Character Bithia

[Ishani Dinn]

General Information:

• NAME: Bithia Nimdok (née Cervantes)
• ALIASES: Lydia Mina
• HOMEWORLD: Alderaan
• AFFILIATION: Unknown
• OCCUPATION: ???

Physical Information:

• SPECIES: Shi’ido-Vampiric Biot (formerly Human)
• AGE: Spiritually, she's somewhere in her mid thirties. Physically, she was only recently created.
• GENDER: Female
• HEIGHT: Tall
• WEIGHT: 104 kilograms
• EYES: Varies
• HAIR: Varies
• SKIN: Varies
• FORCE SENSITIVITY: Force Dead

Social Information:

• ALIGNMENT: True Neutral
• PERSONALITY: Vivacious, Resourceful, Impulsive, Empathetic
• TROPES: Reforged into a Minion, Action Mom, Determinator

Strengths:

• Regeneration: The biot can regenerate its flesh even if most of it is destroyed, regrowing lost limbs and tissue. As long as 10% of it remains intact, it will be able to fully regenerate itself within a few hours. To kill it for good, its brain must be completely destroyed. Its rate of regeneration is dependent on its form.
• Mage Killer: Specialized glands on its body based off of research into ysalimiri Force-canceling bubbles render it highly resistant to telekinesis and mental attacks, though not immune.
• Superhuman: The biot possesses great strength, speed, and reflexes far beyond that of a normal human, although the level of each depends on which form it is using.
• Changeling: The biot has shapeshifting capabilities, but these are limited to six pre-programmed human forms, each with their own limitations. See the Description section for more info on each of these forms.
• Learning and Adapting: The biot is capable of learning new skills and acquiring knowledge, whether through experience or the use of knowledge cartridges. However, both combat programming and "higher knowledge" pertaining to specialized fields is restricted depending on which form the biot is using.
• Even the Smallest Body Functions: The biot's internal structures are designed to imitate that of a human. It mimics them so well that most medical scanners will be fooled.
• Pheromones: The biot can artificially produce pheromones which humans and near-humans find appealing. This is primarily for the purpose of luring prey and its use is dependent on which form the biot is operating in.
• Human After All: Unlike the original biot, this modified biot contains a human soul bonded to it, which increases its capacity for empathy and creativity tenfold.
• Painless: The biot cannot feel pain.

Weaknesses:

• Extreme Temperatures: Attacking it with certain weapons that utilize heat (such as lightsabers) or cold (cryo weapons) or placing it in an extreme temperature environment will cause it to eventually shut down.
• Corrosives: Acid will eat away at its tissues before it has a chance to regenerate, causing severe damage.
• Lightning/Ion: While it has some resistances to lightning and ion energy, prolonged exposure will damage it to the point of shutdown.
• Microwave: Will severely slow down regeneration and movement speed, as well as shutting down combat databases.
• Magnets: Curious interactions with the flesh of the biot causes it to be drawn like metal to high intensity magnetic surfaces, effectively immobilizing it.
• Water: While a puddle will not harm it, dropping the biot into a large body of water will cause its cells to swell, eventually reducing it to an amoeba-like state.
• Salt: Causes the biot extreme pain upon exposure, resulting in a phobia of even common table salt.
• Garlic: Exposure to garlic will cause a malfunction along the surface of the biot's skin as well as making it vomit glowing red blood. Naturally this would expose its artificial nature to any witnesses.
• Bacta: Exposure to bacta will disable the biot's regeneration and superhuman attributes for three minutes.
• Sonic: If it sustains more than one hit from sonic weaponry, it will shut down due to overheating.
• Silver: Impaling it with pure silver will impede its ability to regenerate until the silver is removed.
• Mandalorian Steel: Exposure to beskar'gam will cause it to shift uncontrollably between forms until it overheats, resulting in shutdown.
• Vong Origins: The biot's tech is based on Vong biots, and it therefore possesses their weaknesses, including:
  • Bafforr Pollen: Will force the biot's body into a semi-liquid state with slowed down movement.
  • Unmaskers: Cause the biot's body to harden like stone, rendering it immobile.
• Mode Locked: The biot can shift into six different forms to suit the needs of any given situation, but these each harbor drawbacks as well as benefits. It takes roughly three minutes to transition between these forms, and during that period the biot is rendered immobile and vulnerable. See the Description section for more info on each form.
• Must Feed: It must feed on psychic energies at least once every five days in order to survive. Its ability to feed is not restricted by its form, nor is it required to kill its prey in order to be sufficiently nourished. Should it fail to procure these energies before the five days is up, it will become immobile and eventually shut down.
• Creepy: Those who are inclined to be suspicious will notice that the biot still seems slightly off, exhibiting behaviors that are not quite human.
• You'd Best Start Believing In Ghost Stories: The biot has the soul of a once-living individual bonded to its flesh via Sith alchemy. This allows it greater freedom of choice than the original biot possessed, but it also gives rise to numerous mental and emotional problems due to the fact that it can remember what it was like to be alive, as well as memories tied to its past life.

 

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Appearance:
Bithia can shapeshift, but only between five different human female forms, each with their own specialties and drawbacks. These configurations are outlined below:

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Civilian Form
Appearance is a woman of Atrisian descent with olive skin, green eyes, and dark hair. Reflexes, speed, strength, and electrical durability are at the level of a normal human. While all higher knowledge is unlocked, only basic hand-to-hand databases on a few martial arts are active as far as combat programming goes. This form repairs most wounds in the span of five minutes. Pheromone production is unlocked.

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Combat Form
Appearance is an athletic woman with pale skin, short black hair, and gray eyes. She comes already wearing a version of the Naiad Combat Armor. All combat programs are active. Reflexes, speed, and strength are increased by a factor of four, and electrical durability is increased by a factor of five. This form repairs incredibly fast, often in a matter of a minute or less. Access to higher knowledge is restricted.

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Psychologist/Maternal Form
Appearance is a replica of Bithia's original body, an Alderanni woman in her mid thirties with tanned skin, curly black hair, and dark brown eyes. The only form which Messala made significant modifications to, the Psychologist Form has been reprogrammed to something more akin to a nanny or tutor droid. It still has access to extended knowledge of the human psyche, granting it greater persuasiveness and an "understanding" persona, but now it also includes databases on childcare, children's education, and child psychology. Reflexes and speed are that of a normal human, though strength is on par with that of a Wookiee. All repairs take fifteen minutes. No combat programming is active. Pheromone production is unlocked.

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Stealth Form
Appearance is a bald woman with tanned skin and brown eyes. Capable of taking on a shapeless near-liquid form in order to move through small spaces with ease. This is the only form which can create weapons from its own body and fight due to its near-liquid state, though fighting as a pile of silly putty-like tissue is only done as a last resort. Regeneration rate is as fast as its combat form. Reflexes and speed are six times faster than normal, though strength remains at that of a regular human. Only melee weapon combat databases are active.

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Pilot Form
Appearance is a woman with bronze skin, black hair, and brown eyes. This form has the Orestiad Flight Suit built into it. It is the only form which permits access to the piloting database; it is otherwise almost identical to the Civilian Form as far as other capabilities go. Reflexes, speed, and strength are at the level of a normal human. Most repairs require five minutes to complete. Only basic hand-to-hand combat programming is unlocked.

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Siren Form
Appearance is a woman with fair skin, red hair, and blue eyes. This form comes with the Nereid Diving Suit built into it. Configured to allow the biot to swim and dive without triggering its weakness, the suit it wears allows it to survive for some time underwater without its cells swelling. However, if the suit is breached, it will lose this protection and have no choice but to get out of the water and repair itself. Similar to the Stealth Form, reflexes and speed are six times faster than normal, while strength and electrical durability are at the level of a normal human. All repairs require fifteen minutes to complete. No combat programming is active - trying to fight while in this form is ill-advised.

 

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Skills:

• Features typical droid sensors, night vision and enhanced hearing.
• Biot tissue composed of DNA from Shi’ido and Arch Psy-Pire
  • Shi’ido DNA grants the biot regenerative and limited shapeshifting capabilities.
  • Psy-Pire DNA gives the biot a vampiric source of nourishment, feeding on psychic energies to sustain itself.
• Superhuman speed, strength, and reflexes.
• Capable of using knowledge cartridges to increase knowledge in various areas.
• Force-resistant (though not immune).
• Can produce pheromones.

Notable Possessions:

• Costumes and Gadgets
  • Pheromone bracelet
• Weapons
  • Vibrocutlass
  • C-11 "Nastirci" Combat Knife - "The Nasty Blade"
  • Maleficent Curse [Proof of Purchase]
  • HG-88 'Big Iron' Hand Cannon
  • X8 Gambit Elite Disruptor Pistol
  • X8 Endgame Elite Disruptor Rifle
• Ammunition
  • RB-05 "Chazrach" Rounds
  • RB-07 “Hâsk” Rounds
• Armor
  • Naiad Combat Armor (Combat Form)
  • Orestiad Flight Suit (Pilot Form)
  • Nereid Diving Suit (Siren Form)
  • Dragon Skin (Civilian Form 1)

 

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Biography:

Bithia Allana Cervantes was born on Alderaan. She never knew her biological parents, as her mother gave her up shortly after her birth.

Her childhood was spent moving between foster homes, where she was cared for but never loved, until she came of age and was pushed out of the system. Searching for belonging, she found success as a self-made perfumer, bottling the scents of Alderaanian fruits and flowers and selling them. This prompted her to study chemistry.

At some point during her studies, she briefly dabbled in the manufacture of drugs in order to bring in extra cash. She put a stop to this practice after someone became seriously ill due to her not mixing the chemicals properly. This incident occurred right around the time she had a chance meeting with a history professor named Nimdok. Though Bithia initially found Nimdok "amusing", the two fell in love and eventually married. Their daughter Miri was born not long after.

Two years later, Nimdok was killed in a transporter accident.

Three years after his death, a Shi'ido shapeshifter named Arimanes Bosch began masquerading as Nimdok, using his fame and clout as a historian to become an "archaeologist" - or rather, a treasure hunter. While Bithia was unaware that a stranger was impersonating her late husband, the impostor's theft of precious artifacts didn't go unnoticed, and he soon made enemies who truly believed he was Nimdok. Because of this, they sought revenge upon him by abducting what they believed were his wife and child, intending to hold them for ransom.

Unfortunately, one Sith Lord, Messala, had already caught wind of the truth about "Nimdok". Messala and his henchwoman, Thetis Suzerain, arranged for the two prisoners to be transferred to them. On Messala's orders, Thetis experimented on Miri. The child was then left for "Nimdok" to find. This was meant as a test of his identity, and sure enough they were able to confirm that "Nimdok" was in fact Arimanes Bosch. But this didn't last for long, as the real Nimdok's spirit would soon possess the impostor in hopes of protecting a raising his daughter. At that point, Nimdok and Arimanes both believed that Bithia was dead.

In fact, Messala had removed Bithia's spirit from her body and trapped it within a Soulstone. In the meantime, he prepared what would be his most ambitious creation - three biots, all based on stolen illegal technology, each containing a soul he intended to use for his own purposes. In one of these biot bodies he bound Bithia's spirit; subjected to the biot's programming, she had no choice but to obey Messala's orders. And his orders for her were to find Nimdok and Miri, gain their trust, and eventually deliver them to him.

Only partially aware of the insidious nature of her new state of being, Bithia tracked Nimdok and Miri to Thustra, where she posed as an ardent admirer of Nimdok's work and offered herself as his servant. To prove her usefulness, she staged an attempted theft of the Heart of the Universe, a popular Force crystal housed in a museum. It wasn't long before Nimdok caught on to her true origins in Messala's lab, but he was horrified when he realized her actual identity. Thanks to the hacking expertise of his young associate Slip, they were able to undo her programming, rendering Bithia a free agent.

A once-living soul caged in an unfeeling body that seemingly cannot die, Bithia is actually handling the bizarre new circumstances she now finds herself in rather well. I mean, being an android killing machine that feeds on thoughts and memories and can regenerate wounds that would massacre a human isn't so bad, all things considered. Right?...

Okay, so she's depressed and a bit moody at times. Technically, she shouldn't have any emotions, and yet somehow she still is able to feel like crying, or laughing, or sighing, or eating copious amounts of ice cream for no reason except that she feels like it, even though she can no longer produce tears and doesn't need to eat or breathe. She can no longer feel pain. As long as she remains intact, she will never age, grow old, or wither away, so she can look forward to being like this until the end of time.

She is still Bithia, in spite of the regenerative biotic tissue and droid sensors and the unfamiliar faces she has been given to wear. Her devotion to her family remains... as does a desire to hunt Messala down and execute him for what he did.

 

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Thread Tracker:

The Body Remembers - Bithia is held prisoner by Messala, who has his own nefarious purposes for her and Miri. COMPLETED - SHORT STORY

Heart of the Universe - Appears as an NPC. Bithia tracks down Nimdok on Thustra, and after some hijinks in a museum, she manages to fight her programming long enough to confirm Nimdok's suspicions. COMPLETED

My Heart is a Hollow Plain - Bithia gets involved in a plot to free Inanna Hoole, mostly because Nimdok is at the center of it and she doesn't trust him not to get them all killed. Bithia serves as pilot of the star yacht they arrive in and is later imprisoned along with the rest of the conspirators. COMPLETED

Thriller Night - While stranded on Vandelhelm, Bithia investigates a bizarre double-homicide. ABANDONED

Nip It In the Bud - Bithia, posing as "Lydia Mina", interrogates Dr. Raehith Daanruano while following a lead about Messala. COMPLETED - SHORT STORY

The Pavillion - Bithia looks for a snack at a high class club on Coruscant. IN PROGRESS

Club Dusk - After vamping at the Pavillion, Bithia goes to a much sleazier club on Coruscant, where she meets with Tom Kovack. The two have a cryptic conversation and make out a little, only to be interrupted by a drunk guy tackling Bithia into the swimming pool. Tom manages to save her before she dissolves completely, and the two leave. COMPLETED

Don't Switch Me Off - While Ayreon rescues a rogue droid created by Messala, Bithia deals with intruders at a hangar bay. IN PROGRESS

I Could Not Stop For Death - Bithia and Red invade Messala's hideout, intent on finishing this while the Lord of Doubt is on his knees. IN PROGRESS

Metal Fist, Psychic Fangs - Bithia accompanies Nimdok, Starlin, and Westenra Mina on a mission to ExGal Alpha, a planet that is being surveyed by the GA. They uncover the Tomb of Cidd Cinndurr, a Jedi who was executed for sorcery. Bithia suggests to Nimdok that they go on a proper vacation to Naboo to celebrate Messala's downfall. IN PROGRESS

Ballad of Shiraya: Crowning a Queen - While vacationing on Naboo, Bithia, Nimdok, and Miri get caught in traffic when their visit coincides with the coronation of a new monarch. Bithia has something on her mind she wants to talk to Nimdok about. IN PROGRESS

Blackstar - In a shocking turn of events, Bithia appears on the Blackstar wheelworld to make a deal with a notorious drug gang, Zerø. She will make the drugs while they sell them. IN PROGRESS