Ms. Malum

Although in creating these carbon nanotube protrusions from her body severs any flesh that it must pass through, the nano-technologies present within her body also grant her an extremely excellerated healing factor that allow her to easily survive would-be fatal injuries.

Also within Ms. Malum's capacity is augmented leg strength which allow her to jump upwards of 300 yards, as well as enhanced speed (although not considered "super" by any means) derived from the same nano-technologies within her body.

From the files of Dr. Jessica Lovelace (Clinical psychologist; Broadmoor psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane):

"I've had a most unfortunate time in trying to reach Malari the last few days. Even though she has days that could be considered "good", I have to concede that the vast majority have thus far shown to be far more negative then positive. On her receptive days, as few and far between as they may be, she's been quite cordial, asking me (and the guards whom they keep with me at all times in her presence) how I've been. If I've been having a good week. Even, on a few occasions, offering me polite remarks on my new hair style and clothing choices for that particular day. During these rare days of cooperation, Ms. Hugh has shown signs of regret for some of the acts she's committed since her rebirth as the newspapers dubbed, "the malevolently mad Miss Malum". "I wasn't thinking straight.", she offered at one point, "It's just, I'm so cold. So cold and alone now. My body doesn't even feel like it's mine. Nothing really feels real anymore. Not since they went away." The "they" Malari refers to would be her parents, Donald Hugh and his esteemed wife, Regina Umbra-Hugh, whom were killed in the same incident that brought about Malari's current condition. She's often commented on how she's "to blame" for their deaths, even though when one considers all the variables involved, and her age at the time of the accident, it's fallacy to assume that her cry for attention was ever meant as anything malevolent in the least. I was told she crashed a chair, during a tantrum of all things, over a table stacked with her father and mother's lab experiments, which caused a release of toxic gases and some form of technology which has yet to be unclassified to me. I was told her parents worked for Crey Industries, and I assume that this is why whatever type of technologies were involved in her transformation, that they have yet to be disclosed to me. Whatever it is, it seemingly has frozen Malari in the age she was when the accident occurred. Even though her accident occurred in March of 2000, when she was only seventeen years old (just 3 weeks shy of her eighteenth birthday, in fact), Malari still appears, aside from the odd blue coloration of her skin now, as an every day attractive teenage girl, and definatly not her current true age of twenty-five. In some ways, on her good days, she indeed seems mentally closer to a seventeen year old girl then a twenty-five year old. Anyhow, that being neither here nor there, it's unfortunate that these "clear days" are so few and far between, as she shows a surprising degree of wit when she's not feeling threatened. But, as I stated previously, the negative days far outweigh the positive. Quite easily, in fact, by a scale of ten to one at least. On her "bad days" Malari is just as prone to attempt violence upon myself or my guards, and has done just that more often then I'd like to admit. Although she's yet to kill anyone during our talks, she did sever a guard's genitals when she claimed, in her words, "he was looking at me all pervy like". I've not heard anything since that afternoon as to whether that unfortunate gentleman plans on returning to work in the near future. To be honest, I believe Malari has the chance to recover, so long as she's given a combination of the proper treatment, a caring unthreatening environment and lots of time. Although she does tend to resort to violence quite readily, and due to her accident and it's related transformations, she should be considered extremely dangerous in any circumstance, I personally don't really think she'd hurt those she's grown close to, such as myself or the other doctors working regularly with her.

• • Note**

Dr. Lovelace was killed via decapitation by Malari Hugh 3 days after the above addition to her journal files on the subject. An additional life sentence was added to the dozen life sentences she is already serving for other homicides.