Flux
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| Shadow Star "'A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?' Albert Einstein actually said that? Yeah, I always knew there was something besides Relativity that made me love him."
The Biography
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Birth Name: Arizona “Rizzie” Jeanne Paige Aliases: Shadow Star, Wraithe, Forbidden Fruit, Apple of Eden, Touch and Die (she hates all these names) Gender: Female Age: 20 Birth Date: 1st March Class: Mutant
Appearance: Rizzie is one character that is rather hard to forget, due to her looks. She has silky, snow white hair which is long enough to get to her tush. Often times, she ties it into a ponytail or two, and lets some bangs fall over her face, but mostly, she may not bother to restrain it at all. Her eyes are another interesting feature. Unlike most humans that have the same eye color in both eyes, Rizzie is heterochromic. One eye is pacific blue, while the other is a deep blue-green. Her eyes, which are set beneath thin, slightly arched eyebrows, seem full of life and emotion. She has a button nose, and her cheeks have a smattering of freckles. Her mouth is also small with full lips, and she has a dimple when she smiles. She stands on the short side, about five feet and two inches, and her build is petite, giving her a bit of a fragile look, although she has voluptuous curves in the right places. She has a certain energy to her actions, albeit with a touch of feminine grace.
In the way of clothing, Rizzie's outfits are casual, though they tend to show some skin. She often favors midriff tops and denim pants. Whenever her tops have short sleeves, she always has a long sleeved jacket around her. In the way of ‘work clothes’ (your superhero-spandex-Spidey-Psylocke-Cyclops-outfits and such), as she prefers to call them, her current, and most used outfit is a black and electric-blue halter-top leotard, which has a zipper that runs from neck to some inches below her navel (she always keeps it zipped up to her chest), over which she wears a long sleeved jacket, and knee high boots on her legs. She also wears detached sleeves that start from her upper arms and usually reach her wrists. Her other outfits also tend to follow a pro-wrestling theme, comprising of midriff tops and miniskirts, or even short dresses. The jacket, regardless of the outfit, is constant, and she usually carries a utility pouch with her. Sometimes, especially when she wants to hide her identity, she wears a mask reminiscent of a luchador’s.
In every situation, whether in combat or out of it, Rizzie always wears a pair of gloves. She also wears glasses, as she is a little myopic (short sighted), and when in her ‘work clothes’, she wears tinted goggles or uses contact lenses. Another thing of note is that all her outfits have some sort of small circular panels situated here and there on her torso, which glow faintly when her powers are inactive, and fiercely when she is using her powers. In the way of piercings, she has a piercing in each ear, in which she usually wears lightning shaped earrings.
Rizzie is always seen wearing a titanium collar, thanks to the organization she works for.
Personality:
- The Attitude:
Arizona Paige is a very deep individual; the kind of person that you can never make a profile of at first glance, though many people believe that they have her figured out when they first meet her. At first contact, the words that quickly come to the minds of those who see her are "zany", "gaga" and even "crazy", what with her eccentric exuberant behavior, and her seeming inability to take anything very seriously. She has various 'joke moods', and her humor switches between dry and subtle, to witty and even to downright goofy or sharply snarky. She likes smiling, singing (she has a very melodious voice, if the song isn't getting on your nerves) and talking... a lot. It would have been okay if she stopped there, but when you add her recklessness and suicidal tendencies, she becomes more manic and psychotic than just weird or funny. All these crazy behaviours serve as a ruse to hide her extremely sharp mind and analytic prowess, and also her occasional melancholia..
Rizzie has a very keen mind. Add that to her klutzy behaviour, and you have an eccentric young lady. In fact, many people think that she is very abrupt, suddenly doing things without any sold reason. Truth is, however, that those who know Rizzie well, know that she has a good reason for every action she takes. She likes to hide her intentions for the most part, and doesn’t really care what others think, unless they’re her close friends. She also likes to hide away from human company many a time, tinkering with her ‘toys’, especially when she is in one of her melancholic states, but she doesn’t like people seeing her like that. It is truth that no matter how intelligent a person is, there is a subject that they’re awfully bad at. For Rizzie, it’s current affairs. Rizzie will give a rather uncorrelated answer to a question on current affairs if she is asked such, because for the life of her, she cannot think of the human being responsible, nor does she want to waste her time thinking up a name to put with the face. Probably the only correct answers you can get from her are the names of the current U.S President and his Vice.
When it comes to her interactions with other people, Rizzie will tend to fool around, until she feels that someone really needs her help. Then she will go all out to help. She is very sacrificial, and can easily endanger herself just to save a life. She has this strong empathy and can easily feel the pain of others, and will always want to do whatever she can to ease that pain. She doesn’t like others to know about her own pains and hurts, because she doesn’t want to bother or trouble them with her sorrows. Of course, this makes her good super-hero material. She can keep quiet and listen when she has to, and although she can be soft and nice, she can also be very blunt. If she feels a friend is behaving unreasonably, and isn’t responding to gentleness, she will tell them off, frankly.
When it comes to conflict, Rizzie will not usually throw the first blow, though any sign of provocation can swiftly put her in the fighting mood. And when she is in such a mood, she can be insufferable. Rizzie will just not keep her mouth shut, and will go on to trash talk her opponent, even when she is outmatched or outnumbered. When she finds herself losing, she will still manage to laugh away the pain and say a lot of nonsense (she hardly uses vulgar language, though), which makes many believe her to be a masochist, one who is a sucker for pain. Her anger is spontaneous and short lived, and she rarely keeps grudges. If she does, however, she doesn’t forget. She hardly sucks up to those she dislikes, and can even insult them to their faces, all with that smug smirk on her face, regardless of the retribution that may follow.
On a final note, for someone like her, who doesn’t seem to be able to easily settle down, Rizzie is rather detailed and meticulous. When she has a job to do, she likes to take her time and do it well, and she always guns for perfection. Although her empathic nature will allow her to be soft on the failures of others, she doesn’t take kindly to her own slip-ups, and always works rigorously to satisfy herself and her allies. She loves to look clean and flashy, and she dislikes dirt and grime with a passion. She doesn’t like perverts and people who like touching ‘odd’ places on the body (she will point out that she wears the jacket to cover her arms, as they could be easily touched, but as no one has a reason or right to go touching her belly, it’s their fault if anything happens). On trivial notes, she likes summer and dislikes winter (because there is more heat energy to absorb in summer, and vice versa). This explains the reason for her choice of apparel. Rizzie claims that covering up more tends to restrict the amount of sunlight her body can absorb, and she tends to be more sluggish and bad-tempered on such days, although amounts of sunlight and winter cold do not have any noticeable effect on her functionality. She is actually afraid of human beings. Although she has had a rough history with them, she doesn’t hate them, and hopes that one day, they, alongside mutants, will be able to co-exist in peace.
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The Capability
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Specialties:
Main Specialty: Techno-savvy Sub Specialty: Physical Prowess
Powers:
Main Power: Energy Manipulation Once it’s energy Rizzie can absorb it. She has the power to absorb even esoteric energy signatures such as psychic energy, magic and cosmic energy. She can then release this energy to create a universal glowing energy pattern, which is capable of powering up machinery (as though she was some sort of battery) and to a limited extent, heal living organisms. She can also use this energy offensively and defensively, to boost her strength, speed and invulnerability, heal herself of injuries, create shields and lights, and fire telekinetic blasts. Her powers cannot absorb chemical energy, potential energy and kinetic energy in objects. Raw kinetic energy, like telekinetic blasts, can be easily absorbed. She is also incapable of generating any other energy signature (beyond what a normal human can generate), such as heat and electricity.
Main Power (Flaw): Inhuman Strength An entirely different effect of the Energy Absorption power. Exactly what it says on the can…
Sub Power: Supportive Telepathy Due to having absorbed a lot of psychic energy from many people, this mutant has developed telepathic powers of her own. However, Rizzie’s telepathy steers far away from mind control, but instead is more focused on information collection. Thus, she has abilities such as mind reading, psychometry and telepathic communication. However, she also has some interrogation abilities that can painfully weaken targets and force information out of them. This will make psychic blocks less effective. To an extent, Rizzie is also able to sense psychic objects or phenomena from a distance, thus giving her some sort of psychic sensory ability.
Abilities:
- Energy Manipulation:
Name: Black Drain Range: Short (0-5 meters) Rank: C Power Type: Main Duration: N/A Power: Energy Manipulation Description: Rizzie can absorb most, if not all forms of energy, provided they are on her rank. Her body begins to emit a black colored wavelength, or motes of black energy that will float over to an object and leech the energy out of it. The motes, which will then glow a bright blue, will float back to her and be absorbed into her body. Interestingly, she cannot absorb the kinetic energy stored in an object (e.g. energy from a bullet, thrown fist, etc) and she cannot absorb chemical and potential energy either. However, she can absorb energy from a car if its engine is running, and certainly from human beings, and she can absorb through thin protective material, such as clothes and light armor. At C Rank: Organisms begin to feel sluggish, and headaches creep in (continuous contact exacerbates the condition). At B Rank: Organisms feel mentally drained and become tired (continuous contact exacerbates the condition). At A Rank: Organisms cannot hold themselves up and slump. Migraines are almost unbearable, but the victim barely has the power to react. At S Rank: Organisms are knocked into a coma on contact. Prolonged use will kill the organism by the third post.
- Inhuman Strength:
Name: Induced Strength Range: Self Rank: C Power Type: Main Duration: Passive Power: Inhuman Strength (Flaw) Description: Rizzie can lift a total weight of 2000 lbs with her bare hands.
- Supportive Telepathy:
Name: Social Network Range: 50 meters Rank: C Power Type: Sub Duration: N/A Power: Supportive Telepathy Description: This ability allows Rizzie to form a mental link with at most 3 persons for a period of time within a 100 meter radius. She must first be aware of their presence, perhaps by seeing them, hearing from them (via a phone call), or sensing them by any other medium. With this link, she can discuss, project thoughts, sounds and images, etc. She can send messages to each of them personally, or can even open a ‘forum’, where all ‘participants’ are linked and can discuss freely and share with each other. You could say it’s Rizzie’s own Psychic Social Network.
Flaw Name: Touch Me and Die… Seriously! Flaw Type: Deformed Ability Flaw Description: Rizzie’s energy absorption powers seem to have overdone it… a lot! Her body seems to be unable to stop absorbing psychic energy… and life. This, in essence, makes her more or less untouchable. If any living thing comes in contact with her skin, its energies will be absorbed into her body, which will result in detrimental effects such as enervation, migraines, in worse situations, unconsciousness, and in the worst case scenario, an untimely demise. Anything that prevents skin on skin contact, such as clothes can protect the living organism from this power. The level of energy absorption is dependent on her Black drain ability.
Flaw Name: White Noise Flaw Type: Prolonged Use Flaw Description: Since the Supportive Telepathy is not a direct power of Rizzie’s continuous use is very tasking on her body. Once she uses her powers for 3 posts, she gets to a psychic limit. By the fourth post, she begins to suffer headaches. By the fifth post, she begins to suffer stress induced migraines that cause her to visibly flinch in pain. She collapses from exhaustion by the end of that post.
Skills:
Skill Name: Software Guru Skill Specialty: Techno-savvy Skill Range: N/A Skill Description: This skill allows Rizzie to hack into computer systems, their security levels dependent on the rank of this skill. She also has an excellent knowledge of how software functions, and can modify and reverse-engineer them. Thus, she is a good computer technician.
Skill Name: Rogue Pilot Skill Specialty: Techno-savvy Skill Range: N/A Skill Description: Due to years of training, bad influence and an intuitive mind, Rizzie can not only break into, but can also fly many vehicles, and only has to spend a little time with unfamiliar vehicles to get the hang of them. Of course, she makes for an excellent pilot/driver/whatever.
Skill Name: Greased Lightning Skill Specialty: Physical Prowess Skill Range: N/A Skill Description: As a result of her rigorous training, Rizzie boasts of a speed that surpasses talented athletes. She thus enjoys a 25% boost to her overall speed.
Skill Name: Pro-Wrestling Champion Skill Specialty: Physical Prowess Skill Range: N/A Skill Description: Having been in the ring for quite a while, and having received training, Rizzie is a very talented pro-wrestler and can hold her own easily in unarmed combat with flashy techniques and luchador tactics… although she has the strength to include brawler-style wresting moves. Thus, her fighting style can be described as flashy and explosive.
Weapons/Devices:
Item Name: Android Hacker Item Range: Item Rank: C Item Description: A heavily modified version of an android phone, this device enables Rizzie to perform all her hacking enterprises on wireless networks, or with various cable systems. Of course, she can connect herself to the internet with this device, and perform other nifty things, such as calling her friends. Item Power: Hacks C-ranked programs and security systems.
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The Background
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History:
- The Life and Times of Arizona Paige:
Arizona Paige was born to an American father and Hispanic mother, who were rather well to do. Her tender years were not very eventful, concerning mutants and powers and such stuff, although what we need to know at this point is that her parents hated mutants. Rizzie had always had white hair, but since she manifested no powers, her parents considered it to be a freak case of albinism. As Rizzie grew up, she had a knack for computers and advanced devices (a skill her parents heartily encouraged), and could be easily described as a whiz-kid. Her parents gave her everything she wanted, but they were hardly around, and she was mostly in the company of her uncle (her mother’s junior brother), who was a pro-wrestling trainer. Her technology prowess, coupled with her small body and big glasses, identified her as a spaz, and where there is a spaz, there are bound to be bullies. At some point, these bullies so terrorized her life that she began to develop a complex and became more withdrawn. And it was at this point that her uncle came in to save the day.
He advised her to learn a martial art, so that she would be able to defend herself if the need arose. She then asked him to teach her his techniques. And thus began Rizzie’s days of exercise. She took her training as seriously as she took her gadgets, managing to do both very well, and disregarding almost everything else. Unfortunately, her parents did not approve of the training and put an end to it. She was allowed to exercise, though.
At the age of eleven, her mutant powers manifested when she noticed that electrical appliances often shut down when in direct contact with her body. It was not a common occurrence, but she began to suspect that she was a mutant, and she turned to her confidant and uncle for help. He, to her surprise, revealed that he was also a mutant, a telepath of sorts, and he told her that he could help her control her powers, so that they would not be detected by the community. This proved to be a boon in a sense, because now that she knew his secret, he could communicate mentally with her, teaching her both fighting styles and whatever control techniques he knew, all in her mind. She concluded her high school days very quickly, and was allowed to attend college when she was fifteen. She quickly bagged herself a degree in Information Technology, by the time she was eighteen, to the delight of her parents, and got herself a good job as a software programmer in New York.
They say that “when it rains, it pours.” Rizzie’s bad luck came in a myriad of bundles that have existed up till the current day. It all began when her parents were killed in a plane crash, as they returned home after a visit. The news of their deaths seemed to trigger a surge of her powers, and they became impossible for her to control. Her neighbors soon found out, and before she knew it, she found herself victim of anti-mutant cults and factions. She lost her current job, was thrown out of her apartment, and when some shady “government officials” came to abduct her, claiming that they were going to help ‘cure’ her ‘problem’, no-one tried to protect her from them. Rizzie was taken away for treatment, right? Wrong!
The people who took her actually belonged to a terrorist cell known as the Mutant Apprehension Strike Team (M.A.S.T.), who forced mutants to take criminal missions which had been ordered by some mysterious black market of illegal power brokers. The mutants would go on these dangerous missions, while their Coordinators, all human, sat back at home and gave them orders over communication systems. In order to ensure that these mutants did not rebel or disobey orders, a sort of metal collar was fastened to their necks, which could swiftly send excruciating pain signals directly into the medulla oblongata. Any forceful attempt to remove it spelt certain death for the mutants. Fortunately for the mutants, the man in charge of the M.A.S.T. operation, known only as the Black King, did not allow his human subordinates, who treated the mutants like trash, to overly abuse them, as he believed that a healthy mind and body were always needed for mission success. He did not tolerate insubordination, however. Rizzie was quickly incorporated into the system, and within a year, was already going on missions. She earned all her nicknames in this organization, and in no time, had become a favourite, although this was offset by her bluntness and stubbornness.
On one of her first missions, Rizzie was commanded by one of the Black King’s human cohorts (known as the Drill) to murder someone who the Drill had a vendetta with. Rizzie refused, even under the pain of the collar, until the Drill revealed to her that her beloved uncle, who was her only family, was also in M.A.S.T. custody. To Rizzie’s horror, he told her to choose between the life of her uncle, and the target. Rizzie was actually going to kill the target, when her uncle screamed for her not to give in and make herself a murderer. Something in her stopped her from killing the target, and the Drill murdered her uncle in cold blood. To everyone’s surprise, Rizzie remained calm until they got home, and she found herself face-to-face with the Drill. Then, she went berserk. She was subdued only when the metal collar nearly killed her, but she never seemed to recover from that occasion. The Black King was not very pleased with these events, as he considered Rizzie’s mind to be a great asset to his organization, and thus put a ban on sending her to complete assassination missions. However, other members of her team, who could murder easily, could do the dirty work, while she was present. The Black King believed that in time, her heart would grow cold, and she would kill like the rest of the hardened mutant ‘slaves’.
Occasionally, for sport, the M.A.S.T. held fighting tournaments among the mutants, which helped Rizzie unwittingly hone her fighting skills further. She currently works on single missions of hacking and sabotage, or in a cell of three other mutants, known as the Ground Extraction Intelligence and Special Tactics Corps, otherwise called the G.E.I.S.T. Corps (‘Ground’ because most of them are incapable of flight… for now), a cell reputed to be the most elite in the M.A.S.T. However, their teamwork comes not from camaraderie, but the fear of punishment if they should fail. Out of envy, and to curry favors from their superiors, they have implicated Rizzie more than once, just to mock at her misery. Of course, this caused Rizzie to intensely dislike them, a feeling that is shared by each member for the other. As was mentioned earlier, the corps is united only to complete a tough mission, and once that is done, each of the individual members return to solo missions.
At the current moment, Rizzie acts like she has given up hope of escape, but inside, she is hoping and waiting for her fay of freedom to come.
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