Circe
World: Overview
Many, many years past her time as an active goddess in ancient Greece, Circe has been reborn into a mortal body in a hostile and much more advanced world. While weakened from the days of old, she is still faster, stronger, and smarter than the average human, and has picked up a great deal of knowledge on current technology thanks to her mortal half's background working on digital minds. Having long since felt abandoned by her family, and bitter about the state of the world and her place in it, Circe has become something of an independent operator rashly acting on her own selfish impusles. While not completely incapable if forced into a direct fight, she prefers to hide behind animalistic drones, nanotech, cyberattacks, and poisons. Though she tries to present herself with a friendly face to the world, it rarely takes long for her bitter, angry core to shine through.
Perks
Divine Body: Circe's divine status gives her body superhuman attributes
Circe is one of the Reborn, a mortal who has merged with the soul of a goddess. This has modified her body in many ways, both subtle and not, leaving her faster, stronger, healthier, and quicker to recover than a normal human. Circe is somewhat below average in the strength and speed aspects for a Reborn, still leaving her above a peak human but with less of a margin than many of the Reborn have.
Cybernetic Implants: Circe has implants that interface with technology and can revive her from death
Circe has a cortical stack implanted, located at the base of her neck. So long as this is not destroyed, she could be moved to a new body by reimplanting this chip in that body. Her divinity would then reshape that body to match her current one over a few weeks. As a Reborn, Circe cannot be backed up to remote servers or another stack, so if the chip were to be destroyed and her body killed she would be dead. Circe also has a number of implants allowing her to interface with other technology, including her drones and both wireless and hardwired computer connections.
Poisoner: Master of nanochemistry, from basic poisons to hallucinogens and transformation
As a goddess, Circe was well known for her knowledge and use of poisons. Using a mixture of normal chemistry and nanotech spawned from her divinity, she can take any perfectly normal liquid or gas and make it into something very ill-suited for ingesting or injecting. On the simpler end, this will have small effects like inducing euphoria and hallucinations, or slowing down the victim's thought processes. Largely, these effects are similar to those of recreational drugs or alcohol in concentrated form. On the much more horrifying end, she is capable of poisons that twist the victim's flesh, giving them animalistic features or mindsets with prolonged exposure. Circe does not make lethal poisons, and everything she does can be undone with enough time or in extreme cases, treatment.
Animal Empathy: Circe can establish a degree of understanding with animals
Circe can understand and make herself understood by most animals of the land or sky, though this is only very occasionally useful in her own world. How well she can accomplish this depends on the animal, with more intelligent or more domesticated animals capable of greater degrees of communication. This does not take the form of actual speech on the part of the animal, and is more of a combination of a sixth sense of sorts and body language.
Technical Enchantress< Edge-E >: Circe has superhuman abilities to infiltrate computer systems and technology
As a goddess, Circe was able to reshape people's minds and bodies. In a way, she can still manage the former, her divinity expressing itself in her ability to break through computer security systems and attack virtual spaces and systems. With an extra effort, this can include sending a projection of herself and her piggie drones to attack or attempt to persuade or decieve another digitized mind or other intelligent computer system. Doing this leaves her body distracted and vulnerable to attack, and her soul remains within her own stack.
Mundane Combat: Circe is competent with knives and small firearms
If pressed into a direct conflict without her drones, Circe will either use projectile pistols or knives that she carries with her. She has more training and practice with the knives, which can be poisoned with a sedative she carries if she is given a few seconds to prepare for the fight. Her style with the knives attempts to attack sections of the body that are generally less defended in order to land a sufficient amount of the poison in the bloodstream, rather than fighting for a normal disabling or killing blow. She is at best an average shot with the pistols, and mostly uses them to try to intimidate her way out of combat or to shoot down drones or other non-living enemies.
Piggies: A pair of energy-blasting combat drones in the shape of wild pigs
Circe's main muscle in combat, these drones are controlled directly using her implanted interface. They are stored in miniature form as a pair of golden pig earrings that Circe wears whenever they are not in use. They have limited range and can only be controlled while Circe is within approximately two city blocks. When activated, they grow, leaving them around 4 feet tall when in combat. They have the ability to fire energy blasts from their snouts, and tusks that can be used in charge attacks to attempt to gore their opponents. Circe can build replacements if they are destroyed given a week or two and the proper materials, but the destruction of one causes a severe headache through the link and both being destroyed is debilitating.
NPCs
Scylla< Named F-Tier >: A snake-shaped drone, used for gathering intelligence and covert actions
Another drone Circe can directly interface with, Scylla can either be directly controlled with the same small range as the Piggies or can be let loose with an unlimited range with an AI driving her. Usually resting in the form of a gold snake bracelet around Circe's wrist and forearm, Scylla's AI is Circe's closest thing to a friend. Circe tends to be protective of this drone as a result, and activates it mostly for infiltrations, though its bite can carry poisons made by Circe. The snake drone has no relation to the legendary monster Scylla of ancient times, and was simply named that by Circe pettily wanting to celebrate turning her once love rival into a monster one last time. If destroyed, Circe could build a replacement with the AI as it was last backed up.
Complications
Impulsive: Circe makes rash and often poor decisions
Circe is not in the habit of thinking through all the consequences of her actions. She'll often discard plans on a whim in favor of immediate actions. She's seldom able to put off a small joy or prize today for the sake of a greater one tomorrow. She'll also take great risks if something she desires is at stake.
Vindictive: Even more than most Greek gods, Circe cannot let a slight pass unanswered
Circe takes the typical Greek goddess tendency towards escalation of grudges to a level seldom seen in the family, and may try to ruin the lives of people behind even small insults. Even small insults given by their loved ones, rather than them. Even small insults not actually meant as an insult. Rejecting her companionship is very high on the list of what Circe will perceive as an insult. The retribution she will attempt to seek out is not in any way proportionate to whatever offense may have been given.
Isolated: Circe feels incredibly isolated and is desperate for connection
Possibly because of being an impulsive and spiteful person, Circe isn't very good at making friends. She can be persuaded or manipulated by someone who would claim friendship, and easily used to further their own plans so long as they can avoid stepping on any of her various hot buttons. She'll even deceive herself on the nature of the relationship unless it's made too obvious to her that it's fake. This can also be used to talk her out of a hostile course of action with the right approach by the right person.
Twisted Morality: Circe holds those who have killed in great contempt
In spite of her many crimes against men and gods, Circe would claim she has never killed anyone and this is true in at least some sense. She holds this to be the greatest possible sin, and does not hide her contempt for those who have killed, even in self defense. Given that this includes the overwhelming majority of her family, and that many would consider leaving a man mindless and drooling for the rest of his days far worse than killing him, this can be something of a stress point in her relationships.
Recent Scenes
| ID | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1254 | Ancient Grease II: The Root | Oct 27 2024 |
| 1252 | Ancient Grease | Oct 20 2024 |
| 1232 | The Warden: Asteroid Assault | Jun 30 2024 |
| 1231 | The Warden: Anchors Away | Jun 26 2024 |
| 1174 | The Warden: Interlude | Sep 20 2023 |
| 1172 | The Warden: First Assault | Sep 13 2023 |
| 1167 | The Warden: Backup Plan | Aug 16 2023 |
| 1164 | The Warden: Deal with the Devil | Aug 02 2023 |
| 1155 | The Warden: Blitzkrieg | Apr 23 2023 |
| 1088 | The Warden: Asteroid Insertion | Oct 11 2022 |
Cutscenes
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| Ecdysis | Feb 05 2022 |