Silkworm

Silkworm is a youthful member of the Chinatown Metas, with the power to produce silken threads.

Description
Silworm is an exremely pretty (gorgeous, though in a youthful way) Chinese girl. Unlike the functional black of most of the Chinatown Metas, her costume is always bright and stylish and never the same twice.

Background
''Note: this information is available to the heroes of Colonial Bay, who had it from the Chinese government, but is not publicly known. The general populace believes Silkworm to have been a succession of young metas, not a single person.''

If you say you were bitten by a radioactive silkworm, people laugh. But it's not funny when the silkworm bites your leg right off. The giant silkworm seems to have been mutated by a nuclear leak that resulted from the 2032 quake. Silkworm would have died if a hero hadn't pulled her away, and even so the surgeons weren't sure she'd pull through.

The something odd happened - somehow she wove a cocoon about herself. When she emerged a few weeks later she was a changed woman. Well, for starters, not a woman strictly - though she was 28 when bitten she emerged as a very pretty teenager. Moreover she has powers of spinning silken threads.

When the policy of compulsory military service for metas was brought in shortly afterwards, she was among the first of the draftees. But she soon used her beauty and charm to be assigned to cushy jobs with the top brass - well, in truth, she was usually the mistress of one or another, but the lifestyle suited her well enough.

Powers
Silkworm's body can produce silk (and similar fibres); she also has some low-powered but incredibly controlled telekinetic control over fibres, allowing her to reweave them in moments. She can weave and glide on silken wings.

Her body is in a loop as an adolescent: whenever she approaches maturity she weaves another cocoon and emerges a few years younger, of slightly different appearance, and with increased powers. This is not public knowledge.

Personality
Silkworm isn't really immature. In fact, there's a thoughtful, philosophical type deep down - kindly and peaceful. She's glad her powers can't directly harm people: she dislikes hurting people, much less killing them.

However, she's in a hormonal permanently-youthful body, which combined with her natural joie de vivre makes her seem like her physical age much of the time. She generally comes across as a bubbly teenager.

Relations
Silkworm is closest to Geeforce of the Chinatown Metas, though in a funny double role of "mother" and best friend. She is oblivious to Pickup's romantic interest in her. She appears to have little interest in working for Tim Lee, though she hasn't actively rebelled. Through her friendship with Pickup and Geeforce she has been drawn into the more heroic subgroup of the Chinatown Metas.

History
Silkworm escaped to Colonial Bay from he Siege of Beijing with the other Chinatown Metas. Just recently she has been seen acting as a hero in Chinatown on occasion, though she works for Tim Lee as well.