Scarlet Mirage
United Kingdom(black in civilian guise)
(green in civilian guise)
Contents
Description
The Red Mage
Hair as white as snow, eyes glowing lavender - The local media have named this british sorceress the Scarlet Mirage, a moniker she never actually used for herself, however. Active in Millennium City since autumn 2014, the Mirage has aquired some lesser renown for standing up the gangs in Westside and the likes of DEMON - often assisting law enforcement agencies against paranormal villainy.
Immediately when arriving to Millennium City, she registered with PRIMUS, in a bid to avoid trouble with the authorities. However, Lieutenant McTaggart from the local UNTIL branch, who served with the London Metropolitan Police Service some years before, insinuated that the Mirage bears a resemblence to 'La Mystère', a villainous magician from France, who disappeared in 2009.
PRIMUS has since investigated this claim, finding it untenable eventually.
The Student Journalist
Elizabeth Kensington, 24 years old, is a journalism student from the City University of London, who currently studies journalism at the MCU with a F1 Student Visa.
Additionally, she works as a freelance photographer and as reporter for the MCU Herald, a students' newspaper at the MCU.
Unbeknownst to those who know her as the introverted british student, she fights crime as the Mirage, disguising her hair and eyes with simple enchantments while being Elizabeth - making them appear black and green respectively.
She is rarely seen without a notebook and her Canon EOS 100D, as she roams the city for an opportunity to capture a better known 'cape' on digital film or to score an interview - since the meta-human world is a subject often covered by her in her articles.
Sharing a flat with a few other fellow MCU students, she occupies an apartment in Millennium City Downtown.
Activity
September/2014: Elizabeth Kensington arrives in Millennium City with a F1 Student Visa and enrolls at the MCU as a journalism student.
- The Scarlet Mirage appears for the first time in West Side, Millennium City. Later that year she reportedly lends assistance against the threat posed by Mechanon.
November/2014: A PRIMUS investigation with authorities in the United Kingdom, regarding the authenticity of Elizabeth Kensington's identity, yields no evidence that might point towards a forgery. Everything seems perfectly fine. Perhaps too perfect.
January/2015: Elizabeth Kensington begins working as a freelance photographer and writes for a student newspaper at the MCU.
- The Scarlet Mirage is reported to have thwarted a scheme of DEMON.
April/2015: A Millennium City University students' newspaper releases a series of articles about a number of superheroes, written by MCU journalism student Elizabeth Kensington. Some of these articles include short interviews. Featured heroes include Defender, Sapphire, Thundrax and Professor Mystic. Unfortunately, Nighthawk wasn't available for an interview.
May/2015: Due to the actions of the Mirage, Sigmar "The Inquisitor" Anderson, an insane zealot and supervillain, is incarcerated in Stronghold prison.
Personality
The Mirage is outwardly cold and distanced; snide, supercilious even at times. In the end, this is nought but a facade.
As the student, she is always kind and polite, however, reclusive and somewhat introverted.
The truth is somewhere inbetween - Both the Mirage and the student, they are but mere masks she wears to an end. The person behind is a compassionate but conflicted one, determined to put her powers - that were begotten through malicious intent - to a good cause, to atone for the evil they have wrought on the world.
However, turning a curse into blessing is quite so easy.
Background
WIP
Elizabeth Kensington claims to hail from Bexley, a borough of London. According to her, she is the sole child of mundane middle-class parents and her powers began manifesting slowly with the onset of puberty. She also asserts that she always kept her abilities a secret and never fought criminals before coming to Millenium City.
Between 2012 and 2014, she studied journalism at the City University London, moving to Millennium City to further her studies afterwards.
While there is indeed no prior record of any acts of vigilantism on her part in the United Kingdom or elsewhere and evidence of the contrary is lacking, there are some who suspect that the identity of Elizabeth Kensington is fake, albeit a good one.
A few people have contended - without putting forth any hard evidence however, that the Scarlet Mirage shares some similarity in outward appearance and manifested powers with Alexandrine Deruisseau, who gained some infamy in Europe as the villain 'Mystère Argente' for a short time, before disappearing in the wake of an incident in 2009.
During this incident, the Mystère Argente attempted to utilize ancient arcane geometry to shunt the city of London into a small pocket dimension of her own, for purposes unknown. Before she could execute her plan, however, she was thwarted by a team of upstart european heroes.
Details of the incident are obscure, but it has been reported that Mystère Argente was inadvertetly killed by the heroes. This seems unlikely however, as she returned a short time later, in order to exact revenge and attempt to execute her plan one more time. Again she was thwarted and dissappeared without a trace afterwards.
Powers and Skills
The abilities of the Mirage are magical in nature, her very body is a focal point for a arcane energies, magical lines of power - that fuel her powers.
The actual capacity of this, however, is severely limited by sheer physical boundaries.
By actively manipulating the flow of these energies within and without, the Mirage is capable of producing a variety of spells and effects:
- -Levitation and Flight
- -Focusing, projecting and binding of arcane energy
- -Channeling of aneris and eris, spells that either heal or disrupt
- -Sorcery, enchantments in particular
Further Information
| Aura |
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| Her aura appears as concentrated arcane energy, billowing like a dense, purple fog. At the centre of the swirl, there appears to be a node, where geometric, arcane lines seem to cross. |
| Telepathy |
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| Attempting to enter the mindscape of the Mirage, a telepath might find themselves confronted with the sight of a dark and almost barren, desolate landscape, surrounded by dark, foreboding mountains. Amidst a howling wind, voices can be heard. |
Tropes
General
Blue-Collar warlock - Not exactly the traditional sort of sorceress.
Occult detective - Only part-time.
Supernatural is purple - Exactly what is says on the tin.
The Red Mage - Quite literally. She is rather proficient in both healing and destructive magic as well.
Older than they look - Only by a few years, though.
Doppelgänger - She resembles a villain that disappeared in 2009.
Clone by Conversion - There's a reason why she resembles a villain.
Battle in the Center of the Mind
Characteristics
Purple Eyes - She has purple eyes...
Glowing Eyes - ...that glow in the dark.
Personality and Morality
Brainwash Residue - Something might have rubbed off afterall.
Powers
Geometric Magic - A lot of her spells involve this.
Gallery
The Mirage in-flight
Sorcery Enigma
Close-up in mid-flight
The Scarlet Mirage
The Mirage
The Mirage and the moon
Yet another costume she's been seen wearing
Suited-up
Elizabeth Kensington
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