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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8875725" data-attributes="member: 30538">The Red Queen<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-XwhrP2v/0/16235bf1/S/katarina_x_rose_by_seo_love_dbbmbb5-fullview-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Little is definitely known about the background of the superpower mercenary known as the Red Queen, who goes by the alias Reina Rouge in her civilian life. She is the product of Projet Achille, a post-Cerebron super-soldier program devised by the French government intended to recapture the nominal success of an earlier program. Of the five successes of this program (out of a hundred candidates) she is the only one still alive and active, and has a long-term contract with certain elements of the French security apparatus to occasionally perform black ops for them and never act against their interests.When not needed, this soldier of fortune is at liberty to seek other employment, having worked for a variety of interests, both legal and illegal. The Red Queen has accumulated considerable wealth over the last two decades, and thanks to this and her inhuman charisma, she is frequently seen traveling among the elite, especially when she scents opportunity among them. Her instincts for that verge on being a superpower themselves.Soon after she made her debut, the Red Queen found herself opposed by la Belle and la Bête. It was the most exciting experience of her life; she would later claim that she had chosen to take the risks of volunteering for the project in order to become like these two, whom she had admired as a child. While whatever idealism had lain behind that had long since been abandoned, she still respected these two, and the fight with them was exhilarating beyond words. She lost, and was arrested, but her connections had her out before the sun rose. And best of all, she would be able to fight the two of them again, and again, and again ...At some point, she realized that she was in love with them. Both of them, at the same time. That they never answered the blatant signals she was giving them was rather annoying, but her fascination with them never curdled into hatred, no matter how often they fought. But she felt regret that she was getting older and they never would.Quite recently, the Red Queen found herself drawn into the events known as the Anachronic Calamity, and fighting to save reality. It was much more of a do-gooder thing than she normally did, but it was exciting. In the process, however, she learned more than she expected to know about the origins and true nature of her usual sparring partners. Learning that la Belle and la Bête were artificial intelligences imprinted on a succession of human host bodies by a nanotech virus should have horrified her.It fascinated her, and now she has a goal beyond simply gaining wealth. She intends to become the same sort of being as the two of them, so that the three of them can go on as they have for the rest of time. The cost in lives that this will demand means absolutely nothing to her.The Red Queen -- PL 9Abilities:STR 3 | STA 4 | AGL 4 | DEX 5 | FGT 7 | INT 3 | AWE 5 | PRE 8Powers:Super-Speed: Leaping 3 (60 feet); Speed 3 (16 MPH) - 6 pointsSuper-Strength: Enhanced Strength 4, Limited to lifting (3 tons) - 4 pointsAdvantages:Assessment, Attractive 2, Benefit 5 (cipher 2, millionaire), Connected, Contacts, Daze 2 (Deception, Intimidation), Defensive Roll, Equipment 4, Fascinate (Persuasion), Improved Defense, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Ranged Attack 4, Redirect, Skill Mastery (Deception, Intimidation, Persuasion), Startle, Taunt.Equipment:Knives (Strength-based Damage 2, Improved Critical, Split Attack) and 16 points of equipment as needed.Skills:Acrobatics 5 (+9), Athletics 6 (+9), Close Combat: Knife 6 (+13), Close Combat: Unarmed 3 (+10), Deception 5 (+13), Expertise: High Society 9 (+12), Expertise: Military 6 (+9), Expertise: Streetwise 8 (+11), Insight 7 (+12), Intimidation 5 (+13), Investigation 8 (+11), Perception 4 (+9), Persuasion 5 (+13), Sleight of Hand 4 (+9), Stealth 8 (+12), Technology 6 (+9), Vehicles 3 (+8).Offense:Initiative +8Unarmed +10 (Close Damage 3)Knives +13 (Close Damage 5, Crit 19-20)Defense:Dodge 9, Parry 10, Fortitude 6, Toughness 6/4, Will 9.Totals:Abilities 78 + Powers 10 + Advantages 23 + Skills 49 + Defenses 14 = 174 pointsOffensive PL: 9Defensive PL: 8Resistance PL: 8Skill PL: 8Complications:Mercenary--Motivation. Romantic Fixation (la Belle et la Bete.) Secret Identity.</blockquote>

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