Lillian Crawley

Cate

## Personality

Loud, crass and hard-headed, Lil's boisterous personality is matched only by the ferocity with which she protects those she cares about. Everything she does is big. There are very few shades of grey with Lil and the giantess swings from one extreme to the other - often quite quickly. Though her powers dampen her ability to feel things physically, emotionally Lil is very intense. She is defensive and hot-headed but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up in loyalty and she is always willing to lend a hand - and a drink to put in it - to those who manage to endure her snark long enough and endear themselves to her.

## Powers

Lil's body produces a homeostatic bio-aura of nigh-impenetrable energy that grants her skin, hair and nails durability akin to that of diamond. The bio-aura is both constant and involuntary, giving her no way to deactivate it and requires that she eat nearly twice as often as what others would consider normal. Able to deflect most forms of physical or energy-based attacks, Lil still feels the force of intense blows and some degree of pain. While she does not possess super-strength, none of the impact energy of her punches or kicks is absorbed into her body; instead it is all directed into her target, effectively doubling the force of her blows. An example of the extent of her powers is that a single strand of her hair alone, even after being plucked from her head, is strong enough to be used as a whip or a garrote. There is no physical manifestation of her bio-aura beyond a slight increase in temperature of her skin and it does provide her protection from temperature extremes.

## Limitations

Lil's bio-aura limits her sense of touch. She is susceptible to telepathic and other psychic attacks as well as poison and chemicals if ingested or inhaled.

## History

Born the only child to a middle-class couple, Samuel and Evelyn Crawley, Lillian lived a simple and quiet life in Yellowknife. Her father, a trucker for one of the nearby mining companies, was rarely at home during her formative years which left the girl's upbringing mostly to her mother, who insisted on speaking both English and French during daily tasks and conversations.

Preferring to play by herself instead of with the other children in her neighborhood, Lillian delighted in games of make believe that took her far from the shores of Great Slave Lake on adventures all over the world to the places that filled her beloved picture books. Dreams and fancy were crushed, however, when shortly after her seventh birthday, Evelyn was diagnosed with breast cancer.  It wasn't until after growing her hair for nearly a year with the intent of donating it to an organization specializing in wigs for cancer patients that Lil's powers became evident.  The brunette curls simply refused to be cut.  It was then that they realized the little girl who never came home with the souvenir cuts and bruises other children did after days at play never would thanks to skin that was virtually indestructible.  Unfortunately, a few months later, Lil’s mother succumbed to her disease and passed away.  Following Evelyn's death, with her foundation rocked, Lil found her way to trouble. Small arguments turned to skipping class and petty theft, all of which Sam was at a loss to control, especially given how often he was away from home with his job.
It wasn’t until she’d nearly been kicked out of school that a solution started to form. Rather than spending time fighting her classmates, Lil was enrolled in a program that trained those with powers to help fight the Weird.  With numbers of encounters featuring everything from Bigfoot to Tyrannosaurus Rex increasing, teams of mutants were being formed to protect the communities in Western Canada. Lil leapt at the chance to do something productive and for the next ten years or so, devoted herself to taking down wendigos, aliens, and monsters of all shapes.
A change of pace arrived in the form of an invitation to Krakoa and once again, she threw herself wholeheartedly into a new adventure in a new country.
With six months under her belt, she’s recently joined the Brotherhood, and looks forward to many, many more years of kicking ass in the name of protecting those who can’t protect themselves.