FULL NAME | Renata Kotko
NICKNAMES | Ren
SEXUALITY | Lesbian
AGE | 25
HEIGHT | 5' 8"
WEIGHT | 186 lbs.
EYES | blue
HAIR | black
BODY | Athletic
Personality
Ren is as crass as she is violent. She's profane, brutish, and as likely to start a fight out of boredom as she is in anger. She rarely takes things seriously or personal, leaving her with a frightening lack of empathy or morality. She cares for little else besides her own gains and how she can achieve them, be it a girl's number or the exhilaration she feels when her knuckles connect with bone. She is filled with a rage that she feels compelled to take out on the world around her, all while claiming every pleasure she can get her hands on.
Deeper still in the back of her mind, and the source of her sadism and hedonism, is a self hatred so deep rooted as to be a part of her genetic code. She hates herself for failing Allison, she hates herself for failing to be who Allison believed she could be, and most of all she hates herself for turning into everything she hated about her father. So she drinks to repress, she fights to quiet the demons in her hand, and she suffers because she deserves it.
Preferred Distractions
The two great American past-times. Drinking and women.
Flaws
Ren tends not to think things through, opting instead for immediate gratifications rather than any sense of long term success. She's horrible at problem solving in delicate situation, living up to the ideal that she is a hammer, and everything she dislikes is a nail. She also has a distinct lack of friends or positive emotional outlets, instead having contacts and professional relationships with fellow criminals. She also suffers from intense PTSD from her time as a test subject.
Abilities
When it was Ren's turn to be put on the slab, a follow up to some of the other projects at the labs, they focused on cellular regeneration. Her white blood cells are seemingly immune to corruption or deterioration, and her body has healed, albeit slowly, from every injury inflicted upon her. Gunshot wounds healed completely in tens of minutes, and lost limbs can regrow in a day or less, depending on if the lost limb is sewn back on. Her eyes have regrown after being gouged out, her skin as well as hair came back even after being scalped, and brain damage even repaired to the point of reversing a lobotomy. A beheading is considered the only thing that could reasonably make her stay dead, though that is not to say that she is invincible. She is not immune to pain, and torn muscles and bloodloss still affect her until they have healed. She is also not immune to mental instability. That being said, her cells constant regeneration also eats up a ton of calories, and so she is almost constantly eating or else she can start to lose strength, though she survived all of her starvation tests so it is unclear how deeply this can affect her.
The speed of her regeneration has slowly increased over time, though now outside of the lab there is no reliable measurement for this.
Past
Ren started life as an unwanted pregnancy between Vikenty Kotko and Sasha Burundukov and the catalyst for what would become a doomed marriage. Her parents were immigrants from Russia, leaving behind their lives as a pharmacist and chemist respectively, in order to escape the iron curtain they feared was once again closing around their homeland. They arrived in America with nothing but falsified papers and a baby due in five months. By the time Ren was born, Her parents were in massive debt to less than reputable people, and were using their skills in order to make a variety of street drugs.
Ren was only five years old the first time she saw her father get his leg broken for failing to meet his quotas. She was seven when Sasha left Vikenty to be with one of the mob enforcers that had taken a liking to her.
Vikenty resented Ren, providing for her being more than a slight contributing factor to his debts. He looked down on her, abusing her emotionally and taking out his lot in life on his daughter. He hit her, insulted her, made her think everything that happened was, in some way, her fault. This, in turn, started causing Ren to begin treating her fellow students the ways she had been treated. She got suspended dozens of times throughout her elementary and middle school years, mostly for fighting or skipping classes. By the time she should have been moving on to high school, she had dropped out all together and attempted to hitchhike her way to another town to start over. Her father never bothered looking for her.
When she was satisfied with the distance she wanted to put between herself and her family and school, Ren began living on the streets. She got skilled at crying on cue, and relied on the generosity of strangers to put money in her red solo cup as they walked by her on the cold sidewalks. A low point to be sure, but in a reversal of fortunes, it was the streets where Allison came across the sad little slavic girl. Allison was an urchin herself, but had been on the same streets Ren herself sat on for as long as she could remember, and took Ren under her wing. She showed her where the wealthiest strangers were, what days which restaurants threw out their food, and how to steal what she needed from clothing stores and convenience stores. Allison was the first friend Ren ever recalled having, and for the next several years were inseparable. They slept in shifts, had each other's backs, and shared everything they had. However, after a particularly cold winter, Ren got sick and Allison had to get a few favors from some of her associates to get her friend checked out. After faking her insurance card and Ren got to the screening room, they took a blood sample in order to get the information on file, where it was discovered she had volatile genetics. Ren was given a sleeping pill, being told it was antibiotics, and Allison was told her friend was being taken to a hospital for emergency treatment. The two never saw each other again, and when Ren woke up again she was a part of the Geneis Project.
