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## Powers and Abilities

### Crimson Queen

In an attempt to follow the typical naming convention of the abilities possessed by Modified Humans, **Crimson Queen**, as it was named at the time of Delilah's conception refers to the unique biological constitution she possesses as a result of being the only survival trial of Project: Demiurgos, as well as her ability to command and exploit the synthetic, flexible nature of her Lineage Factor and her aforementioned constitution to achieve a variety of effects. A walking biological phenomenon, Crimson Queen is the single term used to encompass the traits instilled in her as a result of the efforts of the scientists involved in the Future State Initiative, Delilah has at points of time been referred to as a candidate for a concept referred to as *Final Shape* by conspiracy theorists on the fringe of society, an entity that effectively becomes the endpoint of biological progress. Delilah possesses an organic pedigree that it can be picked up on to a limited extent by wild animals, assuming she isn't attempting to hide her presence to stalk prey; inspiring an instinctual desire to run, and is herself one of the creatures that Sea Kings will actively refuse to attack. Among the Four Horsemen of the Redbeard Pirates, Delilah and Donk E. Kong were both exemplars of their respective races, Kong being naturally so, and Delilah being artificially so.

Even by the standards of Modified Humans, who are typically engineered to wield a level of power that mimic or come close in some aspects to the powers wielded by Devil Fruits, the extent of Delilah's inherent abilities and the sheer vastness of their potential dwarfs that of most Modified Humans by a considerable degree. This can partially be attributed to the fact that the scientists working on Project Demiurgos had virtually no restrictions in creating her, as in the creation of Modified Humans one is still limited by the genetic potential and Lineage Factor of the given individual under modification/redesign. However, on the other hand, as Delilah's unique composition is entirely synthetic, scientists had entirely free reign to design her genome, being capable of including things in her Lineage Factor that would normally simply not be possible due to the interaction between regions of the genome (known as epistasis). Due to her nature as a walking Due to the nature of her creation and her flexible physiology, Delilah herself, as well as the scientists creating her often considered whether or not Artificial *Human* was really the right way to describe her, as Delilah's inhuman, divergent body is the result of the ethically forbidden field of xenobiology, in tandem with cell culture. Due to the nature and sheer unmatched level of complexity of her Lineage Factor, Delilah cannot be cloned, and it is unlikely that she will sire a child that possesses all of the characteristics she does as a result of her creation.

#### Natural Condition

* **Monstrous Physical Characteristics for multiple reasons on multiple levels:**
* **Terrifying Senses:**
* **Auxillary Organs:**
* **Augmented Recovery Rate, can be further augmented by assimilating organisms post-injury:**
	+ **immune System Game on Fleek:**
* **Nigh Self-Sustenance:** Has demonstrated an ability to process and metabolize sunlight, possibly stemming from the assimilation of sufficient plants, and despite seawater being as effective on her as it is on anyone else with a Devil Fruit, testing during Project Homunculus has shown an ability to breathe underwater.
* **Considerably Augmented Longevity:**
* **Instincts:** While most of humanity does not possess an instinctual capacity for certain activities in the same manner as other animals do, with Minks perhaps being the closest of the sentient races, Rebecca possesses an enhanced degree of gut instincts akin to being a member of the baser animal kingdom. Similar to a variety of techniques typically invented by experienced martial artists or swordsmen, Rebecca's natural instincts are sharp enough to pick up on the presence of danger and even track down targets in hiding. This ability is also connected to her ability to seemingly emanate/secrete a pheromone that forces wild beasts to flee in terror, refusing to go within a certain radius of her. Zoans and Minks find themselves on average more susceptible to this pheromone than most sentient species; with a combination of enhanced senses and animalistic traits making them closer to the intended target.
* **True Respiration:** A sign of her nature as the Ultimate Lifeform, even the mere act of respiration commonplace in so many creatures and organisms can be weaponized by Delilah; demonstrating the ability to utilize her monstrously superior physiology and ability to alter her own biological structure to manipulate her respiratory system, enhancing its efficacy a thousand fold. Even more dangerously, Delilah, much like many other animals, is capable of skin-breathing. Delilah has incredible lung capacity to such a point that she can draw in colossal amounts of air into herself at will through her skin, seemingly creating a vacuum in her immediate surroundings, and exhale the surrounding air at her target with enough force to obliterate anything in it's path and puncture the seas. Delilah has also demonstrated the ability to enhance the power of her strikes simply by exhaling as she goes to attack; only compounding the degree of her unrelenting striking strength.
* **Extreme Efficiency:** Delilah has an extremely efficient bodily system, as it would appear that she does not naturally produce waste. While she does have the capacity for excretion, under normal circumstances, her body nears almost complete efficiency and has demonstrated the ability to, like a variety of animals that she would have consumed, respire from every pore of her body, though not necessarily needing oxygen in particular for respiration, as she has demonstrated the ability to respire completely on toxic gases like even carbon dioxide/monoxide, perhaps a mutation induced by her Lineage Factor to her Devil Fruit abilities. By taking in large amounts of air that can be utilized for respiration, Delilah has demonstrated the ability to improve her physical prowess like an athlete's superior capacity for air would.
* **Equillbriate:** **REWRITE NOTICE:** Due to highly efficient motor sensory functions within his body, he is now capable of maintaining perfect balance no matter what situation he is in. As such, cycling on a unicycle balanced on a pin on top of a spider-web-thin thread has become one of the simplest tasks which he can do. With this, there is utterly no time frame between his body's movement, and his motion sensors within him "adapting" to the change. As such, he no longer becomes dizzy or face problems in perception, as he is no longer limited by such contemporary limits imposed on him by the body.
* **Mental Capacity:**

#### Assimilated/Adapted Traits

* **OCHEM:** Due to the nature of her Crimson Queen, when exposed to a variety of mutagenic compounds meant to further push her physiology and compatibility with her Devil Fruit, it was observed that her Lineage Factor appeared to adapt to the cocktail of chemicals with the natural, spontaneous manifestation of an ability not dissimilar to Chemical Juggling; that allows her to create orbs of concentrated biochemical energy which she can manipulate freely at will; even demonstrating the ability to infuse the properties of various toxins and noxious gases stemming from her mastery of the Doku Doku no Mi into these blasts of energy that result in large-scale detonations of toxic gases, and even the ability to create what she refers to as **Spores** of these toxic gases; orbs infused with a derivative of Urushiol, an oily, sticky toxin that adheres to surfaces and more terrifyingly, people. When wielded in combat, **OCHEM** is an extension of Crimson Queen that opponents often forget about, to unfortunate results, demonstrating the ability to form these orbs into rudimentary constructs wielded with a nigh-telekinetic level of precision.
* **Animal Communication:**
* **Camouflage:**

#### Evolved Traits

###### Evolution Mechanisms

* **Assimilation:** An ability stemming from her Crimson Queen, Rebecca has demonstrated the ability to actively exploit the unique relative flexibility of her Lineage Factor among all other beasts, enabling her to seemingly break down other living creatures and absorb it's biological matter into her own being, effectively consuming the being in it's entirety and attaining a supply of biomass to be used for a variety of purposes related to her Crimson Queen. Perhaps one of her single most dangerous abilities, and one of the main hallmarks of Project Homunculus in attempting to create a futureproof supersoldier, Rebecca's ability to consume other living creatures in this fashion allows her to become increasingly more dangerous and more powerful over time, naturally stockpiling power as she consumes defeated prey. Those entities that find themselves engulfed into Rebecca's form find themselves added to her growing pool of knowledge, as assimilating beings into herself with knowledge she does not herself possess sees their knowledge "grafted' onto her own, perhaps most notably seen in her ability to speak a vast variety of languages. This ability also has the side-effect of greatly augmenting her own naturally potent life-force with those of the creatures she has consumed. This ability has enabled the evolution of Crimson Queen most prominently.
	+ **Indexing:** The finishing touch of her Assimilation ability, due to the highly adaptive and flexible nature of her Lineage Factor, Rebecca has demonstrated the ability to add those she consumes to what she refers to as an "Index". By indexing a particular person or creature, Rebecca stores the precise arrangement of their biological material to be replicated, either entirely or partially. This grants her apparent but limited shapeshifting and voice mimicry abilities, as Rebecca has demonstrated the ability to shapeshift specifically only into beings she would have defeated and consumed in their entirety. In addition, Crimson Queen cannot record the changes to one's Lineage Factor made by a Devil Fruit, and has not appeared to be able to record the changes seen in Modified Humans, though despite this, she has still demonstrated the ability to "consume" them, continuing to assimilate some portion of their martial/general knowledge and biological material as usual.
* **Body Revival:** While Delilah was meant to be a supersoldier with the *potential* to rapidly eclipse most of her competition, the collective of scientists working on Demiurgos were not so naive to assume that their creation's path to growth would be one without any bumps along the way, especially given the sheer scale of ambition involved in the project. Even in normal organisms, muscles are unique structures as they are parts of the body that grow stronger after regenerating and repairing themselves from damage; being the mechanism which exercise itself operates on in order to cause normal individuals to grow stronger upon training and conditioning. Where Delilah differs, from normal organisms, is that this unique biological property operates not solely in her muscle cells, but throughout the entirety of her body, a characteristic that was partially introduced into her Lineage Factor and one that has been refined to become more efficient over time by Delilah's active access to and improving skill with her Lineage Factor and physiological constitution as she developed; in some cases reinforcing this processes' effectiveness by supplanting it with things she eats. Combined with her natural accelerated recovery rate, this means that Delilah demonstrates not only the ability to have her Haki grow in the heat of adversity, but also her physical characteristics. The extent to which her body grows is proportional to the damage withstood however, but the sheer fact that this trait exists has enabled her to close the gap mid-fight against opponents that may have been a bit stronger than her beforehand, allowing her to clutch assimilation. This process also greatly improves the efficacy of her physical training, as the biofeedback loop is notably more useful for her. Perhaps most notably however, this property can also lead to Delilah demonstrating mutations as a response to physical conditioning or taking damage that improve her viability in some capacity.
* **Metabolism:** Even Delilah's metabolism provides yet another avenue for growth. Delilah's metabolism is naturally considerably accelerated, which makes sense considering the sheer almost limitless quantity she appears to be capable of consuming at any point in time. While already immune to all toxins and poisons, her body reacts incredibly quickly to pathogens especially with her unique immune system, and rapidly moves to assisting her to survive incredibly harsh conditions. Through Body Revival as stated above, Delilah can build up her physical abilities with no theoretical limit through increasingly harder training (practical limits always exist for everything however), and slowly begin to exhibit elemental resistances via gradual exposure. Perhaps most dangerously however, Delilah's metabolism is so advanced that not only does she prove highly compatible with enhancing drugs and similar empowering substances with her body quickly running through and nullifying side-effects, gradually her body appears to gain the ability to permanently incorporate these enhancements (with limits). This too has been part of her path to growth, and this adaptability is the basis behind considerable resillience. Radiation is useful to her because it can spark mutations even, especially ionizing radiation, though this does not make her immune to damage caused by it.
	+ **Regulation:** Rebecca has demonstrated the ability to completely regulate natural metabolic processes, those she actually has anyways. Through this, she can feign death to an exceptionally precise degree if she desires, slowing her own "heartbeat", regulating her "brainwaves" to throw off to some extent even Haki users, and go for inhuman periods of time without any real need for sleep.

##### Self-Modifications

* **Deformation:** An ability stemming from her Crimson Queen, Rebecca has demonstrated the ability to manipulate her own constitutent matter (biomass) to an unnatural degree. This, in effect grants her the ability to manipulate and deform her physical form at will to construct physical organic weapons constructed out of pure biological material/matter. Perhaps most prominently, Rebecca has demonstrated the ability to project and manipulate incredibly durable, hefty tendrils of biological matter which she can manipulate as if additional arms at will; and transmogrify her physical form into what appears to be a monstrous amalgamation of a variety of beasts which she has consumed. She has also demonstrated the ability to increase her muscle mass with this assimilated biomass, and create additional stuff from this accumulated biomass, such as wings, enabling flight.
* **Overclocking:** Her equivalent of a normal fight or flight reaction, Rebecca has demonstrated the ability to "flip a switch". Her most rarely seen ability, typically activated only under the conditions of an ambush, Rebecca's manipulation of her own biochemical processes stemming partially from the natural abilities granted to her by Crimson Queen and her OCHEM adaptation allow her to release a cocktail of (conventionally toxic) chemicals and have them flood throughout her body, greatly accelerating her mind and therefore her body, resulting in a considerable boost to her speed and physical power.
* **Concussive Roar:** Delilah has demonstrated the ability to, as a rare few of considerable stature can, shout a roar on a level that is for all intents and purposes supernatural. However, unlike the majority of those who can, Delilah's appears to exist entirely without the need to tap into her reserves of Haki, as she has demonstrated the ability to release a powerful shock wave of incredible intensity capable of levelling landscapes and splitting the ground around her. The sheer intensity of her roar is so immense that lesser opponents can have these vibrations ripple through their body before exploding violently, and even counter incoming attacks. Due to the nature of her roar, it is incredibly difficult to effectively defend against, and those in earshot can find themselves deafened or with ruptured eardrums. However, the true danger in her roar, as in all predators, is the sheer infrasound content within her roar; a low frequency found in the roars of creatures that seize the nervous system of those in earshot, inspiring tremendous fear to the point of paralysis in her prey. Her roars get only more dangerous if used in conjuction with her Devil Fruit or Chemical Juggling.
	+ **Directed Roar:** An advancement of her baseline roar however, Delilah has demonstrated the ability to displace the air emanating from her mouth/maw with such force that the air within a certain vicinity of her being becomes extremely superheated; before accelerating towards the target with overwhelming destructive power. Delilah has demonstrated an impeccable level of accuracy with this ability, even combining it with Haki to produce an incredibly powerful earth-shattering attack of such intensity that upon impact it pulverises and heats solid rock into glass.

##### Infestation

* **Babylonia** is an ability that enables her to seemingly produce her own host of demonic entities, an army of minions that she can fashion from herself, predominantly from the stem cells of her womb by seemingly accelerating the growth rate of said cells, but uniquely in Delilah's case, not at all limited to her womb's cells, due to her ability to manipulate the functions of any cluster of cells in her body as she desires. An ability made possible only by the fact that she has a female physiological form (though, if she were not created female and then did consume a woman, in theory this ability would have then became possible), given that Delilah has the requisite genetic information Delilah has demonstrated the ability to seemingly produce an indefinite number of spawn, claiming to reach incredible levels of efficiency at a littler of on average twenty per day. The entire process is entirely painless, and can be done entirely removed from her body altogether. Delilah does not actually give birth to these entities in Babylonia in the traditional sense. Upon gestation, through willing deformation Delilah can split something as small as her fingertip for a moment, releasing an ooze of biomass that spontaneously reacts and appears to create whatever aberrant entity she was planning to synthesize. This ability is isolated and harnessed on Hive Worlds such as Echidna, where incubation centres are criss-crossed along the island, and as such are rarely used by Delilah herself.
* **Super Fecundity:** A consequence of her total control over her physiology is her sheer fertility. Due to her unique composition, Delilah has the ability to both become impregnated by and impregnate others, having developed a particular reputation among some crowds for a degree of hypervirility. While most of her children do not possess all of her artificial superhuman traits, they are all undeniably modified, and all bear some pseudo-psychic connection with Delilah, as she has demonstrated the ability to track them down like she can a Shardbearer, and appears to have some limited influence over them. Birthed in perfect health, her offspring also have rather unique characteristics that render them quite useful to her. The **Brides of Yidhra** are a global collective of women across the world that possess a Shard allowing her to extend this characteristic towards them in exchange for their services as incubators blended into their respective aspects of society.
* **PATREON:** A deceptive number of individuals from across the world arrive at Delilah’s metaphorical doorstep however, begging for knowledge, assistance, and power, especially after having done it once. On rare occasions, should she consider an individual and/or their plight sufficiently interesting or useful to her, Delilah has demonstrated the ability to fashion symbiotic organisms from her accumulated biomaterial that integrates itself into the body of those she considers deserving, allowing them to bear a highly specialized shard/sliver of herself. A primary tool of influence, Delilah’s collection of individuals includes musicians, royal advisors, Underworld brokers, and even royalty themselves. Those that have pledged allegiance to her and desperate for her patronage manifest new skills and abilities: perhaps improved political acumen or an amazing singing voice, or in the case of combatants, tools to be utilized in combat. Those that successfully bear her patronage find themselves physically empowered and bonded/fused to such an entity, referred to as *Shards* or *Patrons*. By bonding with the individual, including their nervous system, the form and nature of the entities are driven from their desire, and react/move according to their will. These entities upon budding have varying levels of sentience/intellect, and makes tweaks to its host musculature using Deli's biological knowledge, enhancing it and altering one’s physical appearance according to a Shardbearer's preferences if it was a spot of former insecurity. Passively, these Patrons consume small amounts of one's blood at a negligibly slow rate. As these things are bonded, they tend to be retractable, and thus the fact that people have Patrons can fly under the radar. While the form, intellect (if any at all) and abilities of each manifestation vary from person to person, there are a few things that are universally true:
	+ **Instilled Loyalty:** Those who are bestowed her favour are imbued with a natural degree of oath or fealty to her. An attempt to use one's own bonded weapon against Delilah, if one would/could do that, would end in a catastrophic failure as the symbiotic (in this case, read: parasitic) entity will begin to devour the target from the inside out before devouring itself. The abilities granted by these weapons/shards also appear to be more effective when used in ways that align with Delilah's will (Maybe).
	+ **Assimilation:** As extensions of Delilah, the shards embedded in her Favoured can assimilate targets to be added to Delilah's indices and biomass stores. While her favoured, due to not being Delilah, typically do not see the same benefits that Delilah gains through her assimilation; the weapons/artifacts associated with the symbiotic entities are both nourished and strengthened by consumption. Thus, if her favoured use these blessings to consume their foes or simply food, these entities will grow more nourished and grow stronger, and thus, so too will their combat strength grow/be maintained. In addition, individuals are instilled with a pseudo-hunger to consume things using their entities. From the assimilation carried out, Delilah gains what is referred to as the *Queen’s Share*, as those her target consumes grants her some extent of everything her subordinates assimilate as a sort of tithe, and individuals keep their shards fed to maintain their given blessing.
	+ **Co-ordination:** Being one of her Favoured effectively enables Delilah to track you anywhere across the planet simply because she can feel your presence regardless of what occurs, or where you are (because a part of her is embedded within you). Due to having her physically be a part of you, Delilah gains the ability to pseudo-telepathically converse with her Favoured as a group or an individual basis. She also gains insight into one's skills, abilities, and personality among other things on a more intimate level. This ability is incredibly useful and important, as it allows for rapid and effective communication between herself and her Favoured.