Tiamat Lynn
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| The Nuclear Kitten | |
| Tia Lynn | |
| Player: @Niea | |
| Origin: | Science |
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| Archetype: | Corrupter |
| Threat Level: | Constantly Changing |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Tiamat Lynn |
| Known Aliases: | Kitten, Tee, That Darn Cat |
| Species: | Metahuman |
| Age: | 25 |
| Height: | 4'6" |
| Weight: | 65 lbs |
| Eye Color: | Grey/Pink/Neon Green |
| Hair Color: | Grey/white |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | United States |
| Occupation: | Dangerous Criminal |
| Place of Birth: | Bay City, Michigan |
| Base of Operations: | Offshore |
| Marital Status: | Married (though perhaps not legally) |
| Known Relatives: | None on records |
| Known Powers | |
| Radiant energy absorption and release | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Energy Focus, Cellular Alteration | |
| Equipment | |
| Necklace of mementos, Blue-green Teardrop Crystal, Crystal Skull | |
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Another catgirl? No, but a mutable metahuman who has grown cat ears and a cat tail.
Meow!
Contents |
History
Humanity
Tia was born an albino, but otherwise normal human being in Michigan. Growing up in a rural area of a very unstable state, she learned to rely more on herself and her twin sister then on people or rules.
In her teens she lost her sister, which has had lasting reprecussions on her to this day (particularly when dealing with her pets and her otherworldly double, Zange).
Still always a good girl who did everything right and morally upstanding (according to the moral codes of her family's faith) she eventually finished her highschool after many rough years of being the different one in her classes, and moved to Paragon to attend college.
Change
College brought about changes in the previously pious girl. Her roommate introduced her to the wonders of physical relations, and along with this change she started to alter her wordrobe, wearing less clothing (more and more of that dwindling covering leather).
Tia had always had some back problems, and during this time they flared significantly. She started going in for more and more scans and tests, but somehow her body reacted oddly to the bombardment of radiation and began to soak up the energy. By the end of college she had learned to harness the energy flow and even managed to mutate herself little by little.
All of the changes, particularly the strange powers she developed, resulted in her drifting apart from her family, who were now convinced she had sold her soul to the devil. Eventually, Tiamat was disowned, but simply shrugged it off and moved on with life.
Heroism
Tia was still a good girl at heart, and quite likely always will be. She made the decision to use her powers to help the heroes of Paragon and proceeded to stand up in a disturbingly revealing spandex suit to battle evil and injustice.
Heroism suited her to some degree, but more and more she saw the injustices and cruelties of the other so called heroes. She even found herself fighting against other meta-humans to protect the innocent on occasion.
The final straw was when a multiple murderer and rapist who she had captured, was released from prison and she was arrested. The claim was that her powers had given him cancer and that she was a danger to the community.
Fallen Angels
Tia was one of the first people to use the riots at Ziggursky as a distraction to blast her way free. Disillusioned with law and justice, Tia took the fight to the streets of the Rogue Isles with a vengeance, no longer capturing or disabling, but killing those who would hurt the innocent.
Not long after her arrival in Recluse' domain, Tiamat met Vicki Carr and the two became very close. Since then, Tiamat has been an inseparable part of Vicki's odd (and growing) family.
((Tiamat is currently a member of the Familia_Tenebrae_Amor.))
In a recent (and thoroughly unexpected) barrage of events, Tia has been found to have a fragment of the soul of the goddess Tiamat buried deep inside her own soul. With this knowledge came the discovery that someone... or rather some THING was hunting it. Not long after the birth of her daughter, Tia discovered through treachery that her so called other dimensional sister was actually an ancient monster, and the last daughter of Tiamat (the goddess). In a flurry of fighting that tore a swath of burning, radioactive destruction through the heart of Port Oaks she was knocked unconscious and released the dragon soul to fight in her place. With even the goddess' reserves withered away she managed to stun Zarine long enough to shoot her in the heart.
Her time is now mostly spent handling her children and (sometimes more of a handful) her pets.
Personality
Psychiatric Qualities
To some degree, anti-social but tends to get lonely easily. She has an extremely complex structure of her own moral scruples, self limitations, weaknesses, and a VERY strange code of honor.
Anyone facing Tia should be prepared for a wide range of often random seeming reactions.
Those facing her recently must also contend with the fact that they are now contending with more then just a mutant, but a mutant with access to part of an ancient goddess. To top it off, even the goddess fragment considers Tia's daughter Inanna to be her own, and BOTH souls will fight to the death to protect their family... and beyond death for their child.
Social
Tia tends to avoid large groups of people and major social events. While she is in some ways, very antisocial, she does have a small gathering of friends (and/or lovers). Around people she does not know well she may become quiet and introverted, but can eventually open up to reveal the bubbly, occasionally practically blonde personality beneath.
Appearance
Physical
Tiamat stands out in a crowd. The first obvious feature is that she is albino, skin and hair nearly pure white, and eyes which are generally a pale grey or light pink. Besides this, she is surprisingly short, and very thin. With an underdeveloped body and a demeanor to match, Tia strikes an impression of being younger then she is, and often uses her apparently harmless appearance to devastating effect against the unsuspecting.
Wardrobe
Most of Tiamats' wardrobe would make most people blush. Easily half of the clothing tucked and folded away around her room is the kind of thing not meant to be worn in public, and most of the rest is only marginally more modest. The sheer quantity of leather is enough to make a whole herd of cows feel edgy, and the number of metal ring loops and buckles would put most fetish wardrobe suppliers to shame.
Possible the only reasonably modest thing in the room is a (very) tight leather bodysuit that leaves only her head uncovered. The care lavished on it manages to cover the damage done to it in numerous fights.
Besides Tia's own wardrobe, she also keeps similar sets of clothing on hand in a variety of sizes for her pets, or in the event that for some reason a guest might be in need of something to wear...
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
Might as well start with the obvious...
Radiation
They don't call her a nuclear kitten for nothing. Tiamat gathers, stores, and redirects energy in almost any radiant form including heat and light. This gives her the ability to direct concentrated emissions of energy both for offensive and defensive purposes. While she can send energy over long distances, the effort is difficult so she prefers to be close to her targets.
In the event that an enemy gets too close, Tia is capable of discharging massive amounts of energy all around herself. This leaves her weakened temporarily, but rarely fails to at least stun anything standing too close.
The energy she manipulates can also be used to cauterize her own injuries as well as those of anyone standing nearby.
Photonic manipulation
While this might fall under the category of radiation controlling, it does bear some alternate scrutiny as she seems capable of using the power to send bursts over long distances AND warp light waves around herself to become almost entirely invisible.
Genetic Manipulation
Tiamat originally looked quite normal other then her albinism. At one point, she discovered that she could use her power to mutate herself. Although mostly the power was only good for aesthetic alterations, she has used it to boost her physical reactions and flexibility; it was in this way she developed the ability to jump tremendous distances.
Intellect
Tia is actually very bright, so don't let the happy, bouncy kitten act fool you. If she fails to understand something, odds are you either didn't give her enough information, or there were too many other things going on around her.
Creativity
She is a storyteller and artist at heart, and no matter where life has placed her, expect her to come up with some fairly creative solutions to problems (although considering her utterly random personality, you shouldn't expect those solutions to always make sense).
Weaknesses
Tia may be capable of mutating her own body and increasing response time and physical reactions, but there are very tight limits.
Punching bag
Tia is incapable of surviving against physical damage for very long. Although she often fights at near melee range, this is only to focus more energy against her target. She constantly walks a fine line between serious injury and being too far away to fight effectively.
Psych
While she is fairly aware of her own mind and thoughts, she is very vulnerable to psionic damage (especially when the attack is concentrated through her emotions).
Touchy
Her senses of touch, hearing, and eyesight are severely over-sensitive.
Tia's skin has nearly three times as many nerve endings as it should, and therefore, she is far more sensitive to contact (pleasurable or painful) then a normal human.
Sensitive feline ears react strongly to higher spectrum sounds, making her weak to high pitched noises, and at the far end of the spectrum she has difficulty hearing very deep bass sounds.
Tia is albino, and like many albino she has visual difficulties. She wears prescription glasses to correct her nearsightedness, but her nervous system results in her responding badly to sudden and drastic changes in light.
A.D.D.
While most kids are diagnosed with ADD for simply being energetic and badly disciplined juveniles, Tia actually has a nervous disorder resulting in her becoming easily confused when surrounded by a lot of noise or activity. Likewise, while she is very intelligent, she loses track of conversations easily if her concentration slips or if she does not have all the facts.
Following
Friends
Despite her antisocial tendencies, Tiamat has a number of friends.
Tiamat is close friends and sort of married to Vicki Carr and Marci/Marcia Raver.
Somewhere along the line Tia made friends with a very intelligent Shivan blob that now tags along constantly and occasionally even steps in to protect her.
Tiamat is very close to herself... or rather, a copy of herself from another dimension who uses the name Zange.
Having lived in the Cute can Kill's Shelter for quite a while, she is good friends (in some cases VERY good) with most of its members.
Followers
Tiamat doest not really have any servants or followers. Any needs that could be fulfilled by such are easily provided by her pets.
Pets
Red
Red is a Former Longbow agent. Captured alive by Vicki and Marci during a raid, Red was broken and turned into a pet. She was one of three such given to Tiamat as pets.
Red was sent for a time to Paragon City as a spy, but due to complications in the Rogue Isles she was recalled.
The Twins
Twin blondes who once served in Longbow ranks. Both were captured and broken along with Red, and were given to Tiamat as pets.
The twins seem to have a special place in Tiamat's heart and she treats them quite well (some might even say she spoils them a little considering their position).
Faliel
Faliel is a Succubus, summoned to the service of the Circle of Thorns. The mage she served treated her very badly and when the mage coven was decimated she and Belarithin found themselves spared by the metahuman that had destroyed their master. Rather then return and face punishment for failure in Hell, they chose to bind themselves to the service of Tiamat.
This demon is suprisingly mild for her kind. Other then her horns and wings she could _almost_ pass as a human with a bright tan and long reddish brown hair. She is partial to one-piece outfits when she must wear any clothing.
Belarithin
Belarithin is a Succubus, summoned to the service of the Circle of Thorns. The mage she served treated her very badly and when the mage coven was decimated she and Faliel found themselves spared by the metahuman that had destroyed their master. Rather then return and face punishment for failure in Hell, they chose to bind themselves to the service of Tiamat.
Bel is much more rough and tumble then her counterpart, Faliel. Her skin is a brilliant red and her hair is a darker shade of the same. She tends to prefer tight leather if she is forced to wear anything.
Belongings of Note
Tia has quite a few belongings. Most of them gathered since she came to the isles.
Books
A positively enormous number of books of all kinds. Since the move to the leaky old rust bucket, most of her books have been unpacked and sorted by her pets.
Weapons
While Tia uses her powers to fight, that doesn't mean she's above a little conventional warfare. Scattered around her cabin is a vast array of swords, maces, axes, and innumerable ranged weapons of every conceivable design. Besides this collection, Tia keeps a Wakizashi on prominent display above her dresser and carries a .9mm Berreta tucked away in a concealed pocket.
Artifacts
During her time as an... "independent operative", Tia has collected a staggering quantity of random trinkets, memories, and wreckage. The collection is primarily mystical, fragments of magic and memory from her constant battles against the Circle of Thorns.
One other artifact remains a centerpiece of one corner of the room. Always well cared for and polished, a beautiful crystal skull sits on a well secured pedestal. Lodged within the skull is a glowing chunk of meteorite.
