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Name:

Luciana 'Lucy' Andreano

Codename:

Morningstar

Age:

27

Gender:

Female

Place of Birth:

New York City

Affiliations:

Former member of New York Swat, Former sidekick/partner to Pariah.
Marco, her older brother currently in prison, and Inrique, her youngest brother, currently in the NYPD undercover program.

Occupation:

Private Investigator

Appearance:

Powers:

N/A

Skills:

Growing up in a family with three brothers skewed Lucy's tastes to those not typically associated with little girls. She always preferred boxing to doing her nails, and for her sixth birthday she asked for an air rifle instead of a doll. As such Lucy is just as comfortable with firearms, or in a full blown fist fight as any man. Nine times out of ten she is more comfortable.
Years of police training, then a tutorship under Pariah, has made her an accomplished martial artist, skilled in several different disciplines, as well as an excellent marks-woman, field medic, strategist, covert operative and an expert in the fields of explosive ordnance and reconnaissance.

Lucy's greatest asset, and perhaps her most deadly weapon, is her mind. She was a top student in school, despite having very little personal time between juggling a job and helping her mother look after her home. She always love games of cunning and logic, such as chess. Now she utilizes that in her vigilante career, her out of the box thinking allowing her to even the playing field between her and super-powered crooks. She also has a great aptitude for deductive thinking, making her an incredible investigator.

She has long had an interest in psychology, specifically on the behavioural psychology. Though it is strictly a self taught skill she has displayed the ability to read a persons emotions and thoughts through subtle physical cues.

Equipment/Resources:

Morningstar's suit features the same special synthetic plates that can be found in Pariah's, which give her limited protection from bullets, melee weapons, explosive force and more. Morningstar's suit typically features lighter armouring than her former mentor, as Lucy is less a grounded and more acrobatic fighter who is less willing to go blow to blow with her foes. The strong fabric in the suit’s gloves assist her while climbing and the gauntlet features a grappling hook and micro-motor that fires high-tension cables.

Her mask is specially designed by Lucy with help from Savant. Included in the mask is a built-in radio transmitter/receiver and night-vision lenses. It has a computer link and analysis. The lens can zoom and magnify her vision. It also has electromagnetic vision, which includes thermal, sonar, and x-ray vision. She also wears ear dampeners in defence against sonic attacks, and a built in filtration system protects her from any airborne chemicals.

As for weapons Morningstar will change her load out depending on what the mission entails. His primary weapon is the 'Trident' a unique pistol she designed with the help of Savant. The Trident can be loaded with several different round types, amongst them tasers, knockout gas, tranqs and sticky cams. To support the Trident she will use conventional firearms. Usually she carries a variety of throwing stars, smoke grenades, flash bangs, and frags. The knuckles on her gauntlets are heavily armoured, negating the need for close combat weaponry, but she does carry a collapsible nightstick which she wields with great efficiency.

Weaknesses:

Under the suit she is just a woman, and bleeds as much as any other. Her family is her true blind spot however.

Psychological Profile:

Lucy is first and foremost an adventurer at heart. Though she does what she does because she feels she is in a position to help those that cannot help themselves the fact that she derives enjoyment from her 'work' helps keep her fighting the good fight.

She tries to keep herself grounded, but is aware that she can lapse into obsessiveness when it comes to hunting down particular foes.
She wrestles with the fact that she was is only a man in a world that has essentially made her obsolete. She can come off as hostile to genuine super humans, often due to jealousy.

Lucy is at heart an optimist, often seeing the best in people instinctively. However Pariah has instilled in her a healthy dose of paranoia for the intentions of others. For a long time Morningstar has tried to imitate her mentor's reserved style in dealing with others, until Pariah pointed out she was a romantic masquerading as a cynic. Lucy has since accepted who she is, but has adopted the moto 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst' for when dealing with others.

Biography:

The world's used to heroes, I mean it would have to be by this stage, right? We've got honest to goodness Jedi-Knights, Zenith playing catch with meteors and just the other day a guy in Paris was robbed by a talking gorilla. But in all this craziness, amongst all these modern day Gods, there's one kid who's trying to prove men still have their place in this weird, unstable world. Her name is Lucy, but you probably know her as Morningstar.

Nothing about her screamed 'exceptional' when she was born, or at least not as far as she's aware. She was the only girl born in a family with four kids, and you can imagine what that meant for her. Her brothers were rough growing up, and that just spurred her own to be even rougher. Her father, a New York cop, always said he loved all his kids equally, but anyone who knew him could tell he favoured Lucy, his little hell raiser. Lucy's mother feigned exasperation, saying she wanted a daughter but only got another son, but in truth she was as happy as her husband. All in all, life was good.

Up until Lucy's father was shot on the job in a mob hit. It was a terrible blow for the family, but what came next was worse. It came to light that officer Andreano had been dirty, being in bed with Gambino family, the same one's suspected of ordering the hit that had killed him. Though the circumstances surrounding officer Andreano's death wouldn't be revealed for years, the effect it would have on his family would be instantaneous and lasting. The Andreano's were largely shunned by one and all, with Lucy's mother being forced to take on several dead end jobs to meet ends meet. A hard life for her children, but they all pitched in however they could. The oldest son, Frank, joined the army at age sixteen all just to take the burden off his mother. Lucy and her next oldest brother both got part time jobs to help with the rent.

Lucy worked hard until she turned seventeen and a half, whereupon she applied to joining the NYPD. While many scoffed at her, being the daughter of a dirty cop, she aced the exams and was made an officer. What followed was several years of exemplary work, culminating in one of the biggest, and most emotional cases of her life.

While her fathers murder case had technically been shut citing lack of evidence, Lucy began to follow up old leads in her spare time. While doing this she earned the attention of the Gambino family, who sent a representative to try and talk her off a trail that could only end in her downfall. They sent her Marco, her second eldest brother. Marco had been secretly working for the Gambino's for years, usually performing muscle-work, but was slowly climbing his way up the ladder. This was his chance to prove he was capable to taken on more responsibilities within the family. Lucy was shocked that her brother could work with the same people who had killed their father, but Marco was quick to point out that their father was the first to work for the Gambino's. An ultimatum was laid down, stating that if Lucy didn't desist in her investigations then it would end badly. While shaken, Lucy knew that she must be getting close to the truth if she had warranted direct intervention. Her next move was to approach her superiors with the information she had uncovered.

The response she got was unexpected though, as Lucy was warned of the case and told to backdown. It didn't take a genius to figure out that Lucy's bosses were on the take as well, and it was then that everything fell into place. Lucy's father hadn't been dirty, or at least not quite as dirty as every made him out to be. He had been used as a scapegoat for a corrupt department, and had then been killed to ensure his silence. Knowing that she couldn't take on the Gambino's and prove her fathers innocence on her own, but no longer having the backing of the full NYPD, Lucy enlisted the help of her eldest brother Frank, recently returned from a tour of duty with the army, and her youngest brother Inrique, who had recently joined the NYPD himself. Together the three siblings managed to bring down Marco, hoping he would be the lynchpin that would bring the whole dirty operation down. Unfortuanatly the power of the Gambino's lawyers prove to much, especially when Marco willing accepted guilt for all the crimes laid at his feet, effectively taking a fall for the Gambinos. Frank returned to the military shortly after this, while both Lucy and Inrique were promoted for their work. (It should be noted that while publically lauded by her superiors, Lucy had made it on many of the higher ranking officers shit-list after this, by putting a sweet deal they had with the Gambino's at risk.)

After this Lucy joins the SWAT team. While a skilled detective she felt she had burnt to many bridges in that particular avenue, feeling it was time for a change of pace. She took to the training with gusto, proving her self a exemplarly operative. It was during this time that her team was called in to subdue a dangerous killer and rapist dubbed Chameleon, a superhuman who could alter his appearance at a whim. He had used this power to trick women into sleeping with him, usually taking the form of their husbands or partners, then killing them. Chameleon had been cornered by two NYPD officers, holing up in a office building while in possesion of a shotgun. Lucys team entered the building, but Chameleon managed to get the drop on them by changing his appearance and pretending he was a innocent bystander. In the ensueing struggle Lucy shot and killed him. She was cleared of charges because it was self defence, but as fate would have it Chameleon was revealed to be the son of the police Commishenor. After already angering the higher-ups with her stunts during the Gambino debacle Lucy was sure her days with the force were numbered, and sure enough she was forced out soon after that, her superior citing conduct that didn't befit and officer as the reason.

Lucy, never one to surreneder herself to grief, decided to take fate in her own hands. After seeing the recent rise of the 'Super-Hero' she decided to become one herself. Her favourite of the bunch was a man named Pariah, because he was just that, a man. No powers, no god like ability, nothing but training and drive, or at least thats how Lucy imagined him. She donned a costume and took to the streets, thinking her training would do her well. However she quickly came to realise that fighting villains with a team of other highly trained SWAT officers was different from doing it on your own. She could have conceivably been killed, if not for her hero, Pariah, intervening. Lucy managed to convince the dark avenger to take her under her wing, and so she became his first student.

Two years pass and Lucy takes on all the knowledge Pariah has to teach her with gusto. It seems a partnership made in heaven, that is until the Abattoir case. While no one save the involved parties can be sure what went down between them during this trying time it seems it was enough to drive a wedge between the mentor and pupil. After this Lucy took up crimefighting on her own, calling herself the Morningstar. She has recently been recruited to the League.

Name: Benedict Longinus

Codename: Doppler

Age: 28

Gender: Varies, dependent on previous contact. Identifies as male.

Place of Birth: Unknown, Orphaned at birth. Raised in several foster homes across numerous states in the USA.

Affiliations: Whoever catches his favor

Occupation: Stage Actor

Appearance: Varies dependent on previous two contacts. First contact changes appearance, second contact overlaps previous appearance. His face is always slightly off, falling only a few feet into the uncanny valley.

Powers:
Total Ability Duplication: Doppler is a power thief. His touch of skin on skin allows him to steal the abilities from any superpowered or mystical being. This contact is not harmful to the target in any way, shape, or form. The power theft is instant, and the moment that contact is made, he can utilize the power he has stolen. These powers are not weaker than the original, they are not more powerful. They share the exact same scale and output as the one he stole it from. (For sake of convenience, if the person he steals the power from is a magic user. His hand is the catalyst for his spells, to remove questions such as. "Where's his wand.")

Total Organic Reconfiguration: As well as his power theft, his body changes internally and externally to compensate for the new ability. Interally, and externally he changes to match you biologically. Stealing features from your face and body, maybe the scar that you have on your chest. This process is complete internally, his physical condition is the exact same as yours. Unless you have a disease, then his physical condition is superior. He doesn't steal diseases. The only difference is that the skeletal structure is placed somewhere between the current target, and the previous target's. Leading him to have some strange facial structure.

Power Dispersal: A powerful venting of the ability that he has stolen most recently, it is an omnidirectional blast of raw energy. Under two circumstances is this ability utilized. The first being in times of distress and threat of death. The second being whenever he steals the power of a particularly powerful being. His body cannot store the energy from godly powerful beings for a long time, at most he can hold it for two days. At which point he has to expel the power from his body to prevent himself from dying. Its usage is so rare, due to the fact that it depowers him. The potency and range of this dispersal is directly proportional to the power that he absorbed.

Skills:
Practicioner of Rough and Tumble: Rough and Tumble is a little known fighting style and the most direct evolution of pugilism. Rough and Tumble is a direct and brutish fighting style, not designed to be flashy or with pressure point bullshit in mind. If you fight a man who's practices rough and tumble, you'd better wear some goggles and a mouth guard. Because they'll rip your eyes off and bite your tongue out. Every opening is used, and every part of the body is a weapon. If you're caught in a grapple, you'd better watch out. He'll snap any bone he can get his hands on.

Equipment/Resources:
A pair of fire retardant gloves, one size fits all. Allows him to touch people without losing powers.

Weaknesses:
If he touches a normal, his stolen powers vanish. He may only take one powerset at a time. A second touch to a person and he will not take their whole appearance. Raw physical powers are only useful against the person that he is fighting, his ability is immediate, so he is depowered or repowered the moment that he touches another person.

Psychological Profile:
Doppler is a sane, polite, kind, functional, and reasonable human being. Or so he would have you believe. Doppler has a sense of importance about him, he views himself as the most important man he knows. There are few people that he regards as his equal, even if they're smarter than he is, faster, stronger. It doesn't matter. Doppler is certain that he has no equal. Though he's an actor. And the only time you'll ever see that side of him, well, let's not say when that'll happen.

Biography:
Doppler was born to an unknown mother and father somewhere in the East Coast of the United States. Dropped off at a church doorstep, and then put into an adoption agency. As the years went by he was sent from foster home to foster home, admittedly, he was a problem child. Picking fights with other fostered children, more than once was he kicked out of foster homes and placed directly into the program again. Eventually he found his home with an older couple who set him right, they didn't give up on him, they kept him in their home no matter what he did.

And it changed him.

Their refusal to let him be alone, to not just drop him because he's a problem. It showed him that there's good people in the world, and though when he turned eighteen they passed away, he still remembers them as the most influential people in his life. They gave him a sense of self importance, showing him that the only things that matter are family and your own well being.

That's why he became a stage actor.

In his quest to secure his own well being, he realized there was a passion for showmanship deep within him. And he took to the stage, from the very first moment his talent was quite evident. He became a method actor, able to change up his personality and even his voice with little effort. Just before the Awakening he had become quite the applicant of make up on himself, changing the appearance of his face to match the role he was playing.

It's only natural that when the Awakening happened, his ability was to be able to change constantly. It can be assumed what he did next.

Name: Yu-Ri

Codename: One (This has become a misconception, she replies to the "Who are you?" Question with: "I am One." People perceive her name as One, so she goes by One.)

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Place of Birth: Sarasota, Florida

Affiliations: The League

Occupation: Unemployed

Appearance: A young, unhealthily thin girl with short unkempt hair and small breasts. Her skin is pale and smooth, she keeps herself clean despite not feeding herself often. One dresses simply, wearing a short dress to cover herself. The hair she does have is a deep blue-black in tone. There is something unnatural about her eyes, however. They are very wide, and rarely does she blink. Her pupils are constantly widened, overcasting her irises completely. If you ever catch her in a rare moment where her eyes aren't widened, her eyes are hazel.

Powers:
Sense of Infinity: Yu-Ri has become aware of the vastness of the universe and all things within and outside, the power that emerged in her allowed her to see, hear, feel, and sense all. This sense of scale has be come so great that she no longer cares for her own well being, realizing that she is simply a component in what there is. This sense of scale has also given her a view of reality from an objective point of view. Life and death are the only things that matter to her, those who bring pain and death to others are her foes.

All Seeing: In all directions, as far as reality goes, One can see. One's eyes percieve inwardly, and outwardly, viewing all things in a third person perspective. All waves and patterns of light, the absence of light. Everything is within her field of view.

All Hearing: From great sounds to minute vibrations, she can hear all sounds and wavelengths. Through the vacuum of space, and deep within the core. All sound is accessible to her.

All Feeling: What others may feel, she may as well. When the universe moves, she can feel its subtle yet great existence.

All Smelling: Everything in the universe has a scent, and she can detect these scents through even the vacuum of space.

All Tasting: The subtle hues of a star's dust, the strong flavor at the core of the universe. All these and more dance across her tongue at the slightest wimsy.

Omnilingual: In just a few hours she can learn any language, breaking language barriers faster than anyone else.

Selective Sense: One can focus her mind and shut off or dampen her senses, allowing her to perceive the world in close proximity to herself. This makes her immune to foul stenches, excruciating pain, loud noises, disgusting flavors. So on and so forth.

Branched Thought: Her thoughts and cognitive faculties can be spread out to multitask and sense in multiple directions at once. Allowing her mind to be utilized to its fullest extent.

Projected Mind: Both her primary means of communication and defense. Her thoughts, her senses can be projected into someone else's mind. If she wishes to defend herself with this ability, she may project pain from a certain location in the universe into their mind. As with all psionic powers, this may be resisted. But in a war of attrition against One, her mental fortitude is second to none. These projected thoughts can be in any voice, allowing her to fool people into thinking that there's more than one voice in their head. These thoughts can also carry images, smells, tastes, and all of these are perceived internally. No physical harm comes to those who fall victim to this. (And no, it is not to be assumed that this allows her to read minds. It does not.)

Skills: Aside from the use of her mental abilities, she has no skills.

Weaknesses: Though her mental prowess are astounding, she herself has no physical ability. Meditation and inactivity do not prove to be excellent exercise. She is weak, frail, and can barely defend herself.

Psychological Profile: Yu-Ri has succumb to the most potent case of Ego-Death in history. With total perception of her own size in this universe, with her own insignificance, she has become a strange entity. No longer with a human thought process. Only two things matter to One. Life and death. The preservation of life, and the cessation of death. She spends her lazy minutes observing the universe and counting. She has reached well into the billions. She does not actually stop counting, she just counts slower when she is occupied with other things. One refers to herself in third person.

Biography: Yu-Ri's family immigrated from South Korea to the US to pursue job opportunities and their dream. Her father became a rather successful businessman, her mother an interior designer. The risk they took to travel to pursue their dreams payed off pretty well, and they had a fairly well off life. In fact, their life was pretty idylic and to some it would be considered boring.

Then, like all other people in this world, they witnessed the Awakening.

On the day itself, Yu-Ri fell into a deep trance. Her parents put her into medical care, trying to find out what happened to her. Yu-Ri's father paid thousands of dollars to doctors to conduct hundreds of tests on her. Nothing came up conclusive.

For almost a year she was in the hospital, and eventually she was moved into in home care. It was six months after she was moved to in-home care, she woke up in her bed and no longer responded to her name. They thought she had lost her memory, but no, she was simply disconnected from them.

One left home, leaving no note, leaving everything behind. Yu-Ri wandered for the longest time, simply experiencing the universe for herself. Resting where she liked, eating what she wanted. Doing whatever she wished. Defending herself against people who decided to harm her. When suddenly, she stumbled upon Doppler. Who decided to help her out, and take her with him to see if they could put their powers to use.