Age: 21
Gender: Female
Type: Mutant
Mutation: Myr is able to change shape, and can change into the form of a monstrous dog-like creature, often colloquially referred to as 'the hellhound'. In this altered form, Myr is extraordinarily strong and fast, able to overpower an ordinary human with ease. The dog's saliva is full of pathogens, and as a result a bite from her in that form is almost guaranteed to become septic and cause a systemic infection without treatment or quick disinfection of the wound. The spine son its back and limbs have similar properties. Myr retains some of the considerable strength of her dog form as a human, being able to lift and break things far more easily than anyone of her size should. After some alterations she also has the bite strength of her canine form as well.
Description:
In her human form, Myr resembles an angular young woman with dull, grey black hair and acid green eyes. The eyes have a glassy, lifeless quality about them that is somewhat unnerbing to many. Her skin is an unattractively pallid hue and she had dark rings around her eyes. A large patch of uneven, dark red scar tissue all across the bottom half of her face, marking the same spot as the 'face tear' as her dog from. After an alteration to improve her bite strength her jaw has a top overbite, lined with sharp, uneven teeth. There are thick stitches made at the corners as the changes to her jaw shape has begun to tear the skin on her face. Her ears are pointed and furred in places, with a metal tap clipped into one side.
A pale streak runs through her hair on one side. Myr generally wears concealing clothing and seems dressed for cold weather, even in the heat. Her body is quite heavily altered in an effort to 'improve' it. Several thing metal supports have been grafted to bones on her ribs and limbs, a crude, painful and uneven solution. Her spinal column has also been left exposed, though she tends to do her best to ensure that it's covered up.
As a beast she is large, long limbed, and rather lupine. Its face splits halfway down into a sort of bony maw that tends to seep a viscous drool constantly. It has two sets of narrow eyes and large, taloned feet that appear to be covered by some sort of chitinous exoskeleton, aside from at the joints. Bony spines run down its back. The fur that covers most of its body is a coarse, wiry kind, coloured a dark grey, similar to her hair as a humanoid.
Size-wise, it is very large, rivalling that of a lion or bear, and making it potentially extremely dangerous.
Personality: Myr is a strange one, someone who most people struggle to get along with...not necessarily because she's openly hostile...but because of something else. There's something curiously...empty about Myr. Almost a void of emotion and a lack of understanding of the emotions of others means that she does not bond with people very easily at all. A great deal of things tend to wash over Myr. A lot of the time she seems to be playing little attention to her surroundings, and never seems to concern herself with minor or trivial matters.
Myr simply seems rather...empty. She doesn't really have much in the way of dreams, or hopes, or things she wishes for. She doesn't appear to take much enjoyment out of things. It's rare to have anything that gets a lot of reaction out of her.
There is something else to Myr however...perhaps a darker side. She feels inclined to try and fill the void by finding some sort of acceptance, and sees the staff as as means for that. As a result she attempts to keep the scientists and guards happy in hopes of being a 'good' subject...though has become somewhat disillusioned to that as time has worn on, and she and the researchers discovered that the alterations made had only served to worsen things, rather than improve them.
Fears:
While there are not many things the demon dog is scared of, privately she is afraid of dying, particularly as she's not entirely sure how long her lifespan is likely to be. She also has a great concern about some sort of disabling injury, concerned that she would both lose her own independence, and is confident that no-one would help regardless.
Cell: A9
Likes:
Myr doesn't tend to give many things positive attention.
She likes warm clothes, and sources of heat as far as that they prevent hypothermia.
She prefers to have access to writing material, making a habit out of making notes of things, so she might remember them.
Deep down, Myr would like to have someone to rely upon, searching for some form of acceptance, but would not dare admit such a thing.
Weakness:
Transformation Pains- Changing for Myr is an extremely painful process, and takes a little while for it to work. The change itself involves a decent amount of bloodloss, so Myr cannot change many times in quick succession without risking the effects of exsanguination.
Cold - Myr cannot conserve heat very well and doesn't do too well in cold weather. She has to don large amounts of winter clothing in order to stay warm, and so can often be held to ransom through her need for warm clothes.
Exposed spinal column - After some alterations, Myr's spinal column, both as a humanoid and as a human, is exposed from the bottom of her ribs to the top of her pelvis. It leaves her
Memory loss - Myr has a very bad memory. She struggles to remember things for any extended period of time, making her rather easy to manipulate.
History: Myr was born 'Myranda Blake' to a single parent in a large, urban area. She remembers nothing of her childhood, or her life prior to the lab, though the truth was that she had been in a reasonably good situation. Her mother hadn't been particularly rich, but had done her best to provide for her young child. Unfortunately, in her effort to do do, she borrowed from people she shouldn't have...and the same people sort to recoup their losses eventually by taking the woman's things..and...in a very unpleasant act...taking her child as well.
Myr was little more than a toddler at the time, when she was handed over to the laboratory, and not long after that came the mutations and alterations involved. Myr's body was suited to the changes that were demanded of it by the new powers, and the first changes resulted in broken bones and extremely severe damage and scarring. Myr was almost killed and her long term memory badly effected. From there they did their best to try and make her form fit they new changes. The begin with it allowed her to change without serious damage, which was helpful. The second set only seemed to make things worse however.
Myr seemed to react to the events without a great deal of drama or complaint...sometimes to a fault. When she was sent out to be chased down she made no attempt to escape, something that rather ruined their fun.