Cilantro

F Ex 20

A Ex 20

S Gd 10

E In 40

R Gd 10

I Rm 30

P Ex 20

Res Gd 10

Pop Gd -10

*off Rm 30

*dex Ex 20

*upr Gd 10

*res Rm 30

*log Ty 6

*alt In 40

*will Rm 30

*mat Gd 10

*pub Gd -10

*def Gd 10

*bal Ex 20

*lwr Gd 10

*sta Am 50

*mem Ex 20

*awr Ex 20

*pre Gd 10

*$ Gd 10

*sec Gd -10

Health: Karma:

90 60

NH: MH:

112 42

Origin:

Cilantro is a tiefling, a being that has come about due to a coupling between a human male and a... fiendish (tanar'ri) female. The specific identities of both her parents are unknown, but her mother seems to have something botanical in his demonic make-up, for most of Cilantro's powers are plant-based.

Known Powers:

Tiefling Abilities: as the 'love' child of a mortal man and an evil Tanar'ri mother, Cilantro has several quirky, inherent supernatural abilities. Primarily of a planty bent, these abilities mirror her mother's (whoever it may have been) nature, and include these magical powers:

* Resistance to Mundane Attacks: Cilantro has Excellent (20) rank resistance to any mundane attacks. These are defined as those which are non-magical, non-psionic, or non-deionic in origin, and can be of BA, BT, EA, ET, MB, Fo, Sh, or En type. This has contributed to her survival greatly over the years.

* Solar Regeneration: thanks to the chlorophyll in each of her cells, Cilantro has the ability to quickly recover from damage if exposed to sunlight (or a reasonable simulation of such). She has this power at Good (10) rank, allowing her to regenerate 1 Hpt per turn that she's bathed in sunlight.

Plant Transformation / Self: above and beyond a normal tiefling's abilities, Cilantro has demonstrated spectacular powers of personal transformation, allowing her to adopt and simulate all manner of plant-based powers. Some of the abilities she's demonstrated to date include the following:

* Damage Reduction: when she changes into plant matter, Cilantro develops additional resistance to injury; her internal organs are replaced with homogenous plant matter, so individual wounds do less damage to her. She has 1 CS of damage reduction, making her much harder to kill.

* Elongation: Cilantro can grow rather long vines from virtually anywhere on her body, shooting them out with up to Incredible (40) range - anywhere within one area of her person - in order to grapple with her normal Strength rank at a significant range, or to just deliver thorn / poison attacks.

* Man-Trap: a rather eerie power, Cilantro can fashion a rather large maw out of her torso, and then draw opponents into it (usually with her vines) to dissolve them, like a Venus fly trap. The caustic juices in her man-trap inflict Remarkable (30) MB damage per turn of exposure to them.

* Poisonous Touch: Cilantro can emit a variety of plant-based toxins as she sees fit, all of which function at Incredible (40) rank versus the metabolism (End (res)) of an opponent. These toxins receive a +1 CS if administered with her thorns - assuming that Cilantro inflicts damage with those first...

* Thorns: completely retractable, Cilantro can expose a massive amount of thorns all across her body - even on her elongating vines! She can use these to inflict her Strength rank in Edged Attack damage, and are a great delivery mechanism for her poisons.

Portal Detection: born of the planes, Cilantro has been exposed to their curious, not-quite-normal energies for most of her life. As such, she's keenly aware of the doorways between planes, as their energies flow back and forth through these holes in space-time. This power functions at Good (10) rank.

Equipment:

(none)

Quirks:

Weirdness Magnet: perhaps due to some quirk of her birth, or perhaps simply as a result of being from a plane imbued with chaotic energies, Cilantro tends to attract the weird and bizarre to her person. Strange things almost always happen around her, whether she takes steps to avoid this or not...

Talents:

Natural Weapons: though she has no practical skill with weapons, Cilantro is quite well-versed in the use of her own, natural implements of pain. Whether she's using her vines or thorns on an opponent, she should do so as though her Ftg (off) was +1 CS higher than is listed above.

Physics / Planar Physics: Cilantro isn't all that good with much else besides brute, killing force, but she does know her way around the planes; she found out how various laws of physics change throughout the multiverse by experiencing such changes firsthand. Her Rsn (log) is +1 CS in such matters.

Contacts:

Though one of the more quirkier members of that group, Cilantro was a member of the short-lived gang known as the Tenacious Ten. Since she was on relatively good terms with the other participants in this villain team, she could conceivably rely upon them as contacts if she ever meets them again.

Costume:

Cilantro doesn't wear all that much of a costume, when you get down to it; clothes serve only to hamper the use of her powers, and she cares not for the 'decency' that others purport to maintain. However, she has adopted a two piece, chain mail bikini since arriving on earth (if only to shut folks like Normal Man up...).

Personality:

Cilantro is damaged. She was left to fend for herself at birth on the Plain of Infinite Portals, and survived through sheer luck. The value of life is meaningless to her, and killing others to get what she wants is second nature. She only 'plays nice with others' if given a powerful motive to do so.

Real Name: Cilantro (assumed name; she was given none at birth)
Occupation: mercenary
Legal Status: native of the Abyss who fits right in there
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: none
Group Affiliation: the Tenacious Ten

Height: 6' 3"
Hair: green, and leafy
Eyes: solid, emerald green
Weight: 140 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: Cilantro is humanoid, but oddly plant-like in appearance. Her skin is pea green in coloration, with darker blotches scattered about her body. Her hair appears to be long and grassy, and is in fact grass green in hue, and her eyes are mere pools of an emerald green liquid.

Story:

Cilantro has had a very hard life. Her mother died on the Plain of Infinite Portals, the first layer of the Abyss, when giving birth to her. On the other hand, her father didn't even know that she existed, so the unnamed child was forced to fend for herself from birth in one of the most dangerous places in the multiverse.

Despite the overwhelming odds against her, this young girl managed to survive, and even thrive in these environs. She eventually adopted the name of Cilantro when she realized she had no identity to speak of, having liked the sound of it, and grew to become a potent power broker on the Plains.

Not that she had any real martial prowess, so much as Cilantro was simply incredibly powerful, and seemed to draw a large gang (or small army, depending on how you look at it) to her side as she wandered the Plains. This was not to last, though, for a chance encounter with an astral conduit thrust her off-world.

Forcefully ejected from the Abyss, Cilantro wandered the planes for a time, randomly causing trouble here and there, until her thirtieth birthday. It was then that she was summoned to the earthly plane by Elys, a powerful dragon techno-mage, and forced to do the creature's bidding for a time.

Elys had powerful enemies that needed dealing with, you see, and didn't feel like getting her own hands dirty. As such, she'd assembled a powerful gang of super-humans to handle this threat for her, and Cilantro was simply pressed into service with this so-called Tenacious Ten.

She didn't particularly like them, and she especially hated Elys, but Cilantro simply went along with the flow for awhile, since she didn't really care one way or the other who she killed people for. When presented with Elys enemies at long last, Cilantro was happy to fight, for her opponent was a half-breed like her.

This fellow, a half-dragon known as Magus, returned Cilantro's combative advances in kind, and though she's rather tough, Cilantro fell before his might. He would've slain her, too, but when her minions were defeated, Elys teleported them to safety, in order to make use of them again at a later date.

She was slain shortly thereafter, though, so this never occurred. As such, Cilantro (not to mention the rest of the Tenacious Ten) was released from any obligation to that mighty beast, and was left to wander the earth. What Cilantro will do with herself here is as of yet unknown.

Though it likely isn't anything good for humanity in general...!

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