Gunigtai

The young Mongolian girl of around 15 known only as Gunigtai or "Guni" for short was an alt imbued with superhuman abilities in experimental procedures by Theodore Lind's shadow lab of Argent Scientific and used as a guardian to the area known as Ükhliin Zam in the Khentii Province of Mongolia, where Theo maintained a converted Claymore mine as a research lab.

### History

Little is known about Guni's past other than her parents were killed in a dispute with a local gang in Ulaanbaatar when she was 14, where Theo found the girl nearly frozen to death on his way to inspect his shadow lab under Mount Burkhan Khaldun and took it on himself to "help" her, by making her into an alt.

The process, however drove the girl nearly insane, and while she did gain powers, and was very loyal to Theo for saving her life, wanted to seek out and kill her parents killers; Theo, however forbad the girl to leave the area, forcing her to work with some new potential alts.

Nevertheless Guni did use her powers to escape and chase after the gang, only to pass out with heavy nosebleed when se began attacking them. Luckily she was rescued by Theo's Argent henchmen who were following her before the gang could react, but promised she would be allowed to hunt the gang once Theo had dealt with Volt, who he correctly assumed was coming to rescue Elliot for Clay, who Theo had held captive in his lab.

When she met Zurgaan and Nölöö she was asked to work with them to become guardians of the area, and she did so reluctantly, but eventually settled in with the men, who grew an almost daughterly attachment to her.

She died when her powers finally span out of control and gave her a massive brain trauma, she later died in Volt's arms in the tavern after revealing some information about the whereabouts of Theo's lab.

### Personality

Previously a quiet and somewhat shy girl, both her parents death and Guni's alteration was particularly traumatic for her, and Theo was relentless in trying to give her powers, this transformed her into a dark, vengeful girl, and though she also displayed suicidal tendencies at times, focused her mind with the promise of revenge for her parents, which drove her forward to attack Volt. She still retained her quiet and somewhat shy original personality, but it was more brooding and quietly scheming than it ever was as a normal human.

### Appearance

Gunigtai dressed in dark clothes and usually wore a hood up at all times to hide her face. She had pale skin and long black hair with a squarely-cut long bangs that hung close to her eyes, thought to have made even paler by her alteration and deep black irises, her eyes of which would glow white when using her powers. Volt described her as a '*creepy kid*'.

### Powers and Abilities

**Powers**

Gunigtai was an alt, artificially altered through a series of chemical enhancements of multiple serums created by combining individualised neonic protein strands, artificial XNA, with the alien DNA sequences from Elliot, taken orally, injected directly into her brain stem and through gaseous inhalation for several months. The results nearly killed her several times, and for Guni these experiments were particularly harsh on her mind, and Theo suggested she may have already had severe mental issues beforehand, but as she pulled through she developed superhuman abilities.

**Psionic Inundation:** Guni developed the ability to project an overload of telepathic interference into the minds of others, this ability could be focused in a direction, but required less concentration when she created an omnidirectional field of interference. This interference caused a range of effects but predominately manifested in the form of sensory 'static'. Theo had suggested that she had only unlocked a small portion of potential "ballistic telepathy" that could have made her one of the most dangerous telepaths on the planet.

When she used her powers, her eyes glowed white.

* **Mental Static:** Primarily, her power to cause mental interference is projected as a form of 'static' that manifested in her targets as a visual field of "fuzziness" very similar to electronic static seen on a TV superimposed onto people's visual perception, including a sound that manifests as a tinnitus-like fuzzy ringing. This static interferes with higher brain functions, and gets worse the longer she holds it and the closer she is, having a range of 10 or 11 meters or so. At close range her targets essentially go blind and deaf.
* **Cognition Reduction:** This field of mental interference reduces the brain's cognitive functions and the mind's ability to concentrate, take in and process information, resulting in confusion and disorientation.
* **Mental Lethargy:** During the process of psionic inundation, the minds of Guni's victims experience a severe mental draining to the point where targets become tired for several hours after she has stopped using her power on them. A focused blast of inundation may even cause a target to pass out or even enter a short coma.
* **Telelocation:** She could telepathically sense the minds of others within her range and could do do without first applying mental inundation.

**Abilities**

* ***Self Defence:*** She was taught some basic self-defence skills by Zurgaan.
* **Tracker:** Nölöö taught her the basics how to track animals and, as an extension, people.
* **Multilingual:** She could speak some English but was much more proficient in Chinese and Mandarin; her mother was thought to be half-Chinese.

### Limitations and Weaknesses

Gunigtai suffered most with her powers, being mental in nature, combined with various traumas, caused her powers to become highly detrimental to her own mind, even with the use of Ellie's DNA as a stabilisation element. Ultimately her powers caused her to black out whilst attacking Volt and she later died of brain trauma in his arms.