Lyren
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Lyren | |
| Player: @lizbeth | |
| Origin: | Science |
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| Archetype: | Scrapper |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Lillian (Lily) Rena Anderson |
| Known Aliases: | Lily, 'Kitty' (quickly corrected) |
| Species: | Formerly human, now human/tiger hybrid (Via retroviral genetic resequencing) |
| Age: | 18 |
| Height: | Confidential |
| Weight: | Confidential |
| Eye Color: | Yellow (feline-ish) |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | USA |
| Occupation: | Freelancer, occasional fashion model |
| Place of Birth: | Paragon City, RI |
| Base of Operations: | Paragon City, RI |
| Marital Status: | In a relationship |
| Known Relatives: | Confidential |
| Known Powers | |
| Leaping, enhanced reflexes | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Superhuman senses (hearing, smell), night sight | |
| Equipment | |
| Rularuu talon claws, stripping comb (for those bad fur days.) | |
| No additional information available. | |
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Biographical Data
Pre-change
Prior to her transformation, Lily was a fairly typical denizen of Paragon City - just trying to go about her life, keep her head down and her chin up, and doing to best not to lose her purse for the fourth time in as many hours to any number of street thugs. However, as is typical of most things in Paragon, things weren't destined to remain... normal. In fact, they were anything but; due to an inborn genetic abnormality, Lily was forced into hospitalization and, following the failure of several treatments, fell into a coma at the age of 17, and was in a rather real danger of losing her life.
Her parents attempted quite literally every pharmacological remedy that science could offer, all with little-to-no effect on Lily. Growing desperate, they started branching outward, seeking out any sort of treatment that had even the most remote chance of success. In the end, they found a Dr. Lexington, whom offered them a rather radical option - introduce a virus into Lily's system that would rewrite her genetics, and code out the flaw. This, in tandem with a series of drugs with the demonstrated property of causing genetic changes to manifest more rapidly, would, in theory, cure Lily and allow her to live a healthy, productive life.
Post-change
These were far from the only changes she'd undergone, however - her nails were gone, replaced by claws, and, much to her horror, her skin had been supplanted by a coat of bright orange fur, striped black like that of a tiger. By the time the doctors had gotten to her, she was in hysterics, and had to be sedated.
When she awoke once more, Dr. Lexington and his associates did their best to calm her (and, further, soothe her rather ragged nerves) whilst explaining what had happened - their gene therapy had worked all too well, not only fixing the genetic abnormality, but replacing perfectly good genes with new ones, in this case from a bengal tigress (the source of the genes used in the retrovirus.) The medicines had only finalized the changes, making her a mixture of human and animal.
Her parents were the only ones potentially more horrified than Lily, herself. They demanded the treatment be undone, that their daughter be returned to her original state, but the doctors made it quite clear - the changes were an accident, and they weren't even sure which genes had been overwritten to cause such a change, let alone how to fix the accidental changes made. Her father, enraged by this, simply declared that the creature that'd resulted from the treatment was not his daughter.
So abandoned, Lily found herself in the midst of rehabilitation by the medical staff of the research center where her transformation had taken place; after all, she'd undergone some fundamental changes, not the least of which being that she now had a tail to assist in balance (though, more often than not during the first week, it was detrimental to that very goal). After a while, though, she adapted to her new physical form, and (at her own insistence) was allowed to return to society as a whole. (Her psychological adaptations, however, would take a bit longer.
Associations/Relationships
ASPCA
Shortly after leaving the research facility (having secured a fair stipend thanks to their rather bloated budget), Lily (now Lyren, having given up her old name) found herself living in an apartment complex where the owner, whilst letting her live there due to antidiscrimination laws, gave her the worst treatment - the service was bad, mail was fairly regularly mangled by "accident", et cetera. A chance encounter, however, changed all that, and saw Lyren joining with the Supergroup identified as the ASPCA, a group of similarly anthropomorphic heroes. She has, suffice it to say, never looked back.
Number 161
Number 161, better known as Hawk, has become, perhaps, Lyren's greatest source of strength, not only for being so accepting of her (and being like her in that he was transformed from being human into his current form, but that he's her current romantic interest. There's no easier way to rile Lyren up is to threaten him in front of her.
Others...
There are, suffice it to say, plenty of others with whom Lyren is a friend, but those listed above are the most important to her at the moment.
