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blood pact.
Some would call her a story, others a deity; to the Institute, she's an Unauthorized Passenger. Raíz is what she calls herself, and she's a multidimensional entity that pops over to our reality every now and then to see how she can mess with its fabric. It's a bit like checking on an ant farm, except she can talk like the ants, look like them, and then tell them to go poke holes and/or survive against another multidimensional being's magnifying glass in the sun.

It's simple — she finds someone with big dreams and makes it possible for them at the end of a hundred year blood pact. Work for her in that time, and once it's up, that great impossible thing you wished for will be all yours! We could give you examples, but the people who get into these blood pacts proceed to forget what they asked for, and won't remember until time's up. You're just going to have to trust her — and your past self.

Whatever age you're at when you agree to make the pact, that's where you're staying for the duration of the contract. Temporary agelessness can be prolonged through 'infractions', which range from breaking rules or just doing something that makes Raíz (semi-affectionately and semi-sarcastically called 'Mom') sad, or immediately revoked if she thinks you really fucked up. If revoked, your body instantly matches your chronological age, and chances are it'll be extremely painful or extremely deadly.

The people she signs into her little group get new names and neat super powers so facilitate fulfilling their 'missions'. What are these missions? Whatever she feels like sending you off to do, which can be mundane or battling monsters, if not something grander, possibly world-ending. There's something for everyone, but there's also a lot of downtime. That's why there's a nice boarding school by and for the obscenely rich style house where they can live, train and bicker together. You don't have to, but if Mom is in town from reality-hopping and wants to gather all her kids for dinner, you better show up and have fun. It's another infraction if you don't, and she'll just show up wherever you are and bring you over, be it from down the street or on the other side of the world.

Raíz likes to think of herself as a cool benefactor, that she's nice and fun, but the power dynamic is demonstrably horrendous and condescending, not least of all because she assigns her subjects new names and thought it'd be appropriate if they were always based on animals. (Using your real name makes her sad, by the way. You know what that means by now.)

The Institute, which specializes in capturing, researching and controlling all kinds of anomalies they consider a threat to humanity, though they'd prefer to use them as weapons instead. They've been trying to catch Raíz and her subjects for a while; sometimes they succeed with the latter, but she eventually shows up and yoinks her pets from their cells to sit them down at the dinner table again, so it all works out.

queen snake.
I'm sorry I keep being bad at this but GENERAL NOTES: Born to a crime family, has an older brother who's been looking out for him for most of his life! Queen was always in a one-sided sibling competition, which was hilarious. Their mother died when they were pretty young; Queen's father remarried since, had more kids, and had even more kids outside of his second marriage. Their dad welcomed all of them into his life (and fortune), to his first two sons' irritation, and they made sure they let all their half-siblings know who was at the top of the food chain (very cringe of them).

Had a lisp, which was one of the many things his father decided to correct about his second son when he sent him to a speech therapist. (First son just did whatever he wanted, so Queen ended up getting the brunt of the child molded to be everything the parent wanted him to be.) Grew up loving motorbikes and horseback riding; had lessons in rifle shooting, dreamed of qualifying for the Olympics with the latter but his father was determined to make him a lawyer, so off to law school he went.

Got engaged to his boyfriend while he was getting his degree, had an unfortunate horseback riding incident that landed him in the hospital for a long time and physical therapy for an even longer time. It put a lot in his life on pause and kinda made him a depressed asshole. It didn't help that his fiancé called off the wedding.

Raíz approached him a few years later and named him Queen Snake. It isn't hard to guess what he's getting in return for the contract — he's fully mobile, strong, and can finally go back to his favorite hobbies. Had a spidermanpointing.jpg moment when he found out his brother was also working for Raíz with the codename King Cobra. Yep, she gave the brothers matching names.

basic info.

age. 30
height. 6'4" (1.93m)
gender. he/him (cis)
played by. bill skarsgard

sexual preference. pansexual
hair color. brown
eye color. blue
zodiac sign. watch this space

powers.
REPLICATION. - Can alter the structure/etc. of an object to look like something else entirely. Think turning wood into metal and vice-versa.

DUPLICATION. - This includes being able to make a perfect duplicate of an object, basically indistinguishable from the original.

RAPID GROWTH. - If it's alive, he can mess with it to grow faster. This can go from growing trees to healing wounds, but as with everything else, he can overdo it. A lot of body horror happens if he overdoes the healing part.

ETC.
The Institute. - A shady organization™ that had its hand in many things. They're largely responsible for the Unauthorized Passengers' breach into our world. Among other things, they also bring in human 'anomalies' to study and control them by making use of their powers. Corrupt governments, unethical experiments, research into the occult, kidnapping and brainwashing people: you name it, they've done it.

Unauthorized Passengers. - Otherworldly beings that have found their way to our dimension, be it through entropy or the Institute's experiments. Sometimes a combination of both. Agrigorid, Baptiste, Gene, Djibirhachvorsna and So, in addition to Raíz, are examples of Unauthorized Passengers.