An alt of
Lost_Town
Name: Tulina Balikov
Age: 24
Race: Mutated human
Occupation: Mercenary, soldier
Background
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Tulina never really had a "life" as most people would consider it in childhood; she grew up in confinement, and for many years the only thing that she ever really knew were the icy steel and concrete walls of facility within which she was created.
She was, upon inception, the third attempt at a military organization at creating the ultimate biological weapon. The results were a rather mixed bag of ups and downs. On one hand, even at the tender age of around ten or eleven Tulina incredible agility and the ability to lift weights approaching a ton, and both parameters seemed to only be increasing as she grew older. However, she suffered regular mutations that seemed to be absolutely unstable: her flesh could seemingly unravel and disassemble at will, shifting into chitinous armor or vicious claws. Not only this, but her mutation seemed to erode at the girl's mind as well as her body and over the years she began to become progressively more unhinged. And lastly, but perhaps, most terrifying of all: her hunger. Tulina possessed an appetite for meat of all kinds and would do absolutely
anything to obtain it when she was hungry. This resulted in a few undercautious scientist losing fingers or hands if they were lucky, or simply for them to be swallowed effortlessly and entirely if they were less so. An unending hunger drove the girl, and it earned her the codename "Limos."
It was during her mid-teens when a change in staffing and doctors declared all past test subjects failures, and those which had been being kept alive were scheduled for termination so that experiments could begin anew. Unfortunately for them, they very much underestimated the killing ability and intent that Tulina possessed at that point, even without training. By the time she was finished with the facility, it was little more than a smoking pile of rubble.
Leaving her life in the facility far behind and trying to cope with her new existence in the world as well as her lessening sanity, Tulina became a drifter, going from place to place and trying to keep a low profile. Unfortunately for her, this was rather difficult with her coming-and-going mutations. It wasn't until one of the few friends that she had managed to find gave her a suggestion that a calling that should have made sense to her all along: a mercenary for hire. With her insane skills, unpredictable nature, and endless hunger, Tulina has become a force to be reckoned with... That is, if you can affort her exuberant fee.
Appearance
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Tulina stands normally at a middling height of around 5' 9" when she is utterly free of mutation. She's lean though she does possess a degree of muscle, and rather shockingly pale. This complexion doesn't seem to leave her regardless of how long she spends in the sun. While it makes her look sickly, it really had nothing to do with her health and is likely a mutation in her skin pigmentation. Similar to her skin's paleness, her hair is white as snow. She generally doesn't seem to be too concerned with its upkeep and thus she often has quite messy bangs that she pushes back and slicks down if only to keep out of her face.
Her teeth are sharp like blades, though she seems to be remarkably adept at being careful with them. Inside of her mouth is a long, long tongue that reaches going on a foot out of her mouth. Her eyes are a bright red, but their shape and state often make her seem as if she has a rather dull expression on her face. They look sullen and have persistent bags beneath them as a byproduct of another quirk of hers; Tulina rarely sleeps. Maybe once a week at most, again likely yet another product of the genetic engineering that created her. Between them, a long jagged scar is torn , reaching down from her forehead to just past the tip of her nose. It's an old scar, though quite visible and seems to have been made with quite a bit of malice using a sharp implement.
It is of course to be noted that Tulina's body can transform and mutate, her flesh transforming and seeming to defy the laws of matter itself as she grows and changes. When she was young, these mutations seemed to be almost fully random and trigger when she was threatened, but at this point they seem to be much more under her control. While random mutations still occur, with eyeballs appearing on inopportune areas of her body and such, a few are more common; she often gets almost avian, backward-bent legs that increase her mobility incredibly, and her arm quite reliably transforms into an enormous deadly claw when threatened.
While normally happy and overtly friendly, though admittedly in the possession of a bit of a dark streak, Tulina is prone to bouts of depression if her mutations are too heavily weighed down upon. Even after all this time, she can be a bit sensitive... At least when hearing things from people she is friendly with anyway. So be nice!
Personality
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As mentioned earlier, Tulina is quite unstable in nature. Generally her personality leads her to be over-friendly to a degree, almost as if to compensate for this unpredictability. She's loud, boisterous, and a bit clingy to people that she takes a liking to, and indeed will do just about anything for them.
Naturally, this plays into her mild insanity; she takes people threatening friends -very- poorly and almost immediately goes into combat mode as if she herself had been threatened. When confronted with the prospect, Tulina is almost a different sort of person: a wide-eyed killer who absolutely revels in the bloodshed she causes. Whether she's splitting her enemies open with guns, weapons, or her own twisted biology, she finds utter joy in it. Perhaps this is a remnant of the programming she received when young going a bit awry. Typically, she can keep herself under control, but once she gets going it gets difficult to stop her.
There is of course the matter of her hunger, which is a lot more controlled than when she was a child but still ever-present; Tulina almost always feels a constant desire to fill her gut with meat and doing so brings almost orgasmic pleasure to her. She isn't likely to lose control and lash out at someone, but if she is allured enough by the prospect of devouring someone they likely aren't going to escape being gulped down. And if you're an enemy in battle, well.. You likely won't be worrying about your jibbly meatbits when she's done with you anyway. Or anything else for that matter.
Combat abilities and mutation
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When utterly unmutated, Tulina is weaker than the alternative but not defenseless; she's an excellent shot with most any type of firearm, although she really prefers not to use them all that much. She also retains quite a bit more strength and agility than your average human
When in mutant mode though, she's much more of a force to be reckoned with. With her avian-type legs, she can move remarkably fast and jump large distances and heights with a single bound. Her vicious claw (or claws, if she really gets going) is mostly made up of remarkably thick chitin and can puncture metal armor without too much difficulty if the cause presents itself.
Said chitinous growths can be extended to most any part of her body to function as biological armor. It's roughly the equal to a thick steel plate and it takes considerable impact, piercing and gunfire before it actually starts to crack and give away.
Both mutated and unmutated, her swallowing ability is astounding. Her belly can stretch large enough to carry three or four different people at the same time, although she has a much more difficult time moving at that point if unmutated. She prefers to take meals in whole, though she doesn't care all that much if she has to revert to the alternative...
