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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8210790" data-attributes="member: 30538">Pulya<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-cLKqZQk/1/7c7b9168/S/bc6220665b02b834ae18ca254d560ed7-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Sofya Shibalova was by all accounts a fairly typical female KGB agent in the early 1960s. She had been carefully trained to take advantage of the bourgeois hypocrisy of Western operatives, who were inculcated with the absurd notion that women were soft, easily manipulated, and in need of protection. Even before the episode, Sofya had never been soft. Her hardness had developed early, first by her childhood spent during the Great Patriotic War, and then by her father's arrest, trial and execution for rape when she was fifteen.In 1964, Sofya was volunteered for duty to test a new chemical formula developed by the KGB's R&D division, based on research stolen from the United Kingdom concerning 'the New Accelerator'. To everyone's shock, she not only survived the injection, and developed super speed as a consequence, her body further mutated, becoming as hard and tough as lead. Her inexperience in using these abilities meant that she was unable to prevent the assassination of the scientist who'd developed the formula, or the escape of the British assassin, and so the formula was lost. Thus, Sofya became the Soviet Union's only speedster agent, under the alias 'Pulya' -- Bullet.No one was sure how long the dose of the Accelerator drug in her system was going to last, and so she was quickly assigned to the SNM and told to make herself useful. She soon found herself the latest excuse for the rivalry between the Red Comet and the Untouchable, gravitating to the side of the latter as more familiar but always hinting to the former that she might be persuaded to change her mind if he impressed her enough. She engaged in lower-intensity flirtations with the other male members of the team as well, and with a few of their opposite numbers, most notably the Living Thunderbolt, her most frequent opponent. All of it was done in the service of the state, of course, to which she was utterly committed.Her private diary, found in the KGB archives, reveals a rather different personality. Sofya Shibalova was a profoundly unhappy woman, fearful of the likelihood that her powers were going to fade, just as she was sure that her beauty would not last. Without such advantages, where would she be? What use would she be to anyone? She only had worth in as much as she was useful to the men around her, after all.Ironically, her powers never did fade, nor did they ever require recharging, as the later users of Accelerator substances did. It seems likely that whatever changes to the formula hardened her body also turned it into a factory to produce regular doses of the drug. Some physical examinations undertaken towards the end of her life indicated that this was causing a strain on the rest of her organs, but it never had a chance to impair her activities. During the Battle of Vietnam, she spotted the Untouchable confronting the American 'super-wizard', and, believing her lover to be in his intangible state, proceeded to attempt a power charge towards their enemy, moving through the Untouchable's form to do so. She had no way of knowing that Stardust had used a ray on the Untouchable to transform him into an immobilized and hyper-dense state. Pulya crashed against him at just under the speed of sound, and shattered like a bullet against him. She died instantly.Remontnik has developed some odd hobbies in his old age, such as gazing at pictures of beautiful women he's known while also examining their DNA profiles. Quite recently, while doing so to a photograph of Pulya, he realized that he'd seen a remarkably similar profile recently, and leafed through the rest of his collection until he found it. Then he stared at the photograph and DNA profile of Baba Yaga, noting that the similarity between the two profiles was akin to that between a grandparent and their grandchild. "Now what do we have here?" he murmured to himself.Pulya -- PL 9Abilities:STR 2 | STA 4 | AGL 4 | DEX 3 | FGT 4 | INT 1 | AWE 2 | PRE 3Powers:Hardened Body: Strength-based Damage 2; Protection 2, Impervious 6 - 10 pointsHypersonic Speed: Enhanced Advantage 3 (Improved Initiative 3); Enhanced Defenses 16 (Dodge 8, Parry 8); Movement 3 (wall-crawling 2, water-walking), Limited to movement; Quickness 10; Speed 10 (2000 MPH) - 32 pointsSonic Boom: Linked Burst Area Damage 9; Linked Burst Area Cumulative Affliction 9 (Resisted by Fortitude; Hearing Impaired, Hearing Disabled, Hearing Unaware), Limited to One Sense - 36 points Advantages:Attractive, Close Combat 2, Evasion, Improved Initiative 3, Instant Up, Move-by ActionSkills:Acrobatics 4 (+8), Athletics 6 (+8), Close Combat: Unarmed 4 (+8), Deception 7 (+10), Insight 4 (+6), Perception 4 (+6), Persuasion 4 (+7), Stealth 5 (+9), Technology 6 (+7).Offense:Initiative +16Unarmed +10 (Close Damage 4)Sonic Boom -- (Burst Area Damage 9 and Fortitude 9)Defense:Dodge 12/4, Parry 12/4, Fortitude 7, Toughness 6, Will 7.Totals:Abilities 46 + Powers 78 + Advantages 6 + Skills 22 + Defenses 8 = 160 pointsComplications:Duty--Motivation. Low Self-Worth.</blockquote>

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