Ultimate Gammaverse - A. S. Phyxia

My entry for ~Mr-Glenbro's group #Ultimate-Gammaverse.

Here's more info on A. S. Phyxia for those who aren't familiar with her:

Name: A. S. Phyxia
Real Name: Archange Suzan Phyxia
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 128 Lbs
Age: 32
Hair: Light Grey
Eyes: Greyish Blue
Occupation: Fashion Designer, Local Celebrity, Criminal Mastermind
Lives In: Glenmetropolis, Québec, Canada
Nationality British
Birthplace: Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Allignment: Evil
Family: Clive Bellard (cousin, male)
First Appearance: December 2009
Marital Status: It's complicated
Sexual Orientation Straight with slight tendencies towards bisexuality.
Spoken Languages: She speaks fluent English and a few words and sentences in French that Fourstrings taught her.
Distinguishing Marks: Her hair has taken the exact appearence of cigarette ashes. However, her hair doesn't burn in any way, but they do exude large quants of cigarette smoke. She makes no public appearences without a cigarette in her hand. Also, she has a thick Brittish accent.
Strenght Level: Above Average. She can lift up to approximately 200 lbs (using all of her brawns to do so).
Superpowers: Archange has the very unusual power of transforming cigarette smoke into tangible matter, usually weapons, she uses to fight with. Similar to how Green Lantern uses his ring to create objects. Most of the time, Archange uses hands (fists, palms, chops) or small weapons/objects, but when she feels imaginative (or drunk) it can range to tanks, giant animals, trains, and so on. But the bigger the object, the more smoke is needed, hence why she usually sticks to hands. Archange's hair also exude cigarette smoke almost all the time. The quantity that comes out is usually based on her current state. For example, when she feels strong emotions such as anger or love, she exudes twice as much as if she was just watching TV or just standing still, calm. And it goes the other way around too. When she's ashamed of herself, or sad, she exudes less smoke. When she falls asleep, there is almost zero emanation coming from her hair. Also, Archange has an unusual immune system. In fact, she doesn't rely on oxygen to live. Her lungs have been altered by the exposure to Thermobrynol. She can hold her breath for as LONG as she wants, or breathe just about anything, even toxic gases such as chlorine, and live to tell about it. Thus, she isn't toxic to herself (which is oh so convinient). That doesn't mean that strong odors don't drive her off.. She also has a bolstered immune system against most disease. To her, a generalized cancer is the equivalent of a very small and benine flu.
Weaknesses: Archange's main weakness is her endurance. She's still human, thus if she gets severly wounded, she won't get up as if everything was fine. Archange is quick-minded so she usually tries to dodge or fight from a distance if her enemy is too physically strong for a hand to hand confrontation. But she can't dodge forever. Also, she is easily driven by her emotions, when she gets mad, she starts making mistakes and taking blows more often. Archange is also weak to extreme temperature fluctuations. It's a strange condition that was diagnosed when she was a child. If she gets too cold or too hot in a short period of time, she goes into vagal shock and faints.
Weapon: A cigarette holder she usually uses.
Activities: Archange enjoys shopping a lot. A little too much even. She likes to shop for anything, from clothes to home furnitures to cars to power tools to plants... Well, you get the point. She also likes video games a lot, although she won't admit it. Little known fact, she's also very good at ice hockey. She also enjoys high-end coffee shops.
Other Skills: Archange has a Doctor's Degree in Applied Chemistry. She COULD spend time trying to get rid of her "condition" for good, but she enjoys it too much. She is also a great people person (despite the fact that she smells like Emphysema) and that's why her fashion business goes so well. She is a great listener and although she has an average memory, she has an encyclopedic knowledge of popular (and less popular) lines from various movies, songs and TV shows. Although hard to approach, Archange is a very loyal friend once you get to know her.
Personality: She puts on an obnoxious, sarcastic facade to hide her lack of self-confidence and chronic anxiety. Archange is actually a sweet person (apart from her desire to fill the planet with cigarette smoke and kill most of its residents). She cares for her (few) friends, to whom she is always honest, a little too much sometimes. However, the chances of someone ever seeing that "soft" side of are as thin as the chances you have of walking out alive from facing her.
History: Archange is a wealthy heir of Joshua Emile Phyxia, the owner of the “Phyx’ Ya Car Repair Shop” garage chain that spreads from London all the way to El Paso, Texas. As a child, Archange was quite studious. She was the top student of her chemistry class in high school. At the age of 17, she decided to enroll in the chemistry program at the University Of Cambridge. Little did she know that carreer choice would affect her life in a whole other way than she would’ve expected. On the night of December 5th, 2002, Archange was conducting a extremely delicate experiment on the density of Thermobrynol in its liquid state, when a craving for a cigarette got the better of her. She went to into her purse, took a cigarette from her pack, and lit it. Confusing the erlenmeyer containing the Thermobrynol for an ashtray, she tapped her ash in it. When she realized what she had done, it was too late. The liquid turned into a slimy green ooze which boiled until it exploded out of the erlenmeyer and straight onto Archange’s hair. At first she thought it wasn’t so bad, but rushed to the decontamination shower nonetheless. As she drove back to her mansion (it’s been hers for three years, as her father died of a heart attack on the eve of Archange’s 20th birthday), she noticed no effect from her exposure to the Thermobrynol. The next day however, she woke up at the smell of cigarette smoke. Not sure where the source of the smell came from, she examined the nearby rooms. Nothing in her bedroom, nothing in the five adjascent bedrooms. Nothing in the bathroom... But upon glancing in the mirror, she understood SHE was the source. Her hair had become like cigarette ashes. At first she was both terrified and depressed by her condition, but in the days that would follow, she discovered her condition also gave her strange powers. She could turn the smoke from any cigarette into a tangible object, such as a sword or a giant fist (à la Green Lantern). Plus, her hair constantly spewing cigarette smoke keeps most people at a distance. As Archange became more and more spoken about in the news due to her “condition”, she decided to use that hype, combined with her wealth to build her fashion company from the ground up, focusing on women’s designer pieces and high-end clothing. Her notoriety was bolstered when a few celebrities took interest in her products. She is often seen in charity events and red carpets. By day, Archange Suzan Phyxia is a rich and famous entrepreneur with charsima and impressive interpersonnal skills. But by night, she dreams of punishing the world and inflict her “condition” on everyone by polutting the air with cigarette smoke. She is the leader of the D.I.E., the Department of Insidious Evil, an organization of civilized supervillains, whose role is to thwart the superheroes with the least collateral damage possible (no deaths, severe injuries only in critical situations, no harming civilians, no killing civilians unless necessary, etc.).

Archange is almost always seen smoking a cigarette.

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