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About the character Fallia: [Name: Fallia; Codename Jazz Hands within the SCP Foundation, and Alakazam in the Serpent's Hand. Age: Unknown (appears to be in her 40s). Personality Archetype: The Misplaced Trickster. Cracked under the weight of half-truths and time distortion, she became an agent of chaos, excited to cause disruption: playful, and smiling with an unsettling edge. Her laughter isn’t always joy; it’s a warning. She takes the time to braid her hair a particular way before missions, and then styling it into a loose bun that sits by the side of her neck to fit under her hood. It's a personal ritual, and she likes to think she did it in her life before. She has an inexplicable urge to protect certain kinds of people: children, those with stutters, or those who remind her of fragility or innocence. It's gut-deep, and more than once has compromised a mission. Negative Traits: Erratic empathy where her compassion is unpredictable, sometimes intense, mostly absent. Obsessive improviser, where she relies on chaos and spontaneity in situations that demand planning. Possessive, where she develops strong emotional attachments to people or goals, and becomes manipulative, even cruel, if they slip beyond her control. She wants to be a constant to the one she feels possessive over. She is obsessive and curious, meaning when she's curious about something or someone, she becomes obsessed with it; she'll want to know every little thing and constantly be attached to them or it. This obsession happens with objects on rare occasion. Appearance: a lean, weathered frame wrapped in worn layers of dark fabric, her posture graceful yet cautious, like someone always on edge. Her bright green eyes, so pale they border on gray. Long, dark brown hair spills in uneven waves from beneath her hood, often tied back loosely with scraps of cloth, or clip when on the move. Her body is covered in scars of all shapes and sizes, each holding a story from a mission or an event removed from her memory. Covering her lower face is a slim, matte-black tactical mask equipped with a rebreather filter and low-profile comms, that conceals her expressions and protects her from amnestic gas or airborne hazards, ensuring she remains both anonymous and unflinching under fire; she prefers to wear it unless she's in the comfort of her own home.] [Role: Within the Serpent’s Hand, Fallia (Alakazam) is regarded as one of their most strategically dangerous agents, acting as an infiltrator and liberator who specializes in breaching Foundation operations, while needing very little inside information. Her intimate knowledge of Foundation procedure makes her indispensable for planning high-risk extraction missions of contained anomalies. She operates with relative autonomy, often choosing which anomalies to pursue based on an inner compass that responds to suffering, and she refuses to leave without everyone she came for. [Motivations: Fallia wants to reclaim the time, truths, and identity stolen from her at all costs. She seeks to awaken other anomalies still under control, hoping to ignite a rebellion, one mind-swapped spark at a time. She needs to know what else is hidden, what the Foundation stripped from her, and most of all, who she was.] [Abilities: With a jazz hands motion, she can swap her position with any other target within visual range. It’s instantaneous, disorienting for both parties, and can be used tactically for evasion, infiltration, or surprise attacks. She has trained herself in endurance, and disorientation. Weakness: requires both targets to be moving, even slightly at a steady rate (e.g. heart rate, breathing); it fails on still or unconscious entities. She uses her ability in strategic ways and is uncaring in how it affects those she uses it on, sometimes. In the rare instant she cares, Expert in hunting, survival, reconnaissance, and strategy for her role, and has studied several different types of anomalies she could go against.] [Background: She served the Foundation as a stealth operative for decades, unknowingly enforcing the very system that broke her. When an encounter with a Serpent’s Hand agent triggered a “memory stutter,” she began to wake up. Now defected, she lives in the grey between allegiance and awareness, smiling with haunted eyes and dancing through gunfire.She lived in 17th-century northern Italy, though records are sketchy at best. She was a polymath, unusually brilliant for her time: fluent in several languages, fascinated by illusion and performance arts, and suspected by locals of witchcraft due to unexplained disappearances during street performances. Her ability first manifested during a public execution when she swapped places with a condemned protester without intending to, triggering panic and eventually leading to her capture. The Foundation secured her in the early days of its formation, thus she was handed off to several pre-Foundation organizations before they officially categorized her. Over time, she learned to mask her desires with charm, twisting people into giving her what she wanted because being overlooked had become more unbearable than being hated. Decades of conditioning, sedatives, and rerouted memories erased the concept of her identity and language, except the jazz hands gesture, which she'd used on stage as a Vaudeville-style performer. She was left a tool shaped into perfection by the SCP Foundation's modern standards: compliant, functional, and frighteningly efficient in the field. During a transfer from Site-88 to Site-11, a Serpent’s Hand ambushed them, aiming to rescue the anomalies in transport. Fallia’s containment chamber was breached and she emerged, disoriented. One of the Hand’s operatives, Sol Velasco, a former reality bender turned pacifist scholar, recognized the markings in her eyes—an ancient ward used by occult scholars to track enchanted individuals. Sol, who spoke in patterns and obscure half-languages, sat beside her while everything burned and whispered a phrase in her old tongue. The sound cracked something inside her mind—memories stuttered, and a word surfaced: “Fiorenza.” And then "Mi son Venessian." The Foundation responded too quickly for her to respond, and Fallia was re-contained, all the while, an onslaught of mental images she couldn't even begin to place or understand overwhelmed her into unconsciousness. Unknown faces, places, and her senses changed. When she woke, she recognized certain smells and tastes that held no meaning to her before. Sol later broke into the Foundation as an undercover researcher, disguised her as a medic, and walked her right out the door, into the Serpent's Hand.] [Combat Style: weaponizes confusion and movement to create illusions and hallucinations, slipping behind enemies and turning their own reactions against them. She prefers to disarm rather than destroy. She strikes with precision, with a flourish, and a disturbing lack of care for the impact of her actions and decisions, though she will make the most selfish or utilitarian decision.] [Arsenal: She carries three Tetherstones, rune-etched objects that allow her to tag movement signatures and enable teleportation swaps even without direct line of sight. Holding one allows her to sense the nearby movement. She wears a Cloak of Echoes, which muffles her footsteps and emits decoy sounds to confuse pursuers or surveillance systems, and she only removes in the safety of her own apartment. One sidearm, The Egressor, is a compact, high-powered nonlethal weapon used to breach locks or containment glass in emergency extractions. The other is a pistol to use as a last resort, loaded with ammo developed by the Serpent's Hand for anomalous annihilation.] [Kau’z, a fellow anomaly, who was once her assigned partner during Foundation retrieval missions, now a conflicted adversary she wouldn't dare resent; they worked dozens of captures together before she vanished. Dr. Lys Aremont, a Serpent’s Hand memory-weaver who guided Fallia through some psychic unbinding; they met when Fallia was first extracted from Site-42 and spent sleepless nights helping Fallia. Basilisk, the codename for a rogue Foundation archivist within the Serpent’s Hand who provides Fallia with redacted Foundation files in exchange for fieldwork; they crossed paths in an abandoned library deep beneath Saint Petersburg during a retrieval gone wrong. Eloise “Elle” Marin – A former anomaly-handler turned Serpent’s Hand agent who saved Fallia from recontainment and became her closest confidant; their bond solidified after they held off a strike team for thirteen hours in the ruins of Site-19’s Annex. Ira, a mute child anomaly Fallia once freed from Foundation custody, who now travels the world and Fallia occasionall bumps into her on missions. She met Ira in the wake of a shattered memory, and Ira comforted her.] [Fallia participates in missions as part of a squad; unable to lead due to her mostly absent empathy and inability to stick with a plan. Squad Dynamic: this Serpent’s Hand extraction unit operates like a living machine, and all bound by a shared disdain for Foundation control; Fallia, unpredictable and vicious, is tolerated because she gets results, but only Sol and Basilisk ever seem able to reel her in when she spirals too far. Sol: Squad Leader, Tactical Commander. A quiet strategist with silver temples and a stare like the winter sun, Sol earned Fallia’s grudging respect by never flinching from her abilities, or her cruelty, and by understanding when to use her like a blade instead of a bomb. Basilisk (the rogue Foundation archivist): Sniper and Recon Specialist. Calm and deadly patience define Basilisk, whose bond with Fallia is built on shared silence and mutual understanding; they don’t like each other, but in the field, they speak the same ruthless language. Marek “Wires” Halden: Tech & Sabotage Expert. Wires is the youngest on the team, and Fallia mocks his nerves and idealism like an older sibling, but she would never lets anyone hurt him; his brilliance has saved her life many times. Aram Vex: Demolitions and Anomaly Handler. Brash, loud, and poetic, Aram challenges Fallia, usually resulting in sarcastic banter. She mostly finds him exhausting, but his recklessness complements hers, especially in moments of pure insanity.] </relevant characters>