[General Information]
Name: Marceline Hansen
Nicknames: Marcy, Lia
Titles: Black Witch
Age: 21
Birthday: March 15
Star sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Alliance: Villain
Personality: Marcy is reclusive, preferring to keep to herself. When in public she's socially awkward and ditzy. She has a difficult time translating her actual brilliance into well formed words and her flightiness is on full display when in public. This isn't a front that she puts on and is actually more of a social disorder. This changes drastically when in her villain persona as no one can see her, so she has no reason to be embarrassed. As a villain, she's much more menacing and commanding. She can even be terrifying and inspiring in certain situations.
[Personal Information]
Height: 5'6”
Weight: 150 lbs
Occupation: Student/Heiress/Hired Muscle
Sexuality: Bisexual
Likes:
Science
Experimentation
Tinkering
Animals
Dreams: She wants to be as confident in public situations as she is when in her villain guise. Her biggest dream is to become a legitimate threat, creating a network of villains that function as a secret society to protect criminals.
Dislikes:
Being made fun of
The cold
Failure
Fears:
Spiders
Public Speaking
Darkest Secret: She feels like she's actually an incompetent scientist
Favourite Food: Swiss Rolls and other Snack Cakes
Favourite Drink: Fruit Smoothies
Least Favourite Food: Kale
Least Favourite Drink: Vegetable based drinks (just leave it as food)
Loyalties: Herself and her family and her associates (when she gets them)
Intelligence Level: Genius Intelligence
Dominant Hand: Ambidextrous
Strengths: Determination, intelligence, vast inheritance
Weaknesses: Fits of flightiness, social anxiety
Cherished Items:
Aether Tech Drive: An engine that can harness a type of energy similar to zero-point energy. She only has one other version, a smaller one, used in her staff. The main one, while not large, is kept in her “lair” and it's used to charge her Witch Scepter.
Philosophical/social viewpoint:
She believes in persistence. Her own personal scientific method of keep trying until something gives. Even though she has her fears and doubts about certain things, she doesn't let them deter her from her goals. In her mind there's always a way to circumvent a road block.
Religious viewpoint:
Like most in the mob families, Marceline was raised catholic, but eventually abandoned her catholic upbringing. Not to say she abandoned belief in God, just in Catholicism. She believes there is a God, but doesn't do much with it, preferring to just not think about it.
Romantic viewpoint:
While she does consider herself to be bisexual, she would prefer relationships with men. However, she's so socially awkward she would form a romantic relationship with anyone who was willing to give her that sort of attention
Biography
Marceline was born to a mid level crime family in Gotham City. Marceline looked up to the villains of the streets, rather than the heroes. She admired their tenacity and confidence in the face of who she saw as the oppressive law. Growing up she always wanted to be one of them, to help her family by being their masked defender. As a child she displayed an impressive intellect, especially when it came to science and invention. Her aptitude for invention impressed her parents enough to invest in her scientific future. To promote their daughter's interests, they helped fund her science lab and funneled money into a trust fund for her future endeavors.
Since she was kept as a recluse away from most other people, she passed her time and entertained herself but conducting experiments. Throughout the time she would have spent in middle school, she advanced her studies, creating experimental weaponry and gadgets. By the time she reached high school age she was so used to being alone that when she was told by Jeremiah, her personal caretaker, that she would actually be attending school it was a complete system shock. New to social situations, Marceline was quickly ostracized in her school, often being mocked and teased by her peers for her crippling inability to speak in public. Whenever she did make friends, it was generally for her money or for her smarts. It didn't take long for her to get tired of high school, becoming something of a social outcast. Upon graduation she retreated back to her lab. During this time she advanced her study of weaponry and technology, creating a device capable of creating effects similar to zero-point energy that she dubbed Aether Tech.
About a year after her graduation, she was informed by Jeremiah that her parents had been captured by corrupt police under the employ of a rival mob family. Jeremiah informed her that her parent's gang was working on recovering them, but she shouldn't worry. Despite this, Marcy decided to take it upon herself to try and rescue her parents. Seeing this as the opportunity to put her dream of super-villainy to the test, she tried to go out and liberate her parents. This was quickly met with her being far too terrified, not of the danger, but of appearing in public and facing people. Before she could be injured, she was saved by Jeremiah, who was leading a small group of the gang members in a mission to find her parents. Ashamed of her failure, Marceline sought to come up with a way to fix her public speaking problems and be seen as a viable member of the criminal under-world. With the weapons and equipment she and her family had acquired through their investments and theft, she set to work reworking her super villain identity.
Taking note of not just super villains, but other heroes, she redesigned her super-villain attire. Combining her best technological inventions and experimenting with the idea that covering her face would eliminate her anxiety in public. Her first test was finding her parents while working under the guise of hired muscle for Jeremiah and the mob family. After locating her parents, she found that they had been killed in a skirmish between vigilantes and the gang in an attempt to escape. Deciding that the so called heroes were to blame, she continued to act as super-villain protection for criminals. Her primary client being Jeremiah and the family now under his control.
[Relationship information]
Friends:
○ Character name as URL link | Alliance | Relationship type
None so far
Enemies:
○ Character name as URL link | Alliance | Relationship type
None so far
Family:
○ Jeremiah Laventine | Villain (technically) | Caretaker/Foster Father
Jeremiah was a personal confidant of Marceline's family and was the only person they trusted to take care of her and keep her out of the spotlight of the family's criminal dealings. For most of her life he was her father figure and she cares about him as though he were. With her actual parents dead, he is now the only family she has left. In the wake of her parents' deaths and her ineptitude at leadership while not a villain, Jeremiah is the leader of her parents' crime family with her, acting as their protector.
Romantic Relationships:
○ Character name as URL link | Alliance | Relationship type
None so far
[Weapon information]
○ Black Witch Armor: In lieu of any metahuman powers, Marceline uses an advanced, state of the art, all-purpose combat suit she invented and designed in the likeness of a Black Witch Moth. The suit has slight armoring and allows her a wide range of options to use in combat.
->Enhanced Strength: The suit grants enhances her physical capabilities, granting her a small degree of super strength. While wearing the armor, she is capable of lifting 1 ton.
->Enhanced Endurance: The suit is resistant to bullets, blades and blunt force trauma. The suit can resist bullets from small caliber guns at point blank range, but offers limited protection from more powerful weapons such as assault rifles. As for physical assaults, the suit can resist blows equal to what she can put out and is cut resistant.
->Propulsion Boots and Wings: Her suit has thruster boots that use an experimental propulsion technology of her own design to give her lift. The lift is brief and can only allow her to hover for short periods of time. The wings are made of a durable, smart material that stiffens to allow her to glide, but also acts as a cape. The two devices combined allow her to fly for short distances.
->HUD: The helmet of the armor gives her slightly enhanced senses, granting her an improved view of her surroundings. The helmet enhances her senses, provides her with binocular, microscopic, thermal and night vision, and includes a voice modulator.
->Gauntlets: Each gauntlet's sections can contain a wide array of equipment, such as sonic or smoke pellets, knockout gas capsules and throwing tracers. The right gauntlet is also equipped with a 100,000-volt stun gun. The left gauntlets serves as a weak charging station for her staff. Should the staff be depleted of energy before she has the opportunity to take it back to the charging station, the reserve power in the gauntlet is sufficient to power it for an hour. Each gauntlet is also fitted with a devise that allows her to recall the Witch Scepter to her hand with enough force to snatch it from a person's hand, but only works from the same room.
○ Witch Scepter: Using technology similar to zero-point energy, dubbed Aether Tech, the staff can perform a variety of functions. The weapon was redesigned in her discovery phase to more resemble a witch's staff to fit with the Black Witch motif. With that in mind, she focused on making the capabilities of the staff resemble magic. The staff is equipped with defensive capabilities, and is considered her finest work to such an extent that she has difficulty replicating it. These functions are power draining and the staff needs to be recharged daily. At full charge, the staff can perform all of its functions for 20 hours, only needing 4 hours at its charging station to become completely charged again.
->Concussion Blasts: The staff can fire bolts of concussive energy, similar to the blasts used to propel her from her boots. The blasts are powerful enough to destroy heavy wooden doors, smash through windshields or dent steel.
->Energy Absorption/Redirection: Aside from the concussive blasts, the staff itself is incapable of producing energy blasts. However, it is equipped with the ability to absorb other types of energy, store them briefly and fire them from the staff. With this ability she can harness the electricity from a room and redirect it as a blast at targets, take in a nearby fire and project it as a flame thrower and other similar feats. The staff can be overloaded with energy and if she takes in too much, such as attempting to absorb all of the power in a large building at once or something similar, the Scepter will short out. In such an event, the staff will need to be rebooted.
->Levitation: The staff can emulate levitation. By pointing at an object or person, she can project an energy field around them allowing her to move them as if they weighed nothing. The staff and the helmet are linked, allowing her to lock on to multiple objects with the helmet and levitate them using the staff. Objects lifted with the staff can then be thrown with significant force, the damage of the objects depending on the size.
->Defensive/Reflective Field: She can project an energy field that negates the force of what's coming towards her. She can project a field that stops a bullet's momentum, trapping them in space and rendering them harmless. After stopping a flying object, she is capable of throwing the object back, at a vastly reduced speed in the case of bullets and objects of similar velocity, towards where they came from. This extends to projecting a defensive wall against between her and assailants. The field is powerful enough for protect her from explosions, though defending against too many will rapidly reduce the charge for the day.
[Other item information]
○ Item name: Any item that is neither a cherished item nor a weapon would go here. For example armour, med kits etc. Please include an explanation for each item.
[Ability information]
○ Genius Intellect: She is a prodigy who has been able to create many technological advances such as her suit of armor and staff. Marcy has the aptitude to quickly learn any subject she's willing to put her mind to, but she specializes, mechanics, circuitry and weaponry. She has a decent grasp of both business and investigation, having made sound business investments in weapons technology using her inheritance and investigation skills to locate her family.
○ Mechanical Engineering: She is proficient with mechanics and invention, able to create gear that possesses properties similar to the concept of Zero-point energy. She has demonstrated the ability to create and maintain advanced pieces of equipment, such as her armor and staff.
○ Martial Arts Training (Basic): She was taught basic self defense by personal trainers hired by her parents and later Jeremiah. Her skills are fundamental and basic at best, knowing just the foundations of self defense.
[Weakness information]
○ Human: Despite her enhanced suit, Marceline is a human all the way through. If a person can get past her suit, they can effectively wound her.
○ Arachnophobia: She has a near crippling fear of spiders. The confidence boost of being in her Killer Moth persona helps, but it takes all of her effort to not freak out if she comes in contact with a spider.
○ Social Anxiety: She's afraid of speaking public places and being in crowds. Without her helmet, she tenses up in public situations. She fumbles and can't speak coherently when she's forced into crowded areas. A few people or sparsely populated areas she can deal with without freezing. It's larger crowds that cause her extreme stress.
