Individual Character's full name: Dahlia Kaylie Lenser
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Lia, Cammie, Karma
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 12/18/1998
Nationality/ Ethnicity: American born, French and Austrian heritage a few generations removed
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Born in Chattanooga, TN; Raised in New York City
AppearanceHair color and style: No hair
Eyes: No color here, just a small black pupil.
Height: 5'3”
Build: Average
Visible mutation: Picture a chameleon and cross it with a human. That's Dahlia. She's got the brightly colored skin, the prehensile tail, and the large round eyes capable of independent movement. The five fingers on her hands have fused together into two groups of fingers. She's also got a pair of horns on her forehead, one positioned a few inches above the other.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Has a nasty looking scar on her neck and collarbone from the accident that killed her sister
Other features: Everyday clothing style: Clothing made for humans is very awkward for her to wear or even get on due to her hands being what they are. Therefore she generally doesn't wear clothes.
Uniform: None
Sleepwear: Nope, night clothes don't work well either.
Miscellaneous clothing:CharacterPersonality: Dahlia is a good and obedient girl, most of the time. She does have a small penchant for mischief but this is allayed by the fact that she doesn't like to play pranks alone and so will very rarely do anything if she doesn't have a partner to work with. When caught out in a prank she's quick to admit her guilt and accept her punishment. Dahlia's a sociable girl who will talk to darn near anyone, to the frustration of her parents. She's also developed a strong sense of confidence to mask just how uncomfortable her new appearance makes her. For all of that she can be somewhat gullible. Dahlia knows that there are bad people out there but bad people treat other people badly. She'd be very easy to manipulate if treated well.
Hobbies/ Interests: Jewelery crafting, before running away Dahlia liked to make necklaces and such with whatever beads, string, or metal her parents would provide. She likes climbing trees and caring for plants. Also, shopping and shoes.
Job or part time job and description: Being a kid and student.
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Afraid of Spiders, snakes, and chihuahuas. Phobia of motorcycles due to a crash that killed her elder sister (she was in it and was lucky she survived)
Special talents: Very good at climbing (even before her mutation), often found up high when something has scared her.
MoralityGood/ bad/ neutral/ other: Good. Dahlia's a good girl that does what she's told...most of the time. She does like to help play pranks on people but these are generally good natured and Dahlia doesn't like trying to play pranks by herself.
MutationsMutation description: Chameleon Appearance – Dahlia's mutation has given her the appearance of a humanoid chameleon.
- Skin - Her skin has taken on the texture of a chameleon's skin as well as the species ability to change that color to any of a set number of colors. Dahlia herself can shift between any color in the visible spectrum (ROYGBIV). This color shifting is dependent on many things. Temperature will affect it as well as her mood. She can shift the patterns but has very little control over the colors beyond making them lighter or darker. Also, yes, she does shed from time to time.
- Eyes – One of the chameleon's most notable features, Dahlia has eyes precisely like those of a chameleon. They are capable of independent movement and can see ultraviolet in addition to standard visual spectrum. In addition she can see a full 360 degrees around her thanks to these eyes.
- Tongue – The other signature attribute of the chameleon. Dahlia's tongue is one and a half times the length of her body. That seven feet seven inches of tongue that can be propelled from the mouth faster than the human eye is capable of tracking and hits it's target in less than half a second. The tip is like a suction cup and coated with a thick mucus to allow things to stick to it.
- Tail – It's nearly the same length as Dahlia's body at five feet and is prehensile.
- Horns – There are two horns on Dahlia's forehead. One right between the eyes and one about an inch above it. The lower of the two is two and a half inches long while the upper is only two inches. They are made of a hard bone like material, though not quite as hard as human bone. They are rough, with smaller jagged points along the length of horn.
- Hands and Feet – Dahlia still has five fingers per hand and five toes per foot. However these have fused into two separate groupings, one of two digits and one of three digits, on each appendage. Each digit has a nice sharp claw on the end as well.
Strengths: - Climbing – Dahlia was good at climbing before the change. Now she's even better at it since her hands and feet are designed for it. The prehensile tail only helps in this endeavor.
- Her tongue – Sticky at the end and can hit its target in under a second. Great for snatching small things, provided she doesn't mind tasting them.
- Horns – These would be rather painful if she head butted someone with them, no?
Weaknesses:- Obvious – She's a five foot and some change, brightly colored lizard. No matter where she goes or what she does Dahlia will stick out like a sore thumb.
- Hearing – Ordinary chameleons can't hear. Dahlia retains enough of her human traits that she can still hear but her hearing is very bad.
- Shedding – Awkward much?
- Advanced Aging - Chameleons live much shorter lives than humans do and this has affected Dahlia's aging process. For every year she spends as a chameleon her body will age 3 years. Her mind is unaffected by this and she'll continue to mature at a normal rate in that aspect.
Secondary mutation description:Strengths:Weaknesses:Fighting StyleExplanation: She does not fight. She runs away.
Pros for fighting style: No injury for anyone if she can get away.
Cons for fighting style: Entirely unable to defend herself if she is caught
Faction AllegianceUnaffiliated
History Of Your Character Shortly before his wife was due to give birth to their youngest daughter Brandon Lenser received a promotion with the stipulation that it required moving. However he was unwilling to attempt a move so close to his wife's due date. The company, a marketing firm, agreed to give him the needed time. Dahlia Lenser was born a few weeks later. With aid from the company the Lenser family was moved to New York City within two months of the child's birth. Dahlia grew up in New York as a result, remembering nothing of her altogether brief stay in the house in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
She was a slightly above average student upon entering school. She did all of her homework and studied, earning marks only a tiny bit above average for her efforts. The only course where this was not the case being science. Dahlia struggled with science and it took a great deal of effort on the part of her older sister Samantha as well as her teachers to bring her science grades up to par with the rest of her marks. All told Dahlia lived a fairly normal life. Sure there was a very mean chihuahua that would chase her home from school every day. However she could just scale a tree or a wall to get away from it. It still terrified her though.
When Dahlia was ten however she found something much scarier than that chihuahua. Her sister was taking her out for ice cream that day. Samantha drove a motorcycle and, though she often didn't wear a helmet she made sure Dahlia did. A car hit them from behind. Dahlia and her sister were both thrown from the bike. Dahlia lived but came away with a scar across her neck and collarbone from a piece of the bike that was torn away in the collision. Her sister didn't survive. Four years later Dahlia is still deathly afraid of motorcycles despite visits to a therapist that started soon after her sister's death.
It was only a month ago that she came into her mutation. It was the anniversary of her sister's death. Her parents always fought on that day. They loved each other dearly but the entire household was tense every year on that day. Fights were inevitable. Unfortunately the one they had at dinner that evening was worse than usual. Things were said that shocked Dahlia to her core. Right there at the dinner table her mutation sprang to life and changed her. In their shock her parents reacted badly. They gave Dahlia the impression that they were afraid of her and that they hated her now. So she ran and has been living on the streets ever since.
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Sample RP:The tip of a blue lizard tail disappeared around a corner and into an alley. Going out during the day was never easy, even if she pretended that she was proud of what she looked like. Dahlia bit down on the sandwich she'd managed to purchase before being run out of the shop. Well bite wasn't perhaps the right word. Her teeth were miniscule now, barely even there really. Gummed might have been a better choice of word. Bugs would never compare to human food no matter how much her new instincts told her they were food. They were also too small to make a decent meal for her. Sure they were enough for a normal size chameleon but one that was five feet tall and walked upright? It would take more bugs than she was comfortable thinking about to fill her up. A shiver ran down her body. It was getting too cold standing in the shadows. She needed to be back out in the sunlight again. A sigh escaped her lips and Dahlia walked back out into the streets confidently, munching on her sandwich as though she weren't a bipedal chameleon and the people were weird for staring at her.
Each person that stared was greeted with a wave and a chirpy, “Hi there!” by Dahlia. She'd learned not to smile at people pretty quickly. A toothless smile from a huge chameleon person did not inspire calm in others. In fact they tended to run the other way as fast as they could. Of course her lack of clothing probably went a long way toward that as well. Did they not realize how hard it was to find something that came in 'monstrous lizard' sizes? She couldn't shop anymore. Not only because the shop keeps would throw her out but nothing actually fit. It hurt. She'd hadn't been able to wear shoes or pick outfits since the change. Dahlia pouted, which was a very odd expression on a chameleon's face. Oh how she missed shoe shopping.
Eventually she arrived back at her hide out of the day. It was a run down house whose roof was partially gone. The large hole let in sunlight for most of the day and enough lamp light at night that she didn't freeze. It wasn't much but it did the trick. This would likely be the last night she stayed here. Come tomorrow she'd have to find a new place to crash. The cops would be along sooner or later to take her back to her parents. Even if they wanted to see her again she wasn't ready to see them. Besides, Dahlia doubted they ever wanted to see the monster that she knew she was. They'd made that perfectly clear the night she'd run away.
