Sylvie

## Appearance

**Sylvie** is a human with purple, blobulous, goopy hair, wearing a purple sweater-skirt combination with light green accents and a radioactivity emblem. She wears gray shorts and light purple and light green sneakers. She also has a gray gas mask used in combat.

## Personality

Sylvie’s fairly lax in nature, not taking anything too seriously and being rather friendly. She enjoys taking it easy and hanging out with anybody, particularly anybody close to her. It’s fairly easy to get on her nerves, however, and she will actively attempt to avoid anybody she *can’t* get along with. She’s not one to take social matters into her own hands.

On the hero side of things, Sylvie actively tries to avoid any publicity, despite her home city regarding her as their “resident superhero” and generally looking up to her. As she sees it, the appraisal’s a waste of time and too much effort. That said, she does enjoy the actual hero work. Given that the threats to the area are typically humans, however, Sylvie has a bad tendency to underestimate her opponents when they’re of greater power, oftentimes thinking she’s “done” early on into the fight.

## History

Sylvie’s history is largely unknown. For the time being, know that her (rich) parents at some point passed away and that she inherited their large estate, where she lives, and that she and Edward went to school together.

## Relations and Affiliations

**Alloyman** - A friend of Sylvie's after enough time. The two enjoy hanging out together, and Sylvie supplies him with some food and shelter (she always offers both, but he's not always in a literal position to accept).

**Edward** - The two were friends early on in schooling, but they grew distant as they aged, particularly around when high school hit. Edward grew resentful of Sylvie because of this, bugging her a lot throughout the years despite the fact that she really didn’t do much. After graduating, the two stopped interacting altogether- much to Sylvie’s pleasure- but Edward, in a kind-of-parasocial manner, despised the acclaim Sylvie (unwantedly) received as a superhero on broadcasting.

## Abilities and Weapons

Sylvie’s a more-than-competent fighter, typically preferring to stick back and use her powers from a moderate distance but still being able to engage in hand-to-hand combat, typically also enhanced by her abilities. Sylvie’s abilities primarily involve...

### **Toxikinesis**

* **Toxicity Control** - Sylvie’s able to control just how deadly her attacks are, from “this burns a bit” to “thoroughly melted and deformed body on the ground”. She can also manipulate any sort of toxins she encounters in the area with this. This is how she’s able to capture human criminals in the goop without instantly melting them. This ability also extends to her hair, letting her instantly melt or retain anything in her hair.
* **Sludge Bomb** - Sylvie’s most-used technique, and for good reason- drenching somebody with a lob of some poisonous goop in an arc is pretty effective. Sylvie can summon the goop from her hands like a standard attack, or fling it from her hair for some added flair.
* **Toxin Wave** - Sylvie can use what is essentially a weaker AoE attack that has her send out a wave of sludge from the ground. Useful for dealing with multiple people at once.
* **Poison Coating** - Sylvie can cover her hands (or any part of herself, really, so I suppose the other practical use for this would be her sneakers) in poisonous liquid in order to enhance her melee attacks. Makes her usually less-favored fighting style more tolerable.
* **Acid Wall** - Sylvie can summon a wall of liquid ooze for whatever situation it’s needed in. This can be slowly walked through like any other thick liquid, but then you’re at the mercy of her toxicity control.
* **Gaseous Breath** - This is where Sylvie’s gas mask comes in handy. Sylvie can always exhale poisonous and/or numbing chemicals into the air, almost like a flamethrower, but it’s wild and hard to control, having a wide range of effect and often flying in several different directions quickly. Her gas mask allows her to much more easily control the direction and shoot out a more concentrated spray either forward, left, or right. Against her usual opponents, she usually just goes with numbing gases, but the poisonous gas can be exceptionally useful when dealing with externally vulnerable foes.

### Other

* **Withering Touch** - Sylvie can kill any plant with a single touch. The key word is can- it's not an automatic thing, it's a matter of choice.
* **Withered Thorns** - Sylvie is able to create dead thornbushes, of which she can do anything with.

## Trivia

* Sylvie, like Alloyman, was inspired by Discord’s Spellcast game. However, Sylvie’s concept was much more loose, simply coming from the word “gunk” and never considering any of her other “associated” words, whereas Alloyman initially tried to incorporate harp elements.
* Sylvie’s name comes from the Salvia, a purple flower.
* Sylvie’s only console as a child was an SNES, as it was her dad’s, and he had no idea other video game consoles launched after it.
	+ In a swap AU, Sylvie would swap with Alloyman and instead of losing her childhood copy of Footloose, she’d lose her childhood copy of Pilotwings.
* Sylvie is pansexual.

## Gallery

An outdated image of Sylvie's design.An early doodle of Sylvie with her scrapped mask on.Early doodle of Sylvie and Alloyman watching a movie.