Lunarwind
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| To give up is to lose before one has even fought. | |
| Lunarwind | |
| Player: @Lunarwind | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Controller |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Luna Miriam Tanera |
| Known Aliases: | Lu, Luna, Honorary Jan |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 22 |
| Height: | 6'1" |
| Weight: | 120 |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Hair Color: | Blonde, dyed red. |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Cuban American |
| Occupation: | Bartender and Dancer |
| Place of Birth: | Miami, FL. |
| Base of Operations: | Dark Astoria |
| Marital Status: | Married |
| Known Relatives: | Pedro Tanera (Father), Miriam Tanera (Mother) |
| Known Powers | |
| Mystical Illuminato Dancing, Wild Magic | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Certified bartending and alchemist | |
| Equipment | |
| Radio Earpiece | |
| Has dozens of different false leads and aliases for any who wish to research her. | |
The following information is a complete report of the heroine known as Lunarwind. Unless noted otherwise, all of the information that follows is able to be found and researched by any character who wishes to know about her IC'ly.
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Affiliations
- Sentinel Omega
- Silent-Running
- Thag Zhug
- Kat Kisses
- XM Radio
- Luficia
- Justice Jon
- Miss Judgement
- Unlucky Penny
- Taxibot Theta
- Star Valentine
- Foeblade
- Mobius Knight
Supergroup: T.U.M.B.L.E.R.
Other Affiliations:
Personality
Cheerful and outgoing, Luna oozes charisma. Having spent most of her life trained to be a cordial woman, she is very well mannered and behaved. Regardless of this, she is also fairly capable of swapping into a much more crude set of mannerisms which allow her to function in a silly manner.
Filled with altruistic tendancies, Luna is also self sacrificing and tends to forget or ignore her condition. Because of the amount of pain she's suffered throughout her life, she dismisses most serious wounds as mere scratches and she hates to show pain. Her stubborness is nearly legendary, and she will fight as long as she is capable of moving and continuing on.
While she can be cold and distant, she can very quickly turn around and offer a comforting shoulder to anyone and everyone. She believes that while she lives in a City of Heroes, the true heroes are few and far between. She knows she cannot solve every problem or save everyone in trouble, but she chooses to do everything she can regardless of what may happen to her. She wishes to always fight for the better of everyone, no matter whether or not she has access to her magic at all.
She shows a strong sense of bigotry whenever demonic magic is mentioned and makes it quite clear that she hates it passionately.
Powers
Luna is multitalented and enjoys studying and learning anything and everything she can. Due to years of studying, she is a capable wizardess, among other things.
Primary Set
Illusory Magic. Among other things, Luna is a well versed illusionist, knowing everything from cantrips to highly advanced spells. To supplement her studies, she has given up being able to utilize necromantic magics which has allowed her to focus on her illusory studies. Able to replicate and create an image of virtually anyone she's seen, as well as manipulate others into seeing what they wish to see, Luna is classified as an Arch Illusionist. She tells nobody of her true capabilities and rarely, if ever, utilizes her full abilities.
Secondary Set
Mystical Illuminato Dancing, or using the kinetic energy present in the world around them, is something that Luna has nearly perfected to an art. Having done nothing but practice it when she first learned about it, she wishes to revive a once dead style back to the modern days and show everyone that she has more then just a pretty face. The Mystical Illuminato style focuses on drawing the energy present in others, as well as those present within the dancer or the very air to shift the weight, power, and speed of whomever the dancer chooses. The dance style itself is visually compromised of all known dances. Due to that, it is a marvel to watch as it shifts and changes on the fly.
Because she has spent her life dancing, she has an exceptional sense of balance and grace.
Additional Powers
Due to her studies, Luna is well versed in cantrips of most schools of magic, sans necromancy, as well as the first few circles.
Wild Magic
While enchanting a pair of earrings to test her abilities out, a mishap in her spell caused the very essence of magic to become implanted in her. This in turn is reflected with her newfound control of the ancient school of wild magic. Her spells and abilities have become random at best and catastrophic at worst. The randomnes inherent in her magic can turn the tide of any battle either way, whether she likes it or not.
The wild magic has also granted her significant amounts of strength and power, though how long it lasts is something that nobody knows.
Trances
Luna has developed a long series of trances which facilitate her ability to function under strenuous conditions. These trances can allow her to push herself past her normal levels of fatigue, exhaustion, and health. She can block pain out of her mind to continue whatever activity she is partaking in, at the expense of an ability to communicate. Her mastery of her trances is all but perfect and she is able to drop into or out of any given trance within ten to thirty seconds. Regardless of the trance, her condition will still worsen if she pushes herself.
Abilities
Having spent virtually all of her life devoted to dancing, Luna is a well seasoned and adept dancer. As a child, her parents set the young girl on her path by placing her in dancing classes. Her teacher believed that she was a prodigy which led to her parents placing her in a rigorous series of classes. Even at a young age, she took to dancing like a duck to water, mastering many basic styles by her teen years. In high school, she devoted her spare time to learning a large variety of dances, treating dancing like an obsessive hobby. During college, she relaxed on her dancing, focusing instead on the Mystical Illuminato style and perfecting it as best she could.
At the current time, she knows well over two dozen styles and is versed in both the male and female parts as applicable. Unless it is requested of her, she will always dance the female part of any paired dancing, allowing her partner to lead her. Despite her skill, Luna has never shown the urge to compete and as such is fairly unknown in the dancing world save for the word of mouth.
In addition to her dancing ability, Luna is a very studied and versed bartender. She has a rather extensive knowledge of most drinks and after starting her job in the D, has made it a hobby to read and study a large variety of mixing books. With her knowledge, she has tapped into the alchemist's world and has been trying to learn the arts of the apothecary to supplement her bartending abilities. She is fully licensed and constantly retakes the class to keep her knowledge up to date. So far, she has created one drink, the Lunar Eclipse, and continues to try and develop more.
Her memory and study habits are well practiced, contributing to her obsessive behavior. She spends most of her free time studying and reading, constantly striving to better herself.
Weaknesses and Limitations
While fit and athletic, Luna is a fairly frail individual. Because most of her powers revolve around dancing, breaking one of her legs or removing her mobility significantly harms her. An anti magic shield would also do the pinch to sever or eliminate her magical abilities, though it would do nothing to hamper her dancing abilities.
Her stubborn nature creates another problem, specifically that she will fight on regardless of her wounds. As long as her friends are in danger, she will continue to fight and is almost impossible to knock out otherwise. She will continually get up and fight again and again until her friends are safe or she is completely incapable of fighting.
Despite her good health, Luna constantly neglects sleep and rest in favor of excessive amount of work. While she uses her magic to keep her cheery, refreshed, and constantly going, she naturally exhausts herself constantly. Any magic that would exhaust someone, such as necromantic magic, will work much more effectively on Luna.
Luna is heavily bigoted against those who use demonic abilities or those who corrupt souls. Because of this, should she see one of her friends get attacked in such a manner or should her soul be attacked, she will enter into a rage that will be almost impossible to quell. While in this rage, most of her logical thinking will be shutd own and her only objective is to disable, or possibly kill, whatever is causing the soul rending. The only effective ways to stop her are to kill her or completely disable her from movement and speech.
Finally, allowing her wild magic to create havoc simply by chance is also another effective strength and weakness, albeit a random one.
Equipment
Luna has an earpiece that functions as both a portable music player and a radio communicator. She has it in her ear almost all the time, though she uses magic to keep it completely invisible. It can pick up and transmit her voice quite clearly, the instrument designed only to transmit when her vocal chords vibrate. The device was designed by Penny Mitchell.
Both because of Luna's family and her hardworking nature, she is independantly wealthy. Commanding several million dollars, she is extremely careful with how she spends her money and constantly creates enterprises and backups to generate more money on the side. She owns approximately forty different money generating properties under her various aliases.
Luna has also made sure to take additional care of herself. While most information surrounding her is public, she has set up a large network of fake aliases, leads, and residences to simply delay anyone from finding her. The residence where she currently lives in is registered under nobody's name and for all intents and purposes does not exist. The estimated time of research it would take to crack her network and locate her is almost one or two months.
History
Childhood
Luna was born into a rich family Feburary 28th 1985. The family gained their wealth from her father's realtor business and her mother's skill in stocks. Despite her family's capability, Luna was not spoiled and was raised in a proper and right manner. She was taught to be responsible, mature, and polite while still allowed the joys of her childhood.
At five years old, it was discovered that she had a natural ability to dance. This led to her parents placing her within a dance class that ran tandem with her elementary school. Enjoying her abilities, Luna excelled to the point where she was labelled as a prodigy. She went through an array of dance schools, gaining more skill and ability as she grew older. Due to her overachieving nature, she spent her early life in dance, doing her school work otherwise and having few friends if any. Despite her skill, she rarely competed due to her age.
Teenager
As she finally grew to her teenage years, Luna began to realize she was harming herself by making dance her life. Because of this she slowed down her dancing and refused to participate in any competitions. As she entered high school, she fully matured and began to blossom, garnering attention from virtually everyone. Throwing herself into her high school's community, she became the prime example of the popular overachieving girl that everyone wanted. These were the happier years of her life.
With her parent's help and encouragement, she successfully managed to juggle her social life, her dancing, and her school work. During this time, she began to dabble in the occult and, like dancing, found a skill in it. While she kept her magical training under wrap, she spent a good amount of time practicing it.
Her entire high school period was just one giant string of accomplishments for her. Head cheerleader, vice president of the student government, in the top 10% of the class, and homecoming queen kept Luna very busy. The four years within high school saw her mature as both a woman and a person.
Adulthood
College
WIP
Present Day and Paragon City
Paragon City University
WIP
Trivia
- Luna was never originally designed as a main character, instead functioning as the first character for the player and a method of testing the waters. As time passed, many people befriend or adored her and she fully fleshed out into a more forefront role.
- Luna's inability to have severe wounds healed by magic or any quick form of instant healing stems from the player's distaste of people who suffer grievous or mortal wounds then instantly turn around and heal them in a matter of seconds.
- One of the few bits of magic that can heal her originates from kinetic movement, which she can provide. Admittedly, most of the time when she needs healing she's in no position to dance and actually provide said healing.
- Luna was made into an "exotic" dancer because the player felt that dancers as a profession were rare. In addition, the running gag of exotic dancing didn't particularly hurt either.
- Luna's suicidal tendencies emerge from an interest in seeing a character who has everything in life: money, love, friendship, and more, yet still possess a desire to vanish off the face of the planet.
- Luna means "Moon" in Spanish. Miriam is a fairly commonplace female Spanish name. Tanera has no meaning other then the sound which goes well with Luna.
- Luna's cover identity for the Legacy Chain is Agent Solar.
