Miranda "(La) Llorona" Del Flores PL 12 [200pp]
"Do you believe in ghosts? If you're smart, you would.."
Concept: A teen actress turned ghostly life-force manipulator
Appearance: A tall and leanly built beautiful Latina girl with light olive skin and shoulder-length wavy black hair who wears rock-a-billy styled clothing.
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Real Name: Miranda Del Flores
Identity: (La) Llorona
Occupation: Student (unemployed actress)
Marital Status: Single
Age: 16
Height: 5’9
Weight: 130 lb.
Hair: Black (shoulder-length and wavy)
Eyes: Brown
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Latino
Place of Birth: San Diego, California
Allegiance: Xavier Institute, Family, Friends
Motivations: Acceptance, Recognition
First Appearance: Mutant High: Issue #1, The House that Xavier Built
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[sblock="Description"]
Miranda del Flores is a young Latina girl with light olive colored skin and dark raven-colored shoulder length wavy hair that she wears in a manor suggestive of a vintage pin-up girl. Miranda is a beautiful, who is well aware of her natural beauty and is not above exploiting her attractiveness, and as a result, she tends to wear clothing that teasingly shows off her body's youthful curves as well as her lean athletic body.
Personality wise, Miranda is a young woman of extremes who has managed to earn herself a reputation as being one of the most enigmatic of the female students at Charles Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters. Miranda tends to act in an outgoing, mischievous, and blatantly flirtatious manor which is marked by brief moments of coyness and sardonic wit.
In stressful and risky situations, Miranda tends to act in serious somewhat reserved and professional manor not unlike how she would conduct herself while on a set but is not afraid of making a quip or two to lighten the mood. However, when she is faced with a grim or a humiliating situation, Miranda tends to easily be overcome by feelings of negativity and falls into a melancholic and somewhat pensive state.
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[sblock="Character Bio"]
Miranda Del Flores is the youngest of child of the Fernando and Susan Del Flores. Fernando Del Flores is internationally successful Latino actor who stars in the Besame, a bi-lingual soap opera set in Puerto Rico. Susan Del Flores is a extremely popular anchorwoman for Fox TV Channel 11 in Los Angeles California who begun her career in broadcasting after being deemed to be "too pretty for radio." Miranda's Monte is a USC film student and is mutant with superior eyesight.
Due to her parent's fame and fortune, Miranda has lived an exciting and rather privileged life. From an early age, Miranda's parents began grooming her top become a young starlet by entering her into beauty pageants as well as giving her acting and dancing lessons. When Miranda was four years old, she was formally discovered by and given her first role in a commercial,
Like her parents, after she was discovered, Miranda soon found herself entering into the Hollywood life-style and was offered multiple television roles which her her parents refused. When Miranda was seven years old, she was offered a role on a hit-sitcom which her parents accepted. Lasting for three seasons, Miranda played the part of the young, perky and often annoying Tina Gomez on the show Inner City Blues.
Inner City Blues was canceled after after it's star Henry James O'Neill was caught up in a career ending scandal. Luckily for Miranda, almost immediately after the cancellation of the show, received the job of a life time in the form of Gloria Hernandez on the tween comedy Girl's Court. Her character Gloria, was a mousy girl yet quirky who was the best friend of the show's main protagonist. Although the show was popular, it came to an abrupt end after the show's production company was forced into bankruptcy; however, luckily the show was sold off to another producer who created its spin-off Broken Heart High.
Due to Gloria's cult-like popularity, Miranda was one of the few actors from Girl's Court who was allowed to reprise her previous role on Heart Break High. Unfortunately, Miranda's character's became the show's token nerd even though Miranda was blossoming into the show's most attractive actress, a fact that would be widely known after the show's Summertime Fun! television special. While filming Heart Break High, which was shot on location at a Southern Californian High School, Miranda met and became an acquittance of Eric Hassel, who like Miranda became a future student at the Xavier Institute.
A few weeks after filming the Heart Break High: Summertime Fun special, during the night of Miranda's Quinceanera, the celebration of her 15th birthday, her life changed forever; Miranda's mutant powers began to manifest for their time. In the view of her family, her friends, and a film crew, Miranda's body began to become insubstantial during her first dance causing her her father's hands to pass through her own. A brief moment of panic soon followed as a result of Miranda unknowingly draining her father's life-force which caused him to collapse onto the dance floor. Luckily, Miranda's father recovered from the life drain a few hours later.
The next morning awoke to a horrific surprised when she discovered that her body had become fully incorporeal and invisible. She had became a ghost. Miranda began to scream in terror and within a few moments her family entered the room in order to calm her down only to discover that only Monte was able to see Miranda as a result of his own mutant abilities. Fortunately, her family had had discovered about her mutant nature during the previous hour while reviewing the footage from the Quincenera, although they did not know the scope of her mutation until just then.
Within a few hours, after becoming obvious that Miranda was having difficulty returning her body back to its natural form, her parents decided that it was in Miranda's best interest if they contacted Professor Xavier. While speaking with the professor, Miranda's mother came to the realization that the nature of Miranda's mutation required her to be under constant the supervision of the school's staff. Miranda's parents then made the difficult decision to to send her to Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters while hoping that she would learn to overcome the limitations imposed on her due due to her mutation. Soon after she arrived to the Institute, Miranda selected the name La Llorona as her mutant name since she though that the name was appropriate due to her ghostly nature.
In the year that passed, Gloria's role on Heart Break High was scaled back dramatically as a result of her studying at the institute and due to the anti-mutant sentimentalities held by the show's producer. To explain Miranda's disappearance from the Heart Break High's regular cast, the producer decided to have Gloria's transferred out of the the show's high school, Holbrook High, thus limiting her appearances due to the almost entirely location based nature of the series. Meanwhile, Miranda's agent released a press release mentioning that Miranda was sent to an exclusive boarding school in New York as a cover story to explain Miranda's sudden disappearance from Hollywood. Even with a cover story firmly in place, Miranda's mutant nature and her disappearance from the show had become shrouded in rumor and speculation.
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[sblock="Character Sheet"]
ABILITIES:
Str 12 (+1) Dex 18 (+4) Con 14 (+2) Int 14 (+2) Wis 12 (+1) Cha 20 (+5)
SAVING THROWS:
Toughness +6/+5 (+3/+2 unarmored), Fortitude +6 (4+2), Reflexes +9 (5+4), Will +4 (3+1)
COMBAT:
Base Attack +4 (range +4, melee +4, grapple +5), Base Defense +10 (Defense 20, flatfooted 15), Initiative +4
SKILLS:
Acrobatics 8 (+12), Bluff 5 (+10/+17), Concentration 2 (+3), Diplomacy 4 (+9/+17) Disguise 5 (+10), Knowledge (Popular Culture) 3 (+5), Language 1 (Native English, Spanish), Notice 3 (+4), Performance (Acting) 5 (+10), Performance (Dance) 8 (+13), Profession (Actor) 2 (+3), Sense motive 3 (+4), Search +1 (+2), Stealth 6 (+10)
FEATS:
Appearance 2, Distract 1 (Bluff), Fascination 2 (Bluff, Performance), Quick Change, Taunt, Wealth
Fighting Style: Accurate Attack, Acrobatic Bluff, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll 1, Evasion 1, Move-by Action, Uncanny Dodge 1 (Hearing)
Bonus: Luck (Rank 1
As Per OOC post 151 )
POWERS:
Insubstantial 4 [26pp]
Alteration, Free Action, Personal Range, Duration: Permanent (Insubstantial), Sustained (Materialization); Affected by Electricity. PF: Innate; Extras: Duration: Continuous(+1), Materialize(+1, Sustained); Flaws: Permanent (-1)
- AP: Insubstantial 4 (Affects Others) [25pp]
Alteration, Free Action, Personal Range, Duration: Sustained; Affected by Electricity. PF: Progression 1 (2 Others); Extras: Affects Others
LINKED TO INSUBSTANTIAL: Invisibility [7pp]
Concealment (normal vision) 2, Free Action, Personal Range, Duration: Permanent; PF: Close Range, Innate, Selective; Extras: Continuous (+1); Flaws: Permanent (-1)
[sblock=Description]La Llorona is totally concealed by default and is able to vary her concealment at will (as a free action) from full concealment to no concealment and anywhere in between.[/sblock]
LINKED TO INSUBSTANTIAL: Flight 4 [8pp]
Movement, Move Action (active), Personal Range, Duration: Permanent; 100mph; Extras: Continuous (+1); Flaws: Permanent (-1)
LINKED TO INSUBSTANTIAL: Immunity 2 [2pp]
Defense, No Action (passive), Personal Range, Duration: Permanent; Save: None; Suffocation (no need to breath)
Bio-kinesis Array: Life Control 6 [36pp]
Array (Nauseate), Standard Action, Perception Range, Duration: Instant (lasting); Save: Fortitude; Extras: Affects Corporeal;
- AP: Bio-Empathic Assault: Emotion Control 10 [29pp]
Sensory (mental), Standard Action (active), Perception Range, Duration: Sustained; Save: Fortitude (staged); Extras: Affects Corporeal, Alternate Save (Fortitude, +0); Drawback: Noticeable (Eyes glow)
- AP: Bio-kinetic Disruption: Ability Drain 5 [28pp]
Ability Score Drain, Standard Action, Ranged, Duration: Instant (lasting); Save: Fortitude (staged); PF: Incurable, Reversible, Slow fade 6 (1 day); Extra: Effects Corporeal, Ranged;
- AP: Bio-Kinetic Whip: Damage 12 [16pp]
Attack, Standard Action (active), Touch Range, Duration: Instant; Save: Toughness (stage); PF: Extended Reach 4 (20ft); Extras: Affects Corporeal; Flaws: Limited (Only affects living biological creatures)
- AP: Death Touch: Constitution Drain 11 [30pp]
Drain Constitution, Standard Action, Touch Range, Duration: Instant (lasting); Save: Fortitude (staged); PF: Incurable, Reversible, Slow fade 6 (1 day); Extra: Effects Corporeal;
- AP: Fatigue 7 [30pp]
Attack, Standard Action, Ranged, Duration: Instant; Save: Fortitude (Staged); PF: Incurable, Sedation; Extras: Affects Corporeal, Ranged
- AP: Stun 7 [30pp]
Attack, Standard Action, Ranged, Duration: Instant (Lasting); Save: Fortitude (staged); PF: Reversible, Sedation; Extras: Affects Corporeal, Ranged
Life-Force Detection: Super Senses 14 [11pp]
Sensory, None (Passive), Personal Range, Duration: Continuous; New mental sense; Detect Life-Force and Detect Physical Condition (both ranged), Accurate, Acute, Extended Range (1,000 ft.), Penetrate Concealment, Radius; Drawbacks: Reduced Range (Penetrate Concealment within 2 Increments, -2), Noticeable (eyes glow eerily)
[sblock=Description]La Llorona's Life-Force Detection power allows her to detect the bio-kinetic energy (life force) of a living individual/organism. Although this super sense is mental, La Llorona is able to perceive life-force in a visual and almost tactile manner. La Llorona's eyes glow faintly with green bio-kinetic energy when she uses this ability.[/sblock]
Telekinesis 3 [9pp]
Move Object, Standard Action, Touch Range, Duration: Sustained; Effective Strength 15 PW: Precise, Subtle; Extras: Affects Corporeal; Flaw: Range (Touch)
- AP: Telekinetic Poltergeist:Telekinesis 1 [ 8pp]
Move Object, Standard Action, "Touch" Ranged, Duration: Sustained; Effective Strength 5 PW: Precise, Subtle, Extend Reach 4 (20ft); Extras: Affects Corporeal, Flaw: Touch Range
Costume: Protection 3 [2pp]
Defense, No Action (passive), Personal Range, Duration: Permanent; Save: None; Drawbacks: Noticeable
[sblock=Description]La Llorona's costume consists of a dark gray and black bodice/corset, a full-length side-slit skirt (often replaced by a pair of skin-tight pants), thigh-length boots, and a pair of long black gloves.[/sblock]
EQUIPMENT Costume, clothes
DRAWBACKS: None
HERO POINTS: 2
TRADE OFFS: -2 Toughness/ +2 Defense
COMPLICATIONS: Fame
Abilities 30pp + Skills/Feats 29pp + Powers 101pp + Combat/saves 40pp – Drawbacks 0 = 200pp
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