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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8800427" data-attributes="member: 30538">Guardian Flora<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-cmLMDJZ/0/93c0a7f3/M/ezgif-2-3bc992e2cb-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />None of this was supposed to happen to her, and even though she is glad that it has, it really messed up her plans for her life! Well, plans for her life that someone -- okay, that abuela made, but she has always known that you never ever go against abuela! Fortunately -- and surprisingly -- abuela seems to understand, okay, no, not understand, maybe, but at least she has decided that this is nothing she expected or asked for, and is focusing her terrible anger on whatever made this happen. Which is probably going to make all kinds of trouble later, but for now, no hay problema.Fiorella Perez never really thought about plants before the episode. She liked flowers -- who hates flowers? -- and she thought that people should do what they could to make sure that flowers and other vegetation had the chance to thrive, but these were vague ideas. Most of her energy went into being the perfect student at her school and the perfect daughter at home, which left no real time for any sort of causes. Even without that, she would probably have cared more about cutting loose and having fun.Then she fainted while being fitted for her quinceañera dress, which would have been a serious embarrassment at any time. Of course, she could absolutely not tell anybody about how she woke up in a great dark space lit by a gleaming tree, which spoke to her quietly about how it had slept for an eternity, and now it was time for it to once more flower within her. "Speak for the trees," it said, and then she woke up to the panicked faces of her parents and the couturier and abuela -- okay, abuela was not panicking, she was glaring angrily at her. Somewhat spookily, abuela was specifically glaring at her right hand, clenched around a necklace with a tree charm.Since then, Fiorella has gone through a lot of changes beyond simply accompanying the other Guardians as Guardian Flora and using her plant magic to support them in fights. She has joined every ecological group in the Vancouver area that will have her, giving them all of her spare time. Her popularity is suffering, and so her grades. But she is happier than she has ever been before, even if she is also constantly terrified of what abuela is going to do now that she knows.It happened just the other day. She caught an Uber home after a meeting at SPEC, only for the driver to start talking to her as though he knew all about her activities as Guardian Flora. She hesitated to call on her powers and confirm his wild allegations, but then he pulled into the driveway of her home and started talking about how they were going to be having a lot of conversations like this. He got out of the car to open the door for her -- and the next thing Fio knew, he had been shot right in front of her, and abuela was pointing a pistol in his direction!Apparently, abuela was a semi-retired agent for Argus, some sort of international security agency, and the guy she had just killed was an assassin from Saturn or some other group. Whatever abuela might think of her grandchild fooling around in a costume, she was not about to let a latter-day Pythonian kill her like they had killed her first husband, so long ago. However, she was going to be giving Fio the benefit of her experience in fighting the powers of darkness. Gratitude was not expected, but obedience was. Well, that was sort of taking it well, right?Alas. A lifetime of reflexively obeying her grandmother has not done Fio many favors when it comes to learning how to recognize when the old woman lies. She has never worked for Argus. She was a loyal Python in her native Venezuela, forty years ago, though she is sincerely contemptuous of Saturn, and is certain that her granddaughter can be turned into a figurehead for a new Insurgency ... just give her time. Or perhaps she will have to die, like that Argus lacky did. Or like her husband did. Same way, too.Guardian Flora -- PL9Abilities:STR 2 | STA 2 | AGL 3 | DEX 1 | FGT 4 | INT 1 | AWE 3 | PRE 2Powers:Enchanted Necklace/Costume: Feature 1 (quick change); Flight 6 (125 MPH); Impervious Protection 8; Regeneration 10, Source (plant life); Visual Concealment 4, Limited to while in vegetation; Removable (-7 points) - 31 pointsPlant Magic: Array (18 points)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Green Network: Remote Sensing 6 (auditory, olfactory, visual), Medium (plants) - 18 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pollen Cloud: Cloud Area Affliction 9 (Resisted by Fortitude; Fatigued, Exhuasted, Incapacitated) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rapid Growth: Continuous Create 8, Feedback, Subtle - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Seed Bolt: Ranged Damage 7, Indirect 4 - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Shape Plants: Perception Range Transform 3 (any plants into any other plants) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tanglevines: Selective Burst Area Cumulative Affliction 6 (Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Damage; Hindered and Vulnerable, Defenseless and Immobile), Extra Condition, Limited Degrees, Requires Ambient Plant-life - 1 point</li> </ul>Speak For (And With) The Trees: Comprehend Plants 2; Senses 4 (postcognition), Limited to while in vegetation - 8 pointsAdvantages:Attractive, Extraordinary Effort, Improved Defense, Interpose, Tracking, Trance.Skills:Acrobatics 4 (+7), Close Combat: Unarmed 2 (+6), Deception 8 (+9), Expertise: Current Events 7 (+8), Expertise: Nature 7 (+8), Perception 4 (+7), Ranged Combat: Plant Magic 6 (+7).Offense:Initative +1Unarmed +6 (Close Damage 2)Seed Bolt +7 (Ranged Damage 7)Entanglement -- (Burst Area Affliction 6, Resisted by Dodge)Pollen Cloud -- (Cloud Area Affliction 9)Defense:Dodge 8, Parry 6, Fortitude 6, Toughness 10/2, Will 5Totals:Abilities 36 + Powers 62 + Advantages 6 + Skills 20 + Defenses 13 = 137 pointsOffensive PL: 9Defensive PL: 9Resistance PL: 6Skill PL: 4Complications:Doing Good--Motivation. Family (large.) Green Concerns. Secret Identity. Unknown Nemesis.</blockquote>

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