Viola the Skunk

General Appearance
Viola appears as a rather youthful looking skunk. She has short hair that only reaches the lower ends of her neck, with lengthy bangs covering the sides of her eyes and forehead. Her ears are large and pierced with a location marker. She has a white muzzle and slight fangs coming from her mouth. She has a slender build and a lengthy tail. Her fur is a jet black and is slightly frizzy. She has a disease living off the right side of her face, causing the right side to be slightly metallic and rusted in appearance. It strains her right eye and covers up her right cheek. She tries to hide her right eye at all costs, same with her cheek.

Attire
Viola wears a dirty white straight jacket that is covered in blood stains and yellow pus leakage from her sickness. The jacket's belts are loose and withered as though she can easily break from them (which she occasionally does). The skunk also wearsa fashial bandana to cover her mouth and muffle her voice. For pants and shoes, she wears tattered black pants and broken boots to cover her feet.

Personality
Viola can be described as lovingly adorable.

She has a sense of care that was never shown to her. She's very inclusive to others, never likes to see people alone or judged for who they are. Viola is deeply in tune with her sensitive side and is quite an emotional little skunk. She's dedicated to whatever she's told to do and regardless of the circumstances will abide to whoever orders her around.

Viola has a passionate want to heal the world of sickness and plague. She dreams of a day where there are no limits to what somebody can do, regardless of their health/appearance. Viola feels she can nurture the world one day, and that she'll finally be appreciated for what she is.

Viola loves arts and crafts. Learning to love art and music from watching old reruns of televised programs, (such as various Black Cards performances) she's taught herself how to draw and create crafts around her living quarters. It is hinted that she gained this love from watching Domino's skills with crystals. She tries to plan with dirt and glass to form little decorations. She does this all to take her mind off of depressing thoughts.

Contrary to her standard behavior, Viola is very sad and lonely. No one ever pays her mind or respects who she is simply because of her disease. She's been condemned from the city of Arasia Coast and is in constant observation from mad scientists and corrupt medics. What's worse is that in every situation where she tries to help some one, she makes things worse.

Viola deeply hates herself for all the torment she's caused others, no part due to her disease. She envies the life of a standard citizen in Arasia Coast and just wonders what it would be like to one day be normal.

Even more grimly, the worse her torment gets, the worse her psyche gets. Viola is losing her sense of love and care and is slowly becoming bitter and cynical. This is due to her experiments to try and alter her disease. She's being tested as a bio weapon for Oris' military and is consistently being used and lied to. One can wonder just how much hospitality she has before it becomes hostility.

Before and After Birth
Viola's parents were two passionate scientists, looking to better the world with new health discoveries. Her father, Sven was a skilled scientist with lots of experience under his belt. Her mother, Victoria was a neural biologist and a part-time nurse in Arasia Coast. Her family was very wealthy as Sven was prestigious and renowned by many business and government corporations.

Sven and his wife were avid experimentalists. Sven often experimented on himself and his wife, testing various diseases on one another to see if they can cure it. Most experiments were successfully healed with medical advances created by the couple. But the two also concocted one of the most dangerous diseases in Mobius, Araviosis. Araviosis is a virus known to act as a tumor like appendages that spread across the body at a slow rate, slowly poisoning the insides and thriving off of organs and neural energy.

The disease was made when a previous smaller sickness was "cured". The virus developed in the body and spread across, Victoria at a very slow rate.

Unknown to the couple just how devastating and undetectable this disease was, it remained hidden to both Sven and Victoria for a long time.

Later on though, Victoria had become sick some time along her pregnancy with having Viola. She started to cough up blood, leak from her face, and lose energy quite quickly. Sven was alarmed by this and tried to create as many concoctions to prolong the sickness from killing his wife and future child. Victoria remained alive until she gave birth, where she passed away from a huge blood clot. This did not affect Viola.

Seeing his wife die before his very eyes, Sven became mad. He had a huge outburst to where he nearly killed the doctor in charge of the birth procedure, almost choking him out and thrashing the entire room. He was detained by officials and removed from the area only to later be rehired as a scientist for a different facility. Viola was only a new born and was crying very loudly. The doctor recovered and removed the umbilical cord.

Biological Disease and Growth
Despite her mothers death not affecting Viola, she did inherit her mother's Araviosis. This was noted on her head with the small bumps lining her right cheek and eye. The doctor was worried and sent the infant away to study among a science board.

Viola grew up in a scientific facility during her earlier years. She wasn't the only little skunk there either, there were many other young mobians just like her being studied upon. She grew up with three friends, Harah, ZoZo, and Judas. She and her friends would always meet up after experiments and would play along the pipe systems in the facility. They were consistent trouble makers but they all related in the fact that they never really knew their parents and were taken away from home.

Viola was Harah's best friend, while the other two older kids were ZoZo and Judas whom were twins. Despite these kids being her closest friends, they all poked fun at Viola's obvious disease. Since the skunk had short hair it was very visible and irritated as the tumors pulsated across her face. Even Harah laughed slightly at Viola's odd tumor. She never felt like she truly belonged, even among her own friends.

As the group aged and experiments proceeded, her friends got better and were all going to leave back to their homes soon. ZoZo and Judas were the first to leave home as they were the oldest, while Harah stood with Viola for a long time. As they got better, Viola got worse. Her face began having small mutations and getting worse aesthetically. Harah grew kinder to Viola and she appreciated that, the two really bonded as time progressed. During this time, Viola developed a love for the Black Cards and would watch them on the constant with Harah.

Sadly things were not permanent, one day Harah was injured and Viola ran to help her around the pipes. The young lioness was stuck between a small mechanism that was slowly twisting her leg very painfully. Viola came to her rescue and got her out of the pipes, Harah was well but suffered with a messed up leg and couldn't walk correctly. As the two hugged in happiness and relief, Viola began coughing violently on her friend. Unphased by this, Harah stood by Viola understanding her sickness. Little did Harah know that the blood of Viola's coughs allowed her to contract the disease.

Things remained normal until, Harah just stopped meeting up with Viola after experimentation. The lioness was placed in her living quarters, and almost never got up to do anything. She slowly became vegetable, tumors began to grow along her skin; but she still had her voice. One day Viola went to go check up on her as it had been weeks, the lioness was under critical condition.

Tears began to line across Viola's face, as the skunk began slowly crying, so did Harah. She hugged her best friend one last time. As soon as Viola left the room, loud coughing was heard from Harah. This caused Viola to rush back into the room, only to find her best friend dead.

The skunk held onto Harah's hand, staring at her lifeless eyes, hoping her friend was still alive; she knew she wasn't. She began to loudly sob, stroking Harah's cheek with her left hand, seeing the same tumors on her skin. The sobbing alerted one of the scientists to go run into the room, only to find Viola and a dead Harah.

Isolation & Further Experimentation
As the scientist busted into the room he was engulfed with rage, picking Viola up by the colar and slamming her down on the ground.

Viola pleaded mercy and that it wasn't her that she'd never do such a thing. She tried getting back up and pulling on the scientists long coat, only to have the scientist back hand her. With out much thought, Viola grabbed the scientist with a tight grip only to have her hand get engulfed by a black pulsating appendage that transformed her arm into a blade, piercing through the scientist and killing him. Little did Viola know that was her father.

Security and armed forces from every where swarmed the area as they heard the agonizing screams from the scientist. The guards came in to find a teenage skunk holding an old scientist by the weird arm blade appendage. She was moved out of the city and into Mt. Gutter's Magro Clinic for the infected to be quarantined. She was locked up in a dirty isolation room with a small basic TV at the side. This was where Viola spent several years locked up.

She was trapped in a straight jacket and her pants were torn as well as her boots from trying to escape. She loosened the belts on the straight jacket allowing her to use her hands. She created small decorations from the dirt on the floor to make herself feel less alone. She even made dirt/glass replicas of her favorite Black Cards members. She heavily bonded with her Marionette statuette. Nobody really caught up with Viola either, no one even bothered to check up on her.

Despite the ignorance of Viola, scientists were hard at work to study the disease that killed Harah and whatever remains of the disease that were on Sven's corpse. It astounded the scientists and militant leaders of Oris, causing them to dub the disease as Araviosis, originating from the name Ara; which was one of the scientists pets.

With the recent intrigue on the disease, Scientists began to drag Viola out of isolation for experiments. The scientists fooled her into thinking that her DNA and disease will some day be cured if she cooperated with them, and that she was vital; necessary to the world, a savior of sorts.

Viola was gullible and willingly underwent with the experiements. It caused her much pain and seriously damaged her bodily functions and altered her pain susceptability. All the data given to the scientists was stored for a bioweapon to take out possible enemies. None of this was known to Viola, what she thought was saving lives was only prepping to destroy them. After each experimentation, it altered Viola into more of a weapon.

She began to shapeshift her arms and body at will, the disease wasn't much of a burden as it had become a power.

Refusal and Escape
Viola one day was tasked with one final experimentation, she denied it. It outraged one of the scientists, but all Viola wanted was proof of how it would benefit Mobius. The scientist didn't have the patience for her naivety so he ordered armed forces to take her out.

The forces began to shoot at the skunk rampantly until she fell over and collapsed. They then proceeded to walk up to the pressumed dead body, only to find the tumors shaking on her face. Before they knew it, Viola got back up but a strange black ooze began to envelop her body and face becoming armor, her arms both shapeshifted into claws as she tore down the room with a bloody rampage.

Scientists were under panic and began to flee while Viola was searching for an escape herself. She ran around the labs looking for any sort of exits, only to find the data of her disease. The skunk solemnly looked at the data, discovering that she was used as a bio-weapon to ward off Oris' enemies. It turned her bitter as she smashed up all the data in the laboratory.

She then shifted her arms and hands to become a sort of hammer-fist like appendage, breaking down the walls of the Asylum. She was chased after by a group of soldiers, which she rended and tore apart by switching back to her claws. She then came across a scientist on the phone about to order more troops, she shifted her arm to a tendril like whip that pierced through the scientist and reeled him back to Viola. She consumed his DNA and retained his memories from a neural wave transmition made by the virus in her brain.

It caused her to transform back to normal due to heavy head aches. Despite her attempts to silence the scientists, troops were on their way. As she was sickly crawling, she switched form and shape into the scientist she recently killed out of no where. This surprised the soldiers as the encountered a lying scientist on the ground, not Viola.

As the soldiers ran to check other areas, Viola had finally gotten sense of her mind and switched back to normal, exiting the asylum and running out into Mt. Gutter in hopes of never being found again. She felt horrid for her murders.

Mutations and Disease
Due to her disease being experimented on, Viola gained powers via mutation. Her disease has now granted her partial immunity and hightened resistence to most forms of offense. She gained a pure mutation form which grants her thick metallic armor, appendage claws, hammer-fists, and a tendril-like whip. She can also consume randoms to gain information and heal herself, but consuming would need a dead victim.

Her disease grants her the ability to poison enemies via infection, causing them to grow tumors and innevitably die. However the contagion of her poison is rather weak due to mutations, so she can't infect as easily as she used to. She can also infect via blood or saliva.

Advanced Abilities.
Viola is able to stick to walls and surfaces she was never able to before. She has increased resistance to toxics and several other things that would normally kill her. She's gained super strength and minor agility enhancements. This is all due to her disease.

Arts and Crafts
From her times of watching the Black Cards, she's picked up some craftsman skills. Though primarily art related, she can use her mud crafts to create platforms and other decorative things. She's not offensive with this skill.

Rabid Combat
Her combat skills are very bad. She's not offensively suited so a majority of her attacks and offensive strikes are often uncoordinated and unskilled. She's a reckless fighter and it's due to the fact that she just doesn't want to fight.

Offense
Viola is weak offensively because she's uncoordinated and rather reckless. Her attacks can easily be blocked, parried, and punished. She lacks control in combat situations and it is easy to shift the tides of the battle into your favor if you are careful.

Personal Issues
Viola is sick and will cough in the middle of battle or get staggered by tumor pain. This is rare but it does happen and can indeed affect a fight if she's in one. She doesn't take damage well either in her unarmored form, this leaves her open to mortal blows and could definitely kill her. She's gullible and her emotions play a huge part in her combat as well, just make her feel bad and she'll stop fighting. Insults also throw her off.

On top of this, her disease is not as powerful as it used to be. Direct contact is not strong enough to be contagious if the fighter's immune systems are strong. She's essentially become a huge weapon, not the contagious fatal disease.

Trivia

 * Viola is heavily based on Alex J. Mercer from Prototype with slight characteristics of James Heller from the same franchise.
 * Her birthday is March 5th, making her a Pisces.
 * It was incredibly tough to make this character sound weak and feeble enough to not be over powered, many core abilities that the Prototype protagonists wielded was bastardized into this character.