Lyla Wirth

Eulalia "Lyla" WirthCodename: N/A 

Position: Peacekeeper

Ethnicity: European American

Sex: Female

Age: 18

Appearance:

  Hair: dark brown, kept cropped just at ear length if she can help it. She keeps it out of her face with crisscrossed bobby pins or barettes, or the occasional headband.

  Eyes: hazel--green undertones are usually the most prominent, but brownish flecks muddy the tone of them.

        Skin: inclined toward fairness, but isn't pale per sei. When she uses her ability, her skin grows tender and blotchy bruises form, especially on her torso, varying in color from deep purple to sickly yellow-green. These generally heal at the normal rate for bruises

  Weight: 110 pounds

  Height: 5'2"

        Other:  Lyla's clothing style could be categorized as tough girl cute.  Her wardrobe colors of choice really lean toward pink and black, but she's long relied on staple browns and greens--neutral earth tones that allow for blending into the background wherever possible.

Date Of Birth: June 6, 2003

Place Of Birth: Valencia, California

Education: Lyla has a private school education up through eighth grade, and whatever he could glean from books and the internet since then. The war between Apocalypse and Therizo interrupted her education pretty thoroughly.

Mother:

    Name: Flora Wirth (Deceased)

    Age: 32

    Race: Human

Father:

    Name: Eugene Scott (Deceased)

    Age: 34

    Race: Mutant (light/color manipulation)

Other Relatives:

Meribeth "Meri" Wirth, little sister, 14, deceased

Cornelius "Neil" Wirth, little brother, 12, deceased

Powers: Lyla is capable of reanimating the dead. At its simplest level, she can take control of a dead animal (including dead humans and mutants) in any state of decay and puppet the corpse as-is.

She can combine the parts of multiple dead animals together into one construct, but this process takes time and greater energy. With a little more energy applied, she can give an animated corpse or construct a basic command to carry out. She can also build more complex commands into a construct, animating them to a point that they can operate with a level of independence similar to a simple dog. However, both animated corpses and constructs require a daily recharge.

Animated corpses and constructs do not feel pain, so they can take a lickin' and still keep kickin'. Unless she is directly puppeting them, their fighting style is animalistic--biting and clawing. They're no ninjas, but they can certainly mob a target.

Animated corpses and constructs also do not rot while under her power. The faint odor of decay tends to linger around them, especially if they were already well on their way to compost before she began animating them, but it's usually tolerable.

Power Limitations: A mutant corpse does not retain abilities (outside of permanent physical mutations) when animated by Lyla's ability. Since animating corpses and building constructs requires energy from Lyla, she can only do so much. Puppeting whole corpses takes less energy, but she can still usually only puppet as many as she can concentrate on at a given time. The more she has to divide her attention, the harder it becomes. She might be able to make up to five animated corpses all mob the same thing from the same direction, but if the puppeting requires finesse, she really needs to concentrate on just one, two maximum, and that's if she doesn't need to focus on protecting herself, as well.

When it comes to giving more complex commands to animated corpses or constructs, she can infuse them gradually over time--days or weeks--while they lay dormant, and they can remain dormant in that minimal-scent preserved state for as long as she's giving them at least a touch of attention each day. In this way, she could potentially, over the course of a month, build a small force of constructs--maybe up to twenty with a simple command (like "Eat brains!" or "Run around and flail your arms in a distracting manner!") or a smaller strike force of around five with more complex ones (more like trained attack dogs).

Since the constructs take energy from Lyla, the more she is feeding, the more lethargic she becomes. Her skin also tends to take on a certain unhealthy pallor, and bruises begin to form in mottled yellow and purple across her skin when she's been using her power extensively. These heal at the same rate as ordinary bruises, and are just as sensitive.

Animated corpses and constructs can be stopped in several ways. If she stops fueling them with her ability (or the charge runs out), they collapse. Exactly how long this takes depends on how much she energy she has infused them with, and how active they are. For whatever reason, the corpses or constructs do require brain matter in order to function. Remove the brain matter from the picture (decapitation or anything that will utterly destroy the head), and the construct will fail. Animated corpses and constructs can also have their ability to move limited by the binding or removing of limbs. (No legs, no walking.)

Hobbies and Interests: Lyla's mother was an MMA fighter, and her father was a costume designer, so she has an eclectic blend of hobbies and interests. On the one hand, her mother insisted from a young age that Lyla learn how to defend herself from any would-be attackers, kidnappers, rapists, and other such scum, so she's a little scrapper. She knows that size matters in a fight, though, and size is definitely not on her rather petite side.

Her father, meanwhile, insisted that she learn how to patch up the holes in whatever clothes she tore while going around being a feisty little scrapper--and later on, she took an interest in costuming and figuring out her own fashion style. Under her father's tutelage, she learned how to sew by hand, and then with a sewing machine. She wouldn't count herself an excellent seamstress, but she enjoys modifying clothes, making them her own.