Difference between revisions of "Gwendolyn Frost"

You would assume she's disabled because she wears a blindfold, but then I compensated it by giving her other abilities and that makes her that much more interesting of a character. She is one of the stronger characters in the Champions Online universe and you wouldn't think so if you see her for the first time, thinking she's blind.

To understand the history of Gwendolyn, we need to first understand her father, Ignatio Diomedes.

Ignatio was a strong idealist who believed in all the good he could offer the world. He was a brilliant biochemist who valued innovation, inspiration, creativity and freedom. At the time of his son's birth, Gwen's older brother, he was working on mapping the superhuman DNA and believed he could enhance it to create stronger Superheroes. Because of this, Ignatio started to collect investors to fund his research. The Largest investor being a man named Allen Winston, a wealthy man with a similar vision for the future. During Elena's pregnancy with Gwen, Ignatio made considerable strides in his research, earning him accolades with his peers. However, at the time, he was unable to produce a viable means of enhancing Superhuman abilities, but was confident he was near a solution. At that time, the life of Ignatio couldn't have been any better, he had a loving family, supportive friends and the mains to continue his ambitions.

But, when Gwen was born, complications at childbirth caused Elena to not survive the labor and she passed away moments after. Later, shortly after Gwen was born, Ignatio suffered another devastating blow. His peers debunked his research and claimed it to be "pseudoscience". Ignatio now faced failure at nearly every turn. Terrified of failure, deeply in debt and with nowhere to turn, he became overwhelmed with desperation. To cope with all his problems, he developed minor schizophrenia and began to lose touch with reality. But, because of this mental twist, it allowed him to make real strides in his research again and, in turn, earned another large grant from his friend Allen. However, paranoia struck and he fired all of his employees in order to isolate himself to complete his research. This caused him to completely lose touch with his humanity. His reasoning would be "If no one appreciates my work and they all live to mock me, why should I even... Consider them?"

Alone and without human resources, he turned to the child he believed started all of his tribulation, Gwen. Allen kept funding his twisted friend who had sequestered himself from the outside world to finish his research. To keep his experiments on Gwen a secret and avoid Allen finding out, Ignatio took increasingly evil actions to save his research because for him, the ends justified the means. In the end, Ignatio became a crippled and shattered soul. He was no longer Human, he became an isolated host of demons that were amplified by his fears.

Gwendolyn doesn't remember much during her time in her dad's laboratory. The brain has a remarkable way of coping with trauma. What Gwen does remember is that somewhere around the age of 8, her powers spiraled so out of control that she created a vortex storm, destroying the facility and was able to escape. Gwen's escape made headlines, further debunking the science Ignatio was researching and grabbing the attention of Allen, his friend and biggest investor. Displeased with Ignatio, Allen dropped the funding and cut all ties with Ignatio. Ignatio started developing insomnia out of fear that Gwen would return to have her revenge. Delirium became both his only friend and his deadliest enemy. As a slave to his fears, his research, and his demons, he became more and more unpredictable and monstrous, eventually, he suffered a psychotic outrage and forced his son into the project simply as a disillusioned form of revenge for all the rejection he faced.

These experiments Gwen suffered left her powers unstable and the smallest use of her power would be enough for her to lose control and cascade into something far greater. Gwen began to live a nomadic life, going from town to town only to leave when her powers got her into trouble. She wished to do good, but her lack of control usually proved them to be a danger instead of a benefit. After a while, she became reluctant to use them. But, on one faithful day, she met another hero that changed her life forever; Mender Koralith. After only a few short years, Gwen seemed to command much more control over her incredible powers. Once old enough, Mender Koralith deemed it fitting for Gwen to return to Civilization and she decided to move to the city of heroes, Millennium City.

Frost's appearance is seen as dark and mysterious. Her superhero outfit is mostly made up of her favorite colors; Black and Blue – with white trim. She usually wears a black blindfold to cover her eyes as they tend to be so bright they temporarily blind people.

She also wears, what appears to be, magical trinkets. These are a gift given to her from her mentor, Mender Koralith. These aren't used to aid her in battle, but rather protect the people around her. If she ever loses control again, the trinkets will activate and suppress her powers to a nigh inert state.

Frost is perhaps one of the most mysterious characters you'll ever meet. She is quiet, studious, sarcastic, distant and a tad anti-social. A dark character, but one everyone can relate to. She's a recluse and sort of to herself and generally stays calm and collected, even in desperate situations.

She's often portrayed by others as being overly pessimistic and regards everything as “Black and white,”. But despite her seemingly unfriendly attitude, Frost does care greatly about the people she feels attached to.

Overall, Frost is not coldhearted, merely introverted, caring deeply for those close to her.

Cryokinesis: The power to reduce the kinetic energy of atoms meaning she effectively makes things colder and is capable of generating and sending forth various freezing effects. She also has the ability to transform moisture/water into varying forms of ice to control and manipulate by pure thought; meaning she doesn't need to be physically active to move her ice. This power also grants her the ability to manipulate and lower temperature to the point where precipitation begins to freeze, and crystallize, becoming snow. This power opens the door to many abilities including, but not limited to;

• Cryo-based Picnokinesis: The power to manipulate the density of ice and thereby hardening or softening it. She can make ice as strong as Neutronium or as brittle as glass.
  
  
• Limited Hydrokinesis: The power to manipulate liquid matter. Although limited, She has the ability to control liquids that are under 32°F (0°C); the colder the liquid, the more control she can exert. Using liquid nitrogen instead of snow or ice, she uses this ability only against the most dangerous foes.
  
  
• Cryokinetic Breath: The ability to manipulate the air within her lungs to exhale a stream of freezing wind.
  
  
• Cryokinetic Martial Arts: The ability to utilize Cryokinesis with her physical combat, allowing her to both create tools and weapons for attack and manipulate the environment to her advantage; freezing the ground, sudden ice-walls, creating daggers, darts, etc...,.
  
  
• Congelatikinesis : The ability to freeze anything and make it fragile or to induce Rigor Mortis in an organism. When used on organic material, this ability causes cellular disintegration by destroying cells beyond repair.
  
  
• Cardice Manipulation: The ability to manipulate dry ice, the solid form of carbon dioxide. It is colorless, with a sour zesty odor, non-flammable, and slightly acidic.
  
  
• Cryo Recovery: The ability to heal by using ice to recover from severe to minor injuries on herself or others. Although not as effective as true healing powers, this ability allows her to reduce swelling and halt bleeding.
  
  
• Ice Beam Emission: The ability to produce pinpoint accurate beams of ice or sub-zero energy that freezes everything it hits instantly. This grants her the ability to create a sudden dramatic cooling beam. By making a sudden demand in heat by freezing particles in a single localized place she can effectively create a "Laser" beam that freezes anything in its path.
  
  
• Cryokinetic Aura: The ability to surround herself in cryokinetic energy, allowing her to use cold and ice in various offensive ways.
  
  
• Cryokinetic Immunity: The ability to be completely unharmed by cold, making her invulnerable to hypothermia and frostbite.
  
  
• Cryokinetic Exoskeleton: The ability to create cryogenic armor around her body for protection.
  
  
• Cryophysiology : The ability to transform her body completely into organic ice.
  
  
• Cryoportation: The ability to use ice to teleport, she can turn or merge into ice, melt and reappear a short distance away, growing as ice and shattering to be free.
  
  
• Weather Manipulation: The ability to emit a sudden cold front in the atmosphere creating hurricanes, blizzards and hailstorms.

• Cannot manipulate Esoteric Ice.
  
• The creation of ice depends on the amount of moisture available, dry areas make this harder.
  
• Her ice is susceptible to heat- and electricity-based attacks.
  
• Vibrations can shatter her ice, making sound-based attacks extremely effective against her.
  
• Her Cryokinetic Breath fuels Pyrokinetic Breath, since it's a wind-based attack.
  
• Her Ice Beam Emission can be reflected by mirrors or users with Reflection Manipulation.
  
• Her Weather Manipulation is severely limited during the winter.

Mender Koralith

Mender Koralith was a nomadic spiritualist who had great knowledge of the Spirit World and its effects on superheroes. He was spiritually enlightened and helped several superheroes attain their full potential and cleanse themselves of pain and suffering. Koralith was willing to teach everybody who wished to learn from him. His origins are unclear, as he did not seem to hold an allegiance to anyone affiliation or supergroup and preferred to operate outside of borders.

When Gwen asked how he planned to teach her control, Koralith replied that she must first bring balance to herself before she can find a balance between her and her powers.

Seth, Lord of Sepermeru

Seth is the ancient Egyptian deity of darkness and chaos. A misunderstood god, Seth tutored Gwen in de art Combat. He tutored her in the style of Tai Chi, a defensive style that uses the opponent's own momentum against them. Seth praised her skill, mentioning that her progress hardly needed any help. But it wasn't until Gwen showed her bravery during the battle against Cosmos, a being with infinite power, and later showed her ability to defeat Calypso, a being that made up of eternity, that Seth concluded his training with Gwen.

Where Koralith taught her control, Seth taught her how to use it in combat.

Dominick

Dominick was Gwendolyn's first crush. The two met at Club Caprice where Gwendolyn was talking to a friend of hers named Reiki Ken. Unbeknownst to Gwen, Reiki Ken was the father of Dominick. And from that moment on, Gwen was smitten. Noticing Gwen’s interest, Dominick asked her if she wanted to "hang out" sometime, but she was so shy at first that she turned him down. When home, Dominick was so frustrated with himself that he acted out several scenes on how else he could have asked her out in front of his mirror. When he heard some tapping on his window, he turned his head to see that Gwen was levitating shyly, with a sheath of ice covering her body, outside. Gwen apologized for rejecting his offer and asked if his offer still stood.

The two went to Gwen's favorite diner in Vabora Bay and later went to the amusement park. They had a lot of fun riding the bumper karts, taking a turn on the tilt-a-whirl, taking pictures in a photo booth, hitching a ride through the "Chamber of horrors", Dominick throwing a baseball at a stack of cans to win Gwen a huge teddybear, taking a stroll through the park and eventually ending up on a Ferris wheel by the time the sun settled. On the Ferris wheel, Dominick asked Gwen what changed her mind. Gwen confessed her feelings by answering; "Of all the things I could’ve done tonight, I realized all I wanted to do was spend time with you,"

And so Gwen and Dominick shared their first kiss hanging 200 feet in the air. However, due to their hectic lives, both Gwen and Dominick drifted apart and the only memento of that time is a dried mistletoe Gwen keeps in her wallet. A reminder of happier times.