Sibilance

Sibilance (Scenesys ID: 286)
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Quote
"Don't look into my eyes. You won't like what you find."
Profile
Full Name:	Ainsley Garcia
Gender:	Female
Species:	Mutant
Theme:	Original (OC)
Occupation:	SHIELD Trainee
Citizenship:	Mexico
Residence:	The Triskelion, New York City
Education:	College-level
Status:	Shelved
Groups:
Other Information
Apparent Age:	20	Actual Age:	20
Date of Birth	4 May 2007	Actor:
Height:	150 cm	Weight:	91 kg
Hair Color:	None	Eye Color:	Gold
Theme Song:	{{{Song}}}

Profile

Sibilance was born a mutant in the country of Mexico, a snake-like soul whose family was forced to emigrate to the United States when she was born, as their hometown didn't appreciate having a mutant family around. Especially not one with a kid that looked as freakish as her. Then she became a runaway when her psychic traits began to manifest, discovering the resentment and despair that her presence caused in the people she loved, and travelled across the country as a 'hitchhiker', a sort of urban legend that used her mental control to get easy transport along the backroads. She left a trail of blood in self-defense, forced to hurt or kill when backed into a corner, which she now constantly tries to wash away with her current actions.

She made her way to the Tri-City area, and settled in Gotham, where she was on the cusp of succumbing to dark impulses and getting snapped up by evil men, when SHIELD found her as well. She decided to throw herself on the organization's mercy, and asked to become a trainee, and eventually an agent, so that she could serve the world and become better than the misery she's left in her wake. It remains to be seen if such an arrangement is worth it for either party...

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Description

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Here stands a five foot tall rattlesnake person. She has the colorations of a diamondback rattlesnake, and much of the appearance. Her inhuman head resembles that of a snake, though seems capable of facial expressions all the same, complete with a lack of obvious ears, the long forked tongue, and a pair of slit-pupil gold eyes that look nothing like the snake she's supposed to resemble. Her maw has sharp teeth in it, as well as a pair of retractable fangs. Her whole body is covered in scales, and she possesses a very long tail with a rattle on the end that makes a deep hissing sound when shaken. She is muscular and almost stocky, and it's only by the width of her hips that one might know she's even female as she is flat as a board and otherwise difficult to identify as female.

She's currently wearing a pair of black pants with a black short-sleeved shirt, with black fingerless gloves. The outfit seems to be made of an elastic material to account for her incredible flexibility.

History

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Ainsley Garcia was born to a fairly large Mexican family near the border of the United States. Naturally, this family was big only because of the drug trade that rocked the area and so it was pretty normal for kids to just get shot. She was born a mutant, the youngest of all of her siblings, and her parents immediately thought of abandoning her to avoid the problems raising her would cause. Her appearance was, frankly, not normal.

It didn't take long after they decided to keep her for her family to be driven out of Mexico by superstitious criminals who saw her as the manifestation of the devil. Her family resettled in the Mid-West where opinions on mutants weren't much better but they could at least avoid the drug trade and raise their daughter in peace... though most of the family blamed her for being uprooted from their ancestral home and so she spent a greater chunk of her life feeling alone even among those who were meant to love her.

She had a powerful mind, being a mutant, and absorbed knowledge quickly. It turned out her abilities granted her a head start on most learned skills until it became clear she was a mind reader when she started actively responding to the thoughts of people around her. The fear she felt from the town she lived in forced her to flee, and the stress of this manifested her most chilling ability: She could control any human that made eye contact with her that she could speak to.

She used this ability to cross the country, leaving a string of rumors of the 'serpent hitchhiker' in her wake, until she ended up in the big cities in the northeast.

Personality

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Sibilance is a quiet person, and someone quite uncertain of her place in the world. Although she can act with purpose and violence when she needs to, usually she comes across as demure but somewhat friendly. She tries to avoid intimate friendships or prolonged social interaction with 'normal people', due to the attention that's sometimes brought to her snake-like features, and her psionic traits if they are aware of them. This is because she feels an irrational guilt about her appearance brought on by the Catholic beliefs of her family, the rather unfortunate coincidence having given her a fairly miserable complex about it. She doesn't cover herself up anymore, but she often ignores comments made about her appearance and she goes out of her way to avoid using her more odd abilities unless needed.

Underneath all of this, she feels the misery that a lot of young mutants do. She never asked to be different, never asked for these abilities or to be held responsible for simply having them. So she feels a natural anger toward human society, especially toward those that see mutants as inherently dangerous. It isn't just 'human hate,' but a fury that fuels her less elegant moments, and tempts her to do dark things to find any kind of catharsis. After all, it would be easier to just give in and become exactly what those bigots think she is, so she no longer needed to be kind to them.

She just wants to be a good, normal, faithful person. She doesn't want to hurt anyone, emotionally or physically. But the heart isn't that simple, sometimes.

Abilities

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MENTAL DEFENSE
Due to the mental alterations from her mutations, Sibilance does not give of a psionic signature that can be tracked from long distances. While she can be located by those exposed to her, she comes up as invisible on sweeping scans, and passive telepathic abilities are very likely to overlook her as an animal or something similar. Visual confirmation easily breaks these defenses, as well as any concentrated effort to locate her specifically from closer ranges. She simply has an alien mental makeup, so it's hard to pin down. This also makes telepathic contact almost impossible without making physical contact as well.

MIND CONTROL
The ability to issue mental commands by achieving eye contact and speaking aloud. Typically this only works on humans or human-like beings, but can be used to command them to do anything short of acts that run directly against their nature, such as self-harm or the endangerment of loved ones. When such conflicts arise, the mental suggestion creates a short-circuit, and can cause disorientation and headaches instead of the desired effect as impulses conflict with her command.

This effect only lasts up to a ceiling of about six hours, but can be used to make people temporarily forget she exists, or to treat her as a friend, and so on. These changes are never permanent, so she can't alter a memory, only cover it up for a moment. Potentially she can make changes by issuing commands to the same person regularly, but that would require a willing subject. Foes don't want to be exposed to this ability twice.

She must be within about 100 feet of a target to issue the command, and must hold their attention for the whole phrase. Breaking eye contact before she's done cancels the effect.

OOC: This is a consent-based effect. Requires consent to affect PCs, and certain important NPCs, such as plot characters.

MIND READING
Sibilance may focus on individuals within eyesight and pick up on their surface thoughts and emotions, acting as a short-range scan. At most this can pick up on mental images they're having in the moment, or hear their inner monologue, and a ghost of their emotional state.

With physical contact, however, Sibilance can plumb a subject for their deepest thoughts and memories, which can run several risks. First, it can set off unconscious traumas without meaning to, as her ability activates parts of the brain involved with them. Secondly, she may experience negative feedback, and if a subject is harmed during a connection she will feel the same effect twofold, which can be quite the psychic shock. Needless to say, this will strain the link even if she maintains physical contact and render her ability stunted as an instinctual safety measure, and if she does remain in contact to force the matter she is likely to fall unconscious in short order.

Due to the way this functions, it leaves a very traceable psychic imprint on those she has touched, like a psychic scar.

SUPERHUMAN
Due to the extensive physical mutations present in Sibilance, she possessed the ability to lift and throw grown men with her bare hands, to run at about 40 MPH, to leap a couple stories up into the air, but only possesses as much durability as is required to perform these acts safely. Her capacity for utilizing the upper range of her bodily strength is limited, as she could seriously hurt herself in ways a similarly strong hero would not if applied in combat or other extreme situations.

She possesses almost supernatural reflexes, giving her a distinct edge in avoiding the attacks of trained combatants, but she has to be aware of the threat coming and can't dodge bullets. She is also very flexible, in a fashion akin to a contortionist, allowing her to fit into cramped spaces that others would never be able to follow her into.

VENOM

Sibilance has fangs that contain a paralytic venom, which seems to perform no more damage than any medical numbing agent would.

Skills

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COMBAT
Sibilance is not trained in any particular martial art, but she is able to fight calmly and efficiently using improvised weaponry when she needs to in a way that suggests she has had to fight a lot more than most.

HERBALISM
Sibil is very interested in plants, to the point she easily outstrips all but the most iconic botanists; she's no Poison Ivy, but she's really good nonetheless. She can tell what plants need at a glance, surmising health and age as well as species. She knows how to cultivate hybrids, and how to safely harvest herbs, plants, fruit, poisonous plants and pretty much anything you can grow on Earth. She's especially good at concocting medicines, such as anti-venom, or poultices, or healing salves. She knows a lot of old, tested medicine.

For those odd cases where a plant falls outside of her expertise, she still has a head start in identifying it, and working with it safely.

Resources

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SHIELD
Sibil is still just a trainee, but she still has access to basic SHIELD resources, such as medical attention and backup from basic personnel.

THE GARDEN

Sibil's hidey-hole, built into her quarters. It has heating to help with her cold-blooded nature, it is full of plants that she tends to on a regular basis, and it has a lot of sunlight and black lights so that the plants remain healthy. Here she can recuperate from a battle, or even research a plant or devise a medical poultice. Her home, and workshop.

Weaknesses

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ALIEN
While she is an illegal alien (a Mexican-born citizen), an arrangement with SHIELD allows her to stay in the country thanks to their UN ties. However, she still looks like a snake person and has some mannerisms and traits that people find innately unsettling or wrong or different. Tripping the uncanny valley is a potential problem when interacting with her for any length of time. Her face even looks like a snake's face.

COLD
The cold is detrimental to Sibilance's well-being. Unsurprisingly, being snake-like includes being unable to generate body heat effectively, so she must wear heavy clothing and stick to populated areas where heating systems are common.

DESPAIR
It would be so easy for her to just kill someone. Sometimes, she may go overboard, and do things that contradict her apparent need for some kind of redemption. The anger and disdain she picks up from the worst people in society can be infectious, after all, especially when she can read their thoughts. Bigotry is the quickest way to set her off, and the easiest way to get her to compromise her journey to be good.

ISOLATION
Her mental defenses protect her but also hide her from this psychic individuals that might be able to locate and help her. For instance, Professor Xavier is unlikely to be able to find her unless he saw her in-person. Her own skittish nature also makes her prone to hiding away from those that might want to help her, as she is afraid of what might happen if she grew too comfortable with her abilities or her appearance.

THE LINK

Doing physical harm to someone she is currently controlling will backlash that pain to her threefold, and emotional distress in a controlled individual will disorient her. If a controlled individual's command is broken by a psychic ability, she can sometimes black out or lose all memories since she first started that command, making her abilities very risky to use among those who know how to fight them.

Logs

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Guilt Doughnuts	June 9th, 2019	Late night snacks for all. Timbits to the skull.
Dog Catching	June 5th, 2019	Blinkdog is located and offered a chance to come to Xavier's
Everything is Lizardier in Texas.	June 3rd, 2019	Summary needed
Colt's First Day	June 3rd, 2019	Sibil and Colt wait for a tour from Lorna. The mansion is a busy place, though, and Sean, Doug and Samuel show up to chat as well, while Lorna takes off to leave Sean with tour duty.
I Just Wanted Pizza	June 2nd, 2019	Racists didn't count on Chato. Chato didn't count on Adam. Sibil just wanted pizza.
Getting some dirt under your nails. Er, scales.	June 1st, 2019	Ororo meets Ainsley, and Ainsley leaves the gardens with a new project in hand for Xavier Institute's botanical ambitions.
Serpent Stirs The Soup	May 31st, 2019	Sibilance meets Bobby, and gets a glimpse behind the current. She decides she wants to help since he's in so much pain, so she starts forging a friendship with him. Bobby, for his credit, opens up a bit, and talks to her, offering his advice and input on some of her questions.
Coffee Talk=A coffee date, as proposed to Kurt by Sibilance	May 31st, 2019	Summary needed
Serpent Reunites With Leopard	May 30th, 2019	Summary needed
Sansevieria Trifasciata	May 29th, 2019	Sibilance meets with FitzSimmons about the possibility of joining the SHIELD R&D department. Which....involves an impromptu interview and surprises from both sides.
Informal Welcome Wagon	May 28th, 2019	Lunchtime in the Triskelion sees Sibilance meeting USAgent and Darcy Lewis and visiting with May until Skye shows up and reveals her nerves about upcoming missions by being ... bratty.
Serpent's Path	May 27th, 2019	Sibilance has a serious conversation with Charles. He offers some advice for her.
Newbies: Taking down the Rippers	May 26th, 2019	A SHIELD Team led by Agent Coulson moves on a Gotham Warehouse with a recently formed terrorist cell. A number of agents, including Hellboy and Sibilance, take them down... and confiscate a supply of ordinance.
The Serpent's Flowers	May 26th, 2019	Sibil gives out flowers and gardening advice in Mutant Town to make some friends. Kurt Wagner wanders by and chats with Sibil... Nate Grey shows up and acts as a wingman, setting up Kurt and Sibil on a date, and sparking a bit of romance that may not have happened otherwise.
Memorial Weekend At The Beach	May 26th, 2019	A dozen people from Xavier's School plus some guests gather for a beach party on Memorial Day weekend.
A Violet Return	May 25th, 2019	Summary needed
When Elves Go Wandering	May 23rd, 2019	Kurt and Sibiance meet, and then Kurt meets The Punisher.
Bronx Nights	May 23rd, 2019	Summary needed
Burning Down Midtown	May 22nd, 2019	Sibil, Cody and Adam save office workers from a building fire. The Punisher plays save a life, take a life.
Hand-to-Hand with Sib and Cap	May 21st, 2019	Sibilance asks for some hand-to-hand training from Steve Rogers. He recommends a few other avenues of training during the session! Including socializing, oh no
Unexpected Guests	May 21st, 2019	Sibil goes to visit the Professor and finds more than she bargained for.
Snake Rattle and Roll	May 19th, 2019	Good Agent in Training talk between Sibil and Sam
Welcoming Party: Sibil	May 19th, 2019	Sibil gets to meet a few of the members and associates of SHIELD. Janet van Dyne and Melinda May don't seem to hit it off too well, and Rowan's dog is still fat and fluffy. Steve Rogers is mostly a hapless bystander during all of this.
Everyone's gotta eat!	May 18th, 2019	Summary needed
Spider and the Serpent	May 17th, 2019	A spider and a snake waiting for a bus
Dog Days	May 17th, 2019	Summary needed
The Language of Flowers	June 1st, 2017	Summary needed
A Trip to Yin-Yang Spa	May 30th, 2017	(Continuation of 670) Sibilance puts up with some snake-face prejudice but gets some long-overdue pampering for her troubles. Some people just don't mind.
Memorial Day Hangout	May 30th, 2017	Following a wild animal around can lead to all kinds of places. In this case it leads to a massage parlor.
A Chansssce Meeting in Gotham	May 28th, 2017	When you've got animal super powers, even eating apples is fun!
Gaining Perspective	May 26th, 2017	Summary needed
The Leopard and the Snake	May 24th, 2017	Summary needed
Into the Snake Pit	May 24th, 2017	Summary needed
First Day of Training	May 22nd, 2017	A first day of training for a new recruit turns out to be much more exciting than previously anticipated.
Snake in a Box	May 21st, 2017	Sibilance is interviewed by Agent Melinda May about the potential of recruitment by SHIELD... in the hopes of avoiding becoming part of the League of Assassins.
SHIELD Orientation	May 21st, 2017	In which May and Lewis (this sounds like a sitcom) show Sibil around the Triskelion. If there's a quinjet scheduled for this tour, twenty bucks says Fury pops his head in to ask why there are snakes on his plane.
Aliens	May 20th, 2017	Summary needed
Rising Star	May 19th, 2017	Summary needed
The Snake Shop	May 18th, 2017	Miranda Madsen and Sibilance meet at a cafe and Miranda offers to set her up a shop. Sibilance demures.. for now.
What snake has two legs	May 18th, 2017	Riddler has some questions for Sibilance.
Intolerance	May 17th, 2017	Summary needed
An Offer	May 14th, 2017	Summary needed
Rousing the Bar	May 13th, 2017	Summary needed
A Question Within Creation's Pattern	May 13th, 2017	Ra's al-Ghul tracks down Edward Nygma, and chances upon a serpentine mystery woman. A grand experiment first requires the basic materials.
A Smile, a Serpent	May 11th, 2017	Summary needed
Found a Garden Snake	May 10th, 2017	In which a gang of would be muggers is rescued from Sibilance by Chat Noir. And then he promises to help her find flower pots.

Cutscenes

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
A Decision to Make	May 17th, 2017	Summary needed

Gallery

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