Alana's always been a shy girl, keeping her head down and her mouth shut as much as possible. In a school full of bullies, that was always just the best course of action--especially when you've been labeled as a 'Teacher's Pet' and an 'easy target.' She has friends, and treasures them dearly, but is simply too shy to try and approach and befriend others. Her game plan? Just talk to as few people as possible and survive till graduation.

After an incident with an asteroid where she got superpowers, she started discovering what all she was fully capable of. She's growing into a more confident version of herself, more willing to speak up and speak out... except she's still incredibly shy.

A shy, quiet teacher's pet in the beginning--as she learns to control and strengthen her abilities, she in turn strengthens herself. She loves making friends, if she can muster the courage to talk to others. Once she befriends you, though, she'll defend you fiercely--to the best of her abilities, anyhow. And she's more than open to goofing off with those she trusts.

Plant Manipulation

Can summon vines and/or roots from the ground that can then become barriers to block attacks, grow large knife-sharp thorns to be used against enemies, create nets and vices that trap enemies/tie things shut. As a last resort, she can sort of Doc Ock herself with vines growing directly out of her back to let her move around with her arms and legs free--however, it's incredibly painful for her, so it's extremely last resort. She can use explosive pine cones as essentially a frag grenade, either creating one with her powers or using one she has on-hand. She can move trees and bushes, and grow trees, flowers and mushrooms - including giant ones. Different plants have different effects.

• Tulip - Can grow a giant tulip to hide in and slowly draw energy from. The petals are stronger than vine barriers. Often used to seal herself someplace secure to think of a plan in dire situations.
• Lily Pad/Lotus Flowers - Can grow a giant lily pad/lotus if needing solace on or near a body of water. Lotus flowers don't necessarily provide as much shielding as tulips, but the layers of petals can be more difficult to aim attacks through. The lily pad part is thick as hell. Hard to destroy unless Alana wills it away intentionally. She and the team could dive into the water and hide under a lily pad and survive practically anything that isn't an explosive missile.
• Roses - Can make rose bushes that release a perfume that makes people sleepy/more suggestive to her commands. Rarely uses unless necessary... or under mind control herself.
• Dandelion - Can make a giant dandelion--grabbing onto the seeds before they blow away allows for quick air getaway from a situation. Not the fastest mode of transportation, but an option.
• Daisy - Can make a giant daisy to act as a landing pad if she's falling from a great height. Or just to lay on to get an up-high view.
• Amanita Mushroom - Can create a giant amanita mushroom with bouncy tops to get up high and bounce around on. A fairy ring of them can be extremely useful to surround a monster with continuous bouncy high vantage points.
• Spore Mushrooms - Can make large mushrooms that release spores that make those who breathe them in more willing to follow commands the more they breathe in. Once again, rarely used willingly.

Dying plants revivify slowly in her presence--or faster, with intention. When she's used her abilities a lot, or when she wills it so, flowers will bloom where she steps. Using this ability is more difficult in cold environments, and easier in warm sunny environments with lots of plantlife around.

Shapeshifting

Can shapeshift into any animal, real or 'fictional'--there's been plenty of times where she's shifted into an animal that was believed to be fictional (i.e. dragons, giant birds, sphinxes, etc) only to later discover they're not. This power has one caveat; they always have at least some green and/or pink on them. The larger the animal, the more obvious the green and pink is. (Tigers are pink with green stripes, dragons are green with a giant pink gem on her forehead and a pink shimmer in her scales, a mouse is gray with a pink marking on its forehead, a blue jay has green speckles in its feathers and a pink stripe down the beak, a cat is typically calico with green eyes and a VERY pink nose). Can't shapeshift into other people. If she shapeshifts, any injuries she has transfer over--injuring her shoulder/shoulder area would still be injured in any other form she shifts into, scaled up or down according to the animal. Getting injured too badly while in animal form can shock her into her human form.

• The larger the animal she shifts into, the more lightheaded and emotionally volatile she is afterwards. Tigers, wolves, etc. are fine--pterodactlys and dragons are where she starts to feel funny, being lightheaded and giggly for up to ten minutes on average after shifting back.

Healing

Can heal herself of injuries, though it takes time. Regarding others, with physical contact, physical wounds will start healing, usually fully healed within minutes. No scars are left most times. She cannot heal severed pieces without having the other half, and cannot heal sicknesses, blindness, birth defects, or already-healed over wounds. Can heal poisons from others, but not from herself. Occasionally, if it's a drastic injury, she'll summon vines to wrap around the target, to strengthen her healing powers' affect/contact range.

Spellcasting

A very minor skill, she has been slowly but surely learning spells with Ken's help.

Photosynthesis

Excessively minor, she's slower to get tired/hungry when it's sunny outside.

Side Effects

If she uses her powers too much, she'll feel extremely cold and achy. Shapeshifting into larger forms makes her light headed and emotionally volatile for around 10 minutes after shifting back. If she stays shifted in a specific form too long (ie, 45 minutes or more) she'll have some physical traits of the animal upon initially shifting back for around an hour or two (cold bloodedness, patches of scales, patches of fur, catlike eyes, etc). She has an easier time using her powers in warm, sunny environments with lots of plantlie around, and a more difficult time using them in colder environments.

Even from a young age, Alana was picked on by her peers. Fortunately, she's had a few friends since the beginning--Brian, who's been her next door neighbor as long as she could remember, and Shane, who she met on the very first day of Kindergarten. She also befriended Will, and together the handful of them did their best to navigate through the school years, meeting more people together and slowly expanding their friend group.

In the third grade, she met Maddi, who eventually moved in to her home and became part of the family. Though she eventually moved to her own treehouse, the two have remained extremely close friends throughout the years--especially since they still go to the same school.

Late Elementary School/Middle School

Unfortunately, not everyone was a big fan of Maddi staying at her house. Nasty rumos about Maddi started circulating around the school and the friend group--they were honestly a bit crazy, and hard to believe, especially since they were actively living together. If half of those things were true, she would have noticed by now. But when rumors started circulating about her? Using details of her life that very few people would've known? She'll admit, she got a bit bitter--until she realized that Will was acting weird ever since the rumors started circulating. After confronting him, he confessed to it and promised to stop, and she thought it was all settled. Of course, she wasn't so lucky.

When she started expanding her friend group--meeting Shannon and Logan and a few others? Wil started getting... clingy. Uncomfortably clingy. She tried to deal with it, to keep the peace and avoid losing a friend, but when he started being racist and sexist alongside it Alana started trying to make her exit. Then he... admitted to having a crush on her? She was honest with him--she just didn't feel the same way. He didn't like that answer, and the friend group damn near imploded with the drama that ensued--Will being clingy but trying to chase everyone else away from Alana, all while she just tried to keep her friends and keep letting Will down gently. Then not so gently. He wasn't getting the message!

Fortunately, with the support of her friends, the group managed to stick together for the most part--just without Will--and they even made a few new friends, with CJ and Taylor! Together, they were ready to weather the coming storm of high school--bullies were still a problem, now stacked with Will's harassment, but long as they stuck together, they could face it all! Right?

High School

High school wasn't going as anyone expected. A few weeks into freshman year, after the semicentennial meteor shower over Kihiro City, she found a meteorite in her front yard. When she touched it, she ended up with superpowers?! On top of that, they met a new kid at school--Ken--who ended up taking the whole 'new superpowers' thing in stride and convinced them to become a team of heroes! Well, okay, in his case, the superpowers weren't new, but it took them awhile to figure that out. Together, they were Disillusions--fighting monsters left and right and facing off against supervillains, their lives had really become something out of the movies!

Of course, there's the stuff they don't show in the movies. All this fighting and adventure really takes its toll--they're just kids, yet they've had to deal with hostage situations and being kidnapped and the weight of the city's expectations on their shoulders, day in and day out. She understands why her parents don't really support her in this--she isn't even sure if she supports herself in this--but she wishes she had some kind of support outside of the team. Not to mention, the nightmares she's been having--failing her team, being under mind control, reality itself not even being real... she's lucky she's got good shoulders to lean on, but she doesn't want to weigh them down too much--if she's feeling this heavy, how do the others feel?

Either way, with her friends by her side, she can get through anything.