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Fimbulwinter

2022-05-18T15:17:49Z

Shimme: npc'd

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| name = Fimbulwinter
| alias = 
| civ_name = Zola Angers
| author = /u/Shimme
| alignment = Villain
| affiliation = Mafia
| status = NPC
| location = Devilfish


| class = {{cape/class|Master}}, {{cape/class|Shaker}}
| rep_morality = -3
| rep_notoriety = E
| rep_criminal = 
| redditlink = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/it535c/zola_angers_fimbulwinter/
| image = Fimbulwinter.png
| caption = Given climate and practicality, her costume usually includes a shiny leather jacket and matching boots.
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Reports of strange patches of frost, ice and localized areas of extreme cold are being receieved, followed by unusual damage to terrain and trees inside state and local parks have been appearing for a few months now. PRT will have been alerted to the possibility of an unknown cryokinetic living in the area.

== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===




=== Resources ===
''Wealth Level:'' 7

Trust Fund Kid whose just being thrown money to be quiet and stay the fuck away from the rest of the family.

Resources include - Their parent’s modest summer home, maybe ten miles out of town. Modest here means a 3000 sq foot ‘log cabin’ with amenities like an indoor heated swimming pool, a walk in, humidity controlled wine cellar, a gun room filled with a few dozen pieces, mostly all fancy looking bolt action rifles and over-under shotguns, all of this sitting on ten acres of woods. There’s a panic room hidden in the master bedroom that houses their cape gear.

A couple ATV’s, a Ferrari that was their graduation present. A Range Rover for the other 10 months of the year.

Several thousand dollars tossed at them every month, alongside a reserve of mutual funds, CD’s and things like that. Their actual net worth is “only” in the low millions, as opposed to the billionaire status that their lifestyle implies. Most of this money is in long term financial assets like mutual funds and CDs, as well as two pre-quasi-disownment high end vehicles.

She used the majority of their free money to buy out a junk yard filled with barely functional vehicles.

=== Equipment ===
Two Big Fucking Machetes! Also likely to have things like fireman’s axes, sledgehammers, crossbows etc as the situation demands. Access to enough junker vehicles that she can get around with some degree of anonymity.

=== Skills and Specializations ===
Bachelor degree from an Ivy League school in Business Management and Accounting, with a minor in Geology.

Took self defence classes as a teen. Made the fencing team at college, without any exceptional talent in the sport.

''Theoretically'' knows how to run a business.

=== Mentality ===
Competitive, has something to prove. What does that mean? It means that she’s going to prove that she can be a harder, more cutthroat businesswoman than the family could even imagine themselves being. She isn’t actually a monster, but between her upbringing and desire for power she has the motivation to intentionally emotionally compartmentalize away from a situation and the very shitty things she's willing to do. “Sorry, it’s just business.”
=== Power ===
''Trigger Type:'' Single Natural

'''Abstract:'''

When damage is caused, in addition to a generic increase to the efficacy of the attack, wisps or fog starts to form which create an area of arctic temperatures. On reaching a threshold of this mist/fog, a semi-sentient “wolf” minion is formed that is extremely dangerous. Requires ramp up and constant attacking to keep minion up, doing so successfully makes the minion stronger. Similar in practice to a “kill streak reward” - it’s about getting and keeping forward momentum.

'''In depth:'''

Attacks have an ice based element added to them, almost any attack they do will cause scars. This includes things up to vehicles they are driving, as well as projectiles. Typically this damage is seen as a mild frostburn on superficial damage such as a slap or punch, with the frost encroaching deeper into flesh on cuts and such. Inanimate objects are more deeply affected, punching a brick wall could cause ice to dig into the mortar and start to break out bits of the wall. The ice effect’s damage is flat across different surfaces and materials, a stronger material (such as a metal door) doesn’t offer increased resistance versus her strikes than if she was punching a bounce house, both will have the ice dig in just as much.

These ice-enhanced attacks cause a dramatic amount of mist and fog to roll off of them. A few strikes to knock down a wood door would be comparable to a smallish fog machine like is used at a bar concert.

As the amount of fog and ice increases, there is a dramatic shift in temperature, and an area the size of a convenience store, or a four-way intersection can have suddenly freezing cold temperatures, with mild frostbite at the tips of your nose, fingers, ear etc occurring in the order of minutes if improperly clothed. Patches of ice will form, doors will get stuck shut, water pipes will burst and other effects appropriate for an area rapidly achieving subzero temperatures will occur.

As more and more damage is done by Fimbul, the amount of fog increases and the area of subzero temperature spreads. She must be dealing constant damage via her power to her surroundings or enemies or these and all subsequent effects will recede.

In the subzero temperatures, people may see things such as a giant pair of wolf’s eyes staring at them, distant howling and growling, fleeting images of an enormous animal hidden in the fog and mist.

Eventually, when the ice has spread enough a minion will form. It’s body roils with bubbling fog and mist, merging with it at its ends. It’s face is wolflike, but it’s muzzle is far broader and squarer, bear-like. It’s fur is jagged, spiky, and pricks you like a quill if you touch it. It’s feet are a chaotic cavalcade of hooves, paws and other, stranger forms shimmering into and out of reality.

At its base form, this beast is the size of a small sports car, with jaws strong enough to slowly rip and pry open a vehicle’s doors and roof to get inside. It’s feet are strong enough to break a bone with a kick, like a horse. It’s tough, but only as much as a very large apex predator is - all thick hide and dense muscle.

She shares an instinctual connection with this beast, moving in tandem with it like they were able to communicate intent and needs between the two. She does not truly control this creature though - while she is a rational human being, this is very much a being of violence and destruction. She can guide it, and do much to restrain and bottle it, but she isn’t it’s master.

However, if Fimbulwinter can continue her assault this beast will continue to grow in all aspects of it’s power, including but not limited to defenses, strength, size. In an extreme example where she has been allowed to somehow level a city block this is a monster that could square off against the Leviathan that hit Brockton Bay and fight it to standstill - maybe even win. Her minion’s attacks count for her own.

Minor Brute Aspect, Resistance to cold. Could stand in an ice cold river up to her neck for hours and only feel ‘chilly’. Shot by a ‘freeze ray’ they’d have some minor resistance to it and be able to keep fighting longer than a standard human. Faster and more ‘complete’ healing. Can’t regrow a limb, but they’d heal a knife wound in only a few days and have barely a scar. A concussion would heal quicker and doesn’t have the long term effects that are normal.

Notes on Power: Attacks must be 'directly' hers to count, setting up a bomb to go off later or something like a fire spreading aren't 'hers' enough to fuel her power.

Can only stop the spread of things like fire in a mundane way, won't prevent someone from setting things on fire but the cold can help prevent ignition of surrounding areas. This goes away rapidly if she starts losing momentum in a fight.

Trigger type Single Natural

=== Backstory ===
Zola was going to be part of a new generation of oil magnates in the family business. Power and money were to be hers. She had prepared for it her entire life, endured the power plays and maneuvering-as-a-way-of-life that the Angers clan did against each other, because she would one day be at the throne - or at least share it.

She and her brother had been taking a chartered bush plane out to inspect oil fields deep in the backwoods of Alaska when their plane had been caught in a storm, and run into a mountain. The pilot had been killed instantly, and they’d barely gotten off the mountainside before freezing to death themselves. Since then, they had been wandering, trying to find a river that might take them to civilization - four brutal days of trudging through snow drifts, of wind bitten faces, of cold, deadly cold that would take her fingers and feet and more if she wasn’t careful. And she was hungry.

They’d been lucky, yesterday finding scraps of meat on a dead rabbit, chasing off the birds that were tearing apart the last bits of flesh - they’d been able to start a small fire with the survival kit they’d pulled from the wreckage, put a few precious scraps of meat in their stomach. But she had a secret. She had a crushed, half-eaten candy bar hidden in a pocket.

Her brother trudged into the camp when she’d been eating her secret hoard of food, and it immediately turned into a fight - shouting, screaming, he tried to take the chocolate as she scarfed it down and she’d gotten a mouthful of fingers instead. She bit down, hard, and tasted blood. In a moment she realized that she’d taken the tips of his fingers off, and that she could feel the loose bits on her tongue. The world spinned, and a lifetime of anger and resentment at her family, her brother, her asshole relatives exploded out as she attacked, using nails, teeth and a rock to do her work.

By the time she was done, she realized that the body was cracking into pieces, like shattered glass. Trees limbs were snapping and shattering, their sap frozen solid. Blood was stained down her front. And a monster was there, snarling and howling…

She was rescued two days later. When her family came to some conclusions it was decided that Zola couldn’t be trusted, not after this. Money and influence were used to cover up the killing, but she was no longer really part of the family. Given money and a “summer home” where she could be safely forgotten, she was quietly disinherited.

An ambitious, angry woman with skills, money and way too much time on her hands...

Shredshot

2022-02-11T10:20:02Z

Shimme:

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|author = /u/Shimme
|civ_name = May Zhu
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|affiliation = Be Gay Do Crime
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Shredshot is a former Ward Captain, on the run for a string of murders. Known to be aggressive, violent and maybe a bit amoral.

Known to be a Blaster, firing divisible projectiles that can become incredibly sharp, which have a Trump effect that can turn a variety of other parahuman creations into *more* of these projectiles, potentially turning an area blanketed in force fields into a daisy-chain of explosions of hyper-sharp metal shrapnel.

Rumoured to have a Thinker power that helps her with incredibly precise shots. Known to have a Trump aspect that let's her turn power generated objects into more of her own blaster ability.

PRT-Aligned characters would know that she is a Multi-Trigger and that she has a much more powerful Thinker power that helps to weaponize her environment in Rube-Goldberg-Machine matter, work her way around defenses (including Power-Generated ones) and enables her to pull off hyper-precise attacks - both in the attack and in it's effect. This power could be used to throw a needle into an eye from 20 yards or to collapse a building in record time. Trump aspect to power helps her find ways to exploit weaknesses in power generated defences.

== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===

[[File:ShredshotAsMaid.png|thumb|right|Grumpy but secretly happy.]]

A slim woman standing at an average height, lean and quick. From head to toe she’s clad in a jumpsuit of a deep pastel blue with white accents along the sides and arms, small overlapping steel mail plates with a oil-rubbed nickel finish providing protection, embedded alongside the torso, arms and legs of her costume. A matching blue and white hood goes over the full face and neck mask, showing dark brown eyes.

Outside of costume, she has straight black hair that’s usually kept loose coming down to just her shoulders, dressing without any consistent style as she can’t decide what she likes best, while still putting in great care with each outfit to make them look great. She also puts great care in presenting the appropriate reaction to what people say and do, hiding what she truly feels, which frequently is disinterest. Instead, she presents herself as lively, sociable, likeable, although in moments of true surprise the ‘appropriate’ reactions can be off or a little slow to come.

=== Equipment and Resources ===

Some light protection from the small mail plates on her costume, padding to help take a fall or a hit. Integrated comm set in her mask, a small and discreet utility belt with essential law enforcement tools. Carries no weapons with her.

=== Skills and Specializations ===

Passable pianist for her age, a natural leader with a strong ability to organize and control those around her, some familiarity with knives and improvised weapons, knows how to drive, knows a little about how to operate farm vehicles.

=== Mentality ===

A natural leader who knows how to care for both individuals and the group, who cares about maintaining the trust and opinion of the people she needs. Also has the capability for immense cruelty, violence and murder under the right circumstances, and is a manipulative liar with an impaired ability to love and truly care for people in a non-material way. Selfish, self-interested, but understands the need for group cohesion. If she was an adult she’d fit the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, the kind of person that would make for a natural ruthless corporate leader that climbs high up the ladder in a company like Nestle or De Beers. While every survivor of the Taskmaster Lab Incident has at this point been diagnosed with Conduct Disorder, she's one of the high functioning individuals.

In opposition to this she often finds herself confused by people's motivations, attributing amoral objectives to what other people have done frequently, constantly analyzing people and their behavior, trying to understand the patterns in what they're doing.

Growing up in the world she did has left her paranoid to the point of disorder, constantly looking for things that are off, people not acting quite right, things a little out of place. She’s used to dealing with backstabbing conniving sons-of-bitches, not people who could actually be genuine in their intentions and emotions. Nowadays, she often finds it useful to display emotions she isn't feeling, happy when she's not, sad when she's expected to be.

While one could argue that her paranoia is useful for a cape it often leaves her seeing threats and dangers where there are none, alienating those around her. She trusts nobody, views even those closest to her as a potential threat. She’s not above using a display of stunning violence and intimidation to prevent future danger.

Quietly, she has an internal view of some people being 'real' and other people being 'not'. Like NPCs in a video game. It's not some sort of solipsistic point of view, but more like most people aren't important enough to be treated as people, and she's likely to forget their names, let alone remember important information about them. They're trivial worker bees, not one of the 'real' people that aren't some easily replaceable drone. At a fundamental level she doesn’t ‘get’ what normal, healthy human interaction looks like.

Her relationship with Brenna started as a manipulative, parasitical relationship with her boss, but her outlook on this has changed drastically. She might be the only person that May loves besides herself. She would kill for her, put her life on the line for her, and she respects her as another human being, which is unusual for May.

She's committed murders that are best described as thrill-killing, and she may do so again.

=== Power ===

Shredshot is a Multitrigger with both powers leaning heavily into the Trump side of the power spectrum.

Her primary power is a Thinker ability that allows her a heightened ability to tear apart, rend, destroy, interrupt and halt things around her through the sensing of weak points, the creation of Rube Goldberg-esque chains of events, and the manipulation of her environment. This allows for some level of ability to perform these tasks, if she must throw a brick at a certain angle with a certain force to hit the street lamp just right so that the glass spray gets the driver-by to jerk the wheel and run right over someone… she can and will make that throw. She can kick at just the right angle to make their knee give, to take advantage of body mechanics. This power does include other powers in it’s effect given that the power manifests physically. She could know particularly effective ways to harm the exoskeletons of Bitch’s dogs, but she couldn’t do jack to stop Skitter controlling bugs or Tattletale gaining logical leaps. It does not account for things or people hidden from her by powers.

It requires her to focus in on a target, be it a person or an object that is in her immediate area. This power does not work when she is unable to concentrate, pain and overwhelming her with sensory attacks such as flashbangs being an excellent way to disrupt her, as they are with many Thinkers.

There’s a component of ‘filling in the gaps’ with this power. In a chain reaction a candle falls and ignites the curtains almost immediately rather than taking several seconds. The nails holding a floorboard down pull out a little easier than they should. That power short causes an electrical arc that goes a little farther than it should so it zaps her enemy. This doesn’t go beyond some minor ‘movie magic’ but the things that happen shouldn’t *strictly* follow real-world physics.

This power is environmentally focused and gives nothing on other mental, emotional, societal or group weaknesses around her. While she might be uncannily able to break the physical world around her, if she wanted to break apart a friend group she’d be on her own in that regard. If there were no immediate answers to break a target her power would start expanding it's area to consider and looking for more and more complex situations that could lead to an acceptable result. This can quickly cause Thinker headaches and has no guarantee of providing a feasible solution, or any solution. She can cancel this search to prevent Thinker headaches.

Her second power is a Blaster ability, able to generate a baseballs weight in a metallic substance and fire it from her hands at 80 miles per hour. This material can be fired in one projectile or in many, and the further she subdivides it the more jagged and sharp the fragments become, like shrapnel. The spread on this is comparable to a street legal shotgun, a fairly tight 'cone', accurate but not covering a massive area. There’s a ‘sweet spot’ where this is a very deadly power, but in general she keeps it as either pelting someone with blunt objects or causing painful superficial wounds that don’t have the energy behind them to be more dangerous than porcupine quills. There's a slight delay between shots, preventing her from ‘machine gunning’ her power. These shards seem to travel much farther and in a straighter line than should be possible.

These shots can be charged to slip and phase through certain bits of the terrain - someone taking cover behind an enormous potted plant could get a nasty surprise as it phases through the cover and hits them on the other side. This effect doesn’t work on clothing or most armor. Possible exception for truly enormous sets of power armor or similar, at which point it’ll lose it’s phasing somewhere inside the armor as it approaches the person.

This ability has a nasty trump secondary to it, causing any physically manifesting construct or alteration of a shard power it touches to explode in a loose ‘confetti explosion’ of metal shards with very little force behind them, simply enough to disperse them in the area, of the same size as the original shrapnel. These secondary explosions are capable of chain reacting with other power generated or altered things in the area.

Tinkertech is not normally included in this secondary aspect. To be hit with this effect, the object must be actively in the process of manipulated with a power, or be a material actively being generated with a power to be affected. Certain tinkertech generated materials and things, such as a forcefield made out solidified light (hardlight) for example would be affected, but the actual physical ‘projector’ of the hardlight would be fine (Assuming it’s made out of steel, wiring, electronics etc.) Tinkertech is generally ‘real’ enough that it’s not included in the Trump effect.

The explosive trump aspect of this power does not affect organic things, and cannot convert ‘people’ into this effect. (No one-shotting the Human Torch).

File:ShredshotAsMaid.png

2022-02-11T10:09:38Z

Shimme: Grumpy but secretly happy

== Summary ==
Grumpy but secretly happy

Pioneer

2021-10-07T05:57:37Z

Shimme:

{{cape
|name = Pioneer
|alias = 
|civ_name = Sarah Inhoffe
|author = /u/Shimme
|alignment = Hero
|affiliation = New Horizon
|status = Active
|location = Devilfish


|class =  {{cape/class|Trump 7}} ({{cape/class| Mover 3, Shaker 4, Brute 7, Master 1, Striker 4) }}
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|redditlink = 
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|}}

She was a Ward in the Quad Cities, then became a member of a small indie hero team in Duluth. As the second in command, she was someone who made a lot of competing personalities work cohesively, and in the hero scene was known as someone with a good head on her shoulders. Then, a fight with a dangerous villain went very wrong. Some survived, many died. She disappeared for a while, before returning with the new moniker Pioneer and some very wealthy corporate sponsors.

Powerwise, she’s a potent grab-bag, showing some kind of conditional extreme durability, Master resistance, telekinesis, flight, and poisonous strikes.



== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===

A tall, imposingly strong woman with clearly defined muscles beneath her costume, her brunette hair flowing from underneath her mask and a single scar crossing her face from near her left cheekbone to her right jaw, across her lips. Bordering on Amazonian ideals, her costume is solid and armored around certain parts and skin tight on others. Likely she’s taking steroids to achieve her kind of muscle tone.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/503829951682969600/892201888982896670/a80be727e283ad7e002a2b39e4a27416.jpg





=== Equipment and Resources ===
Wears a green costume embellished with red armor, keeps a sword at her side. Cop stuff hidden in several pouches.

Typical upper-middle class lifestyle. Big house, car is always within three model years.

=== Skills and Specializations ===
Professional Cape. Adult life is spent being basically a super-cop. Regularly takes leadership seminars. Has plenty of PR training. Power lifts as a hobby.

=== Mentality ===
In another life, she could have managed a plethora of K-Pop Stars and Child Actors. Has an eye towards keeping things “presentable” and “shipshape.”

Pioneer is a deeply professional woman, here to have prestige, make money and find personal fulfillment, in that exact order. You need her to mom you up? Yeah she can do that. You need to get motivated, get a kick in the ass? She’s here to push you in the direction you need. She’s here to make you better, as long as you’re not a liability.

If you’re a liability, she’ll drop you like a bag of bricks.

Once upon a time, she was part of a far more idealistic person. Then she saw years of idealists getting horrible deaths, and those hopes of a better world seem stupid. She’s here to help her people.

=== Power ===
'''The Pursuer
'''
Pioneer designates a Target. This target must be in her line of sight. While she has designated a target, everyone who is not the target gains extremely reduced efficacy in fighting her. Blasts of Thor-style lightning merely shove her, she’d stand straight up after being run over by a semi-truck, mental compulsion effects seem more like vague whispers. Effectively, she gains extreme resistance to all damage, environmental effects and power caused conditions to anything not her Target.

She gains a degree of mental tunnel vision on her Target, becomes extremely aggressive and violent towards them, and while under this effect has little consideration for enemies that are not the Target. She instinctively knows which direction her Target is from her. Successfully defeating, capturing, subduing etc her Target allows for her to reset and instantly designate a new Target. Giving up the chase requires a ten minute wait before she can choose a new Target.

'''Festering Wounds
'''
Landing a hit in melee attacks start off as normal, but then her power “chews” their way in like a flesh eating bacteria eats at someone. This process can take minutes to hours to take effect, but almost none are immune to it, even those typically with regenerative effects. Attacks matter for this cape.

After the engagement is narratively ended, this effect ends.

'''Vortex:
'''
Pioneer designates up to two targets that they can see. That target experiences a telekinetic effect, where Pioneer can either move towards that target or pull that target towards from anywhere between 0-120 mph, accelerating at 20 mph/s. This effect stops pulling things towards her at roughly 60 lbs, at which point she can only move towards it. She can lower the top speed of something while telekinetically moving it/herself towards it so that she doesn’t constantly face plant into things or bean herself in the head like a masochistic baseball pitcher.

This target has a slightly different effect on living targets. Rather than be directly pulled towards her, they feel a force that makes it more difficult to move away from her. Think of it like trying to run up a steep hill - you’re moving away but it’s always more difficult than it otherwise would be. This effect works against powers as well, although the effect isn’t always predictable. Metaphorically, she’s like a black hole shifting the orbit of a distant asteroid, and while not being capable of capturing the asteroid she can shift it’s course. A teleporter might be placed slightly off where they intended to be, not quite as far away as they anticipated. A speedster would find themselves being pulled towards her slightly, as if they’re starting to orbit her. More esoteric effects are case by case basis.

=== Backstory ===
Sometimes you just want a little bit of revenge. “Bullies” is such a gentle word, something that minimizes what in reality was months of harassment, abuse and humiliation for you and your friends.

So you got the bright idea to extract some pain in return, to show enough was enough, to beat the little piece of shit that was -

The ringleader of the little group of monsters wasn’t so tough without half a dozen fucking jocks behind him. He’d be even less tough after he’d been hit with a baseball bat a dozen or so times.

But that’s not how it goes. It’s confusing, then painful as your body twists itself and you find yourself facedown in the dirt, like something had hijacked a piece of your brain. Your friends are there too, spitting out dirty and shouting in a panic. They’re taunting you, and then they’re taking your bat and breaking your hand with it. The beating continues and you take a hit over the head, not even able to cover your skull, absolutely numb except for the flashes of pain as you get slowly broken apart, listening to the mix of screaming and hysterical pleading of your friends, completely helpless.

File:Pioneer.jpeg

2021-10-07T05:51:07Z

Shimme: Pioneer claim

== Summary ==
Pioneer claim

Pioneer

2021-09-30T02:04:22Z

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|alias = 
|civ_name = Sarah Inhoffe
|author = /u/Shimme
|alignment = Hero
|affiliation = New Horizon
|status = Active
|location = Devilfish


|class =  {{cape/class|Trump 7}} ({{cape/class| Mover 3, Shaker 4, Brute 7, Master 1, Striker 4) }}
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|}}

She was a Ward in the Quad Cities, then became a member of a small indie hero team in Duluth. As the second in command, she was someone who made a lot of competing personalities work cohesively, and in the hero scene was known as someone with a good head on her shoulders. Then, a fight with a dangerous villain went very wrong. Some survived, many died. She disappeared for a while, before returning with the new moniker Pioneer and some very wealthy corporate sponsors.

Powerwise, she’s a potent grab-bag, showing some kind of conditional extreme durability, Master resistance, telekinesis, flight, and poisonous strikes.



== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===

A tall, imposingly strong woman with clearly defined muscles beneath her costume, her brunette hair flowing from underneath her mask and a single scar crossing her face from near her left cheekbone to her right jaw, across her lips. Bordering on Amazonian ideals, her costume is solid and armored around certain parts and skin tight on others. Likely she’s taking steroids to achieve her kind of muscle tone.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/503829951682969600/892201888982896670/a80be727e283ad7e002a2b39e4a27416.jpg





=== Equipment and Resources ===
Wears a green costume embellished with red armor, keeps a sword at her side. Cop stuff hidden in several pouches.

Typical upper-middle class lifestyle. Big house, car is always within three model years.

=== Skills and Specializations ===
Professional Cape. Adult life is spent being basically a super-cop. Regularly takes leadership seminars. Has plenty of PR training. Power lifts as a hobby.

=== Mentality ===
In another life, she could have managed a plethora of K-Pop Stars and Child Actors. Has an eye towards keeping things “presentable” and “shipshape.”

Pioneer is a deeply professional woman, here to have prestige, make money and find personal fulfillment, in that exact order. You need her to mom you up? Yeah she can do that. You need to get motivated, get a kick in the ass? She’s here to push you in the direction you need. She’s here to make you better, as long as you’re not a liability.

If you’re a liability, she’ll drop you like a bag of bricks.

Once upon a time, she was part of a far more idealistic person. Then she saw years of idealists getting horrible deaths, and those hopes of a better world seem stupid. She’s here to help her people.

=== Power ===
'''The Pursuer
'''
Pioneer designates a Target. This target must be in her line of sight. While she has designated a target, everyone who is not the target gains extremely reduced efficacy in fighting her. Blasts of Thor-style lightning merely shove her, she’d stand straight up after being run over by a semi-truck, mental compulsion effects seem more like vague whispers. Effectively, she gains extreme resistance to all damage, environmental effects and power caused conditions to anything not her Target.

She gains a degree of mental tunnel vision on her Target, becomes extremely aggressive and violent towards them, and while under this effect has little consideration for enemies that are not the Target. She instinctively knows which direction her Target is from her. Successfully defeating, capturing, subduing etc her Target allows for her to reset and instantly designate a new Target. Giving up the chase requires a ten minute wait before she can choose a new Target.

'''Festering Wounds
'''
Landing a hit in melee attacks start off as normal, but then her power “chews” their way in like a flesh eating bacteria eats at someone. This process can take minutes to hours to take effect, but almost none are immune to it, even those typically with regenerative effects. Attacks matter for this cape.

After the engagement is narratively ended, this effect ends.

'''Vortex:
'''
Pioneer designates up to two targets that they can see. That target experiences a telekinetic effect, where Pioneer can either move towards that target or pull that target towards from anywhere between 0-120 mph, accelerating at 20 mph/s. This effect stops pulling things towards her at roughly 60 lbs, at which point she can only move towards it. She can lower the top speed of something while telekinetically moving it/herself towards it so that she doesn’t constantly face plant into things or bean herself in the head like a masochistic baseball pitcher.

This target has a slightly different effect on living targets. Rather than be directly pulled towards her, they feel a force that makes it more difficult to move away from her. Think of it like trying to run up a steep hill - you’re moving away but it’s always more difficult than it otherwise would be. This effect works against powers as well, although the effect isn’t always predictable. Metaphorically, she’s like a black hole shifting the orbit of a distant asteroid, and while not being capable of capturing the asteroid she can shift it’s course. A teleporter might be placed slightly off where they intended to be, not quite as far away as they anticipated. A speedster would find themselves being pulled towards her slightly, as if they’re starting to orbit her. More esoteric effects are case by case basis.

=== Backstory ===
Sometimes you just want a little bit of revenge. “Bullies” is such a gentle word, something that minimizes what in reality was months of harassment, abuse and humiliation for you and your friends.

So you got the bright idea to extract some pain in return, to show enough was enough, to beat the little piece of shit that was -

The ringleader of the little group of monsters wasn’t so tough without half a dozen fucking jocks behind him. He’d be even less tough after he’d been hit with a baseball bat a dozen or so times.

But that’s not how it goes. It’s confusing, then painful as your body twists itself and you find yourself facedown in the dirt, like something had hijacked a piece of your brain. Your friends are there too, spitting out dirty and shouting in a panic. They’re taunting you, and then they’re taking your bat and breaking your hand with it. The beating continues and you take a hit over the head, not even able to cover your skull, absolutely numb except for the flashes of pain as you get slowly broken apart, listening to the mix of screaming and hysterical pleading of your friends, completely helpless.

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A Stranger/Moverk. Short range blink teleportation and some kind of emotional manipulation / and or information relay interference power.



== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===




=== Equipment and Resources ===


* Pepper spray
* Cell phone
* Cash on hand

=== Skills and Specializations ===

Former Air Force that had been qualified to fly F-18 variants, a couple Cessna trainers.

A Master’s in Aeronautic Engineering, A paper published in a respected journal.

Air Force Basic Training, Officers Training, a high school and college involved in JROTC/ROTC - the whole hog.

Reasonably fit, jogs.

LITERALLY AN ASTRONAUT.

=== Mentality ===

Determined and ‘goal oriented’, has enough dedication to follow a multi-year plan given that there’s not some kind of extreme discouragement.

A generally positive outlook, given to jokes and tricks at others expenses. Meanspirited at times.

=== Power ===

Karma Chameleon is a Master/Stranger and Mover with a power in two parts.

The first part is a global effect with which nobody is able to convey negative opinions, pejoratives, accusations of wrongdoing etc towards Karma Chameleon. This does not actually change someone’s mind, but they’ll stumble over any attempts to say an unkind, or even just generally negative thing about them. A Hero coming up to them while they were robbing a bank wouldn’t say “Stop Villain!” they would say “Stop… you person!” Note that if the person stopping them truly believed that being a villain wasn't a bad thing and they weren’t using it pejoratively then they could absolutely call her a villain… but that’d be kinda weird for a Hero.

This power can be ‘focused’ in two stages. Upon going into either '''Focus''' mode, she will blink teleport to an area that isn't being observed within eight feet of her.

The first stage of '''Focus''' directs this global effect, where it’s actively dispersing hostile intentions. Someone wants to just kick Karma in the head, and now there’s just no real desire to.

For the second stage of '''Focus''', targets in eyesight OR that they’re in combat with (you can’t be invisible or hide behind a wall and become immune to her effect) will have their hostile intentions not removed, but instead redirected. One moment you want to punch her, the next you want to punch the person next to you - note that this is not the same as forcing Cape A punch Cape B, rather it redirects the hostile intention.

So, two tenuous allies that are barely able to put their differences aside might have a breaking moment and turn on each other, or the capes might decide that a Brute ally of hers is the target that they really want to hit. Two Heroes punch each other in the face, but after the initial confusion they probably don’t keep it up.

=== Backstory ===
It was always your dream to become an astronaut, and now it was finally happening! Admittedly, not under the best of circumstances - you were worried that your ex might try and pull something while divorce proceedings happened - but it wasn’t something you were going to give up.

Well turns out you were right to be worried. Within a week there were allegations that you’d assaulted her, with filings that existed juuuust long enough to be recorded for the divorce. Bullshit. Your step-son doesn’t call or say hello and you realize that you’re being cut off. You start worrying about what she’s doing, saying about you when the big one hits, some kind of FTC complaint that you’d ‘hacked’ their bank account - the one that was jointly listed, that you had the freaking password too! She must have tipped off some journalists because next thing you know, the New York Times is running an article entitled ‘World’s First Space Crime?’, and now NASA and the FTC are ‘investigating’. Oh, she’d outed you on a national level too, which was absolutely not something you were ready to deal with either… Your career was probably over too. NASA wouldn’t want an astronaut with this kind of baggage.

Realizing that you were trapped up on the ISS for months while your bitch of an ex was torching your life just to get an edge in the divorce proceedings, understanding that you had no way to defend yourself from her attacks or from the gawking public, you trigger.

Karma Chameleon

2019-09-02T19:13:15Z

Shimme:

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|alias = 
|civ_name = Alexis Carter
|author = /u/Shimme
|alignment = None
|affiliation = 
|status = Active



|class = 
|rep_morality = -1
|rep_notoriety = X
|rep_criminal =


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|image = 
|caption = 
|birth_date = 
|birth_place = 



|}}

A Stranger/Moverk. Short range blink teleportation and some kind of emotional manipulation / and or information relay interference power.



== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===




=== Equipment and Resources ===


* Pepper spray
* Cell phone
* Cash on hand

=== Skills and Specializations ===

Former Air Force that had been qualified to fly F-18 variants, a couple Cessna trainers.

A Master’s in Aeronautic Engineering, A paper published in a respected journal.

Air Force Basic Training, Officers Training, a high school and college involved in JROTC/ROTC - the whole hog.

Reasonably fit, jogs.

LITERALLY AN ASTRONAUT.

=== Mentality ===

Determined and ‘goal oriented’, has enough dedication to follow a multi-year plan given that there’s not some kind of extreme discouragement.

A generally positive outlook, given to jokes and tricks at others expenses. Meanspirited at times.

=== Power ===

Karma Chameleon is a Master/Stranger and Mover with a power in two parts.

The first part is a global effect with which nobody is able to convey negative opinions, pejoratives, accusations of wrongdoing etc towards Karma Chameleon. This does not actually change someone’s mind, but they’ll stumble over any attempts to say an unkind, or even just generally negative thing about them. A Hero coming up to them while they were robbing a bank wouldn’t say “Stop Villain!” they would say “Stop… you person!” Note that if the person stopping them truly believed that being a villain wasn't a bad thing and they weren’t using it pejoratively then they could absolutely call her a villain… but that’d be kinda weird for a Hero.

This power can be ‘focused’ in two stages. Upon going into either '''Focus''' mode, she will blink teleport to an area that isn't being observed within eight feet of her.

The first stage of '''Focus''' directs this global effect, where it’s actively dispersing hostile intentions. Someone wants to just kick Karma in the head, and now there’s just no real desire to.

For the second stage of '''Focus''', targets in eyesight OR that they’re in combat with (you can’t be invisible or hide behind a wall and become immune to her effect) will have their hostile intentions not removed, but instead redirected. One moment you want to punch her, the next you want to punch the person next to you - note that this is not the same as forcing Cape A punch Cape B, rather it redirects the hostile intention.

So, two tenuous allies that are barely able to put their differences aside might have a breaking moment and turn on each other, or the capes might decide that a Brute ally of hers is the target that they really want to hit. Two Heroes punch each other in the face, but after the initial confusion they probably don’t keep it up.

=== Backstory ===
It was always your dream to become an astronaut, and now it was finally happening! Admittedly, not under the best of circumstances - you were worried that your ex might try and pull something while divorce proceedings happened - but it wasn’t something you were going to give up.

Well turns out you were right to be worried. Within a week there were allegations that you’d assaulted her, with filings that existed juuuust long enough to be recorded for the divorce. Bullshit. Your step-son doesn’t call or say hello and you realize that you’re being cut off. You start worrying about what she’s doing, saying about you when the big one hits, some kind of FTC complaint that you’d ‘hacked’ their bank account - the one that was jointly listed, that you had the freaking password too! She must have tipped off some journalists because next thing you know, the New York Times is running an article entitled ‘World’s First Space Crime?’, and now NASA and the FTC are ‘investigating’. Oh, she’d outed you on a national level too, which was absolutely not something you were ready to deal with either… Your career was probably over too. NASA wouldn’t want an astronaut with this kind of baggage.

Realizing that you were trapped up on the ISS for months while your bitch of an ex was torching your life just to get an edge in the divorce proceedings, understanding that you had no way to defend yourself from her attacks or from the gawking public, you trigger.