Electra:
PL:11
Strength 0
Stamina 6 (1)
Agility 7 (2)
Dexterity 3
Fighting 1
Intellect 3
Awareness 3
Presence 2
Skills: Close Combat [Shock Field] 10 (+11), Deception 9 (+11), Insight 6 (+9), Intimidation 9 (+11), Perception 6 (+9), Persuasion 6 (+8), Ranged Combat [Electrical Arc] 10 (+11)
Advantages: Improved Demoralize, Improved Feint, Power Attack, Taunt
Powers: Living Lightning: (Standard Action)
Enhanced Stamina 5
Enhanced Agility 5
Enhanced Advantages 3 [Evasion 2, Move-By Action]
Enhanced Dodge 8
Enhanced Parry 10
Enhanced Fortitude 4
Insubstantial 3 [electrical energy]
Electric Propulsion: Flight 8
Electrical Field: Protection 5 (Flaw: Sustained) 3
Electrical Arc: Electrical Damage 11 (Extras: Area [Burst], Linked [Affliction]) & Affliction 11 [Visually Impaired, Visually Disabled, Visually Unaware; resisted by Fortitude] (Extra: Area [Burst]); (Flaw: Limited [1 sense only (vision)])
-Shock Field: Affliction 11 [Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated; Resisted by Fortitude] (Extra: Reaction [being touched])
-Networking: Teleport 10 (Extras: Accurate, Extended); (Flaw: Medium [electronic/electrical systems])
Offense: Initiative +7
Melee Attack +1 // Shock Field Attack +11
Ranged Attack +3 // Electrical Arc Attack +11
Defense: Dodge +11*/+3 [*Living Lightning]
Parry +11*/+1 [*Living Lightning]
Toughness +11*/+1 [*Living Lightning]
Fortitude +10*/+4 [*Living Lightning]
Will +9
Costs: Abilities 30+ Skills 23+ Advantages 4+ Powers 124+ Defenses 10= 190 pts.
Real Name: Cynthia "Cindy" Blake
Host Name: Kathryn Krantz
Height: 5’2”
Weight: Unknown
Hair: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Complications:
Crossed Wires: Electra is now more of a electrical being in possession of another person’s body, there are times that the unwilling(?) host regains control.
Enemy: Arc.
Power Loss: Water based attacks can short out Electra's powers.
Weakness: Electra takes an extra degree of damage against water based attacks.
Backgrounds: Cindy Blake always felt like her older brother Danny got more of their parents’ attention. In an effort to get some of that attention Cindy started to act out; doing things like drinking, dating the local "bad boys", staying out all night, arguing with her parents and so on.
Unfortunately, the elder Blakes decided it would be easier to send their wayward daughter to a scared straight boot camp program to solve her problems. While there Cindy was exposed to girls who had real problems and they showed their dislike for her immediately and severely; Cindy was beaten repeatedly and abused by her peers until she became like them - angry at the world and ready to lash out at anyone.
Once Cindy "graduated" from the boot camp and returned home her parents quickly learned that their daughter was beyond their control anymore and they kicked her out of the family home. Cindy's life on the streets was harder than her boot camp had been, there she at least had a roof over her head and 3 meals a day. On the streets she had to provide everything for herself since nobody else would, and to be able to afford the basics of life she ended up becoming a prostitute.
Cindy managed to support herself fairly well for a year and a half until one night a customer wanted more than she was willing to give. The man began to beat her, during that time all Cindy could think of was how her life would have been different if she had the power to protect herself from the other people who had hurt her in her life and that if she could just get him to stop then no else would ever make her do things she didn't want to or do these kinds of things to her ever again. Then Cindy felt a surging of energy inside her begin to build, and then suddenly she felt it leave her, and there was a crashing noise that sounded like thunder.
When Cindy opened her eyes, she saw the man who had been beating her lying on the floor dead, his skin burnt and almost melted looking - he had been electrocuted! Knowing that even in the dump motel she was in someone would come to check out the thunderous crash she had unleashed Cindy quickly gathered her things and left. Over the next few weeks she played with her powers to learn what she could do; she even went to the library to read all she could about lightning and its effects to better understand her powers.
Within a month Cindy had made herself a costume and began using her new powers to steal anything she wanted. Within five months she was living how she wanted, in the best hotels that money could buy and wearing all the designer clothing she could fit into her closet. She had even been considering visiting her folks and showing them how good she had ended up doing for herself without them and finally proving that she was the one they should have paid all the attention to, that she was the one that was special, not her brother Danny.
Then it happened, Cindy went to rob a bank in her criminal identity of Electra, and she ended up facing a man who was wearing a costume and wielding electrical powers similar to hers. Then when the man told her that she needed to drop the money and surrender Cindy couldn't believe it!!!! It was the voice of her brother, Danny!!! She knew it was him!!! How did he manage to have powers!!! Powers like hers!!! Cindy flew into a rage as she attacked her brother, not that it did her much good. Cindy hadn't had any resistance until that point in her crimes, and her theories of how some of her abilities would work didn't against a man with powers so similar to her own.
Cindy ended up getting arrested after that fight, revealing her identity which was a huge shock to her brother. Cindy decided that day that she would show her brother who was the most powerful between them without a doubt; vowing to one day drain all of his energy from his body and then she would have all of the power. That set the tone for almost all of the future fights between Electra and Arc - love, hate, tragedy and family sorrow.
That is until finally at one-point Electra was threatening a bus load of children and Arc was left with no other option but too completely overload her control of her powers. That blast left Electra in a coma from the seizure that was caused by that overload. For three years Electra was left in a private care hospital in that coma, until a young doctor decided to experiment with a theory she had about the body's own natural bioelectricity; draining large amounts of electricity from Electra and was able to endow herself with similar powers. Unfortunately, though along with that energy came Electra's personality and soon a new Electra was causing chaos around the city, even more deadly now that she had gained all of that doctor's knowledge of science and a far more detailed understanding of how her powers actually worked.
She learned that during her downtime that Arc had become a member of the Alliance, something she'd not expected from him. That led to Electra to ally herself with various foes of the Alliance members that mostly ended up going wrong and she was forced to flee the scene to keep her freedom. After several failures Electra decided to take things to a new level to make her brother pay for every wrong he’d done to her over the years; she stalked him to learn about his private life. After months of learning about her brother’s life Electra made her move – killing Arc’s girlfriend, Jenny, then leaving the body for brother with a handwritten note taking credit for the deed. Arc went after Electra in retaliation and during that fateful encounter he was forced to stop her from killing a bus full of children by overloading her with electrical energy that put her into a coma.
Cindy remained in that condition for years, kept under observation at Odyssey Technologies until a doctor came up with a theory that her bodies bioelectrical energy could be tapped into and used to awaken vegetative state coma patients. The first use of the procedure was a success - Kathryn Krantz had been in a non-responsive condition for almost five years, and after a few infusions of bioelectrical energy from Cindy she woke up. After weeks of testing it was determined that Kathryn had suffered no loss of memory or mental alertness she was released from care.
But all was not well as within a few days of returning home Kathryn began to have nightmares about being chased by a woman with an electric glowing face who wanted to be “let in”. Doctors told her it was just her mind adjusting from being in the vegetative state for so long and prescribed Hypnocil to suppress her dreams while she adjusted to the changes in her life. While the dreams stopped Kathryn’s personality began to slowly change – with her becoming more aggressive, outspoken, and confrontational which caused her family to become worried about their daughter and tried to stage an intervention only for the situation to quickly turn ugly. During the argument Kathryn manifested electrical manipulation abilities that were identical to Cindy’s and she used them to attack the Krantz family then make her escape.
Soon Electra made her return to the world, which brought her into conflict with Arc and he discovered that Cindy’s personality had overwritten Kathryn’s, allowing the villain to return. Once again the two siblings fought one another and Electra nearly won as she’d figured out several new applications of her powers that gave her an edge over her brother, but thankfully other members of the Alliance appeared on the scene to help their friend and together they were able to defeat the “new” Electra.
The biggest problem that this version of Electra brings is the fact that the Krantz family keeps filing legal motions to try separate their daughter from the electrical criminal; as Kathryn is another victim of Electra, though there are some people in law enforcement that consider her more of a semi-willing accomplice.
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