Seer Taboo
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Seer Taboo | |
| Player: @Velvet Phantom | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Dominator |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Courtney Jane Williams |
| Known Aliases: | CJ, Seer |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 33 |
| Height: | 5'7" |
| Weight: | 115 lbs |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Hair Color: | Red |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Praetorian national, now citizen of United States with no criminal record. |
| Occupation: | Former Seer, Former member of Powers Division |
| Place of Birth: | Bangor, Maine |
| Base of Operations: | Division 401, Paragon's Own Inc. |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Arthur Williams-Father, Gwendolyn Williams-Mother (deceased), Seymour Williams-Brother (deceased) |
| Known Powers | |
| Power telepath, telekentic. | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Teleportation | |
| Equipment | |
| none | |
| The psyche of the former Syndicate member has been purged. | |
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Affiliations
Seer Taboo is a former member of Eagle Company, founded by a former Praetorian. A group of mercenaries and soldiers for hire. She also maintains some ties to the Praetorian Embassy Nova Legatio, even though she considers their goals hopeless. She is now part of Division 401 of Paragon's Own Incorporated a local company that employs supers.
Personality
Seer Taboo is a troubled young woman. She is prone to fits of depression, brought on by separation anxiety, as she shared a psychic bond with several other young women as part of the Seer Network of Praetoria. Normally Seer Taboo's own personality is much more gentle, she is open, friendly and outgoing. She often uses her sense of humor as a defense mechanism. When first leaving Praetoria she also had the psychic impression of a member o the Syndicate, a Pistoleer Master named Amanda Winters. (see history) Amanda Winters is a deadly killer, and it was her mercenary attitude that was influencing Seer Taboo's past tendencies in dealing with the criminals of Paragon City. She was gaining a reputation as dealing out very ruthless justice.
Powers
Telepathy
Seer Taboo is a powerful telepath. She along with other young women would form what is called the Seer Network on Praetorian Earth. They floated around the city, constantly scanning the thoughts of others. The Seers would weed out what the system considered “bad” or “immoral” thoughts and deal with those people accordingly. Seer Taboo would often scan several square miles of city at a time, shifting through thousands of thoughts. She can share her own thoughts, when done in a negative fashion this causes the recipient to feel mind numbing pain. Seer Taboo also has some telekinetic abilities as well. She has been known to toss an averaged sized man 2-3 meters. She has recently come to use her mental abilites in a verity of ways, confusing sometimes one, and at other times several enemies at once, causing them to attack each other. Stop people dead in their tracks, causing massive headaches that prevent them from attacking, and even shutting down their synaptic responses causing them to stand still, almost asleep standing up. Another use of Seer Taboo's telepathy is when she invaded the mind of a Syndicate Enforcer by the name of Amanda Winters. She took a talent, a skill that Miss Winters had spent the better part of her life perfecting. This included, moves, knowledge and on some deeper level, even the instincts. So far, Seer Taboo has only used this ability once as it terrifies her.
Other Abilities
As noted, Seer Taboo had an incredible skill with a pair of 50 caliber desert eagle pistols. However, recently she, with the aid of Renato Angeles (also know as the hero Bayani) as well as her Primal Earth counterpart Taboo, she was able to free herself of Amanda Winters' psyche and place it within its own body. This has allowed Seer Taboo to better utilize her own mental powers.
Teleportation
Seer Taboo is able to access a dimension, a psychic realm is what she calls it and move through it. She disappears from one location and appears at another. She is also able to use this power to bring others through this dimension as well.
Weaknesses
Seer Taboo is just a normal human woman, one with incredible metal powers, but a normal human none the less. She is susceptible to everything that hurts and kills humans. Also since she is a telepath she is more sensitive to psychic assaults as well, as her training as a Seer did not instruct her on how to shield from such attacks. This however, is something she is working on and has some small measure of defense against psychic assaults now.
History
Seer 1138 hovered near the edge of People's Park in Imperial City, she'd been in the current position for approximately 34 days. She wasn't due to leave it for another 11, which was standard for the Seers. Her eyes where shielded, as were most Seers of her stature, she was a tracker. She was slender, with close-cropped red hair, dressed in a white jumpsuit with black gloves and boots. There was a strip, the color of dried blood that ran down her side and arms. The thoughts of the people of Imperial City flowed through her mind, and she sifted through them like someone sifting through sand. She was looking, searching for thoughts that were wrong, that went against the government, or against the PPD, those things she had been trained to find. And as always, her sisters were there as well, all of them within in the network, sharing their thoughts with each other. None of them ever truly alone.
“...Mommy can't I stay up just a little longer?...”
“...I love the cherry flavor that Enriche has come out with..”
“...I can't believe that Kimberly is going to get that promotion over me...”
“..wow check out the legs on her...”
“..okay, everyone, our telekinetic just got shot, everyone get ready to move..”
“This is Seer 1138 to PPD squad Alpha seven, I have Syndicate activity near underground entrance zeta zeta six. Destroyers in area as well, their telekinetic has been taken down. Shots fired, alert status red.” Seer 1138 sent to the PPD she worked with. The officers would respond immediately of course.
“Courtney.” came a voice inside her head. Not her sisters, not Mother, a name she hadn't heard in a very, very long time. '“The time has come for you to be free.”'
Seer 1138 was confused, she tried to concentrate on the Syndicate operatives that the PPD were closing in on. She found their leader.
“..PPD! I knew it! Blasted Seers, okay form up. Move into the underground they won't follow us down there...”
“Syndicate leader, Amanda Winters, specializes in pistols, has 4 others with her, one Striker named Franko, two sword adepts names Marcy and Greg, one blade master, Wilfred Jenkins. Moving into Underground entrance zeta zeta six, moving northeast. Proceed with extreme caution, all are armed and are to be considered extremely dangerous.” Her thoughts were sent to the PPD in pursut.
“Courtney, the time has come. Find the mind of Amanda Winters,” the mysterious voice urged. “See her, scan her mind.”
Suddenly Seer 1138 was inside a room, before her stood a woman with blonde hair and hard gray eyes. She stared back at the Seer with undisguised anger. “You mind peepiing bitch, you're the reason we're on the run. Where am I?”
Before them was a wooden table, upon it set two high caliber handguns.''
“ That's it, there it is. That's her skills, right there the guns, two pistols, extensions of her almost like appendages to a normal person. She has trained with them all her life, and she is almost unmatched by others in the Syndicate.”
Seer 1138, Courtney as the voice kept calling her, stepped forward and pick up the guns. She saw before her images of Amanda practicing with them as a child, a teenager, a young woman. The image on the woman across from her watched it too. She frowned and again questioned the red head across from her. “What the hell are you doing?”
“There, that's it Courtney, you have it, you can see it playing out like an old movie. Now, make that talent your talent. Dig just a little bit more...there you've got it!”
Suddenly the woman screamed and fell to her knees. She looked at the Seer, blood running from a sudden wound in her chest. She held her hands before her, palms up and they were covered in blood. “You've-you've stolen my talent. How? You killed me.” Seer 1138 was lying on the ground, no longer floating above it. Her hands went to her hips, where were her guns?
“Guns?! What guns?” Seer 1138 thought to herself, “I don't know anything about....”
That wasn't true though. She did know about guns, pistols to be exact. She knew things she'd never learned. How to hold them, shoot them, strip them down and clean them. She couldn't explain it, but she knew that if she got her hands on a pair of pistols, she would not only be able to use them, she was in fact would be deadly with them. How was that possible? She never even held a gun. But, she could conjure and image of holding one, using it, feeling the recoil of it as it fired.
“Lookie, lookie what have we here?” said a harsh voice, “A peeper no longer feeling so special?”
“No!” Seer 1138 knew in an instant, Resistance. “Leave me alone.”
The man in the armor and torn leather clothes bent over Seer 1138 and pulled her to a sitting position by her hair as she screamed.
“Yer about to get slammed peeper.” he said to her as he leaned in close.
Pain flooded into her world as a searing bright light as her mask was ripped off her face. Her eyes, covered so many years by the scanner placed there was unused to sunlight, she closed her eyes and held a hand in front of her face. The shade allowed her to see blurred images of those around her. She spied the twin energy weapons on the hips of the one holding her. His attention was on his companions, not on his prize. The man who held her by the hair was talking to his two companions, both young, one a woman, one a man. They smiled in the way predators tend to when they feel the helplessness of their prey. Seer 1138, 'Courtney' impressed the voice in her head, nudged the trio with her mental powers briefly and then pulled the twin energy pistols out of the holsters on the man who held her by the hair. She shot him at point blank range, causing him to release her as he clutched his wound. The other two started to move, their hands falling to slung energy rifles, their eyes widening in surprise. It was already too late, Seer...no Courtney spun on the while on the ground and stood up, her back to the blinding sun firing both weapons at her opponents, sticking them both solidly in the chest while then were busy bringing up their rifles. The pair fell to the pavement, as Courtney turned her attention to the leader, he groaned, but he was obviously still alive. Courtney stood above him, staring down at him, the pistol aimed directly at his head.
“Who'd have thought that a peeper would have teeth?” he said through bloody lips. Several PPD officers were running towards the Seer now, she held her gun in a steady hand, staring down its length.
“Goodbye.” she said simply and pulled the trigger
Trivia
Seer Taboo is the Praetorian counterpart to Taboo, my main.
Seer Taboo was the second character I created to go through the new Going Rogue world of Praetoria.
I recently did an Architect Entertainment arc for getting Amanda Winters out of her head. She was a blaster (Dual Pistols/Mental) and is now a Dominator. The former Seer Taboo is now the character Amanda Winters.
