Thea

Anthea Garretson
Description Thea would just be a long, tall blonde, easy on the eyes with legs that go all the way up - if not for the whole host of insectoid features immediately marking her as a mutant. Everywhere, he skin is covered in a patchwork of iridescent, silvery chitinous armor covering most unjointed patches of skin. In places where it meets flesh, it looks to be growing out of her, much like fingernails. From far away it sort of looks like body armor, but up close, it's obviously a part of her. Her long sandy blonde hair flows around two slightly fuzzy, black antennae growing out of the top of her head. They're about half a foot long, and twitch from time to time. Her eyes are still orbs in sockets, but their surface is flat black, and multi-faceted. It's hard to tell exactly where they're looking as they swivel about. She also has a long, double pair of translucent insect wings. An entomology buff might note their similarity to termite wings, being twice the length of her body. They drape on the ground behind her when she walks. Introduction xxxxx Thea /could/ have grown up to be a really sweet person. It's actually still at the core of her, but the amount of emotional and psychological damage she experienced from her early-onset mutations has left her broken. She is constantly doing the wrong thing, but for the right reasons. She's also not above a bit of revenge, and she holds grudges like nobody's business. This is probably best exhibited by her sinking of Grover's Mill. She sunk a /town/ because of how they treated her, BUT she did it at night, and spared the hospital and homes. History xxxxx Thea grew up being taunted mercilessly by the other children (and some adults) in Grover's Mill. She was an early bloomer, and started out with really bad skin, red and flaky for almost a year before much of it sloughed away to reveal the chitin growing underneath. That was enough for her parents to homeschool her, but then came the antennae, and the eyes, her long fingers, and eventually her wings as well, and she hardly ever went out. Oddly enough, her parents were actually as supportive as they could be, and still loved their daughter very much. But Thea couldn't hear them over the jeers of the rest of the town. Their house was regularly egged and TP'd. There was an instance of profane spray painting as well, which the local sheriff essentially just shrugged at. 'What can ya do?' xxxxxThea quickly retreated to almost never leaving the house, and spending a great deal of time out in their high-fenced backyard. It wasn't long before she started experimenting with the bugs out there, and pretty soon had cat-sized pill bugs for pets. Her first efforts at organized tunneling were sloppy, and her parents put a stop to it, so she learned to hide it better. She hung a poster in their basement, and dug a hole through the wall behind it to get started. Within a year, she had tunnels big enough to walk in, through most of her neighborhood, and she started going out at night. xxxxxAt first, the tunneling was her way of getting around at night, and visiting the sleepy town while everyone else was in their beds, but that sentiment turned sour by the time she became an adult. She resented having to live underground, even if it was partially self-imposed, and eventually her resentment turned to plans for revenge. She spent years muttering and directing her insects which only possessed animal intelligence, until finally, later in life, she learned how to imbue them with a measure of true intelligence as well as their great size. This is when her sinkhole project really accelerated. She could give certain 'lieutenants' instructions, and leave them to organize a large group of dumber work bugs. She could delegate. xxxxxBy the time she was 25 she could have pulled the trigger and sunk Grover's Mill, but much of her still hesitated with the idea. She convinced herself that she liked being /able/ to whenever she wanted. She even started going outside during the day, once in a while, visiting shops, and areas around town. She was cursed at, spat on, and escorted out of businesses. Families took their children and left parks she came to. She spent 5 long years trying to give Grover's Mill an umpteenth chance, but in the end she couldn't take it anymore. In that time, she prepared her exit strategy - a tunnel to New York City, and an underground lair there, deep enough to be under the subways, under the sewer systems - under everything. And when it was all ready, she finally gave the order, tears in her multi-faceted eyes. The one upshot is that she was able to acquire a significant amount of cash from the vaults of sunken banks to finance her future endeavors. xxxxxSince then, she's been a terror around New York, working to build an empire, like any good insect queen. She had a run-in with the Morlocks, imprisoned Ivan, kidnapped the girls, and robbed the diamond district to have even more capital at her disposal. She now believes humans and mutants cannot live side-by-side, not yet at least, and is hellbent on doing whatever it takes to get enough resources to make a place for mutant-kind to settle. Buy an island - or possibly invade one - and set up their society, to show the world mutants can live alongside. That's her long term plan. No one said her logic isn't warped. Powers xxxxxPower: Details! Skills xxxxxSkill: Details! Connections Gallery	Anthea Garretson Codename Thea Birthdate 1983-07-17 Species Mutant Affiliation Brotherhood of Mutants Powers Insect Enlargement Occupation Entomology Expert Alts Aloke Suresh, Luke Cage RP Hooks X - " y - z - '
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