Vivian Frazier "Tempest"

[JubalBreakbottle]

Backstory

Vivian Frazier is the seventh daughter of the seventh daughter of archdruids from the Old World. She grew up unaware of this lineage. Her mother died in childbirth, so she was raised by her father. James Frazier is an author and owner of a small book store in Empire City. Brilliant and introverted, she excelled at school but lacked real friends hanging out with the outcasts. She shared her father's love of books, especially his specialization in the esoteric and occult.

 

She began developing extraordinary abilities during puberty and hid them from everyone including her father, because he always thought she wanted to discuss the biology of womanhood, instead of crazy abilities. She developed an affinity with the weather, flora, and fauna. Her emotions began to emulate local weather, plant growth, and behavior of animals, so she began to understand and control them when she harnessed her emotions.

 

She graduated from an elite high school and graduated from Empire City University majoring in Library Science. Vivian moonlights as the hero Tempest and works full time as as a librarian at the Empire City Public Library.

 

• What are your character’s central strengths and weaknesses?
  • Vivian is smart and clever at controlling the weather, plants and animals. Her powers are controlled by her emotions, so they can do what she feels and not what she thinks.
• What is your character’s primary emotional state?
  • Calm.
• What role does your character fill in a group?
  • Mother. Battlefield controller
• Describe your character’s family or tribe.
  • Beyond her closest relationship with her father, she has friends and acquaintances from neighborhood, school, university, and the library.
• Who are your character’s three most valuable contacts?
  • Her father who is a wealth of knowledge
  • A professor who again is a wealth of knowledge
  • A member of the Guard who met her ten years ago and helped her develop her powers
• What personal values and beliefs does your character hold?
  • There is powerful evil n the world and beyond the world, those with power must resist it, on order to at least maintain the status quo and improve it
  • People will exploit her and her powers if they discovered them and her
• To whom is your character closest and why?
  • Her father, because he is her deepest love, oldest friend, and longest relationship
• What does your character need the most?
  • Peace. She would excel in the country enabling the wild to bloom and thrive.
• What are your character’s life goals?
  • She would like to meet the man of her dreams and have a few children, and at least one daughter
  • She would like her father to retire in the countryside
  • She would like the world and Empire City to live in peace.
• What does your character fear the most?
  • Being the last of her lineage
• Describe your character’s appearance.
  • Vivian is a big girl. A bit over six feet tall and near 300 pounds. She has long, dirty blonde hair. She wears professional pant suits at work and leisure suits when not.
• How does your character define “heroism”?
  • Doing what is right, despite being afraid
• Describe your character’s hobbies, interests, desires, and likes.
  • She likes to read, watch movies, people watch, good food
• What would your character do if they killed an innocent bystander?
  • Grieve and attempt to payback the family in some way
• For what does your character have little patience and tolerance?
  • Bullying, harassment, violence against innocents
• Does your character hide any emotions in public?
  • Empire City has a lot of casual violence, bullying and harassment. So, she hides what she really thinks, because she cannot fight everyone’s battles
• How does your character view death and beyond?
  • There is a place where the soul goes which emulates where the person believes their actions deserve to live forever
• What does your character dislike about themselves?
  • She dislikes how she looks. Most superheroes are beautiful and look like models. She does not.
• Describe your character’s bedroom or rest location.
  • Her apartment bedroom feels like a library in a garden with plants and books taking equal space among the lights and furniture and has a ceiling painted with night sky with the summer constellations
• Describe a perfect date night or other enjoyable outing.
  • She would enjoy a walk through Central Park or the botanical gardens, a dinner at a good but not pretentious restaurant, and a good movie
• Describe your character’s relationship with money.
  • It pays the rent, for food and clothes. She wants enough to live well but does not seek riches
• Describe your character’s views on authority and the law.
  • Some of the law is written by the powerful to stay wealthy and powerful. Authority should come from the public trust in the position to serve the community but is often selfishly abused.
• Who has impacted your character’s life direction the most?
  • Her father’s love of books, and her abilities from her mother
• How does your character view forgiveness and revenge?
  • Vengeance addictively and emotionally gives power to the people who have hurt you. While it’s natural, it’s ironic that you would continue to allow someone to continue to hurt you.
• What are the origins of your character’s special abilities?
  • Hereditary pledges with mystical beings who control the weather, flora, and fauna which dominated human life for thousands of years
• What is the prime motivation behind your character’s actions?
  • With great power comes great responsibilities
• In which way does your character focus their personal growth?
  • Learning and curiosity
• Describe the accomplishment of which your character is most proud.
  • Controlling her emotions allowing her to be a superhero
• How does your character think they might die?
  • Hopefully of old age within the embrace of a beautiful garden, but probably at the hands of a supervillain who took her life before others
• How would your character describe themselves in a single sentence?
  • I love stories of humanity both historical and fictional and use the mystical power of nature to fight against those who would hurt or enslave others..

Edited June 3, 2023 by JubalBreakbottle (see edit history)

[Rogers]

Alright, I see what you are going for, so something to keep in mind:

-going to assume her source of powers are magical, even if it is emotion based. Does she control her emotions or can go wild/uncontrolled for whatever reason?

 

So I assume you need some help with making her, guess my question do you want a clear focused set of powers or do you want it to be more narrative focused? How is she physically/mentally (Body and Mind stat)?, I assume she would have a decent Soul Stat. Don't hesitate to be as specific as possible, like if you want to mention weaknesses and the likes.

 

 

[JubalBreakbottle]

13 minutes ago, Rogers said:

Alright, I see what you are going for, so something to keep in mind:

-going to assume her source of powers are magical, even if it is emotion based. Does she control her emotions or can go wild/uncontrolled for whatever reason?

 

So I assume you need some help with making her, guess my question do you want a clear focused set of powers or do you want it to be more narrative focused? How is she physically/mentally (Body and Mind stat)?, I assume she would have a decent Soul Stat. Don't hesitate to be as specific as possible, like if you want to mention weaknesses and the likes.

 

 

Magical. Yes, she can lose control of her powers if overwhelmed by emotion, like if her father violently died.

 

Complete help. I don’t know what you mean by focused set vs narrative focus. She probably has a set of well practiced powers, like directing lightning bolts, flying, entangling people in plants, controlling animals, but could take extra time to do something new.

 

She’s a big, strong, girl but not an athlete. She is smart but not Tony Stark. Don’t have a feel for the Soul stat.

 

She can fly, grab/throw people with wind, create/calm storms, direct lightning bolts, control and accelerate plant growth, and control animals. She would have intuition/special senses to understand the weather, plants, and animals.

Edited June 3, 2023 by JubalBreakbottle (see edit history)

[Rogers]

33 minutes ago, JubalBreakbottle said:

Magical. Yes, she can lose control of her powers if overwhelmed by emotion, like if her father violently died.

 

Complete help. I don’t know what you mean by focused set vs narrative focus. She probably has a set of well practiced powers, like directing lightning bolts, flying, entangling people in plants, controlling animals, but could take extra time to do something new.

 

She’s a big, strong, girl but not an athlete. She is smart but not Tony Stark. Don’t have a feel for the Soul stat.

 

She can fly, grab/throw people with wind, create/calm storms, direct lightning bolts, control and accelerate plant growth, and control animals. She would have intuition/special senses to understand the weather, plants, and animals.

It's fine, got an idea on how to make it, just give me some time to put it together.

 

[Rogers]

Tempest

Size 0: Medium Rank | 100 Character Points

Stats:

Body 6 Mind 6 Soul 10

 

Health Points/Energy Points 80/80

 

Combat Values:

 

Attack Combat Value 7 / 13 with Ranged Attack (Spells)

Defence Combat Value 9

 

Attributes:

Level 4 (5) Dynamic Powers (Major: Weather-1, Emotional +1, Detectable: Magic+1)

Level 2 Features (Animal Empathy, Weather Sense)

Level 2 Summon Creatures (30 animals)

Level 3 Ranged Attack (Weather Spells)

Level 2 Defence Mastery

Level 4 Plant Control (100m Radius, Growthx100, Duration: 1 Hour -2, Emotional+1, Detectable: Magic+1)

Level 2 Skill Group (Academics)

Defects:

-1 Significant Other (Father)
-1 Social Fault (Anxious)
-1 Phobia (Worried about her looks as a superhero)

 

Points note: Stats 44 +40 Dynamic + 2 Feature + 4 Summon Creatures + 3 Ranged Attack + 4 Defence Mastery + 4 Plant Control + 2 Skill group-3 Defects = 100

Summary:

For Stats, 6 represents Significantly above adult average which seems to be what you were describing, Soul is willpower, luck, spirit, empathy and the likes, put it as 10 which represents best in the country or large region, as she is getting in sync with her emotions and want to be compassionate to others.

Tempest has magic to control the weather as effective level 5, every turn, she can use 10 levels of attributes (no attribute can be above Level 5) but beside the theme of using weather, like lightning bolts from the sky, wind, etc...basically anything you want to do with weather. She has animal empathy and weather sense, can "control" by summoning 30 animals of any kind that are available for any kind of tasks for one minute or one dramatic scene (including attack/defend/distract) in 1km radius. Ranged attack gives you a bonus when attacking with the weather magic spells. With plant control, it is a 100m radius and you make them grow 100 times their size, so grass for examples can become 10m tall (30 feet roughly) or a medium size tree can become 2500 feet tall (762 meters).

Skill group academics at level 2 is considered trained so less than expert but Vivian knows enough about many academics subject/books etc...

Edited June 3, 2023 by Rogers (see edit history)

[JubalBreakbottle]

Looks good. How do think she'll play?

 

cheers

[Rogers]

5 hours ago, JubalBreakbottle said:

Looks good. How do think she'll play?

 

cheers

Essentially, the way I see it:

-DP: Weather would usually be the bread and butter for most situations, like by controlling the weather magic like using wind currents to simulate flight attribute or stuff like control environment to change the weather patterns around you. Make fog to cloak yourself and your team etc...for attack spells, plenty of inspiration from lightning bolts etc...the trick would be mostly to choose which attributes you want to use each turn (but will help with that to keep within the theme of weather magic). Emotions limiter will be there for some interesting roleplay situations mostly.

-Calling animals for quick help or tasks, in Empire City you can mostly expect squirrels, bats, turtles, racoons, red tailed hawks, coyotes, beavers, rodents etc...if you fight near any of the Zoos, the kind of animals expand a lot more and some are more dangerous like leopards, bears etc...or near the docks for some bigger mammals like whales.

-Plant control honestly would be mostly utility, as I imagine you would just use it out of convenience, like reach places or helping civilians.

 

 

 

[JubalBreakbottle]

TEMPEST Vivian Frazier | Health/Energy 80/80

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