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Name: Alda Hyde
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Appearance: Alda stands at a moderate 5'5", but weighs a not-so-moderate 108 lbs. As one might expect, she's extremely thin, and some would wonder how she even manages to support herself while standing.
She has long green hair that extends down all the way to her waist, and since her breakdown, tends to allow it to just flow downward. She has matching big green eyes, but they seem slightly less huge now that she's gotten thinner rimmed glasses that actually look like they were made in 20XX, and she's still as good as blind without them. Atop her head often lays a custom made witch's hat, though it remains unadorned aside from a purple band at the base. On the band is her Navi's emblem: a stylized black cauldron with a stirring stick, and emitting some sort of steam or smoke.
A change of tastes has resulted in a change of attire...if what she wears can even constitute attire anymore. The entirety of Alda's torso covering is best described as 'a black strapless bra', except for the fact the space between her breasts remains uncovered. Her lower body clothing is little more than a black thong bikini bottom, though it's helped slightly by a knee long sheer skirt. Over all of this, she wears a black cape with purple lining that extends to her thighs. She wears detached purple sleeves over her arms, and for footwear, she now has purple, open-toed high heels, with approximately one inch heels.
Personality: Alda was once a quiet, reserved woman, but after cracking, she's become more socially outgoing, much less afraid to speak her mind. Unfortunately, she's also gotten a bit more self-centered and short tempered, so she's not quite as empathetic as she was before, perfectly willing to cast curses over perfectly benign issues. Her spirit remains as tough as ever; if anything, it may be even stronger, making her a sort you don't want to cross.
PET Modifications: A dark purple Link PET. It doesn't have much in the way of extra features, but it does have extensive data on various chemicals and herbs.
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Operator 1
Name: Alda Hyde
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Appearance: Alda stands at a moderate 5'5", but weighs a not-so-moderate 108 lbs. As one might expect, she's extremely thin, and some would wonder how she even manages to support herself while standing.
She has long green hair that extends down all the way to her waist. She normally keeps it in a ponytail, due to her profession. She has matching big green eyes, which look even bigger through her almost comically large, thick rimmed glasses that are matched in thickness by the lenses themselves. One look through them would make someone wonder if she was blind without them, and legally, the answer was yes. Which explains why she's almost never seen without them.
Her outfit is rather plain, and is simply a blue blouse with a short black skirt, with a white lab coat on top of it, and black, low-heeled shoes. Both are fairly tight, but she lacks the chest to make it particularly eyecatching.
Personality: Alda is mostly a quiet, reserved woman. There are two known exceptions to this: she loves to discuss anything and everything concerning science, even the branches she knows nothing about, and she's apt to talk with her sister about anything and everything for hours if given half the chance. Though physically frail, her will is surprisingly tough, and anyone that knows her usually just give her anything she requests, or else they would be pestered nonstop until she got her way.
PET Modifications: A dark purple Link PET. It has a special sensor that lets her track and record SmogMan's various gaseous compositions.
Operator 2
Name: Rhonda Hyde
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Appearance: Rhonda, unlike her older sister, looks much more like she went outside as a child, standing at 5'11", and weighing 126 lbs. Despite her healthier appearance, she's still slender, though wide in the right places.
Like her sister, she has waist low hair, though hers is a light purple, nearly lavender color. Her green eyes are much more piercing; if she looks at someone, it almost seems like she's trying to read their heart, even if she otherwise looks half-asleep.
Her outfit somehow manages to be simpler than Alda's, as she simply wears a plain white sundress with pink trim that's prone to fitting rather tightly across the chest, despite being otherwise loose, and often accompanies it with a wide brimmed straw hat with a pink ribbon. Completing the ensemble are pink sandals, and a white and pink parasol that she only uses on occasions where her hat won't get the job done, such as a sudden downpour.
Personality: Rhonda is extremely outgoing, very much a people person. She enjoys people that are the same, and will often try to bring the shy and socially awkward out of their shells, a skill she picked up doing so for her sister. But if she decides that she wants something, she will stop at nothing to obtain it. This had led to jokes among those that know her well that her name is actually a warning to those that might try to stop her from doing, well, anything.
PET Modifications: A simple pink Progress PET. Has no particularly special features.
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History: Alda and Rhonda Hyde were raised in a suburban DenCity neighborhood. Beyond that, the two had very little in common. Alda was her class's valedictorian from her high school class, and a reputation for having unmatched scientific ability. Rhonda's people skills proved to offset her questionable book learning habits, and was voted most popular her senior year. Even though they were sisters, it was surprising to some that they were, in fact, extremely close, each serving as the other's best friend. Both went on to college, where Alda earned her masters in biochemistry, and Rhonda acquired a degree in marketing.
Immediately out of college, Alda found herself gainfully employed at Heart Payne Pharmaceuticals, a well known pharmaceutical company in the area, as a researcher for various drugs. She managed to convince the company to also hire her sister as an advertising specialist. Both did what they could to help the company, believing that it sincerely wished to ease suffering in the world.
One day, however, shortly after being transferred to a group researching pheromones, it occurred to Alda that if a Navi could generate them at will, they could test any and all ideas both quickly and efficiently, as well as save lots of money on research. To that end, she 'borrowed' her sister's NormalNavi, having no Navi of her own, and began to program it to be able to produce virtually anything from its body.
And she succeeded...but not in the way she had hoped. Indeed, the Navi could now produce nearly any gas from its body on a whim, but the pheromones themselves were too complex for her (admittedly somewhat lacking) programming skills. In addition, the gas generation program had severely eroded the Navi's physical form, leaving it as little more than a black sphere with glowing eyes that could spray toxic fumes on virtually anything. While Rhonda was understandably displeased with what had happened to her Navi, she noted that they could still use it for testing various scents, and use the results to make the odor of various medicines more appealing to consumers. Plus, she found her Navi's new form completely adorable. However, the Navi, now known as SmogMan due to his ability to freely form gases from his body, had no desire to be adorable, and manipulated poisonous gases around him into a more intimidating figure.
The two have begun to use SmogMan jointly, with Alda testing various gases he emits, and Rhonda recently pondering using him in various advertisements. Both, however, agree that he should become stronger than he currently is, so lately they've been content to switch off operation in order to achieve this.