Evelyn/Powers

## Powers and Abilities

#### **Eden**

Evelyn's supernatural ability is referred to as **Eden**, a reference to the mythological Garden of Eden from which all life on Earth is said to originate. Just like it's namesake, Evelyn possesses the supernatural ability to generate and manipulate life, specifically having the ability to freely generate and manipulate any form of plant or fungal matter she can imagine from her aura or within a certain ill-defined radius of her own person. Unlike most similar abilities however, Evelyn has virtually no limits when it comes to just what kind of plants can be created, enabling her to fashion any imaginable structure from the plant life she freely generates given that she has an understanding of the underlying mechanism she wishes to create. Fundamentally, Eden stems from Evelyn's deep affinity for the affinity for the domains of both Life and Nature. This unique combination, especially when combined with the inherent aberration that is her Point Zero Status grants her an aura that naturally acts as a wellspring of vitality, propagating floral manifestations of life as extensions of her own essence, and passively rejuvenating nearby forms of life attuned to her unique aura. Eden is incredibly flexible in both form and function as a result, allowing her to generate botanical constructs from nothing in a manner that appears to have little regard for conventional laws of nature, or transform existing vegetation as if a canvas for her imagination.

Due to the unique nature of her abilities, Eden extends far beyond conventional basic plant manipulation. Eden grants Evelyn an unparalleled intuition with regards to biological mechanisms, allowing her to fashion her creations to serve any given purpose with some tinkering and engineering. Guided by this understanding, Evelyn can shape plant life to demonstrate desired properties and abilities. Her understanding and comprehension of what she wishes to create on a technical level perfectly parallels and elevates her intuition when it comes to the phytoengineering her powers enable; the deeper Evelyn's understanding of what she wishes to do, the more complex or perhaps better, refined, her designs can become. However, while comprehension helps, it should be noted that full comprehension to create any given creation is unnecessary, as her power supplements gaps in her understanding with an innate artistic intuition that breathes life into fantastical constructs like Tyrant, transcending conventional engineering problems. In essence, Eden enables Evelyn to be arguably the world's most visionary biological engineer, equipping her with ability, intuition, and an understanding that far surpasses even some of the best of her era and those before her. The sheer boundless potential granted by Eden enables her to devise new flora-based structures simply by visualizing a configuration and conceiving an underlying mechanism to manifest it.

Her powers are entirely limited by her creativity and the extent of her biological insight, both aspects that are both actively and passively refined by Evelyn. Combined with Evelyn's vast intellect, even ostensibly mystical effects become replicable when framed as botanical phenomena. Ultimately, Evelyn can transform ambient plant-life into customized, self-repairing biological machines with limitless versatility. Her talents make her a force of nature in the truest sense, weaving inspiration into self-expressing art. An additional, though less talked about aspect of Evelyn's incredible plant abilities is her body's perfect compatibility and synchronization with virtually any form of plant-based structure or substrate on a deeply conceptual level. Evelyn has demonstrated a complete immunity to the negative consequences of plants or plant based secretions, or those of fungi in turn. In addition, Evelyn can effortlessly host any of her generate plant forms within her body and grow them from or within her person at will without any concern for any backlash. Positive effects still take hold regardless, but for the most part Evelyn demonstrates a complete immunity to plant based attacks [with still undefined limits], typically utilizing Invasive to simply walk through and add any form of incoming plant based attack to her arsenal.

* **Perimeter:** Perimeter is one of Evelyn's earliest creations, and revolves primarily around leveraging Evelyn's innate understanding of the varied biological senses and reactivities possessed by plants, as well as her natural ability to effortlessly translate and interpret these senses for her own benefit. Miniature and innumerably vast numbers of plant growths across her body and in some cases fused with each of her bodily hairs leverage properties like chemical sensitivity, auditory receptors, and photoreception to respectively enhance Evelyn's senses of smell, hearing, and sight, an idea inspired from her study of spider biology, with her photoreception stemming from plants enabling her to see in both the visible and invisible spectrum of light. She can detect faint scents, sounds, and visual cues with acute precision over significant distances, and even through physical obstructions like walls and other such barriers. Her flora's innate current, vibration, and field attunements also grant perceptual awareness exceeding human limits, allowing Evelyn to sense electric, magnetic, and gravitational fluctuations, as well as any alterations in wind pressure in her immediate vicinity. By scattering seedlings around areas, Evelyn can establish far-reaching, self-regenerative botanical sensor networks. The dispersed plants self-propagate the perimeter through spreading roots and runners, forming an auto-expanding sensory barrier that boosts her detection radius. Others, release airborne spores or seeds that rapidly grow into aerial drone-like entities once dispersed, allowing for long range scouting. Alternatively, she can hijack and uplink existing environmental vegetation using her area to expand her perceptions. This grants comprehensive perception through ubiquitous plant life acting as her remote sensory proxies. In either form, Perimeter provides Evelyn unmatched battlefield awareness and stealth detection, leveraging the sensory gifts of nature itself through her bonded plant extensions. However, Perimeter also has an additional utility in the form of long-range reconnaissance. Due to her abilities enabling her to interpret the information contained within a plant's functions, Evelyn has demonstrated the ability to take snapshots and "recordings" of various stimuli experienced for later study or analysis, akin to scrolling through security footage. Also, needless to say, these symbiotic growths also extend Evelyn's ability to detect aura. Perimeter can also be extended to the waters around her, by simply modifying the plants utilized to also cover aquatic plants. Evelyn's sensory capabilities typically far surpass those found in the animal kingdom due in part to the unique specialization of plants, as well as the fact that the plants she utilizes are typically completely of her own creation. For example, plants are known to have a level of olfactory perception that far outpaces elephants, the animal with the best olfaction in the animal kingdom.
	+ **Myconet:** Otherwise referred to as the Wood Wide Web, plants and fungi are inseparably linked through **mycorrhizal networks** (a deep underground that transmit information throughout the woods. Myconet is specifically crafted to enable Evelyn to tap into this, being a vast subterranean blanket composed of interconnected mycelia that permeates the soil and intertwines with the roots of plant life. This massive web of fungal hyphae acts as a biological information network, transmitting signals through the conductive fungal tissues. Myconet grants Evelyn an innate environmental awareness by tapping into the sensory data relayed from any organism linked into the fungal communication grid. From small microbes to towering trees, any lifeform connected to Myconet can provide Evelyn sensory input or be subtly influenced through modulation of their nervous system via the fungal conduit. With Myconet's expansion, Evelyn establishes taproots that provide portals into the emergent hivemind. Through these she can access memories, experiences and knowledge assimilated from across the myconet, granting a macroscopic view of the world through the ascendent fungal consciousness.
* **Tyrant (MK II):** Tyrant is best described as a cluster of stem cells embedded within Evelyn's skin cells and throughout her body. When activated, it forms across her body through the mobilization of stem cells within her skin. This creates layers of interlocking wooden scales in a reptilian configuration, taking the form of a humanoid exoskeletal armor. The lignified dermal plates increase Evelyn's resilience, while supplementary vascular tissues enhance her strength, speed, reflexes and agility to superhuman levels, to such a point that she feels lighter with Tyrant active than without it. Integration of explosively propulsive elements known as Spring Buckeyes enables high-speed thruster-boosted flight, reflex boosts, and immediate extreme bursts of speed. Customized vascular channels deliver engineered steroidal biocompounds that further boost strength, speed, endurance, healing and overall physiology to levels far beyond that of the original Tyrant. Adjustable chromatophore-like plant cells enable camouflage across the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing Evelyn to render herself completely invisible. The carapace has been reinforced with dense cellulose-based microfibers that mimic graphene, granting tremendous heat and kinetic resistance. Kinetic absorption padding properties from the Spring Buckeyes provide impact cushioning, allowing her to withstand serious concussive blows with mild discomfort. A filtration-based mesh enables underwater breathing while blocking water, radiation and toxins, and providing some resistance to energy attacks by filtering their effectiveness. Flexible yet rigid dermal plates can distort shape without compromising protection.
	+ **MK II Munitions:**
		- **Methane MIne:** As an offshoot of her Tyrant exoskeleton, Evelyn can generate bulbous plant masses filled with methanogenic microbes. When launched at foes, these microbial "mines" utilize tiny hooks to latch onto skin or armor. Once attached, the microbes rapidly produce explosive methane gas that inflates the mine, with internal membranes preventing outward diffusion. At Evelyn's command, the mine triggers an internal biomechanical spark, igniting the concentrated methane in a violent eruption that detonates from within the target's own body. The embedded mine makes removal extremely difficult without tearing one's own flesh to shreds. These biomechanical explosives provide Evelyn a deadly short-range projectile capable of inducing massive concussive trauma. Meanwhile, the mine's anchoring hooks and robust outer membranes minimize collateral damage.
		- By infusing the altered form of her life energy into a unique and containable super acid; Evelyn has demonstrated the ability to seemingly rapidly fire off highly pressurized capsules of extremely corrosive and toxic material; providing a highly dangerous and effective payload capable of seemingly eating through any defenses.
* **Pollen Pistil:** Leveraging the principles of botanical engineering, Evelyn's specialized flowers possess the remarkable capability of launching weaponized pollen at extraordinary velocities. These flowers concentrate the pollen grains into pressurized pods, which violently rupture upon activation. To achieve this, Evelyn incorporates contractile tissues from Spring Buckeyes, imbuing her flowers with the necessary force to propel the pollen like ballistic bullets. To enhance the destructive potential of her pollen, Evelyn employs meticulous engineering techniques. Each pollen grain is meticulously designed with perfectly abrasive geometries, featuring spiky protrusions, angular edges, and engraved micro-patterns. Evelyn also incorporates specialized microscopic diamond fragments and silica structures into the pollen grains, granting them enhanced hardness and durability. Perhaps most terrifyingly, being one of Evelyn's generations, she maintains full control over the pollen masses through Bloom, allowing her to construct complicated structures mid-flight like the **Pollen Pistil: Rocket**, a multi-stage propulsive mass that reaccelerates mid-flight like a rocket booster. When released in dense clouds, the accelerated pollen grains can pepper targets with tremendous concussive impact. However, Evelyn's ingenuity goes beyond mere brute force. By vibrating and rotating the pollen at extreme speeds, she harnesses the grains' abrasive properties to grind against interior surfaces like nano-drills. This gradual erosion process allows the pollen to flay living tissues, penetrate armor, dismantle weapons, and even overcome the most durable of materials. On contact, the pollen rapidly expands and releases toxic chemicals, bioluminescent flares, petrifying compounds, or other payloads tailored for incapacitation, signaling, or destruction. By weaponizing the flowers' natural reproductive processes, Evelyn gains rapid-fire organic artillery able to blanket areas in a wide range of pollen-based attacks.
* **Swarm:** Swarm consists of dense masses of versatile, weaponized vines that Evelyn generates with incredible durability and hardness. She reinforces the vines' cell walls with additional lignin, deposits rigidifying minerals within their tissues, and improves their structural integrity through strategic growth patterns for damage resistance. This allows Swarm to withstand immense stress and impact while retaining flexibility. Attacks that would shred ordinary vegetation have little effect on Swarm's constituent vines, which can function as shields or bodies capable of withstanding most conventional arms. She shapes these botanical appendages for numerous purposes with her intuitive engineering talents. Razor-edged vines lash out to slice targets or form monowire-thin tendrils that sever like blades [**Net**]. Thicker, stronger vines constrict enemies or function as powerful tentacles, or can even be combined to form additional appendages [**Strike**]. More vines interweave into multi-layered fortress-like shields [**Shield**] or nets to entrap opponents [**Net**]. Some vines elongate into lianas for swinging traversal while others become springy piston-stilts to rocket jump **[Springboard**]. Swarm's modularity combined with Evelyn's shaping skills grant limitless options. She rapidly prototypes custom vine types, mixing and matching needed properties. Even more so, she can eject them to skewer incoming targets, in the form of [**Bullets**]. The vines self-repair, letting Evelyn endlessly recycle material if unchecked. Swarm embodies Evelyn's core ability to engineer radically reconfigurable plant-based constructs on the fly through her masterful biological intuition. Where her imagination guides, Swarm follows. In all its forms, Swarm provides Evelyn an arsenal of custom living weapons, bringing agility and pain in equal measure. Perhaps as the most basic application however, Swarm possesses a near flawless ability to adhere to any surface, though Evelyn usually has it burrow somewhat into the surface for good measure, allowing her to swing and propel herself around the battlefield freely.
	+ **Swarm Shift: Specialty:** An optimization of Swarm's initial designs, Evelyn has demonstrated the ability to further specialize the functionalities of Swarm's vines. Creating intricate vascular channels throughout semi-desiccated regions of Swarm's tendrils, Evelyn has demonstrated the ability to let her vines rapidly develop and propagate alchemical substances on contact, amplified by miniature penetrating barbs crisscrossing the vines. These barbs secrete a potent skin irritant, increasing skin permeability while sinking into the skin painlessly to the point that most are unaware of ever being penetrated. Simultaneously, these barbs also inject these substances directly into her target, or release them in a chemical expulsion in a liquid or gaseous state [**Sting**]. On the other hand, Evelyn has demonstrated sufficient skill over *Bloom* to manipulate fungi to coat her attacks and vines in colonies of those microscopic creatures, engineering Swarm vines with the ability to seemingly break down exceedingly sturdy materials like wood, rock, metal etc. via secreted compounds.

* **Prosperite:** Prosperite represents Evelyn's ingenuity in engineering botanical solutions for healing and restoration. The baseline for it stems from her deep knowledge of Viteshan medicinal flora like the curative ceremonial flower Ambrosia officinalis. This starts with a mutated Ambrosia strain whose petals heal wounds on a molecular level when applied. The bioengineered flowers also secrete enhanced nectar capable of boosting the efficacy of one's regenerative abilities through focused immunomodulation. Evelyn's intuitive grasp of biological systems allows her to target the effects down to the cellular level. But Ambrosia is more than a single flower. It is Evelyn's platform for botanical medicine. Her creations synergize together, deploying in combination to provide comprehensive care. Mutated strains achieve accelerated cell regeneration, supercharged immune response. Simply applying them to injuries initiates rapid, localized healing cascades. She also secretes targeted nectars that provide systemic immune boosts when ingested. Photosynthesizing dermal symbiotes detoxify and provide oxygen. Mycelial meshes rapidly stabilize fractures and lacerations. Vines transfuse or synthesize needed blood compounds through their vascular systems, a technique she uses for combat transformed to heal as well as it hurts. Seed-grown organelles repair cellular damage. Swarm vines gently remove shrapnel, Ambrosia petals regenerate tissue, healing nectars prevent infection, and protective sap casts immobilize the wounded area. Prosperite represents the full range of Evelyn's talents focused through the lens of care rather than conflict. She elevates and mimics the beneficial properties of nature itself to tend to the vulnerable. Where her raw power can dominate, Prosperite shows it can also heal. Prosperite can also be used to fire lobs of healing spores to heal over an area of effect, though loses efficacy the larger the area it's meant to be spread over unless specifically reinforced for a larger payload, something that requires Evelyn's active concentration. Even still, it wouldn't be as good as her doing it directly.
* **Harmonix:** Through intuitive mastery of botanical acoustics, Evelyn engineers blossoms capable of flawless sound manipulation dubbed Harmonix. Each bloom comprises specialized fibrous parenchymal tissues that vibrate as elastic diaphragms to convert vibrations and mechanical energy into sound. Interlinked hollows and tubes act as organic resonance chambers and amplifiers, enriching sounds with customizable reverberation. Petal structures direct and focus sound projection into targeted beams or omnidirectional spreads. Microscopic muscular hydrostats within each petal allow ultra-precise steering and shaping of acoustic beams. By rapidly reshaping the tissues, Evelyn achieves perfect control over every acoustic quality - tuning frequency responses, layering effects, and filtering. Delicate membrane layers vibrate in response to sounds, acting as organic microphones. Evelyn shapes these to recreate recorded vibrations with pristine fidelity. Using aura manipulation, Evelyn networks Harmonix blossoms over vast distances by tuning their fibers to the same frequencies. This enables long-range communication, with messages relayed through linked plant cell towers. By overlaying blossoms, Evelyn can harness wave phenomena like interference and resonance. Being forged through her powers, Harmonix is incredibly receptive to miniaturization optimizations.
* **Creepspike:** An amalgam of Spring Buckeye accelerator tissues and raphide needle clusters. The construct consists of hollow spike clusters lined with accelerator channels and chambers. When activated, Creepspike propels clusters of accelerated raphide crystals and microspines. The hypersonic crystalline shards penetrate to lodge within targets. The embedded microspines then deploy, anchoring to tissues via microscopic barbs. The clinging spines proliferate the spread of inoculated bio-crystalline calcium carbonate formations. The resulting mineral accretion impairs mobility through progressive immobilization . Simultaneously, residual splashes of bio-crystalline fluids coat impacted areas. On contact, these nucleate additional crystalline formations that rapidly spread and harden. By lobbing Creepspike fragments at a target, Evelyn can essentially gum up armor, weapons, appendages, or anything else with the clinging spines, petrifying the object in the progress. The combined internal and external mineralization lead to petrifying ossification, as targets become encased in proliferating shells of solidified stone. The crystallization cascades from a single activation, progressively restricting motion. Evelyn has additionally demonstrated the ability to use Invasive to create unmanned automatic sentry turrets from Creepspike's abilities, crystallizing her targets without her active control or proximity, as well as enabling her to do it at a considerably larger scale/angle/distance than she would be able to do by herself. Lingering Creepspike simply sees her combine Fulguritus and Creepspike. Interestingly, Creepspike possesses an aspect of Evelyn's ability to *root,* enabling it to take root in non-tangible existences and serve as a vessel for her draining of energies.
	+ **Creepspike Return:** A specialized variant of this technique combining principles in *Glamour, Pollen Pistil, Springbaard,* and the more traditional *Creepspike*, Creepspike Return consists of biopods encasing the raphide crystals. The difference between Creepspike and Creepspike Return stems in it's intended use and thus how it's engineered, as these biopods possess microscopic muscle-like springy strands and pneumatic sacs that contract as the attack pushes against the pod, absorbing the kinetic energy of the attack and slowing it down as the motion of the attack becomes the energy stored in the spring. The raphide crystals present in the pod stab into the attack, sending crystallization cascading along the attack. Using Perimeter to track the target, the sacs and muscle strands then expand, transferring the stored mechanical energy back into the kinetic energy of the attack, reversing it's direction. Pollen Pistil comes into play at the end, boosts, effectively reflecting and mirroring the attacks backward with more force than it initially came in with, the crystallization locking the attack in her grasp. The crystallization recedes as the attack returns. The pods themselves are engineered with shapeshifting tissues as those in Glamour, becoming invisible at will. [Maggie Reference the creation]
* **Glamour [Phytomimes]:** Glamour is a remarkable manifestation of Evelyn's botanical mastery. By utilizing her deep understanding of plant biology, she engineers these plants to possess adaptive pigmentation and shape-shifting capabilities. This allows them to blend seamlessly into their surroundings, providing dynamic camouflage in ever-changing environments. Through the manipulation of light-sensing cells and shape-shifting tissues, Phytomimes can adjust their appearance to mimic the colors, patterns, and textures of their surroundings. This optical deception enables them to remain virtually invisible to the naked eye, making it incredibly challenging for adversaries or observers to detect their presence. Additionally, certain Phytomimes have the remarkable ability to cling to bodies, seamlessly blending into clothing or armor worn by Evelyn or her comrades. This form of disguise serves as an additional layer of concealment, making it difficult for others to discern the presence of an individual within a group or to identify them as a potential threat. Perhaps most dangerously though, Evelyn can render her own techniques invisible, and with Harmonix, render them inaudible, forcing the use of techniques such as Prior Imaging or Haki to dodge them properly unless one relies on their sense of smell, an asset that would likely be under her influence throughout the battle anyways as a result of her powers extending to say.. flowers.
* **Photosynthetics:** Leveraging her intuitive botanical expertise, Evelyn bioengineers symbiotic chloroplast organelles capable of photosynthesizing aura from sunlight. Inspired by plant biology, she designs the chloroplasts to convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into concentrated usable aura through natural bio-photonic pathways. The chloroplasts embed seamlessly within her cells, forming a matrix throughout her tissues. Using enhanced photosynthetic reactions, they passively harvest solar energy and metabolize it. This energy however, is not turned [entirely] into chemical energy, but the energy that breathes life into Evelyn's plants, her aura itself. This chemical energy stored also extends her ability to harness ambient flux for extended periods of time, and elevates her baseline physicality without using aura to somewhere generally in the Enhanced category. Specialized chloroplasts in pulmonary tissues trap and metabolize airborne threats. This renewable aura accumulates harmlessly until called upon, then discharges on demand to reinforce Evelyn's abilities. Solar-powered and discretely integrated within her body, the engineered chloroplasts provide a steady trickle of renewable aura, granting lasting resilience and reduced reliance on ambient flux. Through creative biological design, Evelyn transforms herself into a living conduit of nature's vibrant energy.
	+ **Chloroseal:** Evelyn naturally produces a considerable amount of vital energy, or aura overtime due in part to her initial baseline levels of Quintessence which have only been magnified further by her access to her *Photosynthetics* creation. Usually this energy would have nowhere to go however if she is perfectly untaxed/not tired, simply being produced and dissipated again as flux back into her surrounding environment. However, under study with and analyzing the abilities of Noel Chambers in terms of her ability to store up calories, Evelyn learned how to redirect that seemingly endless supply of passively generated aura into specific points on and inside her body, taking the form of a rhombus-like marking. Harnessing the aura stored within this seal enables Evelyn to release this aura back into her body, greatly amplifying the power of her techniques. However, it also enables her to take Photosynthetics to even further levels. Since Evelyn has a place to put all of this unbridled energy, Evelyn has demonstrated the ability to completely devour all the ambient light in her environment with her plants, rapidly converting it into aura consciously and storing it into her seal, creating temporary areas of darkness around her akin to an eclipse, enabling stealth, confusion and disorientation tactics. *Sage Mode tie in goes here.*

* **Invasive:** Invasive stems from Evelyn's ability to hijack and transform plant matter through touch. She mentally designs an aggressive botanical "virus" that rapidly infects and takes over any vegetation she makes contact with. This plant-focused contagion overwhelms native structures and defenses, allowing Evelyn to reshape the organism as desired. Invasive spreads through roots, cells, and vascular systems, dominating the plant from the inside out. Once a plant is under Evelyn's thrall, the plant's growth, resources, and energy production are completely rerouted to suit her will. She redesigns the organism into weaponized flora or uses it as a propagation point for further uses of Bloom. On a microscale, a current area of research she is discreetly investigating is hijacking a target's intestinal flora and other internal microbiomes. This could allow chemical synthesis inside a victim's own cells, effectively allowing her a hostile takeover from within.
	+ **Invasive (MK II):** Advancing on Invasive, Evelyn has create Invasive MK II, a fungal-based suite that possesses the terrifying ability to hijack the cells of other organisms through a specialized form of parasitic infection. It begins by secreting microscopic fungal spores that can float harmlessly in air currents. When inhaled or making contact with flesh, these spores rapidly sprout fungal hyphae that pierce cell membranes and deposit infectious fungal material inside the host cells. The hyphae act as injection tubes to invade cells. This fungal material spreads in a viral fashion, converting cytosol into more fungal cytoplasm and forming neural-like syncytia to interface with the host. The fungus is able to take over cells by interfacing with key structures and processes. It forms artificial synaptic junctions with dendrites and axons, allowing it to listen in on nervous signals and even generate its own signals to control motor functions or release hormones and neurotransmitters. Additionally, the fungus interacts with MT cytoskeletal structures to coordinate cell shape change and motion. Most disturbingly, the fungus is capable of seizing nuclei, unwinding DNA helices, and altering gene transcription rates directly to modify cell behavior to its liking through epigenetic control. With the nucleus subverted, the cell is slaved to the fungal invader. As more and more cells in an organism are converted, the fungus gains increasingly fine control, ultimately able to induce motion, alter emotions and perceptions, or even completely override autonomic functions like breathing and heart rate. When bonding to living, breathing creatures, Invasive MK II affects hormone production to cloud the brain and induce forced sleep, dramatically impairing a victim's ability to resist. Evelyn has demonstrated the ability to undo the effects of MK II entirely with a snap of her finger however. Invasive MK II was designed to work in parallel with Myconet, enabling Evelyn to rapidly hijack and assimilate plant life across a wide area by using the fungal networks as conduits through which to transmit Invasive. This could let her take over entire forests or jungles near-instantaneously. Fulguritus can be combined to induce what Evie likes to refer to as MK 2.5, using it's electrical signals to further destabilize the host's control over their own motions and drive forced motion, or **Invasive Frankenstein.**
* **Fulguritus:** Fulguritus consists of expansive networks of genetically engineered fungal tissue designed to conduct and channel immense bioelectric currents. The key is modifying mycelial hyphae on a cellular level to exhibit metallic conductivity while retaining biological features like growth and self-repair. Once established, these conductive fungal tendrils can interface with the bioelectricity of living systems and rapidly relay self-generated or absorbed currents through the interconnected fungal circuitry. By interfacing conductive fungal filaments with the target's nervous system, Fulguritus can induce systemic neuro-muscular disruption via overwhelming bioelectric signals, effectively stunning opponents. This disruptive bioelectric overload can be channeled in an area-of-effect capacity, cascading through multiple nervous systems at once with paralytic results akin to projected Haoshoku Haki, rendering the weakwilled unconscious or temporarily pausing even the most durable in their tracks, a trait that when combined with her *pops* allows her to overwhelm opponents still immobilized by her abilities. Where Fulguritus really shines in some aspects is as a conductive/zoning strategy for her other techniques however, such as connecting them to scattered Methane Mines to set off a series of chained detonations when Perimeter detects individuals in a certain area, or in cases where she can't actively use her Perimeter due to distance, have this effect just occur automatically, while the remaining Fulgurites impair motion to such an extent her opponent can't leave the blast radius. Through Myconet, the radius Evelyn can activate Fulguritus in has grown significantly, letting her channel these blasts across networks.

* Evelyn secretes a cloud of microscopic fungal spores that rapidly colonize any organic matter they come into contact with. These spores convey a specialized metabolic acceleration that jumpstarts decomposition in the colonized material. The fungus spreads threadlike hyphae throughout the cellular structure, secreting a cocktail of enzymes tailored to break down proteins, cellulose, lignin, chitin, and other structural biomolecules. These enzymes degrade molecular chains with extreme efficiency, weakening the physical integrity of cells and extracellular material. In tandem, the fungus hijacks the metabolism of individual cells, inducing a hyperactive catabolic state that burns through energy reserves and cellular scaffolding at a runaway pace through aerobic respiration and similar processes. Victim cells essentially cannibalize themselves in a frenzy of self-destruction. As cells rapidly disintegrate from within, tissues and organs soon lose cohesion and begin to rot. The host organism starts decaying alive, as necrosis spreads through its body at an exponential rate. Structures and membranes liquefy, transform into slurry, and eventually devolve into elemental molecular compounds. Once decay has rendered a target into constituent biomass, the fungus incorporates the broken down material and energy into its own growing mass. The spreading fungal entity leaves total decay and assimilation in its wake.