Soft Shadow
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
What happens to those mutants who fall through the cracks of society? Those who grow up in poverty, who are not important or dangerous enough for the government to take notice, those who run away from home as teenagers and are left to cope with the expression of their mutation on their own? Cindy was one of those lost ones.
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| Soft Shadow | |
| Player: @Shattered Crystal | |
| Origin: | Mutant |
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| Archetype: | Stalker |
| Threat Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | ? |
| Known Aliases: | Cindy |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 17? 20something? |
| Height: | 5' 1” |
| Weight: | 108 |
| Eye Color: | Gray |
| Hair Color: | Black, usually coloured Red |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | ? |
| Occupation: | Pickpocket |
| Place of Birth: | ? |
| Base of Operations: | Confidential |
| Marital Status: | none |
| Known Relatives: | ? |
| Known Powers | |
| claws/super reflexes | |
| Known Abilities | |
| ? | |
| Equipment | |
| Whatever she has stolen. | |
| No additional information available. | |
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Powers
Her more mundane powers are super human reflexes and senses, and an unusually strong bone structure complete with retractable claws (this does not mean her bones cannot be broken only that they are strong enough to withstand typical combat punishment).
She does however have a quite unusual ability best described as follows: Everything (people, machines, gods, everything) tends not to notice her when she so wishes. That is people tend not to see her, cameras tend not to record her, listening devices tend not to transmit what she is saying or doing. When she focuses on someone/thing they can completely forget she is there for a while. This power seems to be able to be active even in her sleep to a lesser degree.
One of the side effects of her powers is that she has a very high metabolism and needs a lot of food and sugar during the day. She is often seen drinking sodas. This also means that things like alcohol and drugs tend to affect her quickly but also quickly pass through her system. This in no way makes her immune to poisons, in fact it may make them kill/put to sleep/immobilize etc her faster but the effects will also pass faster. Of course being dead does not pass.
Although not a power per say, as a result of the number of psychics around she has also learned to bury her true thoughts and feelings and only let out thoughts and emotions based on the role she is taking. Also having faced many psychic attacks she can often feel invasive psychic incursions and can resist them for a while, sometimes long enough to escape the situation, but not forever and certainly not against strong psychics. (represented by SR mez protection)
Backstory
Cindy lived on the streets, bouncing between odd jobs, ‘boyfriends’, and petty crime to keep herself going. In her own way Cindy was lucky. She avoided drugs, the law, and the worst excesses of society. It couldn’t last and she finally graduated to murder at the age of seventeen, it was self defense really but she was the mutant and her scumbag boyfriend and his pals were the normies. It didn’t take much to put her in jail. But as said she was lucky. She stowed away on an arachnos flier and ended up in the isles. Surviving in the isles is a lot harder than Paragon and Cindy has gotten a lot colder on the outside, but it’s the inside that counts right? Cindy took up with a variety of characters in her short life, from gangbangers to con-artists to wizards and professional burglars. She learned what she could from them including a lot about breaking and entering, defeating security systems, and cracking vaults. Perhaps most important of all she learned the art of the con.
Personality
Cindy is a thief and a con-artist. She is often fun and funny to be around. Thanks to taking up with a variety of conmen Cindy has learned how to take a variety of roles to help separate marks from their money. The most common is that of an adorable street waif and pickpocket, since it tends to make people underestimate her or even not mind when they are parted from some of their valuables. In fact she has been known to ‘fumble’ petty theft to attract the notice and interest of wealthier marks. Normally she doesn’t steal more than a person can afford to lose. There have been a number of circumstances where she has been forced to kill. She doesn’t like it but has accepted it as part of life. The true Cindy may well have been lost in part between her con artist personas. But there is deeply buried core of someone who is waiting to be shown a better world even is she is aware it will probably never happen.
