Thoughts On Goria #4: Mimic and Love Triangles

Where I last left off in my last TOG entry was a hint that Goria would have a future love triangle between Bonnie Carson, whose skin is extremely thin, but has impenetrable muscle, and Mina Ross, who was thought dead, but is now the Infected "Chronophage," who can absorb liquid from a person, virtually aging them. I left off with kind of a hint that not even I knew who he would end up with. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that neither would work.

Yes, in his future, Goria has at least on child, a daughter named Charla, who has a similar ability to his, except individual strands of muscle are used as tendrils, the can pierce objects for a better grip, and they're twice as strong as his skin tendrils. I figured that in order for her ability to work, she'd need two parents who are "Flesh Infected," seeing as the DNA alteration is embedded into the person's genetic structure. Chronophage is a "Liquid Infected," meaning this wouldn't work. Also, her ability would more than likely consume the child before birth.

Bonnie, on the other hand, has a different problem. Her muscle is pretty much a malleable but tough material. Certain muscles in her body would hinder the growth of a child, or crush it. On top of this, as much as I like Bonnie's character, she isn't a good match for Goria. He's a leader type that takes on his failures, and feels he needs to protect someone or something. Bonnie doesn't need protection because she pretty much cannot die from any outside means.

So, back to the drawing board for me. I couldn't figure out what ability a Flesh Infected could have that isn't a repeat of another character, when Patty hit me with a clever idea. Flesh Infection goes deep into the soft tissue of the human body, including organs. What is there was a character who could change her finger prints, and retina make-up to "disguise" herself as someone else to get into high security areas? If she can do this, she may also be able to form makeshift weapons as well, but cannot change her entire appearance. Thus, the concept for Mimic was born.

I only have one more issue. I try to use a reference for every character just to get a natural feel of how they'd look. Unfortunately, for Mimic, I have two possible candidates, and I don't know which one would work better.

The first one has a face I really like, and has a body that looks like she could hold her own in a fight, if she isn't distracting anyone first. While she's attractive, there seems to be more to her than that, especially when she has a feature I've used on another character, Jillian Dyer: her mouth never seems to completely close. For some reason, I like that, it gives a more human quality to the character. At the same time, I'm worried that she's too attractive to be taken seriously as a fighter and a potential romance for a character who uses his skin as a grappling device, even if she's Infected, herself.

The second one seems more reasonable in that case. Unfortunately, due to her smaller frame, she doesn't seem like a possible fighter. Even worse, in other pictures I've found of her, she is skinny, but her bust is fairly big for her size, while model A has some pretty good proportions for her size. Despite this, model B's face (the more hometown girl look) seems to be a better fit for realism.

So, in a move I rarely do, what do you, the readers, think? A or B? Or none? All I ask is that you explain in intelligent terms (i.e. not "She's hot!!!!11!!! LOL!!!1!).