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Monts has an extraterrestrial creature in her body that's lived in her since she was a child. It is a creature of unknown origins and it acts out of self-preservation using her as a vessel of sorts. Normally, it rests on the back of her neck, looking like a floral tattoo. Her monster reacts to danger and threats by spreading itself throughout Monts like a living membrane and alters her appearance and behavior to varying degrees.

Partial take over is just the creature spreading itself throughout different parts of her body, reacting to an immediate danger. Her base personality and sense of self is still intact.

100% takeover mode is the creature completely covers her body and Monts displays more aggression, cryptic eldritch verbiage, and some bloodlust. This form is rarely seen unless Monts is in a near-death state or is facing an emergency situation that she can't overcome normally.

Healing Factor: As part of its self-preservation instinct, the creature has made Monts have a body that is nigh unkillable. Minor cuts, scrapes, burns, and bruises fade away near-instantly. Broken limbs and other physical injuries are restored within minutes and even bullet wounds seal themselves up. Based on experience, even a broken neck and spine can be restored thanks to her creature so it's confirmed that for the most part, she cannot truly die by some conventional means. Injury to the brain may disable her for a while, but that can also heal given time.

Pain Insensitivity: Similar to a numbing agent, Monts' monster also causes her to feel little to no pain. She barely notices if she's gotten hurt due to her healing factor and even when injured heavily she only vaguely registers that her body is non-functioning for that period of time. It takes extreme and repetitive actions to make her aware of pain. Her sense of touch is affected to a lesser degree so she's still aware of sensations such as coldness and heat or moisture and dryness and other textures. Monts can also tell if she's being touched by something or someone else.

Enhanced Strength and Speed: Monts is fast and agile enough to outrun a speeding car or dodge bullets making her particularly tricky to hit. Her strength is enough to cause small craters in walls or the ground if she puts her fist into those, but she can't say, lift a building like Superman. But when she hits, she hits hard and could break walls and tear apart limbs with little effort.

Heightened Sixth Sense: The creature is particularly sensitive and alerts Monts of magic, psychic, and other supernatural auras. She can perceive things that aren't normal to the human eye, but this tends to not work if the person or object intentionally hides their aura. She can't really distinguish between auras and just categorizes things as "normal" to "not normal" and "strong" to "weak."

While Monts refers to the alien as a separate entity, in truth they are just one being; an oddity from the beyond fused with a human resulting in a being using the name Marianna "Monts" wearing a human shell and inhabiting her mind even if she struggles to come to terms with it. Although it has yet to be noticeable, Monts has an inkling that she will not age due to the creature's healing abilities. When the extraterrestrial took to her body, upon waking up, the two merged into a new personality. This is what causes the conflict between her and her loved ones as she grew up due to this uneven persona that lashed out. So while Monts ended up being a genuinely laidback and nice person of sorts, in certain situations such as extreme danger, new characteristics emerge as a reaction to the endangerment. The reason why she refers to it as a separate entity is due to her self-frustration and dislike of herself. She is a singular person whose internal struggle is coming to terms with her existence and the fact that the monstrous qualities are part of who she is as a whole.

It is worth noting that Monts is not a skillful fighter. She leans more on the side of a berserker especially when her creature completely takes over her body. One simply just has to be creative in able to stop Monts in her tracks because otherwise, she will just keep getting back up.

And while this is mundane, it's worth noting that Monts is a barista so she knows how to make a large variety of cafe drinks. Nifty.