The lovely being you see here is known as Florence, at least as far as she's willing to say. She's been around for many long years, far longer than one might assume from her appearance, and is something of a mystery. All that most know of her is that she dwells in the Felton Underground, living alone and in peace, only accepting visitors of a certain variety: The terminally ill.

Florence is what is commonly referred to as an angel of mercy, a being that helps to end the life of a dying or suffering individual on their own terms, in a peaceful setting, with comfort and friendship on hand. She does this as a service, but not as a predator. She would gladly go without the life energies she absorbs from those she helps, but if she can help someone ease their departure she feels it isn't her place to deny them such a comfort.

She is technically what is known as a Colour, a rare and usually "mindless" alien presence that has only fallen to Earth in larval form in the past. Florence is part of such a creature, left behind for decades in a deep, black place in the soil, buried beneath dirty, stone and eventually water when the landscape was flooded for a reservoir. Early in life she made prey of fish and small animals, but eventually she did take human prey. She learned from them, absorbing memories and lives, absorbing their consciousness into her mass...And with it she learned guilt and regret. She learned what it was she'd done, and decided to make amends for it.

It was after the approach of government operatives with intention to capture the "alien creature" that Florence made proper contact with humans, giving herself up. She spent many more years locked away, prodded and experimented on, tested and studied. They made an experimental nanolatex suit for her, using technology harvested and reverse engineered from the Roswell crash site, with which Florence made her first humanoid form. The strange material is capable of tearing, if she tries hard enough, but otherwise acts as successful containment for her incorporeal being. In her natural state she is little more than colored light, but the nanolatex "body" gives her free reign to be more than just a baleful glow that can drain life. It lets her be a person, and interact with the world.

Allowed to live freely after S.3.R.A. cleared her, Florence chose to live in the Felton Underground, near other supernatural and extranatural beings. She feels at home there, in her modest but pleasant home in the Felton suburbs, with her gigantic fish tank full of feed fish, and her yard full of dark-growing supernatural plants.

If you'd like to ask Florence a question, feel free to do so below. She's quite nice, actually, if a bit...Alien.

Art by  Tussytot while Florence herself is part of the shared Man-Eaters Anonymous/Feltonverse writing project that my girlfriend and I share.