Wolffia Pérez

*Wolffia skidded around the corner of the alley, letting the drifting dust cloud conceal her from pursuit. She clutched the small parcel of nearly-dead medicinal herbs to her chest and sagged against the corrugated steel wall of one of the Slum's ubiquitous shacks. This just wasn't enough for everyone. Tears welled in the corners of her eyes, and she sank to her knees. The pouch glowed with a soft green light, and bulged. Wolffia looked inside, startled, and gasped. The plants inside had sprung to verdance and multiplied! This would be more than enough to make poultices for the rashes afflicting her neighbourhood's children.*

## Origin Story

Wolffia "Verdant" Pérez was born sixteen years ago to a large family of Guatemalan refugees living in the Slums of the Tower District. Resources were sparse, but despite the dire state of the world, she had a happy childhood surrounded by friends and extended family. She learned all the tricks of living on the streets out of necessity, just as all her companions did, and was no stranger to the skills of petty theft, running, hiding, and evading authority figures.

Her luck ran out when one day a pair of Junior Unlimiteds on assignment in the Tower District caught her with an energy cell stolen from a surveillance vehicle. A routine scan revealed her metahuman state, and she was brought to the superheroes' headquarters to serve the community in lieu of incarceration.

## Meta-human Abilities

Wolffia is a genetic mutant who is able to accelerate the growth process of any biological material. She cannot halt or reverse growth with her ability.

1. **Healing Hands**: By touching a wound and concentrating, Wolffia is able to speed the body's natural healing process by orders of magnitude.
2. **Green Thumb**: By focusing her attention on seeds or any plant that has even a hint of life remaining, she can make the plant grow and bloom to a prodigious degree.
3. **Cancerous Growth**: A horrifying application of Wolffia's ability allows her, in absolutely unthinkable circumstances, to force abrupt and abnormal growth of a body's cells, generating tumors and causing debilitating agony in the target, resulting in subsequent death.

## Skills & Talents

Having grown up in the rough-and-tumble Slums, Wolffia is athletic, adept at acrobatics and light on her feet. She is also a capable pickpocket, burglar, and lockpick.

## Weaknesses

Wolffia's weakness is her softheartedness for the downtrodden and oppressed, and hatred of the rich elite; she will side with a homeless serial killer with a tragic life story over a wealthy philanthropist champion of justice.

## Appearance & Personality

Wolffia is a slender girl with dusky skin, long black hair, and startling, acid-yellow eyes. Her history in the Slums has sculpted her body into a slender, trim figure with lean muscles.

Generally gentle and cheerful, Wolffia is occasionally prone to bouts of moodiness, especially when dealing with situations that aren't as straightforward as her black-and-white view of society's haves and have-nots.

## Quote

"'What makes a hero', huh... Well, I think...it's about helping the helpless, yes? Those that have been ground down by pig-headed one-percenters. It's about making things *right*."