Gender: Female
Age: 19
Race: Dragon Expri
Physical Description:
Palmira is a young woman, a little on the tall side (about 5'10) with a slim fairly wiry build. She is easily distinguished by her gold, slitted eyes, and her long mane of wavy ginger hair. Her skin is pretty pale and doesn't appear to tan too well. Her mark is a wide band of green, resembling scales, that twists round her body in several places, inclusing around one arm and across one shoulder.
Skills/Talents:
-Pyrokinetic Ability/ Heat Resistant Pigment
Palmira was chosen for the dragon research due to her unusual ability of being able to start fires by willing them into existence. Her skin also appeared to be more resistant to flame that ordinary human skin, only beginning to show burn damage after long exposure to open flame, or against extremely hot 'blue' flames such as from a bunsen burner or welding torch.
Prior to the research she was only able to light quite small fires, and only with intense concentration, however the research resulted in considerable alteration to it, making it a lot more powerful, allowing her to cause combustion by touch, meaning that she could turn mundane objects like pinecones or twigs into flaming projectiles. As of Stage 2 and 3 she also gains the ability to 'breathe fire' firing a jet of flame from her mouth that reaches a very high heat and can potentially melt sheet metal.
Hobbies: Palmira is a collector, possibly a bit of a hoarder to some degree. She likes oddities and curio, and anything shiny. Aside from that she tends to have an interest in knowledge and reading, and will happily read as much as she can find.
Strengths: - Palmira is surprisingly strong for her size and build. Her grip is like iron and she has been known to be able to break bones with it.
- The dragon Expri is very intelligent and crafty, quite skilled in evading others.
- Palmira's skin makes her resistant to damage by burns, even if the fire was not caused by her. She can walk through most flames without any concern for her own wellbeing.
Weaknesses: - Palmira's fire-related ability has been enhanced many-fold by the experiments conducted on her, which has made her a force to be reckoned with, but has a serious downside. The fire ability and combining with the genes of cold-blooded animals have made her body temperature very unstable and difficult to maintain. Much of the time she's unable to keep warm and quite vulnerable to the cold due to her cold-blooded nature, but with power usuage, and sometimes spontaneously when her abilities flare up internally her body temperature can rapidly spike, causing symptoms of hyperthermia that could be potentially fatal with ability over-use.
-Another side effect of the ability is considerable internal pain that Palmira often experiences, after use, or often spontaneously. While her skin is resistant to heat, her insides are not and as a result she tends to suffer violent stomach and chest pains that can be quite debilitating.
- The combination of her background, her experimental genetic mix-up, and the resulting pain, Palmira has become increasingly psychologically unstable. She is often paranoid and anxious about things, she has quite violent mood swings, and she is quite open to manipulation. This appears to be getting progressively worse.
Likes: - ♥ Shiny Objects/ Curio
- ♥ Rain (Paradoxically.)
- ♥ Reading (Classical Literature is a firm favourite.)
- ♥ Rare Meat (A result of her more monstrous side, and something that tends to cause her manners to slip.)
Dislikes:
- ♠ Modern Technology (She is rather a technophobe and is utterly mystified by any such things.)
- ♠ Loud noises (Noises tend to grate on her a lot.)
- ♠ Extreme Weather (Makes it very difficult to keep her temperature.)
- ♠ Self-indulgence / Self-pity.
Brief History: Palmira has little memory of her own life prior to experimentation, but it was thought that she survived on her own, living rough and without a family of any sort. Her abilities made it considerably easier, but ultimately also attracted the attention of Tacrus and his staff. Palmira was conned into coming along with them, unaware of what plans they had for her.
Her fire-related ability put her in line for the research into creating a 'dragon' Expri, and the result was almost fatal to her initially, and still very painful and traumatic in the time afterwards. While her physical ability grew exponentially as she learned to change and use the newfound abilities that she had, she became progressively more unstable and potentially hazardous.
Hail's breakout saw him releasing her, and the dragon Expri subsequently went rogue, starting a fire that did considerable damage before fleeing along with the lion Expri. Palmira remained with him partially due to a feeling of owing him something, and partially due to her being quite easily manipulated. Now she effectively works for him.