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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8440236" data-attributes="member: 30538">Purple Haze<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-kKVdRDB/0/a623a6ce/S/istockphoto-1297508360-640x640-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Almost nothing is known about the villain dubbed the Purple Haze by the press. She appeared as if from nowhere in 2018 to start bedeviling the Blue Bolt, challenging him several times that year. While she could not fly nearly as fast as her chosen adversary could run, her ability to maneuver in three dimensions and lack of physical substance meant that, while he could thwart her schemes, he was never able to capture her. His best guess was that she was someone who'd suffered some sort of elemental transformation, like Aeolia of the Primal Pattern, and suffered a breakdown as a consequence.He was quite mistaken. The Purple Haze's name is Violet Irving, born in 2018 to Jimmy Irving and his wife, Erika. From the age of eight, when her parents were killed in action, she was filled with a violent hatred for the superheroic community whom she blamed for their deaths. When her powers to transform into gas and use those chemicals to various ends developed in her mid-teens, she began to use it to seek revenge, causing a great deal of havoc in an era that had already seen too much destruction already.From time to time, she would find herself opposed by those who'd known her parents, who sometimes tried to reason with her and get her to understand how they would have felt about these activities. When she first fought Dancer, a fellow second-generation superpower, she expected the same, and was startled when she didn't get it. "That would be pointless," said Dancer. "It would be appealing to your better nature, and you don't have one. You're not sad that they're dead. You're glad. It's given you the excuse you need to live out every violent fantasy you've ever possessed. Why else have you never once gone after the people who actually killed them?"Furious at that insult, the Haze would later try to prevent Dancer's attempt to time travel in an attempt to fix the events that led to the end of the second age of heroes, but failed. That failure broke her already badly damaged psyche, and she decided that the only thing she could possibly get revenge would be to bring about the end of the reality which had witnessed her humiliation. So she stole a starship and flew across the galaxy to the time portal known as the Pillars of Eternity, and traveled through them, returning to her home world in the year 2008, more than a decade before she was born.Her first scheme was intended to test the limits of the Pillars' supposed protection from paradox. When she succeeded in causing her birth mother to have a psychotic break, ensuring that she wouldn't ever be born, and didn't blink out of existence, the Haze knew that she was now invincible. If anything happened to her, after this, she could just return through the Pillars. (In fact, it's not possible to return to use the Pillars to travel to an era in which you have 'died', but this is not the most severe among her delusions.) After that, she engaged in quite a bit of behind-the-scenes villainy, waiting for her nemesis to show up.When Dancer finally revealed herself, the Purple Haze did too, quietly working to set wrong what Dance had made go right. To this end, she has recently joined forces with the Emperor of Korea, helping him to recruit members for an anti-Powerhouse organization that he calls his Hwarang, with herself taking the 'anti-Blue Bolt' role in it. The Haze actually feels a bit conflicted about this, since the Emperor did technically kill her parents and all that junk, but rationalizes that with the knowledge that her true goals will be mean his end too.Her long-term goal is to manipulate a certain individual to go to Daath and solve the riddle that is Ananke so that Azathoth is reborn, destroying all of reality. That will show that rotten Dancer for insulting her like she did. She is still a bit confused why Dancer hasn't tried to confront her in this new era, because she fails to understand that the Dancer who exists here is the product of a timeline where Violet Irving was never born. But even if she did understand that, it would make absolutely no difference to her. The insult still needs to be punished.Purple Haze -- PL 11Abilities:STR 1 | STA 1 | AGL 4 | DEX 3 | FGT 4 | INT 1 | AWE 2 | PRE 2Powers:Gaseous Form: Visual Concealment 4, Partial; Enhanced Advantages 6 (Defensive Roll 2, Improved Initiative 4); Enhanced Defenses 18 (Dodge 9, Parry 9); Linked Flight 14 (32,000 MPH); Linked Insubstantial 2, Continuous - 72 pointsGases: Array (36 points)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hallucination: Progressive Affliction 9 (Resisted by Fortitude; Dazed & Vulnerable, Stunned & Defenseless), Extra Condition, Limited Degree - 36 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Suffocation: Progressive Affliction 9 (Resisted by Fortitude; Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated) - 1 point</li> </ul>Advantages:Beginner's Luck, Benefit 2 (cipher 2), Defensive Roll 2, Eidetic Memory, Improved Initiative 4, Taunt, Well-InformedSkills:Close Attack: Gas 5 (+9), Deception 10 (+12), Insight 7 (+9), Perception 7 (+9), Persuasion 8 (+10), Stealth 7 (+11).Offense:Initiative +20Unarmed +4 (Close Damage 1)Hallucination or Suffocation +9 (Close Fortitude 9)Defense:Dodge 16/7, Parry 15/6, Fortitude 5, Toughness 6/1, Will 11Totals:Abilities 36 + Powers 109 + Advantages 6 + Skills 20 + Defenses 18 = 191 pointsOffensive PL: 9Defensive PL: 11Resistance PL: 8Skill PL: 7Complications:Psychopathy--Motivation. 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