Name: Grace Hunter
Codename: Quake
City of Operation: Cleveland
Appearance: Short brown hair with some blonde highlights. Grace is built tall and lanky, and without slouching is 6' 3". She often wears simple clothing that she can hide her bulletproof vest and gear inside. This often means hoodies and jeans or cargo pants with pockets. Since she's not concerned with a secret identity she doesn't wear a mask and thus is called Quake only by the inhabitants since they needed something to call her.
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Superpowers:
Earth Control: A Caught ability. Can move any kind of rock, but cannot move metal or refined rock. Hand movements are key to manipulating earth and thus if her hands are bound she cannot manipulate earth in a controlled manner. Using her mind without her hands lowers her upper limit for controlling earth of one ton to one hundred pounds.
Lie Detection: A Caught ability. Inherent sense of a lie without training of any kind. Innaccurate, however, Grace can't pinpoint which statment is a lie unless they're all said separately.
Skills/ Talents:
Customer Service: Through years of waitressing and doing customer service, Grace has learned to keep a cool head and a straight face in the worst of situations.
Practical Plans: Grace has learned to be practical in most of what she does. Her plans aren't usually the most creative, but they work the best.
Equipment:
Cheap self defense items mostly including mace and a cute cat charm that doubles as brass knuckles.
Weaknesses:
Cannot use powers effectively if her hands are bound or if Grace surrounded by metal.
Only wants to fight as a super hero to stop the craziness of the supervillian rampage. Anything beyond that will take convincing and a sincere effort to make her see that becoming a super hero is the best idea. However, seeing how she's been out of work a few times due to super hero fights, this is unlikely. She leans more towards becoming a hero than before, however.
Psyche:
Grace has no interest in being a superhero. In fact, if it wasn't for the whole incident with all ther heroes in Cleveland suddenly lighting on fire, Grace would have been happy to remain a civilian in all cases. Beyond seeing that fighting the supervillians is a good thing to do, Grace doesn't much care about the 'fight of the week' as she calls it. If anything, her lack of concern for the city aside from fighting for 'the poor schmucks that get caught in the crossfire' is quite alarming, and as such it's not surprising that she could also turn her back on the ideal if she makes sure that no one gets hurt by it. Grace has no interest in becoming a big shot hero. She can however, say that maybe she does like being a hero a little bit more than before.
History: I don't need more than one or two paragraphs here, but the more detail the better.
Born into middle class Grace had an average upbringing. If something exciting happened during her childhood it might have been that her father got a promotion at work so that they all moved into upper middle class. She started work early at the age of fifteen and saved up for a car. She got one as a gift a few years later. It was a plain sandy color and didn't stand out much. At eighteen she graduated with slightly above average grades and started to attend university the same year. She stayed in Cleveland with her parents for a while before moving out to stay in her own apartment.
Senior year was when the White Rain event occurred. She heard the thunder and saw the clouds but did not leave or seek shelter as she was more interested in getting her groceries home than worrying about getting wet. However, when it started to rain milk she decided to slowly move to shelter then seek out the government's help. She remained at university for four years then graduated. The summer that she graduated was mostly uninteresting and she remained in a waitress job until she was fired due to the hero epidemic destroying her workplace.
Shortly after the event she got registered and returned to her life. She had no interest in her powers besides honing them in secret when she could and using them to help with any landscaping jobs she had the potential to do. As the superhero and supervillian threat rose, she found herself out of a job very often due to her place of employment being destroyed in the battle. As a result she's held many jobs, and learned to avoid trouble. However, when all the heroes of Cleveland 'got fired', Grace stepped up to restore balance.
