Pip

Pip was a mute first-generation bat-cybrid who was part of Mole's Genetic Victims Society and briefly joined Match's Wanderers before being arrested by VALER.

### History

"Pip" was not thought to be her real name but what she called herself, likely after the pipistrelle species of bat, she explained less of her past than Sim, and curiously couldn't remember a lot of it; it was some event during the past that may have caused her severe psychological issues that led to her inability to speak.

Sim encountered Pip in an abandoned church in Chicago where he was forced to steal for food, until one day caught by the police, Mole intervened and took care of the two into his organisation.

He and Pip formed a romantic interest and they became main supporters of Mole's supposed ideal of creating safehouses and social aid to genetic experimentation victims, but along the way was used by Mole as soldier in more aggressive riots in an attempt to overthrow government and organisations supporting genetic manipulation.

When the GVS collapsed and Mole vanished, he like many others felt betrayed and he was pressed into Match's group The Wanderers, who were little more than a violent gang stealing for food whist trying to uphold their own version of Mole's ideas that Pip and Sim disagreed with; When the Wanderers began a riot after a protest in the city of Charlotte in North Carolina and VALER was called to aid, Pip and Sim gave themselves up willingly, claiming they were only with the gang out of desperation.

After a trial Pip and Sim were actually granted a safehouse funded by Dylan Ostium's law firm so long as they payed their dues to any damage they caused, but he and Pip were later found murdered by someone who had taken genetic samples. VALER concluded that first-gen Cybrid were being hunted and harvested by Black Labs mysterious agents.

### Personality

Pip was limited in communication by her inability to speak and was shy and often not particularly confident in trusting her own self. Mole gathered that whatever happened to her in the past mentally scarred her severely to the point that she refused to seek counselling to try and unlock her memories, terrified of what she might find. She grew an attachment to Sim and the two fell in love.

### Appearance

Pip was a short girl of mixed Caucasian and Afro-American decent, she often wore dark or grey clothing and felt more comfortable hiding her arms and wings, which grew from her forth and fifth fingers and could fold up along her arm, bending at the elbow to hook around her shoulders. She often wore beanie hat to hide her bat-like ears but would otherwise have curly brown hair tied into a short ponytail-bob behind her.

### **Powers and abilities**

**Powers:**

Pip was a first-generation cybrid with animal genes that came from a bat, likely a pipistrelle, these manifested during a puberty-based mutation which occurs to 95 percent of first-gen cybrids.

**Part-Chiropteran Cybrid Physiology:** Pip developed a number of batlike-abilities and characteristics thanks to the mutation caused by her cytoplasmic hybridisation.

* ***Enhanced Senses:*** With the exception of her eyesight, her sense of smell and hearing in particular were way beyond average for a normal human, and in fact possessed one of the most enhanced senses of both smell and hearing for any known cybrid.
	+ **Passive Sonar:** While she herself couldn't make noise, being mute, her audio processing allowed her to build up an image in her mind the same way a bat does, combined with her sense of smell, she could operate in total darkness by detecting bouncing soundwaves from something as little as flaps of her own wings.

* ***Enhanced Agility and Reflexes:*** She was particularly flexible and reactive, far more than even the finest human athlete or acrobat.

* **Limited Flight:** Pip possessed bat-like wings on her arms that grew from her two outer digits, leaving two fingers and a thumb for manipulation; these did however have small claws. These wings were composed of extended fourth and fifth digit bones with flexible skin between them; this skin connected with the underside of her body. When extended she could attain limited flight, but required a lot of power and flaps to stay airborne, nevertheless once up, she could maintain a glide for a long time to save energy. After a while she had to rest.

**Abilities:**

* **Nature knowledge:** She had an interest and surprising knowledge of nature, particularly interested in the bats she shared DNA with, and learned to hone her senses and fly by studying them.
* **Some combat knowledge:** Sim taught her the basics of fighting and self-defence, but opted for more of a scouting role.

### **Limitations and weaknesses**

Like many cybrid she often hid her mutations in public, she had large ears and wings that she hid under clothing when in public which made her anxiety and shyness in public even worse.

Pip was not always confident in many tasks relied on Sim for comfort as much as possible.

Her muteness was believed to be caused by highly traumatic events of her past, that may have been related to her cybridisation; Mole believed that she had a distinct fear of authority figures like the police and assumed it was a government agency working to capture and experiment on her.