Asterisk

Appearance
Asterisk is portrayed as a white-furred cat with bands of color around her ears, arms, and tail. Her ears DO have insides, but are allegedly covered by a thin layer of skin due to a birth defect. This causes her hearing to be slightly muffled, not to a notable degree however. A similar defect happened with the colored bands on her legs and abdomen, causing long scars to form where the bands should be. The bands seem to be able to change color at will, and can even shine a light concentrated enough to cut through various steels. This only happens when Asterisk feels intense emotions. The party hats on Asterisk's two-tipped tail are actually placed over two titanium cubes with vantablack-coated interior to stop the concentrated light beams from injuring anyone or causing any damage. Asterisk has resorted to covering the scars and industrial looking cubes with clothes and accessories.

Personality
Asterisk is a good-intentioned yet occasionally temperate troublemaker. When she does occasionally pull a prank or two she doesn't intend for it to hurt anybody. It's a bit of a disruption but it isn't causing any real harm.

Past
Asterisk is the only one out of her friends to actually have real 'superpowers' besides I, who is Echo in disguise. Asterisk is a gene-spliced bioluminescent cat that was created to research potentially ineffective splicing technology left behind by humans. As was expected the test did not work to it's full potential (hence the birth defects), but the corporation behind the experiment couldn't let Asterisk go due to fear of public safety. Even going as far as placing titanium cubes on the tips of her tail to hinder her abilities. They planned to keep Asterisk in captivity for the entirety of her life as killing a creature with an intelligent mind would be unethical. They made it quite clear what they planned to do, and this enraged Asterisk. The event that followed is referred to as "The Beacon" by the press. In a fit of mind-bending rage, Asterisk unwillingly let out a beam of highly concentrated light 300 meters into the air. The beam allegedly killed the entire workforce centered around the project, and destroyed all meaningful recorded data as well. The exertion of nearly all her energy almost left Asterisk dead. Instead, she fell into a comatose state and was cared for by Echo for a year and a half. Echo was careful to leave the titanium cubes on, as she was aware what Asterisk was capable of. The day that Asterisk seemed to have recovered Echo was already gone. Asterisk is seemingly still unaware of who cared for her during this time. In the months after recovering Asterisk pursued a life of her own, developing a love for harajuku fashion. Over the course of a year she built friendships with two other people (her currently unnamed friends.). She later meets I, who is Echo going undercover obviously.

Abilities

 * Able to change the color of the colored bands around her arms, ears, and tail.
 * Can (uncontrollably) concentrate incredibly bright light beams into lasers for combat.
 * Will exert a blinding light when feeling strongly.

Trivia

 * Asterisk is allegedly based off of Tailmon from the anime Digimon Adventures.
 * Asterisk is bisexual.
 * Asterisk adopted the name Asterisk as her original name as a research project was the punctuation mark of the same name.
 * Asterisk's backstory about being an experiment gone wrong and murdering the scientists who conducted the experiment may be a homage to characters like Mewtwo (pokemon franchise).
 * Asterisk's whole design was created when Skdoobedede made a really really off model drawing of Eve that kinda looked like a cat.
 * Asterisk's voiceclaim is the utauloid Defoko. Do with this information what you will.
 * Asterisk is the character from the unnamed project that has the most different inspirations behind their design.
 * Asterisk is Koma's favorite character. Hi koma :)