Wielant, Clarice

[Hika]

Name: Clarice Wielant
Age: 20
Apparent Age: 16
Height: 5' 10"
Occupation: None
Race: Enhanced Human
History: Ever since she was a child, she was poked and prodded and shocked and stabbed. She was simply an experimental subject to those in white coats and blue facemasks - she was in this white room because of her power to commune: to speak to plants around her. Every day, scientists would run tests that stretched the limits of her mind and body in the hopes of forcing her power to greater heights. Eventually, like a dog that has been shocked too many times, Clarice became unresponsive, refusing to even make a noise from the treatment.

They chopped her left hand off because of that. And Clarice, just like the scientists wanted, delved into the next stage of her power. The sunflowers next to her tore the scientists closest to her to shreds, becoming man-sized teethed monstrosities to defend one of their own. The girl's consciousness returned to darkness as tranquilizers were pumped into her body.

Freedom was but a dream to her, but she already had the mindset of a dandelion. Even through concrete, she would grow. She would escape. And she would be free. And one day, during the pandemonium of a mass breakout, she did. She didn't know who initiated the breakout, but she did learn what human flesh tasted like: vindication and victory.

She called upon the plants nearby for a feast, and the plants obliged her call. After they had their fill, they rewarded her with a new hand. It looked off, the skin appearing rougher and darker and bark-like, but it was a fully-functional hand.

For that, she would be eternally grateful to nature. And, later when she realized that the compound she was in could've never escaped government notice, she learned to hate civilization and government.


Personality: Hanging around bars and seedy places, Clarice is a hunter stalking for her prey. Manipulating them with sweet words and a shy smile, Clarice has convinced many a man to take her for a midnight stroll. Quite often, she watched the light fade from their eyes as poisoned thorns pierced their skin, the forest claiming the body. On darker days, the kind-looking girl would slowly tear her prey up a piece at a time, carefully keeping the victim alive till the very end.

Outside of her serial-killing ways, Clarice is rather bright despite what was done to her. She's rather cheerful and has a love for all things green. She's often believed to be touched in the head, sometimes babbling to a tree or a flower about her thoughts. Among other people, she is known to be shy and has a very clear aversion to middle-aged males during the daytime. During the nighttime though, Clarice is always willing to take one of these men for a midnight stroll.



Abilities:

Commune: This ability is two-fold. Commune brings out the essence of nature within the plant and strengthens it, granting the plant and any plants around it sentience. The sentience is remembered by that specific plant and any group of similar plants that surround it. The second part of Commune is the actual communication part. Small or young plants can only relay images and sensations to Clarice as they are weaker in nature's essence. However, older, larger, or flowering plants can telepathically speak to Clarice. Clarice can choose to speak or telepathically communicate to plants, the latter drawing upon more energy.

Rot: Rot can only be performed on corpses and other dead things. Rot accelerates the decaying process, allowing plants to better access the nutrients that the corpse once had.

Manipulate: Manipulate was the power that was unlocked when Clarice's hand was chopped off. It allows Clarice to alter the traits of plants under her Commune. Dandelions can suddenly become ten-foot tall teethed horrors. Ivy can suddenly become hundreds of slithering strangling snakes. Clarice can only manipulate small plant-life right now since she needs to directly manipulate the essence of the plant. Plants under Manipulate will revert back to normal after a period of time.

Slowed Aging: Though Clarice has always aged slower than most which was another reason why she was experimented on, her aging has been slowed even more by the addition of a plant hand. It can only be speculated that the addition of a tree-like appendage has gifted Clarice a greater life span. This effect is not something that Clarice consciously realized.