Template:Featured Articles/32-2008

From XPwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
MegganSzardos3.jpg
Meggan Szardos:

Meggan, when found, was known as the Monster due to her furred skin, bat-like ears and pointed fangs. Kept in a cage for most of her life, she was rescued by Kurt Wagner and Amanda Sefton and brought to the school. A true innocent, Meggan was a child-like figure with the ability to attune herself to various forms of energy and matter, and to change her shape. After her primary caregiver Amanda left the school in disgrace, Meggan was sent to live with her adopted family, the Szardos Romani clan. Meggan is a true bundle of potentiality, searching for her true shape - after more than a year away and now approximately fifteen years old, who can say what that might be?

Meggan is not precisely an empath, although that was the initial assumption. Her powers are actually closer to, say, Synch's... only she doesn't synch herself to powers, but to other beings... or things. When she does it with people, she picks up emotions, instincts, and occasionally a thought or two if it's a very clear, simple, strongly held one... an obsession, or a goal. Animals work the same way, but a little simplified. Plants are more difficult, and she tends mostly to pick up physical attributes from them... bark, a few leaves, turning green, that sort of thing. Inanimate objects are very difficult, and she won't learn those for a long time. Electronics she can attune herself to, but shouldn't... explosions are more or less inevitable, given her patchy control and the energy involved. The easiest of all for her, after people, is the elements... fire, earth, air, and water are easy. Meggan's natural affinity with nature and the elements also gives her a very minor magical aptitude, since she can adapt to attune herself to any form of energy, including the magical. She does not, however, have much power, unless actually latched onto a leyline or some other supplemental source. Her body, until she learns to control her powers better, will automatically reflect whatever's going on in her mind, or whatever it is she's attuning herself to.