Element

Name: Element Δ Number 3 Age: 16 Gender: Female Sexual orientation: Straight

Abilities: In the very simplest of words, Element's powers are all about the state of matter. She can change the material something is made of, such as turning an object to gold, or cause it to become insubstantial or go from liquid to gas, etc. She can do this with anything as long as it is within her clear eyesight (if she is not touching it, her power doesn't work if she can't see the object or it is blurry), but it is most effective and precise when she is actually touching the object in question. Anything more biologically complicated than a plant or fungus she cannot affect at all if she is not directly touching it, and all living matter will eventually revert to their original materials and forms (still alive and relatively unaffected) once she stops paying attention to them. The purer and simpler the object is, the easier and less energy-consuming it is for her to affect it. So a bolt of a solid, pure metal, for instance, she could turn into its gaseous form barely even thinking about it even if it was fairly far away from her, whereas a petri dish of live bacteria would take some concentration if she was not touching it, and a human being would both require her to touch it and take so much energy she might pass out. To be clear, she cannot change shapes or colors, only materials and states, so if you handed her a piece of wood and asked her to make a dollar bill out of it, she wouldn't be able to help you, though she would be able to turn it into a very large, thick piece of something brown with the right texture. The limitations on this power are not terribly high, but they do require a great deal of knowledge to get complex changes right, so Element has a lot of chemical and biological information crammed into her head, not to mention a fairly good memory. For some reason, the ability to make things insubstantial comes the most naturally to her, so when her powers are going out of control, everything she looks directly at starts becoming insubstantial.

Personality: Element is a kind person. Having lived mostly by herself for years, she is not always very aware of people's needs and desires, and can sometimes say the wrong things, but she is mostly just kind and thoughtful and considerate and full of hope and joy. She is easily pleased, rarely angered, and wants very few physical things. Despite her innocent nature, however, she sees the world very clearly, and refuses to pretend things aren't real just because they aren't the way she wants them to be. When a situation is bad, she is always the last to panic or despair, and can handle even the most horrible situations with a great deal of equanimity. On the other hand, when she is angry, she can be downright nasty, holding grudges for a long time and using her powers to play tricks on people who've irritated her. Old hurts or troubles that she doesn't normally think about will come to the surface in these times, and she can say things that are childish, but very spiteful.

Thoughts about the world’s situation: Element supports peace, but that doesn't mean she's okay with what happened to her, the situation in which she was raised is completely unacceptable to her. She didn't want to become a weapon, or strange, or abnormal. She always wanted freedom, having a taste of it in the objects they brought to her to transform. But it is precisely for this reason that she doesn't want to kill. She was forced to become an abnormal for the sake of war, she doesn't want to become precisely what they made her to be. She may be a potential weapon and asset, but she has every intention of being the most uncooperative little asset on the planet. The current world makes her sad. Having had pleasantries her entire life has given her a taste of what life could be, and what it isn't. She has hope that the world could be better, but it's a sad sort of faint hope. The thing she loves the most about the world is the sky, the water, and the dirt beneath her feet. She loves nature, because in her sterile world, that was the one thing she never truly got to experience. To her, that's freedom, and her hope is that she can share this endless wonder of the simplest things with everyone else in the world.

Quote: "Look at this world. Isn't it beautiful? Too beautiful for me." "I'm not a person. I'm a book. You could say I am the culmination of alchemy, the Magnum Opus, incomplete without my recipe for immortality, but all man makes must be incomplete, after all."