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[TGLS]

Name: Devyn Tyrell

Attributes [0]
ST 10
DX 10
IQ 10
HT 10

HP 10
Will 10
Per 10
FP 10

Basic Speed 5
Basic Move 5

Social Background
TL: 8 [0]
Cultural Familiarities: Western (Native) [0].
Languages: English (Native) [0].

Advantages [248]
Contact (Underworld Associate) (Effective Skill 15) (12 or less; Usually Reliable) [8]
Gene Tweaker (2) [10]
Morph (Extra Morphing Capacity (+150); Mental Aftermath) [230]

Perks [2]
Always Uses Morph to Increase Appearance [1]
Information Dabbler [1]

Disadvantages [-45]
Debt (-5) [-5]
Obsession (Wants to Understand her Powers) (Long-Term Goal) (15 or less) [-5]
Secret (Shapeshifting Super) (Imprisonment or Exile) [-20]
Stubbornness [-5]
Wealth (Struggling) [-10]

Quirks [-5]
Not Choosy About Partners especially while Drunk [-1]
Loves to Party Hard [-1]
Tries to Impersonate High Status [-1]
Unconsciously Puts Animal Sounds into her Speech [-1]
Vindictive [-1]

Skills [30]
Area Knowledge (Austin) IQ/E - IQ+0 10 [1]
Bioengineering/TL8 (Genetic Engineering) IQ/H - IQ+0 10* [1]
Biology/TL8 (Earthlike) IQ/VH - IQ+0 10* [2]
Chemistry/TL8 IQ/H - IQ+1 11* [2]
Computer Operation/TL8 IQ/E - IQ+0 10 [1]
Current Affairs/TL8 (Headline News) IQ/E - IQ-2 8† [0]
Current Affairs/TL8 (Science & Technology) IQ/E - IQ-2 8† [0]
Disguise/TL8 (Human) IQ/A - IQ+0 10 [2]
Driving/TL8 (Automobile) DX/A - DX-1 9 [1]
Fast-Talk IQ/A - IQ+0 10 [2]
Holdout IQ/A - IQ+0 10 [2]
Observation Per/A - Per+0 10 [2]
Occultism IQ/A - IQ-2 8‡ [0]
Pharmacy/TL8 (Synthetic) IQ/H - IQ+0 10* [1]
Research/TL8 IQ/A - IQ+1 11* [1]
Savoir-Faire (High Society) IQ/E - IQ+0 10 [1]
Sex Appeal (Human) HT/A - HT-1 9 [1]
Stealth DX/A - DX+2 12 [8]
Wrestling DX/A - DX+0 10 [2]
* includes: +2 from 'Gene Tweaker'
† includes: +2 from 'Information Dabbler'
‡ includes: +3 from 'Information Dabbler'

Notes
Gene Tweaker only affects the skills listed. Mental Aftermath on Morph works as a variable Temporary Disadvantage with Aftermath. Whenever she returns to her default template, she receives up to -25 points of mental disadvantages that reflect who or what she turned into, for as long as she was transformed

For example, if she turned into a cat for an hour that has Compulsive Pouncing and Laziness on its template, she could gain both of those for an hour after she returns to her normal template. It doesn't matter whether or not she removed the disadvantages from the template when she shapeshifted. For variety, consider adding some physical disadvantages that can be explained mentally too (i.e. Restricted Diet, Bad Sight, but not something like quadruped).

As noted by her perks, she always uses her Morph ability to increase her appearance, unless it would give her away (she's deliberately trying to conceal her identity, she would reveal her secret, etc.) She usually ends up at Beautiful, but with effort could go higher. To keep things simple, the Mental Aftermath gives Selfish (12 or less) at Beautiful (worse if higher).

Appearance
Devyn stands about 5'3" and very slender. She tends to keep her brown hair tied in pigtails when she most of the time (untied long hair is a fire hazard in the lab), but let's it hang free at other times. Even in warm weather, she likes to wear long pants as opposed skirts, though sometimes she likes to wear a sundress. She prefers blue over other colors.

Story
Devyn Tyrell was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to a well-to-do family of four. She recalls her childhood fondly, and her high school years less fondly. She managed to do relatively well academically, doing especially well in her biology and chemistry courses.

However, her social life fared much worse. She remained relatively plain while her classmates grew more attractive (at least to her perception). This made her profoundly jealous and she began blaming all kinds of things on differences in appearance. She came up with many cruel punishments for those who offended her.

That was a long time ago. In her senior year, she had mellowed out after therapy. She managed to secure a scholarship at the University of Texas - Austin. Things appeared to be looking up for her, but unfortunately, they weren't. After a wild graduation party Devyn got totally plastered at, her parents wanted to talk to her about the bad path she was on. What began as a conversation turned into an argument, then things got out of control and she found herself moving to Austin a few months early.

Living on her own was quite a change of pace. She wasn’t used to having to do any work for a living, and the scholarship didn’t really meet her needs in terms of living expenses. Being used to a higher standard of living didn’t help matters either. So, she slowly and steadily sank into debt. Teaching and research assistant jobs did provide some help, but by that point the damage was already done; she needed to spend lots of money. It did make her fairly popular though; renting her own place, flashing cash, and throwing parties makes friends fast.

Her money problems ended up driving her towards crime. Her lab access did give her a lot of access to controlled chemicals and drugs. Through some friends, she managed to come into contact with Owen Reginald.

Owen Reginald is a loan shark and small-time smuggler (drugs, sometimes guns and people) with connections to biker gangs and the cartels. He prefers to keep an unassuming, businesslike image, but isn't afraid to get threatening or physical if the situation demands it. He operates from under the cover of an express courier service. When he first met Devyn, her directness was almost refreshing. Devyn began stealing opiates and amphetamine precursor and selling them through Owen. This helped her even out her finances, and things settled down.

On February 3rd, after a long day in the lab, went to bed and fell asleep nearly immediately. At 3:31 AM, she awoke to a start… She somehow turned into an exact copy of her cat. This confused and excited her terribly. Her social life more or less collapsed as she spent more and more time trying new and different things with her power. She was amazed when she could turn into a snake; even more when she could turn into insects, amoebas and trees. After she learned she could transform into specific people, she began to tweak her appearance to an over-idealized form. The mechanism of how she can transform herself eludes her; she doesn’t understand why her intelligence is so variable (i.e. amoebas & trees have her full intelligence, while she’s barely sentient as a polar bear) or where the mass goes. She’s decided that the mechanism is beyond normal science, and beginning to steep herself in occultism.

Once Devyn mastered shapeshifting, she began to search for more difficult illegal jobs. Owen was a little concerned about this, and has concluded that she probably developed some kind of power after the 2-3 incident. He keeps his concerns to himself, and pretends not to know about it; the finder’s fees he’s collecting are becoming considerable and is concerned she’ll kill him if he digs too deep. She is transitioning from stealing things (sometimes by contract) to contract killings. Her favored strategy is to gain access to her target privately (usually by seduction, but sometimes by posing as a guard), then transforming into a cobra and poisoning the target. She keeps a tiger memorized as a contingency form if she meets serious opposition, and also has a bluebonnet, a butterfly, and a mourning dove memorized in case she needs to vanish without a trace.