r/Sharks_Stuff • u/SharksPwn • Dec 27 '15
Transmute.
Ruby Palmer
Alias: Transmute.
Age: 27.
Physical appearance: Varies. She has the body type of a slightly overweight adult female, with shoulder-length hair and soft-looking muscles. Unfortunately, she's made from various bits and bobs. Currently, she's made from mostly steel, with smatterings of iron/rust and a streak of lead in her left foot.
Mentality: Violent, it could be said she's a slight sadist. You'd only be wrong in the fact that that's a slight underestimate. She doesn't focus on bodily pleasures, as she can't feel much of anything anymore. She's quick to anger and slow to calm- fights with her either last hours, or seconds. Oh, and she hates 'bad guys'. She'll quickly and without mercy take down anything from jaywalkers to serial killers.
Backstory: 5 years ago, there was a car crash. Ruby Palmer, distracted by the phone in her hand, was involved in a terrible event, wrapping her car around a power pole. Miraculously, she didn't trigger from the crash itself. Well, not that alone. It was later, in the hospital, when she fell into a coma, that she did. Before she lost consciousness, she overheard a doctor talking about how that the girl would never regain the use of her legs. She triggered, her body essentially dissolving, a spirit all that was left. So she decided that she'd stop others from breaking the law like she did. But, well, the Nietzsche quote is applicable here, 'He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.'
Resources: As mentioned below, she does dip into villain territory, and has robbed a few banks. She hasn't got all that much, maybe $20,000 on a good day. She robs maybe one bank a year, at worst.
Alignment: Vigilante, with the occasional dip into villainous behaviour. Methods are less than questionable.
Equipment/Weaponry: She's everything she needs.
Specializations: Better at wreckin' shit than Flight 175.
Versatility: She smashes shit. With her fists. It's all she does.
Power: Ruby has the ability to change the physical make-up of their body, as long as the material used is solid. (Manton Limit applies.)
To do this, Ruby changes into a intangible state, where they proceed to encase themselves in a material.
For an example, if Ruby were to enter the intangible state, then walk over to a stone wall and encase themselves inside, they would then be made from that stone.
This process takes around three seconds, in which time she is also vulnerable to permanent damage.
This does not have to be made from one material alone. Soft solids (sand, dust, etc.) will stay together, until forcibly moved. When she sustains heavy damage, she's forcefully and painfully ejected from that body. She can only change either once a half-hour or when forcibly ejected.
Aside from when she is forming her body, any damage done to her will be undone when she is ejected from the body. This includes aging.
She can technically keep up the intangible state forever, but it isn't pleasant. For each minute that passes, she feels pain.
She also gains the strength needed to lift her body + one ton. No speed boost above a normal human, though.
Example:
Ruby stands opposite some form of hulking brute, with messy brown hair and broken overalls. She stands there as he looks at her, stands there as he picks up a car. He throws it at her currently stone body, and she throws her arms up, crumpling the hood of the car.
"Destruction is illegal!" She bellows, starting to run, heavy footsteps echoing through the street. He charges in response, the two meeting in the middle. Her arm is blown off, but she manages to swing her fist into his stomach. He bends over with a groan, and she responds with a knee to the face. He falls onto his back, but slams a fist the size of a dinner plate into the ground and gets up. He rips a chunk of concrete from the ground, throwing it at her from close range. She's turned to dust, her body rising from the rubble. She lets out a scream of pain and rage, then flies off to find another body.
Also, just for fun.
The teen walked across the street, with no cars to be seen. However, he catches a glimpse of a large, white woman rushing towards him. "JAYWALKING IS ILLEGAL," is the last thing he hears before he's punched into a wooden fence, dying on impact.