Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 0:46:47 GMT -6
Hawkins, Abigail
Volt
Volt
AGE: 14
GENDER: Female
TEAM: She is looking to learn to control of her powers before officially joining a team, though currently in the care of the Titans.
SIDE: Hero
OCCUPATION: High School student
NATIONALITY: African-American from her fathers side, French-German from her mothers side
HISTORY:
HISTORY/Background of her Dad (mostly for my confusion benefit):
Abigail Hawkins is the only daughter of Virgil Hawkins and Evelyn Hawkins. She has 2 older brothers by 6 and 8 years. Her and both of her siblings gained their fathers control of electricity which presented when they were young, but increased in strength around puberty.
Virgil was a boom baby when he was 14, after a fruitful run in the city of Dakota eventually making the streets safe from the boom babies gone bad. After the problem in Dakota is pretty much wrapped up he joins with the teen titans as part of the team. During one of his periodic visits back to his home in Dakota he meets the love of his life Evelyn Sanders. After he saves her in a very normal romantic way they end up seriously dating enough for Virgil to reveal that he is Static Shock. They eventually settle down in Dakota because Virgil feels it's his responsibility to keep it safe, and every so often a boom baby or grand baby shows up that he has to deal with. After a few years Virgil and Evelyn have their eldest son, a couple years later their second son then 6 years later their baby girl. His eldest son grew up as a daddy's boy and when his powers became strong enough as well as his skill he began to shadow Static when he went out on patrol. Most days they would just deal with gang violence but every so often a larger threat would come into town. Virgil's second son had the same knack for crime fighting and was just as enthusiastic about learning the family business, but because his older brother knew Dakota better than him when he turned 18 he moved to a new city of his own.
With the house being only Virgil, Evelyn, and Abigail. The town being protected by his eldest son, Virgil began doing missions with other former Titans when they needed help. One mission while Virgil was away Evelyn and Gail were caught in the middle of a turf fight. Gail's minimal powers were able to shield her from the metal bullets barely but her mother wasn't so lucky. By the time Gail's brother had broken up the fight it was too late to save their mother.
When Virgil returned and learned the news he became more protective of Gail, especially as her powers began to present and become uncontrolled. Because it was both convenient and painful for Virgil to remember Evelyn he began to call Gail, Volt as a nickname. After a couple of years of peace from heroing Virgil got a urgent call off world by the Justice League. Since he couldn’t bring Volt with him due to the level of security required, danger, and that he didn’t feel safe leaving her in Dakota without him (he didn’t yet forgive his son) the only place he could have thought to keep her safe, and help develop her uncontrolled powers was Titan Tower. Then like many of the Leaguers he disapeared without a trace.
HISTORY/Background of Her:
Gail was born the youngest of her family with 2 older brothers by 6 and 8 years, because of the age gap she was very active as a baby trying to keep up with her siblings. Although she roughhoused with them growing up she was always a mamma's girl and loved spending time with her mom helping her make clothes or reading stories, baking cookies, or just watching crappy daytime movies together. Growing up was normal for her, though normal more consisted of a family with electrical powers, and constant bad jokes. But other than that normal. Although she got along with her brothers the age gap was a lot to deal with so she was always behind a bit, and jealous a bit, especially when her brothers powers both increased when they were about 12, but she could only do small parlor tricks. She spent a lot of time rollerblading with custom skates her dad made for her (like in gadgets, except no built in weapons, or batteries), she could also make a slight forcefield, and move around small pieces of metal, mostly parlor trick type things.
Gail went to public school and ran in the accelerated track, so she is used to being around kids a few years older than her(well school and her siblings). In school she never really got into the clubs or other extracurricular programs much, though she did begin learning to program and build gadgets in the time with her dad. She had a few friends and large family, so she was never lonely. At school she was always the goofy kid who liked her dad's weird music or who told terrible jokes (which everybody secretly loved).
When she was 11 one day her mom picked her up from school, on the way home they got caught in the beginnings of a gang fight with bullets flying everywhere. Her mom pushed her to the ground before going down herself, Gail put up her forcefield to stop the bullets, but her powers were only enough to keep her safe. By the time her brother arrived and got the fight to end (less than 10 minutes) it was too late for their mother.
Everything changed after that, most notably Gail's powers fully presented, and her Dad stopped running missions with the other heroes. With her new powers her dad would try to help her control them, but more often than not she would be too distraught in grief to have any control. Because of her being a danger with her new full powers, her room was lined in rubber so that she wouldn’t accidentally shock sensitive systems including the computers. Due to her inability to control her powers she was taken out of school right before she would have began high school, she instead was enrolled in an online program with homeschooling supplementals. She still saw her old friends occasionally but became more withdrawn so she didn’t notice the lack of them too much. Growing up she really didn’t like how her mom would call her Gail, she thought it sounded too old fashioned, or like an old lady. But after her mom died she liked being called the nick name because it reminded her of her mom.
By the time a few years had passed and she was 14 she was in control of herself enough to actually participate in life outside of the house, though for her it meant that she ignored her feelings so that they wouldn’t overwhelm her, she would assume her old goofy, bubbly attitude to help fit back in with the world. It was at this point where her Dad got an urgent call to go off world, Although she was getting older and nearly done with her ged, her dad didn’t completely forgive her brother for the accident, so instead of staying home alone, or going with her dad off world (which would be dangerous and stressful), she found herself standing on the steps of Titan Tower, with all her belongings in a couple of bags. Maybe they would be able to help her with her powers, they had helped others.
FAMILY: Her father is Virgil Hawkins (static shock) and has been fairly present throughout her life. Her mother is Evelyn Sanders who was extremely involved in her life until her through her 11th year when she was killed in a gang fight. She has 2 older brothers who spend some time with her, but they are much older. She has 1 aunt Sharon Hawkins who has 2 sons a few years older than her. Her grandfather Robert Hawking is an active caring grandfather, who dotes on his only granddaughter. Her grandparents on her mother's side aren’t involved other than christmas and birthday cards, since they live in Europe. They have always had dogs, usually rescues, usually pitt mixes.
PERSONALITY: Gail is very talkative and loud as a kind of coping mechanism for all the loss she has had, but with this she is somewhat stoic so that people never really get under her bubbly exterior. She is almost obnoxious with her jokes (that aren’t always even good jokes, most of which she learned from her dad). When she is really comfortable with somebody then she is a lot quieter and doesn’t put up as much of a face, though she still uses bad jokes. In general she is uncoordinated and often bumps into things and drops things(due to her recent growth spirt). She has a knack for tinkering and computer programming that she picked up from her dad and his direct work with programming. She likes to play with designing new toys that she can use with her electric powers. She likes to be very active especially playing games and working on perfecting her skills. One of the best thrills she thinks is being able to fly.
DISLIKES: Gangs in any variety... she actually hates them, Strawberries (she realized the irony), people who act like they are better than everybody else, boring clothes.
DREAMS: She wants the construct of gangs to be eradicated because she don’t want anybody else to go through what she went through.
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Somehow, someway we all get to someday
Mile by mile, and fear by fear
Mile by mile, and fear by fear
BODY STRUCTURE: She is done growing upwards at 5'4”. She has a very slim body and minimal to no curves (including breasts). Thanks to years to roughhousing with her brothers and some hero training she has toned muscles, more so than someone would expect from how she looks. She has a more rounded face that is closer to a young girl than an adult. She has shoulder length dark brown/black curly hair that nearly has a mind of it's own. Her skin is a light brown color.
STYLE: She generally likes cutesy clothes, including lots of ruffles and lace and collars. She also somewhat likes the retro/vintage looks and dresses in wild patterns and bright colors that are uncommon for current teens.
PIERCINGS OR TATTOOS: She has double ear piercings in both ears.
COSTUME: She takes after her father in costuming, including her iconic red coat which is used in place of a cape. Her coat has hidden pockets all through the inside that hides gadgets and trinkets. The coat is lined in fine steel wire in every aspect so that she can easily manipulate it without touching anything. She wears the coat over a black bodysuit that zips up the back leaving a tasteful scoop neck visible in the front, it goes to above her elbows ending with detail matching the neckline. There are tasteful patterns of lightning embroidered into the material giving it a colorful pop/iconic look. Her body suit is also lined in very fine steel. She wears red high tops that match the color of her coat, with wire through the laces, and rims/ sole of the shoes. Last she has a tailored red mask that looks similar to lightning bolts coming off the sides of her head lined in wire so that it can just stick to her face.
ODDITIES: She likes to make bad jokes and references, a habit that she picked up from her dad.
ABILITIES:
A.She has control of electricity
1. She can zap people with it like controlling lightning bolts
2. She can manipulate anything that is metal, such as wires, cars, sheets, bionic arms, ect, by extension she can use this to fly
3. She can 'magnetize' metal so that it stays static in a spot
4. She can store large amounts of electricity in her body
5. she can remotely turn on electrical devices without touching them, like the tv, lights, or an electric car.
B. She also gained her dad's brilliance when it comes to computers and the maths, so she has a very easy time solving those kinds of problems
GADGETS (mostly of her dad's invention):
1. She has roller blades that are a few oval discs of metal finely stacked ( so she can separate them and have sharp metal discs to throw at people, with 3 round balls under each (they function both as wheels but also as small batteries that she can use to recharge with/ electricity bombs she can launch at people), She can use the skates either skate or fly similar to the way her dad uses his metal disc, except she has better mobility due to being able to move her legs separately. The advantage of being able to skate is that it is less of a drain of power, and easier to control than flying.
2. She has a mini electric motor cycle that she and her dad built. It has no storage for power, meaning she has to directly provide it(making it very hard to steal), if for some reason she is drained there are jacks at the ends of both handlebars that she can place a battery ball in but nobody would suspect that. The lack of batteries or other fuel/storage makes it so the bike is very light as well as fast. It is painted with bright red and yellow paint that makes it a match with her costume. It is small enough to fit into a smaller car's trunk.
CONTROL: 1. Since she is still young and had only had her full powers for a couple of years she is still learning how to use them, on the best day she has upwards of 7/10 control.
2. On her worst days however she can go as low as 0/10 control and gets very dangerous.
SIDE-AFFECTS: 1. The stronger she uses her powers the more her hair begins to grow like it is full of static itself
2. As good as she is working with computers unless she is extremely careful of her emotions she can wipe files from the computer/phone/ ect.
3. Her powers cause a drain on her energy so she can only do so much before resting, or absorbing more from a source.
WEAKNESSES: 1. Her powers are directly connected to her emotions, meaning when she has control of them she has good control, but if she is too emotional she can loose all control.
2. Her powers are useless when used on insulating material like rubber.
3. She has a limited amount of electricity she can store in her body that needs replenishing through time or an electrical source.
Days pass and bit by bit we begin to restart
Our disaster hearts
Our disaster hearts
INTRODUCTION:
So this was it, after a day of driving, and a long goodbye she was here. Titan Tower was bigger than she could possibly imagine. She looked up, and just kept leaning back without the top in view. “They're not overcompensating for anything” she muttered. She looked back at the ground, at her few bags. It had seemed like so much while packing, it was her whole life. Her clothes, her secret stuffed toys -that she most definitely didn’t sleep with anymore-, and a picture of her family before the accident. Compared to this tower, it was practically nothing. I thought I was ready to go in... maybe not so much. Maybe something to calm my stomach would help. I mean they won't know that i'm late, and Dad left already. She thought.
She took her few belongings and stashed them in some bushes before skating off. She loved to skate, to feel the hum of electricity moving through her body. Not too long after, she found a diner that at least smelled like it had good food. As she rolled up to the door she stepped off the skates and they fell apart before slipping into her pockets on their own. I guess I really am pretty hungry after all. As she pushed the single red rimmed door a scream erupted from nearby.
A bolt of anger flared through her. Her vision bleared as a feel of electricity pulsed through the air. Stray coins, nails and debris began to defy gravity, as larger and larger masses created a tornado. She tore off down the street riding amongst a tornado of metal scraps. The street lamps bent toward her and the fire hydrants split into scraps. Finally she arrived at the alley way, mind fully encompassed by anger. The tornado released flying into the assaulting men. When the tornado had been emptied the men made no noise, or movement. She's safe, I saved her. Were the last thoughts before she passed out.
YOUR NAME OR ALIAS: Emma
CONTACT INFO: Here or Skype
FAVORITE COLOR: Mint Green [/sup]
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