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Katpride
Story Collector
Name: ??? “Spork” Fuchs
Age: 25
Gender: Demigirl, they/she
Appearance: A person of average height with blonde hair styled in a mullet. She has heterochromatic green and gray eyes, though they’re usually hidden behind a pair of tinted sunglasses. Their clothes are bright and fun, and they enjoy accessorizing with a custom-made rainbow wolf’s tail. She is rarely seen without her cane when out in public; it is white and red, with a weighted handle and base that pack a good wallop.
Features: Spork was born blind, and their parents never let them forget it. Free from their overly-protective, overly-cautious ways, she swung hard in the opposite direction.
Alias: ShibaPowers: None
Alliances: Nine Tails Inc., working alongside Kitsune
Equipment:
- Back, arm, and leg braces which grant enhanced strength.
- Scanning and audio relay device which will describe positions and conditions of objects and people within a certain radius.
- Collapsible baton, able to be electrified with the press of a button.
- Small, round flash grenades.
- Suit made from a slash-resistant, puncture-proof durable fabric.
- Mask with built-in voice modifier and short-range communicator connected to Kitsune's.
Katpride
Story Collector
Personnel File: Agent Venus Votticelli-Smith
Name: Venus Votticelli-Smith
Anomalous Designation: N/A
Rank: R-Class-B intern
Locations: L-14
Age: 17 y/o., D.O.B. listed as 5/25/2006
Hair Color: auburn
Eye Color: brown
Height: 1.77 m
Weight: 65.8 kg
Hobbies: chemistry, painting, sewing, cooking
Foundation History
Venus was brought to the Foundation's attention following her discovery of Class Household Object ACF-384, "Puzzle Box" on 6/6/2023. Agent C. Votticelli [RANK R-CLASS-C. est. 2011] [adoptive mother of Agent V. Votticelli-Smith, Venus] had been authorized to bring ACF-384 into her personal laboratory for research purposes as ACF-384 was designated completely harmless and possibly nonfunctional within the L-14 facility.When discovered by Venus, ACF-384 began to exhibit its anomalous properties, leading to deeper questioning. Following recommendations from Agent Isaac Cotta, Venus was escorted to Facility L-14. Agent C. Votticelli insisted upon Venus' recruitment rather than the use of amnestics. Placement and Aptitude tests were conducted [REFER TO: Addendums A & B], and Venus was officially inducted into the Foundation on 6/8/2023.
Background Check
Born to [REDACTED AT SUBJECT'S REQUEST] in 2006.Recovered by CPS and sent to Ms. Harlfas's Home For Girls in 2016.
Adopted by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith & Mrs. Corina Votticelli [AGENT C. VOTTICELLI] in 2021.
No criminal record.
No delinquent record.
All A's in all school records.
Chemistry club member, 2019-2022.
[ADDENDUM A: Placement Test]
[ADDENDUM B: Aptitude Test]
Anomalous Designation: ACF-384 - "Puzzle Box"
Class: Household
Description: A small (4.5 x 4.5 x 4.5in) wooden box. Puzzles on all six surfaces which, when completed, allow one to slide away that surface. No matter how many sides are removed, the box retains its dimensions. Removed panels disappear once no longer under human observation. Replacing lost panels does not effect the box's dimensions, though the puzzles on replaced sides are not the same as when they were removed. ACF-384 seems to have limitless puzzle-generating capacity, as research has yet to yield any repeats.
Addendum A:
As of 5/04/2023, all of the puzzles are the same, and do not change with removal and replacement. Agent C. Votticelli was able to remove all of the panels and completely "solve" ACF-384. There was nothing inside. ACF-384 was then reassembled. Has it lost its anomalous properties?
Addendum B:
As of 6/01/2023, ACF-384 has been approved for removal from L-14, following concerns that interference from other artifacts has overwritten its properties. Agent C. Votticelli's request to study it in her home laboratory was approved.We hope she fixes it, the puzzles were a delight.
Class: Household
Description: A small (4.5 x 4.5 x 4.5in) wooden box. Puzzles on all six surfaces which, when completed, allow one to slide away that surface. No matter how many sides are removed, the box retains its dimensions. Removed panels disappear once no longer under human observation. Replacing lost panels does not effect the box's dimensions, though the puzzles on replaced sides are not the same as when they were removed. ACF-384 seems to have limitless puzzle-generating capacity, as research has yet to yield any repeats.
Addendum A:
As of 5/04/2023, all of the puzzles are the same, and do not change with removal and replacement. Agent C. Votticelli was able to remove all of the panels and completely "solve" ACF-384. There was nothing inside. ACF-384 was then reassembled. Has it lost its anomalous properties?
Addendum B:
As of 6/01/2023, ACF-384 has been approved for removal from L-14, following concerns that interference from other artifacts has overwritten its properties. Agent C. Votticelli's request to study it in her home laboratory was approved.
[End of file.]
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Katpride
Story Collector
Name: Adelyn Aspen
Alias: Genesis
Age: 17
Gender: Female (she/her)
Appearance: An unusually tall woman with blank white eyes and white hair with dark markings near the ends. She has a scar above her lip, faded and faint. She dresses in long, shapeless clothing, with large shoes. There is a certain gawkiness about her, as though not quite comfortable in her own skin. Her left hand is the paw of a snow leopard, with long claws.
Powers:
- Partial Shapeshifting - she can shift parts of her body to be the corresponding body part of an animal. However, once a part of her is shifted she cannot turn it “human” again - only to other animals. All of the shifted parts of her change to the same animal at once.
- Currently, her left arm from the elbow down, both of her legs and feet from the shin down, and her ears are shifted. Her eyes are irregular, but they are the eyes she was born with. Her hair color also shifts to mimic the animal, though this is solely an aesthetic change.
- Animal Instinct - she can sense the “vibes” of the people and animals around her. If someone means her harm she can generally pick up on it right away, so she’s quick to trust or distrust.
- Endurance & Strength - she doesn’t tire as easily as others might, and she has strength to match the animal she’s mimicking.
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Katpride
Story Collector
Name: Lark Athlai
Age: 19
Birth Date: October 1st, 2003
Gender: Nonbinary (they/them)
Personality: A trickster by trade, Lark likes to play good-natured pranks. Not anything too heinous, just enough to spice up the day. They’re generally friendly with most people, and quick on their feet despite constantly looking like they need a nap… or twenty. Quick to laugh, slow to anger, they’re squeezing every drop out of every day and living life to the fullest.
Powers:
Time Manipulation - Lark can travel forwards and backwards in time to create stable time loops (continuity is important). When traveling to a time they already exist in, they can choose to remain where they are or be pulled to where the current version of themself is. They are unable to travel to any time that’s past the time of their death, although they freely venture into the distant past. The activation of their powers doesn't require much energy, but the actuality of living out more time than any human should be able to leaves them drained if they don't return to the present to recharge.
They can also pause time for a few seconds at a time, though that takes more concentration and willpower. Time doesn't like to be stopped, and will fight to restart if they pause it for too long, leaving them with a terrible headache. One handy side-affect of their powers is that, while displaced from time, they don't age, as their body is put in a sort of stasis until they are back in the present. However, they must continue with the main timeline regardless, as much as they would rather live in the past.
They can sense when time is being manipulated, whether it be their own doing or another traveler. This most often appears in the form of faint music only they can hear, emanating from the source of the disturbance. They also have an always-accurate internal clock, but that's a less impressive power.
Equipment:
Lark, despite being more of a vigilante than a true hero, has their own ‘hero outfit’ - it’s mostly just a reinforced shirt, gloves, sturdy boots, and a skirt. They are fooling absolutely no one, but there isn’t much difference between them in and out of costume, anyways.
Their favored weapon is the shuriken, though they know how to use several kinds of sword and are a decent marksperson. They don't tend to get into any fights they aren't sure they can win. Usually, they travel light, trusting in future versions of themself to supply them with anything they might need.
Fun Facts:
Lark knows when they're going to die and has accepted it as well as they can. Every loop comes to an end. They plan on using the remaining time they have to its fullest, often running several loops within a single day to stretch it out for as long as they can. You can often spot several Larks hanging around the time of a particularly nice moment.
Growing up as an only child, they would often be visited by future versions of themself, keeping them company and keeping them entertained. Because of this, future versions of Lark often keep that same older/younger sibling dynamic with past versions, no matter how small the difference.
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Katpride
Story Collector
Lark Links (aka The Lark Compendium)
* = Recommended Reading
Expositions (Side Stories):
**Available in Kat's Expo Corner!
Freshly polished versions of all the Lark expos, now collected in one thread for your viewing pleasure.
Individual Links:
A Terrible Thing To Be
Nineteen
Mirror, Mirror
Facing the Cliff
The First and Last Time
A Soft Prologue
Rage Against the Dying of the Light
Time Gone By
Sleeping on the Job
The Things You Know
Old Expos:
The Things You Know
Sleeping on the Job
Time Gone By
Rage Against the Dying of the Light
A Soft Prologue
The First and Last Time
Facing the Cliff
Mirror, Mirror
Nineteen
Old Sandbox Appearances:
A Gentle Druid
The first Lark introduction! Who doesn't love mystery milkshakes?
A Matter of National Impact (V1)
Yeet some phones, save the world.
Freakfest 2021
Halloween party, try to spot all the Larks!
Sandbox Appearances:
*Still Creek
Investigating a Mysterious Town with a few new(ish) faces.
Milk Punch
We don't shoot birds! (Lark's day job at the hybrid milkshake restaurant/boxing arena.)
*Hiding in the Crowd
An escaped government experiment, a necromancer, a hero, and a time traveler walk into an alleyway.
*Time For A Talk Ch. 1
Follow-up to Hiding in the Crowd.
Hero vs time traveler: who wins? (No one, the answer is no one.)
Category 5: "Sadie"
A nineteen-year-old Lark shows up to help with disaster relief during a hurricane.
Perception & Intuition
Lark breaks into a therapist's home. Both of them have a terrible time.
*Swept Away
Two displaced souls talk about existence.
**Larkageddon (Time for Mischief)
One determined eight-year-old vs. New York City and a gaggle of heroes. Who will be the most capable babysitter, and why is it the girl with the knife?
Home Sweet Home
Follow-up to Larkageddon.
What are friends for, if not kidnapping you and taking you to their house while you doze?
Am I Seeing Things?
Follow-up to Larkageddon.
Lark reaches out to the local authority on weird shit, just to make sure they don't get arrested for their eight-year-old crimes.
*Lifeline - Phone a Friend
Follow-up to Am I Seeing Things?
One last try. Let's see if the Antichrist knows anything about foiling Time itself.
Protect Your Heroes
Nothing better to start the day with than some light vigilantism. Until it gets to be a little too much.
Time for A Talk Ch. 2
Follow-up to Protect Your Heroes.
You're not allowed to die yet, quit bleeding everywhere Cassidy.
"Mistakes Really Do Catch Up To You"
Neither of us are ok, but maybe we can talk about it until dawn comes.
Devil May Care (But I Don't)
Listen man, if you didn't want me to break into your apartment you shouldn't have made your secrets so appealing.
The Story Continues:
*Minute Magic
A little game of cat and mouse, but the cat doesn't want to catch the mouse and the mouse has teeth of its own.
Songbirds
A retrospective look at Lark fresh off the heels of A Soft Prologue, meeting a shepherdess of the Lost.
Sayonara
Lark meets with an old friend, but some grievances take more time than they've got left to mend.
***Something to Remember - Ongoing
Just one good day. That's all that Lark wants; one last huzzah before they cut the ties that bind them to Lily Pond.
*Wrong Way Down
An exhausted time-traveler walks into a bar. Unfortunately, the bartender is an empath, and their lies don't catch.
**When the Clock Runs Out
The finale. Lark goes to meet their Fate.
**Return to Sender
A peek at another side of the finale. Lark asks one last favor of Lily.
**Chasing Memories
Lark Athlai, still breathing despite all odds, goes to get answers from Fate.
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Katpride
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Katpride
Story Collector
Name: Adelyn Aspen
Alias: Genesis
Age: 17
Gender: Female (she/her)
Appearance: An unusually tall young woman with blank white eyes that tend to catch and reflect faint light. She has white hair with dark markings in it, particularly near the ends. There is a faint scar through her lip, though it's clear the injury has long since healed. She dresses in long, shapeless clothing, with large shoes and thick leather gloves. There is a certain gawkiness about her, as though not quite comfortable in her own skin. Her ears, when uncovered, are similar to a cat's, though at the sides of her head rather than the top.
Powers:
- Partial Shapeshifting - she can shift parts of her body into the corresponding body part of an animal. However, once a part of her is shifted she cannot turn it “human” again - only to other animals. All of the shifted parts of her change to the same animal at once.
- Current Shift: Snow Leopard
- Left arm (elbow down)
- Legs and feet (shin down)
- Ears
- Hair patterning (unconscious shift)
- Current Shift: Snow Leopard
- Animal Instinct - she can sense the “vibes” of the people and animals around her. If someone means her harm she can generally pick up on it right away, so she’s quick to trust or distrust.
- Endurance & Strength - she doesn’t tire as easily as others might, and she has strength to match the animal she’s mimicking.
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Katpride
Story Collector
Name: Venus Votticelli
Alias: Griffonage
Age: 16
Height: 5'8" (5'10" in costume)
Hair Color: Reddish-Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Gender: Female (she/her)
Powers: Venus is a universal constant. On a molecular level, she always exists in the same base state. This means that she is not affected by poisons, diseases, or bacteria. Her body can process all sorts of chemical blends that would be deadly to others, and, whether through a quirk of her brain chemistry or taste buds, she tends to find them delicious. Unfortunately, her jaws and teeth are no stronger than the average person's, so she mainly keeps to liquid or powdered chemicals for her experiments.
Equipment:
- Spray Paint - Specialized double-sided spray paint cans that have different effects when sprayed. She made the formulas herself! (Mostly.) Excess powder has been transferred to the handful of water balloons she keeps in the pockets of her hero costume, of which the most common are purple and yellow.
- Red - Fire - A red spray which, upon contact with an object, heats up rapidly. Can combust if left for a long time. Be careful! Can be canceled out with the blue spray. Tastes spicy.
- Orange - Paint - This one's just normal spray paint. Tastes sour, like all spray paint.
- Yellow - Slows Organic Matter* - A yellow spray which, upon being absorbed by living matter, slows all biological processes to half their usual speed. More effective with a wider coverage, as it wears off pretty quickly. Tastes like honey-flavored medicine.
- Green - Speeds Up Organic Matter* - A green spray which, upon being absorbed by living matter, speeds up all biological processes to double time. Acts fastest when ingested, has a better half-life than the yellow paint but still requires a big surface area to work its best. Tastes like green apple.
- Blue - Ice - A blue spray which, upon contact with an object, cools down rapidly. Gets very slippery after second or two. Tastes blue. Like blue Gatorade, you know?
- Purple - Foam - A purple spray which, upon contact with air, expands into buoyant, pliable foam, then hardens within a few minutes. Only eat VERY SMALL amounts! Tastes like airy grape candy.
- *She is very protective of these formulas, as they contain trace amounts of her blood as a key ingredient.
- Paint Respirator - filters both her voice and chemical fumes, detachable so that other people can also have a paint-fume-free experience. Hand-painted!
- Hydrophobic Jumpsuit - the material of her suit repels all kinds of liquids and sticky substances. Very convenient for reducing cleanup. The base fabric is a thick linen with a cotton lining for comfort. She has hesitantly named it fire-resistant, because it didn't burn up that one time.
- Bulletproof Jacket/Lab Coat - a heavier jacket that she can put on over her suit. The jacket should theoretically be able to protect her from small arms fire at a distance, though she isn't eager to test that. It's mainly used as extra cushioning.
- Slingshot - useful for firing her balloons further than she can throw them. It's a simple design, but lovingly painted. It's typically hooked through her belt.
- Her hair is coated in a toxic chemical that makes it very slippery and difficult to grasp. It causes a very painful stinging sensation if it contacts (other people's) bare skin. It tends to drip, but it's necessary for disguising her hair color.
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Katpride
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Something happened, once, and it was not what you wanted to happen. It was so far from what you wanted to happen that it and your wishes may as well have been on different planets. Or, perhaps, they were separated by only a few centimeters, but the line was crossed in the wrong direction.
The details matter, you’ll see. The details may be the only deciding factor between your success and your failure.
The details matter to you, but they do not matter to me. You would do well to remember that. All that matters to me is that you are here, and that means you must want to change something badly enough to risk changing everything. Everything for you, of course, though it may be nothing to many others.
You’ll want to collect everything you know before beginning this endeavor, and hold tight to it. Write it down, memorize it, then burn it and bury the ashes, cast them out to sea, or let the wind take them. Whatever method you’d prefer. Whatever feels right. Methods, too, matter much in matters like these.
Each of you will get only one chance to change your past. If you don’t have the means, look to your neighbor. Perhaps they will have the skillset you need.
And dears, do remember this: Whatever you do, things will change. Time does not care whether they are small things or very important ones, but you will.
Be sure.
Hello everyone and welcome to my wacky time-travel RP. Before we get into it, let’s go over some key details:
- Your character should have one (1) standout event in their past that they desperately want to change. Perhaps a death or disappearance, some unsolved mystery that still haunts them. Or some tragedy they could’ve prevented by being in the right place at the right time.
- This should be something in their personal life, something that happened to them and not to the world at large.
- Please write out this event (in whatever manner or point of view you’d like) so that we have “what happened” to reference when things change. You can put this in spoiler text if you’d like, but please include it.
- We will be leaning heavily into the fantasy vibes rather than sci-fi vibes. This is a world with magic in it, and magic is a living, breathing force that may act in your favor or to your detriment. That said, all characters should be human, with normal human limitations*.
- *Read the next section for how this gets interesting.
- This is also set in somewhat old-timey times, definitely before cell-phones and the internet.
- I’m limiting this to a total of 5 people including myself. If you want to be considered for this group please say “aye aye, captain” in the replies to show that you read through everything. Submit your CS and I’ll get back to the four chosen people after a few days. If there’s a lot of interest I can run more threads in the same universe in the future, so don’t fret if you aren’t a part of the first run.
- I’ll want this to be active but not to infringe on anyone’s time, so if you want to join please know I’ll want no more than a week between consecutive posts.
Rosalind Harper is sure. She has never been so sure of anything in her life. When the old woman finishes her speech, she is the first to step forward.
“I am sure.” She keeps her chin held high, looking evenly (if slightly down) at the stoop-backed woman. She keeps her hands at her sides rather than reaching up to touch her own face, the pronounced jowls on the old lady making her question, again, whether she has ones of her own, whether it might be something intrinsic to those in their profession. But no, she has seen her face in mirrors and knows it to be thin-cheeked and sharp, with none of the roundness of youth or the wrinkles of age.
“How did you dispose of the ashes?” The old woman asks.
“I tossed them from my roof on a blustery day,” Harper is not ashamed to admit. It had been a trial to get onto the roof without falling off herself, but it was the only thing that seemed appropriate.
The old woman regards her for a long moment before nodding and turning to the closet behind herself. The handle turns with a small, polite sound, and the heavy clunk of a latch opening. Within - and oh, it is a treat to see within, to know that she will get to keep one of these instead of handing them out to others - is a wide array of cloaks in many different styles. Some are quite colorful, shimmering with iridescence or bright patterns. Most consist of more muted, earthy tones that range from tan to midnight black. The old woman searches for only a moment or two before turning back with a cloak, one that is long enough that she has to drape it over her arm to hold it without it brushing the floor.
It seems plain at first glance, a matte black ream of fabric with only one of its three buttons holding it shut, but when Harper takes it into her arms, it feels slightly textured, some kind of embroidery or trick of the fabric making it feel soft in one direction and reluctant to ruffle in the other.
The old woman lays her hand atop Harper’s, not tenderly but with a heavy purpose. When Harper meets her gaze, she says, “You’ve been waiting for this. Don’t let it disappoint you.”
And then the old woman goes to the next of their guests, to assess them and give them not, perhaps, what they need, but what they can no longer live without.
This is the second part of the deal: you get to travel to the past to change your event, but to do so you must take the form of an animal. You can change back into human form once you’re in the past, and switch between the two freely, but once you’ve returned to the present (upon successful or unsuccessful completion of your mission) you will be unable to access your animal form. There is only one loophole to this clause: you can join someone else's mission as many times as you'd like before attempting your own, provided that they'll let you. The first thread will be Harper's mission, so feel free to think of ideas on how reconnaissance or practice might help your character, and their motivation for joining her.
If your character chose to bury the ashes of their memories, they will be a terrestrial animal. If they gave them to the sea, they will be an aquatic animal. If they tossed them into the wind, they will be an aerial animal.
Regardless of the type, they will receive a cloak with three buttons, its fabric the color and pattern of their animal. The fabric shifts from a normal fabric to something closer to the animal’s pelt depending on how many of the buttons are fastened.
Your character must be wearing their cloak with all three buttons fastened in order to fully become their animal and gain the ability to travel into their past. If they only have one or two active, they will only partially shift, gaining some of the more distinctive traits of their animal but being unable to time travel. Having more active will also make them more sensitive to the magic around them, so it can be a boon or a detriment depending on if they've dabbled in magic before and how the wild magic reacts to them.
Include in Your Character Sheet:
- Name
- Pronouns
- Number of Previous Ventures
- Occupation/Skillset
- Physical Description/Defining Characteristics
- Animal Form
- Past Event
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Katpride
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Name: Rosalind Harper ("Harper", she/her)Number of Previous Ventures: 0. Harper has assisted with many ventures, but has never traveled to the past herself. She doesn't want to risk Time deciding that she has done her quest until the time is right. She believes it is best to prioritize her own venture, and has spent many years working with the old woman in exchange for getting to gather intel from other travelers.
Occupation/Skillset: Harper is a potion-maker. She has learned through her time with the old woman how to make the elixirs that are used in the creation of Cloaks. She often sends her own experiments along on other people's quests, to test how viable and effective they are after the Traveling. After years of doing so, she has found that only the more simple brews survive the journey, and anything too complex risks getting scrambled. Ingredients are more stable, but preparing them while in the past would require hunting down the supplies to do so.
Physical Description / Defining Characteristics: She is a tall, thin woman with a sharp nose and jaw. She dresses very modestly, tending towards long skirts and long sleeves. As she nears the transformation her straight dark brown hair begins to fluff with feathers and the tip of her nose, her fingers, and her toes darken in color.
Animal Form: Raven - can fly and carry small creatures.
The Baron killed Harper's parents, and for so many years he has been allowed to get away with it. If it were as simple as killing him, Harper would have done so long ago and washed her hands of the whole affair, but she doesn't want to kill him. She wants her parents back, and she wants him to suffer.
Over the years, she has monitored the growth of his pride and joy; the gardens surrounding his mansion. He takes great pains to maintain the expansive, lush landscape, with a team of vetted gardener-guards working around the clock to keep it safe. Rumor has it that he even eats from his own vegetable garden, though he has no need to. This is where she plans to hit him.
Hers is a mission of scorched earth; she has developed an elixir that will poison his plants, but she needs a task force to discreetly plant the poison within the water and ground while they infiltrate the estate. The true mission is this: in order to save her parents she must sneak into the Baron's study and destroy whatever blackmail he has that keeps them working for him.
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Katpride
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FAMILIAR
Name: Meena KumariAge: 25
Nationality: Indian
Appearance: Meena is a short young woman with a cheerful demeanor. She has long, curly hair with the left side shaved. She uses a wheelchair, which she has personalized with rainbow-colored spokes.
Dreams: To save people. And to retire comfortably.
Fears: Having to watch people get hurt. Being helpless.
Virtues: Kind-hearted, passionate
Vices: Reckless, overly trusting
Brief History: Born in Vasai-Virar, India to two loving parents, Meena Kumari quickly became a rising star in the world of fencing. She was on track to go into the professional circuit by the age of 16, but a tragic car accident doused those dreams. Meena would never walk again-
“Oh, turn that off, would you? They’re so dramatic sometimes. I can walk, just not very far. You’d think I’d died, the way those reporters go on. Well I’m not dead, I’m happily married and in a new career. They never seem to bring that up.”
It’s true. After losing hope for her fencing career, Meena pivoted into service as a Familiar. Even if she doesn’t get any recognition, she wants to live a life dedicated to helping people. And, as it turned out, there was a newly opened position with a certain mech that could use someone with her set of skills.
MECH
Name: AthenaRole: Scout/Tactical Support
Creation Date: April 30th, 2178
Appearance: Athena is built like one of her statues, if that statue was also a robot; she's a humongous stone-colored mechanical woman with gold and silver accents. She wears a helmet with a big plume and a visor that casts her eyes in shadow. Neat trick, it makes it easy to see out without having to rely solely on her viewports. She also has an old-timey spear and a humongous round shield.
Abilities:
Primary/Passive: Scanners. Everywhere. The Athena HUD has tons of screens and monitors to look at, but luckily most of the actual important info gets filtered down to the primary screen, or it pops up on the edges of the viewport. They say I’ll pick up on how to watch everything in time, but that seems honestly impossible. You’d have to have three heads and twice as many brains. Besides, why do I even need to know about the weather and tectonic plate condition? Just give me a big flashing light when a building’s gonna collapse and leave me alone, geez.
Secondary: She’s got this big-ass shield. It’s good for hunkering behind while the Big Gal crunches numbers, and that plus the spear means she can hold her own for as long as that takes. Or rather, I can hold my own. Our own? The mech does the heavy lifting (literally), but I still have to wave the stuff around. Never thought I’d have to use my swordswomanship in the giant mech arena.
Overdrive: Okay so I’ve only done this once and the best description I can give? Laser light show. The Big Gal lights up like a friggin rave, LEDs out the wazoo, and locks onto the weak points in the Splinter. Then she just starts charging for it. I swear she locked me out of the leg controls (mega rude!). It was all I could do to keep us steady, but that hit at the end seemed to write the check for the Splinter.
Legacy: Athena’s definitely been around the block. There are still sticky notes from some past Familiars tacked up on different screens, and someone hid an engineer’s toolkit under the controls. Weirdos. She seems to work fine, so hopefully they didn’t get to mess around too much.
Original Myth: Goddess of wisdom and strategy in war. Also arts and crafts, which I can get behind. Daughter of Zeus, the king of the gods, through… unconventional means. Turned a lady into a spider once. Guess she had a lot going on.
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Katpride
Story Collector
The Seamstress
Name: Florian “Flo” Turei
Alias:
Power Level: Low
Alignment: Retired Villain, now Neutral
Age: 57
Appearance: A matronly older woman with long gray hair. She wears clothes which are both comfortable and stylish, often trending towards sweaters and long, flouncy skirts. She has cat-eye bifocal glasses with attached chains that clink softly whenever she moves. She wears a wedding ring; a gold band inlaid with colorful lab-grown diamonds.
Powers:
Duplication - Florian can create nearly perfect copies of herself, reflecting her current physical condition. The only consistent flaw in her creations are the eyes; they are never quite right, often appearing one-dimensional or the wrong shape. Any fine detail in their clothing tends to get lost in the process, and overall there's something undeniably off about them when compared to her original form. Her copies usually wear sunglasses when in public so that they can pass as her more easily, but they don't hold up under scrutiny.
While active, Florian can communicate telepathically with her copies and vice versa, sending mental messages and attached emotions. This helps them communicate across distances, though they are careful not to go too far. Her copies can operate independently of her original form, but at greater distances from her (beginning at about half a mile) they experience increasing discomfort, eventually becoming unable to move if they are more than a few miles apart.
She can create up to two copies at a time, and needs to rest before making more. Each copy lasts for 12 hours unless reabsorbed into the original’s body or killed. After 12 hours, the copy will begin to fade away and soon will cease to exist.
If reabsorbed, the original and the copy merge, and Florian takes the average of the physical and mental condition of the copy and herself. This includes any unique memories or injuries she or the copy may have developed. She usually makes an effort to reabsorb all of her copies, because it can be scary to feel yourself fade away.
Alliances: Dual Flame Outfitters, the clothing/weapons shop that she runs with her wife, Myrna.
Skills: Florian is an expert seamstress, as she’s had practice in both crafting and mending clothes for decades. She takes custom orders as well as stocking her own apparel shop, and it’s an open secret that she takes a special interest in designing supersuits for heroes and villains alike.
Equipment: Being retired, Florian no longer keeps a supersuit of her own. If threatened, she is quite adept with a sewing needle (as well as the three throwing darts she keeps in her purse), but she usually lets her wife take care of rowdy customers. She’s always trying to get her hands on new materials for her shop, ensuring that she keeps a good stock of various fabrics and thread.
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