Iva Saskia

## Iva Saskia, "Iconoclast"

Iva's natural appearance on the left, "Iconoclast" on the right.

> "*I only kiss those who **miss**behave.*" - Iva, to Rasmus
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**Iva Saskia** is a Super, living in New York. Currently she is operating with the NNYC police department.

## Appearance

Iva normally is wearing civilian clothes when not acting as Iconoclast.

Iva's hair is grown out and long. When in the persona of Iconoclast Iva utilizes a creation of her abilities, a sentient suit of bio-armor called Keplica, to hide her appearance and keep anonymity. This suit is usually worn over her clothes and it's locomotion can be independent from Iva's body. Allowing Keplica to act as it's own being.

As of recent, due to her getting burned multiple times throughout the series, she has several burn scars. One on her back from Michaud, one on her side and left arm from when she helped kill Lucas Moore, and a third burn mark in the shape of a hand on her neck from Lennard Malloy.

## Backstory

Iva Saskia was born an orphan, and was raised as such in various orphan institutions around the metropolitan New York area. She had no trouble dealing with other kids and fitting into social groups but was emotionally stunted by a lack of a guiding, parental figure. Without a guide to life or a role model to follow Iva in her teenage years became wild and unhinged. There was no-one to hold her back or tell her what was a good or a bad idea, and no formal example to rebel against. She found it difficult to understand the difference between bad ideas and good ones, and to this day, doesn't know which is which.

On top of this, when her powers surfaced at 16 when she made her backpack into a terrifying leather bag demon, she quickly learned that the orphanage system lacked really any specific kind of program for taking care of powered children. Unable to deal with the high-needs requirement for taking care of a child with powers, most orphanages would not take her and many times she was adopted for only a small length of time before returned into the system.

She bounced around until 18, when she legally was not allowed into the orphanage system anymore. She struggled to find jobs but most of them, too, would not hire. She settled for illegal work very quickly as it was the one occupation where her powers helped instead of hindered. Regardless Iva has always found it hard to reach any stable state of living. Most of her life can be described by long periods of living in homeless shelters and the occasional abandoned building, followed by times where she'd hit a big score and live the high life for a month or so before blowing all of her cash on cheap thrills.

Soon after she met a man named Verdant, or rather by his superhero icon Centroid. At first Iconoclast and Centroid were actually bitter rivals, even nemeses, but a harrowing close battle where Centroid almost killed Iva made Centroid desperate to reach a peace agreement before they both obliterated each other.

She and Centroid came to an agreement: Centroid would allow her to steal, even help her, on the one grounds that it must be stealing from the rich/powerful and a significant 35% of the profit would be given to good-will. Not including the 32% that went to Centroid that also ended up in donations. Regardless she agreed and the duo was formed.

Recently, in an attempt to break way from her partner, Iva had the great idea to start stealing valuables and dangerous weapons from supers themselves. Figuring hawking them might make her enough money to live reasonably for quite a while. Specifically, her target had been Kong's helmet. Instead she was caught in the attempt rather early on. However, she managed to pass it off by telling them that her real purpose was to join whatever criminal organization they were a part of. For now she's been working with them as a tag-along.

## Power

**Master of Beasts:** Iconoclast has the unique ability to touch inert, nonliving items such as cars, cups, chairs, etc. and turn them into various forms of beasts and creatures that she can control mentally. Creating and controlling more than 3 creatures at a time renders the minions uncontrollable. Once killed or once Iva is done with them, they transform back into their original objects and can be transformed again into something else if Iva touches the object.

Iva once wasn't able to control the form these beasts took, but after much practice and experience she has slowly garnered the ability to choose what form these beasts come in. They are usually no larger than 20 feet, and can be small as a pea.

## Gear

**Keplica:** Keplica is technically a beast of Iva's summoning, but the humanoid creature doubles as a suit of armor for Iva. It isn't particularly strong but it's structure functions as a suit of regenerative, ablative substance that chips away under damage and regenerates back over time. It has several different morphs and forms for several different purposes. More information about Keplica can be found here.

**Bone Blaster:** One of her most fond creature creations is a living firearm known as the Bone Blaster. This item is a living creature that functions very similar to a traditional firearm.

It's payload is also it's source of ammunition: A well of very excited osteoblasts. The creature spits or "shoots" these clumps of activated osteoblasts, which partly ossify into human bone mid-air into a cone like shape as the air pushes the osteoblasts back over the hardened bone material mid-flight.

Once the partly ossified bone-cone embeds into soft tissue, the still liquefied osteoblasts at the back of the projectile are splattered across the target and can sometimes enter the blood system through the open wound, acting as a toxin as these osteoblasts quickly ossify into bone and can sometimes instantly block veins and vital arteries, causing heart failure and heart attack.

The Bone Blaster does not need to be reloaded, as it is a living organism. Instead Iva has to feed the Bone Blaster twice every day, depending on how often it's fired. It can consume any eatable material but prefers items with large amounts of calcium such as milk or cheese. Iva feeds it by removing the steel cover located where the hammer of the gun would be and pouring/dropping the food and/or drink into the gun. She does this until the Bone Blaster burps, which is the signal that it's full.

   The Bone Blaster, as it is one of her minions, does count as one of her three summonable and controllable minions. That also means that if Iva summons more than 3 minions including the gun, the Bone Blaster will start to automatically fire whenever it's pointed at an organism. However that also means that the Bone Blaster will only fire in her hand, and additionally she can fire the Bone Blaster using a mental command and does not actually need to be holding the gun to fire it.

**Glaive Gun:** Given to her by Carlos Pérez,
 the Glaive Gun was given to Iva due to the fact that her Bone Blaster
was only effective against fleshy or lightly armored targets, as well as
 the fact that it counted as one of her summons, reducing the amount of
monsters she could summon whilst she had the Bone Blaster on hand. The
Glaive Gun is a large plasma pistol built for firing vertical
projectiles, roughly half a foot wide, for slicing targets, hence its
name.

It has three modes: single fire, burst fire, and beam mode. In
single fire, it acts as a regular pistol would, only firing one
projectile with each pull of the trigger. In burst fire mode, a burst of
 three projectiles will be fired out. In beam mode, instead of firing a
single projectile, it will unleash all its energy in a continuous
vertical beam, acting similar to an elongated plasma sword. If fire is
sustained for too long, the Glaive Gun will require a 20-30 second
cooldown period in order to prevent overheating and malfunction of the
weapon. The projectiles are capable of slicing through anything from
rock to steel, and is Iva's main go-to weapon for ranged encounters.

**Hotknife:** A combat knife Iva managed to snatch off the Black Watch operative Evelynn Boucher. At the press of a button, the knife's blade heats up to extreme temperatures, allowing for Iva to cut through flesh like butter. However, due to its small size and relatively low damage output (especially against armored targets), Iva usually only uses this as a backup weapon. The blade can only stay heated for a limited time until a recharge is needed, acting as a mundane blade until then.