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Jazmin is a very quiet, private individual. She's introverted with a very limited social battery and a bad case of social anxiety. She tends to avoid conflict, preferring to keep to herself or maintain a few surface-level friendships with coworkers or classmates she comes into regular contact with. Generally agreeable, in the interest of pleasing the people around her to make interactions smoother.
Special Abilities
- Active camouflage- can disappear in an instant.
- Enhanced sight,hearing, and smell.
- Enhanced strength, capable of lifting up to 5 tons
- Body is more resistant to physical damage and regenerates faster.
- Fangs capable of delivering a toxin that leaves the victim paralyzed for several hours- or kills them with a large enough dose.
- Capable of using pheromones to subtly influence others- specifically in how much they like her.
- Can detect movement and possible threats around her.
- Can produce spider-silk from her hands, which she can use in all the ways the actual arachnid can.
- Capable of transforming into a human-sized spider.
Special Skills
- An avid drummer
- Can read most books in a day
Special Equipment
- N/A
Background
Jazmin was born to immigrant parents, a first generation resident who grew up in Chicago. Her upbringing was fairly mundane. She was an honor-roll student, with above average grades and a very strong love of reading and learning. But, a lot of the knowledge that she acquired growing up came at the cost of a lot of important social milestones that she simply skipped because she would rather stay home and in her room. She was the youngest of four kids, which meant her parents were very busy and didn't really bother her for staying in her room. They just figured she was self-sufficient.
By highschool, her general avoidance of social interaction– beyond one friend she'd had since the 3rd grade– had taken its toll. She developed a very severe case of social anxiety, and beyond answering questions in the classroom she absolutely feared any kind of attention. Which made it all the more difficult when she came out as transgender in her junior year. She had a lot of eyes on her suddenly, and she had to deal with her parents not being so accepting of her identity. Constant arguments with loved ones wore her down, despite the support she received from her friends and a few members of her extended family. She moved out of her home in her senior year, and finished highschool while living with a supportive cousin. She started her transition at this time as well.
She applied for as many scholarships as she could in highschool, and managed to get enough money gathered from those to get a bachelor's at the University of California, Los Angeles. She moved out to one of the dorms at UCLA and started her classes that fall. It seemed like things were looking up for her, with a good amount of distance from her parents– who still did not accept her for who she was– and a scholarship to get a degree for her dream career as an archeologist. Things calmed down, at least until her first summer break. She was bit by a spider that she had tried (and failed) to kill in her dorm. She went to the doctor's, who said she was all clear. It was a minor inconvenience, really. Until she started sticking to things, and disappearing, and accidentally leaving spider silk on things she grabbed with her hands… Jazmin spent the rest of the summer working on hiding whatever was going on, it wasn't normal and the doctors didn't seem to believe her. She couldn't exactly do it on command, either. She started wearing fingerless gloves (typing with full-finger gloves is hell) to prevent the sticking and the webbing, and started taking over the counter anxiety medication at the behest of her therapist to ease her nerves. Things seem to be slowly coming under control, but Jazmin is still seeking to understand what happened to her and how to better control it.