| Introduction
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“Tatters” is a misshapen outcast roaming the sewers and tunnels beneath the streets of the city, tirelessly hunting the monsters that lurk in the depths. Why are there monsters in the sewers? Well, it’s kind of a long story...
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| History
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But long story short, Tatters was born Jillian Francis; she and her twin sister Lily were finally born after their mother resorted to participating in a trial of an experimental fertility treatment performed by the monolithic Daedalus Group. And they had a nice, happy childhood in the suburbs until they both hit puberty and turned out to be mutants. Lily had it relatively easy with a odd teleporting thing, but Jill -- well, she hit the point in her life when her body was going through some changes, and then kept going through radical and grotesque changes in response to barely controlled subconscious signals.
Eventually, her parents complained to the Daedalus Group, threatening to take the whole mess public. In return they received a nice big payout and Jill was taken in for treatment. Typically, her “treatment” was more along the lines of imprisonment and experimentation, which persisted until Lily launched a daring rescue and busted them both out. Unfortunately, a number of hideous monstrous experiments also got out (I’m not saying who’s fault it was, I’m just saying it happened), and anyways that’s why there’s monsters in the sewers.
After an argument with the parents the twins decided to stick around in NYC, and until Jill can learn to morph a convincing face (faces are hard!) she’ll have to stay underground and out of sight. Conveniently, that’s also where the monsters are, so Jill might as well get to cleaning up her own mess before someone gets eaten. And apparently she’s not the only mutant down there after all...
In the meantime, so long as she’s a lonesome subterranean ranger she needs a cool name, and there just so happens to be a fairy tale hero who’s an ugly daughter spawned from a dodgy magical fertility treatment with a habit of picking fights with monsters...but “Tatterhood” feels a bit formal.
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| Powers
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Hypothetically, Tatters can alter and reshape her body at will. Practically, bodies are complicated, and although her power does a fantastic job of fabricating complex organic tissue, she still has to put things together in a way that actually works -- which takes time, attention, and fine control. And while she has a "body sense" that allows her to observe her body and see what she's doing, as it were, it doesn't come with any intuitive knowledge about how to create exotic tissue types or construct functional organs. (Generally, it's easiest for her when she can just clone adjacent tissue, either to grow something larger or patch over a hole. And it doesn't conveniently snap back to a "default" form, which means if she screws up she has to try and put things back the way they were as best she can.
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| Connections
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Friends
Lily Francis: Tatters’ devoted sister, a feeling that runs both ways. Presently living topside, trying to juggle being helpful to Tatters with taking care of her own business.
Enemies
The Daedalus Group: Sinister multinational pharmaceutical and bioengineering corporation. Well, probably not everyone who works there is evil. Likely only a very small fraction of their employees are evil. But it’s enough. They and the Francis twins are mutually on each other’s shit list. Sometimes they send teams down to try and deal with the monsters, which goes as well as one might expect.
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| Gallery
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| Full Name
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| Codename
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Tatterhood
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| Birthdate
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December 16, 1992
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| Species
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Mutant
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| Affiliation
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Morlocks
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| Alignment
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Pungent Good
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| Powers
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Metamorph
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| Occupation
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Sewer Dweller/Monster Hunter
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| RP Hooks
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| Some Kind of Smelly Strider - Tatters spends a lot of her time patrolling the underground, doing her best to manage the local "wildlife." It's usually a solitary job, but sometimes people find their way down...or things find their way up.
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| The Mor The Merrier - Of course, Tatters isn't the only outcast eeking out a living amid the lint between the city's toes, either. Sooner or later she'll have neighbours to make friends and/or pick fights with!
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| In High and Low Places - While Tatters skulks through the sewers, the Daedalus Group continues its nefarious...whatever it's up to above, and when they meet sparks fly. They have a feud! It's adorable.
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| She Cleans Up Nicely - Well, she doesn't. At least until she figures out a way to do faces that doesn't drop her squarely in the Uncanny Valley. But grumpy and asocial as she is, Tatters still misses being able to interact with people in a non-punchy way, and occasionally disguises herself as best she can forays topside for some fresh air, often at Lily's urging. Sometimes this goes surprisingly well! But oftentimes it doesn't, especially as neither of them are clued-in to NYC's mutant-friendly hangouts.
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