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Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Allison â€œAllieâ€ Oâ€™Brien

2014-07-03T19:01:33-04:00

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:
Hero Name: Sekhmet
Real Name: Allison â€œAllieâ€ Oâ€™Brien
Date of Birth: April 26th
Citizenship: United States citizen
Place of Birth: Chicago, IL
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Known Relatives: Father: Connor Oâ€™Brien
Major Enemies: None known
Extent of Education: Public schooling
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 5â€™8â€
Weight: 140 lbs
Hair: Golden blonde with natural red highlights
Eyes: Green
Skin: Pale
Other distinguishing Features: Freckles on nose and cheeks, scar from left ear down to her neck, 3â€ scar on left arm in the elbow area (extends from above it to below it)
Uniform/Costume: Lion mask (that covers the top of her face), bodysuit (this may changeâ€¦)
Usual Style/Clothes: Jeans and a T-shirt or tank top, tennis shoes, baseball hat, hair braided (very tomboy chic)
Health: Excellent
Mental Health: Stable
Appearance: Allison is a pretty girl who is fairly tall and has just recently blossomed into a curvy young woman. She has shoulder length hair that she normally wears in braided pigtails and a large smattering of freckles on her nose and cheeks. She never wears any makeup and favors â€œboyish clothesâ€ although she does enjoy dressing up (and â€œfeeling prettyâ€) occasionally. She carries herself with natural confidence and grace that comes with being comfortable with herself but is seen in few teens.
POWERS AND ABILITIES: Animal empathy and telepathy.
BACKGROUND:
Personality: A rather shy girl, Allie tends to prefer the company of animals as she knows exactly how to interact with them. When someone does take the time to get to know her, they will find her friendly and is a very loyal friend. She isnâ€™t really one for taking unnecessary risks but will definitely put herself in harmâ€™s way to protect those she cares about. Allie tends to be a hot head when repeatedly harassed and it has gotten her into trouble on occasion.
Favorite Quote: â€œGo Cubs!â€
Quirks:
Hobbies: Sports, Fixing Cars, Tinkering, Cooking, Fishing
History:
Alison Oâ€™Brien was the youngest of two children born to staunch Irishman Connor Oâ€™Brien and his lovely wife Katherine. Although they were very poor (with her mother being a stay-at-home mother and her father being a grocery manager for Jewel), the family made the best of things and was overall very happy. Her early childhood was filled with games, laughter and love. Allison adored and looked up to her older brother, James, and did everything she could to be as much like him as possible.
When Allison was 9, her father and mother decided to take the kids to Six Flags as a reward for good grades and because they really hadnâ€™t ever gotten to do much special as a family. Her father found out at the last minute he was going to have to work but her mother decided to forge on and take the kids, anyhow, seeing as they were looking so forward to it. They dropped Connor off at work but, unfortunately, would never make it to the amusement park. A driver in a large SUV fell asleep on Riverside Drive and went over the center line, plowing into the familyâ€™s Metro, killing Katherine and James instantly. Allie was luckier, emerging with only a large cut on her face and a badly broken arm. The emotional scars were much, much worse. The family did receive a modest settlement from the SUV driverâ€™s insurance but it was barely enough to pay for the funerals and Allieâ€˜s medical expenses.
The next few years were extremely difficult. Healing from her physical wounds as well as adjusting to her father being Allieâ€™s only remaining family was almost too much. And it was almost too much for her father, as well. When Allison was 11, he decided to take a job as a Night Store Manager in Grand Rapids, MI to get away from Chicago and all the haunting memories it held.
Allie thrived in Michigan. She made a few good friends and did well in school. So well that she was invited to be part of a summer school program at the local zoo, John Ball. That was Allisonâ€™s best summer ever although also one of the oddest. She had always found herself having a natural affinity for animals (although she had never had one) but, being exposed to them all day, she found she could not only feel how the individual animals were on any given day but could also hear them from time to time. And she quickly discovered they could hear her, tooâ€¦ Knowing this was not â€œnormalâ€, Allison kept this to herself. She quietly tried her new found â€œpowersâ€ on animals outside the zoo and discovered that whatever was going on with her, it applied to all mammals.
Her few good friends faded into the woodwork as Allie became closer and closer to the local strays until the girl found herself with only one real human friend, Christy, left. One evening the mice in the school showed Allie images of Christy being attacked in the school gym. In a panic for her friend, Allie ran as fast as she could to the school, calling for her animal friends to help a human in need. When Allison got to the school there were several dogs, cats, rats, raccoons and possums waiting for her to open the doors to the school. Once the doors were opened, they all ran in with the girl and together they attacked the man who had been hurting Christy. Allison herself even got in a few good punches, having been taught by her father that any Irishman (or woman) worth their salt knew how to throw a good punch. When the police showed up, the man was down and covered in the bites and scratches of several animals. Christy, who had lost consciousness, was able to corroborate Allisonâ€™s story of being attacked (although she had no idea how Allison knew) but neither girl could explain the manâ€™s wounds. The police decided to chalk up the manâ€™s damages to Allisonâ€™s punches. Although she wasnâ€™t in any trouble with the police, seeing as she was defending someone from an attacker, the man turned out to be the schoolâ€™s principal who was well respected man in the community. His standing in the community led to no one believing he was truly attacking Allieâ€™s friend and he kept his position at the school. And prompt expelled Allie for at least the first few months of the next school year.
Offered a promotion of Store Manager with Meijer in the town of Neptune, Allisonâ€™s father decided this would be an ideal time to take it. Plus, the pay raise would be good enough they could finally afford a nice house. They moved there shortly before the school year was about to beginâ€¦

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:01 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Isabella Heartnet

2014-07-03T19:00:23-04:00

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:
Hero Name: None as of yet
Real Name: Isabella Heartnet
Date of Birth: May 5, 1995
Citizenship: American
Place of Birth: Los Angeles California (moved to Michigan about 2 years ago)
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual, Straight.
Known Relatives: Father (Kyle Heartnet) mother (crystal Heartnet) divorced.
Major Enemies: None (Except for math.)
Extent of Education: Has been suspended a few times. But has managed to pass all of her classes up to this point.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 95-100 lbs, speculated.
Hair: Fuchsia, purple, black, red... Constantly changes.
Eyes: Changes
Skin: Light peach color.
Other distinguishing Features: snake bites and multiple ear piercings.
Uniform/Costume: Costume is that of a female magician.
Usual Style/Clothes: Punk rocker
Health: Perfect
Mental Health: Perfect
Appearance: She looks like a classic punk rocker, looks like a bad kid and acts like one too.

POWERS AND ABILITIES:

Name: Illusions
Effects: Can create a multitude of illusions. From simple things such as glamours and charms to walls of energy and shards of energy, to making things disappear and create things out of nothing.
Duration: Consciousness, and energy level, concentration.
Disadvantages: Higher level powers involve incantations, chants, meditating, or certain words to create them.

BACKGROUND:
Personality: Isabella is a bit of a trouble maker, and likes getting into trouble. She isn't miss popular, but she doesn't care. She prefers being alone. She tends to do whatever she wants, and go wherever she pleases. Isabella would at first glance be that emo/punk scene kid, and though she likes that fashion and listens to that music she is more of a nerd. She is a gamer, loves comics and anime. She also loves, and is a fairly good artist.

Quirks: Refers to her powers as magic. Can, will, and has geeked out on some topics.
Hobbies: She is a pretty good artist. She also used to be a gymnast. During her free time she experiments with her powers.

History: Isabella Heartnet is a bit of a trouble maker. Her dad works 24/7 as a nurse, and her mom left a while ago so she is practically nonexistent. Isabella was your average kid, although she did like to go places she wasn't meant to go, and get in trouble. Though she's had a few suspensions, And has nearly failed some classes because of absence. She has managed to pass them all. She is quiet, and spends most of her time doing whatever she wants. She grew up on the East side, and went to East middle school.

Powers: she can currently make small things appear and disappear.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:00 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Ajiso Masaki

2014-07-03T18:52:05-04:00

Ajiso Masaki

Full Name: Ajiso Masaki

Progenitors: Father: Totiro Masaki (Deseased), mother Mihosi Masaki

Siblings: Brother (Deceased) Tokiro Masaki, sister (Missing): Myria Masaki

Age: 14

Eye Color: Bright Emerald.

Hair Color: Black, worn long and in a tail weighed by a stone known as the eighth chakra.

Distinguishing Marks: Japanese tattoos that run from her spine to tail bone that is only visible via black light.

Race: Augmented Human

Gender: Female

Dominant: Hand Left

Height: 5â€™3

Weight: 117 lbs

Build: Athletic, moves with grace uncommon to those of her age group. At fourteen she has the curves of a healthy maturing athletic framed big-busted woman and she wears her hair in a long single braid to keep it out of her way; it falls just past her waist and is anchored by a ten pound ceremonial weight, which serves as part of her training in the Masaki style of her particular martial arts. Though still young she looks more mature then she really is due to her enhanced physiology. Her piercing emerald eyes portray sadness, while her Japanese ancestry makes her very exquisite to behold at times, as she seems to have inherited the best qualities from her parentsâ€™ rival clans.

Bio

Ajiso grew up in the Fukushima province of Japan under the shadow of Mount Azuma in the shrine of Masaki, which had been run by her family for the last seven hundred years. She wasnâ€™t always destined to be the child to take over the shrineâ€™s handling and responsibilities, but after her brotherâ€™s death and the mysterious disappearance of her older sister, there was little choice in the matter, though in the end with her fatherâ€™s mysterious death and the shrine burning to the ground itâ€™s become moot.
Unfortunately, her mother and fathers marriage wasnâ€™t accepted well as they were from rival clans, and her mother left her father when she was six years old, after her older sister vanished. Until several years ago she spent the winter with her mother in Osaka, but her mother moved to the USA suddenly a couple of years ago to open a noodle house far away from Japan for some reason and Masaki hadnâ€™t seen her until after her fatherâ€™s death. There are rumors that her parents had an arranged political marriage in an effort to end the violence between their two rival clans; brutal violence that had been in existence for over five hundred years.

In the past, the Masaki clan was samurai, and when the emperor declared all samurai to put down their swords the Masaki clan obeyed. The put their blades away and became monks, hence the start of the Masaki shrine. Her motherâ€™s clan, the Nakatomi clan, refused and turned against the emperor as outlaws. Only in the last century has the Nakatomi clan been able to move about society freely due to the reforms during world war two, but there have always been rumors of their wealth coming from illicit sources. For over five hundred years a blood feud between the Masaki clan and the Nakatomi clan has existed. The marriage of her parents was supposed to end that feud, but many believe that Totiro Masakiâ€™s death was in fact last blow as it marked the death of the last male in the Masaki clan.

In school Masaki excels at math and all things athletics and was her schoolâ€™s archery and kendo club up until she moved to America. She is proficient in the arts of Iaijutsu and Iaido, as trained by her father at the shrine, though this is never practiced outside of the privacy of a family dojo. Sheâ€™s gone regional with kendo and kenjitsu, though never managing to claim a badge, while maintaining a black belt in aikido and is a lifelong practitioner of Tai-chi. She is also a practitioner of Kyudo, the Japanese Art of Archery. Like most her martial training, her father put a bow into her hands as soon as she was old enough to hold one and through this training she was able to excel in the schoolâ€™s archery club.

Like most kids her age in Japan, she rode with a gang of girls, but her bike (moped) was left behind when she was sent to the states. Itâ€™ll probably be several months before it clears shipping, along with most of her other belongings. They were basically restless kids that had moments of instability, but rarely did anything to get onto the local authorityâ€™s radar. Shortly after her fatherâ€™s death and the destruction of the Masaki Shrine she was sent to live with her mother in the United States; which is also the start of her story. Her mother runs a Japanese noodle restaurant in Neptune located next to the Wal-Mart called Mihoshiâ€™s Noodles, where Masaki works waiting on tables and cleaning up most nights for tips. Her mother, being a traditionalist, is often hard on her daughter, but not without her own reasons.

Each day, before school, she personally oversees her daughters continuing martial education and doesnâ€™t take to being disobeyed easily. As was explained to Masaki many years ago, it is the mother who trains the daughter, and the fathers who train the sons. Since Masaki had an older brother and sister her mother didnâ€™t put as much time into her, but with the disappearance of her older sister some years ago her mother has apparently patiently waited for an opportunity to train Masaki. The death of her father and the burning of the shrine along with her relocation to the USA has done just that, delivered Masaki into her motherâ€™s hands again.

Powers

Ajisoâ€™s powers are all about physical augmentation. Her origins are unknown to her and she didnâ€™t think anything special of herself until her teens when she suddenly realized she was better than others in almost all things physical. Someone arrogant might have used that for self-advancement and gain, but she decided to be more humble and instead limited herself to certain sports where her lifelong practice could be used to explain her extreme abilities.

Physically Augmented

Ajisoâ€™s is four times as strong as any Olympic athlete. She can casually lift two hundred pounds, bench over eight hundred pounds, and with effort move 3200 pounds. She can run 24 miles an hour or about a mile every 2.5 minutes. She can hold her breath for up to twelve minutes. Sheâ€™s presumably more resistant to infections and disease, though she still manages to catch the occasional cold. While her bones are denser than normal human bones, they can still be broken, though the force required is more than double the normal amount needed. Unfortunately, the same physical augmentation has a downside, it makes her body run hot, around 105 degrees is normal for her. The Source of her physical Augmentation is not currently known.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:52 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Avani Rasheda

2014-07-03T18:50:47-04:00

Player: Moon-Bound Tiger (Tiger)
Hero Name: Ratri, the Nightwarden (Raah-tree, with both "r" sounds rolled)
Given Name: Avani Rasheda
DOB: 03/28/1995
Citizenship: India/Processing for the US
Place of Birth: Himachal Pradesh, India
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Known Relatives: Her mother, Talia Rasheda; her deceased sister, Aaliyah (nicknamed Usas, oo-saas); her deceased father, Shiv Kumar; and the Kumar family.
Major Enemies: N/A; father's side of the family
Extent of Education: Primary and secondary school with British education standards, before move. She has been attending the Neptune East schools for four years.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 5'2
Weight: 88 lbs
Hair: A brown so dark that it appears black, her hair cascades thickly in long waves about her shoulders. It is parted off-center on her head, and she normally bundles it loosely with clips.
Eyes: The northern blood is much in evidence by Avani's eyes; they are a stark grey, nuanced with hints of gold at the very center. Thick, dark lashes give them a hooded look. They are normally lined darkly with surma (kohl).
Skin: While her skin is lighter than the Indian average due to her northern origins, there is still a distinct duskiness to it.
Other distinguishing features: Pierced ears, and a nose stud, as is culturally acceptable.
Uniform/Costume: N/A; Avani dresses in tunics that have a suggestion of eastern influence, and normally pairs this with jeans.
Health: While appearing delicate, Avani is strong for her stature and age, and healthy. Years of yoga instruction under her mother have strengthened her internally. Her abilities tire her in a way that is obvious, and her skin takes on a much more pallid cast on these occasions.
Mental Health: The loss of two family members in a traumatic event is no easy thing for anyone to bear, let alone an individual in a vital stage of their development. This, compounded with being uprooted from that which was her childhood, and grieving alongside a now-single mother, has caused Avani to mature much faster than many of her peers. Add a dash of the supernatural, and her mind is a convoluted mess. It is not an easy thing for her to process. There are fractures in her mind, and they are not easily repaired.
Appearance: Large, slightly slanted eyes are set into a doll-delicate face, where there is the promise of shaped lips and stark cheekbones in later years. She has the suggestion of fragility in stature, which belies her actual strength. She has the modest curves that come with a youth just embarking on the path to adulthood, yet by the way she is built, there is a certainty there that she will never quite have anything more than modest shapeliness. On the occasions that she smiles, it seems to light up her face; she otherwise carries an air of somberness and seriousness. Photos of her sister may be mistaken for those of her, save her sister's eyes being green, like her mother's. Her voice sits at a mezzo-soprano, and is normally used in soft tones. Her accent speaks of her native home, edged with English nuances, due to the school she had attended, and her mother's own accent. Her singing voice is slightly higher, its sound being clear, effortless, and crisp with a natural-sounding vibrato.
POWERS AND ABILITIES:
Ratri is a fitting moniker for Avani; her fledgling powers allow her to wield fire, an ability that is much stronger at night. She is just learning to focus the fire into a ball.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:50 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Guinevere Persephone Mathews

2014-07-03T18:49:35-04:00

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:
Hero Name: Librarian Queen
Real Name: Guinevere Persephone Mathews
Date of Birth: August 26th 1994
Citizenship: yes
Place of Birth: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Sexual Orientation: Lesbian
Known Relatives: Parents- Michael and Merry, younger brother- David
Major Enemies: Parents, (possibly) Ex girlfriend
Extent of Education: freshman in high school

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 4'11
Weight: 85lbs
Hair: New copper red- buzzcut
Eyes: Hazel (blue with gold center)
Skin: very pale
Other distinguishing Features: copper glasses, dimples
Uniform/Costume: A white blouse under a forest green jacket with matching long skirt with white tennis-shoes (required for her braces)
Usual Style/Clothes: Casual, usually the first thing that mom picks out. Nine times out of ten jeans and a t-shirt. When at home she wears pajamas or lounge pants.
Health: Born with Cerebral palsy, Guinevere uses a power wheelchair- with tray- to get around, Easily gets sick.
Mental Health: Stable if (justifiably) introverted
Appearance: She looks delicate and fragile, very thin, but has a big smile that- when happy- can light up her eyes. small hands- sometimes has difficulty holding things.

POWERS AND ABILITIES:

Name: touch-reading (she named it)
Effects: Any book or paperwork she touches with her bare hands she can read automatically.
Duration: one day unless she decides to 'keep' the information by rereading the book
Disadvantages: It won't work on computers or maps
Aides: Sometimes wears gloves to prevent reading something she shouldn't, or when she's trying to read 'normally'.

BACKGROUND:
Personality: Honest and quiet, she's loyal to those she calls her friends- but betray her trust and she will never raise her hand to help you again (unless you get creative in regaining her affections). Happiest when working, and gets mad when she has to do something pointless.
Favorite Quote: "There is no such thing as chance, only choices. Mistakes are just lessons to be learned."
Quirks: She prefers to work alone, and won't lie if something is going wrong. Don't expect her to jump in right away, let her take her time and think things through first.
Hobbies: Reading, writing, learning, playing and creating computer games
History: Guinevere Persephone Mathews transfers to Neptune High within a cloud of shock and pain after being outed by a jealous ex-girlfriend. Her ultra religious parents force the family to move due to the 'shame' of her lesbianism and in an effort to get her 'help'. However, while all the family are alike- cut from the same mold, only Guinevere is an outsider. Her family practically runs the church, and she wants nothing to do with it. They want her to go into work 'for god', but all she wants is to write her novel and plan her computer game. Her family is popular, always throwing parties and meeting people. But she just wants to be left in peace. She knows about her powers (but never told anyone, except her ex gf... I may or may not be able to expand on that... if someone's willing to partner with me- if interested ask me), and uses them when needed, but the family thinks she's just a fast reader- which isn't even a lie!

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:49 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Naomi Taylor

2014-07-03T18:48:23-04:00

Name: Naomi Taylor.

Alias: Tay, Lady Absinth.

Age: 14 (Born just one day to late to have been a freshman the year before â€“ December 2, 1994)

Appearance: Tay: Short 5â€™ 1â€™ Blonde, with gray eyes. Her hair is cut short with black streaks in it. She wears almost entirely black. Lady Absinth: tall 6â€™ 0â€™ Muscular woman, who wears tight black leather shorts and a black leather sports like bra. Very voluptuous and long blood red hair, and elongated fang-like canines.

Personality: Tay is a â€˜bad girl who is a good personâ€™. She is deeply upset by her fatherâ€™s murder. She is self-destructive, but doesnâ€™t want to hurt others beside herself and those who have hurt others. She secretly feels sorry and protective towards those who have been wronged or treated bad by society, though may not publicly express it. Her outward attitude is â€˜Whateverâ€™ Tay has developed a caustic sarcastic sense of humor. She is obsessed with darkness and death.

Powers: The power of illusion. She can make visual illusions only. (No sound smell or touch) These illusions seem solid, but can be walked through. These illusions are â€˜3D picturesâ€™ that she projects, not a psychic projection that she puts in peoples mines. They can be seen by people even if she doesnâ€™t know they are there, and photographed. They are lost if she is knocked out. The more complex an illusion is, the harder she has to concentrate to project. If she is practiced with an illusion, like her Lady Absinth disguise, she can maintain it with almost no thought.

Skills: An A and B student Tay is knowledgeable of her studies. Her father taught her basic hand to hand self defense. She is an expert on pop culture and the gothic life style.
She is comfortable with computers and other modern technology but not a hacker or techie.

Family: Father Joseph Taylor (Deceased), Mother: Anne Taylor Brothers: Joseph Jr. (11) and Benjamin (9).

History: Tay was the perfect little girl. Growing up in a middle class family. Her father was a police officer and mother was a stay at home daughter. She was her daddyâ€™s little girl. A 8th grade cheerleader, good student, and a perfect goody goody two shoes. That changed six months ago when her father was killed in the line of duty.

Tay, changed. She went from a â€˜little princesâ€™ to a dark goth She broke up with her â€˜Good boy boyfriendâ€™ Bobby Frazier. And began to hand out with a dark eerie crowd. She began adding dark highlights in her hair. Smoking and swearing. She alienated her ex-friends and social clique. Though she was forced by her mother to go to cancelling it hasnâ€™t really helped.

She created a charter in stories that she was writing named Lady Absinth. This was a vampire who hunted down criminals who got away with crimes, like her fatherâ€™s killers. Lady Absinth is a dark brooding figure, who is sexually open and remorseless towards delivering justice to evil doers. But loyal to her friends and though vengeful not evil.

When her powers manifested, she saw this as an opportunity to become her alter-ego. And began to become the character in her stories. Tay never felt that she was good enough writer to share her stories with anyone else, so no one even her friends have heard of Lady Absinth.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:48 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Isolde Lenore Black

2014-07-03T18:47:21-04:00

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:
Hero Name: None as yet
Real Name: Isolde Lenore Black
Date of Birth: 11th of December
Citizenship: United Kingdom/European Union
Place of Birth: RAF Bruggen, Germany
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual & Polyamorous
Known Relatives: Mother - Rosamund Steffi Black, Father - James Henry Black, Older Brother - Geoffrey Harry Black (17), Younger Sister - Heide Mila Black (12)
Major Enemies: None Isolde is aware of
Extent of Education: Just starting freshmen year of high school

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 155lbs
Hair: Light red with natural blonde streaks due to birthmarks on scalp, straight and short in an almost boyish style.
Eyes: Dark blue with grey circles around the iris's and orange flecks. Isi wears little round gold rimmed glasses to correct her short sightedness whose frames are made of shape memory alloy. She thinks they add to her librarian mystique.
Skin: Pale pink skin tone with freckles almost everywhere.
Other distinguishing Features: Naturally pointy tips to her canines (otherwise normal and well cared for teeth). She has numerous birthmarks all over her torso which she is not proud of.
Uniform/Costume: None as yet.
Usual Style/Clothes: Isi likes to wear things that show off her legs, she is quite proud of them. She tends to wear short skirts and shorts a lot in the summer and tight jeans in the winter. She likes wearing guys button down shirts, for the comfort and convenience, yet has been known to enjoy t-shirts, especially ones that have slogans or images that reflect her dark British sense of humor. Her style tends towards the tomboy much of the time.
Health: Isi is in good health generally. She is likely to have issues with her joints later in life due to all the crazy things she tends to get up to in her spare time, but for now she is enjoying her youth while she has it. Isi is one of those annoying people with a very slow metabolism. She can seemingly eat anything and everything and never put on weight. This coupled with her naturally low blood pressure has lead to several doctors nearly mis-diagnosing her with various ailments in the past. However these things are normal for the girl and not out of place. She is happy and healthy just as she is and needs neither statins nor artificial insulin. Fortunately both her mother and Isi herself are well aware of these things.
Mental Health: Isi is fairly well adjusted mentally, given her life so far.
Appearance: Tall, skinny, angular features, very 'old world' looking, attractive in that way that doesn't require makeup and is usually spoiled by it. She has a fairly flat chest, which is likely a side effect of her skinniness. She has long thin fingers and feet that appears a little too small for her height, yet manage to carry her about in good order. She is slim of hips and has the appearance of speed and perhaps flightiness about her, which is somewhat deceptive as she has never been an accomplished runner and is not a particularly nervous individual.

POWERS AND ABILITIES: Isi is able to manipulate time to a small extent around her. She can slow it down to allow herself more time to act or reach a goal, even stop its passage completely for very brief periods. She can possibly develop this further; however this will take a lot of practice and experimentation.

BACKGROUND:
Personality: Isi is usually teasing, smiling, being sarcastic or quietly watching things. She is not quick to judge; though once she has set her mind to a certain way of thinking itâ€™s hard to shift her. She has a tendency to judge people on their individual merits and actions rather than rely on stereotypes or hearsay. She is a self confessed geek, enjoying the internet a little too much, some computer games, devours books with a passion and fervor and likes to understand things of all kinds. She takes things apart just to see how/if she can do it and often even manages to return them, mostly, to their original state. She is a bit of fan girl at times, especially for some of the stuff that her dad sparked an interest in like old British TV and music. She takes friendship very seriously and forms very strong bonds with people. Thinks deeply, feels deeply and is a sensitive soul, something she tries to hide as often people have tried to use these things against her. She wears her personal masks well, though once you have her trust and her love she will go very well out of her way to help you if necessary. She is pleased with her strangeness, her difference and is not about to start to conform to the norm anytime soon. She is firmly of the belief that 'normal people' are one of the major problems with the world and it would all be much better if everyone was both a bit of a freak and willing to admit to it in public. Preferably with hand signals and cake.
Favorite Quote: "There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." - Theta Sigma (if anyone knows what this is without googling it you win one internet!)
Quirks: Quoting bizarre shows most people haven't heard of, going off on tangents often involving small cute furry mammals, being distracted, sticking up for what she believes to be right.
Hobbies: Isi likes the internet, archery, hanging out with her friends, boxing, reading, krav maga, the internet, 15thC European swordsmanship, a little wrestling, the internet, computer games, logic puzzles, randomly causing confusion in others, the internet, some TV shows, comics, the internet, music, movies and teasing those who deserve it (along of course with those who quite clearly do not and never will).
History: Isi was born on an RAF base, which is near Dusseldorf in Germany. Her father, who was a Squadron Leader at the time, was based there. Both her older brother and younger sister were similarly born 'on base'. Isi's mother was German born; her parents had met in a small bar in Bern while James was on leave. They moved back to the UK shortly after Heide was born, James taking a training position at RAF Linton-On-Ouse in Yorkshire. The base was pleasant enough and James seemed happier now that he was back on his home soil. Rosamund for her part was happy to be with her husband and children, was very understanding of his work and did not complain. They moved several times since then, including one two year posting as a training officer at CAF Cold Lake in Alberta Canada. Growing up as a forces kid Isi learned to make friends well and to judge others with clarity and care. She and her siblings picked up a habit for getting into trouble, which her father partially curbed by enrolling his kids in various after school classes. Isi found she enjoyed boxing and branched out into other physical sports and martial arts, including a stint with a re-enactment group while stationed at RAF Odiham in Hampshire England thanks in large part to her brother Geoff.
When Isi was thirteen, her father was assigned to the team testing and demonstrating the Eurofighter Typhoon. The family found themselves living near Nellis air force base in the US where some of the testing was going on, along with demonstration to NATO powers of the new aircrafts capabilities.
It was during such a flight that James Black lost his life when the Typhoon he was flying broke up mid flight. It is suspected that there was some kind of collision involving another aircraft that caused the accident, however no details have been released even to the family and the incident remains classified.
The family was devastated. Rosamund went into a mild depression lasting a little under a year. They were able to live very comfortably from James's pension and the RAF death benefits, yet that was of course no consolation to the loss of a father.

The family moved out of USAF Nellis shortly after the accident, they had been granted permanent residence status and decided, at least for the moment, to stay in the US. One of Rosamunds friends at the base had taken pity on her and found her a place to stay with relatives in Stockbridge, Michigan and the family found themselves staying in a rather palatial manse on the southern edge of the city with a very nice older couple who were exceedingly kind and helped them all through the worst consequences of the accident and the subsequent heartbreak.

The decision to settle in a house of their own in the nearby city of Neptune came shortly thereafter. House prices were shockingly cheap, they could afford to buy something really very nice outright in the area and they didn't have to worry about finding work for a while if at all. It was a nice enough place to live for the moment. Leaving Stockbridge also meant putting some distance between Isi and a young man a year above her in high school who had taken more than a shine to her. He had decided that his infatuation was best expressed by cornering her and pressing his advances. Geoff had found out and things had nearly come to blows, between the two boys. However the young man in question found Isi again in school shortly thereafter and once again attempted to press himself upon her. Isi had been forced to defend herself, against her better judgment. After breaking two fingers of her unwanted suitorâ€™s hand Isi had found herself expelled from school, something she is far from proud of.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:47 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Alan Craig

2014-07-03T18:46:29-04:00

Player: Ian McNamara
Hero Name: Zane Johnson
Given Name: Alan Craig
DOB: 12 november
Citizenship: US citizen
Place of Birth: Birmingham England
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Known Relatives: Just a mother Holly Craig, father John died of an overdose just before Alan was born.
Major Enemies: none currently
Extent of Education: freshman good student who is well up with his age group.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:

Height: 5ft 4
Weight: 100 lbs
Hair: blonde
Eyes: blue
Skin: white
Other distinguishing features: he is very athletically built and has a friendly complexion.
Uniform/Costume: black running shoes and a leather suit.
Health: perfect
Mental Health: perfect
Appearance: Has blonde hair and blue eyes, is muscular and athletic looking for his age and has a friendly complexion.
POWERS AND ABILITIES Fantastic speed can outrun even a car.

BACKGROUND:
Favorite Quotes: Treat others how you wish to be treated yourself.
Quirks: A smooth talker who walks with confidence.
Hobbies: Sport, music, plays Piano and sings, reading, computers and learning.
History:

Alan was born on the 12 november, he never knew his father because he was killed a month before his birth. His mother then lost all her money due to investments and other business ideas going wrong so she was forced to move with her sun to neptune as it was the only place she could afford to live. Alan did well at school and was a good student well up with his age group. One day when he was 10 he found that he could run very fast and managed to over take cars and buses even if they happened to be quite a way ahead of him. He also began to use his speed to out run the bigger boys at school who liked to bully him. He does not understand why he can run so fast but enjoys the thrill it gives him. Alan is now 15 and is about to start his freshman year at Neptune high.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:46 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Conway Carney Monckton

2014-07-03T18:44:26-04:00

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:
Hero Name: Psych-Kick
Real Name: Conway Carney Monckton aka Monkey Man
Date of Birth: Early 1995
Citizenship: USA
Place of Birth: Lake Village Homestead Intentional Community (Kalamazoo, Mi. It was much hippier in 1978.)
Sexual Orientation: hetero
Known Relatives:
The family beginning to drift apart and its accelerating as the interests of the teens broaden with age.

Dadâ€™s really out there. Artist. Protestor.
At home a lot but sometimes really not at home (up stairs). Absorbed in his art. Painting, metal sculpture.
Dadâ€™s not a good cook and fixes salads as family fare.

Mom â€“ Deborah ne Goldway. A head cashier at local Kroger. A big step down for her. Sheâ€™s usually tired when he sees her.

Sister Addison â€“ 4 years Older. More like mom. More popular.
Conway enjoys annoying his sister to the point of her extreme frustration.
Only in labor 20 mins for sister. Conway was a breach birth

Weird Cousin Eddie â€“ Drunk childrenâ€™s clown.

Major Enemies: None as yet

Extent of Education: High school

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 4â€™11â€
Weight: 99 lbs.
Hair: Unruly hair a little longer and to much like a mullet to be fashionable
Eyes: large and brown
Skin: Caucasian
Other distinguishing Features: Looks younger than his age, thin, small for his age
Uniform/Costume: None at this stage.
Usual Style/Clothes: Kmart clothes heâ€™s growing in or out of.
Jeans, t shirt, fall jacket, back pack,
Health: Good, energetic, Always hungry
Mental Health: Attention Deficiency Disorder. Just shy of requiring medication.

Appearance: CELEBRITY LOOK ALIKE - David Anthony Faustino (Bud Bundy) at age 12

POWERS AND ABILITIES:
Telekenesis

BACKGROUND/History:
: Broke his arm and tail bone in two different fool hardy climbing incidents.
Watched to much Power Rangers.

Newcomers to Neptuneâ€™s north side. Moved around a lot. Dad likes different views. Claims heâ€™s moved by Gypsy spirits.
Recently gave up being a boy scout and going to non denominational church. In the past mother was afraid that fatherâ€™s insistence of multi-cultural exposure may have given Conway some misguided ideas.

Currently lives in a very rustic home (think log cabin.)

Conway trying to hard to make friends. Playing class clown at cost of his grades.

Personality: Slightly hyperactive. Curious. Boastful. Outgoing.
Very much wants to make friends.

Favorite Quote: â€Hey! Everybody watch me do this!â€ (Crash!!!)

Quirks: Short attention span.

Hobbies: Tai Chi â€“ When he couldnâ€™t get into a really boss Judo or Karate class (largely do to cost and availability), he settled for this martial artist. Believes his teacher is secretly a Master Ninja.

Shovels snow, mows lawns and rakes leaves for spending money.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:44 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Meryl Saoirse Makayla O'Neill

2014-07-03T18:43:13-04:00

Player Name: Sen

Name: Meryl Saoirse Makayla O'Neill
Age: 13 (turns 14 a month into the game)
Sex: Female
Height: 4'8
Weight: 89 lbs
Eyes: Emerald
Hair: Blond

Physical Traits:
Meryl's a runt, small and thin, and closer to being a stick then a girl. She wears glasses so
big that they practically frame her face and has a mouth full of metal thanks to her dental grill
work. Her smile along can reflect enough light to cause temporary blindness and has the tendency to get stuck if she talks too fact or yawns too hard. She has freckles, which her father considers a good trait amongst the Irish, yet her mother frowns upon as she fears that men of status and wealth will not want such a girl and prays every night that they fade by the time Meryl finishes college!

Personality and other interesting traits:
Meryl is a ball of spastic mental energy. She's incredibly smart, excels at math and science,
averages a 4.0+ in school, and has few to no friends since moving to Neptune. She's very shy in
person, but over say XBOX live she can be very crass and come off as mature for her age as she
guns down player after player in various deathmatch games. In short she's a nerd and one that is
never far from her Iphone or at home from her books and games. Living in the attic has it's
advantages! She tends to have to conceptualize ideas and has had marathon Lego building nights to physically visualize her ideas. She's a genius. Once you get past all the shyness and other acts
meant to defend her vulnerabilities, sheâ€™s hard to shut-up once you get her talking. When she's not gaming or reading she's on her computer or laptop programming or watching TV or something online. She's easily bored with stupid people, especially boys, since they all teased her at her last school in Pittsburg, doesn't like cats, and is actually afraid of mice, rats, and armadillos. She's more prone to be encountered wearing jeans and a jacket with a sweatshirt then anything girly and never leaves home without her vast array of misc stuff in her penguin knapsack, which always includes her multitool, a Gerber Ranger Plus given to her by her grandpa when she turned 9; she's since replaced the rivet twice and most the tools on it as well. She's also read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys novels and considers herself a bit of a sleuth, once even solving the great diaper mystery of 2002, when her little brother Sean would mysteriously lose his diapers for them to show up later in paper bags that were mysteriously placed outside people's doorsteps and lit on fire; boy did her dad give it to her older brothers! She has an advanced chemistry set as well as a bunch of tools for her physics lab, all purchased from old shops and fairs as most of those kits were no longer sold due to kids like her blowing themselves up or poisoning their cats.

Family:
Meryl is the oldest daughter in a family of five children. She has two older identical twin
brothers, Jim and Jake (age 16), a younger sister, Brianna (age 10), and a little brother Sean
(age 7). There's her mother and her father and grandpa O'Neill. There are also a total of five
dogs, but only the two shepards are considered hers, aptly named Burt and Ernie for characters
from her favorite childhood show (which she still watches), Sesame Street.

Powers:
Meryl has the ability to manipulate gravity and has only come to realize this as of recently,
the first incident occurring during the traumatic emotional turmoil of being forced to move away
from all her friends when they recently left Pittsburg. Of course, at this time, she's not sure
what happened and if it was her that caused it or one of the dogs, or for that matter the exact
effect she was witnessing; ie was it some form of telekinesis or levitation perhaps? She's
submitted herself to some bizarre tests to try and reproduce the events, but so far to date all
she's found out was that 10,000 volts will make her hair stand straight up, will polarize her
glasses, and will magnetize her dental work. Additionally, it is not possible to hold's one
breath till one passes out, unless you have help. Furthermore, you cannot simulate the terror of
having your pet Sheppards attack you by hanging raw steak on your body, but when she hid the
steak in Andy Given's backpack, a boy that lived down the street from her, he sure looked
terrified when all those big dogs came rushing at him. She still wonders why he had to get so
many shots, hell her dogs have nipped her more than that!

Strengths:
Meryl once participated in a world wide Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare marathon championship; she and her partner, the mysterious Death's Head Angel (DHA) played more then forty hours straight as they killed and maimed countless XBOX Live players in the quest to win, which they did. Armed with over twenty twelve packs of Coca Cola and Jolt and a bucket of ice and countless snacks and junk food she managed to keep her strength up for the duration of the marathon! She's incredibly smart, partially due to her mother being a school teacher and her fatherâ€™s love of old detective novels, though if asked directly she'll make up some excuse about being exposed to the ghost of Sherlock Holmes or some bizarre form of radiation!

Weaknesses:
Caffeine junkie. Meryl can't go more than a few hours without caffeine; she practically lives on
the stuff, especially Jolt Cola, Coca Cola, and Pepsi Max. She's also been known to make iced
coffee and in a pinch break down and drink hot coffee!

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:43 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Spencer 'Penny' Wright

2014-07-03T18:41:50-04:00

Spencer 'Penny' Wright
age 14
gender female

Penny's family has recently moved to Neptune from Saskatchewan, Canada.
Her father, Bill, is part of an exchange between MSU's College of Agriculture and her sister college in Sk.
The entire Wright family has followed him down to the the States for the year long exchange.
Bill and Jeanette Wright are both employed at MSU, as well as their oldest son Derrick.
Spencer, 14, volunteers at the veterinarian college on weekends, and has joined the school band and yearbook committee.
The two youngest Wrights, twins Riley and Jordan, attend East Neptune Middle School and spend much of their spare time playing soccer and getting into trouble.

Penny has never lived anywheres but the family farm in rural Sk until this year, and really has no idea about American politics or economy. She gets good grades in school, except math, which she is piss poor at.
She is a more or less normal kid - she doesn't have problems with authority, she is friendly and gets along well with all of the various cliques, and doesn't mind babysitting her brothers.

For the past few weeks she has been noticing strange things happening at her high school....

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:41 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Rachel Rubenstein

2014-07-03T18:40:55-04:00

Player: Kelly (kellmag@gmail.com)
Characters Name: Rachel Rubenstein

Nicknames: Rach

Age: 14

Status: Freshman

Physical Description: Rachel's about 4'11 with long dark red hair and green eyes. She's petite, with a really tight but curvy gymnast's body.

Powers:

Superstrength. Although never weak for her size, Rachel will eventually develop some really freakish superstrength.

Personal History:

Rachel Rubenstein was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Always an athletic kid, Rachel tried all kinds of sports before zeroing in on gymnastics at about 6. She had a real talent for it, and but for circumstances, might well have gotten a shot at the Olympics. Unfortunately, life through some monkey wrenches her way. When she was ten and on her way to a meet with her mother, their was hit by a drunk driver. Rachel's mom died, and with it, any real chance of Rachel making an entire life out of competitive gymnastics. She lost the will for awhile, and by the time she got it back, it was clear that the logistics just wouldn't work. Rachel's dad, Roger, tried his best, but his wife's death stimulated his own demons, and raising a ten year old daughter by himself was a really daunting task. Roger, who was working as an ER physician tried really hard, but traveling to gymnastics meets was impossible.

In seventh grade, after her dad transferred her to a nearby all girls school, Rachel quit gymnastics entirely, choosing instead to play basketball at the urging of a friend. Although her height was a real physical limitation, Rachel proved to be very good at it, and it didn't hurt that practices were at school and her dad didn't need to take her to games. Basketball proved to be just what she needed, a team sport where she had real teammates and not just competitors. Rachel was quick, coordinated, and was a damned good point guard.

In the summer after her eighth grade year, her Dad Roger, announced to her that they were leaving sunny and swampy Louisiana to go north to the Michigan tundra where the government said they needed a doctor. Rachel was scared, but not altogether unhappy about the change. No matter where she was, high school was going to be a big change, and getting Dad away from things that reminded him of her mom seemed like a great idea. A new school, with boys, and a new life actually sounded pretty good.
Personality:

Rachel's a sweet kid who's smarter than her looks (or her grades) might indicate. Her mom's death dulled and reshaped her fierce competitive streak, but its still there. But, in a way, the whole last couple of years have left Rachel both more mature emotionally, thanks to dealing with her dad, and less so, particularly where boys are concerned.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:40 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Guinevere â€œMikaâ€ Bennette

2014-07-03T18:39:32-04:00

Real Name: Guinevere â€œMikaâ€ Bennette
Hero Name: Eve
Date of Birth: May 6, 1995
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York
Known Relatives: Father: Marcus Bennette
Mother: Isabella Mathers-Bennette
Siblings: Jessica (22), David (18), Gavin - twin (16), Natalina (9)
Major Enemies:
Extent of Education: Eight grade at Constance Billard School for Girls

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 5â€™10â€
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair: Black w/ Green streaks
Eyes: Green
Skin: Caucasian
Other distinguishing Features:
Uniform/Costume: Tight black leather pants, green knee length tank-top, green and black fishnet arm warmers, and black and green eye make-up
Usual Style/Clothes: Designer brands and high-end, right off the runway fashion.

POWERS AND ABILITIES
Shapeshift into any person or animal she has come in contact with at least once.

BACKGROUND:
Daughter of a Manhattan socialite, she grew up with a trust fund. Her best friend, Tessa, is the one who exposed her to the wonders that is witchcraft. It wasnâ€™t until she was ten, when she was trying to hide from her nanny, that she discovered that she could change her appearance. She had just hidden in the closet, but when the door opened the nanny thought that she was her twin brother Gavin and was utterly confused swearing that she had seen Gwen run in the closet and not him. When the nanny had left the room she ran to the closest mirror and saw not her, but her brother, and when she pictured her sister Jessica, Jessica looked back at her in the mirror. The next time that Gwen used her powers without realizing it was when one of the neighbors dogs found itâ€™s way out in the hallway and was yipping to get back in, she turned into her own Siberian husky and growled cause the little dog to run in terror.
Gwen was Queen Bee in training at Constance. She belonged to the Drama Club, Yearbook Committee, Homecoming Committee, National Honor Society, she was Freshman Class President, she belonged to many prodigious charitable functions with her mother, sisters and many other girls in her class, and she was one of the two High Priestesses in the coven she and Tessa created. The Sisters of Lady Constance were other girls from Constance and other similar school for the upper-eastsiders of Manhattan. They chose names that only they were allowed to know, and so Mika was created. Once a week they would all travel to Gwenâ€™s family estate in upstate New York to do the weekly rituals that had been planned through out the week. Gwen had only told Tessa, outside of family, of her abilities so far and had decided that she could trust the girls of the coven. At first they were surprised and then they began thinking of themselves, and using Gwenâ€™s abilities to their advantage. Some wanted her to impersonated a boyfriend so they knew he made a good impression with the parents, or even them to break up with their boyfriends, others to impersonate parents to get out of trouble at school, and the rest to resemble older siblings to get liquor, when most just raid their parents liquor cabinets at home whenever they â€œfelt the pressure of having it all.â€ Most of the things they wanted her to do though she couldnâ€™t since all she could do was impersonate someoneâ€™s looks not their voice. It finally came to the point where she was tired of doing someone elseâ€™s dirty work and being used just for her powers and soon she even regretted telling the coven members. Eighth grade was almost over and finals were upon them. Some girls asked her to take the tests for them, since she had the best GPA of the class. It had gone to far now, and she told them all to do it on their own, itâ€™s the only way they will learn.
The week after summer vacation started her sister Jessica told the family she was transferring from Brown University to University of Michigan, so she was moving. This gave Gwen the idea this was her opportunity to get away from the girls at school. She quickly convinced her parents to let her move with her sister. So they started looking for an apartment close to campus for Jessica and started packing, thus landing themselves in Neptune.

Personality:
Gwen is an upbeat who is used to getting her way, or at least not having to work hard to get it. She knows how to push the right buttons but also when to take it easy especially since being popular has its responsibilities, and she knew how to deal with it. Even with having a dominate personality she knew when it was best to share the spotlight. She has a 4.0 GPA that may not be easy to maintain but she handles it with ease. Gwen will go out of her way to make anyone comfortable, even with an ulterior motive in hand. Her three best friends are her older sister Jessica, her twin brother Gavin and Tessa whom sheâ€™s know since they were three, and she would do absolutely anything for them. Leaving behind her friends and family is hard but thatâ€™s what cell phones and computers are for.

Extracurricular activities:
- Drama Club
- Yearbook Committee
- Homecoming Committee
- National Honor Society
- Freshman Class President
- Charitable function
- High Priestess of her coven

Hobbies:
- Finding fun and harmless rituals for the weekly coven meetings
- Fashion design; created the dresses for all the girls in the coven
- Spending time with friends and family and the occasional boyfriend
- Listening to music, watching movies, reading and writing
- Community service hours to get a head start for when she would be applying to colleges
- Shopping at Bendels, Tiffanyâ€™s and the like. - Going to New York Fashion week every year
- Spending vacations in Aspen, the Hamptons or Miami respectively
- Going to parties and dances and all around high school fun

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:39 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Catherine Brodsky

2014-07-03T18:38:36-04:00

Player: Nella (landslideheroine91@yahoo.com)
Hero Name: Lightingale
Given Name: Catherine â€œCathyâ€ Brodsky
DOB: April 27, 1995
Citizenship: USA
Place of Birth: Lansing, MI
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Known Relatives: Father: Marcus Brodsky, 41, attorney; Mother: Susan Brodsky, 39, housewife
Major Enemies: None at this time
Extent of Education: Currently in 9th grade

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 5â€™0â€
Weight: 105 lbs
Hair: Dark brown to shoulders
Eyes: Brown
Skin: Caucasian
Other distinguishing features: Thin but muscular arms and legs. Reading glasses.
Uniform/Costume: Cathy dresses well when she is not in her cheerleading uniform. Pac-Sun, AF, American Eagleâ€¦
Health: No major problems despite being near sighted, which she wears lens for.
Mental Health: Stress case. Her parents put a lot of pressure on her and she does not handle it well.
Appearance: Cute rather than pretty.

POWERS AND ABILITIES
BACKGROUND:
Cathy Brodsky is a young woman who has power over light (as the name Lightingale implies!). She is able to use these to blind, to illuminate and to use as a heat beam/shield.
Cathy uses light a number of ways. She can use the light to generation heat beams and create a shield. She can also use it to blind her opponents--but she has to focus when she does it or she will blind other people. Cathy is able to alter her clothes with her light ability, providing an instant transformation from civilian clothes to her uniform. Needless to say a villain who can negate light will have a big advantage over her.

Favorite Quotes: â€œWe don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.â€ Benjamin Netanyahu
Quirks: Nothing too severe besides pretty strong opinions on politics and the news. Be warned--she has little patience for Nazis or Muslims.
Hobbies: Cheer and gymnastics. Cathy has also picked up a good deal of political and legal knowledge from her father. She is a reader and is active at her temple. Sheâ€™s a fan of Fox News, the Weekly Standard, Harry Potter, the Detroit Lions and Matthew Stafford in particular, Disney, Glee, shopping and Herman Wouk.
History: Cathy is an only child and it shows. Her father is an up and coming prosecutor in the City Attorneyâ€™s office who is close to the Republican leadership in Michigan. Her mother is a unassuming housewife. Cathy loves her parents very much and goes out of her way to please them--which means she is a good student for her dad and lives out her momâ€™s teenage ambitions of being a cheerleader and a good gymnast. Cathy generally handles the pressure wellâ€¦but every now and then she has problems and she snaps. She is usually upbeat. Cathy is not the most religious of girls but she is proud to be Jewish. It shapes her views on the world.
Cathy is a cheerleader and is a bit on the chatty side. She is very close to her family, especially her grandparents. Sheâ€™s generally upbeat, even perky, and her powers do suit her personality. However, she is not a lightweight by any means. She has a quick mind and a sharp wit. Her chief problem is being stretched. She is an only child and one her parents put way too much pressure on in terms of academics, going to a good college and taking part in every possible extracurricular activity.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:38 pm

Retired/Dead Hero Biographies • Johanna Sofia Konstanze van Kaiser

2014-07-03T18:37:47-04:00

Player: Nikki Myers (lnmyers@embarqmail.com)
Given Name: Johanna Sofia Konstanze van Kaiser (False surname. Real surname: â€œSchreiberâ€)
Date of Birth: December 18th, 1993
Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany. Grew up in Vienna, Austria
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Known Relatives: Dr. Kaspar Augustus Schreiber (Father, deceased), Dr. Annaleise Brentano Schreiber (Mother, deceased), Isolde Marina Schreiber (Sister, deceased), and Wladyslaw Aurelius Zielinski (Brother, living in Poland, false identity)
Host Family: Connor and Janet Shepherd
Major Enemies: The Fiorenza Family (Italian Mob clan), particularly the clan underboss Dante Fiorenza, whose son (Guiseppe) is rumored to possess unusual abilities
Extent of Education: Attended the Vienna International School from until Freshman year, when she moved to the States and began attending Neptune High. Also received intensive extracurricular music training from Vienna Academy of Music professor Dr. Hans Luther Dresden.
Current Year: Freshman (Study Abroad â€“ High School Level)

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:

Height: 5â€™6â€
Weight: 120 lbs.
Hair: Dark brown, short, choppy-layered, dramatic side bangs
Eyes: Green
Skin: Caucasian, olive skin
Other distinguishing features: None
Uniform/Costume: Whatever, but feels most comfortable in black slacks and high heels with a nice blouse.
Health: Aside from her marijuana use, she is the picture of perfect health.
Mental Health: Goes through bouts of depression caused by the death of her family and separation from her older brother. Fully believes that Ludwig van Beethoven is her guiding spirit and constantly confers with him in her mind, generally referring to him as â€œFather Luigi,â€ since she and her brother are descendants of the composer (see history.) May also â€œtalkâ€ to Wladek, her older brother.
Appearance: Graceful, known to have delicate hands, often wears a touch of makeup

POWERS AND ABILITIES:
Music virtuoso - has the uncanny ability to play any instrument and is vocally talented (prefers piano). Also has perfect pitch and an enhanced sense of hearing.
Speaks German, English, Italian, and French. First language is German, but primarily speaks English.
Power: Can slow down time to a ratio of 5 experienced hours to 1 real-time hour and can extend the field of distorted time to another person so that they, too, can experience it (her limit is a field diameter of 20 feet, but has never tried to stretch it any farther.)

BACKGROUND:
Personality: Ever since the death of her parents and little sister, Johanna has refrained from becoming close with anyone and therefore comes across as cold, distant, and uncaring. Because of her musical ability, her peers think her to be self-absorbed and conceited when, in fact, she is neither. She knows that the people who killed her family are most likely still looking for her and may eventually find herâ€¦so, in essence, she is protecting the students around her by not becoming too involved with them. However, due to the fact that Johanna grew up performing with various Austrian music ensembles such as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, she couldnâ€™t resist joining the school marching band and orchestra, despite the fact that neither ensemble is really worth a damn.
She often misses class either because of her marijuana habit or because she feels more like playing music than attending class (she can usually be found playing on the upright piano in the school auditorium). School bores her, mainly because, having been brought up in a household run by her European intellectual parents, she actually has the education level of an American college student studying for their Masters, which is the reason behind why she skips out her classes. She is often caught, and this usually causes her to be placed in detention quite frequently, which she also skips.
Hobbies: Music (performing and composing), art, theater, literature, writing, and traveling (will occasionally skip school, roaming anywhere from art museums in Washington DC to concert halls in LA). Also has a fascination with European cars.
History: Born in Leipzig, Germany, Johanna Sofia Konstanze Schreiber was the second of three children. Her brother, Wladyslaw (who is referred to as â€œWladekâ€ only by Johanna), is the firstborn and they had a baby sister, Isolde, who wasnâ€™t born until 2006. Her father, Dr. Kaspar Schreiber, was a firearms dealer and worked as the CEO of Research and Development for Sig Sauer. He, therefore, had his foot in some pretty nasty dealings, particularly with the Fiorenza family, one of the lesser-known mobs in Perugia, Italy, whose underboss Dante Fiorenza was Dr. Schreiberâ€™s most valuable client. Dr. Annaleise Schreiber was a music and art symbologist and an accomplished writer of books on the same subject. She spent most of her time at home either doing research or writing books. Annaleiseâ€™s maiden name is Brentano, and it is a family secret that they are direct descendants of Ludwig van Beethoven, as a result of the composerâ€™s affair with Countess Antonie Brentano in the early 1800s. The family attributes the history of Brentano â€“ and now, Schreiber â€“ musical success to this.
Johannaâ€™s musical talent was realized only a few years after she was born. Her parents discovered very early in her life that Johanna had a knack for mastering any instrument to which she was introduced. Her brother also seemed to share a knack for music, but only at the piano. It was then that their parents decided that the best place for their children to grow up was in Vienna. There couldnâ€™t have been a better place than Vienna, Austria, for someone like Johanna to grow up. Her parents immediately enrolled her and Wladyslaw in private music lessons with Dr. Hans Dresden, who teaches at the Vienna Academy of Music. Johanna soon learned that she preferred playing piano to any other instrument. During her life in the music capital of the world, the child prodigy was asked to perform concertos, operas, symphonies, and various other types of concerts with groups such as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wiener Singakademie, the Wiener Singverein, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra), as well as doing several solo concerts and the occasional piano duet concert with her brother around Europe. Throughout her studies in music, she discovered her ability to compose and became highly interested in the art of creating musical works. However, she has never had anything published and the two siblings never gained any sort of real fame outside of Austria and Germany.
It was also while living in Vienna that Johanna discovered that she had the ability to slow down time. One day, Johanna was asked to play the trumpet solo for Haydnâ€™s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat with the TonkÃ¼nstler-Orchester NiederÃ¶sterreich. Going through puberty at the time, Johanna was definitely experiencing wild hormones and became easily stressed by the difficulty that the concerto was giving her. It came down to the last week before the performance night and Johanna found herself staying up at all hours of the night practicing. At one point, she desperately wished that the clock would stop so that she could have more time to practice. As the night went on, she noticed that the minutes on the alarm clock kept going by slower and slower until it eventually stopped altogether (or so it seemed). That was when she realized, after checking the clock to make sure the batteries were working and seeing that nothing outside her bedroom window was moving at all, that she had somehow willed time to slow down. This gave her time to master the piece and â€“ needless to say â€“ after that, when it came to her music, she used this ability to her advantage quite often. There is still no explanation as to why Johanna has this ability and Wladyslaw is the only other person who knows about it.
As soon as they moved to Vienna, the Schreiber family began enrolling their children into the Vienna International School, were Johanna and Wladyslaw both learned English and were taught primarily in English. Johanna also slowly picked up French and Italian from the many of the professional musicians with which she collaborated and Wladyslaw took Polish courses so that he could attend college in Poland. Wladyslaw graduated in 2006 and went on to study geophysics in Poland at Uniwersytet Warszawski (Warsaw University). During his educational career in Warsaw, he got a job after classes as the live pianist in the Lazienki Lounge at the Hyatt Regency Hotel of Warsaw.
Dr. Schreiber always knew that one day his shady business dealings with the Fiorenzas would come back to haunt himâ€¦but he never imagined that day would come so soon. One early afternoon, in February of 2007, soon after Johanna turned 14 and began her second semester of her Freshman year at the Vienna International School (she was a year ahead), the Schreibers and the baby sister were murdered by Dante Fiorenza and his gang because they had learned that Dr. Schreiber had been discreetly slipping information about the familyâ€™s firearm purchases to the Italian government. Johanna was in school at the time. Wladyslaw was still in Poland.
The Austrian government issued death certificates and new last names to the two remaining siblings: Johanna now goes by the surname â€œvan Kaiser,â€ and Wladyslaw goes by â€œZielinski.â€ In order to change their appearance, Johanna had to cut and dye her hair while Wladyslaw got slight reconstructive surgery. Lastly, in order to get her out of Europe, Johanna was forced to move to the States as a high school study abroad student. She was taken in by Connor and Janet Shepherd of Neptune, Michigan. Wladyslaw dropped out of college just before graduating and had to re-apply as a freshman under his new name at a different university â€“ AGH (Akademia GÃ³rniczo-Hutnicza) University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He is currently working on his degree again and, though the Austrian government had advised him against doing so in order to keep from attracting attention, has attained an after-class job as the live pianist at the After Work Piano Bar inside the Qubus Hotel KrakÃ³w. Wladyslaw and Johanna have cut off communication with each other in order for it to become near impossible to link the two together. The once very close siblings havenâ€™t spoken in almost 3 years.
Johanna was required by Neptune High School to redo her freshman year because of only having completed one semester at Vienna International School. She slowly became less and less interested in the poor American education that was being given at the Michigan school and began skipping out on class, sometimes to practice her music on the upright in the school auditorium and sometimes just to find something better to do. She also became involved with marijuana and began skipping on even more class to get high, sometimes getting caught by the police. Having skipped class so much has kept the now-15-year-old Johanna in 9th grade, so she will start as a freshman again for the second time this year. The state refuses to issue Johanna a driverâ€™s permit due to her convicted drug use and frequent juvie visits. Her host parents are aware of Johannaâ€™s state and are constantly struggling to keep Johanna from going under. Though she is old enough, Johanna will not drop out of school because, unless her host family adopts her, she knows that the American government will send her back to Vienna since her citizenship is still with Austria. Though she likes the Shepherds well enough, she still cringes at the thought of being adopted and is simply waiting to turn 18 so that she will just apply for U.S. citizenship.
No one in Neptune, Michigan, knows anything about Johannaâ€™s life prior to her arrival to the States. Not even the Shepherds.

Statistics: Posted by Admin — Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:37 pm