Editing Sveta Karelia (section)

==Appearance==
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Sveta is little more than an almost impossibly pale face,<ref name="2.7"/> having no ears or scalp,<ref name="5.12">From the other end of the fight, Sveta had Valefor, the wig stuffed in his mouth and tied in place with lengths of hair knotted together.  Her head seemed slim without ears or hair to bulk it out.  She looked more intense in expression and demeanor, her ‘scalp’, the sides of her head and her neck formed of the muscle-like gatherings of tendrils.  Everything was bound down firm with the metal rings, only the shortest of tendrils curling up and out, an inch or two long, each. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/03/shadow-5-12/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.12]]</ref> but with long, pencil-thin, black coiling tendrils<ref>She moved her hair, showing the edge of her face, the mass of pencil-thin black tendrils behind it. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/20/shade-4-7/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.7]]</ref> streaming around like hair.<ref name="18.z e1">Like a dozen frog’s tongues, tendrils snapped across the length of the room to the ‘bed’, encircling it. In another second, as though each tendril were elastic bands stretched to their limits, Sveta had shifted there, her tendrils gripping the post as she hung from it. Jessica was free.<br/><br/>Sveta was little more than a very pale face with thin tendrils streaming around it like hair. Small organs dangled from the largest of the tendrils that extended from the back of her face. A small symbol marked the girl’s cheekbone: a stylized ‘c’, in black.<br/><br/>It took Sveta a second before she relaxed enough to let the tendrils uncoil from the post. The tendrils settled in the air, in a rough facsimile of where a person’s limbs might be. She’d positioned herself so that the organs could rest on the ‘shelves’ on the post.<br/><br/>“I’m sorry,” Sveta said, eyes downcast.<br/><br/>“I’m fine. I understand,” Jessica soothed. She shifted position, and one tendril snapped out to catch her leg, gripping her around the knee, squeezing and twisting with a strength that could have torn every ligament in her knee and wrenched Jessica’s calf from her upper leg. Sveta flinched, closed her eyes for a second, and the tendril moved back to the post. The suit had held. No damage done. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref> Small organs hang from the largest of the tendrils that extends from the back of her face while a small "C" is tattooed on her cheekbone,<ref name="18.z" /><ref name="27.5e2">He began undoing the little clasps of metal that bound Garotte against his body.  She unfurled, reached out to railings, to edges of metal.<br/><br/>Where the tendrils surrounded the railing, a barrier that might have stopped a speeding car, the metal bent, crushed tight.<br/><br/>The tendrils continued to find their way to things to grip.  There were more of them than I’d thought.<br/><br/>One tendril seized my claw, faster than I could react.  Just as fast, it pulled back, found something else to hold.<br/><br/>She and Weld both stopped.<br/><br/>I watched as she closed her eyes, drew in a deep breath, and then exhaled.<br/><br/>Weld released her organs, hidden in a space in his broad back, and she was free of him.  She collected herself around the railing, her eyes closed, drawing in deep breaths and then exhaling slowly.  Slowly, the tendrils released, and she stretched out to her full length.<br/><br/>She looked like a fish underwater, a lionfish or jellyfish with dramatic, crazy fins or fronds.  Where they weren’t bound to her surroundings, the fronds fell in line with one another, moved with their own rhythm, a mind of their own, that searched the surroundings. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/24 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.5]]</ref> all her internal organs still exist though in a diminished form.<ref>Confirmed on Discord by WB</ref> She speaks with a quiet slavic accent,<ref>The tendril-girl spoke, her voice harboring a soft Russian accent. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/24 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.5]]</ref> again due to her small sized lungs.<ref name=9.13e1/>

Her tears are black,<ref>Sveta blinked a few times, trying to be angry, but getting teary instead.  The tears were black, welling in the inner corners of her eyes. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/11/black-13-11/ Excerpt] from [[Black 13.11]]</ref> and when Sveta cries too much, her body will begin to shed bile through her tear ducts.<ref>She started to accept, then stopped.  “I’m out of tears and I’m crying bile.  It’s stinging my eyes.  If I get it on your clothes it’ll stink.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/04/23/black-13-7/ Excerpt] from [[Black 13.7]]</ref>
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|-|Prosthetic=
Sveta used an advanced full body ceramic prosthetic with ball-joint articulation and modest AI-augmented mechanization, that she guided with her tentacles from the inside.<ref>“It’s not even tinkertech.  Regular prosthetics and some inventiveness from some really stellar people.  Arms, legs, body, some stuff to keep it upright, some machine learning systems that adapt to meet her partway, and a lot of practice on her part, to operate everything internal.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/23 Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.5]]</ref>

She used her artistic skill to paint it and add her flair to it. Further, she has started wearing a black wig.<ref name="II2.5 e3">She was pale in a way that skin didn’t tend to be, and she had a mane of black hair.  A small black tattoo marked her cheekbone, partially obscured by skin-tone makeup that had streaked in the rain.  For all that she was almost monochrome from the neck up, she was a riot of color from the neck down.  Sveta. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/23 Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.5]]</ref> She has taken to covering up her tattoo with makeup.

Sveta had an armored version,<!-- reinforced with spare pieces?--> and constantly updated art on her civilian body.

Following the destruction of her prosthetic body, Rain made new hand prosthetics for her. While relatively fragile, they were able to transfer sensations. She still was using the old neckpiece to cover up and give shape to her "neck", and painted her prosthetics.<ref>[[Black 13.8]]</ref>

She also started wearing floor long skirts to disguise her movement.
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|-|Later Ward=
Sveta was given a proper human body by [[Mr. Bough]]. She is above average height, being only half-a-head shorter than Victoria. Her tendrils now manifest through her body unzipping layer by layer. The tendrils are thicker and flatter than her previous ones, and have serrated edges.<ref>Ten fingers, ten toes.  Two arms, two legs.  She still wore her wig, because she liked having the longer hair, but there was a scalp beneath.  The stomach that heaved was complete now.  Three procedures over four days, after two days of deliberation. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/18/breaking-14-1/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.1]]</ref><ref>And her power- she reached out, willed it, and her arm unzipped two dozen times between fingertip and elbow, unfurling and extending.  Tendrils reached out, far thicker but flatter, with saw teeth at the edges.  It zipped back up to normal a second later, with only a sharp smack at the back of her hand as one flat tendril was pulled in too fast. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/14/13-z/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 13.z]]</ref> Her inner organs shrivel and hide when exposed. It is not completely clear how her muscle-skeletal system works, since she still can unfurl fully.<ref>She unfurled, her entire body breaking down into tendrils.  Clothes were shed, as was armor. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/15/last-20-6/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.6]]</ref> She no longer cries bile.<ref>Sveta broke the hug.  I watched her wipe at the corner of one eye with a fingernail.  The tears were clear.<br/><br/>In a way, small as it was, I felt worlds better, noting that tiny detail.  No tears of ichor, running down her face like bad mascara. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/04/infrared-19-8/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.8]]</ref>

Sveta continued to use pieces of her old painted shell as her costume armor.<ref name="II14.2body">She pulled off her mask, then pressed it to her stomach.  Skin pulled away in strips, and then fat, muscle, and other structures were their own layers.  All the organs were there, but as necessary parts were pulled away, the organs went still, shriveling, moisture sucked into other surrounding spaces.<br/><br/>The mask was wrapped up  by the strips, then drawn into her stomach.  Strips then fell back into their natural order, with one or two misfires before something tidy was managed.  Only a slight bump suggested the mask’s presence.<br/><br/>Then, more dramatically, she did the same with the remainder of her costume.  The costume was salvaged from her damaged prosthetic body, forming armor that she wore with curling, wavy components to it, all painted either in a dramatic fashion with bright reds, yellows, and oranges, or in deep, cold greens and blues.<br/><br/>It took her some doing, to pull in the armor and wrap herself around it.  There were places it protruded through the skin, but it was set deep enough inside her that that when she pulled her coat out of her bag and pulled it on over everything, her silhouette was normal. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/21/breaking-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.2]]</ref>

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