Marzipan Xenova is a "female" Zerusian, a member of the race known as Zerusi that inhabit a far off corner of the cosmos. Literally. An actual corner. Don't ask, it took a lot of psychic and arcane involvement, and I don't really understand it either.
The Zerusian females, like the males, however, seem to be physically stunted in a way - adults never appear older than 15 or 16 or so years in age, the entire race bearing a very youthful visage.
==========~-{Stats}-~==========
Species: Zerusian/Eldritch Neko
Gender: Female
Height: 5'0 // 152.4 cm
Weight: 90 Lbs. // 40.8 kg
Age: 451 human years, only 27 Zerusian years/cycles
Body Type: Mostly lithe, but curvy around the hips/thighs/butt
Eye Color: Amethyst
Eye Type: Able to go from rounded to slits. The iris has white spirals in it.
Skin Tone: Fair
Skin Type: Normal
Hair/Fur Color: Violet
Hair Type: Straight/Wavy, long
Tail Length: 4 ft.
Ear Length: 4 inches when fully alert.
Voice: Light, Giggly, Cute
~-=BIO=-~
Marzipan Xenova is a Zerusi assassin, who was sent from the main offices of their headquarters in the Zerusi homeworld Zero...with a catch. She came from 1 year in the future, with a simple mission: To kill a certain Zerusi trade princess that had been banished to this planet, before she returns to Zero and claims the "Rose Discordia", an extremely powerful synthetic form, with which she apparently laid waste to Zero and went on reign of terror of interdimensional proportions.
Marzipan is a highly decorated "Discord Knight", which means she is allowed to use a "Discord Avatar", seen in the picture to the back-right, a kind of armored combat-frame and transformation device for use by Discord Knights.
She has spent all her life in combat, in service to the trade empires, the Discordia, (The Zerusi Ruling Government), and Xol'Vae, the Goddess of Chaos that all Zerusi worship even if only as a philosophy, if not a real existent deity.
"Chaos. Do as thou-wilt, shall be the whole of the law"
Not terribly dissimilar from modern occult institutions on earth, it is what all Zerusi believe and practice, as all of them are skilled psions and mages, even Marzipan who -tends- towards the technical side of things...she is still an accomplished wizard and psychic, and is not to be trusted even when disarmed!
The Zerusian race is is a bi-gender species composed of Male and Female specimens, but unlike most species that contain male and female, the Zerusians use hormones different from testosterone and estrogen analogues to develop. The exact chemical is unknown, but what is known is that it causes exceedingly little sexual dimorphism in the species. Males will have a penis, and testicles in place of a vagina and ovaries, and lack breasts, but every other feature is untouched. Body proportions, face, voice, skin, sweat glands, bone size and density, hair growth, everything. It is impossible to tell a male Zerusian apart from a flat-chested female Zerusian within any amount of time, unless one happens to check downstairs!
Sadly, Zerusi are sterile, and have been for a long time. Originally a neko-analogue of humans with heavily defined genders, normal sizes and only cat-like prowess to aid their survival, synthetic evolution took hold of their species eons ago, and they have since transformed into a species of child-like, psychicly and magically overpowered immortals grown in pods, with genders being kept solely so that the species could continue to enjoy sexuality.
They also have one more interesting point in their physical makeup: Their taste. Zerusi come in a wide variety of sweet flavors, the spectrum an impossibility of probabilities given normal evolution, but was intentionally bred into them in order to add a new dimension to inter-personal relationships...taste! And if that wasn't enough, they were intentionally bred to have smoother skin and squishier flesh than they ought just to make them go down easier!
Marzipan is a cute, unassuming, but amazingly predatory person. Often the kind of girl to be as likely seen riding a sky-cycle through the metropolis as singing drunken karaoke at a bar that very night, to taking down a target of the Zerusi empire then dressing them up like a girl for laughs...you know, before shrinking and gobbling them down, Marzipan is often a good representative of the Zeru species: Chaotic, Unpredictable, Hungry and Lusty, but with one facet of her personality NOT terribly common...
...she is a SOMETIMES kind, and logical person. It is possible to have reasonable discourse with her, and even receive mercy, or to get her to drop her defenses around you, whereas most Zerusians are infested with Styxic Madness, a disease caused by the use of psionics amidst Zerusians that...causes them to behave in totally irrational, selfish, narcissistic ways.
Marzipan luckily, happens to be an unusually healthy specimen among her people - why she was chosen for her job, and how she attained her high rank owing in part to that.
SO, if you see this little cat-girl and assume she's just a cute little nyan for you to play with, be forewarned! Marzipan ALWAYS has a grumbly little kitty tummy, and would be all too happy to get you two acquainted~ ;3
...~The meat on her hips didn't just teleport there, after all~<3
Before you stands a five foot tall catgirl of lithe proportions, only her hips and butt managing to plump out significantly, even though her perky bosom curves out in it's own less-obvious manner.
She has violet-furred cat-ears sticking out of a mane of violet hair, which sweeps down to the top of her cutely formed rear, out of the top of which sticks out a long, slinky, 4 foot long cat tail of silken violet fur.
The girl is of fair skin, and bright amethyst eyes shine out from her violet locks, almost always glinting with cheer or great amusement at whatever situation she's in.
Usually, when out of her Discord Avatar, Marzipan wears what appears in the picture - her Discord Operator's Suit, which comes with essential equipment, personal armor, the Space-Rifle seen in front of her which fires extremely quick space-bullets, twisting, highly disrupted vortexes of warped space that tend to disintegrate what they hit.
When Marzipan is about, that extremely large object to her left (in the picture), is usually carried on the small girl's back. It is a Zerusi LEXOd-Matrix weapon, which is powered by extremely dense orb of neutron star material, roughly the size of a bowling ball. The orb has been turned into an AI via quantum manipulation, and Marzipans LEXOd-Matrix weapon uses it's quantum-computerized spatial manipulation to function. It is therefor sentient, and has been given the personal name "Viola".
What does it do? Well basically it's a transforming omni-weapon. A giant sword, a chain gun, an energy cannon, a motorcycle, even temporary armor, or a helper, Viola is a sentient weapon licensed for use by Marzipan Xenova to complete her mission.
How she is carried, is simple - Viola is constantly using her influence over the nearby space to lessen her weight, and form, so that she can be carried!
Other than a small psycho-spiritual shield generator (the small object seen connected to her left side), and a psycho-spiritual tech-wand (Basically a technologically innovated magical manipulation device) Marzipan doesn't carry much else on her, save a few satchels.
Marzipan, as previously mentioned, is a Discord Knight working for the Discordia of the Zerusi government.
The Discord Avatar, pictured back-right, is roughly 16 feet tall, and contain's a pilot's seat buried within the chest. Seating herself within, Marzipan becomes a powerful, and frightening combatant, striding into battle wearing a vehicle weighing in at many tons, powered by arcane and psionic circuits as opposed to electricity.
It has many built in weapons, but uses "Viola", Marzipan's LEXOd-Matrix as a main weapon...making it mostly more of a defensive thing. Also prevents her from getting nommed by things that can't eat 16-ft tall mechs! xD
BUT! The Discord Avatar has a unique trait - it contains compact stores of synthetic flesh- blood, skin, organs, just like the real deal. When the "Heavy Armor" and "Clumsiness" of the Discord Avatar becomes too much, the suit is capable of reading Marzipan's DNA and unleashing the stores, pulling back armor plates...and effectively rendering a giant version of the girl!
Zeru-Form, a 16-ft tall version of Marzipan. Her LEXOd-Matrix is seen in her right hand.
This form, called "Zeru-Form", causes the Discord Avatar to change it's nature to a fleshy copy of the pilot, linking with the pilot's body, bloodstream, and nervous system. What she eats, the pilot shares it through IV, what she feels the pilot feels, sees, the pilot sees...what she...does in any way, really, *cough*, the pilot experiences.
And she's fully functional...
Discord Avatars have been abused before. You can see why.
As a Zerusian, Marzipan Xenova naturally partakes of the following benefits.
Zerusi are unusually intelligent.
Zerusi are unusually physically impotent.
Zerusi are unusually detached from reality, and may come to illogical conclusions, which, through the intervention of psionics, will nevertheless be as valid as something logical eventually. Or maybe that's just the hallucinations speaking...err...
Zerusi psychic powers border from run-of-the-mill insanity, to actual psionics. More often than not the distinction between the two is unclear.
Zerusi can use magic effectively...when they know how to use it, or if they know what magic is.
Zerusi, from spending time in their culture, which is possibly this dimension's only version of an inter-galactic INSANE ASYLUM!! (gasp!), are unpredictable!
Zerusi love food...(ominous music)...
...Which is why Zerusi are amazing chefs! (cheers!)
...And why Zerusi have been known to transform each other into food in a kind of colorful, gastric homicide....(ominous music again >_>;)
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As an individual, Marzipan Xenova naturally has the following benefits.
Eating! My god, have you ever seen a cat that loved eating this much?!
Being cute! Marzipan loves trying on clothes, being cute, dressing to impress, etc. She's a fashionista! When she wants to be.
Kicking ass! Marzipan's whole life was spent being an Assassin of Discordia.
Assassin kicks Ass. Ass. Get it? * w*
^ Marzipan herself will tell you that, it's her favorite least funny joke ever!
As a Marzipan specific character, when I am playing her, I intend to be an easy switch - she will easily pred or or be prey.
