[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]APPEARANCE

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HAIR // Brown[break]
EYES // Blue[break]
SKIN // Type III on the Fitzpatrick scale[break][break]

ATTIRE[break][break]
Still new to US fashion, 177 favors practical clothing, generally with a masculine bent. Since most of her clothing right now is borrowed, stolen, or otherwise acquired on the cheap, it tends to be older and less than coordinated. She doesn't see much point in trying to be fashionable, favoring wearing something until it's fully worn out. She often wears a baseball cap.
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GENERAL[break][break]
177 is a short, stocky woman, standing 4'11" and weighing 125 pounds. She has broad shoulders and a narrow waist (inverted triangle body shape) and overall muscular physique. She wears her hair at about shoulder length and usually keeps it pulled back. She has several distinguishing marks: a jagged scar on the left side of her throat, a tattoo reading “све-177” in black letters on her left collarbone, and an identical one on her lower back. She also has a tattoo of a hammer and a sickle on her left shoulderblade. Not one to spend much time prettying herself up, she often has a plain appearance.  

[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]PERSONALITY

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Being mute, 177 tends to quickly get written off as quiet or brooding. And there's some truth to this; she certainly prefers to look at a situation from all angles before entering a situation. In reality, 177 is an extrovert and more than a little fun-loving. It's just that her life experience has led her to stay inside her shell until she feels safe. Her apparent gruffness and seriousness is, in many ways, a defense mechanism. She has a mischievous streak and loves a good practical joke.[break][break]

Due to her history, 177 has a fierce desire to be independent and a strong resistance to being cohered or controlled. She tends to be stubborn and somewhat contrary, the sort of person who feels a strong temptation to perform forbidden acts just because they're forbidden. She tends to hold grudges after perceived wrongs.[break][break]

177 greatly respects strength, and despises weakness. She tries to make herself as strong as possible, because in her mind, strength is associated with goodness. She's vaguely aware that protecting the weak is good, but isn't particularly inclined to do so at the moment. In general she feels that people need to take responsibility for fixing their own problems. That said, she also has a deep hatred for those she views as “evil”. As an extremely practical person not particularly concerned with highbrow moral theories, she tends towards snap judgments based on intuition and can be a bit extreme in her reactions as a result.[break][break]

Overall, 177 is a complex personality, a fun-loving woman inside a shell with a streak of moral absolutism to her.[break][break]

[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]HISTORY

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CBE-177's life began in as the daughter of Russian kulaks in 1929, as Joseph Stalin was consolidating his hold over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1930, her father was of the many kulaks who resisted collectivization by slaughtering his livestock and burning his fields, requiring the small family to flee for their lives. Her father eventually found work as a coal miner, and 177 spent her youngest years growing up in a coal mining town. Her family was poor, but so was everyone else, so it hardly mattered. All things considered, her early years in the mining town are some of her happiest. When the fireplace was cleaned and the front steps swept, she would find her friends and spend hours playing tag or hide and seek, not expected back home until suppertime. Somewhere in the outside world Stalin was conducting his Great Purge, but in that town only his picture on the outside of the courthouse and occasional brown vans that came through at night provided evidence of his faraway tyranny. Those were he days when Communism had not done its full damage in Russia; there was light and laughter and warm fires on long winter nights.[break][break]

She lost her ability to speak in an accident when she was six. She was playing hide and seek, and, having just been found, was running without looking where she was going and ran into the street where she was clipped by a cart carrying scrap metal. Though she eventually recovered from her other injuries, her recurrent larnygeal nerve had been damaged, rendering her mute. Despite this, her life remained relatively happy until her 11th year, when her ability first manifested.
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It began as a kind of weakness, a tingling in her stomach, a feeling that something was missing. A smell that she'd never found attractive before drew her behind the local butcher shop. There it was, dripping from the window onto the street. She got on her hands and knees, lapping it up. It stirred something in her. Something strong.
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She soon learned to catch birds and rats and small dogs to take the blood from them. That was how her mother found her, casually drinking the blood of a rat she caught. Her mother, an old-fashioned Russian woman, was horrified; her daughter was clearly an Upyr, a vampire. Her mother consulted the local Verduna (Wise woman), who advised her to tie a blue button into her daughter's hair and feed her a disgusting paste made of beets and offal. This had very little effect on the girl's blood-drinking activities.
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Over time, the girl became a social outcast. The village culture had plenty of sympathy for the disabled; had her parents died, she could have counted on being supported on account of being mute. However, it had little tolerance for monsters from folklore coming to live among them. War with Germany in 1941 heightened tensions among the townspeople; though they were a long way from the front, brothers and sons had been sent to fight the Germans, and the fear of war was everywhere. Windows were tightened at night; misfortunes of all sorts were blamed on the girl.
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During this time, the main bright spot in the girl's life was her father, a practical who regarded upyrs and blue buttons as so much nonsense. In 1944, however, he was killed in a mining accident, and the girl knew there was nothing more for her in that town. Carrying a rusted knife and a stolen loaf of bread, she began walking.
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Two years later, when she was 17, she met Him. From the moment they met, He had the capital letter in her mind, a status He retained ever since. The first time she'd ever met another metahuman, and a man with money and political power to boot. She was a child; what did you expect? To say she was infatuated is an understatement. She worshiped the slippers He wore before bed. For reasons of His own He took her as a sort of ward, and for almost two years she lived a life of what was practically unimaginable luxury compared to her childhood. She learned of the Council that He had a seat on, was exposed to other metahumans. It was He who first gave her human blood to drink. It was here that she received a rudimentary education, including instruction in English and French. She thought her ship had come in. She thought she was secure, safe, set fit life. And then He sold her.
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She never learned the reason. As a favor to someone, to get what he wanted, or simply because He was tired of her- it didn't matter. In the end, the Councillor was a politician, and He viewed her as simply one more pawn he had to play. Regardless of the reason, she found herself carted off in chains to Laboratory 1, the Soviet Union's human experimentation project. It was here she would receive her designation and the tattoo све-177, from the first three letters of the Russian word сверхчеловеческий, or "superhuman".
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Once there, she was placed in the care of Sato Matsushita, a Japanese defector to the Soviet Union who had previously served in the infamous Unit 731. Matsushita, who would escape the Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials by virtue of having defected, was given two mandates: first, to investigate the possibility of creating superpowered, obedient soldiers for the Soviet Union, and secondarily, to develop chemical and biological weapons for use against the West. Since the Soviet regime had suppressed the study of cybernetics, certain military officials believed that human enhancement by biological means could prove helpful (though the Soviet demand that biological research conform to Lysenkoism would prove a hindrance there as well).
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However, it was the first mandate that intrigued Matsushita. He divided the task before him into three parts: first, the forcible induction of metahuman abilities in human subjects, second, the rapid training of subjects in combat and espionage, and third, the task of inducing and exerting psychological control over the victims.
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The first task was a complete failure. Despite testing hundreds of subjects, Matsushita was never able to induce metahuman abilities at will. The second was a partial success. Although Matsushita found the results supremely unsatisfying, Laboratory 1 was indeed able to rapidly bring све-177 to a level of competence in combat and assassination skills. (Observers, however, pointed out that this was far from a breakthrough; putting све-177 through a forced training regimen would probably have taught her something even without Matsushita's work.)
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As for the third part, све-177 found that to be the worst of all, though Matsushita was never satisfied with the work. Through a combination of drugs, hypnosis, and applied electric shocks, Matsushita hoped to produce a soldier entirely obedient to the will of the Soviet state. At this, too, he failed. Two factors were against him: first, the fact that it is easier to damage a brain then to change it, and second, that све-177 was absolutely opposed to any kind of brainwashing. No small part of the success of the teaching regimen could be attributed to her cooperation; no small part of the brainwashing's failure can be attributed to her resistance. Still, there were lingering effects. Electric shocks delivered to her brain damaged many of her memories. She forgot the name she had grown up with and the name of the town where she had lived, though she could remember images from her childhood she forgot names, dates, places, and found gaps of weeks or months in her memory. She was still herself, but she had lost much.
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све-177 was a prisoner at Laboratory 1 from 1948 until 1953. During that time, Laboratory 1 developed numerous toxin-based weapons, most prominently the compound carbylamine choline chloride, or C-2, which Matsushita had a hand in developing. It is possible that Matsushita was something of a metahuman himself; at any rate, he was as brilliant a chemist as he was an evil one.
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By 1951, све-177 was becoming increasingly difficult to manage. Matsushita sought a solution to controlling the metahuman between rounds of testing that might be many months apart. After rejecting sedation as too difficult with 1950s technology in light of her abilities, he turned to the work of British scientist James Lovelock, who had suggested that it might be possible to place organisms in a long-term statis using extremely cold temperatures. While existing cryopreservents were unsuitable for long-term use due to their toxicity, Matsushita realized that све-177's ability would allow her to survive an otherwise toxic process. An additional difficulty was that increased economic difficulty in the Soviet Union due to the policies of Joseph Stalin, resulting in Laboratory 1 losing power at unpredictable times. The loss of power was unacceptable if све-177 was to be kept in statis. Matsushita solved this problem by creating a primitive radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), of the type later used to power satellites. (Due to the secrecy surrounding Matsushita's work and the poor recordkeeping of the Soviet secret services, the invention was not publicized, and Americans Ken Jordan and John Birden were credited with inventing the RTG three years later). This breakthrough allowed Matsushita to construct a coffin-like box in which све-177 could be kept when not needed. Matsushita christened the device "Hakoirikappa", roughly meaning "vampire in a box".
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By this time, све-177 had become the defining obsession of Matsushita's life. His personal papers contained thousands of pages of scribbled notes or plans for experiments, and he ordered the construction of a much larger Hakoirikappa. However, Laboratory 1 was shaken to its core by the 1953 death of Joseph Stalin. Overnight, political structures realigned; the heads of Laboratory 1 were sentenced to death, and in the course of an afternoon, Matsushita was convicted of war crimes, shot behind the chemical shed, and his body thrown into the lime pits that had swallowed so many of his victims. With Matsushita now a persona non grata, his work was now politically charged and his fellow scientists dumped his papers and personal effects, including the Hakoirikappa, into a warehouse. In the confusion as Laboratory 1 was reorganized into Laboratory 12, records of Matsushita's work were burned and све-177 forgotten about.
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Neglected, све-177, safely secured inside the Hakoirikappa, remained in statis as decades passed around her. In the 1960s, the warehouse in which the Hakoirikappa was stored was repurposed to store NK-33 engines from the Soviet space program. Technical problems and a lack of funds resulted in many of the engines being unused for years.
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After the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Western interests obtained access to NK-33 rocket stores. Orbital Sciences Corporation in particular was noted for its use of the engines (though the engine was also blamed for the October 2014 explosion of an Antares rocket during launch).
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In 2017, workers were preparing an order of NK-33 rockets when the Hakoirikappa was discovered under an old part. Noting the prescense of an RTG and knowing that they were often used in space research, workers assumed that the Hakoirikappa was part of the order and placed it on the truck with the engine parts. Loaded onto a ship and brought to Orbital Sciences's Southern California Research Center in Huntington Beach California, where warehouse employees, not knowing what else to do with it, placed it into storage.
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On June 30, 2018, the Hakoirikappa's internal mechanisms failed, and све-177 awoke for the first time in sixty years.

[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]POWER

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Hemoconsumptive Augmentation
177 has the power to enhance her physical and mental abilities by consuming human blood. As long as she has recently consumed blood, she becomes stronger, faster, tougher, and her senses and thinking become clearer. The exact degree of enhancement depends on how recently she has consumed blood, how much, and what kind of blood it was. Human blood works best, while the blood of other mammals is less effective. If she doesn't get blood, she becomes irritable and loses cognitive function. Although she still needs to eat, having access to blood allows her to stave off hunger and thirst for extended periods, generally concluding by gorging herself on whatever she gets afterwards. Both her teeth and nails are sharper and stronger than in a normal human (comparable to animal claws), with her canines being visibly elongated if you look closely. Her ability gives her protection from disease and helps her heal more quickly when injured.
However, her most spectacular ability is one that she doesn't even know about: by consuming the blood of a metahuman, she can imitate a portion of that metahumans ability for a short period afterward. (As 177 has never had the opportunity to drink the blood of another metahuman, she is unaware of this). This requires her to consume at least a cup of the blood of the metahuman in question, and the power will remain available to her depending on how much she drank and how active she is.
Magnetoreception:
A secondary ability, an enhancement of her sensory powers, that gives her a sixth sense regarding magnetic fields. Similar to the senses possessed by some birds, this enables her to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field or sense ferrous metals near her.

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LIMITS[break][break]
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At maximum strength, 177 would be overhead lift 4000 pounds, bench press about 5500, squat around 8100, and deadlift about 9500 (single rep). She would be able to run at 70 miles per hour for up to 1600 feet, or for 4 miles at 36 mph, accelerating from 0 to about 50 mph in just under two seconds, or running a marathon in approximately 45 minutes. These are maximum numbers, and she may not be able to achieve them if it has been a while since she last ate. Use of her strength causes it to reduce over time, requiring more blood to sustain her. While enhanced, she is tougher than a normal human, bleeding less from wounds and recovering more quickly. However, this taxes her blood reserves much more quickly than using her strength. Nor is she capable of simply shrugging off large wounds; if she lost a limb, she might be able to regrow it, but it would take months or years and require her to consume a great deal of blood. She is, however, capable of ignoring or blunting most pain, though this may be a baseline human ability rather than a superhuman one. Without the benefit of her powers, 177 is only as strong as would be expected for a fit woman of her height and build.[break][break]
Her senses are similarly enhanced; she has excellent night vision, and her daytime vision is 4 to 8 times better than a baseline human's- about as strong as a bald eagle's. Her sense of smell is good enough that she can identify an individual person by their scent, while her hearing is about 4 times better than a baseline human's (comparable to a dog). Unlike her strength, her hearing and smell are not reduced if she runs low on blood, though her vision is.[break][break]
At her peak, 177's reflexes are significantly faster than a normal person's, giving her a reaction time of about 8 milliseconds compared to the human average of 166. She would be able to hold her breath for up to 90 minutes if refreshed, though this will be less if she is performing physical activities.[break][break]
Should 177 imitate the abilities of another, two main limits will come into play: first, any duplicated abilities will always be weaker than the original ability. At most, they could possess about 90% of the strength of the original ability. This is further reduced if 177 tries to drink from multiple metahumans in a short time; each additional ability acquired reduces the strength of all duplicated abilities by half. Additionally, 177 will not be as practiced with the power as the original holder. Duplicated abilities will expire after a period of several hours, eight at the most.[break][break]
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The ability is much less precise than hearing or sight, and mostly provides her with vague information.
She can generally orient herself relative to magnetic north without trouble, and sense ferrous objects in a range of about a hundred yards without much trouble, but she can't always tell exactly what the objects are. Additionally, strong artificial magnetic fields can disrupt this ability.
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WEAKNESSES[break][break]
177's biggest weakness is her dependence on human blood. Without blood, she becomes irritable and finds it more difficult to concentrate on anything except getting more blood. Not having blood makes her strength less, as well. It does not reduce her senses or magnetoreception (however, both will be more difficult to use effectively as thinking gets more difficult).  In general, she needs a minimum of a pint of human blood a week-  more if she can only get animal blood. (This would mean that she would need a minimum of eight people to safely take it from willing donors.) However, that amount is not comfortable- she would prefer twice that, about a gallon a month. Drinking more than that at one sitting will not sustain her any longer than a month.[break][break]
Once her stores are exhausted, 177 needs to feed in approximately three days or less, before her cognition is entirely swallowed up by her hunger. Under these circumstances, forced deprivation may cause her to enter a state of berzerker-like rage, during which she becomes insensible to anything except the need to feed. Strangely, though her strength would have been gone before this happens, it reappears during the period of rage, allowing her to hunt more effectively. However, she has little volitional control during these periods of rage; she's entirely focused on getting more blood as quickly as possible. If she ingests the blood of a person who is drunk, poisoned, or high on drugs, she will experience at least some of the effects of those chemicals.[break][break]
Other weaknesses come from her enhanced senses. Bright lights or loud noises can stagger her, causing pain, and an inverted magnetic field wrecks havoc with hermahgetoreception, inducing dizziness and nausea. A sufficiently strong one, as was applied to her cell in Laboratory 1, can leave her hardly able to walk.[break][break]
However, most deeply, 177 is vulnerable to anything that a normal person is vulnerable to. She can be shot, stabbed, crushed, or poisoned like anyone else- it just takes more poison, or a bigger bullet.[break][break]
Other weaknesses aren't necessarily related to her powers. For example, 177's inability to speak is a major hindrance, and she possesses a fear of bodies of water due to being half drowned multiple times while with Laboratory 1.

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PLAYED BY Two McMillion

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