Vanessa Analor

Dr. Vanessa Analor, also known by her alter-ego name Viper, is a scientist and founder of the Project Cape Initiative in the city of Neo Metroville. Due to her experiments, she has gained many of a snake's abilities, using them while off the clock to pursue her own interests and amusements before founding the initiative.
Viper hails from the Project Cape franchise, making her debut in its inaugural game as a supporting character.
==Appearance==
Vanessa is fairly tall for a woman her age, standing at 5 foot 10 inches (with this height growing to 6 foot 2 inches when she fully segments her body). She has brown hair styled in a bob and wears green lipstick and nail polish. Her eyes feature emerald pupils, but when using certain abilities, they become more reptilian, with the emerald color shifting to the whites of her eyes while her pupils narrow and become black.
While working as a scientist, Vanessa wears a lab coat with green gloves and safety goggles. However, while under the guise of Viper, she wears a thin-strapped green dress with scale-like patterns near the bottom, lime green wristbands on both her arms, and green heels. Project Cape gives his appearance a sight redesign, adding green leggings.
==Personality==
Vanessa is a charismatic and charming woman, which makes it easy for her to win others over. She uses this to her advantage, being able to talk herself out of most situations and get others to carry out favors for her. However, Vanessa is also somewhat short-tempered, having little patience for insolence. She also has a tendency to go with her gut on most subjects and activities, regardless of their morality. This leads to Vanessa being a morally ambiguous person; While she isn't out to do any direct harm, she does prioritize herself before others, and isn't afraid to manipulate those around her to get what she wants.
While Vanessa mostly keeps herself in check while on the job, her charms and manipulative nature become more apparent while acting as Viper. She is also noticeably more flirtatious with men, and is much more willing to interrogate or pick a fight with someone if she believes it'll suit her needs. While being Viper, Vanessa also seems to maintain a sense of mystery, leaving people guessing until she believes they're ready to hear what she's thinking or planning.
Despite her ways, she is more than willing to cooperate with those she feels share her values and are willing to help out of free will without her manipulation. She also has a soft spot for animals (especially reptiles), and endangering one will cause her to take action.
==Abilities==
As a side effect of her snake venom serum, Vanessa has a variety of abilities which she can use:
*Snake Physiology: Vanessa's body has been altered to give her snake-like traits and skills.
**Enhanced Flexibility: Vanessa is much more flexible than the average human, giving her the ability to perform enhanced feats of contortionism, being able to squeeze her way into small areas.
**Segmented Body: Vanessa's body has three main "segments"; her legs, her torso, and her head. She can separate these segments at will by dislocating her neck and waist joints, giving her an additional two inches in height.
**Disjointing: Vanessa can dislocate her ankle, knee, shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints.
***Constriction: By wrapping her arms around a target, Vanessa can use her firm grip to immobilize them.
***Enhanced Bite: By dislocating and quickly rejuncturing her jaw joints, Vanessa can possess a very strong bite.
***Enhanced Reach: By disjointing the joints in her arms, Vanessa can reach objects up to 5 feet away.
***Height Alteration: By dislocating her ankle and knee joints, Vanessa can gain an additional two inches in height.
**Enhanced Muscle Strength: Vanessa's muscles are stronger than that of the average human's, granting her additional strength and durability.
***Slithering: Vanessa's strongest muscles are located at her stomach, and by flexing them while lying on the ground, she can slither across the surface at 25 MPH.
**Thermal Vision: Vanessa can see in thermal vision, allowing her to gain a "picture" of her surroundings, even in pitch-black darkness. Her eyes become more reptilian when using this ability.
*"Snake Eyes": Vanessa can induce hallucinations onto whoever she makes eye contact with, with the ability being cued with her eyes becoming more reptilian. While she usually uses this ability to get her targets to visualize their desires and tempt them into working with her, there's no limit to the visions she can induce. However, those with strong wills can render themselves immune to this ability.
*Toxin Immunity: Vanessa is immune to poisons and toxins.
*"Viper's Kiss": Vanessa's lips can secrete a chemical which induce a sense of euphoria into whoever absorbs it. This sudden joy lasts for a few minutes before being replaced with a strong sense of fatigue. This ability goes seldom used by Vanessa, but on the occasion where it is utilized, she usually administers the chemical with a quick kiss on the target's cheek.
Vanessa does have one staggering weakness; The cold. Should her body temperature dip below a certain degree, her body "freezes", leaving her unable to dislocate her joints or slither. This effect cripples Vanessa's strength significantly, leaving her to rely on her other skills until she can move to a warmer area and regain her lost abilities.
In addition to her genetically-enhanced skills, Vanessa is also experienced with fighting with daggers. In addition, she boasts a fairly high IQ.
==History==
As a young girl, Vanessa found herself fascinated by animals, especially reptiles. As such, she set out to become a biologist, with most of her studies in high school and college being driven by that dream.
Once Vanessa earned her degree, she quickly enlisted for a position at one of the highest acclaimed biology laboratories, which she gained. Soon after becoming the scientist she yearned to be, Vanessa discovered that while she loved working with animals, the job was somewhat boring for her. As such, she quickly began her own pet project; A serum which would render the user with immunity to venomous snake bites.
Once she believed her serum to be complete, Vanessa used herself as its test subject, submitting herself to a snake bite to test it. While the serum did grant her immunity to venom, an improper balance of elements within the serum altered her DNA to give her snake-like abilities. While initially eager to report these findings, Vanessa figured that she could use these newfound skills to gain a sense of excitement during her off hours as she pursued her own interests and fun. As such, while she continues to work at her lab, she dons the Viper name by night, setting out to have her own fun under her reptilian persona.
After some time of this, Vanessa began to feel like something was missing from her life; While she was enjoying her newfound free-life, she also felt herself being distanced from the science she loved. Unwilling to let this happen, she decided to change her focus to the superpowers just like the ones she had acquired, founding the Project Cape Initiative in the process. She recruited young heroes in order to train them for full-time hero work, as well as studying their abilities.
==Appearances==
===Canon===
====Project Cape====
Vanessa appears in Project Cape as a non-playable character.
Viper	Viper
  	
Real Name: Vanessa Analor
Dr. Vanessa Analor, also known as Viper, is the organizer of the Project Cape Initiative and serves as the announcer during matches. After a supposed snake venom antidote gave her abilities similar to that of a snake, she founded the Project Cape Initiative as a way to further study the origins of superpowers and provide protection to the people of Neo Metroville.
====Project Cape Rumble====
Vanessa appears in Project Cape Rumble as a non-playable character.
Viper	Viper, real name Vanessa Analor, is the head of the Project Cape Initiative and overseer of the program. After recieving snake-like abilities as the result of an experimental antidote, she founded the project in order to study the science of superpowers.
===Non-Canon===
====SMASH BROS. EVERY SINGLE THING!====
Vanessa makes a playable appearance in SMASH BROS. EVERY SINGLE THING!.
Viper 	Viper
  	A brilliant scientist, Dr. Vanessa Analor set out to create a permanent antidote for snake venom. While her experiment worked, it also gave her various snake-like abilities, which she uses to seek excitement and fun under the name of Viper.
Viper can crawl and has a tether grab.
Neutral BSnake Eyes 	
Viper's eyes become reptilian as a flash of light is emitted by them, leaving any opponent within range in a dazed state.
Side BConstrict 	Viper extends her arms to grab a hold of an opponent, dragging them to her and giving them a tight squeeze which damages them and leaves them open for follow-up attacks.
Up BCoil Spring 	Viper coils up before launching herself upwards. Her leap can be angled.
Down BSplit and Spin 	Viper segments her body and causes her torso to spin with the arms outstretched, dealing rapid hits of damage before launching opponents with the final hit.
Final SmashViper's Kiss	Viper blows a kiss which stuns the first opponent it hits. Viper then lunges at the stunned opponent, bombarding them with dagger swipes before grabbing them and slamming them onto the ground, causing them to bounce high into the air.
===Misc. Appearances===
*Viper appears in Fantendo Smash Bros. Soul as a background character on the Initiative Courtyard stage.
==Gallery==
===Game Appearances===
ViperPC.png|Vanessa's appearance in Project Cape.
ViperFanty.png|Vanessa's appearance in SMASH BROS. EVERY SINGLE THING!.
===Misc.===
ViperFantySnakeEyes.png|Vanessa using her "snake eyes" and/or thermal vision.
==Trivia==
*Vanessa's Viper getup was partially inspired by Dr. Coyle from ARMS.
*The idea to give Vanessa's Viper persona a reptilian theme and giving her segmenting abilities were ideas by two of TheFazDude's friends.
*Viper is one of the few Project Cape characters to have been created prior to the conceptualization of the game, with others including Chewout, Kickstart, and Rose.
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