Feb 12, 2018 1:38:08 GMT
Post by Kathy Howard on Feb 12, 2018 1:38:08 GMT
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 | [attr="class","hopelovename"] [attr="class","hopelovename2"] Kathleen Howard [attr="class","hopelovelyric"]
[attr="class","hopeloveleft"] ALIAS // Celerity [attr="class","hopeloveleft"]AGE // Twenty five [attr="class","hopeloveleft"]GENDER // Female [attr="class","hopeloveleft"]GROUP // Hero |
[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]APPEARANCE
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HAIR // Brown[break]
EYES // Hazel[break]
SKIN // Caucasian[break][break]
ATTIRE[break][break]
Kathy dresses comfortably, rather than stylishly; she’s more at home in jeans and a sweater than anything more fancy. She can sometimes be found with grease stains on her hands and smudges on her face from her latest project, though she does her best to keep clean. She still has a nice dress in the back of her closet from when she attended a friend’s wedding, but it only comes out on the very special occasions.
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Kathy’s alter-ego, Celerity, is rather more flamboyant than Kathleen Howard. She has embraced old superhero stereotypes, and exemplifies the kind of hero that the Program likes. She carries a baton and shield and dresses in armour, though the actual level of protection afforded by the armour leaves much to be desired, for it it is inspired more by fantasy than realism, featuring a breastplate with the emphasis on the breast - it was hard enough for Kathleen to convince the image guys that the armour couldn’t bear her belly and much of her cleavage, she didn’t want to try arguing them down any further. There is no helmet, she instead dons a domino mask and circlet.
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GENERAL[break][break]
Kathy stands at an even 5’6, and is fairly fit; she’s no Ms Marvel, that’s for sure, but she’s kept in shape. Her brown hair falls just below her shoulders and is well cared for. Kathy has a face built for smiling, and does so at every opportunity, to the point that she’ll likely have smile lines by the time she reaches her mid-thirties. Her body language expresses a certain subdued confidence, a security in her own skin.
HAIR // Brown[break]
EYES // Hazel[break]
SKIN // Caucasian[break][break]
ATTIRE[break][break]
Kathy dresses comfortably, rather than stylishly; she’s more at home in jeans and a sweater than anything more fancy. She can sometimes be found with grease stains on her hands and smudges on her face from her latest project, though she does her best to keep clean. She still has a nice dress in the back of her closet from when she attended a friend’s wedding, but it only comes out on the very special occasions.
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Kathy’s alter-ego, Celerity, is rather more flamboyant than Kathleen Howard. She has embraced old superhero stereotypes, and exemplifies the kind of hero that the Program likes. She carries a baton and shield and dresses in armour, though the actual level of protection afforded by the armour leaves much to be desired, for it it is inspired more by fantasy than realism, featuring a breastplate with the emphasis on the breast - it was hard enough for Kathleen to convince the image guys that the armour couldn’t bear her belly and much of her cleavage, she didn’t want to try arguing them down any further. There is no helmet, she instead dons a domino mask and circlet.
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GENERAL[break][break]
Kathy stands at an even 5’6, and is fairly fit; she’s no Ms Marvel, that’s for sure, but she’s kept in shape. Her brown hair falls just below her shoulders and is well cared for. Kathy has a face built for smiling, and does so at every opportunity, to the point that she’ll likely have smile lines by the time she reaches her mid-thirties. Her body language expresses a certain subdued confidence, a security in her own skin.
[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]PERSONALITY
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Kathy is a woman in love with life, always with a smile on her face and a song in her heart. She firmly believes in the inherent goodness of people, that everyone is capable of nobility and kindness, and that people should always be given a second chance (and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth…). She is mischievous, but not cruelly so - she might joke about something, but she would never ridicule or humiliate a person just for her own satisfaction. Kathy is, in essence, a good person. She’s charming and possesses some charisma, but can come across as over-eager and naive to the more cynical. To her, the most important thing is that everyone walks away happy and smiling, and to that end she seeks out opportunities to have fun and enjoy herself, hoping that by doing so she’ll be able to make other people enjoy themselves as well. A key part of why she’s so popular as a hero is how obvious it is that she enjoys her work - the people like to see a hero having fun, it makes the whole job much more attractive.
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Kathy was always a fan of superhero stories, but of the old type, not the new type. More Christopher Reeve than Henry Caville, Adam West rather than Christian Bale. Inspired by them, she has adopted a similar persona for her hero identity. Goofy and cavalier, she never hesitates to throw out a witty one-liner, or silly quip. Her enemies are not bastards or thugs, but vile evil-doers, tricksy villains and nemeses. A crime is never one of passion, but always the sign of a grand evil plan. As Celerity, Kathy is constantly on the move, visiting charity events and doing tours of schools and hospitals. She truly believes in the Hero Program and its potential for good, to the extent that she can be blind to its flaws. The mindset that makes her such a dedicated and charismatic hero, the belief that all people are good at heart, can make her seem incredibly naive - Kathy is not quite as foolish as she acts, but at times the difference is incredibly slim.
Kathy is a woman in love with life, always with a smile on her face and a song in her heart. She firmly believes in the inherent goodness of people, that everyone is capable of nobility and kindness, and that people should always be given a second chance (and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth…). She is mischievous, but not cruelly so - she might joke about something, but she would never ridicule or humiliate a person just for her own satisfaction. Kathy is, in essence, a good person. She’s charming and possesses some charisma, but can come across as over-eager and naive to the more cynical. To her, the most important thing is that everyone walks away happy and smiling, and to that end she seeks out opportunities to have fun and enjoy herself, hoping that by doing so she’ll be able to make other people enjoy themselves as well. A key part of why she’s so popular as a hero is how obvious it is that she enjoys her work - the people like to see a hero having fun, it makes the whole job much more attractive.
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Kathy was always a fan of superhero stories, but of the old type, not the new type. More Christopher Reeve than Henry Caville, Adam West rather than Christian Bale. Inspired by them, she has adopted a similar persona for her hero identity. Goofy and cavalier, she never hesitates to throw out a witty one-liner, or silly quip. Her enemies are not bastards or thugs, but vile evil-doers, tricksy villains and nemeses. A crime is never one of passion, but always the sign of a grand evil plan. As Celerity, Kathy is constantly on the move, visiting charity events and doing tours of schools and hospitals. She truly believes in the Hero Program and its potential for good, to the extent that she can be blind to its flaws. The mindset that makes her such a dedicated and charismatic hero, the belief that all people are good at heart, can make her seem incredibly naive - Kathy is not quite as foolish as she acts, but at times the difference is incredibly slim.
[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]HISTORY
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Kathleen Howard is the most ordinary of ordinary people. There is no tragic backstory, no deaths in the family or horrific assaults. Her parents aren’t even divorced, they’re still happily married with no issues. Indeed, the most unique thing about Kathy is how ordinary she is. She got decent grades, but not amazing, did mechanical engineering at a good college and successfully passed, but never got on the honor roll.
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The only notable things about her, really, were her charity work and her networking. She first volunteered by selling cookies as a girl scout, and worked her way up from there. By the end of her first year in college she was involved in fundraising for half a dozen different charities, and by the end of her second she was running her college’s community service society. Kathy always made friends easily, and as an all around great person she was constantly being invited out to socialise and spreading her net of acquaintances ever further. She likes to joke about having a friend in every state, but it really isn’t a joke by this point - you’d be hard pressed to find a place in the world where she doesn’t have a friend; she has friends in Europe, a few on sabbatical in Africa and even a number of Chinese and Japanese people who spent time at her college before going home
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At 25 Kathy has a wider social circle than many people in their 50s, and in this world of interconnectivity it doesn’t look like it’ll be shrinking anytime soon.
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Kathy manifested her power almost immediately after the event, and was one of the first people to sign up to the newborn Hero Program. By this point she’s practically a staple of the organisation, not quite with the star power of someone like Paladin but not that far off either.
Kathleen Howard is the most ordinary of ordinary people. There is no tragic backstory, no deaths in the family or horrific assaults. Her parents aren’t even divorced, they’re still happily married with no issues. Indeed, the most unique thing about Kathy is how ordinary she is. She got decent grades, but not amazing, did mechanical engineering at a good college and successfully passed, but never got on the honor roll.
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The only notable things about her, really, were her charity work and her networking. She first volunteered by selling cookies as a girl scout, and worked her way up from there. By the end of her first year in college she was involved in fundraising for half a dozen different charities, and by the end of her second she was running her college’s community service society. Kathy always made friends easily, and as an all around great person she was constantly being invited out to socialise and spreading her net of acquaintances ever further. She likes to joke about having a friend in every state, but it really isn’t a joke by this point - you’d be hard pressed to find a place in the world where she doesn’t have a friend; she has friends in Europe, a few on sabbatical in Africa and even a number of Chinese and Japanese people who spent time at her college before going home
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At 25 Kathy has a wider social circle than many people in their 50s, and in this world of interconnectivity it doesn’t look like it’ll be shrinking anytime soon.
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Kathy manifested her power almost immediately after the event, and was one of the first people to sign up to the newborn Hero Program. By this point she’s practically a staple of the organisation, not quite with the star power of someone like Paladin but not that far off either.
[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]POWER
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ABILITY[break][break]
A teleporter, Kathy is capable of covering immense distances in the blink of an eye with no more effort than would be needed to take a single step. Her range is, so far as she knows, limitless, and she can teleport as many times as she wants to without growing tired.
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She can place marks (more details below) on anything at all, be it a piece of equipment like her shield or even a person. As she is constantly aware of the position of her marks, this makes her an excellent tracker - should she manage to get a mark on someone, they will find it impossible to escape her.
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Kathy has marks placed in all of the major Hero Program branches, including New York, San Francisco and several others. When working with other people, she will also usually either mark them or give them a marked object, dissolving said mark at the end of the mission. Because of this, Kathy is by far the best fast-response unit that the Hero Program has access to, capable of going to the aid of any given hero at a moment’s notice.
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LIMITS[break][break]
There is one major caveat to her ability. In order to teleport anywhere at all, Kathy must place a mark in that location, which must be done by touch. Once a mark is placed it is permanent, unless Kathy dissolves it or the thing it is placed on is destroyed: if a mark is placed on a wall and the wall is destroyed, the mark is destroyed with it.
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Not only is Kathy limited in that she must have a mark in place in order to teleport, but she is limited in the number of marks that she can have active at any given time. Her limit is 30 marks, and if she reaches the limit then in order to make a new mark she must first dissolve one of her existing marks, or else find herself unable to create a new one. Kathy also has numerous permanent marks that eat into her potential capacity, leaving her with around half being available at any given time.
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Kathy has very strict limits for what she can teleport, having a strict weight limit beyond which teleporting at all becomes increasingly difficult on an exponential scale. She can teleport herself and her standard equipment without any issue, but to take even a single other person with her turns her ability from effortless to a practically herculean challenge.
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WEAKNESSES[break][break]
The marks that Kathy creates are easily visible for up to 2 hours after being placed, and whenever she is within 5 miles of the mark. When both of these conditions are not the case, the marks fade gradually, eventually becoming little more than glimmers on whatever surface they were placed.
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The relationship between Kathy’s own momentum and that of a marked object is a complex one. If both are stationary, then she will simply appear at the location, and if Kathy is moving then her momentum will be retained through the transition. On the other hand, if the mark is moving and Kathy is not, then she will possess the same momentum as the mark when teleporting, though she can choose in which direction she is travelling.
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While Kathy is able to control her position when teleporting to a mark, being able to appear anywhere within a 2 metre radius at any orientation, she is not, strictly speaking, aware of the area. Her ability ensures that she doesn’t telefrag herself and end up inside a wall, but beyond that it doesn’t aid her at all. This means that it is quite possible for her to be ambushed when teleporting to a mark that she cannot see.
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ABILITY[break][break]
A teleporter, Kathy is capable of covering immense distances in the blink of an eye with no more effort than would be needed to take a single step. Her range is, so far as she knows, limitless, and she can teleport as many times as she wants to without growing tired.
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She can place marks (more details below) on anything at all, be it a piece of equipment like her shield or even a person. As she is constantly aware of the position of her marks, this makes her an excellent tracker - should she manage to get a mark on someone, they will find it impossible to escape her.
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Kathy has marks placed in all of the major Hero Program branches, including New York, San Francisco and several others. When working with other people, she will also usually either mark them or give them a marked object, dissolving said mark at the end of the mission. Because of this, Kathy is by far the best fast-response unit that the Hero Program has access to, capable of going to the aid of any given hero at a moment’s notice.
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LIMITS[break][break]
There is one major caveat to her ability. In order to teleport anywhere at all, Kathy must place a mark in that location, which must be done by touch. Once a mark is placed it is permanent, unless Kathy dissolves it or the thing it is placed on is destroyed: if a mark is placed on a wall and the wall is destroyed, the mark is destroyed with it.
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Not only is Kathy limited in that she must have a mark in place in order to teleport, but she is limited in the number of marks that she can have active at any given time. Her limit is 30 marks, and if she reaches the limit then in order to make a new mark she must first dissolve one of her existing marks, or else find herself unable to create a new one. Kathy also has numerous permanent marks that eat into her potential capacity, leaving her with around half being available at any given time.
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Kathy has very strict limits for what she can teleport, having a strict weight limit beyond which teleporting at all becomes increasingly difficult on an exponential scale. She can teleport herself and her standard equipment without any issue, but to take even a single other person with her turns her ability from effortless to a practically herculean challenge.
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WEAKNESSES[break][break]
The marks that Kathy creates are easily visible for up to 2 hours after being placed, and whenever she is within 5 miles of the mark. When both of these conditions are not the case, the marks fade gradually, eventually becoming little more than glimmers on whatever surface they were placed.
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The relationship between Kathy’s own momentum and that of a marked object is a complex one. If both are stationary, then she will simply appear at the location, and if Kathy is moving then her momentum will be retained through the transition. On the other hand, if the mark is moving and Kathy is not, then she will possess the same momentum as the mark when teleporting, though she can choose in which direction she is travelling.
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While Kathy is able to control her position when teleporting to a mark, being able to appear anywhere within a 2 metre radius at any orientation, she is not, strictly speaking, aware of the area. Her ability ensures that she doesn’t telefrag herself and end up inside a wall, but beyond that it doesn’t aid her at all. This means that it is quite possible for her to be ambushed when teleporting to a mark that she cannot see.
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Jewel Staite as Kathleen Howard
PHARAOH LEAP.
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