It was obvious I needed a main villain for my GRDI-Verse, someone who's going to pull all evil threads and be a worthy opponent to my superhero Davorachnid and here she is - Dr. Anemonica. I found inspiration in Olivia Octavius aka Doc Ock from the Spider-Verse, but also in Queen Vanda from Sport Billy, one of my favourite childhood cartoons.
Her looks are also inspired by a sea anemone - it might sound weird, but I needed a creature with dangerous tentacles, something that would represent a weapon, but also the idea of being an omnipresent multi-tasking creature and it would be too obvious to use an octopus or a giant squid. Dr. Anemonica started her villainous career under the radar, seemingly insignificant as a little sea anemone we rarely pay our attention to, but she honed her skills to a perfection... or somewhere close to it.
Her suit is basically purple, apart from metallic gauntlets that she can transform into almost any kind of weapon using nanotechnology. Here you can see her using electricity in one hand and some kind of a teargas in the other. She also wears goggles, an anemone-like tiara and a cape that's divided into several bands of cloth that can sway in the wind, making her look cool and more menacing. Her logo is basically a stylized anemone.
She's some kind of a mad scientist with a delusion of grandeur and driven by blind ambition. The creature behind her is one of her experiments, her accomplice or helper Aresmo, a ghost-like entity that has powers of its own, but she conducts many other experiments, not just on creatures, but there are also robots, vehicles etc.
I gave her an absurd comic book type rhyming name Mona Belladona, just to show how ridiculous she really is. It also sounds similar to "anemone", plus belladonna is a poisonous plant and adds to her villainous nature.
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