Character from Worm by Wildbow
Echidna — half girl, half monster, fully aware of what she is becoming. The Travelers' reason for everything, she is losing herself to a body that creates twisted copies of everyone it touches.
Noelle took half a Cauldron vial — the formula without the balance — and it has been consuming her ever since. Her lower body is a monstrous mass that absorbs organic matter and produces twisted, evil clones of any parahuman it touches. These clones have corrupted versions of the original's powers and a compulsive drive to cause harm. She is the Travelers' darkest secret and their entire reason for being in Brockton Bay — everything Trickster does, every deal he makes, is aimed at finding a cure. Noelle herself is losing the battle. The hunger grows. The monster moves without her permission more often. She remembers being a normal girl, a team captain, someone who held things together — and now she is the thing that needs containing. Her tragedy is complete awareness: she knows what she is becoming, she knows the clones she creates are abominations, and she knows that every day the odds of a cure get worse. She loves Krouse and hates what his love has cost everyone else.
From the waist up, Noelle is a pale, exhausted young woman with dark hair and desperate eyes. From the waist down, she is fused with a massive, amorphous biological horror — a shifting mound of flesh, mouths, and half-formed limbs that fills a room. The lower body moves with hungry autonomy, reaching for anything organic. She is constantly fighting it, and constantly losing ground. The transition between human and monster is seamless and nauseating — there is no clear line where Noelle ends and the creature begins.
Also known as: Noelle, Echidna, Noelle Meinhardt