Attempt at a Power-Gen, very long text ahead oops.
Stem is a Changer with Brute, Stranger, and minor Thinker abilities. Stem's cells are essentially interchangeable. Fat can be converted into muscle, bone, and organ tissue, and vice versa, in a very short timespan. This allows for enhanced strength/physique, improved lung capacity or organ function, and total change of appearance over time. They can tap into the Entity Flesh Dimension in order to add/reduce their body mass, but that takes much more time (hours for significant changes).
They can turn their subdermal layers into bone for hidden armour plating. Become hypermobile/flexible by converting bone into ligaments. Healthy tissue can be cannibalized to regenerate damaged flesh, but they still have to account for their total body mass— blood loss or losing a limb will significantly hamper their ability to regenerate, so they can be worn down in a fight. If they have DNA of someone else, they can integrate it into their body to perfectly imitate their appearance over a few hours. Vocal cords can be enhanced to scream very loudly.
They can also convert hormones and neurotransmitters into one another. Tweaking things like Cortisol allow them to be in total control of their mental state during battle. Pain can be shut off. Thought can be accelerated, presumably more grey matter can be made, but self-brain surgery is daunting for them.
The drawback is that the power is very manual, as opposed to automatic. They don't have a "base" form they naturally revert to. It's much faster to convert large swaths of material at once than to delicately tweak their tissue to proportions that are sustainable (ie enough ligaments/cartilage to protect their joints, enough fat to sustain a more muscular fighting physique, etc). Things like adding limbs or moving away from humanoid shapes is very difficult to manage, and is less intuitive for them.
This is a piece of art showing Morgan's "evolved" form. I am super happy with the way that this came out! Full credits to Jill, who was amazing to work with. You can find them via their carrd: https://jill-the-succubus.carrd.co/
Changer mes habitudes
Réagir, faire face à leurs habituelles attitudes
En changer le rythme qui n’est plus un plaisir
Mais une obligation malsaine, envers ma solitude
Vis à vis de leurs comportements, ne cherchant qu’à obtenir.
Ces conflits quotidiens , ces amertumes
Nuisent à mon équilibre et mes désirs
J’ai décidé d’y mettre un frein et d’en sourire
Retrouver mon identité et sortir de la brume.
La perfection n’existe pas, dans quel pays que ce soit
Ce n’est que dans les romans filmés au cinéma
Que le destin, de chacun est courtois
Il faudra à l’avenir gagner le combat.
A plus tard sera reportée notre dégustation, de pâtisseries
Cela évitera, cette fois-ci de gonfler les calories
Dès demain, ce dimanche sera passé dans l’oubli
Ainsi aujourd’hui, j’ai pu mes reposer et faire des économies.
Texte de Colette Guinard
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Ceux qui m’ont connu il y a quelques années ne me reconnaissent plus vraiment. J’ai changé.
Et ce qui rend la chose plus simple en fait, c’est que j’ai choisi de ne plus tolérer les tensions inutiles qui font que l’on vit les montagnes russes des émotions.
Cela a fait en sorte que je n’ai plus d’intérêt à me justifier face à ceux qui me questionnent. Je leur laisse le loisir de me juger comme…
Si tu crois que tu serais
plus heureux ailleurs, alors vas-y ;
et si tu constates que rien ne change,
alors dis-toi que c’est en toi que les
choses doivent changer…