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Name/Alias:

Gretchen Madson / Dazzle

Sex:

Female

Age:

22

Appearance:

Gretchen is the tallest amongst a family of short. She stands 5’11”, and with her ample bust, hips that do not lie, and legs that seem to go on forever, she has the body any young lady would kill for. Her choice to wear slim-fitting clothing only seeks to confirm her statuesque beauty. The parents have no idea where the genetics are from. She is beautiful without any heavy makeup or getting dressed up.

She has very light skin, and has a head of wavy, silvery-blond hair. Her bright red lipstick accentuates her porcelain white teeth whenever she grins, her large smile spread from jaw to jaw that betrayed her cute-girl look into a fierce model. Her nose is tall and subtly pointed, with an equally subtly pointed chin, and round jaw. Her brows are long and thin, and her eyes are a dark shade of blue. Her wide smile and very articulate eyebrow control could stomp all the competition in a beauty pageant, had she simply the desire. Yes, she does acknowledge that there is probably little of what she is now that was inherited from her parents, but embraces people’s adoration and fascination of it. Without really trying, she is able to capture the hearts of many. 

Personality:

“We never truly have nothing or lose everything; we always have Hope."

Gretchen is one of those girls that enjoys a simple life. Yes, she does go out and travel on excursions or school field trips, and yes, she does socialize and go out – her bubbly effervescence and caring nature makes her popular in and out of her social circle – but she was not excessive about it. She was the type that would hang out but be back home by curfew time, juggling her effort in school, family, friends, and ECAs. As far as we’re concerned, she’s your average young woman that never took it too far. 

She always see the best in people, be they misunderstood or criminally insane. She doesn’t like to admit this to anyone, but she always thinks that whoever the so-called heroes are to the antagonistic villains are just as bad as the villains themselves. Fighting, punishment, war, these are inevitable, but who gets to decide what happens is morally questionable to Gretchen. She fights for a form of equality and peace, where once the dust clears, everyone is their own people. Yet with the way things are in the world, there really isn’t a Winner or a Loser, just survivors. A consequentialist at heart, she will make an effort to do things not by the numbers but by what’s right. 

She understands the harsh truth that sometimes a utilitarian take has to be made, but she will stand up for justice. After all, without fairness, what are we? 

History:

Nothing terrible ever really happened to Gretchen’s life. How can it, when she’s only 22? Sure, most kids would have started rebelling by the age of 14, but Gretchen at 14 was just a little quirky shy kid who never went out of the line but never kept quiet either. That was also when she started to sprout into the gorgeous being that she is now, and when she started to branch out more as she grew confident with what she could do – now taller and bigger, she could do things with a commanding presence, and now prettier and outspoken, she could relate to people and the world as she spoke and learned more about how the world appeared and how it could be.

One could say that the change happened overnight, that two people swapped lives, just like that. But those that stuck around her knew that it was the same girl, that same one that spoke of ideals of a utopia where there was no evil. It was wishful thinking, she knew, but it was the driving force that motivated her to pursue a position in society where she could do good to everyone. Gretchen took her massive change in look not as a blessing, but as a sign that anything is possible. The people are waiting for a good life, and she wants to give it to them.

She did well in her studies, and she managed to enter higher education in the University of Fortitude City. As a philosophy and politics double major, she was a shoo-in for success in her goals. It was also here when the manifestation of her abilities started, when she noticed her lack of pain from camera flashes or even looking directly at the Sun. When she wasn’t careful one day in dorm room, gesturing a gun with her hand, and her corkboard set on fire, that’s when she knew she was gifted with magic. 

She wondered the potential use of her new skills, but feared the discovery of them in the wrong hands. Still, she could not waste this opportunity to help out with fighting crime – great power begets great responsibility. 

Gretchen is a vigilante in the making and she was proud of what she’d become, and hopeful of what more she could do. 

Equipment:

As a university student, she has nothing special on her. N/A 

Faction:

N/A

Marital Status:

Single

Magic:

Gretchen has the ability to manipulate light. The extent of power and control over the electromagnetic radiation is currently unexplored and untapped. The efficacy and power of her abilities are determined by how augmented or depowered Gretchen is in the presence of light – the dimmer, the weaker; the brighter, the stronger. The Sun is her best friend, but any source of light will work. She does not drain them, but simply is empowered by it – like a plant, you may say. 

As of now, Gretchen can create and project beams made of light/photons and can control the intensity of the beam for harmless, concussive, or deadly burning effects. It may be capable of piercing virtually anything they come in contact with and have explosive properties, and may, at ablated surface, leave residual plasma. 

After each beam, a rainbow trail is left behind that fades over time. The spectral dissociation of light is collocated with her abilities.

Skills:

With her acumen in politics and philosophy, she displays great empathy in interpersonal relationships and shows great decision-making skills from her ability to assess different points of view critically. She’s a good conciliator in social and public affairs, and makes an oratorical leader and visionary. 

Her youthful and active age and natural fitness makes her spry and agile even in her tall frame. This may be to do with her being empowered under the Sun.

Tapping into the deep foundations of meaning in earlier scholar works required learning various olden, even extinct languages. One could she was a functional multilingual, but only textually at best. Similarly, she has an affinity and predilection for history and culture, showing great sociological observation.
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