Flitterby
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
- Close not thy hand upon the innocent joy
- That trusts itself within thy reach. It may,
- Or may not, linger. Thou canst but destroy
- The wing'ed wanderer. Let it go or stay.
- - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Forbearance
Flitterby was, simply, my attempt to come up with a fairy. The fact that she proved an exercise in language and mischief was accidental. Sure it was.
Willpower
Flight
- Edetic Memory (but poor comprehension and communication skills)
- Various Fey hand-to-hand combat disciplines
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Personality
- Happy-go-lucky.
- Convinced the world will be a better place with a few appropriate sprinkles of pixie dust.
- Does not strictly adhere to what humans see as 'the truth", but has her own strong sense of honor and loyalty.
Some see her as cute, others see her as an incredibly annoying pest.
Powers
All of Flitterby's current powers seem related to simply being fey.
Kinetic Melee
Flitterby uses her opponent's energies against them in hand-to-hand combat, utilizing techniques developed in Fairie over eons of magical combat.
Willpower
Flitterby has always seemed a minor force of nature in and of herself. She now applies this willfulness to surviving close encounters of the violent kind.
Additional Powers
- Flies in a cloud of pink, blue, silver, and purple "pixie dust" which leaves a contrail as she passes.
- Her strength varies according to her size. Has been observed in flight lifting close to 100-lbs for a few seconds. Barring such extraordinary feats, she is normally capable of carrying her own body weight, but often attempts heavier weights without adjusting her own size to compensate.
- Is an archer of some skill, utilizing a number of magical effects on her arrows. However, she no longer seems able to summon a bow and has refused to try to use bows and arrows of human manufacture.
- Formerly used to encase malefactors in ice, lay down ice sheets to impede movement, and wield a sword made of ice. At the time she claimed to use Jack Frost's icy pixie dust to do these things. It is presumed that Oberon required that she return the dust to its rightful owner in her last sojourn in Fairie.
- Minor illusionary powers or cantrips that animate inanimate objects (e.g. gingerbread cookies, pumpkin pies, firework-launching dice). Animation always ceases at dawn or upon command. It has been noted that such objects were items she has decorated in some way.
- Seems to see/ smell/ taste (?) auras unique to each individual, particularly those with meta-physical or magical connections. Has shown insights into others that otherwise are inexplicable.
Abilities
Eidetic memory. Only pretends to write down orders she receives as a waitress. Which does not mean that you will receive what you order - if she decides you'd like something better.
Weaknesses and Limitations
- Has an accent that includes a melodious buzz. Also a unique vocabulary. Together they make her extremely difficult to understand.
- Impatient, headstrong, petulant, proud, with a prankish sense of humor. A penchant towards making fun of authority figures.
- Easily distracted by "shinies", honey, and compliments.
- Seems unable to keep still for very long.
- Does not always tell the truth, or, rather, her sense of what is True may differ from normal people's and may be affected by time and place.
- Cannot read - a fact only recently determined by Ghost Wife.
Equipment
- "Pixie dust"… and anything that comes to hand.
- Presumably she has returned the bow she claimed had been given her by the fey Cobweb.
Character History
Elizabeth Ross (Liberty Rose) was surprised to learn that her mentor Medika had had her made an alternate director of the non-profit corporation that was the Champions Super Hero Group. Upon the demise of almost the entire group in a Portal Corps accident, Ms Ross was deemed the last surviving compos mentis non-civilian member of the board of directors. As such, she was heavily involved in informing the next-of-kin and in shutting down the physical and legal facets of the organization. In the process of “turning off the lights”, she discovered Flitterby in one of the groups’ micro-environment storage units. The pixie insisted that she was a “innozzzent prizconner” with no idea how she’d come to be in Champions’ custody. The courts were a tad wary because the Champions had had a reputation of good judgement, but, eventually, Flitterby was released into Liberty Rose’s custody.
Over time the fey claimed that she had been a member of Oberon’s court, banished by him for playing pranks, and sent to “Big Folkzez Worldz” until she learned to “behavezz”. Bits and pieces later, Rose was pretty sure that Flit had been punished for the crime of wanting to switch from flower fairy to ice fairy and stealing some of Jack Frost’s pixie dust. Rose suspects that Flit also stole the magic bow, but Flit insists it’s a gift from Cobweb. For somewhile, the small fey was a source of amusement and annoyance as she attempted to turn the heroine’s apartment into a fairy grotto .. with ice traps for the unwary. Dr. Mystic and Gods Speed helped salvage Rose’s secret identity from the fey’s endeavors – but relief really showed when the Tavern on the Edge opened. Flitterby moved into its rafters and appointed herself its substitute hostess, waitress, and watch-dog.
Apparently her behaviour was deemed greatly improved, in that Flitterby’s Christmas (’08) present from Oberon was a restoration of the pixie’s ability to fly, with a vague promise of “more to come if you continue to improve.” Or so her friends have translated what Flit told them.
Recent History
Two years later (10.05.20), Flitterby was again summoned to Oberon's Court, this time to be surprised by being named a Court Baroness, given a new set of tasks… and a new set of powers. This, in effect, dumped the pixie back in "Big Folkzez Worldz" at the beginning, having to work her way back up again as a fey martial artist.
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Trivia
Flitterby was originally an Ice/ Arrows Blaster but the combination - though true to her origin - was not effective together. Somewhere around L30, she was re-rolled.
| Liberty Rose's Characters | ||
|---|---|---|
| Primals | Heroes
| Afire • Bee Muse • Bright Lady • Ceiba • Coronal Light • Dee Nova • Detective Sanders • Dora Daring • Flitterby • Ghost Wife • Gravity Anomaly • Lady Aid • Lady in Green • Liberty Rose • Medikka • Oceanid • Opal Mind • Psilencer 7 • Sandcast • Sea Maiden • Stellar Beacon • Tesla Teen • Timelass • Web Woman |
 Villains
| Accountant • Mind's Psi • Weyrling | |
 Rogues
| Radiation Rose | |
 Vigilantes
| Korythalia • Mind Dance • Nocturne Falcon | |
| Praetorians |  Loyalist
| Bleeding Lily • Wychery |
 Resistance
| Snik | |
