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Clarification: I was referencing the pose and clothing and not the bodytype so please don’t kill me with hammers.

Im tired lmao.

Sorry if some parts are shaky or weird. My wrists suck and some of my references got crunchy quality wise.

Name/Powers/Origin

Name: Minerva (formerly named Malyshka by scientists)

Powers: Gravity manipulation, agility, intelligence, strength

Origin: Back during the Space Race, Russian scientists were running a secret test to see if there was life on other planets but didn’t want to risk human test subjects.

They picked up a spider monkey from a local zoo for testing and named her Malyshka. After getting a ship made for her and training her to use it before sending her off.

Malyshka traveled in deep space for years, in and out of cryosleep as instructed via a series of tones that told her what to do.

But one day, Malyshka disappeared. And to the scientists, she either died or got lost.

Turns out, she got abducted by aliens and experimented on further via implanting some of their DNA in her.

This resulted in mutations that made her more humanoid, increased her intelligence, gave her the ability to talk, and gave her gravity manipulation powers.

The aliens sent her back and Malyshka traveled in space for several more years.

During the travel, she began thinking about the fact that she never had a choice in any of this.

She never had a choice in being a test subject in any way whether it was the aliens or humans and resents them.

She never had a choice to do anything in this ship without a sound prompting it and hates hearing it.

She never even had a choice in her own name and hates how demeaning it is to be called Baby essentially.

Malyshka came across some books in her ship that were originally meant for whatever life form she came across.

One that interested her was a book on myths.

One that caught her attention was the Roman goddess, Minerva.

She loved reading stories about her and decided to name herself Minerva because it’s more empowering.

Minerva would enter cryosleep again, but this time. She set her course back to Earth.

Her ship landed in a playground where some kids found her asleep. The scientists picked her up and examined her, seeing all the mutations and finding a journal she made out of a blank notebook a scientist accidentally left on board, showing both an increase in intellect and proof of her encountering life.

But one noticed a highly concerning final entry.

“I never had a choice in my existence as a primate. Never chose to do any of this, never chose my name, never chose to be a freak. But now, I am making a choice, I am turning my ship around and when I return, I will kill all the humans that have taken my choice and others choice.”

When Minerva awakened, she made good on her promise and killed the scientists either by lowering gravity and resetting it once they were high enough or crushing them with higher gravity.

Additional notes:

-Minerva would never admit to it or be caught dead eating one, she does unironically loves bananas.

-Minerva never harms children as she finds it pathetic to harm a weaker being.

-As much sympathy as she has for fellow primates and animals who are being tested on, she doesn’t feel as much empathy as she’d like due to being basically a hairy human with a tail and no longer having that connection along with being repulsed by their, well, primitiveness.

-In fact, she has trouble connecting with anyone or anything due to basically being her own category of life. Too intelligent and humanlike to be an animal but too animalistic to be a human.

-Clean freak to the max. Daily showers, perfume, brushing her teeth after every meal even when it’s not necessary, etc.

-Speaks in a very antiquated way due to being in space since the 60s where she was asleep on and off for decades.

-Is a polyglot who can speak Russian, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, French, Spanish, German, Latin, Hebrew, and more.

-Is aroace and also just not attracted to anything or anyone in any way. Again, basically being her own species and all.

-Loves jewelry and it’s the few things she gets excited and joyous over.

-Likes cats and will pet it as soon as it’s in her line of sight.

Name/Powers

Wilhelmina “Willie” Rhodes/Road Rage (any pronouns)

Powers: Super speed, agility, healing factor, allegedly can break the fourth wall (actually talks to herself pretending the audience can see her because it’s funny)

Weaknesses: Powers require a higher caloric intake, can still get exhausted, can get burns from running too fast (small ones but still ouch)

Additional Info:

-Willie is Native American (Zuni)

-Willie is Two Spirit

-Willie, personality wise, isn’t actually evil. She’s just an annoying shithead and mischief maker.

-She developed her powers after an accident during a marathon (used to be a track star) and an experimental treatment caused them to awaken

-Mainly robs banks and acts like a nuisance using her super speed to her advantage.

Unrelated but y’all should watch Coyote vs Acme 😉

Name/Powers

Agnetta Joks/Snow Maiden (she/they)

Powers: Cryokinesis drawn from any form of water, agility, healing factor

Weaknesses: Powers risks dehydration if the only water source is her body, struggles with body temp regulation (hence the coat which has cooling packs lining it to keep her body temp stable), can lose control if she’s distressed

Actual characters on the next four slides.

Name and Powers:

Cybelle Takojima/Splinter (like hair splinters. Get it? Please laugh.)

Powers: Prehensile hair that can also harden to create blades, hair is resistant to most damage, rapid hair growth and retraction

Weaknesses: Water, head and neck pain, temporary power loss of her head is shaved, needs hair and nail vitamins to prevent brittleness.

I just realized I forgot her navel piercing please don’t kill me with hammers 🙏😭

Characters+Powers:

Lucille “Lucy” Ellison/Extremophile (she/they)

Powers: Rapid and Reactive adaptation, superhuman strength, intelligence, regeneration+endurance, sticky pads on hands and feet, superhuman senses

Weaknesses: Effectiveness dependent on physical health, doesn’t fully work against magic

Simone Clarke/Psimone (they/she)

Powers: Telekinesis, Flight, energy blasts, healing factor

Weaknesses: Overuse can cause debilitating migraines and exhaustion, celiac’s disease

Amber Stevens/Antera (after the star Anteres btw) (she/her)

Powers: Pyrokinesis, flight, impervious to fire, strength, healing factor

Weaknesses: The flames produced are fueled by her lipids using the wick effect (which means she basically spontaneously combusts minus the dying part) which means she has to eat more to avoid her powers from more or less starving her to death (which is super hard as a vegetarian, thank god for protein shakes), water, hot girl disease (which is what she calls IBS because it sounds less gross).

More to come. Just give me a second.

If there’s anything that needs fixed while still in the sketch phase, say it now bc I will cry if it ends up still being terrible.

Also, sorry that the third slide is crunchy idk what happened.

Been struggling and had to scrap the old sketch.

Pie 👍