Dos Santos, Iara

[attr="class","dupertitle"]IARA DOS SANTOS

[attr="class","dupertext"]AKA "SHARK GIRL"
GROUP UNAFFILIATED

AGE 18
GENDER F

HEIGHT 5'9" (6'4" as Shark Girl)
WEIGHT 150LBS (185lbs as Shark Girl)

POWER LEVEL 3


POSITIVE + loyal + confident + fun loving + open minded + down to earth
NEGATIVE - blunt - rude - selfish - easily angered - violent

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[attr="class","dupertext"]POWERS / SKILLS

▀ Selachothropy. Also known as Weresharkism. To put it simply, Iara can shapeshift at will into a bipedal human-shark hybrid with big shark muscles and even bigger shark boobs. She can only use the rest of her powers when she's in Shark Girl mode, so she's starting to spend more and more time as a shark, and less as a human. Even though her powers are pretty awesome, they do come with the drawback that, like a shark, Iara can experience such extreme bloodlust at the sight, smell or taste of blood that she goes on rampages, eating whatever - and whoever - is nearby, be they friend or foe.

▀ Amphibious Physiology. In Wereshark mode, Iara can breath both on land and underwater for an indefinite amount of time. Like the rest of her powers, this only applies when she's a shark, so don't expect Iara to go deep sea diving as a human any time soon.

▀ Superhuman Strength. Another cool shark talent Iara picked up is the ability to punch cinderblocks into dust. Wait, sharks can do that, right? Uh, well, Weresharks can! In her human body, she's about as strong as the average athletic teenager, but when she shifts into Shark Girl she can crush skulls with her muscular fists. It's kinda awesome.

▀ Superhuman Swimming Speed. As Shark Girl, Iara can swim as fast as any of you nerds can fly. She's still pretty quick without shapeshifting, having spent a whole lotta time training, but she's much faster with a shark head and giant muscles.

▀ Enhanced Stamina. With all those extra Shark Girl muscles, Iara doesn't tire out as quickly as the typical human. Whether it's fighting, swimming or biting off the heads of her enemies, Iara can probably do it longer than you. That said, Iara will run out of fuel after a while, but she can probably go about twice as long as your everyday person.

▀ Claws & Fangs. Iara's Shark Girl body has a nasty set of claws and a mouth full of extra large shark teeth. With these, she's fully capable of ripping and tearing through her enemies, not to mention biting off heads and miscellaneous limbs. Keep in mind her shark abilities aren't superhuman; her jaws are about as strong as your typical Great White, meaning she can't bite through solid steel, but cracking bones and taking chunks out of fleshy folks isn't out of the question.

▀ Iron Stomach. Iara can eat raw meat and other foods that pose the risk of food poisoning without getting sick. It's not much of a power combat wise, but when you're in the wasteland and able to eat an uncooked rat without puking for three days, it certainly comes in handy.

▀ Scent Tracking. It's nowhere near Wolverine's level, but Iara can track people by scent. She can easily lose the trail if someone takes precautions to hide their smell, or if there's enough wind to disorientate her nose, but generally she can smell someone a couple of miles aware. If her target is bloodied or bleeding, Iara can smell them much more easily, doubling her tracking ability, although it does bring the risk of sending her into a bloodlust rampage.

▀ Unarmed. When you're alone in the wasteland (dun dun), you must fight to surviiiive (dun dun) so it makes sense that Iara's picked up a few moves over the years. She gravitates towards simple brawling, rather than complex martial arts styles, and knows how to put her weight behind her attacks. What she lacks in defensive manoeuvres, she makes up for with raw strength - remember, this girl can punch through a cinderblock, so you might wanna dodge.

▀ Survival. Growing up an orphan in Freeside, Iara had to learn to protect herself at a very young age. Over the years she's managed to keep herself alive and relatively well - aside from the mutation, which honestly is pretty great - despite numerous assaults and threats to her safety.

EQUIPMENT

▀ Brass Knuckles. She nicked them from some tough guy tourist and then beat his face in with 'em when he got all pissy about being robbed. Ever since then, Iara and those knuckles have been the best of friends.

▀ Boxing Tape. Sometimes Iara doesn't want to deal with all the blood and screaming and potential gang intervention of outright beating someone to death. In these cases, it's time to beat out the tape and give someone a quick reminder why they don't mess with Freesiders.

▀ Pre-War Clothes (Set One). In the style of a school uniform, even though Iara hasn't been to school. Eh, whatever, it's cute and makes her look like a refined nerd when she's gotta talk to important people.

▀ Pre-War Clothes (Set Two). A wetsuit that's a little baggy on Iara, but fits Shark Girl perfectly. She prefers wearing this to her other set of Pre-War clothes, since it offers a little more flexibility and she can jump in any lakes she sees during her wanderings.

APPLICATION When you're living in a nuclear wasteland, there isn't a whole lot of clean water to swim in. There's not a lot of water, period, but there's even less of the stuff that won't mutate your DNA to shit the minute you slid in. Unfortunately, Iara had the whole "too punk to die" attitude going as a kid, and just swam in irradiated water like the giant idiot she remains to this day. Apparently, when you're an orphan living on the streets of Freeside, life doesn't have a whole lot of value, so if you throw it away for a couple hours of fun, so be it.

But, luckily for her, Iara didn't turn into a Ghoul, no matter how often she went swimming. Thinking herself invincible, she started getting cocky, challenging people to fights for fun, robbing any unlucky nerd who crossed her path on a bad day, until one evening during a typical brawl she bit off a guy's head. Like, literally. Her jaw unhinged and next thing she knew, she was spitting out the chewed up chunks of a human head - also there was webbing on her fingers, but she was a little more concerned about the fact she just ate a man, and even worse, enjoyed it.

So it turns out Iara wasn't as unaffected by the toxic waters as she thought. Rather than mutating her into a ghoul, the radiation had a different effect, somehow combining her DNA with that of a shark's. Did it make sense? Nope, but fuck it, this is how it went.

With the taste of sweet, sweet human meat on her tongue, Iara went a little... batshit crazy. Rather than doing the rational thing and fleeing the scene of the crime, our good buddy Shark Girl fully shifted into a giant shark woman and finished off the corpse without a second thought. Naturally, once she came back to her senses and returned to her human body, Iara was more than slightly horrified at what she'd done, and then decided to flee the scene, although this time with a lot more existential angst than she may have had before.

Now aware of the fact she wasn't quite human any more, Iara left Freeside. While she had no concerns with beating the hell out of people, actually murdering them - eating them alive - was too much for her to handle, so she did the only thing she could think of and separated herself from civilisation until she could better control herself during her changes. A couple years of living in the wastelands, scraping by thanks to her ability to eat any meats avaliable, Iara was not only able to choose when she shifted into Shark Girl, but was more or less able to control herself, give or take a couple of accidents, like when she bit off a lady's finger or when she was getting frisky with that one cute guy and took necking to a whole new level... And that time with the wanderer, and that other one- Okay, look, she was fine, we all mess up and go on rampages sometimes.

With Shark Girl (kinda) until control, Iara begun re-entering towns and mingling with the normal folk again. She was still an unapologetic punk jerk, got into fights and stole, but now she was-- Uh. Well, she's pretty much the same, but now she's part shark and really likes how people taste.

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