Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2015 10:46:42 GMT -6
Kangana Hasaan
Phobia
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Phobia
!AGE: 16
GENDER: Female (Shapeshifter)
TEAM: Loner
SIDE: Villain/Mercenary
OCCUPATION: Student (Cover)
NATIONALITY: India
HISTORY:
Kangana was born to a pair of minorly powered individuals, Alif Hasaan and Mizira Alam the result of a marriage of convenience between two old family friends whom found themselves each saddled with children manifesting odd abilities – this marriage put forward long between either of her parents were of age, with their families pushing young children together to at least allow them to be friends. But as luck would have it, the marriage became one of love as they grew older.
It was when they found out that Mizira was pregnant with Kangana that their move to New York City – and America- happened. Those first few years were hard, her mother and father very young – too young to have a child and no friends. But they were good people, and hard workers – her father not only attended university through all manner of grants and scholarship, but worked a full time job as well, while her mother worked both a full time job and more rarely freelanced doing modeling for local companies.
Things got easier for Kangana, as she got older, as her father completed his degree and became a psychologist, as her mother no longer needed to work a job just to put food on the table. She was one of a million people like her in the City, and never felt ostracized, never really felt different. That is, until she hit puberty – because being one of the earliest bloomers in your school and town is one thing, but going through all those changes while also discovering that you have the ability to make people’s fears a reality? It’s more than a little awkward – especially when it gets you kicked out of your school for causing a teacher to have a heart attack.
It turns out that sometimes, powers are genetic – and sometimes the ways they interact aren’t always the nicest. Kangana inherited both her father’s emphatic ability to read fears and traumas, as well as her mother’s abilities to change her shape and project minor illusions. Except her abilities were not minor at all, they were not small things like cleaning up blemishes or shifting where she held her weight, or making herself seem to always be in perfect light – and she certainly could do more than read fears. No, she was powerful, she was above both of them. And it made life difficult again – powers brought problems, problems meant insurance policies going up, schools not wanting her, an assortment of little and big issues.
And thus a girl not even officially a teen yet found herself without school, with her family struggling once more, her mother going back to working long hours. Until her family was approached, by people like her, people with powers, who wanted to take care of her, to take care of her family. People who had read about her power’s first discovery in the news, and who had decided that they saw potential in her.
And it wasn’t the heroes. This is the story of how a nine year old girl was adopted into an organization of villains, and how her life changed. This is the story of how a nine year old girl joined the Brotherhood of Evil, without even knowing. Life got easier and harder – she never had to run as much, exercise as much, she never studied as hard before. But she also never had as much food as she could ever dream of, she never once before had a bed that could fit twenty people. The hard work was worth it, because even as they crafted her into a weapon without telling her, she enjoyed life.
This was all, of course, because of the Brain, whose expertise in manipulation, both psychological and telepathic, was perfectly able to keep hidden any evil doing around her, any hint that they were anything close to the Brotherhood of Evil - and she was never inclined to look into it, nor were her parents, happy as they were back home in New York, living wealthy happy lives, even as they missed their daughter.
Kangana was by no means a genius – certainly nowhere near the level of the Brain or his assistant Monsieur Mansala. But she was smart enough, and she was driven to try – these, in combination with the genius teaching methods of the Brain, meant that so by the age of fifteen she had completed courses enough to be considered as having finished high school, through a small school in the middle of Wyoming that was really just a front for the Brotherhood.
It’s also when they discovered that they never had to hide who they were from Kangana, because she didn’t have that need to do good, she didn’t have that drive to help people – their work in making her hardened to doing the ‘tough thing’ worked almost too well. Because she went rogue, just after her coronation into the Brotherhood, just after they finally revealed themselves. After all, who would want to be the protégé of a bunch of old failed villains, when they could strike out on their own?
Kangana wasn’t stupid however, she knew that her bank account was monitored and would be controlled by the Brotherhood, it was after all their money. So over the years she built herself up, taking a few hundred here, a thousand there, amounts they assured her were fine to take as they raised her. She never really knew where the money came from – the Brain’s criminal empires throughout the world most likely, but she didn’t care even afterwards. She had tens of thousands of dollars saved up, all offshore, all untraceable to her without the finest detailed combs.
She had free reign to be whatever she wanted, whoever she wanted – and she was trained to be an elite agent of one of the largest villainous organizations in the world. So she did what any teenager would do – went to Jump City. Because really, it was even more modern than New York nowadays, even Metropolis wasn’t as cool as Jump was – it may have been the Teen Titans who put it on the map, but it was evolving all its own. A city of teenage culture – a culture she never got to experience, without the overbearing gleaming towers, and with beautiful beaches?
Sign her up – and she did sign up, for CSUJC, getting herself into college was easy enough, she had the records, every record she could want or need. She had her SAT scores, her ACT scores, her perfect GPA, the school seemed confused that she would even want to join it, instead of going somewhere more prestigious. But she was where she wanted to be, where she thought she would have the most fun.
And having the Titans on hand for if the Brotherhood showed up… well that might just be a bonus.
FAMILY: Alif Hasaan – Father, Psychologist in his early 30s, ability to see the trauma’s in peoples lives and what they are most afraid of as vivid visions. Uses his power to help people move past them. New York City. Has not seen Kangana since she was 9.
Mizra Hasaan – Mother, Minor model, late 20s, had Kangana incredibly young, possesses ability to make minor changes to her shape – removing blemishes, shifting how her weight carries, but nothing that would change mass or height, and minor illusions – small lights that don’t exist etc. Has not seen Kangana since she was 9.
The Brotherhood of Evil – Adoptive ‘family’. Trained her to be the start of the next Brotherhood of Evil, and as a weapon. Pressed her to be smarter, stronger, faster, pumped her full of drugs that made her not need to sleep so she could do these things. Experimented on her in variety of ways. Jilted by her betraying them, very unhappy with her rebellious phase.
PERSONALITY: Phobia does what she wants when she wants. An out and out hedonist, she has no sense of right or wrong time for doing something that seems fun. If she wants something she takes it, if she wants to do something she does it, and there is nothing that can stop her. Luckily, she doesn’t feel the need to take things by force too often – she has the clothes she wants, she has a nice place to stay off campus, and the like. Still, she can be more than a little improper – years of only interacting with adults much older than her, training her, has left her more than a little lacking in terms of what is taboo. Especially when considering one of her mentors was one of the most notorious villainesses for how they would indiscriminately use their sex appeal to their advantage.
Manipulative is the other word one might use to describe her – she can tap into feeling what other people fear, not only overall, but about the current situations, a minor form of telepathy. And she is more than happy to use that ability to her advantage in interactions, if it will get her what she wants. Sociopathic is another similar word – only her feelings and wants matter in the world, no one else’s are important to her. Lazy isn't exactly right, but she isn't one to do things that feel too tough for how much enjoyment they give.
DISLIKES: Sitting around, rules, laws, limitations, being bored.
DREAMS: To have the freedom to do whatever she wants.
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I DON’T WANT TO BE INNOCENT
little impotent one
little impotent one
BODY STRUCTURE: Kangana is attractive and has a good body type for it – her exercises modelled off the expert ones of Madame Rouge, giving her a body that many would be envious of. She is in every aspect healthy looking, with enough fat on her body to not be at all underweight, and yet with large amounts of muscle showing the intense regimen and discipline she had been instilled with.
Her chest and hips tend towards changing, owing blame to her shapeshifting abilities. When in public and having fun, she tends towards larger more attractive and alluring sizes, but when in battle she is happy to shrink all parts of her body down to where they are least in the way. She is a little shorter than the average woman, but about the average for a girl of her descent – around five feet, two inches.
STYLE: Depending on the day, Kangana can go all out on either ‘embracing’ her culture and the fact that she can wear a variety of beautiful cultural outfits, or put on a tube top and short shorts while she goes to the beach. Over all she leans towards reds and golds on both kinds of outfits, and tends to wear a good bit of jewelry when she is out and about.
PIERCINGS OR TATTOOS: Kangana has piercings in a variety of places, including by not limited to a small nose stud, and a single lip ring that she only sometimes puts in. She has no tattoos.
COSTUME: Due to the nature of her powers, the costume needn’t be an overly fancy spectacle – indeed, it is rather simply a long black body suit, and then a black scarf that covers everything below the bridge of her nose, and a hood that covers her hair.
ODDITIES: She always has to be doing something physical – such as tapping her feet or squeezing a stress ball.
ABILITIES: Shapeshifting – Kangana is capable of changing her form, though she is normally limited to small adjustments such as making her hair grow or shrink, or altering where her weight is carried. She can also make changes to hair or skin color, but generally does not – as well as a few other alterations, so long as they remain within a certain similarity of her base form.
Fear Sense – Kangana is a telepath with the ability to hear and see what people fear, what their biggest phobias are, and what traumas haunt them. Some minds are more difficult than others to read, but the more a fear influences someone, the more easily it is sensed. Everyone fears something, and she can find it.
Fear Form – The actually dangerous ability of Phobia – she can choose to become someone’s fears, super-charging her shapeshifting abilities and allowing her to not only take on any form that someone is afraid of, but take on all of the abilities related to that form. If confronted with someone with a fear of spiders, she may turn into a giant spider with a venom so terrible it melts iron, while if confronted with someone afraid of a person like Superman, she will become him, gaining an echo of all of his powers. Unfortunately, she does have upperlimits – in the case of particularly strong beings she might become, she can never compare to the original.
Hand to Hand Combat – While most of her training was based on her ability to shapeshift and what comes with it, she is reasonably trained in dozens of different fighting styles, and knows at least the basics of almost a hundred different weapons – this was taught to her due to the fact that she does not gain technical skills when transforming. She is a match for most non-super martial artists, but cannot compare to those who can live the life of a superhero or villain with only their martial talents.
Physical Augmentation – From when she was 9 onwards, the Brotherhood of Evil filled Kangana’s veins with all manner of drugs and augmentations. She is now resistant to disease, no longer requires sleep, heals slightly faster than normal and has an incredibly high metabolism. This is what allowed her to balance her intensive early-graduating studying with her hours and hours of grueling physical training. It now allows her to party all night, and go to class in the morning without ill effect.
CONTROL: 8 – Kangana has perfect control mimicking the level of whatever she turns into, but can be forced into fear forms without her own consent, in situations where someone is panicking or terrified in that moment. She still maintains some control over what she turns into, and can as easily turn arachnophobia into a giant spider, a swarm of seemingly independent spiders that actually make up one body, or even just a single tiny spider, depending on what she wants.
SIDE-AFFECTS: Shapeshifting.
WEAKNESSES: Telepathy – Someone who is capable of blocking out her fear-sense can make her unable to take on her Fear Forms, though she is a rather difficult person to block out.
Fear based – She can only become what someone in the area fears, and thus cannot always have the same level of power or ability. She also cannot use her powers at all when alone or against unthinking machines – though she can pick up the fears of an AI, if it is truly intelligent and aware.
Metabolic Augmentation – The physical augmentations she has gone through have left her with a metabolism that needs to be eat and drink three times as much as a normal human of her size. This is both for nutritional needs and for more recreational purposes – she has a very hard time actually getting drunk.
Low Drive - Kangana isn't fighting for some huge special cause or because she has to, she's fighting because she wants stuff. Once the going gets tough, she will just quit and leave if able to.
CALL TO NO ONE
trust in nothing
trust in nothing
INTRODUCTION:
The day after graduation, this was going to be the day that Kangana got her designation, learned where she would be going, what she would be doing. This was when the full trust of the organization would be placed on her. And she was already intending to quit, to leave, to escape from this place. She was dressed up as Madame Rouge told her to be, with a costume that showed entirely too much skin, and entirely too much cleavage for practicality created by her shapeshifting powers. It didn’t bother her, showing this much skin, but it seemed so pointless – she would never be in a situation where sex appeal would matter once it came down to super powers, because she would never get to use it in her own form.
But her teacher demanded it, and so she put it on, even though it clung in uncomfortable ways and honestly made her feel more like a stripper than an elite agent at some kind of super powered task force. That wasn’t the first hint that she had that something was wrong, no that was the lessons on how sometimes innocents die and you shouldn’t be bothered by them, that started when she was 10. But honestly, she couldn’t argue too much – she had seen what Power Girl used to wear, she had seen what so many heroines wore – so it wasn’t instantly evil to show too much skin. Just dumb.
What was instantly evil, however, was having the brain you’d known as a teacher suddenly be in a giant skull encased case, and a giant banner reading ‘welcome to the brotherhood’ on it. She could feel it – for the first time the telepathic dampeners were down, and she could really reach out, get more than the surface fears, and in an instant it hit her as she saw how much they feared her finding out they were the Brotherhood of Evil before she was old enough to accept it. Even their yelling and cheers as they welcome her in didn’t help.
Kangana never wanted to be a supervillain, she didn’t care to be a hero either, but a villain? In a group that’s main goal seems to mostly be ‘kill lots of people and take over what’s left’? That was just stupid – she liked people, she was certainly a bad person but she wasn’t Brotherhood level. Still, she could feel their real fears now, the Doom Patrol, their leader, the idea of that Doom Patrol in its prime, beating up their aged forms. She wasn’t going to do it yet.
But tonight was when the Doom Patrol would happen to reappear in the world, for a brief moment, and when she would escape during the battle.
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FAVORITE COLOR: Still is fuchsia [/sup]
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