Name: Maria Voticelli
Alias: Doctor Voticelli
Gender: Female (she/her)
Height: 5’8”
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Dark gray, almost black
Power: Maria’s body is composed of a black-gray liquid that’s similar to ferrofluid. She must concentrate in order to maintain some semblance of a human form, and can readily manipulate her form at will. In order to free up her focus, Maria developed a magnetic solution that, when injected, keeps her form together without the need for her to concentrate on it. This solution must be injected into her bloodstream every 156 hours (approximately 6.5 days) or she will have to devote more of her focus to keeping herself together, eventually falling apart if her focus wavers.
With her shapeshifting, she can adjust her body however she sees fit. She used to primarily shapeshift for burglary, but nowadays she mainly uses it to make her daily tasks more convenient, especially in her home lab.
Alias: Doctor Voticelli
Gender: Female (she/her)
Height: 5’8”
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Dark gray, almost black
Power: Maria’s body is composed of a black-gray liquid that’s similar to ferrofluid. She must concentrate in order to maintain some semblance of a human form, and can readily manipulate her form at will. In order to free up her focus, Maria developed a magnetic solution that, when injected, keeps her form together without the need for her to concentrate on it. This solution must be injected into her bloodstream every 156 hours (approximately 6.5 days) or she will have to devote more of her focus to keeping herself together, eventually falling apart if her focus wavers.
With her shapeshifting, she can adjust her body however she sees fit. She used to primarily shapeshift for burglary, but nowadays she mainly uses it to make her daily tasks more convenient, especially in her home lab.
Maria Voticelli was not always a kind woman. She was never cruel, but those who worked with Maria would have described her as results-driven over anything else, almost to the point of stubbornness. A brilliant scientist with experience in half a dozen fields of study, Maria conducted research at a handful of labs over the course of a decade before pivoting to focus on her own research: mainly, that of metahumans.
The existence of metahumans had always been a fringe theory, with rumored reports of people with supernatural and superhuman abilities trickling in slowly but steadily over the years. Maria believed that the stories were true, that metahumans existed not only in legend, but in the modern day as well. However, given that most of them presumably would object to having their personal and/or genetic identifying information on record, Maria decided instead that she would create one, imbuing a person with extraordinary powers in order to further her research.
But the wheels of progress ground too slowly, and Maria found her funding starting to dry up. The various hoops she had to jump through and red tape she had to deal with hindered her progress to a level that she found unsatisfactory. Using herself as a test subject to bypass humane testing legislation, Maria began a new avenue of experimentation, using a ferrofluid derivative in an attempt to imbue herself with potential superhuman strength and durability.
She was not prepared for her experiment to succeed, nor what that success would entail. One moment Maria Voticelli was a human woman, doubled over in pain and sweating profusely. The next she felt herself falling, sliding apart. Her skin started to darken and gray, her body began melting, and in less than five minutes the brilliant scientist was reduced to a puddle of grayish-black sludge.
But Maria Voticelli could still think, therefore she still was. Through immense trial and error, she was able to partially solidify herself, enough to move, enough to stand, enough to take on some semblance of a human form again. It took almost all her willpower to maintain her shape, and so she began to work on a solution. Her new form proved quite malleable, and once the problem of short-term stabilization was solved, she began to experiment with different forms and shapes, finding that her will could sculpt her into whatever she could imagine.
That just left the small issue of funding. Maria had succeeded, in a sense, but she could hardly present to investors in her current state. But a little thing like being structurally unstable would not stop her from achieving her goals. Over the next several weeks there was a string of robberies with no sign of forced entry, or of any entry at all. Maria was the ultimate burglar, able to slip between the cracks and pick any lock. She might have continued in this escapade alongside her scientific duties if not for a single robbery gone wrong. After that, she swore off crime and devoted herself entirely to science.
Now that she had proven the existence of metahumans, albeit artificially created ones, Maria began to formulate her next experiment. If it was possible to give oneself superhuman abilities, could those be passed down to one’s offspring? It would be a long-form experiment, but one that she would surely be able to see to its end. She’d always liked the name Venus...
The existence of metahumans had always been a fringe theory, with rumored reports of people with supernatural and superhuman abilities trickling in slowly but steadily over the years. Maria believed that the stories were true, that metahumans existed not only in legend, but in the modern day as well. However, given that most of them presumably would object to having their personal and/or genetic identifying information on record, Maria decided instead that she would create one, imbuing a person with extraordinary powers in order to further her research.
But the wheels of progress ground too slowly, and Maria found her funding starting to dry up. The various hoops she had to jump through and red tape she had to deal with hindered her progress to a level that she found unsatisfactory. Using herself as a test subject to bypass humane testing legislation, Maria began a new avenue of experimentation, using a ferrofluid derivative in an attempt to imbue herself with potential superhuman strength and durability.
She was not prepared for her experiment to succeed, nor what that success would entail. One moment Maria Voticelli was a human woman, doubled over in pain and sweating profusely. The next she felt herself falling, sliding apart. Her skin started to darken and gray, her body began melting, and in less than five minutes the brilliant scientist was reduced to a puddle of grayish-black sludge.
But Maria Voticelli could still think, therefore she still was. Through immense trial and error, she was able to partially solidify herself, enough to move, enough to stand, enough to take on some semblance of a human form again. It took almost all her willpower to maintain her shape, and so she began to work on a solution. Her new form proved quite malleable, and once the problem of short-term stabilization was solved, she began to experiment with different forms and shapes, finding that her will could sculpt her into whatever she could imagine.
That just left the small issue of funding. Maria had succeeded, in a sense, but she could hardly present to investors in her current state. But a little thing like being structurally unstable would not stop her from achieving her goals. Over the next several weeks there was a string of robberies with no sign of forced entry, or of any entry at all. Maria was the ultimate burglar, able to slip between the cracks and pick any lock. She might have continued in this escapade alongside her scientific duties if not for a single robbery gone wrong. After that, she swore off crime and devoted herself entirely to science.
Now that she had proven the existence of metahumans, albeit artificially created ones, Maria began to formulate her next experiment. If it was possible to give oneself superhuman abilities, could those be passed down to one’s offspring? It would be a long-form experiment, but one that she would surely be able to see to its end. She’d always liked the name Venus...