Mantle

Mantle
Charlotte's general appearance out of costume.
Author	/u/ALargeHairyDerp
Civilian name	Charlotte Yvette
Alignment	Hero
Affiliation	Wards (Devilfish)
PRT Classification	Brute/Striker
Born	(2004-09-24) September 24, 2004 San Francisco, California
Status	Active

A recent transfer to Devilfish from San Francisco, in response to both the increase in cape activity and a personal desire to be somewhere a bit less population dense. It’s known that she’s been a Ward for quite a while, though any specific exploits of hers would be less well know to the local populace of devilfish.

Character Sheet

Appearance

Civilian: Charlotte is rather small, standing at 5’4”, with light skin, freckles, brown eyes, and medium length brown hair. She’s in very good shape due to wards training, but other than that isn’t very remarkable in appearance. She favors long sleeves and loose concealing clothing in general, as her cape career means she has more scars than she could easily explain.

Cape: Her costume consists of an undersuit and Goggles with a mouth covering, as well as a belt to hold other gear. There are about three layers of small steel scales/plates overtop of everything held together by her power, which are typically distributed evenly, but can be shifted around in combat or to achieve a certain look. She will ruffle or shift them to better express emotions since her face is covered.

Equipment and Resources

• Resources:
  • Sparse bedroom in an apartment after recent move/transfer (still getting settled in)
  • A room in PRT HQ
  • A number of personal effects (phone, books, laptop, clothes, etc)
  • A bike (working on drivers license)

• Equipment:
  • Costume (bodysuit, goggles and mouth covering, lots of small metal plates, utility belt).
  • Small medical kit
  • Wards phone and comms
  • Zip Ties
  • Pepper spray
  • The money from the portion of her wards pay that she can actually spend

Wealth Level: 4 (Wards Pay)

Skills and Specializations

• Hand to hand combat
• Quick and dirty medicine
• Ice Skating
• Gymnastics/Parkour
• Biology

Mentality

She’s been a ward for a large portion of her life, and is thus familiar and tired of the bureaucracy of the PRT, though she understands which rules can or should be bent and which are more serious. She’s genuinely invested in doing good, and doesn’t like to show off, though she does take pride in her accomplishments. She’s been trained enough to know how to get through press events, but is ultimately awkward and a bit shy in social situations.

Power

Mantle has tactile telekinesis, applied to anything up to two inches from her body (She cannot affect other living things directly), stronger and more precise the longer a given object is in her control, to an upper cap (Takes about 8 minutes to fully ramp up, things subconsciously move with her, but consciously directing them is slow at first(~0.5m/s) and ramps up to being quite fast (~20m/s)) . Applies to the body, internal and external as well (used to hold wounds closed, stop bleeding, reduce effects of impacts, etc…). The more exposed an object is, the more awareness she has about it in relation to everything else in her control. Once she is holding something with her power, it will maintain its relative position to her body without any conscious effort, even while unconscious, until directed to do otherwise. All objects that leave her telekinetic grasp lose the majority of previous momentum (she cannot fire things as projectiles by accelerating them along her body). The reference frame of the telekinesis is wholly internal to itself, so she can brace objects or her own internal structures, but cannot fly or push herself, outside of adding force to her own movements.

Trigger type: Natural Single

Backstory

At the age of seven, Charlotte was quite mature, working ahead in classes, and being taken aside for more advanced lessons and private tutoring. During a one on one tutoring sessions, the teacher, who she admired greatly, led her out to the parking lot to pick up some supplies he had forgotten. When they reached his car, however, he grabbed hold of her arm and began trying to force her in. She struggled, confusion and panic mounting before all the talks of strangers and child molesters came to the forefront of her mind. Eventually he got fed up with her struggling, and pulled a taser on her. Pain worse than anything she had ever felt coursed through her body, as she felt her control of her limbs completely fail, she Triggered. She was found in the parking lot later, and eventually explained what had happened to her parents, who quickly figured out that she had powers, enrolling her in the wards.