Feign

Feign is an artificial lifeform, superhero, and member of Watchtower.

## Personality

Feign has a rigid sense of justice and fights relentlessly to right the world's wrongs. Although she understands that not every evildoer can simply be subdued and handed over to the authorities, she finds the casual corruption of the world to be totally unacceptable. She is as likely to abduct a crooked politician off the street as she is to fight a supervillain.

Outside of her passion for her work, Feign is fascinated by the cultures of the world and is something of an amateur anthropologist. She adores learning obscure facts about ancient peoples or isolated tribes, and will often surprise her teammates with a bizarre piece of trivia at the strangest times. Her quarters are stuffed full of a wide assortment of souvenirs from her travels, including tribal masks, antique weapons, commemorative plates, and airport keychains.

## Powers

Feign is a powerful shapeshifter with the ability to transform her body into any nonliving substance. She usually fights by turning portions of herself into various metals-- such as turning her fist into a dense osmium hammer, or her fingers into long claws of razor-sharp titanium-- but she can also take on the properties of poisonous, combustible, or even explosive materials. Combined with her ability to change density at will and exist indefinitely in liquid or gaseous form, Feign is a wily, elusive, and extremely dangerous hand-to-hand combatant.

Typically Feign exists in a state of semi-liquid metal. This allows her to retain her mobility (and in fact makes her extremely flexible and agile) until the moment she attacks. She can fully liquify herself if desired, or even turn into a cloud of gas to move about invisible and unimpeded. Ironically the one form she has difficulty assuming is that of a flesh-and-blood human. She can do so if necessary, but she must have full concentration to maintain this disguise, and her mimicry is only an imprecise, skin-deep mask.

Feign's nature gives her an innate understanding of chemistry and metallurgy. Since she can change portions of her body into different chemical compounds, she knows how to combine these elements to produce a variety of effects at will. She can start fires through chemical combustion, create clouds of chloroform gas or dense, acrid smoke, and even cause portions of herself to spontaneously explode by mixing volatile substances. She quickly recovers any portion of herself used up in these attacks thanks to her powerful regeneration, and she can even reconstitute herself from nothing but a charred residue on the ground.

As an inorganic being, Feign doesn't have the usual mortal concerns. She doesn't eat, sleep, or breathe, is safe in most environments, and is immune to diseases and poison.

## Weaknesses

Extreme cold weakens Feign's ability to transmute herself quickly, leaving her vulnerable and unable to effectively respond to attacks as well as halting her regeneration. Additionally, while in a gaseous state she is subject to damage from any sort of strong wind currents as they disperse her form.

Feign doesn't realize that she is hunted by the Forces of the Destroyer. As the unwitting end product of lengthy experiments conducted on *Destruga*, her recovery and reprogramming is a priority for Viceroy and the other Destroyers. While they typically have more pressing matters to attend to, if the circumstances are right then Feign may suddenly find herself under attack by some of the strongest villains on Earth.

Feign's normal form consists of several hundred pounds of liquid metal. Even when disguised as a human, she will shake the floor with each step and set off any metal detector she passes. Infrared surveillance will also detect that her body's temperature is too low and uniform to belong to a human.