Fay Kinning

:"Ah! Residents of that dry circuit of thinking, what is this hard-headedness in all its rehearsal?" - Kinning taunting very confused police.
Fay Kinning is a notorious saboteur, spy and identity thief. Being a quasihuman (debatably either part mutant or alien and refusing to grant any information on the matter), she has the ability to transform into others at a glance... but with a slight twist.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Fay is a gangly woman with dark eyes and red-pink hair. She often wears diamond-shaped glasses, a bowler hat, black chelsea boots and suspenders, with a patterned button-up and striped high-waisted slacks. Her socks are mismatched and she carries a cane.
She has a spiral-shaped marking on her left cheek.
===Personality===
Fay is mischievous and inexplicable. She will often talk people in circles and thinks outside the box (and the realm of plausibility). She talks in obscurities and riddles, taking pleasure in seeing others' confusion, but she is generally quite amicable.
===Skills & Abilities===
Fay has the ability to transform into other people she sees. However, her glamour (it is uncertain whether the transformation is purely illusory or a tactile flesh-morphing) is imperfect: the caveat of her power is that her mimicry exaggerates the key traits of her target. Their jawline becomes stronger, hair becomes longer, fashion becomes conspicuously more dramatic or high-end - while Fay can usually pass these quirks off with a simple 'Oh, I decided to gussy myself up today, do you like it?', sometimes the sudden change in style can raise many eyebrows.
She has also demonstrated some ability to regrow lost flesh. She is extremely agile and has a wicked silver tongue.
==History==
Fay has deliberately kept large parts of her life secret, mostly out of spite or desire to cause problems on purpose. The UNWD's lie detectors have determined that this much is true:
* She was born in an unlicensed zoo that performed experiments on the animals. She remembers being born out of a glass chamber full of pink fluid.
* Her best friend growing up was an elephant with a human face.
* She attended a human psychology course for twelve years until staff realised she wasn't enrolled.
* She was arrested for dangerous driving under a fake license and got out of it by impersonating the judge, which UNWD officials theorise is how she started her life of crime.
* She is at least human years old and has committed countless crimes, revelling in taunting authorities and leaving cryptic clues.
She was arrested and taken to Sarkham Penitentiary after trying to infiltrate the UNWD base under the guise of being the agent Mindwipe. Though the plan was admittedly sound, with Fay's logic being that nobody would remember that Mindwipe looked off being that their power causes others to forget their existence once they were out of sight, but it backfired when Mindwipe's already-exaggerated costuming caused Fay's powers to malfunction and transform her into what authorities called a 'screaming whorl of flesh' until she could be stabilised and locked up.
Currently imprisoned in a low-security level of the penitentiary (her powers aren't massively conducive to jailbreaking and she isn't remarked as an escapist or flight risk), she has offered to 'do a face turn' and fight for the UNWD's side, but nobody trusts her very much.
== Known Mimicries ==
File:FayJonah.png|Fay mimicking Jonah Gordonson. Main differences include a ruffled cravat, a large UNWD pin, more facial hair and golden markings on his cheeks.
File:FaySapphire.png|Fay mimicking Sapphire Platinum. Main differences include more dramatic hair curls, spiked glasses, increased fringe volume, and some clothing adjustments.
==Trivia==
* Her name alludes twofold to her powers. 'Fay' references the mythology of faeries or fey taking the appearances of mortals they trick, while 'kinning' is common internet lingo meaning to identify strongly (i.e. feel kinship) with another character, entity or idea.
**Abbreviated to Fay K., this becomes 'fake', making the allusion threefold.
* She cannot copy the powers of those she mimics perfectly, but she can convincingly imitate them using her transformative/illusory abilities.
* She is extremely proud of the fact that she remembers being born, as 'most of your kin don't'.
* During her regular lie-detector sessions, the equipment registered that in the phrase 'my best friend growing up was an elephant with a human face', the most dubious part were the words 'best friend', while 'elephant with a human face' was completely true.
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