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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8926885" data-attributes="member: 30538">La Bomba<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-gQJVmNm/0/38bfa87e/M/ezgif-5-6bfa6ab86a-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Maria Carpintero likes to think of herself as an easy-going person. In the ring, she might fight with ferocity if she is appearing as a heel -- pretty often, given how often she works in Japan these days -- and with determination if she has drawn the face. But wrestling is entertainment, not battle. Out of the ring, she tries her best to avoid fights and calm everyone down, only answering violence with violence if innocent bystanders would otherwise be put at risk, and minimizing the damage that she does. Unless someone brings up one of the subjects that set her off, she can maintain her pose.And when they do, she snaps, loses it and tries to discover new ways that the human form can be twisted until she feels calm again.So, in the interest of preventing that, let us explore those subjects in this safe space. First and foremost, one should never suggest that her abilities, while unquestionably superpower -- she can lift a ton and has greatly enhanced reaction speed -- are hereditary. She got this way through incredibly hard work, not because of who her parents were. And definitely not because of any completely unfounded allegations that her abuela ran around with El Sabio back in the Seventies! Suggesting that is a great way to arouse her curiosity about the color of your internal organs.Secondly, yes, she did get tricked into fighting Tlaloc that one time. Talking about this will not anger her, and she will be frank about how embarrassed she was to realize that she had been manipulated into fighting someone who deliberately held back and didn't drop lightning bolts on her. Asking about how it would have gone if she had not reached that realization, however, will anger her with the implication that she would not have eventually won before he decided that he had no choice but to use the weather as a weapon.Thirdly, she is not dating Rakni. She has known him since he joined UWF, and thinks he is a great contender and a wonderful person. Suggesting that their relationship has ever gone further will only make her laugh, as he is much too young for her. Suggesting that she would enjoy having herself webbed will seriously annoy her. (Suggesting that eight years is not really all that much younger utterly annoys her.)Finally, yes, she has undergone therapy for this little problem of hers, and believed she was making progress towards overcoming it. Then the lousy headshrinker started to talk about how she had to come to terms with -- no, that topic is probably not safe to be discussed even here. Hopefully, it will never come up again. That poor man. He might walk again some day.La Bomba -- PL 8Abilities:STR 4 | STA 4 | AGL 6 | DEX 4 | FGT 8 | INT 1 | AWE 4 | PRE 3Powers:Power Lifting: Enhanced Strength 2, Limited to lifting (1 ton) - 2 pointsAdvantages:Agile Feint, Chokehold, Daze (Intimidation), Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll, Diehard, Fast Grab, Fearless, Great Endurance, Improved Disarm, Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Prone Fighting, Takedown, Weapon Bind.Skills:Acrobatics 6 (+12), Athletics 8 (+12), Close Combat: Unarmed 4 (+12), Expertise: Performance 6 (+9), Expertise: Streetwise 8 (+9), Insight 7 (+11), Intimidation 7 (+10), Perception 6 (+10), Stealth 4 (+10), Vehicles 4 (+8).Offense:Initiative +10Unarmed +12 (Close Damage 4)Defense:Dodge 8, Parry 10, Fortitude 7, Toughness 6/4, Will 7.Totals:Abilities 68 + Powers 2 + Advantages 17 + Skills 30 + Defenses 10 = 127 pointsOffensive PL: 8Defensive PL: 8Resistance PL: 7Skill PL: 7Complications:Thrills--Motivation. Hair-Trigger Temper (only about certain subjects.)</blockquote>

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