In human form, Chrysoli is fairly plain, small and slender with thin, brown hair, usually hanging limply around her shoulders, and an oddly colorless cast to her skin, being neither the warm yellow of a human-formed Makanan nor wholly the silvery-blue of a Cascatan. She rarely wears anything with any color, preferring brown above all else, though she can be persuaded into something blue or green now and then, but even then they are always conservative and concealing: another way to hide from the world. Her eyes are the only at all lively-seeming thing about her, still bright green, but they are usually downcast or fixed firmly in the distance, not looking too closely at anything in her direct vicinity. 

All Chrysoli really wanted, on the day of her hatching, was a place where she can be sheltered and, by and large, looked after, so she only has to deal with as few people as possible. Still, the thought of having to choose those people terrified her-- what if they didn't like her? what if they were mean? what if they turned her down?-- so she chose the people she knew the most about already: Chiya and Ketvia. Callidei had spoken of her mothers to the eggs before, told them that they were signed up as sponsors, and the two Asandae spoke to the eggs some, themselves, so they were "familiar". She sought them out for that reason alone. Not because they were people she thought she could like, or people she felt at all akin to: people who were familiar and, thus, safer. The fact that they are both loving and accepting and seem to want to make her happy is just a bonus. It took her a long time to trust that....

As an Asandus, she has the usual Asandus abilities. She is a source of magic, in and of herself, and can use it for a wide variety of things. As much in an effort to please Chiya as because it was moderately enjoyable, she practiced enough to become quite talented at it. She can shape-shift between Asandus and human forms, and actually spends a lot of time in human form once she learns how. It's smaller and less noticeable, after all. She is psionic, in a very limited fashion: she can speak telepathically in addition to normal speaking, receive telepathic messages, and sometimes read thoughts, and she can teleport within a somewhat limited range, but that's the extent of her psionic abilities.