Dragongrace
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Dragongrace | |
| Player: @Sukugau | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Stalker |
| Security Level: | 32 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Ann Woodgrove |
| Known Aliases: | ' |
| Species: | Human (mostly) |
| Age: | ' |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 |
| Weight: | 60 kg |
| Eye Color: | Green |
| Hair Color: | Brown |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | ' |
| Occupation: | ' |
| Place of Birth: | ' |
| Base of Operations: | ' |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | ' |
| Known Powers | |
| "Dragon powers" - flight, energy projection, enhanced senses. Also, magic stealth. | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Combat training, minimal healing magic | |
| Equipment | |
| None | |
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- Two thousand years ago a dragon picked a fight with a god and lost. As it lay on the ground, mortally wounded and ruminating on its extremely bad judgement, and about to die in a few seconds, it came up with a plan. It would release its magical power into the world, which would, over time, increase. Eventually there would be enough for its consciousness to reform, and then later still there would be enough for it to reform its body. At which point it could get vengeance on this uppity god.
- It was a demented and desperate plan, but the dragon didn't have a lot of time and was a bit desperate.
- So it released its magic power in a massive explosion, and, as predicted, its power started to spread throughout the world... and, as time wore on, the power started infusing itself into humans. Such as this one.
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Dragongrace is a Kinetic Melee/Ninjutsu Stalker created by Sukugaru to recreate a character from an old setting in City of Heroes. A /Ninjutsu Stalker didn't quite feel right at first, but after some thought and playtime, it seems to really work.
(This character is a second go at creating the character, and is a replacement of the Skydrake character. She thinks of that name, and its associated outfit, as a bit of a personal Dork Age.)
Personality
Shy, and prefers to avoid conflict, which in turn conflicts with her sense of duty to the city. When her powers first manifested, she didn't even question what she was going to do with them - she was going to use them to be a superheroine, of course, and help protect Paragon City from all the crime gangs that infested its streets. Even if this naturally meant coming into conflict with lots of weapon-toting thugs.
Another unusual contrast - in most regards she seems demure and very nervous when talking even just about people she may or may not find attractive, and comes across as very repressed. Yet she had no qualms at all about wearing not much more than a very close fitting hot pink leotard into battle. As she puts it, it's what superheroines wear, so of course she's going to wear this skimpy outfit that shows most of her legs.
She plays up her girly and nervousness tendencies a fair bit, because the dragon power she has has a serious downside. If she ever lets it go out of control, then instead of her controlling it, it controls her and turns her into a giant red ragebeast. In this form, she is much less inhibited and a lot more violent. Yes, she has gone through this before. No, she doesn't particularly want to repeat it.
History
Superhero name
What she really wanted was to go by the name Skydancer - as in, the graceful dragon dancing in the sky. Unfortunately for her, she faced the conundrum facing a lot of newer heroes in Paragon - the name was already taken.
There were so many names to do with dragons, fire, and the sky, that she had trouble finding any sort of name that would fit. In desperation, she finally decided to call herself "Skydrake". After all, a drake isn't yet a full dragon, so it would fit her, right? So she dressed up in her pink leotard with the Chinese character for "Dragon" on it, and went by Skydrake for a while.
Then, one day, as she flew from a contact to a mission, she came across yet another group of Hellions mugging yet another hapless citizen. Entirely by reflex, she swooped in and blasted all three of the muggers all across the sidewalk.
"Hey, thanks for that Skydrake," said the elderly former-victim.
"No problem, ma'am."
"Um... if you don't mind me asking..."
"Yes, what is it?"
"Why do you call yourself after a male duck?"
"...huh?"
The elderly woman looked at the confusion on Skydrake's face, and sighed. "Oh dear. You poor girl. Didn't they teach you anything in school? A drake is the word for a male duck."
"...oh. I just thought... um... it's supposed to mean, like, a little dragon..."
This time it was the bystander's turn to look confused. "How does that work?"
Realising, perhaps rather too late, that not everyone read fantasy novels and that a sizeable portion of Paragon's citizens thought she was called after a male duck, Ann felt utterly goofy. Even more so, considering she was standing there in a hot pink leotard which, in growing terror, she realised made her look naked in the evening's low light. She wanted to disappear.
So, shortly afterwards, she went through a big image change. She changed the pink to blue, wore a red cape, and started calling herself Dragongrace. While not the best name - she would still prefer to be called Skydancer - she thinks it's much better than being called any sort of male duck.
Affiliations
She is a student at the Hoshiko Dojo, under the direct tutelage of Jo Tensou. Jo is... very open and an outrageous flirt, which makes Ann very very nervous. Still, the two women are very friendly.
Ann hasn't seen or talked to Kei Ko, the chief sensei at the Dojo, very much.
Powers and Abilities
The dragon's magic that has been building up in the world is called The Fire of the Dragon or The Magic of the Dragon, depending on who you're talking to. When it infused Ann she gained a measure of dragon powers, the most obvious being flight, faster senses, and energy projection. She can also hide herself in the Fire of the Dragon, but needs to come out of it to actually attack.
The origin of her powers gave the FBSA quite a headache. She was, in effect, a magically created part-dragon mostly-human mutant who used natural training to increase her powers. In the end, they decided that as magic is natural for a dragon, she should be classified as a magical entity. She has since used this magic affinity to learn a healing spell and some misdirection spells.
(Still in progress... more to come. Hopefully.)
