[OOC] Stats & Powers
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akin2squidratsCharacter Name: Curls aka Akin Iyapo Shing Kalnikanjlo
Unit: Canis
Age: Early to mid 20s. Mentally, that's comparable to a human, physically he's closer to late teens (as in, just finished growing).
Height: Shorter than most adults -- probably around 5'0"
Weight: A wiry build -- he has muscle, but it doesn't stop him from looking tiny.
Eyes: None.
Hair: None, but his head-tentacles are dark gray.
Appearance: Oh, boy. Well, first of all, Akin physically looks like his alien parents and has almost no human characteristics outside of his genes and body language. Considering the two times we see undrugged humans meet Oankali, they are all 'what the hell, get that creepy thing away from me!', it's a good guess that most characters will find him to be pretty ugly. (People like Bones or Flonne who are used to nonhumans may have a muted reaction.)
Akin is basically humanoid, with gray skin. His hands and feet have differing structure -- he's got something like sixteen fingers on both hands (and sixteen toes on each feet), arranged more like a flower than a human thumb-and-fingers. He's male, but lacks external genitals. He's also got fine, gray tentacles in patches over his body. They do move, by the way.
Akin's face will probably freak people out. First off, he looks like a medusa, with moving tentacles instead of hair. He's also missing most of the normal human sense organs -- he lacks eyes, ears and a nose, but does have a mouth. He accomplishes breathing through a hole in his throat and sensory input through his skin and tentacles.
Description of powers: Oh, boy. Let's go down the list. Akin's ancestors have been genetically engineering themselves since they crawled out of the muck, so they got a boatload of nice traits that they passed on to him. Enhanced senses, enhanced physical traits, enhanced digestion, healing ability, ability to tap into nerves, eidetic memory, and a lethal sting.
Strength/Extent of powers: Enhanced senses: a visual range that extends from the UV to thermal infrared, hearing that is both keen enough to hear a heartbeat and extends to supersonic and subsonic levels, smell good enough to pick out species, sex and emotional state of a person, and a 'taste' sense that lets them pick out all kinds of molecules and read genes. Also, Akin lacks blindspots thanks to using his entire body as a sensory organ, and even when he's asleep his senses are recording. He would have to be deeply unconscious or having his mind messed with to interrupt that.
Enhanced physical traits: Akin is physically on the high end of human strength and almost superhuman in his speed. He can also breathe water (or anything gaseous or liquid with the right amount of oxygen in it) and swim.
Digestion: Akin can eat anything organic and break it down. He still needs to worry about nutrition -- he can't make proteins without the raw materials. He can also either neutralize poison or detect them and throw them up. With training, he can tell if something will be bad for him just by touch.
Healing/Neural Link: Akin has control over his metabolic functions and can do things like stop his blood flow, if, for example, he was cut. He can't regenerate limbs, though small things, like sensory tentacles will grow back. He can take injuries that would knock a human down, thanks to a lot of decentralization. With memories, he can act on others to block pain, induce sleep and speed healing, though he's much more of a 'nurse' than a doctor in Oankali terms. Also, Oankali, their ships and their various domesticates all have the ability to link their nervous systems, so Akin could talk to his town, or the ship or an animal with a thought if he's touching them as well as quickly share sensory impressions and feelings, if they are designed to allow this. Normal humans he couldn't do this with, though, with memories, he'd probably be better able to quickly dump information to a telepath.
Eidetic Memory: He remembers everything, even back to when he was still in the womb. The few times things are not clear are when he was newborn and when he was undergoing metamorphosis, both times when his body had a host of new sensory stimulation to deal with.
Sting: Akin produces a lethal and corrosive venom in his body. He can control the reflex to sting, but it does take control to not do it when in a fight or agitated, especially if someone grabs at a sensitive part.
Innate: Some
Memory related: Some
Relation to memory: Akin will need memory of medical training to do anything healing-related on something other than himself. He also will either need to get memories of 'how to deal with poisons' or learn the hard way by eating a bit and being sick. The sense of genes will be improved with memories -- for example, as a toddler, Akin could see differences in populations of humans and pick out 'wrong' genes, but couldn't tell you why it was bothering him.
Effect of Animus Limiters: Akin's strength will be reduced, and the sting will be dialed down to 'not fun at all', rather than 'he's dead, son'. Most of the rest is defensive and sensory stuff.
Unit: Canis
Age: Early to mid 20s. Mentally, that's comparable to a human, physically he's closer to late teens (as in, just finished growing).
Height: Shorter than most adults -- probably around 5'0"
Weight: A wiry build -- he has muscle, but it doesn't stop him from looking tiny.
Eyes: None.
Hair: None, but his head-tentacles are dark gray.
Appearance: Oh, boy. Well, first of all, Akin physically looks like his alien parents and has almost no human characteristics outside of his genes and body language. Considering the two times we see undrugged humans meet Oankali, they are all 'what the hell, get that creepy thing away from me!', it's a good guess that most characters will find him to be pretty ugly. (People like Bones or Flonne who are used to nonhumans may have a muted reaction.)
Akin is basically humanoid, with gray skin. His hands and feet have differing structure -- he's got something like sixteen fingers on both hands (and sixteen toes on each feet), arranged more like a flower than a human thumb-and-fingers. He's male, but lacks external genitals. He's also got fine, gray tentacles in patches over his body. They do move, by the way.
Akin's face will probably freak people out. First off, he looks like a medusa, with moving tentacles instead of hair. He's also missing most of the normal human sense organs -- he lacks eyes, ears and a nose, but does have a mouth. He accomplishes breathing through a hole in his throat and sensory input through his skin and tentacles.
Description of powers: Oh, boy. Let's go down the list. Akin's ancestors have been genetically engineering themselves since they crawled out of the muck, so they got a boatload of nice traits that they passed on to him. Enhanced senses, enhanced physical traits, enhanced digestion, healing ability, ability to tap into nerves, eidetic memory, and a lethal sting.
Strength/Extent of powers: Enhanced senses: a visual range that extends from the UV to thermal infrared, hearing that is both keen enough to hear a heartbeat and extends to supersonic and subsonic levels, smell good enough to pick out species, sex and emotional state of a person, and a 'taste' sense that lets them pick out all kinds of molecules and read genes. Also, Akin lacks blindspots thanks to using his entire body as a sensory organ, and even when he's asleep his senses are recording. He would have to be deeply unconscious or having his mind messed with to interrupt that.
Enhanced physical traits: Akin is physically on the high end of human strength and almost superhuman in his speed. He can also breathe water (or anything gaseous or liquid with the right amount of oxygen in it) and swim.
Digestion: Akin can eat anything organic and break it down. He still needs to worry about nutrition -- he can't make proteins without the raw materials. He can also either neutralize poison or detect them and throw them up. With training, he can tell if something will be bad for him just by touch.
Healing/Neural Link: Akin has control over his metabolic functions and can do things like stop his blood flow, if, for example, he was cut. He can't regenerate limbs, though small things, like sensory tentacles will grow back. He can take injuries that would knock a human down, thanks to a lot of decentralization. With memories, he can act on others to block pain, induce sleep and speed healing, though he's much more of a 'nurse' than a doctor in Oankali terms. Also, Oankali, their ships and their various domesticates all have the ability to link their nervous systems, so Akin could talk to his town, or the ship or an animal with a thought if he's touching them as well as quickly share sensory impressions and feelings, if they are designed to allow this. Normal humans he couldn't do this with, though, with memories, he'd probably be better able to quickly dump information to a telepath.
Eidetic Memory: He remembers everything, even back to when he was still in the womb. The few times things are not clear are when he was newborn and when he was undergoing metamorphosis, both times when his body had a host of new sensory stimulation to deal with.
Sting: Akin produces a lethal and corrosive venom in his body. He can control the reflex to sting, but it does take control to not do it when in a fight or agitated, especially if someone grabs at a sensitive part.
Innate: Some
Memory related: Some
Relation to memory: Akin will need memory of medical training to do anything healing-related on something other than himself. He also will either need to get memories of 'how to deal with poisons' or learn the hard way by eating a bit and being sick. The sense of genes will be improved with memories -- for example, as a toddler, Akin could see differences in populations of humans and pick out 'wrong' genes, but couldn't tell you why it was bothering him.
Effect of Animus Limiters: Akin's strength will be reduced, and the sting will be dialed down to 'not fun at all', rather than 'he's dead, son'. Most of the rest is defensive and sensory stuff.
