Oh, come on! No man's Will Save is THAT high!
NOCTURNA, MISTRESS OF THE NIGHT (Natasha Natalia Knight)
Created By: Doug Moench & Gene Colan
First Appearance: Batman #363 (Sept. 1983)
Role: Pale Uber-Babe, Femme Fatale
Mental Problems: Greed, Irresponsible With the Affections of Others
PL 8 (129)
STRENGTH 1
STAMINA 2
AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 7
DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 4
AWARENESS 3
PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+3)
Deception 4 (+8, +10 Attractive, +13 Uber-Attractive)
Expertise (Criminal) 2 (+6)
Expertise (Astronomy) 5 (+9)
Insight 2 (+5)
Perception 2 (+5)
Persuasion 5 (+9, +11 Attractive, +14 Uber-Attractive)
Stealth 2 (+5)
Advantages:
Attractive, Benefit 2 (Wealth), Equipment 4 (Revolver, K-O Pellets, Hot-Air Balloon), Ranged Attack 2
Powers:
"Powerful Perfume" (Flaws: Limited to When Wearing Perfume) [28]
"Uber-Attractive" Enhanced Advantages 1: Attractive (1)
Affliction 8 (Will; Entranced & Vulnerable/Compelled & Defenseless) (Feats: Subtle, Insidious) (Extras: Reaction +3, Extra Condition, Area- Scent Perception) (Flaws: Limited Degree, Limited to Those Who Like the Ladies) (34)
-- (35 points)
Equipment:
"Knock-Out Pellets" Affliction 6 (Fort; Fatigued/Exhausted/Asleep) (Extras: Area- 15ft. Cloud) (12) -- (14)
- AE: "Knife" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Improved Critical) (2)
- AE: "Revolver" Blast 5 (10)
Offense:
Unarmed +7 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Knife +7 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Revolver +7 (+5 Ranged Damage, DC 20)
K-O Pellets +6 Area (+6 Affliction, DC 16)
Affliction
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +2, Fortitude +4, Will +5
Complications:
Motivation (Romanticism)- Nocturna is a natural romantic, and does a lot of things on impulse.
Relationship (The Night)- Nocturna is obsessed with night and darkness.
Relationship (The Night-Slayer)- She only rejects him when he "Murders the night" by killing someone.
Relationship (The Batman)- A fellow dweller in the darkness, The Batman intrigues and obsesses Nocturna.
Disabled (Pigment-Less Skin)- Nocturna's skin is vulnerable to the sun's rays, giving her bad sunburns and a greater chance of skin cancer.
Power Drawback (Perfume)- Nocturna's perfume will affect her own mind if she isn't already intoxicated by "the night", and so she will not wear it during the day.
Total: Abilities: 58 / Skills: 48--24 / Advantages: 9 / Powers: 28 / Defenses: 10 (129)
Nocturna, Mistress of the Night:
-Oh, haha, of course Doug "Moon Knight" Moench would be the guy to create the pale, night-themed Femme Fatale and her "thief in the night" stepsibling/lover. That comes off as such a
Moon Knight thing. Humorously, Nocturna especially dominates Moench's run on the title, which ends very shortly after she leaves.
-I thought Nocturna was pretty goofy as a kid, but looking back... DAMN. Pale skin, dark lips and "midnight blue" reflective hair... nice. She's pretty much a Dark Seductress, stealing for fun and to keep up a lavish lifestyle, trying to adopt Jason Todd (back when he was Robin), while also trying to get both Bruce Wayne & Batman into bed. Her backstory was that she was the adopted sibling of Anton Knight, the Night-Thief, falling in love with him... but also got hit by a radioactive laser that drained her skin of all pigment and forced her to come out only at night. She had led a criminal enterprise where she plotted burglaries and the Night-Thief carried them out. When he was arrested, she had others do the dirty work, but ultimately gave it up.
-And then, because WELL LOOK AT HER, she succeeded in seducing Bruce Wayne, quickly discovering his secret identity. This was complicated by her successfully adopting Jason, and she suggested to Bruce that the best solution would be to marry- despite his wealth, it turns out that her real reason WAS that she was legitimately in love with him. But then she starts getting hunted by her former lover, now calling himself the Night-Slayer, and she's stabbed and put onto a Hot-Air Balloon, where she'd vanish until she returned in a Post-Crisis Robin issue as an acrobatic thief with a different real name and personality. In other words, there was probably a writer-switch and WHOOPS, off goes that hot new character of Moench's! Checking it out, she disappears in January 1986 and that September is Moench's last issue, so maybe not, but I dunno- seems like he was wiping hte slate clean for the next guy, or just got told to ice his new character and figured he'd leave things open for a return.
Post-Crisis Nocturna:
-Nocutrna was gonna be brought into
Batman: The Animated Series", as a Vampiress who was going to turn Bruce into the Undead for a while. It got kiboshed thanks to Warner Brothers being all "no, you can't have vampires", which is the greatest shame EVER, because Bruce Timm was
gonna use THIS as the design. Up yours, Warner Brothers. UP. YOURS.
-Despite looking like she did, Nocturna vanished for the duration, only reappearing as Natalia in 2000-era
Robin comics. Here, she is a musician who secretes a pheromone that causes others to lose their inhibitions- this makes people more emotional at her performances. The writer, Jon Lewis, was at this point deliberately bringing old characters who'd interacted with Robins into the book, doing a "rebuild" of the character. Robin & Spoiler convince Natalia to go to S.T.A.R. Labs and have her powers investigated (the character is not a thief at this point), but later comics just use her as a standard-issue Background Villain, probably taking advantage of her distinctive appearance. She fights the Spoiler once, and in the "New 52" she's just an Arkham inmate. She actually shows up in
Batwoman of all places, even frickin' dating the main heroine! Here, she manipulates her way into being Kate Kane's girlfriend while secretly committing crimes on the side. Given how Kate was drawn when I was reading
Batwoman, it's somewhat appropriate that her girlfriend would also be deathly pale.
Nocturna's Abilities:
-Nocturna's no fighter, though she can semi-defend herself when it's necessary. Her key ability is her Perfume (which I statted up as a not-quite-Device that is Limited to When Wearing Perfume- it seems to be a fair thing), which buggered Batman enough that a Jobber like Night-Slayer almost easily killed him in a fight. It basically makes you more able to be seduced by her, as well as making you groggy enough to lose to Jobbers.
