Rain of Radiation
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| Rain of Radiation | |
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| Metadata | |
| Player: | ROBOKiTTY |
| Activity Level: | High |
| Archetype: | Corruptor |
| Origin: | Science |
| Primary Set: | Radiation Blast |
| Secondary Set: | Radiation Emission |
| Ancillary/Patron: | Scirocco |
| Level: | 50 |
| Legal Miscellanea | |
| Full Name: | Caitlin Eyck |
| Identity: | Public |
| Known Aliases: | Caitlin, Kate/Cate; Rain |
| Occupation: | Medical doctor (neurologist/oncologist); Scientist |
| Education: | Several doctorates |
| Citizenship: | American |
| Legal Status: | Legally dead in the United States; criminal record |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Caroline Doorstroom (aunt), Perry Doorstroom (uncle), Peter Eyck (father, deceased), Ann Eyck (mother, deceased), Borris Eyck (brother, deceased) |
| Date of Birth: | November 14, 1980 |
| Place of Birth: | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Base of Operations: | Grandville |
| Group Affiliations: | None |
| Physical Characteristics | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Species: | Human |
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian, Dutch/Irish |
| Eye Color: | Hazel |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Complexion: | Tanned white |
| Height: | Taller than average |
| Weight: | Average, fluctuating |
| Build: | Fit |
| Distinguishing Features: | Green-tinted radiation-modulation goggles, favours wearing her hair into a ponytail outside of lab |
Rain of Radiation is the official codename assigned to Caitlin Eyck by FBI officer Alan Roberts after an accident at a secret army lab in eastern California that turned the former doctor and army researcher into an irradiated anomaly.
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History
Caitlin Eyck was born to a traditional Protestant family, and is an eleventh-generation Dutch-American, mixed with some Irish. She was a child prodigy, and despite growing up in a repressive environment, her talents were recognized and flourished, and she excelled academically, graduating from UC Berkeley at the age of 18 and going on to receive several doctorates in fields of science and medicine.
Though a shy and awkward girl throughout most of her life, Caitlin was always something of a rebel. She spent a short stint volunteering for a communist students' association while in university. She remains strongly left-leaning in her politics today.
Her research work was noticed by the U.S. army, and soon she was hired to work on various weapons projects as a junior researcher with her expertise on radiation and neurology. At this stage of her life, Caitlin lived with her long-term partner from her university years, Jason Travis, with whom she was to spend a total of six years together until the major turning point in her life.
Caitlin was assigned to the team working on the secretive Project Positive Radiation, an army weapons development operation which sought to exploit the combat benefits of ionized radiation. Unfortunately, this dangerous assignment backfired and an incident not unlike the infamous Three Mile Island accident occurred, killing the entire research team and many of the staff on site. Caitlin lived to the bafflement of radiologists, as her body was bombarded with such massive amounts of gamma radiation that even cockroaches were unlikely to survive under such stress.
Fearful of public outrage, the U.S. government decided to cover up the project, and Caitlin, who was now a carcinogenic source of radiation, quickly became the scapegoat. Confused and afraid, she fled confinement, seeking out shelter with her live-in partner and subsequently parents. All three died of radiation poisoning, and Caitlin Eyck was soon labelled a terrorist and murderer. A team of biohazard special-operations officers was sent and captured her, and she was sent to the Ziggurat (Guantanamo Bay then lacking the facilities to contain her) across the country, where she stayed in solitary confinement for a year.
When the Ziggurat was invaded by Arachnos operatives, Caitlin seized the opportunity and fled, vowing to stay free. Taking on the codename given by her captors, Caitlin became Rain of Radiation.
Life
Caitlin is somewhat taller than average and an avid jogger. Her IQ is estimated to be over 200. Outside of her workplace and lab, she prefers green and red clothing.
During her stay on the Rogue Isles, Caitlin successfully developed nanomachines to modulate her radiation emission, finally putting an end to her lethal curse. She worked at the University of Cap-au-diable briefly as an assistant professor, doing her best to steer clear of Arachnos. An outspoken critic and dissident of Arachnos' iron grip on life of the isles, Rain has done much to hinder their ambitions.
Relationships
With her family
Caitlin Eyck grew up in a conservative environment, with parents who were angry, awkward, and unhappy. Her genius caused her to be isolated from her family throughout most of her life. She developed progressive views quite early on in her life, which did not sit well with her authoritarian and reactionary parents. The relationship was icy and exploitative.
Caitlin's brother Borris, who was three years her senior, remained distant until he ran away from home shortly after Caitlin graduated from high school. One year later, having joined a street gang, he was killed in a gang war. As for her parents, Caitlin also never reconciled with them before they died.
Doctor Emily Reid
When Caitlin moved away from home to attend university at the age of sixteen, she began to receive therapy from psychiatrist Emily Reid. The kindly doctor played a significant part in transforming Caitlin from a silent and anxious girl to the woman she is today. Although their relationship never quite moved beyond a doctor-patient one, it was one of the major highlights of Caitlin Eyck's life.
Reid died in a car accident before the event that made Rain of Radiation.
Betty Carlowe
A seventeen-year-old when they first met, Betty Carlowe was a quiet girl who became Caitlin's best friend in their first two college years. Carlowe was also the first person to become romantically involved with Caitlin, following a drunken night. However, she committed suicide by slashing her wrist months later.
Devastated by Carlowe's death, Caitlin went on a self-destructive search for solace, hoping to find it within sex, alcohol, and drugs. With Doctor Reid's help, her rational mind ultimately prevailed, and she pulled herself together.
Jason Travis
Jason Travis was a university dropout who worked at the bar Caitlin frequented. During her bouts of drinking, he was a dutiful listener and confidant. The two of them soon became romantically involved in a long-term relationship that was to last six years.
Feyll
When Caitlin became Rain of Radiation and arrived on the Rogue Isles, she started to work as a waitress at Korhadril's Nighthaunters, a nightclub. There she met Feyll, a free-spirited bouncer. When one of the owners of Nighthaunters left in a mass exodus, Rain left as well to join Feyll at a new venue, the Dollhouse.
The two grew intimate one night, and Rain found herself in love once again. Unfortunately for her, it was one-sided and unrequited. Following much complication from this relationship, Rain left the Dollhouse.
Doctor Anne Gallie
Doctor Gallie was Rain's long-term therapist on the Rogue Isles. Hoping to find an understanding and trustworthy helper to guide her through her crisis, Rain confided in Gallie. The doctor, however, chose to sell this information to Arachnos. The betrayal soon became public knowledge as Arachnos decided her usefulness was at an end.
Fearful of retribution, Gallie fled the Rogue Isles and remains in hiding.
Anna Neisa
Rain met Anna at the Dollhouse, and the two became close friends, as both shared similar past stories. Unfortunately, Anna was unstable and needy, and while Rain fawned over Feyll infatuatedly, she felt neglected and unwanted. Driven by envy and feelings of inadequacy, Anna chose to merge with a demon.
Unwilling to accept Anna's choice, Caitlin has since parted ways with Anna on hostile terms.
Known powers
Radiation blast
During the accident, Rain's body was flushed with a vast load of radiation, so much that it mutated her metabolism pernamently. She is capable of converting excess nutritions and energy in her body into various forms of ionized radiation. Unleashed in differing doses, it is a dangerous weapon and her primary means of fighting back. More than just a long-term threat, her radiation can sear and scorch.
Radiation emission
Not all radiation is lethal. Rain uses her powers primarily to help and hinder. By utilizing short bursts of radiation, she is able to stimulate and hasten tissue repair and minimize pain through catalyst-based reduction oxidation, in some cases even causing temporary controlled mutations to highly beneficial ends through free radical polymerization. By ionizing similar forms of emissions, she can cause discomfort, pain, nausea, and other dangerous effects in her enemies.
Dedicated training and nanomachines have made it possible for Caitlin to control her emission output at all times. Her radiation emission is no longer a carcinogenic danger, but a useful ally and a dreaded enemy.
Power conversion
(Mu Mastery is roleplayed as the conversion of radiation energy to electricity. No mystic magic is involved.)
X-Ray vision
By concentrating ionizing radiation to beams from her eyes, Rain has an advanced sort of phase-modulated X-Ray vision, capable of even seeing through most metals, unlike traditional X-Ray scanners. Increasing the burst of radiation, she can also pierce through clothing and armour, causing gamma burn.
Flight
By ionizing particles around herself, Rain can propel herself to flight, the maximum speed of which can rival some of the fastest avian species. By using nanomachines in her bloodstream to automate the energy conversion, she can virtually stay in flight perpetually. Sustained rapid flight remains a taxing experience requiring conscious will and energy consumption.
Gadgets
A enthusiast and prolific inventor of gadgets, Caitlin dabbles in fields that include electronics, nanomachines, chemistry, and supercomputers. She is highly tech-savvy, and has good computer security skills. While she never pursued her technological dabblings as a career choice, she certainly knows enough to make her equipment tick on her own. Rain's radiation-modulation goggles are a constant companion to her, with PDA and smart-phone functions built in. With her radioactive emission acting as a power source and her custom-designed USB charger, her electronics never run out of juice.
Known weaknesses
Emotional vulnerability
The past of Caitlin Eyck is a dark one from which she has yet to recover, and she has never truly found herself fitting in on the Rogue Isles. A habitual loner, Caitlin struggles with confidence and self-esteem. She also has her own code of ethics, despite her criminal and questionable activities, and her sometimes soft personality makes her prone to exploitation at the hands of her adversaries. In addition, her troubled mind makes her susceptible to superpowered psionic assault and hypnotic suggestion.
Lack of defences
Few of Rain's powers grant her direct defences against superpowered assault. With only kevlar and some energy shielding to protect her, she has to rely on finesse, manoeuvring, and counter-attacks to avoid being pinned down.
Mediocre assault power
Most of Rain's powers are used to hinder, deter, and aid, and she lacks the explosive firepower possessed by many metahumans of similar threat or security levels. Alone against superpowered enemies, her radiation attacks may not suffice.
Accomplishments
Core II missiles
As junior researcher in the US army, Caitlin helped to design the Core II missiles system, a short-range bombardment development. Although it saw little field action before being replaced by newer models, the system continues to be used in some parts of the world against Rikti invaders.
Theory of Positive Radiation
After undergoing her transformation, Caitlin has worked on a new theory of medical treatment that promised to change traditional views on radiation therapy. However, since she has based her theory on field research conducted in a manner that would otherwise be considered unethical in most of the West, her findings are often rejected by the scientific community.
Creation of Feyll II
Feyll II is a clone of the Rogue known as Feyll, once a friend of Rain's. Feyll II was put into existence by Doctor Arthur Weissman. However, the research, blood sampling, and most of the genetic splicing which were the basis for her creation were done by Rain of Radiation, only to be stolen by Weissman, a jealous former coworker of hers at the University of Cap-au-diable.
The manual of Feyll II
Though never intending to bring Feyll II into the world, Rain nevertheless carried out extensive work on re-engineering Feyll's genetic code. All of this was recorded and compiled into a document known as the manual. It was also stolen by Doctor Weissman, and further amended as he attempted to change the clone to suit his own needs.
The manual outlines the history, background, and genetic information of Feyll II, with particular emphasis on where Feyll II differs from the original.
Arch-enemies
Doctor Arthur 'Wiseman' Weissman
A mentally-unstable former coworker at the University of Cap-au-diable, Doctor Weissman was an obsessive admirer of Caitlin Eyck. After his advances were rejected, Weissman grew envious and spiteful, and turned into a rival. He was eventually fired from the university after getting caught trying to sabotage Caitlin's work. Captured by Longbow agents, he was incarcerated in the Ziggurat, and continued to plot his revenge in prison. While there, Weissman successfully created Feyll II using stolen research from Caitlin.
He was eventually killed in a riot that saw Feyll II released.
Arachnos
The moment Caitlin Eyck saw the condition of life on the Rogue Isles, she began to dedicate herself to the destruction of Arachnos. The newcomer's zeal of course did not go unnoticed, but most Arachnos officials who caught word were more amused than alarmed; after all, Arachnos-haters are a dime a dozen. They sought to use her as a tool to advance themselves amongst warring Arachnos factions, dismissed her as yet another rebel-wannabe, or simply found amusement in her futile struggle.
However, Rain of Radiation has since grown tremendously in influence and control over her own powers. She regularly allies herself with those fighting against Arachnos, exploiting the division within the organization and the isles. She has since proven to be a thorn in Arachnos' side.
Allies
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News
- While serving a life sentence in solitary confinement in the Ziggurat, having turned herself in to the police, Rain of Radiation was reported to have committed suicide. However, after a few weeks, she began to be sighted on the Rogue Isles again. Whether the report was false or she returned to life via some extraordinary means remains a mystery.
