Summary

International stuntwoman, super star, and now licensed private hero, Jill Scarlet is one of the more recognizable celebrities worldwide. Her exploits during the 1996 Olympics earned her several gold medals and her face on cereal boxes. From there, she leveraged her stardom into a movie career as an action hero who did all of her own stunts. While critics weren't kind to her films, they were popular with the summer movie crowds. Her highest grossing film, Free Fall (2002), was also her most critically acclaimed.

In 2003, following the release of her final movie, The Stuntwoman III, Scarlet announced to the world that she was entering the LPH trade and intended to use her superior genetics and her unnerring accuracy with the bow to "better humanity, to bring us up to our own greatest potential, and to assist those who need a helping hand." A year later, she became the 1,779th licensed private hero in the United States.

Currently residing in Millennium City, Scarlet still maintains her celebrity image, loaning her fame out to charitable causes, and occasionally engaging in marketing products and technology, the profits from which are funnelled into her non-profit organization, Straight Arrow, Ltd.

FAME COMES EARLY

At the age of 14, Scarlet entered the 1996 Summer Olypmics and won the gold medal in the Decathlon, in addition to winning gold medals in the women's individual archery and team archery event, and setting new Olympic records in each. This brought Scarlet a high degree of media scrutiny, as she seemed to come literally out of nowhere to compete in what has traditionally been a men's only event, and win. Scarlet's status as an Olympian came under fire when she was investigated for meta-gene activity. She was quickly cleared of all charges and deemed within normal human capabilities, "if exceedingly so."

In the midst of learning more about the Scarlet family, London reporter Warren Smythe first uncovered her family's connection to the legendary Will Scarlet, one of the original members of Robin of Locksley's Resistance Fighters. This was information that Jill's parents had agreed to keep from their daughter, but in the wake of such public revelations, they had no choice but to acknowledge her ancestry.

Encouraged by this newfound information, Jill began researching her family history on her own, when she wasn't touring, making personal appearances, or being paid large sums of money to endorse products. It took four years of dilligent research, but Jill eventually discovered her great great great grandfather's diary.

THE SCARLET LEGACY

Inside the diary was an accounting of every single Scarlet throughout history who stood up as a hero and an example in their time and place. It was less a diary and more a family handbook on crime-fighting. On the back page was a cipher, which was a set of instructions to whomever should crack the code, and an ornate brass key cut into the back board. Jill cracked the cipher in twelve minutes.

The key, the messages revealed, led to the family crypt. Scarlet flew to London, England, where she was greeted by several of the descendants of Locksley's original group. They took her to the cemetary where Will Scarlet was interred, and it was there that she found her ancester's legendary bow. It is unclear as to whether or not the bow confers any additional powers; Scarlet does not say so in the book, but hints that it is an artifact of great power that she is keeping safe, or perhaps vice versa.

Most of the events leading up to the discovery of Will Scarlet's bow, as well as the events surrounding the "Locksley Incident" have been detailed in Jill Scarlet's autobiography, Straight & Arrow. It is highly probable that Scarlet omitted or altered details of the incident for security reasons. See Also: Ian Nottingham

CURRENT STATUS

While not as active on the battlefield, Scarlet has managed to stay busy with the day to day operations of Straight Arrow, Ltd. and its various humanitarian relief efforts. Scarlet still maintains her "celebrity" status by putting in personal appearances, doing motivational talks, and the occasional archery demonstration. She no longer garners the constant scrutiny of the press, thanks to her P.R. Department, and by all accounts seems to prefer it that way.

RPHooks

If you would like to use Jill Scarlet, Ian Nottingham, or Straight Arrow, Ltd. in your character's backstory, please email me in-game. I'm happy to work with you. --Monkeyhead 17:14, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Fiction

You can read about Jill Scarlet in the story "Catching Up."