Effie Grayson

art by @octopusdoesart

Effie (3F13) Grayson is a 22 year old shape-shifting woman, and is the main protagonist of Untitled Webcomic. She is a Sephrite, which are shape-shifters from

**Personality**

Effie is known for being chipper, optimistic, silly, and witty. Despite her joyful nature, she is remarkably insecure. She thrives off compliments and bases her self-worth on what others think of her. Her need to fit in and please others is her main motivator in her actions, and does whatever it takes to ensure other people's happiness, even if it bends her own values at first.

She has a tendency to be clingy, and physically affectionate with friends and family. Despite her insecurities, she's a loyal and true friend at her core, and has the loving nature to put others before herself.

**Powers and Abilities**

Effie is completely unaware of her abilities until she is 22 years old. It isn't until her true identity is revealed to her by -Unamed Queen- that she understands what she is.

As described by the U.S. government, Sephrites have the ability of *cellular replication and modification* which allows the body to replicate and change cells at superhuman speed, allowing the user to easily change their appearance, or clone themselves.

Strange things happened to Effie throughout her life. When she hit puberty, her chip malfunctioned momentarily, leading her to look up in the mirror and see a hideous monster looking back at her. She rubbed her eyes, and when she opened them back up, she was herself again.

Effie jokingly brings up the "hallucination" to her father, where he quickly adjusts the chip to her growing body.

Sephrites have the unique ability to shape shift into whatever they please. All they have to do, is think of what they want to become, and they become it.

When a Sephrites becomes of age, they gain the ability to shape shift. This ability, however, doesn't come without challenges. However you feel, is what you become. If you feel pathetic and small, you shrink to the size of a mouse. If you feel hideous and ugly, you turn into an ugly creature.

So, similar to human puberty, teenage Sephrites go through a lot of emotional turmoil and mood swings. This causes a whole lot of shape shifting in a short period of time. They are taught to tame this ability on Sephos, and suppress these emotions. -read more on how they treat shape shifting culturally here- They are able to suppress and control their shape shifting with time.

**Backstory**

22 years prior to being introduced to Effie, a space ship crashed to Earth. The U.S. government retrieved the wreckage of the UFO, along with two deceased alien bodies, and one baby alien who survived. They were taken to a secret base where the bodies and wreckage were studied.

One government scientist, Al, was in charge of studying baby Effie. As a baby, she didn't have a true name- and was labeled, "EF13". Al shortened her name to Effie when referring to her in private.

He did a number of experiments on her. These experiments started out tame- introducing Effie into different environments and objects to study her behavior and understand how her shape-shifting worked. This went on for a few months, and Al spent most of his time with Effie. Even spending weekends, and often nights there with her. He developed a parental and protective love for her.

It wasn't long until Al's boss, -Unnamed-, began assigning morally ambiguous experiments to them. Al performed one hesitantly, which resulted in Effie crying. -More detail later- He immediately protested the experiments, but -Unnamed boss- quickly disregarded his concerns, noting that they can't keep her alive without risking the safety of the world. The power the -Untitled alien species name- posses could have dire consequences on Earth. He argues that she has more value to them alive than dead, but it's futile.

Al leaves the room, holding in tears before he makes it to the hallway. He spends his free time from then on developing a technology to keep Effie in human form. He hatches a plan to steal Effie from the military base and raise her as a human to save her life, and adopt her as his own daughter.

**Relationships**

Kurt Patel is her best friend. Halle