice to not try to bed-hop with her. These pheromones only affect PCs with their player's explicit consent.

The Green:

Poison Ivy has a connection with The Green; the collective consciousness of all plants on the planet. She can speak with and understand all plants, and gains an immediate understanding of their preferences--inasmuch as your average plant has any such thing. No force can compel her to turn against her precious children. She even can have an audience with the Parliament of Trees, the guiding force of the Green.

Weaknesses

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"seductive":
Ivy can't make anyone do anything. That's an urban myth some goons used to get out of trouble for helping her with a crime, and it stuck: everyone's convinced she's this succubus who deserves to be blamed for every crappy thing you do in her presence because something something pheromones. It doesn't help her case that she does sometimes use her pheromones to make people more pliable or even to seduce them, because she's secretly very lonely and does want connections with people but is so afraid of being hurt she uses chemistry as a way to try to control the fear of rejection. It's more than a little self-destructive.

Appearance:
Poison Ivy is green. She doesn't blend in unless she has goofy sci-fi gadgets like a holographic appearance-generator to make her look human.

Darkness:
Her plant-like nature has changed her physiology to a degree that she now requires sunlight to exist, and if she were to be deprived of solar energy for an extended period she would suffer from the effects of malnutrition, and then wither and die.

Herbicide:
Ivy's plant-like nature is vulnerable to herbicides. Consumer-grade herbicides can cause pain and irritation - the concentrated stuff could do massive damage to her system.

Plant Rage:

The screams of hurt plants gnaw at Ivy's mind and soul through the Green. Sufficient anguish transmitted to her can cause her to suffer irrational rage that could easily be mistaken as a mental disorder. To her, it's the equivalent of responding like a mama bear when her cub's hurt - or a mother to a crying baby. But it seems irrational to others.

Logs

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Just When I Think I'm Out...	October 15th, 2023	The Black Cat has an offer Ivy can't refuse.
Think, Think, Think.	September 9th, 2023	In which Poison Ivy and Batwoman demonstrate the degree to which they may be relied upon to make good decisions.
Aimful	September 8th, 2023	Boundaries.
The Rose and The Clown	September 2nd, 2023	She left after droppping a bomb
I Won't Have A Cow	September 2nd, 2023	Ivy and Satana meet. Both feed. A horrible accident claims the life of a human. Ivy and Satana exchange barbs over metaphysics as chaos unfolds around them. They decide to go to a movie together.
The Fugitive	August 29th, 2023	Dr. Ivy is wrongfully accused of a crime committed by a one-armed man. She must prove her innocence while evading capture by US Marshall Renee Montoya. This summary definitely isn't a bad joke that stretches the scene's premise to make an unnecessary movie reference.
Raptors in the Park	August 28th, 2023	Gwen and Poison Ivy.
April Showers bring... Harls and Ivy	May 2nd, 2023	Harley and Ivy reunite and make plans for the most epic of movie nights. Also, Harley's going to blow up a pizza joint. Maybe twice.
No Hard Feelings	April 10th, 2023	Lady luck brings Ivy an offer and an opportunity. What's a little double-crossing ecoterrorism between friends? Also, tea. They have some peppermint tea.
A New Day Blossoms	April 6th, 2023	Pamela's preparation for Spring is interrupted by a stealthy, thieving figure in black. No, not that one. The lucky one. It's going to be the beginning of a beautiful something.
The Sirens are Back! Maybe	March 26th, 2023	The Gotham Sirens are reunited..But things are different?!
Friend or foe	March 25th, 2023	Summary needed
Ivy's Back, Harley's confused!	March 16th, 2023	Huzzah she said yes!
Sirens, Reunited!	November 22nd, 2020	The Sirens are reunited!
A garden full of posies..And other stuff.	July 25th, 2020	Ivy meets Fantomex and discusses a missing person.
Gardens and Kitty's do not mix..Or do they	July 22nd, 2020	Ivy and Chee meet again and discuss 'light'.
Angry Plants	June 16th, 2020	Ivy and Harley stir up trouble and enjoy a walk at night.
Peacekeepers: Finale	June 6th, 2020	The Light's forces attack the Peacekeeper fortress under the mountains in northern New York. The resulting last stand brings the Peacekeeper menace to an end, with one straggler witness flying away.
Sugar, spice, all things not at all nice	May 27th, 2020	Morgana, Ivy and Cheetah sit down and have tea and discuss things
Invasive Species	May 17th, 2020	Flex wanders onto a strange island and helps an unlikely 'innocent.'
In need of a thief	May 16th, 2020	Ivy hires Catwoman to retrieve some important ingredients to cure her plants of a disease.
Hidden Oasis	May 7th, 2020	Ivy and Cheetah meet again and enjoy tea.
Jungle Delinquents	April 24th, 2020	Ivy encounters juvenile delinquents in her playground. Heroes and an unexpected ally arrive.
People. Plants. Everyone Needs Some Love	December 31st, 2019	Batgirl arranges with Ivy to have parents with small children released from her hostages on Ivy Island
Ivy Island: No time for no heroes	December 10th, 2019	Summary needed
Ivy Island: For a good Vine call...	November 20th, 2019	Blackbird comes to Ivy Island to get supplies to the officers behind enemy lines. She leaves with more information and a few hostages in tow.
Ivy Island: Safehouse's aren't...	November 6th, 2019	Stockholm comes out of her prison on Ivy Island. Comes to see Ivy. They talk fiefdom and Batgirls. Fin.
Ivy Island: Harboring harbor woes	October 30th, 2019	Goon working for the Falcone crime family are charging people to evacuate Ivy Island. Batgirl comes in to assist, then gets a bit more information on what's happening behind the Vine Curtain.
Knightfall: Watering the plants	October 26th, 2019	Batgirl comes to check on Ivy and make sure she's being a good girl. Ivy realizes something's amiss in Gotham.
The Orange and the Green	September 14th, 2019	Summary needed
Roses are Red...	August 11th, 2019	Ivy demands more things from Frank in their continuing 'working relationship'. Frank responds with his characteristic charm.
Five Alarm Fire: Spanish Harlem after the Fourth of July	July 14th, 2019	Summary needed
It's a Trap! Or is it	July 14th, 2019	Damian, and Ivy have a talk about the future and her place in it... Maybe with a little help.
Besties together again!	April 5th, 2019	Summary needed
Building bridges	March 28th, 2019	Summary needed
Casinos and Kisses: Make It Rain	March 27th, 2019	Summary needed
Plants , Tree's , Groot and Grenades	March 22nd, 2019	Summary needed
Gotham Girls	March 20th, 2019	Summary needed
All part of the plan.	March 16th, 2019	Summary needed
The Way To Earn Status	March 16th, 2019	Summary needed
Babs and Ivy Chat time	March 9th, 2019	Summary needed
New and Old besties in the Garden	March 8th, 2019	Summary needed
Helping the wounded	March 8th, 2019	Summary needed
Careful what you wish for.	March 7th, 2019	Summary needed
An interesting encounter	March 1st, 2019	Summary needed
The Shallow Casket of Dr. Sarah Guillame	February 28th, 2019	Summary needed
Arkham City Cop: Finding a Fish Upriver	February 27th, 2019	Summary needed
Minion update	February 27th, 2019	Summary needed
Ivy and Harley Devil duo again	February 22nd, 2019	Summary needed
Bad luck comes calling	February 16th, 2019	Summary needed
The Job that needs hazzard Pay	February 15th, 2019	Summary needed
One good deed	February 13th, 2019	Summary needed
Christmas Magic	December 20th, 2018	Summary needed
Welcome to the Jungle	November 27th, 2018	Summary needed
Rogues' Reunion	November 8th, 2018	Summary needed
Pamela Isley and the Cult of the Batman	October 14th, 2018	Batman pays Ivy a visit in her Garden.
Intruder in the Garden	September 27th, 2018	Summary needed
Poison Ivy is introduced to high artifice	September 14th, 2018	Summary needed
The Garden Path	September 13th, 2018	Summary needed
Ecology Research prologue	August 30th, 2018	Summary needed
The Garden at Night	August 26th, 2018	Summary needed
The Amazon in the Garden	August 25th, 2018	Summary needed
The Green and the Red	August 8th, 2018	Summary needed
Germination: South of the Rip	July 30th, 2018	South group fighting the mushrooms also finds a way to close the rip in the sky!
Astral Flux: South of the Rip	July 29th, 2018	South group fighting the mushrooms also finds a way to close the rip in the sky!
Growing new allies	July 11th, 2018	Shredder approaches Poison Ivy, and they discuss a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Germination: Meetings	July 6th, 2018	Poison Ivy shows off a new weapon in the war against the oomycetan.
Sunshine In the Garden	June 28th, 2018	Summary needed
Make My Garden Grow!	June 24th, 2018	Summary needed
Turning Over a New Leaf	June 23rd, 2018	Summary needed
Log 3442	December 20th, 2017	Summary needed
Fun with Fungus	December 15th, 2017	Summary needed
Untitled	November 24th, 2017	Summary needed
A business proposal	November 12th, 2017	Summary needed
Under Escort	November 12th, 2017	Summary needed
Winter Shoots	November 5th, 2017	Summary needed
Poison Ivy's Day	November 4th, 2017	Summary needed
A Cat and a Plant Walk Into a Cafe	August 9th, 2017	Stop me if you've heard this one before... (Catwoman and Poison Ivy meet away from the park she's taking over.)
The Root of the Problem	August 6th, 2017	Catwoman goes looking for Poison Ivy. Robin and Lytle find her as well, or rather...Ivy finds them.
Bark Far, Far Worse than her Bite	August 3rd, 2017	Summary needed
The Arkham Breakout Bash!	July 30th, 2017	Summary needed
Tiptoe Through the Tulips...or Die!	July 27th, 2017	Summary needed
Green is the New Black	July 26th, 2017	Summary needed
Down Goes The Puffin!	June 28th, 2017	Summary needed
Log	June 7th, 2017	Summary needed
Ivy builds a Garden	June 2nd, 2017	Poison Ivy makes an impression on both Till and Tigra.

Cutscenes

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
The Gray's Worst Nightmare	July 7th, 2018	Summary needed
Overheard at a Gotham Deli	August 1st, 2017	Summary needed
Dark Is So Bad for the Roses	July 25th, 2017	Summary Needed

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