Skittles

A new team of characters for Freedom Flyers, the future spin-off Astronautical!

One of the four sisters that make up the

Eco Rangers!

A team of mutants that dedicate themselves to saving the environment from man-made and natural disasters, from wildfires to oil spills, anything that threatens mother earth you can expect the gals to be on the scene working from the shadows.

Skittles is the oldest sister in the group, and the most serious. While the other girls are all generally carefree and laid-back Skittles takes their missions extremely seriously. She's a fusion with a Water Strider, and like them has the ability to traverse as well as walk and run on bodies of water. Her hands and feet post-mutation have turned into suction cups that both refract the water but also let her crawl on almost any surface, they have extremely high suction power. Her joints are all pivoted and can rotate 360 degrees, she's extremely flexible. Despite appearances, Skittles is actually a horrible swimmer!! Her body is now very poorly designed for strokes and quickly sinks. Thankfully she's buoyant now thanks to her hands and feet so never has to really worry about that as long as she maintains balance.

The designated firefighter of the team, taking them out is her specialty whether they be wildfires or manmade ones. She carries a hydro-pack on her back that sports two high pressure fire hoses, though the pack has a limited capacity due to it being mobile and not grounded to a source it isn't much of a problem, she can run so quickly that rushing to water sources is an easy endeavor for her when needing to refill. She very rarely takes her pack off, not only because she likes to always be prepared for fires but because she's gotten so accustomed to it being there that it's an integral part of her locomotion now. She has a very high jumping power but combined with a blast from the hoses makes her shoot like a rocket, she also can increase her running speed two-fold with the jets behind her.

She absolutely despises smoking. Her sister Liliana is a pothead but always has to smoke in secret because if Skittles catches her lighting up she chases her down and blasts her face repeatedly with the fire hoses. The rest of the sisters are almost always chilled out but Skittles refuses to ever even so much as drink, she refuses to take breaks because she says an emergency could strike at any time and they must always be ready!!... She is definitely alone in that thinking. Her favorite food are noodles, and she is the only one of the girls that is not a vegetarian or vegan. When she is coerced into taking a break from duties she likes to tend to Fay's garden. She has a burning hatred for Mel and considers her enemy number one. Mel's wanton usage of her giant space laser has caused so many fires in the past that she's sick of having to clean up her messes and vows to wash the brattiness off her with her hoses if she ever catches her.
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SPEEDPAINT

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