Arsenic

*"My future? … Well, some say I’m going to spend the rest of ‘my youth’ in prison, but I see something different. I want a degree and a job. I want to open a business designing buildings and homes for people, each of them special in their own way. And then.. I want to build my own house and share it with someone. It would be designed for us to grow old together."*
—Tiara Calinao to Lincoln Grace
**Tiara Gloria "Tia" Calinao**, also known as **Arsenic**, is the Earth-3 counterpart of Titanium. After her Earth-522 counterpart's visit to Earth-3, Tiara became set on revenge against Tia-522 and those who associate with her. This all changed in the November of 2020. The kindness shown to her by Saul Collins and Lincoln Grace during the Rebels’ adventure to Earth-99 made her rethink interfering with her counterpart’s life.

Despite the change of heart, Tiara remains stuck as a pawn in other people’s games.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Metal Manipulation:** Like her primary counterpart, Tiara can bend metal. However, she appears to be a more skilled metalbender.
	+ **Metal Detection**

### Former Powers

* **Dimensional Travel:** Tiara possessed the ability to mentally connect with the other versions of herself across the multiverse. This connection manifested itself in various ways, such as sharing dreams, memories, and attitudes about certain things or people. Her connection was severed by Doctor Orion following his trip to Earth-63 with Almanac in late November of 2020.

### Abilities

* **Trilingualism:** Tiara speaks fluent English and German. She also knows Morse code.

## Weaknesses

* **Human Vulnerabilities:**Tiara is a human. She is vulnerable to the physical attacks of stronger opponents.
* **Sensory Overload:** If Tiara is isolated from metal for long periods of time, her other senses will become overstimulated, causing heightened feelings of stress and anxiety. The opposite is also true. If Tiara is surrounded by an overwhelming amount of metal for long periods of time, her brain will become overstimulated, and she will be unable to focus on anything.
* **Cold Temperatures:** As the temperature drops, metal can become brittle enough to break easily. If an environment is cold enough, Tiara will refrain from bending metals.
* **Taphophobia:** Tiara is afraid of being buried alive again.
* **Claustrophobia:** Tiara has a fear of small enclosed spaces, especially elevators.
* **Ceraunophobia:** As a child, Tia developed an irrational fear of thunderstorms. Her fear of thunderstorms only worsened after receiving her metal hand in 2014 due to fears of being electrocuted.
* **Recurring Headaches:**
* **Memory Loss:** As a result of Cogent’s emotional manipulation and mind-wiping over the years, Tiara suffers from memory loss. These gaps in her memory are often filled in with false stories from Cogent that paint him in a good light. One such example of this is Cogent telling Tiara she couldn’t remember what happened because her devious counterpart, Tia of Earth-522, jumped her and tried to kill them both.
* **Hormonal Instabilities:**

## Equipment

#### Former

* **Septic Suit:**
* **Gas Mask:** Tiara used to own a gas mask to assist her troubled lungs. Following the Rebels’ journey to Earth-99 and her disconnection from her other counterparts, she no longer needed the mask and only kept it around for memory’s sake. In February of 2021, during a confrontation with Rebecca and Dark Strike at the top of a skyscraper construction site, her gas plummeted to the ground. She has not been seen wearing it since.
* **Titanium Suit:** Before the Earth-3 invasion, Tiara made a replica of Titanium's main suit. Like the original, it's a silvery suit of lightweight metal atop a layer of green fabric below.

## Relationships

* Gloria Calinao † - Mother
* Luis Calinao † - Father
	+ Doctor Orion - Adoptive Father
	+ Tia Calinao Collins/Titanium - Earth-522 Counterpart, Adoptive "Twin Sister"

Allies* Arcadian Rebels
	+ Rebecca Ozelle - "It's Complicated"
	+ Lincoln Grace/Wolf Ranger - Boyfriend
	+ Xavier Turell/Infinite Mythos - Friend
* Mirage - Old Friend
* Amalgam - Old Friend
* Chameleon - Old Friend
* Stanley Parks/Dark Strike - Former Father Figure
* Mar
* Anna Stone/Windbreaker †
* Johnathan Jacobson/Tiresias
* GADE Laboratories
	+ Wyncel Gade
* Collins Foundation (Earth-99)
	+ Antonio Collins (Earth-99)
	+ Lina Collins (Earth-99) †
* Matthew Drake
* Leandoer Gaterud
* Fountain Light Electric
	+ Dr. Ponomaryova

## Trivia

* Tiara is ambidextrous.
* Tiara dislikes cats.
* Tiara's favorite color is "deep blue."
* Like her Earth-522 counterpart, Tiara has a fascination with snails, but her interest is not extreme.
* Tiara wants to be an architect, however, she only shares this dream with a select few. Lincoln and Rebecca are the only people she has ever told.
* Tiara loves raspberries, especially in pastries.
* Tiara's favorite drink is hot cocoa with peppermint shavings, marshmallows, and whipped cream.
* As a kid, Tiara had a rabbit plushie named Charlotte. It is currently somewhere on Earth-3.
* After being attacked at a coffee shop in October 2022, Tiara no longer feels comfortable being out in public.