Birth Name: Cypress Hecate Mara
Alter Ego: Friction
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Country of Operation: Canada / Alberta
Archetype: Metahuman
Allegiance: Champions
Appearance: Cy is a 6 foot tall platinum blonde with dangerous curves. Her eyes are a blueish green and her face freckled. Her skin is a creamy alabaster and she is usually dressed in a provocative manner her favorite clothing is leather.
Powers/Skills: Friction Manipulation- by imparting her power into any thing she chooses Cypress can manipulate, generate and otherwise control friction, the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other, ie. whether the contact causes the movement to stop (sticking the targets together) or continue.
By decreasing her skin and clothing's friction Cypress is so slippery that she is able to skid across a flat surface at great speeds her movements resembling more those of an Ice skater than a sprinter Her skin and clothing in this state can even deflect kinetic energy attacks such as bullets, swords, knives or even liquid attacks. If she is caught in a trap or stuck in a bind, Cypress can just slip away unless completely enclosed.
Inertia Manipulation- This ability allows Cypress to manipulate inertia, basically the amount of resistance matter has to a change in motion or stay at rest by increasing, decreasing and/or maintaining it. She can increase object’s inertia causing an immobile object to be even more immovable, or to make a mobile object unstoppable. She can also reduce an object’s inertia, so a normally powerful object, such as a train, could have its course of motion interrupted with the same effort as would be required to stop a bicycle.
Also by manipulating inertia Cypress is able to simulate super strength but only in a horizontal plane.
Example: She could theoretically once she plants her feet push a stranded Super tanker back out to sea but she can only lift 250 pounds over her head.
(Limitations- to exercise her inertia control on objects other than her own person requires that Cypress herself come to a stop and make herself a stationary target.)
Skills: Hockey, Parkor, Computer programing, Hacking, Kenjutsu an Akido
Equipment/Resources: Weapons: 6 Throwing knives 2 Tanto
Gear: Tech ruggedized Cell phone
Biography: Born to a dead mother in the aftermath of a gulf coast hurricane. That flooded her entire town Cypress was barely alive and would have died except that her father a Swedish merchant sailor like any parent refused to allow it. Then as the storm raged around them named her Cypress after the tree they found refuge in.
They were finally rescued three days after she was born it the coast guardsmen thinking it was a miracle she survived. Her father clung to life five days after the rescue but then like her mother and 78 members of the community she was from died of chemical poisoning within a week.
Now an orphan Cypress was remanded over to her mother's family in Alberta where she went to live.
What should have been the beginning of a beautiful story was anything but as her family neglected her and only kept her around as a way to collect on her father's pension. Eventually due to their neglect Cypress fell ill and had to be taken to the hospital where the authorities took her from them.
She was then raised in a children's group home where at the age of 11 she began demonstrating powers and was taken to Project Orchid Canada's Meta program with the eventual purpose that she become a Champion.
(still working on the rest of the story, will hopefully be finished by tomorrow)
Special Notes: Anything else we need to know.