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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8454647" data-attributes="member: 30538">Iridescent<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-sKRxstP/0/7b9fd127/M/1079736-radical1-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Like many of the superheroes of World More Grim, Kelly Sue Red Owl does not have a secret identity. The public is well-aware that she divides her time between a mundane career at the Smithsonian and a more active one as a costumed superhero, frequently called upon by the DC Police to assist them in dealing with supercriminals. However, that's pretty much all they know, as Iridescent doesn't give interviews or talk to the press. In particular, she has never discussed how she developed the power she calls 'colorweaving', the ability to project a variety of different energy types whose effects vary depending on their color. A few dogged investigators have traced her origins back to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where there are many people who will confirm that a young girl who possessed these powers grew up there in the 80s, and nobody ever made much of a big deal about it. This has struck more than one investigator as odd, but no obvious holes have been found in the official account. This is just as Red Owl wants, though she regrets exploiting the people at Pine Ridge in this way. The truth of the matter is that she does have a secret, and a big one at that. Red Owl was born more than a century before her supposed birthdate, and was seventeen years old when her entire family died at Wounded Knee Creek. She herself took lethal wounds in the massacre, and might have died herself if the civilians hired to bury the dead had not been more than what they seemed. The exact origins of the unaging transhuman beings known as the Vima is not clear. They themselves believe that they were created by those they call the Primordials, identifying them with the forebears of the Olympians, whom they call Titans. (There has been a long-standing rivalry between the two groups of superbeings.) Their self-appointed purpose is to protect the Earth and its peoples from the shadows. The Vima are unlike the Olympians in one key respect; they cannot reproduce themselves but must create new Vima from human beings who agree to the procedure. Their society may underlie many tales of immortal beings who recruit new members, such as the Eight Immortals of Taoist alchemy.On discovering that Red Owl had survived the massacre and the blizzard that followed it, the Vima offered her the opportunity to join them. Not fully understanding what she was agreeing to, Red Owl nevertheless did so and was transported to the group's hidden fortress in Labrador. There she underwent a number of processes that transformed her into a unaging transhuman, and began to build a new life for herself, studying with the Vima's masters. She developed her 'colorweaving' powers gradually, and is quite famous among the Vima for the versatility of her powers.A century after Wounded Knee, Red Owl finally felt comfortable enough in her new identity to start living openly among humans once again, and created the identity of "Kelly Sue Red Owl" with the help of other Vima. She soon found a job at the Smithsonian, working to gradually return what had been taken from indigenous peoples around the world to them while also educating about their history and traditions. It was a fairly good life, and she could be proud of herself, but Red Owl often found herself a bit dissatisfied at how mundane it was after all that she had experienced.In the twenty-first century, everything began to change. A few months after Shadowraptor made his debut in 2007, Red Owl happened to witness what she took for a gay bashing incident committed against a young man. Rescuing the victim, she attempted to use her powers to heal, but found that the victim's injuries were more serious than she could treat. Somewhat impulsively, she flew to Labrador and placed Charlie Dozier into the Rebirthing Matrix, and was surprised when her new friend emerged as a young woman of the Vima. This development, and the fact that Red Owl did this on her own initiative, has unsettled some of the more conservative Vima. Charlie's education has been placed in Red Owl's hands, and it is largely at her urging that her mentor has begun to act as a 'superhero' under the alias Iridescent.  Iridescent strives to maintain friendly relations with other superheroes, but has politely turned down invitations to permanently join both the Superhuman Crew and RAH Inc., though she was grateful of the assistance of the former while dealing with a recent riot in DC. This has inspired one of her old rivals, a matter-manipulating Vima named Thélgo to join the latter group, which has led to some awkward and uncomfortable confrontations. However, Thélgo has also been of great help to Iridescent and Charlie in fighting the ancient Vima criminal known as Dulkharnein the Life-Drinker. As yet, none of the factions of the World More Grim are aware of the immortals living among them ... but that could very easily change now that their ancient rivals, the Olympians, are becoming more active.Iridescent -- PL 11Abilities:STR 2 | STA 4 | AGL 5 | DEX 6 | FGT 5 | INT 3 | AWE 4 | PRE 5Powers:Colorweaving: Array (24 points) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Red/Heat Blast: Ranged Damage 12 - 24 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Orange/Tractor Beam: Move Object 12 (100 tons) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Yellow/Blinding Light: Ranged Cumulative Affliction 12 (Resisted by Fortitude; Visually Impaired, Visually Disabled, Visually Unaware), Limited to One Sense - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Green/Grapple Beam: Ranged Affliction 12 (Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Damage; Hindered & Vulnerable, Defenseless & Immobile), Extra Condition, Limited Degree - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Blue/Stun Bolt: Ranged Cumulative Affliction 8 (Resisted by Fortitude; Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Indigo/Healing Ray: Ranged Healing 8 - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Violet/Antipsi: Nullify Psychic Powers 12, Broad - 1 point</li> </ul>Instant Change: Feature 1 (change from any clothes to costume) - 1 pointLevitation Field: Linked Flight 14 (32,000 MPH); Linked Sustained Protection 10 - 38 pointsVima: Immunity 11 (aging, life support); Regeneration 10; Senses 2 (darkvision) - 23 pointsAdvantages:Agile Feint, Connections, Defensive Attack, Improved Initiative, Jack-of-all-trades, Languages 2 (English, French, Spanish, [Lakota is native]), Power Attack, Precise Attack (ranged/cover), Teamwork, Uncanny Dodge.Skills:Acrobatics 5 (+10), Close Combat: Unarmed 2 (+7), Expertise: Art 5 (+8), Expertise: History 8 (+11), Expertise: Survival 5 (+8), Insight 8 (+12), Investigation 6 (+9), Perception 6 (+10), Persuasion 5 (+10), Ranged Combat: Color 4 (+10).Offense:Initiative +9Unarmed +7 (Close Damage 2)Heat Blast +10 (Ranged Damage 12)Blinding Light +10 (Ranged Fortitude 12)Grapple Beam +10 (Ranged Affliction 12, Resisted by Dodge)Stun Bolt +10 (Ranged Fortitude 8)Defense:Dodge 8, Parry 7, Fortitude 9, Toughness 14/4, Will 12Totals:Abilities 66 + Powers 92 + Advantages 11 + Skills 27 + Defenses 18 = 214 pointsOffensive PL: 11Defensive PL: 11Resistance PL: 11Skill PL: 7Complications:Responsibility--Motivation. Friendship (Charlie Dozier.) Inhuman (bleeds light.) Rivalry (Thélgo.) Secret (Vima.)Note: Character concept by Voltron64.</blockquote>

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