Karen "Power Girl" Starr
Oct 26, 2012 19:37:43 GMT -5
Post by Karen "Powergirl" Starr on Oct 26, 2012 19:37:43 GMT -5
Karen Starr
[/font][/size][/color]Green Lantern Used to ask me..."Why don't you ever wear a mask?" It's Because most of the time....They aint lookin at my face.
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Full Name: Karen Starr
Code Name: Power Girl
Age: 27
Date of Birth: October 27th
Sexual Orientation: Gay
Species: Kryptonian (Other?)
Alliance: Free Lance, Might Join Avengers
Citizenship: DC
Canon or Original?: DC Canon
"Victory is MINE Baldy!
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"
Hair: Short Bouncy Beach Blonde
Eyes: Gorgeous Sky Blue
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 180 lbs
Distinguishing Marks: Large gravity defiant breasts, athletic physique
Appearance: When she isn't wearing a cleavage sporting white unitard, red cape, golden pauldron and red belt, her dress style is business casual with heavy emphasis on Casual. She's a very tall statuesque woman, unlike her earth 1 counter part Super Girl, Powergirl is practically Olympian. Her features are curvy but chiseled, perfectly portioned. Her style and movement is heavy handed but girlish, she maintains a noticeable sort of girlish eloquence in her gestures, but is also feisty and quick to thrown down, unlike other girls with similar demeanors.
Face Claim: Anything so long as it isn't drawn by Rob Liefeld!
"I’m not interested in making new friends,
I don’t even like the ones I have”
I don’t even like the ones I have”
Likes: Good Pizza, Cats, Horror/Suspense Films, Crime Fighting, Administering Starrware, Bad Girls(This is a secret, don't tell!), Sarcasm, Philosophy, Fighting, Leading, Being a Role Model, Impressing people with my Intelligence
Dislikes: People with no Manners, Dogs, Dumb Men, Cheesy Romance movies, Movies with bad plots, Villians(Goes without saying?!), Dating websites(I have HORRIBLE luck with them)
Personality: Quite possibly as charismatic as Superman himself, but severely lacking in Superman's unwavering resolve and the sheer volume of experience he has dealing with people makes Karen to be unsurprisingly more hot headed than the two of them. She is genuinely kind to every one she meets provided they don't prove some severe social deficiency to her in the first few seconds of conversation.
She is prone to sarcasm though, and resorts to it often enough in case of the previously mentioned socially deficient people. In conversation her two main weapons are Charisma and Sex appeal. Actively, she relies entirely on the first one, though the second one simply follows behind like a shadow of the former and this is mostly due to her physical shape and how she carries herself. A woman this gorgeous cannot be charismatic without a drop or two of sex appeal showing up along the way.
When it comes to getting things done though, she doesn't dally. She is blunt and sometimes violently so. She once cut the arm off of a villian that stood between her and her best friend's mind with her heat vision. She will resort to screaming and shouting and breaking things in moments of desperation. At one point, a plot was set in motion to pull Karen's company out from under her and in a board room meeting with Bill collectors she was hysterically shouting at them.
In her best moments though, she is calm, collected, analytical and thinking and feeling. She has intense empathy and often uses philosophy to reason with people. She is a lot like Superman when at her best, when at her worst? Well...It's not pretty, but who is ever pretty at their worst?
"With great power comes great responsibility"
Powers:
Power Girl possesses all the powers of an adult kryptonian exposed to a yellow sun. She is nine tenths as powerful as Superman is at his strongest, capable of truely jaw dropping, Herculean feats of strength, speed, flight and hearing, along with a small arsenal of lesser abilities, such as high powered focusable heat vision, freezing breath, x-ray vision, telescopic vision, microscopic vision and near complete invulnerability.
In DC's reboot, The New 52, Superman Describes his powers in reference to a technology discovered on Krypton capable of creating what he called World Breakers, and cites the technology was destroyed because of its potency.
This a quote from the wiki concerning Super-mans powers.
" ...with Superman currently possessing enough strength to hurl mountains, withstand nuclear blasts with ease, fly into the sun unharmed, and survive in the vacuum of outer space without oxygen.
Superman's famous arsenal of powers has included flight, super-strength, invulnerability to non-magical attacks, super-speed, vision powers (including x-ray, heat-emitting, telescopic, infra-red, and microscopic vision), super-hearing, and super-breath, which enables him to blow out air at freezing temperatures, as well as exert the propulsive force of high-speed winds."
Now I'd like to put some hard numbers behind these concepts for comparison
Energy Absorption: The energy radiation of the yellow sun within this planet system is absorbed at exponential rates by all kryptonians exposed to it. It remains yet to be see if Sinestro's Yellow fear light power is absorbable by the Kryptonian physiology.
Strength:If there is a limit to a Kryptonian's strength, it is unknown. Kryptinians tend to become as strong as they -need- to be. Towards the upper echelons of this limit, biochemical wavelengths extend out of their bodies to support larger, bulkier weights, such as glass buildings and mountains that would otherwise crumble if supported by a comparatively gnat sized objects.
Super Speed: Maximum atmospheric speed approximately 3000 miles per hour, space speed limits are near the speed of Light. Objects can and will be damaged in passing while traveling at speeds in excess of 650 miles an hour due to physics, thus limiting Power Girls over all speed capabilities near civilized areas.
Superhuman Vision (Telescopic, Microscopic, X-Ray): She's capable of seeing all wavelengths of light, magnification in excess of 400 times (Roughly the maximum of your average scientific light microscope) and a hundred times zoom (Roughly the average of your high powered binoculars) X-ray vision may harmlessly penetrate all materials save Lead. The effects of her telescopic vision are multiplicative with other forms of long range vision enhancement. She could use binoculars to see the surface of mars, or the Hubble space telescope to see other galaxies.
Heat Vision: Emission of super heated laser beams from her eyes that can vary in magnitude from a common harmless laser pointer to the same heat intensity of the sun (5500 degrees C) which as you well know, is capable of damaging just about every known material in the universe. The beams can be focused to the same circumference of her pupils to as wide as several feet across. At maximum intensity, this heat vision could be damaging on a planetary scale.
Super Hearing: Based on evidence within various written literature, it can be inferred that fully developed Kryptonians are capable of hear all sound on a given planet. Intense focus and control is required to attune their hearing to various levels. Those levels, for example, being Planetary, Continental, state wide, city wide. It's unlikely she could hear a pin drop in a busy intersection from the other side of the planet, but she would most likely hear it, if she were listening for it, and was in that same city.
Super Human Stamina Power Girl is able to exert herself as maximum potential for an unlimited amount of time so long as she is exposed to Yellow Sun light. For extended periods of deficiency to Yellow Sun Light, it's capable for her to become worn down, but such conditions are unknown, as such a thing has never happened.
Invulnerability: Able to withstand a swim through the Sun, there are no known non-magical forces within this galaxy capable of harming Power Girl. The biochemical wavelengths her body exudes also act as a protective shield, even in the absence of this force, her physiology is so densely packed it would take several megatons worth of force to harm her molecular structure, how ever such technology exists and was employed by Satanna in Power Girl issue 9, Satanna employes a sonic boom hammer that is capable of damaging Power Girls internal Organs. Various conclusions can be drawn from this. The hammer was magical in nature, or powergirl is simply so unused to feeling pain, the damage may have been utterly negligible, but intense still the same to a person who rarely feels pain, or it was just bad plot writing. My vote is with option 2.
Freeze breath: Upon willing it, Power Girl can breath out breath plunging well below freezing, she can control the temperature of said breath very finely, from a chilly breeze to liquid nitrogen level cold, capable of freezing enemies solid in place. This breath is cold enough to compromise the molecular structure of a solid strong enough to restrain a kryptonian, so there for it is VERY COLD. Talking Bose-Einstein condensate stuff.
Super Breath: She can also inhale and expel breath at hurricane level force.
Longevity So long as she remains exposed to the yellow sun, Power Girl will not age. When Not exposed, she will age very slowly, 1:10 ratio.
Super Human memory: Krytponian Neurological synapses exposed to yellow sunlight are capable of remembering details with far greater accuracy and for far greater time periods than normal, giving her not a perfect photographic memory, but nearly so.
Weapons
The Grey Goo
This is unstable nano Technology at its finest. Based on the principals theorized by Eric Drexler in the 1980's. It is a thick liquid like substance composed of millions of nanomachines that constantly replicate themselves while feeding on any available matter around them. A large quantity of this stuff is housed in a special container at Starrware Labs and Power Girl sometimes uses it to clean up messes that are made while she is dishing out justice. The Grey goo that was formulated at Starrware is the basis for all of Starrwares nanotechnology and much of the technology that comes out of starrware labs is made from nanotechnology. This particular Grey Goo has a kill command, which shuts all of the goo down rendering it completely inert, the device required for this is a simple RF transmitter that emits a certain frequency at a certain pulsing interval. After they are shut down, they become useless, the consistency thins out to that of water and the color fades. Eventually the substance disperses harmlessly into the environment.
The Grey Goo can also be programmed to perform very specific tasks. The application of these tasks is still under heavy development, but so far the R&D department has managed to program the Grey Goo into building sports cars from raw materials in a mater of minutes. There are thousands of complications that prevent it from being used in the field for consumer or industrial uses, but Starrware is working to develop this technology further.
Starrphone Prototype X3
Karen Starr had the opportunity to test the very first Starrphone and she continues to do so, each time a new stable iteration of the starrphone is created, it's given to Karen Starr who uses it 'in the field'. The only difference is, no one but Nicco knows she does it as Power Girl. The current version is just a little to expensive to be put into mass production, but for what Power girl uses them for, is perfect.
The current Iteration of the Starrphone is a pair of ear rings that behave as a cell phone, GPS tracking unit and sensory array. They give Niccholas Cho a birds eye view into what Power Girl is doing. She is able to connect from any where in the world, not just within range of cell phone towers, they're able to sense biofeedback from Power Girl herself, as well as various environmental changes around her. They can analyze the compositions of elements within a small range around Power Girl, from people to rocks, the Ear rings can sense the molecular make up of these things. All of this information is sent back to the super computer located in a secret area at Starrware Labs where Niccholas Cho operates the computer and maintains a connection to Power Girl. She is able to make use of Niccholas' hacking and analysis skills as well as his powerful and skilled scientific mind. Nicco is one of the few people that is not a hero that knows Power Girl's true identity and as a result he's become a kind of Confidant for the heroine.
All the information transmitted between Power Girl and her 'home base' is heavily encrypted and protected with anti-tracking protocols which prevent third parties from using the signals being broadcast to locate Power Girl's home base or Power girl herself, even if they were able to hack into the signals themselves. (This is of course arguable, nothing is truly hackproof, its all just 1s and 0s after all)
The Power Pocket
Power Girl's cape has a pair of pockets that take the place of pockets that her pants would have were she wearing them. Within she keeps things like Wallet, a highly advanced version of her companies flagship PDA and Lip stick and nail polish, because you can never have enough of either of those. The pockets have seamless zippers and are hard to see unless you're looking for them.
Strengths/Abilities: (at least 3)
The Power Girl Mind
In addition to her arsenal of tech and tech related resources, Power Girl also sports a formidable mind. Just like her cousin she is gifted with wit and mental fortitude and extremely high intelligence. She isn't super humanly intelligent, but she is very smart, not amazingly creative, but when it comes to math and science she is capable of doing complex problem solving in her mind.
She has an astounding 170+ IQ and a masters in computer science and a bachelors in Business management and Mathematics. She can be Naive at times, but not for a lack of smarts!
How's that a Secret?
Despite a practically comical lack of care taken towards maintaining and protecting her secret identity, most people aren't aware that she is Powergirl while she's running around as Karen Star and vica versa. She is no where near as amazing at protecting her identity as Clark Kent is and yet some how still manages to pull of some semblance of separation between the two. This is only vaguely an advantage though. Continued in the Weaknesses section.
Starrware!
Unlike a lot of super heroes, but not all, Powergirl doubles as a Corporate Exec. This gives her access to resources that a lot of capes just simply don't have. Her company specializes in R&D and works almost exclusively outside the private sector. The companies net value is just short of a billion and fostered by Wayne Industries as one of its many subsidiaries the company stays afloat by creating new technology to market and sell to other companies. The primary focus of Starrware is to create technology meant for the betterment of mankind.
Starrware Labs also serves as a base of operations for Karen Starr's Power Girl. A secret lab houses a mess of super computers, med bay and other fancy toys that make being a super hero easier. Officially labeled as Storage space, the only person with clearance to access these areas are Karen Starr herself and her second in command, Nicholas "Nicco" cho. Any sort of sensitive information housed here is protected by several security redundancies that will either restrict unauthorized access or destroy the data before it can be accessed by unauthorized parties. This was Nicco's idea.
Weaknesses: (at least 2)
Hot Headed
It would be inaccurate to describe her as easily provocable, but if a person pushes the right buttons, sending Karen into a rage is not a difficult thing to do.
Magic Vulnerability
One cannot defeat Powergirl with a single Magic Missile, but she would definitely be rubbing her bum after getting shot with one. The point is, her invulnerability does her no good against magical damage. It offers protection still, but magical items can cut her. There is a continuum to be observed in regard to this weakness. Weak Magic will not harm her, moderately powerful Magic with hurt, but not lethally, Powerful Magic will wreck her shit.
What about *gasp* Kryptonite!
Yeah yeah, She's weak to Kryptonite. But I'll only tolerate it's use in a selective capacity. If EVERY plot against her involves Kryptonite, then we probably wont get along very well. I'm a huge fan of working out ways to break a Kryptonian's Plot Armor. It's usually safe to assume that they will have the advantage of strength but something a lot of people forget is, (good) Kryptonians pull their abilities. They use weakened versions of these in almost every case. Everything is a feather for them, so take advantage of that in your story! Science-magic is a safe alternative to getting the edge on a kryptonian (Look at pretty much anything lex luthor has ever done if you need inspiration xD). When in doubt, talk to me! I love plotting! Especially epic fight scenes!
How's that a secret?(Cont)
The other side of this coin is that given some rational above average thought and research, a person could reasonably reveal Power Girl's real identity. It's not as impossible as discovering Superman's identity for example, how ever, doing this would require careful planning and input from myself. So bring me ideas, Villians!
Red Sunlight
By itself, this will largely only prevent a Kryptonian from becoming energized to superhuman levels. How ever, at extreme levels it can be harmful and even deadly. When Passing through the core of Kryptons red sun to defeat Superboy Prime, Earth 2 superman was killed and earth 1 superman was nearly killed as well. The photons interact with Kryptonian physiology in the same way yellow sunlight does, but with an opposite effect, there for at high concentrations, such as when weaponized or from a red sun, a rapid expulsion of solar energy from their cells is achievable. This process is very painful.
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"
History:
Karen "Powergirl" Starr is the earth 2 counterpart to earth 1s supergirl. There Superman is much older when she arrives on earth and Superman and Loise lane wind up adopting her. When the antimonitor started his shenanigans, after the dust settled, Karen found herself not phased from existence. My hypothesis for this was that at the time supergirl was dead, so there was a void left to be filled. But it never quite fit...her powers were wonky, she felt out of place and her memories were kind of a mess. These problems were solved during the Infinite crisis story arc. After that she was with the Justice League for awhile, before it branched apart, which lead to her leading the Justice League All Stars.
Shortly after that she began doing her own thing, moved to New York and started up Starrware. Without to many heroes posted up in New York City itself, she felt it was a great place to localize herself. She had little trouble in settling and made quick friends with Atlee, Aka Terra III. The two became room mates and possibly even more, but soon enough Terra returned home after a long trial among the surface dwellers. Various adventures lead Power Girl around the world and against a variety of foes.
Now she has survived a third sundering of reality and an entirely new force of villians calls New York home, as well as new heroes. She has her hands full with this and has yet to really sink her teeth into the new super hero scene. She hasn't met the X-men, or the avengers, but she's seen them around her city. She has seen the comings and goings of Tony Stark and Spider-man, aka peter parker. She has watched, listened and soon she'll make her presence known to them. These past few months she has focused primarily on keeping her company floating above water. The shift in reality put a hammer right down on her company which struggles to make ends meat simply because all the profits turn right around and go back into the company itself. It's a risky business but results in exponential growth, how ever, in the event of a financial crisis, collapse us usually the end result. Fortunately, Karen is capable of doing things normal people aren't, and she's managed to salvage her company. With Starrware back on it's feet, Karen can once again put focus on other parts of life, Such as what the HELL is even going on in the world any more?!
"Next time guys, we should just
rebuild this place outta Legos."
rebuild this place outta Legos."
Writing Sample:
In rapid succession, brick wall after brick wall, fixture after fixture and furniture piece after furniture piece breaks and fractures infinitely as Power Girl is knocked violently away from the punch she just received. The Damage is unfortunate, but unavoidable.
Power Girl recovers quickly, but still just in time to stop the next incoming attack. Her blue gloved hand launches up to catch the next incoming punch. The punch is caught with an astounding percussion, a whiplash of turbulent wind is blown up and around them, knocking away the remains of the brick wall Power Girl landed in. Power Girl's short blonde locks sway a bit in the upheaval of air.
"You're going to have to try Harder then that Metallo."
Power Girl Quips.
"You haven't even seen what I can do yet little girl."
Metallo responds menacingly as his chest cavity opens, and he laughs maniacally, expecting at any moment for Power Girl to succumb to the weakness of Kyrptonite!
Power Girl winces but reacts faster than light itself as she thrusts her left heel against the ground, arching her hips upward, her right knee even further upward, while pulling Metallo's caught hand down and back allowing her right knee to connect with earth shaking force against Metallo's chest.
Metallo's body succumbs to the force like a ragdoll, whipping back away from Power Girl, but Power Girl's grip on Metallo's hand keeps him from tearing across the sky in an arc across New York. The resulting damage to Metallo's Chasis is Catastrophic. A knee imprint fades concavely into his left chest plate, exposing wires and leaking fluid mains. Most importantly, the chunk of Kryptonite is launched out the back of Metallo's torso, an ugly bullet exit wound like hole forms in its wake.
Metallo gasps, his voice weak and littered with static.
"*Gasp!* What! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?"
He screams.
Power Girl chuckles and stands up. Letting go of Metallo's hand his arm falls limp and useless at his side as he backs away in a slump, several of the joints in his legs now malfunctioning due to the intense whiplash they experienced a second ago.
"Hut Oh! did I break my new Toy? Terra always did say I was more of a Tomboy, shows me right for playing with DOLLS!"
After taunting Metallo, Karen wobbles a little as the ambient radiation in the area begins to take it's tole on her, thankfully, she reacted with such unwavering violence that she's only suffering for a few seconds, Clark would've likely hesitated and collapsed. She sobers quickly to issue a warning before Metallo can go offline.
"Always remember one thing Metallo, I don't hesitate, I'm not Superman and I will break you if you threaten me."
Metallo is utterly shocked. He finds himself ironically wishing it were superman and not this monster of a woman he'd decided to pick a fight with. His entire mind breaks as he realizes all along, how utterly hopeless and futile his engagements with superman really were.
"How, H-How did you...You aren't...Y-You."
His eyes and mouth spark and his body convulses with pain as Power Girl takes a step forward and gently pushes him. The robotic husk falls back, as his power reserves drain rapidly, he flinches and twitches.
"Y-you're a g-good guy, wh-hat kind of...does this...I-I de-deserved b-better. I-I'll Kill yooooouuuerrrrrrtCH...."
Power Girl shakes her head as she stares at Metallo's seemingly dead Body. She's heard of Metallo's resilience to destruction and figures it's about time he had his heart removed. The man is a menace beyond redemption. Judge, Jury and executor. Besides, he's still alive in there, he's just a bunch of circuitry and Power Girl's tech savvy mind knows well enough all it would take is a car battery to get his malfunctioning yap yapping again. Eugh, Perish the thought!
She takes up the corpse by an arm and sails into the air towards Starrlabs in Metropolis. At least she'll get to deliver the good news to Super Man that Metallo wont be a problem again. At least for awhile, then she'll get a lecture on use of force and excessive harm and so on, She'll try not to roll her eyes to much this time. She loves Clark, she really does, but...Well, he's to soft sometimes.
"Nicco you got the trajectory on that K? Good, send somebody to fetch it please."
She said into her starrphone, which is recognized as a seemingly harmless pair of ear rings. Using the nano-tech sensors within the ear-rings, Nicco was able to detect the direction and velocity of the Kryptonite. It'll most likely land some where in the canadian wilderness, he's already alerting the JLA to send some one to collect.
"I'm through talking, get out of my cave,"
Your name/alias: Muezick is my nickname, Gwendolyn is my name, most people just call me PG though.
Timezone: Central Standard
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