Echidna absorption 1

"To put it briefly, if it's dead, she absorbs it and it becomes a part of her-"

"Powers included?" I asked.

"Don't know. Haven't had cause to believe it. In terms of raw material, raw mass? Yeah. She eats, she grows. But here's the thing. If she absorbs something alive, she clones it. More clones if she's angrier, we think. We don't have a large sample size of incidents."

"Clones?" I asked. "Isn't that an advantage for us?"

"No. Because whatever they are, the extras come out wrong. They come out ugly, their powers don't always work exactly the same way, they're screwed up in the head, but all that aside, they're stronger, tougher, they have the memories of the parent. Sometimes that means they're just homicidal. Other times, it means they're just as sane as you are, but their priorities are reversed. They want to end your existence, kill everything you want to protect, hurt everyone you care about, and dismantle your life."

"Evil twins," Regent said. "She makes evil twins."

Ballistic nodded. "And that's why I'm sitting this one out. She'll come after me if she sees me, especially if she heard the bit about my defection. If she gets me, that's even worse, because the clones she'll get are capable of killing anyone and everyone here, easy."

Bitch spoke for the first time. "Animals too?"

"Animals too. And microbes too, based on stuff she's said before, though she might just treat them like she does dead material. I don't know. For all we know, it ties into some other power."

- Queen 18.2