Fpe - Symbiote AU

Claire: 19F; can control the vitality of passive plants and can summon them, they are purely defensive and will cower in fear if used to attack and will utterly refuse to be summoned if done so with malicious intent; introvert, studious, active around friends; major bully victim due to her pacifistic nature, is never without Moemoe (her cat) unless she gives Moemoe to Miss Grace to keep safe, aces all of her classes in both the practical work and the paper work; White hair with blunt bangs and a bowtie. white sweater, pale-green shorts/scarf, white baggy socks; Leaf pendant.

Engel: 19M; can produce/control feathers; kind, welcoming, extroverted; childhood best friend of Claire, protective of friends, Claire/Abbie/Bubble/Lana are all a part of his friend group and are the counter-group to Oliver's bully group; Long white hair with the back tied up in a low ponytail, two feathers protruding from his head; white fluffy cloak + undershirt, black pants, blue bandana; Feather pendant.

Abbie: 18M; Can make apples that heal any physical injury if consumed and can restore severed limbs back to full, cannot heal sickness, illness, or tumors though; introvert, timid shy, regularly avoids social contact; heals people with class-related injuries; poor at Vector Mathematics/other subjects, often verbally abused by the Ms. Circle because of his lack of academic knowledge, is the only student whom the teachers cannot physically harm due to his importance as a field medic, Lana's romantic partner; Black shoulder-length hair and an apple stem protruding from his head; red/white caplet + undershirt, black shorts, white Ugg boots; Apple Heart-shaped crystal pendant.

Lana: 18F; can create sock puppet monsters to attack people; clingy, extroverted, loves Abbie; Is very artistic, her mental stability is questionable; long grey hair with the back tied up in a ponytail with a curved cowlick, sock puppets on her hands (purely decorative); grey caplet + undershirt, grey pants; Diamond-shaped gray pendant.

Bubble: 17F; can create/control bubbles; kind, caring, friendly; is one of Engel's friends, is a semi-spiritual anomaly; bubble hair + no head, floating eyes. White sweater, blue skirt, white Ugg boots; Bubble pendant which hangs off her skirt.

Chip: 17F; can control/create water; weird, empty personality, quiet, is the little brother of Zip, has dwarfism; shoulder-length white hair; blue/white sweater, white pants, white Ugg boots; Fish pendant.

Edward: 20M; can control/create corrosive acid, the acid can naturally emit an extremely fatal amount of (540 ppm) Hydrogen Sulfide if he doesn't wear his eye visor (this causes major problems during missions); creative, innovative, tech-person; Edward enjoys using his extensive knowledge of technology and science to do hurtful pranks on people, has a demon tail, he's immune to toxic gases (excluding Hydrogen Sulfide), is a part of Oliver's Group; Spiky, long white hair and an eye visor which acts as a limiter for his Symbiotic Ability; white jacket + undershirt, black pants + boots; small black horns; Potion pendant which hangs off his visor.

Zip: 20F; can breathe fire and fly, her ability gave her Small-Cell Lung Cancer due to the smoke of the over-usage of flames severely damaging her lungs and giving way for cancerous tumors, this isn't a Symbiotic Drawback it's just a natural thing she got due to her ability; mischievous, silly, loves playing pranks on people, severely depressed and tired underneath her playful persona; has a dragon tail and wings. She's been battling SCLC for 4 years due to her over-using fire-breathing at her mid-teen years, stage 4 SCLC (both lungs) for 2 years, and nobody aside from Edward and the teachers knows she has it. She sometimes askes Abbie for a couple of his healing apples, she knows that it won't cure her tumors (since it's an illness), she just eats them for a small moral boost. Is a major part of Oliver's Group; Two toned hair (black & white) + a low ponytail; white caplet + undershirt, black boots; Blood-Stained Wrap pendant, is the only "pendant" that isn't technically a pendant.

Oliver: 22M, can draw in the air and whatever he draws becomes real and he can use it, these temporary and will fade after a moment, the speed at which they fade depends on how complex and big it is; arrogant, smug, malevolent; Oliver is the mastermind and infamous leader of the bully group which consists of him Zip and Edward, many of his pranks are extremely life-threatening to others, Miss Circle/Thavel/Bloomie's favorite student, he's the most famous and well-known student in the entire academy, Δlice's boyfriend; his left arm is replaced by a big fountain pen which he uses for his Symbiotic ability; Very long white hair tied in a bottom ponytail with a black bow; blue sweater, black pants; small black horns; "⟠" shaped pendant.

Δlice: 22F, can summon lethal black spikes and tendrils, other abilities include: Superhuman Physicals, Biological Transfiguration, Regeneration, and Reactive Evolution (Rapidly changes mid-fight); aggressive, easily annoyed, willing-to-kill; Δlice is a demon/human that is feared across the entire academy; stays in a forbidden room, kills anyone who dares intrude into her room (except for Oliver), is a captured rogue Symbiote user converted to student, can and will massacre anyone on sight if left unchecked by the academy, is one of the absolute most dangerous people present at the academy, Oliver's Girlfriend; Tan skin, Short messy brown hair, black princess tiara, black bow in her hair, black mutated and spiky hands; dark-blue caplet + undershirt, black skirt/scarf; complete Demonic Triangle pendant.

Teachers:

Miss Circle: 38F; can corrupt living beings with a unknown all-consuming dark matter, over-usage can distort her own perception of reality and make her do unspeakable acts of violence; cruel, violent, harsh towards poor performing students; her left arm is a corrupted dark blob that constantly drags across the floor, 1 of the 3 teachers that abuses their students; teaches Vector Mathematics which talks about calculations for trajectory, reliable energy usage, and usage of momentum when it comes to their abilities; She's the tallest teacher coming in at 9'7", she is a important combatant within Operation Network Blackout; Long spiky black hair; dark-blue caplet + undershirt, white shorts + black boots; black horns; corrupted Black Spike pendant which is hidden.

Miss Thavel: 35F; can create/control Mature Plants and Vines, over-usage can lead to thorns piercing out of her skin which causes blood loss and potential poisoning (depending on the species of thorns); cruel, sadistic, harsh; teaches Combat Communication which talks about writing mission results/reports, using foreign languages to help non English-speaking people, and following directed orders during missions; has wendigo antlers and is another abusive teacher, the main difference between her and Claire's ability is that Ms. Thavel's are mature and are more meant for offense due to their thorns or natural poisons, she often uses her plants to train student reaction times by just striking them out of nowhere with her thorned plants in the middle of class, she and Miss Bloomie are great friends, she is an important combatant within Operation Network Blackout; Black shoulder-length messy spiky hair; green/white sweater, white skirt, black boots, white/green scarf; cracked Black Spike pendant.

Miss Bloomie: 36F; when she drinks blood she gains supernatural attributes and bloodlust, drinking too much blood however can cause all of the effects to reverse and make her throw up her own blood; strict, harsh, abusive; her left arm is replaced by a large cardboard cutter blade. She teaches Symbiotic Sciences which talks about the biology, chemistry, and evolution of Symbiotes; Edward is her favorite student, she carries a rare sympathy for Claire and often lets her go punishment-free, she's the shortest teacher, she and Miss Thavel are great friends, she is a important combatant within Operation Network Blackout; Short black bob hair with blunt bangs, white bow in her hair; black capelet, white sweater, white skirt + a flask of blood; black horns, Black Spike pendant with eye which hangs off her capelet.

Mrs. Sasha: 27F; can control colours and make things out of them, First Drawback: Opacity of the thing she creates is measured by how intense her emotions are (Opacity = Success rate of her Power), Second Drawback: too much negative emotion can put her in a mental psychosis and completely drain the surrounding area of colour, this causes "creatures from the realm without colour" to appear in the space and attack anyone within the space; kind, artistic, light-hearted; cares for the little kids within the academy and also teaches Manifestation Arts & Power Visualisation which focuses on shaping symbiotic ability for better control over them via construction/art; Married to Mr. Demi, Mr. Demi helped get her to safety during the Genesis which is why they're very close. She's often praised as the best teacher due to her light-weight and easy-going way of teaching; long messy black hair tied up in a ponytail with a rainbow ribbon, Red flat-cap, book covering her right eye; white crop-top sweater + undershirt, black pants; Paintbrush pendant which hangs off her flat-cap.

Mr. Demi: 28M; can control vibrations and produce music/symphonies, he will produce uncontrollable and very loud white noise should his violin bow be taken away; nervous, easily frightened, timid; wields a violin bow as a catalyst for his ability; teaches Resonance & Harmonics Studies which focuses on stability of symbiote and ones mind through music, improving calmness and steadiness during dangerous situations); Married to Mrs. Sasha, helped Mrs. Sasha get her and himself to safety during the Genesis which is why they're really close; shoulder-length blunt white hair in a bob-cut, hair bangs that look like piano keys, two pencils protruding from his head, monocle; white sweater, blue caplet + undershirt, black waist-high pants; small black horns; Beamed Quaver pendant which hangs off his monocle.

Miss Emily: 30F; can create/control paper, over-usage causes her to get paper cuts randomly on her body; kind, respective, welcoming; teaches Symbiotic History which talks about the known history of the Symbiotes and the Eternal Winter, teaching students past mistakes and how to improve on them; is the closest to the Headmaster (Miss Grace) and is also the head librarian for the academy, she's often the person to talk to if you have any questions; Dark-toned skin, black hair in an afro with two low pigtails, glasses, black short puffy tail; white sweater, black/white skirt + boots; black horns; Book pendant which hangs off her horn.

Miss Grace: 40F; can control ice and temperature, though she cannot control snow; stern but not exactly mean, straight-forward, woman of very few words, sympathetic behind her stern structure; Headmaster of the Academy, assigns missions in P.O.I's to students, missions are when a group of students head out to investigate a P.O.I with suspicious activity relating to a rogue symbiote user nearby, they use their knowledge of combat effectiveness and strategy to effectively take them down and capture them; caffeine addict, possibly linked to Δlice (Same Pendant), traumatised by the Genesis, willingly takes care of Moemoe when Claire can't be with them for a moment due to their safety or general personal problems, is the only person in the academy that possesses total control and mastery over her abilities which makes her the most skilled and talented person in the academy, she only steps in to help if the situation is beyond control for her colleagues, she leads and commands direct actions within Operation Network Blackout though is rarely seen on the frontlines, people often debate who would come out on top between a confrontation between Miss Grace and Katie which has yet to be properly decided yet; White Hair with the back styled in a big ponytail, glasses; green winter suit + white dress shirt, black tie, black skirt, black scarf; black horns; black incomplete Demonic Triangle pendant.

Others:

Katie: 22F; can create anything she can think of with the only limitation being her imagination, though she cannot directly control what she creates after creating it; teasing, affectionate, sadomasochist, clinically insane; Twin sister of Oliver, very dangerous rogue symbiote user, is considered the user with the strongest symbiote in Symbiote history, she often kills other rogue symbiote users which makes some people believe she is some kind of vigilante, she is often seen in public just strolling around like she isn't one of the biggest threats in the world, she is the top priority of the Academy no matter the situation, she is referred to with codename "DΔNGER" within the Academy, she experiences intense euphoria when feeling pain or inflicting it on other people, she is one of the only rogue Symbiote Users that actively supports and participates within Operation Network Blackout and is seen actively destroying hideouts of The Black Marsh and slaughtering members in said hideouts; she looks almost completely identical as Oliver except for the following differences: a more defined chest (since she's female), slightly shorter hair than Oliver, a headband with two fake horns on it (Doesn't actually have horns though), sharp teeth; Large black sweater with a white rhombus symbol in the middle, black and yellow scarf, black gloves, blue jeans, black boots; Triangular danger symbol pendant (The yellow is replaced by orange).

Δiden: 21F; Has superhuman attributes (E.g: strength, speed, endurance) and senses, though her symbiote is so violent that a pendant isn't enough to hold it back, so she has to satisfy it by shedding innocent blood; Emotionless, expressionless, apathetic, psychopathic, silent; Only hides in snowy forests or the remnants of such, very dangerous rogue symbiote, serial killer, usually uses a hunting rifle; long black messy hair, soulless eyes, scars all over body; beige ushanka, black and yellow scarf (used as a mask), blue trench coat with white t-shirt underneath, black gloves, blue jeans, black Ugg boots; a human eye pendant.

Fen: (Age Unknown) Female; can shapeshift and mock voices of those she hears, cannot shapeshift into inanimate objects; Violent, cannibalistic, ruthless, can be strangely docile at times; She is a cannibalistic unnatural monster that mutilates and eats anyone who she feels like, lives in the same forest as Δiden, very dangerous rogue symbiote user; humanoid appearance, long spiky strawberry blonde hair, shadow over her eyes, corrupted enlarged black hands with claws; When disguised: A thick black hoodie, a black scarf, black gloves (to hide her hands), blue jeans; Blank circle pendant (blank due to their own true form being a mystery)

Moemoe: (Age Unknown + Gender Unknown); The Anti-Symbiote, can completely disable someone's abilities (as long as they're in range-of-sight), can also permanently kill someone's symbiote if they touch someone with their paw (if absolutely necessary); Unknown, silent, weird, mysterious; They are Claire's loving pet cat that never leaves her side, is a caution to all of the Symbiote Academy and classified 'The biggest threat and the biggest helping asset to all Symbiote Society', the Academy allows it to be with Claire anywhere she goes, though their age is unknown they are suspected to be 1-3 years old, the way Moemoe disables abilities is through cutting off their source of power, the way Moemoe destroys abilities is through overloading the source of power by putting negative energy in it until it just dies or decays from it (only possible through direct contact); Very small round black cat with an empty stare and small tail; No Pendant.

In the world of FPE, there is an eternal winter that sets upon them, casting the world into a new ice age.

Biosphere of the Ice Age: ~95% of all Flora have died or gone extinct on the surface (though most of them were successfully recovered due to Doomsday Vaults), ~85% of all Fauna have suffered the same fate (They're less fortunate as they never had banks or specialised farms), and ~70% of all humans have died, many of these deaths happening weeks after it started due to starvation from the death of other fauna (most importantly fish, which is heavily suspected to have gone completely extinct, which has led to the extinction of bears and other predators that eat mainly fish). Species that are estimated to have gone completely extinct: All common fish and marine life, deer, all moose/deer/bear that lived in summer environments, almost all types of cattle and farm animals, chickens, all arctic life, mosquitoes and other flying pests, almost every plant on earth's surface (though most of them aren't completely extinct via doomsday banks), all humans that didn't live near the equator. Bacteria thrives, most importantly, lung-based illnesses. Pneumonia is a serious and surprisingly common extreme threat, Acute Bronchitis is global and forces people to constantly find hot air to breathe in, and RSV kills off many chances of repopulation and is the ultimate moral killer, so proper hygiene and managing pollution is heavily implemented for the students and teachers (and also everyone in general) to combat these illnesses.

Symbiotes & Academy: After nearly a decade since the Genesis of the Eternal Winter, an unknown event ("The Sudden Evolution") happened where a select few of people gained a 'symbiote' that allows them to use specific abilities. These abilities may or may not come with limitations/drawbacks that weaken them as to balance the order of power. People who harnessed Symbiotes, mostly late-teens and some adults/children, live at an academy that teaches them how to hone their abilities for the greater good. Teachers here are assigned here, not because they have the mental stability and correct morals to teach, but because they are the best in their fields. Most of the students at the academy were taken by force from their families, and the families can't sue or demand their children back due to the academy being protected by the government. The Academy values the privacy of both their students and their faculty, so Miss Grace never relays insensitive info about their inhabitants when it comes to public reports to both ordinary or government people, and students are also taught to never relay sensitive info to anyone outside of the Academy. Although the Academy is government funded, their operations and choices within the Academy are under strict control of Miss Grace, not a Government or an Organization, as the Academy itself is independent from foreign control and isn't influenced by anyone nor anything.

Academy Rules: The students have to be here by law, as they could be a public safety hazard should they be untrained. Everyone must wear protective clothing as to not die from the cold and anyone with a 'symbiote' must keep their pendant on, otherwise the 'symbiote' will kill them from the inside using their own power and the 'symbiote' will die alongside its user, rendering it useless and un-recyclable, Symbiote's do this due to their very nature being extremely violent and any host who fails to have a mind of nothing but murder is deemed "undesirable" and the symbiote quite literally kills itself, also killing the host in the process, pendants act as a stabilizer so that it's impossible for it to erupt while within the pendants range. You cannot, under any circumstance, go near Δlice's room, otherwise she WILL kill you. There is a curfew for the students at the academy at 8:40pm, failure to follow this will result in forced study time in the Headmasters office. There is no official academy uniform, so students and teachers can wear whatever they want as long as it is deemed appropriate.

Academy Life: Lessons within the academy usually consist of physical activities, sparring, analyzing spars, and learning from mistakes (most prevalent in Combat Communications and Vector Mathematics), though some lessons are more laid-back and are intended to ease the mind and improve focus like Manifestation Arts & Power Visualisation and Resonance & Harmonic Studies. Both the students and the teachers get their own dorm to live in and have to follow schedule as to not be late for any lessons, they're allowed outside of school grounds as to maybe go to the bakery (popular with students), the coffee shop (teachers + Above mid-20s only), or the empty practice spaces, but MUST be in the academy to attend/teach class, failure to be on time often leads to study time. Non-academic expenses is covered by the academy through government funds, though you must have you're student ID on you to have this benefit anywhere. In the academy, competitiveness is everywhere, people are always eager to prove themself, and Symbiotic stand-offs are daily and often result in property damage and someone becoming out-of-commission.

Outside the Academy: The world is still mostly intact with stores and other things still in the snowy streets and running, such as previously mentioned bakeries and coffee shops, as well as restaurants, clothing stores, and even just large, barren and empty spaces for Symbiotic practice outside of the academy. There's also rogue Symbiote users who may go around destroying stuff and causing havoc in certain places outside of the Academy, Assigned Missions investigate P.O.I's that may harbour one and aimed to take them down (if there is one). The place is covered by a constant fog and soft wind, as well as constant snow, but even in this hopeless environment, life endures, births continue, sure, over half of it is dead or extinct, but that hasn't stopped life from continuing no matter what.

The Black Marsh: The Black Marsh is a large decentralized criminal network that sell valuable goods, information, and equipment without the acknowledge of any legal government, so due to this, it's an illegal operation. There is no leader, The Black Marsh is a community of scavengers and spies, that work together to get each other what they want through any means necessary, it is, in a way, one big family helping each other out. Many of the stuff the Black Marsh do are sell valuable info on certain Symbiote Users, including students/teachers within the Academy. Alongside this, The Black Marsh also sells certain equipment, like Symbiotic Pendants and stolen prototype counter-Symbiotic tech made by the Government, and The Black Marsh also contain a lot of rogue Symbiote Users using their network as a resting place or as a place to potentially enhance their abilities in a way. The Black Marsh, alongside Katie, are of top priority of the Academy due to the potential danger of selling insensitive info about students and also general danger to the inhabitants of the Academy should the info get in the hands of the wrong people. Operation Network Blackout is the on-going operation within the Academy to completely kill of this whole family of criminals endangering the Academy, though they don't send students to do this job, instead this is a "adult business", so only Teachers are a part of this Operation, the main reason for this is because direct exposure to student attack could only leak more insensitive info about them. Miss Grace, Miss Circle, Miss Bloomie, Miss Thavel, and surprisingly Katie herself are all direct major participants within Operation Network Blackout, with many attacks happening after school hours during faculty free-time, though Katie doesn't care about time and attacks at anytime at random. Though the Black Marsh isn't a pushover either, their equipment can seriously hurt them and they're a lot more coordinated than intel suggested, they are still being pushed back and slowly destroyed regardless however.

Mysteries: No one knows what caused the Genesis of the Eternal Winter, there is only speculation, what is known is that it was a cataclysmic geological event, likely caused by an unknown secondary source, that wiped out more than 3/4 of all life on Earth and completely covered it in snow and ice. There were no significant events relating to geology when this happened, no concerning experiment was being undergone, and nothing within space seemed to look that weird, the Genesis is simply characterized as "An extremely sudden drop in global temperature unlike the world has ever seen before in human history." No one knows what the Symbiote is, where it came from, and how it suddenly got into the bodies of many survivors. No one also knows what caused the Sudden Evolution to take place, in fact, no one knows exactly when the event took place, as everyone started having Symbiote's at different times.

Current Time: The present is set 2 years after the appearance of symbiotes, and only about 0.003% of the 30% of people remaining in the world possess a symbiote, and most of them reside in the academy. The percentage used to be 0.6%, but most of them died after their symbiote killed them (since they hadn't made the pendant yet).