Saurial

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* Taylor Hebert#Saurial
### Appearance:

Saurial is Taylor's smallest alternate form. She is described as: "Her head bore no resemblance at all to a human now, not a trace of the one she’d had all her life present. It was instead something out of a documentary on dinosaurs, a wedge-shaped head with eyes set more to the sides than normal, although less so than something like a bird. She still had binocular vision. Those eyes were completely orange-yellow and seemed to be glowing slightly, with black vertical slit pupils like those of a cat. Blinking them she found she still had eyelids, unlike a snake, although her head did bear a distinct likeness to such an animal.
Opening her mouth she found it was packed with a totally ridiculous number of extremely sharp teeth, most of them nearly an inch long with a few at the front on the sides close to twice that. It was a mouth that would give an angry lion cause to think twice. Her tongue was long and forked, again like that of a lizard or a snake. Closing her mouth then smiling, or at least doing what would normally be the muscular operation to smile when human, made the corners of her much larger mouth pull up and expose fangs, explaining nicely why Danny had looked very worried...

...The rest of her body was best described as a mix between something not entirely unlike a Velociraptor out of Jurassic Park, the memories she had of the Varga’s full form, and her own. It was vaguely centaur-like, down to the waist her body was more or less humanoid, although scale covered and showing only hints of a female form. Her clothes had vanished but she didn't need them like this. She had the slightly bitter thought that this was actually a pretty good description of her aside from the scales, then went back to cataloging the changes.
The upper torso was mounted on a scaled down and modified version of the Varga’s body minus the head, about where the shoulders would be, which mean she actually had six limbs, seven including the tail. At what she still felt as her waist there was another, larger, set of arms or possibly forelegs, with hands that were much less human although still with an opposable thumb. Flexing them she felt the strength in them, they felt like they could tear armor plate with ease. The talons of her forelegs were much longer than those on her real fingers.
Below all of this was the rest of the bipedal lizard-like body which had extremely muscular rear legs on three toed feet, tipped with the largest talons of all at about three inches or so. She was standing easily on her toes in a way that felt completely natural. Behind her, her tail had lengthened substantially, resting on the floor and balancing her in a rather forward leaning posture with her torso raised and tilted back so that she was from the waist up in a normal vertical position. She lifted a leg to inspect it, balancing without effort, and feeling the interplay of the new muscles and joints.
Her knee was much higher than normal and the joint that looked like a backwards knee was actually her ankle, she found. She also discovered that there was a rearward facing toe on the rear of her foot which normally cleared the ground, but she could flex it and sort of make a fist with her toes, enough to probably let her hold onto a surface. Putting her foot down again she moved her middle limbs experimentally, finding it took no more effort than the arms she’d been born with."

In her form as Saurial, she wears a costume done in a classical-fantasy style with an armored cuirass and skirt with gold trim.

### Powers as quoted directly from OP's notes chapter, with editsItalicized text is not quoted but meta:

**Brute 6+:**

Saurial stated she is capable of dead-lifting over 5000 pounds and subsequent observations appear to confirm this. She has also been unaffected by handgun and light machine gun fire at point-blank range. In one event she ignored a sniper with a high powered hunting rifle loaded with heavy rounds for over an hour, until she apparently got bored and dealt with him. She has been recorded falling from as high as one hundred feet and landing on her feet completely uninjured and ready for combat. Based on the abilities of her relatives she can remain underwater for extended, possibly indefinite periods of time. She is unaffected by significant extremes of temperature, from near freezing to levels high enough to cause an unprotected base-line human to pass out, based on observation in action. Her reaction times are extremely fast, much faster than a normal human can manage and most Parahumans as well.​

***Shaker 12: Saurial as well as Taylor's other forms have no known limits on matter creation aside from understanding. They can materialize specific elements in specified quantities and of specified density. The "strongest" material they can make is electron-degenerate matter which is quite literally unbreakable by any means found on Earth Bet other than Taylor and the Varga.***
The weapons and tools seen to date are:
Swords

Warhammers

Bats

Collapsible Batons

Nets

Spears

Knives

Manacles

Cables

Shell of Athena (nuclear flechette shotgun)

Nuclear bomb (miniaturized payload of Athena without the detonator)

Waveboard (unnamed compressed-water powered flying "surfboard")

Target dummies

ETC.

**Mover 5:**

Saurial has been recorded running at speeds in excess of 60 mph, and is capable of climbing walls and ceilings with little effort. She can jump at least twenty feet straight up from a standing start, and hang head-down for unknown but probably indefinite periods of time with no ill effect. She will use the local terrain to her advantage in a fight, making containment in enclosed spaces almost impossible without significant effort. Assume that she can use all surfaces in a room as if they are level ground, could attack from any direction, and escape through any opening available anywhere which she can physically fit through.​

**Thinker 5:**

Saurial possesses highly enhanced vision and is able to function normally in near-total darkness. Despite the sunglasses she wears, she has stated she is not hypersensitive to light, but wears them to conceal her very distinctive glowing orange eyes. It is known that her sense of hearing is at least good enough to pick up a human heartbeat from over a hundred feet away, and her sense of smell is quite likely to be as acute as that of a dog. Assume that approaching unnoticed without the use of Stranger powers is essentially impossible.​

*Sense of smell is capable of anything from identifying people to detecting emotions.*

**Changer *12: While not a real parahuman, Taylor can transform anywhere from her human form to a 500'+ full form. She can manipulate her body in any way fitting with her "theme" of "infinitely-variable lizard-girl" to quote her.***