"Ghetto Vet" by Ice CubeNameCarmen Chavana
GenderFemale
SpeciesHuman
Age26
Room NumberTBA
Rooming WithTBA
AlignmentChaotic Good
AppearancePersonalityCarmen Chavana is a wise-cracking snarky smartass who does a little wetwork. In short, she's the type of person who would rescue someone from a fire, but steal their valuables and shoot the arsonist in the process. She's a very empathetic and caring person towards friends and those who aren't in the game, but she has no qualms of killing an offending party, especially those who already qualify for a death sentence in almost any western civilization. While she's also brave and smart, she's also somewhat anti-social, and prefers to be with at least one or two other people she could trust with her life. She's also not the type to start fights, normally keeping a calm persona about her (despite cursing in spanish many times when she's mad), and never drawing her weapons or using force unless she really has to (normally in order to end the conflict as swiftly as possible). However, due to her past life as a felon and her service in Iraq, she's had a strong distrust of governments and figures of authority. So while she's willing to cooperate with authority figures who have common sense and decency, she's not the type to take any shit from them.
BioBorn and raised in San Diego by an alcoholic mother and an abusive father, Carmen grew up learning her powers from dodging and taking blows from her drunk father whenever he came back from work. She ran away from home when she became a teenager, having ended up in a local hispanic gang where she used her powers to prove her worth and do some... 'business' for them. However, when doing a burgalary, she shot a pedophile dead, and protecting the children he held captive, she waited until the police showed up so they would be able to be safe once again. She was sentenced to prison shortly after her first kill, and served only 4 years given the circumstances and leaving on good behavior. Soon after leaving prison, Carmen had a desire to atone and use her powers for good, soon joining a volunteer force in Iraq to fight terrorists. She met Hakeem there, and after learning about each other's powers and each other's secrets, the two hit it off quite well, and became the best of friends. After defeating the terrorist threat, Carmen came back home to America with Hakeem in tow, finding work as a security contractor for some time. She was bored as hell from this new job, but she and her best friend were found by Peace Sentinel, where they worked as wetworkers for the shadowy but somewhat good-leaning organization. At the request of Peace Sentinel, she's attending the academy, albeit begrudgingly.
Power 1Insane Reflexes (or "Bullet Time")This slows down time for herself and herself only, and to a considerable degree. She sees everything in slow motion, to the point where she could see bullets (they are moving insanely fast but she could still see them). This timing allows her to perform all kinds of things with the most insane reflexes, as well as perform and time everything correctly. Proper parkour, aiming a gun, bobbing and weaving in fistfightts, driving a vehicle, defusing bombs, it has all sorts of applications, which allow her to do all of these things with insane precision and accuracy, as well with great speed. A few good examples of such feats could be examined
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Power 2Enhanced SensesComes with the ability of fast reflexes, this allows her to see farther and clearer than most, hear things from a distance and tune her hearing, and smell things a little better than most humans can. This allows her to detect threats and clues most other humans cannot do.
LikesGuns, Shooting Bad People with them, Cars, Hakeem, Women, Also Women, the Military, Good Vampires, Cute Animals, Money
DislikesThe Government, Guns that Don't Work, the Police, Prison, Snakes (she got bit by one in Iraq), Bad People in general, Idiots, Flying
FamilyShe ran away from her abusive father and alcoholic mother when she was young, and while she considered her gang her "family" when she was young, the only family she has got right now is Hakeem.
FriendsHakeem is her best friend, and most trusted ally. Having experienced a whole lot of trials and tribulations with him, the two are nearly inseparable at this point.
Sentimental AttachmentCarries the patch of the volunteer counter-terrorism force she was in, which was the patch of the IFB (International Fighting Brigade). When she can, she also reads whatever book Hakeem wants her to read, despite her being almost illiterate and not much for reading anyway.
WeaponIf she can, she normally carries a
Jericho 941 (9mm) handgun, with some magazines that have different ammo. Otherwise, she simply just carries a collapsible baton.
OtherCurrently works for the rather secretive but well-equiped organization known as Peace Sentinel, who works as an intelligence firm, peacekeeping organization and an black-ops military force for any country that needs them. While Carmen does not carry anything that refers back to PS, Peace Sentinel is always within her mind so any telepath could pick up on that relatively easily.