Gillian Hastings
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| I'm getting too old for this. | |
| Gillian Hastings | |
| Player: @jupejuperocket | |
| Origin: | Mutation |
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| Archetype: | Scrapper / Dominator |
| Security Level: | 50 / 30s |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Gillian Zoe Hastings |
| Known Aliases: | Jill, Critical Feedback |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | May 1979 |
| Height: | 5'9 |
| Weight: | 160 lbs |
| Eye Color: | Blond |
| Hair Color: | Green |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Confidential |
| Place of Birth: | Brooklyn, NY |
| Base of Operations: | Confidential |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Parents: Joshua and Alice Hastings, Older Brothers: Simon (Deceased), Edward, Andrew |
| Known Powers | |
| Electric/Devices | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Has the ability to manipulate electricity in damaging and therapeutic ways | |
| Equipment | |
| M9 pistol, stealth suit, caltrops, and web grenades | |
| Jill Hastings is an accomplished medic and surgeon, having completed her medical training while in the service. She was honourably discharged at age 28 after receiving a life changing injury | |
- Large scars down her back, her right shoulder, and left knee
- Eagle Tattoo on her left shoulder blade
- Electrical pulse manipulation
- Fully trained military surgeon, trained in the treatment of serious burns and polytrauma, and the extraction of bullets and shrapnel.
- Demolitions expert - bombs, explosives, timed munitions
- Stealth operations, night ops, infiltration
- Hand to hand combat (basic unarmed self defense)
At age 13, Jill developed the ability to control electricity to a certain extent. Her years of experience with using her own powers makes her far more confident in her inherent abilities, and she will only use a firearm when ordered to or in a critical moment where her own power would be foolish to use.
At age 17, Jill joined the US Marine Corps, followed by medical school. She became a fully trained military surgeon and field medic, and learned how to use her powers for anaesthetic purposes while doing her job. Despite being a doctor, she is fully capable of taking a human life -- but she understands and enforces the value of human life and would rather incapacitate or sedate her targets.
After twelve years in the Marines, Jill is pretty hardened to the horrors of war and the brutality of man, but her friendly and bright nature somewhat protected her from becoming bitter and jaded. She is easy enough to get along with and is relatively balanced, considering the struggles she has faced.
At age 28, Jill suffered an injury to her left knee and was honourably discharged after 12 years of service at the officerial rank of Major.
Jill never married: her career came first. After her discharge from the Marines, she underwent therapy to fix her knee, but even after two years of healing, she still experienced some pain.
After moving to Paragon City, Jill quit the Marines and joined Vanguard. Her friend, Ryan Sweet, had connections and family in the organisation and helped Jill secure a position in the infirmary while keeping her rank. It was a couple of months after receiving this position that she moved on to command a squadron of men for Gaussian in the Vanguard Sword.
Jill's knee is a sensitive topic for her. After it was destroyed in Iraq, she underwent many surgeries to repair the damage, followed by over a year of therapy to be able to carry heavy objects, and even run. She is extremely stubborn about having the knee fixed: firstly, she is annoyed that modern medicine and surgeries cannot do anything for it. She spent almost half her life in the study of medicine and is frustrated that there is no skilled and educated way of repairing the damage.
Secondly, she is annoyed that a hero, usually an empath, could probably repair the damage by simply thinking and touching.
Third, she uses the knee as a beacon: when it hurts, it's a definite sign that she's pushing herself too hard. Her knee was injured this badly in the first place because she ignored her limits. It keeps her in check.
Finally, the knee acts as a sort of weather forecaster. She always knows when it's going to snow or rain the day before it happens... and really, that's kind of neat.
Ultimately, a promotion within Vanguard required Jill to be fully functional in duty. She asked an empath friend of hers to heal the knee so she could move on with her career. The pain is gone but the scar remains as a reminder to her of the past.
- Jill always has cold hands. She pegs it off as being a Doctor (and all Doctors have cold hands, right?) but the reality of it is that she conducts electricity far better when she's warm. She keeps her hands cold so she can control minor bursts of therapeutic current. The hotter her hands are, the more powerful her electricity is.
- Jill calls every man she first meets a stalker. It's half defense mechanism, and half amusement.
Here are some tropes that apply to Jill:
Always on Duty
Neat Freak
No One Gets Left Behind
Deadpan Snarker
Fantastically Indifferent
Game Breaking Injury
Lightning Bruiser
Military Brat
Mundane Ability
Shock and Awe
Stiff Upper Lip
Workaholic
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