Defenderm

**Debut** | TBA

**Defenderm** is the Simplicitrix/Stabilized Simplicitrix's DNA sample of a Nullacutisoffdorsummeum from the planet Percutedentium III, orbiting the planet of Regiis-Reptilium. She is a free-use alien originally made by WTB.

## Appearance

Defenderm is a feminine reptilian humanoid with draconic features, mostly covered in very dark jungle green scales, with grayish green scales running down the underside of her jaw, chest, underbelly, backside, and tail. Defenderm has a short snout with jagged lips and angular flared nostrils, multicolored eyes separated into three rectangular sections, with the left one going from cyan, to blue, to magenta outwards, and the right one going from green, to yellow, to red outwards, dark shiny golden hair slick back into a short bun with thin eyebrows of the same color, five fingers on each hand, three toes on each foot, and a very short tail that curls near the end. Her outfit consists of a formal buttoned black coat with a bright red undershirt, skirt, and high heels with a triangular outline on the front of them that resembles the shape of her sharp toes underneath, along with a black necklace with three small circular red jewels on the center of them, with the middle one being slightly larger than the rest.

Defenderm wears the Simplicitrix on the back of her right hand.

## Personality

Defenderm is of a matter-of-fact mindset that makes her introspective and thoughtful in nature, being arguably one of the most intelligent and wise species compared to her relatives, although otherwise stoic and unimaginative because of how little she focuses on her own emotions and how she feels about any situation in particular. In layman's terms, her smarts are weighed down by her practical mentality and affinity for hearing others' input before giving her own.

## Powers

* Defenderm can self-duplicate herself through perfectly growing exact doubles from the very tip of her tail through hyper-accelerating her own mitosis, which will eventually split off and act autonomously in response towards whatever dangerous scenario had spawned them. Should they manifest against opponents, her clones can further reconfigure their genetic structure in order to resist and oppose against any attacks and powers, simultaneously developing natural resistances and developing the fighting prowess necessary to prevent any future harm dealt against them. Although they cannot oppose more powers after their first manifestation, instead needing to duplicate more clones every time that their opponent changes, the longer they exist as their own entities, the more they will adapt towards combat overall, gradually becoming more and more bellicose.
	+ Defenderm's hyper-accelerated mitosis manipulation can allow her to reabsorb her clones, after they have served their purpose and are no longer needed afterwards, through assimilating all of their cells, combining their size and mass into an even larger form that can access all countermoves that her clones had adapted against in order to use them in harmony with one another.
	+ Defenderm's clones can perceive through the senses of one another through telepathically linking them, enabling them to see what others see, hear what others hear, and smell what others smell.
* Defenderm can generate and manipulate scales through her mitotic manipulation abilities, in turn allowing her to influence the dermal armor of herself and other reptilian species, such as hardening and increasing its density to make herself more resilient in nature, altering its coloration to improvise and achieve basic camouflage, and even projecting rapid-fire scale bullets through pressurizing them once they naturally shed and fall off.
* Defenderm can breathe out corrosive flesh particles from her mouth that causes any living organism they come in contact with to rapidly degrade in health, temporarily negating any regenerative abilities altogether and severely weakening the body part they come in contact with.
* Defenderm has immense durability, as even without hardening her scales and making them more durable, her natural layering of scales makes her resistant against most forms of blunt force and almost completely immune against even higher calibers of gunfire.
* Defenderm has enhanced agility and senses, specifically vision, hearing, and smell.

## Weaknesses

* Defenderm can only oppose attacks and powers through her clones, as her original body serves as the anchor point that can only harness their adaptations once her clones have fulfilled their intended purposes and can merge with the original one into a much more powerful form, which will very slowly shrink back down once the culminated surge of energy burns off, and her mitotic abilities eventually regulate themselves.
	+ Defenderm cannot develop full-fledged immunities, as the time required to do so would far exceed any standard use of the transformation itself.
* Defenderm cannot perceive through the senses of a particular clone if too many others are also perceiving through them at the exact same time.
* Defenderm cannot manipulate rough leathery skin that resembles scales but isn't exactly, especially if the individual in question isn't even reptilian.
* Defenderm's health reduction breath can be negated through those capable of creating powerful enough antibodies to combat its effects.

## Etymology

* Defenderm's name is a play on "defend" and "derm," as in dermis, referencing her scale manipulation abilities.
* Defenderm's species name is the Latin translation of "no skin off my back," meaning to not cause harm to anyone, referencing her defensive abilities.
* Defenderm's planet name is the Latin translation of "by the skin of your teeth," meaning a narrow margin, as in just barely managing to complete something, with the number "III" being the roman numeral for the number 3, referencing the amount of skin layers there are.

## Trivia

* Defenderm's base was made using Amanda Waller from *Justice League*, with her surname being an intentional reference to the latter having defensive powers.
* Defenderm's two-tone dark green color scheme references the unnamed dragon mapmaker from *Alien Force*.
* Defenderm's scale manipulation was given the fanon "kinesis" term of "Klímakakinesis," as any other available name for them wasn't listed anywhere on their affiliated page on the Superpower Wiki.
* Like Tantrum, Breath Penalty, Amphiptheater, Stomache, Skellerina, Kitty Splitter, MaTrix, Capturrific, Liesight, Dovahskiin, KobOld Fashioned, Titty Titty Bang Bang, Murphy's Maw, Kanjiration, Headstrong, Pretzelcoatl, Liczard, Thunder Thighs, Cindurance, Draguardian Angel, Draconomaly, and Primalfunction, Defenderm comes from the same planet as Dragon Queen, mainly originating from one of their planet's moons, explaining the similarities in design, abilities, and the fact all of them are exclusively female due to their genetic similarities.
	+ However, while Dragon Queen is a humanoid western dragon, Breath Penalty is an eastern dragon, and MaTrix, Capturrific, and Liesight are all southern dragons, Defenderm is a European dragon, and thereby technically the same as a western dragon as Europe exists within the region, which ironically references her unimaginative personality as she blatantly recycles a previously used inspiration source despite even not necessarily being a subspecies nor a more direct relative to Cruxamicientes-Curriculos.
	+ Defenderm is the third Regiis-Reptilium species to naturally lack some form of protrusion on the end of her tail, following Dovahskiin and Liczard.