Scorpion (Justyne Kujovic)

Early Days
Justyne was born in the town of Kotor, in Montenegro. Her father was of Serbian descent and her mother of Japanese. She grew up in Montenegro as any other child would. Eventually their family grew with the addition of her younger brother. On the outside looking in, they seemed to live a blessed life. Her father brought home plenty of money and they never wanted for anything of a material nature.

Though he was a greedy and unloving sort of man. Justyne never really knew why her mother had married the man, though she'd told her he was once a very nice person and that life had changed him sometime along the way. He had numerous affairs and was rarely home. It was left to Midori to raise the two children and try to make their house seem like a home.

Her mother did her best, and it was pretty damn good. Justyne was popular in her class at school. She was very beautiful, her Eurasian ethinicity was exotic and this made her very desirable. She was an excellent student and courteous in school. Justyne was also a captain and one of the star players on the schools football team. Her boyfriend Radun was the captain of the boys football team as well.

Powers and Abilities
Scorpion was specifically selected after much research as one of several possible subjects that displayed traits desired by evil dude so and so. Not only were her genes favorable for experimentation, but evil so and so also chose her because of the fact that her father would be easily blackmailed. Sometime during her early childhood, evil so and so arranged for her and several other subjects to be injected with his experiments and when the time came to put his plan into action, he gave her father several vials of toxins that would activate the experiment and trigger her mutation.

Her lymphatic system produces a “ludicrous” variety of life-saving chemicals, for example atropine to defend against nerve gas or amyl to overcome blood agents like cyanide. Her sweat glands excrete dimercaprol and chloramine to counteract blistering agents such as mustard gas. Her cell nuclei float in a solution of iodized salt to deflect gamma rays and other radiation. Like activated charcoal, the cilia lining Scorpion's trachea are highly absorptive, neutralizing harmful particles before they reach the lungs. The axillary node in her left armpit is unusually swollen. Toxins seem to be accumulating there, to be released along the arm and hand. Since lymph fluid absorbs the chemicals it fights this is highly dangerous.

Essentially her unique body chemistry makes her immune to most types of poisons and unhealthy chemicals, gases, radiation (in fact she can absorb and possibly gain nutrients from them), and diseases. She's physically gifted since her body's chemistry keeps her in top physical shape regardless of what she ingests.