Name: Lida Rose Quakenbush
Age: 20
Birthday: December 10
Gender: Female
Species: Changeling (Arachne Fae)
Category: Student
Class: College
College Major: Scout Training
Appearance Description:
Human glamour - At 4'5, Lida Rose is noticeably short for her age, but still obviously a full grown woman. Her build is slender and lithe, small-breasted but curvy in the hips. Her wild magenta hair with pink streaks is natural, as are her large pink eyes with black rings that look like eyeliner. Although her blood is blue, she has fair skin and rosy cheeks. When she tans, her skin turns bright pink, rather than brown. The changeling's clothing style is lively, pure, and simple. She prefers seasonally appropriate, loose, flowy dresses. Because her glamour doesn't change her clothes, she usually doesn't wear pants. Her ears are pierced, but she usually wears no other accessories. Her Oklahoman accent is still present, but mostly faded.
Art adopted from sammythefurrycat
Fae form - Lida Rose's natural form is shorter than her human glamour, at about 2 feet tall. She retains her human head and torso, with the body, eight legs, and tail of a scorpion. This curved tail is about 3 feet long and tipped with a venomous stinger. Unglamoured, her hair is actually silk - long, straight, and slightly redder than her glamoured hair. Her scorpion half, the upper body is magenta, and the underside pink. Her legs are brownish purple and pointy.
Personality Description:
Chipper, bright, optimistic, perky, spunky, and cheerful, Lida Rose is personality-wise the definition of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. She is neither naive nor air-headed, she is simply determined to see the best in every situation and person she encounters. This makes life more enjoyable for her and tends to be a selffulfilling prophecy. The changeling also strives to be the best she can be, by being hardworking, polite, and honest. Though she's not quick to anger, she can be snappy and irritable under stress. Lida Rose values stability and a simple life. She finds most of her fulfillment in work, while also being devoted to her family. However, her schooling and work takes precedence over social life, so even though she's a friendly, approachable woman, she doesn't have many friends.
Species Abilities:
Human glamour - Allows her to look and feel human. Only has one. Does not affect clothes. Wounds carry over. Can switch instantly and maintain infinitely when not asleep/unconscious. Cannot use scorpion stinger while glamoured.
Scorpion stinger, venom - Can inject venom via her stinger, not able to pierce anything tougher than human skin, could be stopped by jeans. Takes only a few seconds for a full dose. Starts off as mild pain around infected area, but pain increases as venom spreads. Would take 15 minutes to spread throughout the body of an average adult human male and become agonisingly painful. Without treatment, pain would last about an hour before quickly fading and leaving the system. Also increases heartbeat for the duration to a dangerous but not usually fatal level, unless the victim has a weak heart. Affects anyone living, even magical/non-humans, with a working circulatory system, but doesn't bypass poison resistance. Has enough venom to sting about two full grown adults before she needs to recharge. Takes about two hours to recharge for each dose used. Is immune to her own venom.
Arachnid venom immunity - Immune to natural arachnid venom. Resistant to magical arachnid/arachnid-based being venom, effects only last half as long as they normally would. Poison derived from arachnid venom would only affect her if it also contained poisonous non-arachnid ingredients.
Arachnid friendship - non-sentient arachnids and arachnid-based creatures will not attack her and will be calm while she is touching them, even if they sense danger. Sentient arachnids and arachnid- based creatures will be less inclined to attack her, but can still dislike her or be angry with her. They will feel calmer when she's touching them, but will not have their behaviour affected or be unaware of their surroundings. They can also resist the effect if they try.
Arachne fae - Glows greenish blue under UV light. Can sense heat and light. Can see quick motion, but otherwise vision is an indecipherable blur. Nocturnal. Sensitive to sudden bright lights - will be disoriented and can induce panic if sudden enough like a flashlight shone in her face or a fluorescent light turned on in a dark room. Can withstand extremes of temperature, either heat or cold, twice as long as an average human, but still feels uncomfortable. Slightly agoraphobic, will always seek smallest, darkest spaces and avoids going outside as much as possible. Strictly carnivorous, other food will make her sick. Can go for weeks without eating before getting hungry. Skin tough as leather, unglamoured carapace like steel. Parthenogenic reproduction.
Silken hair - unglamoured hair is as strong and soft as spider silk. Grows faster than glamoured hair, about three times as fast as normal human hair.
Fae - Extended lifespan, could live a couple thousand years barring accident or injury. Above average strength, equivalent to someone twice her size who exercises regularly. Quick instinctive reflexes, could dodge a bullet reflexively, but not otherwise noteably flexible or agile. Top athlete running speed. Immune to natural disease. Heals about twice as fast as a normal human, but no regeneration.
Fae weaknesses - Severe iron allergy, iron objects that touch her skin or carapace will leave third degree burns in seconds. Mild holly allergy, holly makes her sneeze and gives her itchy red eyes and a runny nose. Cannot knowingly tell a lie.
Powers:
Arachnid sensing - When she concentrates, she can sense any arachnid/ arachnid-based creature with 50' and tell what species it is.
Arachnid control - she can give mental commands to any arachnid/arachnid-based creature she senses. These commands have to be short and direct (ie eat, sleep, go here, attack target). She cannot command anything impossible. Non-sentient beings would find these commands irresistible and would carry them out unless they were injured or trapped or otherwise unable. They will stop obeying if they are injured, but will otherwise continue until they have followed the command or 15 minutes has passed. Sentient beings will find these commands hard, but not impossible to resist, and she cannot command them to do something that goes against their morals.
Biography:
Lida Rose never met her biological mother, as she was exchanged for a child of Oklahoma wheat farmers at birth. Even though she now knows what she is, she still considers them her real family. A middle child of a large family, she always felt cared for, though somewhat lost in the shuffle at times. When she was exchanged, she had a glamour placed on her that made her look like the rest of her family, so she never stood out as different and had a fairly normal, uneventful childhood.
Her powers started coming in when she was around 5 or 6, but they were mostly unnoticeable. Until puberty when the glamour on her wore off before she learned her own. Her parents had no idea what to think of this or what to do about it, so they took her to a doctor, hoping it was some sort of bizarre mutation. Lida Rose was quickly contacted by scouts. Unable to live among humans, she was sent off to Manta Carlos. Unfortunately, her whole family couldn't move, but they visited often.
On the island, she eventually learned more about what she is. She told her parents, and although they were concerned about what happened to their biological child, they made sure she knew they still loved her. When she finished high school, she decided to become a scout to travel off island and to help other people learn about themself. (She would also eventually like to travel to Underhill and find child she was traded for, but knows that would be too dangerous to attempt unprepared. )
Additional Information: legally blind
Age: 20
Birthday: December 10
Gender: Female
Species: Changeling (Arachne Fae)
Category: Student
Class: College
College Major: Scout Training
Appearance Description:
Human glamour - At 4'5, Lida Rose is noticeably short for her age, but still obviously a full grown woman. Her build is slender and lithe, small-breasted but curvy in the hips. Her wild magenta hair with pink streaks is natural, as are her large pink eyes with black rings that look like eyeliner. Although her blood is blue, she has fair skin and rosy cheeks. When she tans, her skin turns bright pink, rather than brown. The changeling's clothing style is lively, pure, and simple. She prefers seasonally appropriate, loose, flowy dresses. Because her glamour doesn't change her clothes, she usually doesn't wear pants. Her ears are pierced, but she usually wears no other accessories. Her Oklahoman accent is still present, but mostly faded.
Art adopted from sammythefurrycat
Fae form - Lida Rose's natural form is shorter than her human glamour, at about 2 feet tall. She retains her human head and torso, with the body, eight legs, and tail of a scorpion. This curved tail is about 3 feet long and tipped with a venomous stinger. Unglamoured, her hair is actually silk - long, straight, and slightly redder than her glamoured hair. Her scorpion half, the upper body is magenta, and the underside pink. Her legs are brownish purple and pointy.
Personality Description:
Chipper, bright, optimistic, perky, spunky, and cheerful, Lida Rose is personality-wise the definition of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. She is neither naive nor air-headed, she is simply determined to see the best in every situation and person she encounters. This makes life more enjoyable for her and tends to be a selffulfilling prophecy. The changeling also strives to be the best she can be, by being hardworking, polite, and honest. Though she's not quick to anger, she can be snappy and irritable under stress. Lida Rose values stability and a simple life. She finds most of her fulfillment in work, while also being devoted to her family. However, her schooling and work takes precedence over social life, so even though she's a friendly, approachable woman, she doesn't have many friends.
Species Abilities:
Human glamour - Allows her to look and feel human. Only has one. Does not affect clothes. Wounds carry over. Can switch instantly and maintain infinitely when not asleep/unconscious. Cannot use scorpion stinger while glamoured.
Scorpion stinger, venom - Can inject venom via her stinger, not able to pierce anything tougher than human skin, could be stopped by jeans. Takes only a few seconds for a full dose. Starts off as mild pain around infected area, but pain increases as venom spreads. Would take 15 minutes to spread throughout the body of an average adult human male and become agonisingly painful. Without treatment, pain would last about an hour before quickly fading and leaving the system. Also increases heartbeat for the duration to a dangerous but not usually fatal level, unless the victim has a weak heart. Affects anyone living, even magical/non-humans, with a working circulatory system, but doesn't bypass poison resistance. Has enough venom to sting about two full grown adults before she needs to recharge. Takes about two hours to recharge for each dose used. Is immune to her own venom.
Arachnid venom immunity - Immune to natural arachnid venom. Resistant to magical arachnid/arachnid-based being venom, effects only last half as long as they normally would. Poison derived from arachnid venom would only affect her if it also contained poisonous non-arachnid ingredients.
Arachnid friendship - non-sentient arachnids and arachnid-based creatures will not attack her and will be calm while she is touching them, even if they sense danger. Sentient arachnids and arachnid- based creatures will be less inclined to attack her, but can still dislike her or be angry with her. They will feel calmer when she's touching them, but will not have their behaviour affected or be unaware of their surroundings. They can also resist the effect if they try.
Arachne fae - Glows greenish blue under UV light. Can sense heat and light. Can see quick motion, but otherwise vision is an indecipherable blur. Nocturnal. Sensitive to sudden bright lights - will be disoriented and can induce panic if sudden enough like a flashlight shone in her face or a fluorescent light turned on in a dark room. Can withstand extremes of temperature, either heat or cold, twice as long as an average human, but still feels uncomfortable. Slightly agoraphobic, will always seek smallest, darkest spaces and avoids going outside as much as possible. Strictly carnivorous, other food will make her sick. Can go for weeks without eating before getting hungry. Skin tough as leather, unglamoured carapace like steel. Parthenogenic reproduction.
Silken hair - unglamoured hair is as strong and soft as spider silk. Grows faster than glamoured hair, about three times as fast as normal human hair.
Fae - Extended lifespan, could live a couple thousand years barring accident or injury. Above average strength, equivalent to someone twice her size who exercises regularly. Quick instinctive reflexes, could dodge a bullet reflexively, but not otherwise noteably flexible or agile. Top athlete running speed. Immune to natural disease. Heals about twice as fast as a normal human, but no regeneration.
Fae weaknesses - Severe iron allergy, iron objects that touch her skin or carapace will leave third degree burns in seconds. Mild holly allergy, holly makes her sneeze and gives her itchy red eyes and a runny nose. Cannot knowingly tell a lie.
Powers:
Arachnid sensing - When she concentrates, she can sense any arachnid/ arachnid-based creature with 50' and tell what species it is.
Arachnid control - she can give mental commands to any arachnid/arachnid-based creature she senses. These commands have to be short and direct (ie eat, sleep, go here, attack target). She cannot command anything impossible. Non-sentient beings would find these commands irresistible and would carry them out unless they were injured or trapped or otherwise unable. They will stop obeying if they are injured, but will otherwise continue until they have followed the command or 15 minutes has passed. Sentient beings will find these commands hard, but not impossible to resist, and she cannot command them to do something that goes against their morals.
Biography:
Lida Rose never met her biological mother, as she was exchanged for a child of Oklahoma wheat farmers at birth. Even though she now knows what she is, she still considers them her real family. A middle child of a large family, she always felt cared for, though somewhat lost in the shuffle at times. When she was exchanged, she had a glamour placed on her that made her look like the rest of her family, so she never stood out as different and had a fairly normal, uneventful childhood.
Her powers started coming in when she was around 5 or 6, but they were mostly unnoticeable. Until puberty when the glamour on her wore off before she learned her own. Her parents had no idea what to think of this or what to do about it, so they took her to a doctor, hoping it was some sort of bizarre mutation. Lida Rose was quickly contacted by scouts. Unable to live among humans, she was sent off to Manta Carlos. Unfortunately, her whole family couldn't move, but they visited often.
On the island, she eventually learned more about what she is. She told her parents, and although they were concerned about what happened to their biological child, they made sure she knew they still loved her. When she finished high school, she decided to become a scout to travel off island and to help other people learn about themself. (She would also eventually like to travel to Underhill and find child she was traded for, but knows that would be too dangerous to attempt unprepared. )
Additional Information: legally blind
Name: Lida Rose Quackenbush