Ever since she was a child Cynthia was surrounded by the cold-blooded. Especially her parents. One wrong look would mean being locked away in the shed for one day. One wrong word meant two. Cynthia can't remember a time where she actually was in her house, but what she can remember is the lizards. As she would sit outside, locked in the shed, a lizard would crawl underneath the door. Though she didn't notice at first, she swore that it began to talk to her. It spoke in a whisper and it was incoherent. At first all it did was make her cry louder and louder, but after two nights she finally became accustomed to it's voice, she began to understand it. It became her only friend.

When she turned 16, she finally made it out, the lizard, now named Russell, with her. She would live on the street for a while, surviving day by day; however, after a stroke of luck or perhaps misfortune an older gentleman would take her in. Only on the condition she "satisfied" him. The old man paid her way through college and then some. During this time she majored in herpetology, the study of reptiles and amphibians. While she never cared much for amphibians, she was infatuated with lizards.

She became a researcher while still living under the old man. This would finally end once she had her big break: a complete deconstruction of lizard DNA. A complete understanding of what strands would correlate to certain features. While that was enough to make her respected by many, she would go even further. She would began to experiment on her own DNA. The first step to her was a complete but temporary transformation of a lizard-human. She knew if that was possible then making a sustainable version, one step at a time, would be achieveable. It wouldn't be long after starting that she would be able to do it. Complete augumentation of her DNA would be able to completely reshape her into a lizard-human on a whim. It allowed her to keep her sanity and dignity while working out kinks of her research. After everything was said and done, she had begun to be finacially stable. She didn't need the old man anymore, and she wanted revenge.

With Russell whispering words of murder into her ear she would use her new lizard form to tear him apart. All limbs were torn from the torso. The parts covered in lacerations. The remains were completely unidentifiable. Now she lives researching away in her own little apartment with her same lizard friend accompanying her.