The New Disasters: The Transformed

Summary

Seed's body is colonized by a complex exo-organism with fungal and plant qualities. Their affinity with plants and superhuman senses are based mostly on their ability to directly interface with, and control, the Mycorrhizal network. Additionally, spores and pollen transmit information to Seed. On occasion fruiting bodies emerge from Seed, and the interface between the exo-organism and human biology causes Seed to oscillate between masculine and feminine characteristics.

Identity

Hero Name: Seed

Real Name: Johnny Boer

Seed no longer uses their real name, but hasn't legally changed it yet.

Look

• Shifting
• White
• Human eyes
• Alien flesh
• No Costume

Abilities

Plant Affinity

The symbiotic entity entwined with Seed has vegetable and fungal properties, including extending something like the Mycorrhizal Network around them. Through this, as well as chemical signals, spores, and pollen Seed can influence plants. In turn, plants can communicate information to Seed. It also means that Seed's body sprouts fruiting bodies on occasion, and has flesh that's a shifting mix of meat and vegetable. Basically, something not unlike a dryad without the benefit of being rendered in paint to smooth over what that means.

Superhuman Senses

Every bit of plant and fungal matter in the air around Seed informs them about the world. The communication networks of fungi and plants are open to them, as well as all of the inhuman senses that plants and fungi have.

Labels

	Danger	Freak	Savior	Superior	Mundane
Starting	+1	+3	+1	-1	-1
Current	+2	+3	+1	-1	-2

Moves

I Am Not My Body

When you take a powerful physical blow, you may roll as if you had two fewer conditions marked. If you do, on a 10+ you must choose to lose control of yourself in a terrible way.

Not Human Enough

When you directly engage a threat in a terrifying fashion, mark a condition to choose an additional option, even on a miss.

Wish I Could Be

When you comfort or support someone, if you tell them what you most envy about them, you can roll + Freak instead of + Mundane.

Backstory

Who were you before?

A regular fifteen going on sixteen year old who admired heroes but never thought he'd be one of them. And never thought that becoming one of them would cost so much. Johnny Boer did well enough in classes, though it was sometimes a struggle. He had vague plans to become a fighter pilot or something, especially if he never hit his growth spurt.

When did you change? What caused it?"

Around halfway between his fifteenth and sixteenth birthday, not long after school let out for the summer, something plunged into the parkette near Johnny's home. He rushed off to investigate it, hoping it might be a piece of a spaceship or some similar interesting sign of the more interesting side of life. Instead he found a ring of things like a toadstool. As he explored, the toadstools exploded and the spores got everywhere. At first he figured that he was just having an allergic reaction, but soon enough it was clear that there was something unearthly colonizing and transforming his body radically.

Why don’t you just try to hide yourself away?

Going through all of that and then not joining a super team? That's just absurd. Got to get something out of this.

Who, outside of the team, is helping you understand your new body?

Doctor Lillian Demeter, a top exomycologists (well one of the only exomycologists) conducted the initial examination of Seed's body and continues to run checkups and help understand what's going on from a scientific point of view.

Why do you care about the team?

Because being on a team is how to be a superhero and not some weirdo falling into their own weird symbiot driven obsession.

Relationships

Trigger comforted Seed when they were at their lowest.

Hellion knew Seed before they changed.

Influence

Trigger has Influence over Seed.

Conditions

None so far