Daughter of Law
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Daughter of Law | |
| Player: @SPTrashcan | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Brute |
| Threat Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | none |
| Known Aliases: | Dee |
| Species: | Chimaera (Unique) |
| Age: | approx. 1200 |
| Height: | 1.65m |
| Weight: | 105kg |
| Eye Color: | none |
| Hair Color: | black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Convenience Principality |
| Occupation: | Mercenary |
| Place of Birth: | Basque Country |
| Base of Operations: | Grandville |
| Marital Status: | single |
| Known Relatives: | Sadie Shear/Sadishir (mother), Moonblaze (sister) |
| Known Powers | |
| entropy, anentropic, leaping, mu magic | |
| Known Abilities | |
| undying, chimaeric, predeity, machimancy, knitting | |
| Equipment | |
| containment gloves, nanocoating | |
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The Daughter of Law is the eldest surviving child of the Beast of Law Sadishir. Immortal and undying, she waits and gathers power, hoping to alter the final destiny of the universe.
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Affiliations
Dee has had a strained relationship with her mother ever since the Sadishir killed off her sisters and cut her in two. Although they have since reconciled on an intellectual level, and even assist each other from time to time, their instinctual hatred prevents them from meeting peacably and so they carefully avoid each other. Dee is fonder of her much younger sister, currently host to the Nictus Moonblaze, but for his part the Nictus sees their bond as foolish and inconvenient.
Dee was once a bound servant of the Foxtrot Company. Although she is now free, she continues to assist them, acting as a plausibly deniable distraction or as extra combat power.
Dee had a longstanding friendship with the mercenary Corrupting, but they have not been on good terms since Dee killed Corrupting's father (though he got better).
Personality
Dee views herself as a monster, separate from humanity and in some ways superior to it. As she is virtually guaranteed to continue living until the end of the universe, it is hard for her to relate to relatively short-lived human beings. On the other hand, her brutal and solitary life conflicts with her natural grouping instincts, and so she keenly desires friends and companionship. Thus, at times she is cold and aloof, and at other times highly social.
Powers
Entropy
Like her mother, Dee is anentropic - she spontaneously gains in energy and complexity. Unlike her mother, she does not have a powerful mystic artifact to draw energy from. Instead, she slowly leaches energy from her surroundings. With concentration, she can focus this destructive force in her hands, annihilating matter in a blast of brilliance.
Anentropic
Dee can also use her annihilating force more diffusely, to leach away the damaging force from incoming attacks. She can spontaneously repair wounds - even lethal wounds - by drawing energy from her surroundings.
Additional Powers
Leaping
Dee's chimaeric ancestry has given her powerful muscles that let her propel herself hundreds of meters through the air.
Mu Magic
Under Scirocco's tutelage, Dee has learned to trap her enemies in cages of mystic lightning.
Abilities
Undying
The true essence of Dee is not her physical body, but a powerful magical contract. As long as the contract holds, Dee cannot be destroyed permanently. It is likely that she will last as long as the universe, and she plans accordingly.
Chimaeric
As the daughter of a chimaera, Dee has inherited a random sampling of unusual features. Like her mother, Dee is very tough and hardy, although she has not been magically reinforced as her mother was. Also like her mother, Dee has no eyes, but has large ears and keen hearing. Her fingers are clawed and her teeth are numerous and serrated. Her digestion is powerful, and she can eat or drink nearly anything with no ill effects.
Predeity
Daughter of Law attains vast power in the final second of the universe's existence. She splits into two entities, who divide the matter and energy of the universe into two portions. One portion collapses into the seed of a new universe - the other portion is lost forever. The entities have an entire universe's worth of energy at their disposal in that last instant, and can use it to echo back through time to the present. However, doing anything significant requires that a vast amount of power be consigned to annihilation, and so Dee does not use this power except in staggeringly dire circumstances. (The annihilation of the Earth and all life upon it does not begin to qualify as a sufficiently dire circumstance.)
Machimancy
Dee claims to receive visions and insights in the heat of battle. Whether this is true or merely a delusion is uncertain, but it was one of these visions which convinced her that she should attempt to intervene in the final fate of the universe.
Weaknesses and Limitations
Dee's major weakness is also the source of her power - the magical contract which stipulates her existence. The contract also forces her to serve the rulers of the principality where she resides, and as a result she has over the years been forced to do the bidding of some of the most evil people in history. The Foxtrot Company helped her establish herself as the queen and sole citizen of a tiny island nation off the coast of Grandville, and so she is currently free to act as she pleases. However, she lives in fear of the day some overwhelming force conquers her and she is once again pressed into servitude. In particular, she is terrified of Nemesis, the only person who she believes has a chance at world conquest.
Like many chimaera, Dee is completely blind, having been born without eyes. She compensates with excellent hearing and sensitivity to vibrations and air currents, but this has obvious limits.
Until very recently, Dee had little control over her entropic powers. She could suppress them by winding herself in bandages or coating herself in other materials, but this was only a temporary solution. As a result, Dee was forced to spend most of her time secluded from human beings, and her social development is quite stunted.
As a chimaera, Dee has strong animal instincts. Although she can recognize when her instincts are forcing her to do something irrational, she cannot overcome them. For instance, her family-bonding instinct with her sister Moonblaze forces them to spend at least a few hours in each others' presence whenever they meet.
Equipment
Containment Gloves
These heavy brass gauntlets are ingeniously designed to surround Dee's hands without actually touching them. They include a regulator dial which allows Dee to control the amount of entropic force she releases through her hands.
Nanocoating
A marvel of modern technology, the nanocoating is a microscopic layer of self-repairing machines which covers Dee's skin. It provides complete containment of her entropic force, and allows her to interact freely with others without harming them. The nanocoating was a gift from an eccentric inventor and ascetic.
