Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2017 20:14:34 GMT
Melati Kusuma
PERSONALITY Komodo is a very head strong but independent young woman. She has spent much of her life going from one home to another, causing her to have to learn to take care of herself and not worry about others helping her all the time. She would much prefer to try and work things out for herself and to try and do things her own way rather than anyone getting in her way. She is rather adaptive but stubborn, sometimes to the point she is bull headed and will not exactly listen to instructions or authority. She would much prefer to take things in her own hands and do what she thinks is necessary. But, Komodo is an intelligent young woman and quite clever in her own right. She knows how to work with such things as genetics, formulas, and some physics, something she tends to use to her advantage to create her own little ways to help in battle. She is also something of a trickster and manipulator, using her charm and sometimes sensual nature to pull people in, helping them to lower their guard and learn to trust her. It is her way of being able to learn more about a target, get what she wants, or get in a sneak attack when someone isn't really paying much attention. So just as much as she is social, Komodo can also be sly and use others if necessary. Yet, Komodo is not exactly good nor evil. She has a strong sense of what her own justice would count as and takes what actions she deems necessary. She will go beyond the law to get something done. She will be willing to work from behind the scenes to handle problems or use more extreme methods, such as killing, to get her target or something done. She feels if anyone is going to call themselves a hero or villain, they should walk that fine line instead and do what is necessary regardless of the repercussions. HISTORY Komodo's life was once quite normal. She was born to two loving parents, her mother was a stay at home mom while her father worked as a geneticist, being born in New York and being raised here by her parents at first. Though there were some hiccups in Melati's life this did not stop her from trying to live a somewhat normal childhood as she often could. Her young years before she was five were relatively normal. She tended to play with children in her neighborhood, began going to school, and grew close to her parents. Everything was probably as normal as a family could get, despite her father working long, exhausting hours but always making the best of the time he had with his family. But the family struck a concern when her mother was discovered to have the start of cancer, one that could prove damaging forcing her to undergo occasional surgeries or treatments to keep the cancer in remission or from spreading. Melati's father took less hours to support his family, often having to help make sure Melati got to school and was doing her homework. Her family managed to find a routine the next few years and her mother seemed to show signs of getting stronger. Melati offered her support for her parents, going to school but focusing less on her friends and social life and deciding to work odd jobs to help support the family. Though her parents hated her doing this, the young pre-teen Melati insisted, doing only minor stuff to help keep the family afloat, until things took a turn for the worst. At the age of twelve, Melati's mother's cancer came back with a vengeance and the young girl watched her mother die rather quickly over a few months time along with her father. A year later, her father perished during an incident involving AIM who was looking for more genetic research, ultimately resulting in several of the scientists at the facility losing their lives, her father among them. Life completely turned upside down, Melati was put in the foster care system and ended up going from one house to another, usually never staying for longer than a few months. She was forced to learn to handle herself more often than not, with a few households not exactly being the greatest and others not having much. She eventually did end up staying long term with one foster family who turned out to be a nicer middle-aged couple who treated her like their own. Having settled in and fifteen at the time, Melati was able to get something of a normal life back, going back to school but in a different district and trying to make the most of this time in her life. But once more, life threw her a curve ball after getting her license. Being reckless and a show off, Melati lost control of her car and had a terrible crash, resulting in her legs from the knee down being severely damaged and requiring amputation. The loss caused Melati to retreat into herself, becoming depressed and withdrawn to the point she became more concerned with her studies and hated people pitying her as the "poor girl in a wheel chair". She worked hard with her studies, eventually getting a scholarship to work under the likes of Curt Connors, becoming deeply interested in genetics and some physics. But her primary goal was to steal what remained of his Lizard formula, working closely with him until she was nineteen, finally gaining the access she needed and stealing a sample. Though Dr.Connors found out, he was too late to stop her, Melati having already modified the serum to work with her DNA. Though she admitted to being aware of the side effects, Melati was willing to accept them, taking the formula and getting what she wanted, her legs had regrown. But as her and Connors suspected, she became a humanized lizard, but she was not as feral or vicious as the original Lizard and Connors decided to tutor her in her new found abilities, helping to prepare her for her new found ambitions to seek revenge on AIM and to become something of her own new person, taking the codename of Komodo. For the past year and a half, Komodo has done just that. She has operated as both a hero and sometimes a villain, working her own agenda to end organizations such as AIM and has turned her eyes on the growing concern of villains. But, Connors has secretly also made mention of his student towards SHIELD, just in case she gets out of hand. Powers Lizard Physiology: Komodo has the resemblance of a human-lizard hybrid, being almost a smaller, leaner version of the original Lizard Dr.Connors. Using the same formula but modified to fit her DNA, she was given a green scaled appearance, working lizard-like legs with two toes in the front and one to the back sporting sharply curved claws, clawed hands, thick prehensile tails, frill along her head, back, and tail, and pointed ears. She has visible razor sharp fangs and her eyes appear a deep amber color. But, unlike that of Lizard, Komodo can change her form at will, although she prefers her lizard state. +Superhuman Strength: Komodo is incredibly strong in this state, being able to lift 1 ton without strain, which she can push to 1.5 tons when she does strain herself. This makes her more than capable of punching clear through steel or lifting a small car. +Superhuman Speed: Komodo can move at speeds well above the average human, being able to move up to 55 miles per hour, being somewhat faster than the likes of the original Lizard. +Superhuman Agility: Komodo is far more agile, has greater coordination, and greater balance than the average human, enough she is more than capable of maneuvering in tight places, across large gaps, and moving across narrow places with ease, some of which is thanks to her tail. +Superhuman reflexes: Komodo has sufficiently greater reflexes than the average human, her reaction time allowing her to avoid bullets from a few feet away or outmaneuver someone up close. +Superhuman Stamina: Komodo's musculature creates considerably less fatigue toxins in the body than a normal human, allowing her to go roughly 24 hours doing rigorous activity before she becomes impaired. +Superhuman Durability: Komodo's scales and musculature are denser and stronger in her lizard state, granting her far greater durability than in her human state, allowing her to survive great impact forces, falling from great heights, and withstanding small caliber bullets with little to no injury. +Regenerative Healing Factor: Komodo has a considerably powerful healing factor. It can be noted that she can regenerate limbs within minutes or heal from minor or fatal physical wounds within seconds. Such things as poisons, radiations, and certain chemicals are known to affect this to the point of slowing it while she is immune to diseases is she remains transformed. If she reverts back to human form she is granted only mild immunity to diseases while everything else affects her normally and her healing factor is slowed considerably in her human state, down to the point she no longer has her lower legs either. +Prehensile Tail: Komodo has a long, flexible tail in which she can use for balance, for offensive purposes, or helping in acrobatic feats or picking someone up. It is strong enough to hold her full weight or someone close to it. +Razor Sharp claws/Fangs: As a lizard hybrid, Komodo has naturally curved claws on her toes and hands, which she can use for close quarters purposes or sometimes as ways for wall-crawling. She also has elongated canines that can be used for close quarters as well. Password here: |
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