Venus Kang

Appearance / Personality
Venus is a woman of average height, with dark brown skin and amber eyes. Her long, dark hair reaches down to her waist and exceptionally curly. It is often covered in bits of flowers, vines, and other plantlife. Her hair is often put into a long braid. She has tattoos all over her body - mainly symbols linked to life, fertility, and the sun.

Venus is many things - but foremost, she is SOLSTICE's biggest, staunchest supporter. Whereas Neptune was more than happy to go along without SOLSTICE, Venus eventually abandoned her and her plans, seeking to restore the glory of SOLSTICE's former plans. Much like her idol, she is a staunch, violent social darwinist. She is very, very clever, calm, and patient. Although she views life as a food chain (of which SOLSTICE is at the top, of course), she has nothing but disgust and fear when it comes to those who eat their fellow intelligent lifeforms. She has no problems feeding them to her plants, though.

Powers and Stats
Tier: 5-B normally. 5-A with the Cradle of Cyprus. Low 4-C with Cytherea's Cannon

Name: Venus

Origin: Starcross

Age: Over 300 years old.

Gender: Female

Classification: Military AI, Symbiotic Plant Creature

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman strength, speed, and durability, Flight, Magic, extrasensory perception via magic, magical barriers, Manipulation of plants, including toxins and wood, Mind Control, Immortality (Types 1, 3, and 6), Regeneration (Low-Mid), Cloning

Attack Potency: Planet level normally (comparable to SOLSTICE's original body). Large Planet level with the Cradle of Cyprus (can take near complete control of very large planets). Small Star level with Cytherea's Cannon (drains all of the energy of a small star and converts it into a very powerful, high-range solar cannon).

Speed: FTL+ normally; her main body is mostly immobile during the Cradle of Cyprus, although her reactions remain the same.

Lifting Strength: Class 1 normally. Class Y with the Cradle of Cyprus.

Striking Strength: At least Class XJ

Durability: Planet level

Stamina: High. Virtually limitless with the Cradle of Cyprus, as she can siphon energy from the entire planet to fuel her stamina.

Range: Planetary. Interstellar with Cytherea’s Cannon.

Standard Equipment: Nothing notable.

Intelligence: Quite high. Capable of planning out and executing complex strategies over decades.

Weaknesses: Overbearing arrogance and vanity. It takes a long time for her to reach full power with the Cradle of Cyprus, and even longer to fully power Cytherea's Cannon. Her main body needs to be immobile to fully control the Cradle of Cyprus. She's also weak to fire, for what should be obvious reasons.

Magic
Magic: The act of using one's understanding and willpower to direct the power of Fantasy. Venus’ magic was developed and active when she was still on Earth, and she is a fairly adept mage, although the strength of her magic lies more in its incredibly powerful nature and less in her understanding.

Venus’ magic grants her many abilities, including a significant portion of her superhuman abilities. It sustains a near-constant, 360° magical image of her surroundings that is far more reliable than her eyes and much harder to circumvent. It also allows her easily sustained, near-effortless flight. It also grants her her most formidable defense - the Absolute Barrier, a magical field surrounding her body that prevents external manipulation of her atoms, cells, and mind.

Dionaea: Venus has a magical plant, grown and created by herself, growing within her stomach. Although it shares its name with a Venus flytrap, this flower doesn’t need to subsist on meat - mostly, it uses light, water, and magic, gathered either by itself or Venus, who it has a symbiotic relationship with.

In return for this shelter and nutrition, Dionaea grants Venus its powers in battle. Its most simple uses are fairly basic - it can grow long, thorny vines that Venus can use to constrict and kill her opponents, or fire sharp barbs. However, this is only the beginning of Dionaea’s many, many abilities.
 * Extract Production: Dionaea can produce a wide variety of liquids and vapors for Venus. It can produce deadly toxins, which Venus is immune to by default, and which it usually applies through its thorns. It can also produce vapors capable of overriding the minds of others. She typically uses this to bring people to certain places, or make them easier to kill, although she can do all sorts of things with them. She can also use them to just make herself smell good, which is something she does constantly.
 * Regeneration: As long as Venus’ brain and soul are intact, and as long as Dionaea remains part of her, it can regenerate portions of her body by reconstructing it out of plant matter. It can also regenerate its own wounds just as easily.


 * Pod Clones: Venus can create clones of herself by growing them in pods stored by larger instances of Dionaea. These clones are soulless and are completely loyal to her, and in the event of her main body taking severe damage, she can transfer her soul to one of her backup bodies. Venus can also do this to others, granted that she has enough of their DNA. These clones share all the physical, mental, and magical capabilities of the target, but lack a soul and are completely, mindlessly loyal to Venus, under all circumstances.

The Cradle of Cyprus: Given time, Venus can extend Dionaea’s influence drastically by forming more and more instances to it and creating a single host body linked to all the other instances through magic and roots. Typically, Venus extends this range over a whole planet, granting her control of all plant life in the world.

Through this, Venus is aware of virtually all things that happen on the planet, and can launch attacks from basically anywhere. In addition, she typically replaces the entire population of the planet with Pod Clones, while disposing of the originals by draining their bodies of moisture and using them as compost, to give nutrition to the countless instances of Dionaea needed.

This is limited by the fact that Venus must remain in the original host body to take control of the rest, greatly limiting her mobility and making her fairly easy to defeat once found and confronted.
 * Cytherea’s Cannon: By absorbing enough solar energy to completely drain a star’s existence, Venus can fire an exceptionally powerful beam of solar magical energy through a massive flower constructed above the location of her host body. However, the amount of energy needed to produce this means that she must spend months preparing for it and draining energy from both a planet, and a star.

Reality Wheel: One of the most advanced and powerful magical techniques. A reality wheel acts as a powerful magical extension of its user, and allows its user to change the nature of reality within its range. Reality wheels are incredibly difficult to use and properly control. In addition, they tend to drain a lot of energy and stamina, making it difficult to use them for extended periods of time, although this can be mitigated by more powerful mages.
 * Relative Lightspeed Spiral: A type of reality wheel, created and utilized with the intent of allowing technical faster-than-light movement. It functions by defining the user as their own universe - and in that universe, the speed of light is a variable they can change. So by increasing the speed of light for themselves, they can accelerate past what the rest of the universe defines as the speed of light.

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