Lady Seraphina

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@Demon Shinobi That's a different power. It's called density manipulation. Katty's got phasing but it's not like Kitty Pryde's. Shadow Cat phased by causing her own molecules to pass through the space between the molecules of whatever she was phasing through. Phantom Girl alters her quantum frequency to be on a different molecular axis to normal matter. Same end result but achieve by a different process.

The upside though is that if Katty altered the quantum frequency of only part of an object it would fall away from the larger whole on a atomic level. Her body is essentially designed be be able to be partially intangible and have her parts and fluids transition between the two states. Other matter doesn't have that advantage.

Also the Ultimate Marvel Universe was almost complete crap.

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Katty grinned knowingly when Red commented on the ease with which she'd changed his trajectory. "Maybe I've got the magic touch." she said with a smile. "Or maybe, someone's not as on point as he'd like everyone to believe." He did make a good point about Batman however there was one problem "Wasn't that the Old Man though?" this was the term she used for the original Batman. The one that had last been reported rescuing a hostage in 2019. It was common knowledge that the Batman that had surfaced about five years ago was a different person. A failed attempt by a reporter on "The Inside Peek" to reveal the identity of the Batman had at least told the public that much. The Old Man had according to the history books a long habit of becoming involved with his female foes. There were rumors he'd even had a child with one of them, and as Carmelita had just added in her disconnected speech his long history with the infamous Selina Kyle.

When Red got that far away look in his eye Katty knew immediately what was happening. He looked more or less like he was spacing out but Katty recognized it as the look he got any time he was hearing or seeing something outside the normal range of human senses. This was confirmed almost immediately as he reported in something close to a panic that they needed to get down to Gotham Harbor. Katty didn't know the specifics but she could guess the general situation. Gotham Harbor was rather notorious for its poor security, as a result it was often the site of a variety of criminal activities from smuggling to dealing to body disposal. Unfortunately it was also quite a beautiful area which lead to charity events being scheduled there. Usually they were fundraisers for law enforcement or politicians looking to get reelected. The kinds of things that had high security and public support making them foolhardy targets. Gotham unfortunately fostered the kind of desperate fools that were just stupid enough to try something at one of those events. Katty's guess, the Jokerz, one of the less organized groups that were just barely above petty street gangs and as Carmelita again supplied, if the crime was taking long enough to be reported on the news and still require their presence it was most likely a hostage situation.

Evidently though G-Man didn't think things through as thoroughly as Katty cause the first words out of his mouth was asking for an explanation. As Katty dropped into the training area to retrieve her suit she shouted over her shoulder "Hostage situation in the harbor." She yanked her Phantom Girl uniform off the mannequin before she tossed off her cloak and stripping out of the workout clothes she'd been wearing previously. She'd long ago lost any sense of modesty and so didn't really care that the rest of the team could see her in her undergarments. The only thing she might have minded them seeing was the tattoo on her shoulder but it was covered with a thermal bandage that so closely resembled human skin that no one would notice anything out of the ordinary.

Katty pulled on her uniform, laced up her boots and hooked the strap of the googles that concealed her face over her head before drawing her cloak back around herself. She went up the stairs at a steady but quick pace towards the elevator and motioned for Red Arrow and G-Man to follow her.

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Hey @Demon Shinobi, just a little thing. Names are very fluid things for my character. She ties each one more to a persona than to her identity specifically, as evidenced by the list of different identities at the start of my post. Gloria is to her more like her starting point than who she actually is so even if (or rather when) the Titans find out who she was it's unlikely that she'll begin using that name again. In that vein I was hoping that in your posts you'd refer to her as Katty (or whatever other derivative of Catherine Red would prefer). It sort of helps maintain the idea that this is who she really is and avoids the potential confusion of someone accidentally calling her by her birth name in IC. I'm not going to hold you to it so if you really don't want to do it or you forget I'll not harp on about it. This is just my preference.

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I added personality to Katty's CS if anyone is interested.

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Gloria, Heather, Hannah, Ace, Jessica, Reaper, and now Katty. They were all just names, people she used to be, people that maybe she could be again. Katty looked herself over in the mirror of the Titan bunker's locker room. She was a lot closer to being Gloria now than she had been in a long time. Her hair was blonde again, something she's vehemently avoided for years, using an offshoot of splicer technology to change it to everything from black to neon blue. Sighing Katty retrieved her cloak from the locker and pulled the hood up, casting her face into shadow. The only time she didn't wear it was when she was training in the gym or had to take on a civilian identity. She wasn't even really sure why anymore. Years ago it had been to protect herself from being recognized but she'd grown and matured so much since then that it was barely a consideration anymore. Maybe she just liked the threatening gleam the shadows gave to the angles of her face. The rest of her suit was stored on a mannequin in the training area but she kept the cloak with her.

Katty left the locker room but paused in front of the glass case that contained the uniform of the former Boy Wonder. Katty had liked Robin. He was good and kind and trusting. All the things that Katty wasn't. He was smart too and he knew how to fight even if he did lead with his emotions more than was wise. Katty had had a feeling things wouldn't end well for Robin. He was too angry. Angry at Batman for... something and angry at the world. He had good intentions but Katty hadn't gotten the sense that he knew what he was getting into. What it would really mean to reform the Teen Titans. The only thing that really bothered her about Robin was that she never knew who he was under the uniform. She never knew his name. But she was working on that.

Katty heard #1, the Wonder Twin with the animal powers ask about Batman as he started up one of the arcade games that he and #2 had brought down. She assumed that he'd liberated that machine because it was the only one with an independent power source. Katty smiled inwardly at that. Not long after she'd taken up residence in the Titan bunker she'd hooked the arcade on top of the building into the city's power supply so she could use the machines upstairs. It sounded impressive but it was a fairly simple matter. The arcade was in Gotham's Historical District. It was supposedly a testament to the past of Gotham but in reality it was a district of burned out decaying buildings from the late twentieth century that hadn't be touched or upgraded in the last forty years. The only upside to that was the power grid that ran through the area was from that era. It was easier to tap into it than changing the power cell on a vid player. A lot of the abandoned buildings with occupants in the area did the same thing and since most of the time the biggest thing they were powering was the kitchen appliances the rise in output was barely noticed by the city. Katty had had a similar setup in the old gym she'd lived in before this place. Though even she knew that it was more a testament to how little the outer districts of Neo Gotham was cared about than it was her own skill. Still there was something appealing about the "retro" games, especially the ones with primitive tactile interfaces. She was rather fond of Time Crisis. The movement and noise helped her think.

As for Batman, he would probably arrive in the late hours of the day shortly before nightfall. Not that The Batman was that predictable but Katty had noticed that he usually reserved the nights for his solo crime fighting and he very rarely appeared during the day. Some would say that was because he inspired the most fear in criminals in the shadows but Katty thought it much more likely that he had a nine to five, or maybe post secondary education that demanded his attention. Katty's best estimation of his age was around twenty one, give or take eight months.

Speaking of the Batman, Katty's eyes drifted to the human sized playing card emblazoned with a spade, which was preserved in glass next to the Robin uniform. Katty had been wondering about it since Batman had taken over the team. The Royal Flush gang notoriety and ten minutes at a computer terminal were enough to find the identity of the villain that had owned the card. That identity generated more questions for Katty than it answered.

As she was thinking this one of her other teammates walked by, The Red Arrow. He wouldn't tell them his real name so Katty just called him Red. The fact that he kept his identity a secret didn't surprise her, Batman hadn't exactly surrendered his identicard but it did intrigue her. People didn't conceal facts unless they had something to lose. She knew the names of the Wonder Twins because they had literally nothing left but each other so it didn't matter. She'd hidden her birth name because it would cost her credibility and probably her spot on the team if her past was discovered and she'd surrendered the name Catherine Walker on her current identicard for the same reason, it wasn't tied to anything and it wasn't worth anything. If Red Arrow felt the need to conceal his name especially from those who he'd trust with his life it meant that it was tied to something or someone that he valued quite a lot. Katty had an educated guess about his identity, mostly it was influenced by his name and that he didn't hide the fact that he was a legacy hero. It was likely that he was the son of the first Green Arrow's protege who'd in later years gone by the name Arsenal. It was however just a theory. Katty had more research to do before she could say definitively who was under Red's hood.

As Red Arrow passed by Katty grabbed his arm and spun him to face her then she stepped back to look at the case with the playing card in it. "Thoughts?" she ran her tongue over her teeth as she often did when she was thinking. "What was so special about Ten that he'd display her card in the same place as the uniform of the deceased Boy Wonder?"

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@Member 00492 Do we know Batman Beyond is the second Batman? I mean from a logical standpoint it wouldn't be odd to make an intuitive leap assuming that Terry is the successor to the mantle but do we know for sure that the Batman who's training us isn't the same one that defended Gotham forty years ago?

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I just noticed while looking at the team lineup of micros, but we've got all these dark colored costumes looking all gritty... then Accel has this bright red orange that stands out and is almost blinding by comparison. XD

@ProPro

If it helps I'm considering a redesign. When I add the personality to my CS I'm going to add a more detailed appearance section instead of just a photo and include a more detailed costume design.

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@Member 00492 What about the circumstances of finding his body?

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@Member 00492 Hey I was wondering? Did we know Matt's identity before he died? Do we know it now? And who was present when his body was discovered? I figure those that live in the HQ while not being present for Inque's attack would likely be the first to discover him then given the connection of Robin to Batman inform the Dark Knight. Is that more or less right?

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I'll take the other position of computor user if nobody else wants the position.

@rocketrobie2

Damn, I was gonna volunteer for that but I got sidetracked by the new and shiny PiratePad.