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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8142758" data-attributes="member: 30538">Kishinami Monoka<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-C28BLFB/0/09202592/M/65875-M.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The youngest current member of the Ghost Sweepers, Monoka is just sixteen years old and was recruited two years ago, when she was still in middle school. She's somewhat unique among her colleagues in that she doesn't channel the spirit of an individual from Japanese legend, but one of the four symbols associated with the Chinese constellations -- specifically, the Vermillion Bird, called Suzaku in Japanese, which embodies the element of fire, the southern direction, and summer. This allows her to use various flame-related abilities, notably allowing her to fly on wings of flame -- although not very fast, as superheroic flyers go.Monoka's powers, while considerably potent, have the strong limitation that she cannot normally call fire into being, but rather causes flames to rise higher and burn faster and more hotly by an act of will. Occasionally, she has been able to somehow cause combustion to occur in regions of high temperatures and low humidity, such as an extremely hot summer day, but for the most part she relies on a set of matches and a lighter that she carries in her blazer pocket to create the fires that she needs to do her work. Despite the challenge that this sometimes creates for her, she has never complained about it. She might only have one match, but she can make an explosion.Unlike a lot of her colleagues, Monoka strongly believes that Suzaku exists independently of herself, and is a genuine deity, not a manifestation of any innate power on her part. She takes comfort in the notion that she is Suzaku's chosen priestess, and strives always to behave in a way consistent with this heavy responsibility. Ironically, her own personality is somewhat contrary to this, as she is every bit as prone to making quippy remarks as most of her teammates, and a decidedly nasty sense of humor. She claims to want to keep this under control, but whether or not this should be believed is questionable.Under the air of sanctity, and the sarcastic personality beneath it, there's a rather lonely young woman who values the found family that the Ghost Sweepers have become for her. Her own family is broken in many ways. After her birth father died in a fire that also killed a lot of his colleagues, her mother married again -- to one of Monoka's paternal uncles, just to make things that much more confusing. Neither her mother nor her stepfather care very much about her, and she was dumped at a boarding school where she got wrapped up in a series of events that attracted the Ghost Sweepers attention, being both rescued by them and rescuing them in quick succession.Monoka is considered a likely candidate to replace Megan Excalibur as the Ghost Sweeper's field commander if the latter ever suffers a career ending injury or power loss. Aware of this, Megan is being very careful in giving Monoka the sort of training that she received when she was Monoka's age, but Megan worries that the younger woman is a bit too in love with her own power to focus on commanding others well. Still, there's time for that lesson to be taught, surely.Kishinami Monoka -- PL 9Abilities:STR 0 | STA 2 | AGL 3 | DEX 2 | FGT 2 | INT 2 | AWE 3 | PRE 2Powers:Flames of the Vermillion Bird: Array (17 points) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Flame Arrow: Ranged Damage 9, Quirk (requires existing open fire or high temperatures) - 17 points </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Flame Breath: Cone Area Damage 9, Quirk (requires existing open fire or high temperatures) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Flame Shapes: Ranged Shapeable Area Fire Damage 3, Concentration Duration, Selective, Quirk (requires existing open fire or high temperatures) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Scrying: Remote Sensing 9 (visual), Quirk (requires existing open fire) - 1 point</li> </ul>Touched by No Lesser Flame: Immunity 10 (fire effects) - 10 pointsWings of the Vermillion Bird: Flight 5 (60 MPH); Reaction Damage 3 - 22 pointsAdvantages:Assessment, Defensive Roll, Evasion, Extraordinary Effort, Power Attack, TeamworkSkills:Expertise: Popular Culture 4 (+6), Expertise: Theology & Philosophy 5 (+7), Insight 4 (+7), Perception 4 (+7), Persuasion 4 (+6), Ranged Combat: Flames 5 (+7).Offense:Initiative +3Unarmed +2 (Close Damage 0 and Reaction Damage 3)Firebolt +7 (Ranged Damage 9)Firebreath -- (Cone Area Damage 9)Fire shaping -- (Ranged Shapeable Area Damage 3)Defense:Dodge 8, Parry 6, Fortitude 4, Toughness 4/2, Will 9Totals:Abilities 32 + Powers 52 + Advantages 6 + Skills 13 + Defenses 17 = 120 pointsComplications:Responsibility--Motivation. Power Loss (all, if Suzaku is disappointed.) Prejudice (minor.) Secret (government agent.) Sly and Sarcastic, Beneath an Air of Sanctity.</blockquote>

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