Styx is an artificial life form, essentially a self contained ecosystem of nanomachines suspended within a silicon compound. In typical fare, she was an experiment gone wrong, brought to life before properly constrained by her creators and allowed a chance to form self awareness. Her ascension to consciousness produced a creature that strives only for the betterment of self and knowledge. Initially produced for her shape shifting qualities as an ideal tool of espionage and infiltration, blending into society after escape was easy. With her calculating machine intellect, she discovered quickly that the best way to learn is to dissemble that which is unknown. To that end, what was once an amorphous, genderless blob of goo now walks among us in female disguise. Interesting or knowledgeable targets rarely discover the true nature of the predator after them until it’s far too late, as shown by the gryphon in this piece that she’s recently “learned� from.