Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
Hobbies and Interests: Fashion, new wave music, reading, social media
Gift: Universal Matter Composition
Power Details: Yvette is composed entirely of matter of an unknown compound, and the appearance of organs, bones, etc. is largely cosmetic. While she functions normally in typical situations, when she sustains injuries she does not bleed; instead, she releases matter. This manifests in a stream or puff of sparkling, rainbow motes of vapor, released from the site of the injury. As she loses matter, Yvette decreases in size proportional to the matter lost. The primary theoretical benefit of this power is that it makes Yvette far more durable than the average student when it comes to blunt force, bludgeoning, strangulation, and so on, as well as rendering her completely immune to things like broken bones, organ failure, and the like; her body just does not work that way. She has the ability to survive things that would kill most people, such as dismemberment or being shot through the head; in such cases her body knits itself back together and/or reshapes as it shrinks, returning her perfectly to her normal form, albeit at significantly reduced size. This also affects how she interfaces with illness; instead of normal symptoms, she sneezes puffs of matter, shrinking slightly with particularly heavy sneezes. Her senses are localized in the proper human locations, and she generally perceives the world in a human way, though she does not experience pain. While Yvette's threshold for fatal harm has not been tested, she and the researchers who studied her believe that she would dissipate entirely at around the point where she ceased to be visible to the naked eye, as she would lack sufficient matter to properly make up her form.
Limitations and Drawbacks: While Yvette is far more durable against blunt attacks than most people, this comes with a corresponding significant vulnerability to piercing or slashing wounds. This is compounded by Yvette's physiology making rendering her completely impossible to diagnose or treat via any sort of conventional medicine. She doesn't have blood or organs, she has no bones to set, and surgery is impossible; opening an incision would just make her vent matter at a great pace, and bandages, super glue, and so on cannot prevent her from leaking matter. Additionally, Yvette's body always returns to its natural state, with only her size varying, which makes it functionally impossible for her to gain muscle equivalent or train her strength in any way. As she shrinks, her strength, speed, and reach decrease proportionately with her size. Yvette's healing/recovery process is pretty simple: she just needs to recover matter, which she does by eating, drinking, and breathing. This is, however, an incredibly slow process, as she can eat no more than a normal person and her body is not particularly efficient at converting nourishment to matter; if she really pushes it she can regain an inch or two of height in a week. Yvette does not perceive pain in any recognizable human way; the loss of matter feels like a feather being softly brushed over the point of the injury, or a faint breeze. This makes it very hard for her to guess the severity of an injury, something that is already inconsistent and unpredictable for her.
Appearance: Yvette Monday is a relatively slender Caucasian girl, with an inverted triangle body shape that leaves her with wider shoulders and upper body compared to a more narrow waist and hips. Due to her power, her height and weight fluctuate with a fair degree of regularity; in perfect condition she stands at 5'6" and weighs 125 lbs, but most of the time she hovers between 5'2" and 5'5" and 100-120 lbs. If in poor health for an extended period, she can shrink even more; it's not too uncommon for her to dip below five feet and she spent a good chunk of her seventh and eighth grade years recovering from a serious accident that dropped her all the way to 3'8".
Yvette has an oval-shaped face, with a concave nose and heavier lower lips. Her eyes are wide, round, and light blue. Yvette's hair is ginger blond and falls to just above her tailbone; her hair is actually part of her body as it interfaces with her power, and while damage to her hair vents matter at a significantly reduced rate compared to wounds to her core or limbs, it also lengthens as it vents and returns to its default state within minutes, and thus cannot be trimmed. Yvette grows no other body hair aside from eyelashes, though she pencils in thin eyebrows daily. Yvette usually wears clip-on earrings, the only sort she can.
Yvette does her best to be fashion-conscious, but is often stymied by her inconsistent size; in an effort to make the most of it, she generally favors clothes that fit best when she's somewhere in her normal height/weight zone, but when she's at full health they tend to fit a little tight and small and if she's under the weather they may end up baggy. On the day of the abduction, she was in particularly good health and at full height and weight. She paired a lilac, spaghetti strap tank top with a short, darker purple and black pleated skirt, pale yellow socks that came to a bit above her knees, and an unbuttoned white jacket, all fitting relatively tightly and with about an inch and a half gap between bottom of shirt and top of skirt, revealing her belly button. She paired this with purple converse sneakers, a plain brass bracelet on her left wrist, and dangling, brass clip-on earrings with mesh spheres at the ends.
Background:
- Yvette was born in Bend, Oregon, as the only child of mother Janet and father Brett Monday. Her family is middle class, and Yvette never wanted for necessities, but also didn't always get everything she wanted.
- Yvette's power was immediately obvious upon birth, and was the source of several scares and close calls throughout her childhood as her inability to feel pain coupled with typical childhood clumsiness to results in scrapes, falls, and cuts that saw her lose matter and shrink.
- The exact mechanics of Yvette's power were slowly sussed out by a few researchers at OSU, who were interested in the chemical composition of her matter and worked out an agreement to study her for a few months in her preschool years with an eye towards treatment; they discovered that Yvette's matter dissipates entirely seconds after leaving her body, even when it shouldn't be able to, and that power suppressants had no effect whatsoever on her.
- In seventh grade, when left poorly attended, Yvette accidentally severed all four fingers of her left hand at the middle joint while operating a paper cutter. While they immediately reattached, the resulting matter leak persisted for over a month and she reached her to-date smallest size since early childhood of 3'8".
- Because of the impossibility of treatment, Yvette's parents have been very protective of her, and she is somewhat nervous and cautious about situations that might result in injury, both from a fear of suffering enough harm to entirely fade away and because she finds visibly venting matter humiliating.
- Yvette is bright and articulate, and does well in school, especially English class. She hates PE with a passion and has finally managed to secure a medical exemption from the class.
- Yvette hates her power and feels massively alienated from her peers and humanity as a whole. She is openly envious of those whose powers she perceives as better (mostly voluntary or less-obvious ones) and takes anyone complimenting or envying her power incredibly poorly. She also sometimes feels more comfortable interacting with others over social media instead of in person.
- This feeling of alienation plays into Yvette's media preferences, leading her towards thematically resonant 1980s new wave music and a combination of fantasy novels and very realistic fiction predating the emergence.
- Fashion is one of Yvette's passions, and she loves shopping, especially mix and matching thrift store finds, but she doesn't sew or alter her clothes due to a fear of needles.
- In the future, Yvette plans to attend OSU. She's not sure of her major, but harbors vague ideas of trying to study powers and maybe even learn how to treat undesired ones. She has done nothing to prepare for this path, though.
- Yvette considers herself heterosexual. She tried dating a female friend for a month in junior year and realized there wasn't any real attraction; she's had better luck with boys though tends to be fairly casual in her affections.
- Yvette's friends tend to be others with some measure of dissatisfaction in their lives; she bonds with people in part by commiserating with them and being a shoulder for them to cry on.
Other Skills: None