Kara McIlroy
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Personality
Kara is very upbeat and nerdy, she often makes references to video games and movies and is rarely ever negative in emotions. She sees every new event that happens to her as a learning experience and a way to better herself as a person. Like her father she tries to remain a positive force even when there seems to be no hope to keep the moral of her friends and teammates at it's highest.
Background
Calm Before the Storm
Kara’s story is paved with accidents, strange coincidences, and hardships. She was originally the combination of two of the villain Chaosiris’ projects and evil plots. The first was Project V (Vee or Five, he used the terms interchangeably in his research notes), V was a multifold genetics program which used advanced gene splicing to meld the DNA of most of the world’s most powerful psychics, combined it with various sources of magic, mainly that of Chaos Magic, and put it all into a genetically engineered body based on the DNA of Rebecca “Lust” Voclain, Seth “Keio” McIlroy, and his own. His hope was to create a powerful bioweapon that could not only use psychic abilities but could also tap into the powers of the elemental plane of lightning known as Rai Kel’tho Las. Upon completing the initial parts of the project he realized that the risk for the project to go out of control was a clear and present danger so he held off on completing it until he could find a better way to control it.
The second part of the equation came with a little help from VIPER. A VIPER cell hired Chaosiris to attack Keio’s wedding as he was a long standing thorn in their side thanks to his work on Project Mongoose. Siris was more than happy to oblige and gathered a group of VIPER and other super villains with long standing issues with the red headed lightning super hero. In the aftermath of the attack Keio was left missing an arm his would be wife, Alenna , was deceased though she had managed to cause Siris some nearly fatal injuries, as well as killed several of his UNTIL coworkers and even some of his then superteam the Independents. Little did anyone know the sword he carried into battle and used accidentally used on Alenna, Keio was the original target, but it had the ability to pull the soul of anyone stabbed with it out of their body.
In a moment of rage he plunged the sword into the stasis tube that held Project V accidentally ‘injecting’ Alenna’s soul into the body. Siris knew that the sword could steal souls however he was unaware that he could release them like that. This caused the soul to be ‘reborn’ or ‘reincarnated’ within the new body, which at the time was still maturing. Sometime later, Keio and several heroes raided Siris’ base and again nearly managed to stop the villain. Keio, after discovering the Project in the basement of the facility, read over all of Siris’ research notes and his video journals. Realizing that Alenna soul was housed within the body he secretly took the little girl to live with his grandmother in Ireland. He quickly realized that the little girl knew nothing of Alenna’s former life and accepting that she was gone he adopted her and she was named Kara as his grandmother had suggested. The next two years were fairly normal with Keio frequently coming to visit while he tracked down Siris.
Kara: Avatar of Destruction
About a year after Keio and the remnants of Meta-SWAT were able to capture and imprison Siris for his crimes, the god of Rai Kel’tho Las, a power elemental being known as Raikelos or ‘The Elemental’, attacked Keio and took control over him. While in control of Keio, the Elemental learned of Kara’s potential and opted to instead kidnap her and raise her to be his ultimate avatar to help him destroy and devour our dimension. It unfortunately took Keio and his assembled team a couple of days before they were able to locate the elemental plane and acquire a means to breach the barrier the would be destroyer of the universe had placed. While he had drawn power from the elemental plane for years, Keio had never been there and as it turned out time flowed differently there and while it was a few days on Earth it had been 6 years there. Kara had been tortured the entire time she was missing and eventually in a weaken state the Elemental brainwashed her into the avatar he had wanted.
Kara attacked the Freelancers showing them and her father just how strong she had become, the battle was long a fierce but in the end the Elemental feared that he might lose against the gathered heroes and opened up portal flinging the Freelancers back to Earth leaving Keio by himself. Kara and the Elemental fled into a portal and Keio found himself stuck in Rai Kel’tho Las. Kara and the elemental arrived on an alternate Earth and the Elemental forced her to kill every human on the planet, the horror of the event weakened his hold on her however and when Keio arrived with the help of several alternate versions of him, the Elementals hold on her mind broke and she was free. However she was unable to come to terms with all the death she had caused she turned her powers inward and managed to partially erase her memory. She reverted back to the little girl she was before all this had happened although her body was now that of an 11 year old and not a 5 year old.
I'm Trouble: The Girl Who Saw the Multiverse
The Keios had destroyed the Elemental but the god had locked the only way back to their earth behind a powerful magical barrier and it would take some time before her father had gathered the needed power to pierce it so her father took it upon himself to go on an impromptu Father-Daughter road trip across the Multiverse. In the following years Keio taught Kara everything from Math and Science to martial arts and pop culture as they jumped from one universe to another while exploring new worlds, learning about new technology, and even playing at being sky pirates.
Sunshine On my Window
Upon returning to their Earth, they discovered only a few weeks had actually passed. Kara took up a life of an average teen age girl with super powers and even joined her adopted sister Lacey at Ravenswood Academy of which her father had graduated from when he was her age. There Kara would join the Young Sentenels after much debate from her father who was afraid that using her powers could result in her remembering what she had erased from her mind. In her time at Ravenswood she discovered her love of inventing and air and space craft design. It was this time when many of her now iconic equipment came to be such as the prototype that would become the TASIR and PEN gauntlets, her twin robots Mario and Luigi, and even the Bracer Bow and Cross Bracer.
After a couple of relatively normal years Kara was killed by an attack by the villainous RHINO TANK during the long campaign to put a stop to Chaosiris and his minions. Her soul was taken out of her body prior to her death and used to power a genetically engineered super-clone known as Project Verona. Several heroes managed to get Kara's personality to take back control of the body and she was eventually put into a new body. Her new body was created from both Alenna McIlroy (Seryna) and Seth McIlroy (Keio). Unlike her original body which was engineered by Siris to be a psionic powerhouse, her current body is weaker and more like her parents. Like her father before her, Kara graduated both early and with honors and was soon set to start at Harvard's School of Engineering for a degree in Aerospace engineering.
Scrape the Sky
After graduating from Ravenswood Kara joined the ranks of the Protectors of the World and became a full member of her father's Freelancers along with other sweeping changes in her life like her father remarrying to Leilani and going into semi retirement. While in Boston she tried to have somewhat of a normal life again keeping her hero work to the Protectors and Millennium City, but after stopping a mugger that was attacking people on campus she began patrolling her new home city. The local media in Boston have dubbed her the "Boston Blitz", while she isn't actively trying to hide her identity she has taken to talking in her thicker Irish accents while in the persona.
Between helping the local heroes in Boston as well as the police, speed running her way through her engineering program, and her continued work with the Protectors, She wasn't left with much of a personal life. Which being that she was rather shy around people she didn't know she was relatively okay with but it seemed the universe had other plans. While investigating a missing student she pretended to be a police officer named 'Starling', after the character from the Silence of the Lambs, which so happened to be an actual officer in the Boston Police Department.
She was confronted a few days later on campus by one Detective Adam Starling who clearly was not a young red headed girl. While Kara was attempting to find a way out of the situation Kara was attacked by large coyote sent by a villainous cannibal called Skinwalker who was responsible for her missing classmate and Adam quickly put 2 and 2 together and figured out that Kara was in fact The Boston Blitz. Adam decided not to arrest Kara for claiming to be a police officer and offered to let her help him take down this Skinwalker.
Surviving Disasters: A Beautiful Tragedy
The Search for the Skinwalker went on hiatus as Kara, Adam, her parents, and most of the members of the Freelancers were kidnapped and spirited away to different dimensions by a force claiming to be that of the Elemental, returning to seek revenge. She has been trapped in a dimension that sees periodic attacks by giant monsters that all appear to be from Rai Kel'tho Las as well as RenSys bioweapons.
Powers & Abilities
Psycho-Electrokinesis
Like her father she can use Electrokinesis. Unlike her father she can also augment it with psionic energies as well, allowing her to produce barriers and body 'armor', form blades, arrows and other weapons, and also generate powerful psionic blasts that disrupt electrical energies, including the natural bio-electric field of the human brain or the electrical systems of machinery.
Electrokinetics
- Charge objects with electricity, heating them and/or making them conduct electricity.
- Draw in power from naturally occurring and/or artificial electricity to increase her abilities.
- Generate enough power to vaporize matter.
- Create Ball Lightning to attack opponents.
- Electrify her body, effectively turning herself into a living taser and if she wants a magnet.
- Electrokinetic Flight.
- Increased speed.
- If in an area with increased electromagnetism (like during thunderstorms) she becomes more 'fuel' efficient since she can channel the electromagnetism in the area rather than use her own power generation.
Psycho-Electro Augmentations
- She can turn invisible for brief moments like her father as well as make herself look like someone else.
- Disrupt the body's electrical signals causing temporary loss of feeling and movement.
- Turn her body into psycho-electric energy.
- Creating of psionic constructs such as weapons and shields.
Hypercharged State
If Kara absorbs massive amounts of Electromagnetism, Electricity, Lightning (Natural, Artificial, or Mystical) she can enter a Hypercharged State. This State can only last for a few seconds (at most 45) and increases her speed and power generation.
Demigod Form
The true limits of this form are not fully known but it passively increases her durability, endurance, senses, healing ability, and she also seems to be aging slower.
Psychic Powers
Using her mental energies she can manipulate her surroundings, in combat this usually manifests in her picking up objects and hurling them at her attackers with telekinesis. Even though she lost a lot of Psychic powers after her failed battle with Chaosiris, Kara has maintained her ability to communicate with people telepathically.
- Telekinesis - Lifting abilities max out at just over 300kg (approx 660lbs.) she can also float and fly using this power, often using the floating as a mode of transportation and as training to increase her mental strength.
- Telepathy - Can link up to 5 people together in a 'mental link' for communication, can't read minds, can force her control over simple minded creatures.
Technopathy
Kara can communicate and manipulate electronics, machinery, and other types of technology. Examples include:
- Data manipulation.
- Ability to crash computer systems.
- She can talk to computers and some machinery.
- She boost the efficiency of computers and AI.
- She can also control and manipulate the nanites within her body to create constructs such as increased armor for her ACE Suits and tools.
Special Techniques
A list of Kara's 'named' techniques and attacks:
- Blitz Step - Temporarily turning her body into pure energy, Kara can greatly increase her speed and appear to jump almost like a teleport.
- Taser Fist - Keio's fighting style, using a mix of mostly taekwondo with some taichi thrown in, Kara electrifies her extremities so that once she makes contact with her opponent she can send powerful jolts of electricity through them.
- Blitz Blades - See Equipment
- Rock n' Roll - Using her powers she lifts rubble, rocks, debris, or chucks of the ground and fires them at her target
- Nanite Storm - She sends a swarm of nanites at the target to break it down.
- Fist of the Lightning God - Pioneered by her father she combines the previous two techniques together and attacks at the speed of a bolt of lightning with a multi-attack combo of punches and kicks ending in a supercharged punch.
- Tenshin Technozuko - By combining two TASIR gauntlets into their Super Guncannon form, being in her Hypercharged State, and adding in the magic her father taught her she can use her variation of her father's technique the Tenshin Makazuko. This drains all the stored energy within the TASIRs, taps her of power, and will generally result in her passing out.
Equipment
- SCRI - The Supercomputing Resource Intelligence was designed as the ultimate personal AI. Keio, shortly after she came online, shortened her name to SCRI as play on the fact that she was designed to locate anyone on her network and allow for users to call in backup and resources. As the years passed she has been updated from a very basic program to a full fledged quantum AI with a multitude of functions. Kara recently gave her the ability to split into multiple versions of herself to aid in her acclimation with humans as well as running the Freelancer Database. SCRI was designed by several people including but not limited to: Dr. Seth McIlroy, Alenna McIlroy, Dr. Mulan Hanahara, and Dr. Lindsey Turnbeau.
- THINGs - The Thermal Imaging Night-Vision Goggles were originally built by her maternal Grandfather, her father has improved the design over the last decade to include may other functions such as an audio and video commlink, GPS system, and targeting assist.
- Mark VIII ACE Suit - The Mark VIII ACE Suit includes the PEN System which adapts to metahuman physiology and can increase the strength of the user's powers.
- Mark IX ACE Suit - The Mark IX streamlines the VIII and adds magictech into the construction resulting in a lighter, easier to move in suit that is actually more protective than any other version of the ACES. The Mark IX can also be summoned at will thanks to the ACElet (ACE + Bracelt).
- ACElet - A magictech bracelet worn by a member of the Freelancers which allows for in field summoning of their ACE Suit. Compatible with the Mark VII, VIII, and IX suits.
- TASIR Gauntlets - The Turbine Assisted Ionic Regulator Gauntlets are designed for close quarters combat allowing Kara to generate more powerful electric attacks at a shorter range. The newest Mk III's can transform in too handgun like forms called Gunbusters, arm cannon's similar to Megaman called the Buster Cannon, and two TASIRs can combine into the Super Guncannon.
- Bracer Bow - One of Kara's recent inventions, this specialized bracer equips on her left arm and holds a collapsible Longbow.
- Cross Bracer - Similar to the Bracer Bow, this usually equips to her right arm and can turn into a small wrist mounted automatic crossbow.
- Blitz-Blades - One of the things her father taught her was sword fighting and she recently discovered she could form swords from her mental energies with a little lightning thrown in.
- Robots - Kara has four robots that she uses to aide her, the SCRI Medical drones designed by her father and "Mario" & "Luigi". M&L are her personal helper bots, built originally to help her with her gadgets she can refit them with weapons to aide her in combat.
- Blitzboard - Built it over Christmas break, along with one for Dobergirl, this jet powered board is used for flying around~!
Weaknesses
PTSD: While she managed to erase her memory of most of the horrible events she caused while mind controlled by the Elemental, somethings go deeper than just memory. She has been known to have nightmares and once froze up during a fight when a teammate was being mind controlled by a psychic.
Only Human: Kara might be a clone but her body hasn't been heavily altered like her father's. If her tech and psionic defenses are broken she is very squishy which is usually why she sticks to long range.
Dead Battery: Her father has a similar issue, if she uses her electrokinesis without a power generator of some kind she uses her body's own EM fields and this can cause her to pass out. Alternately, this can also happen after entering and leaving her hypercharged state.
Mental Strain: Much like her Electrokinetics, too frequent use of her psionics can cause strain. The first signs of this is her nose and/or ears bleeding, sickness in her stomach, and can eventually lead to her passing out.
Please No Teleporting: Genetics are a bitch as they say, like her father she has Teleportation Sickness wherein she becomes physically ill after being teleported. This does not seem to happen with the use of portals. Family, Friends, and Allies
Family, Friends, & Allies
FAMILY
- Seth McIlroy - Her father and mentor.
- Leilani Hua Kea - Her step-mother.
- Lacey Peters - Kara's adopted sister.
- Jason Orson Hunter (McIlroy) - Kara's Uncle, older brother to Keio.
- SCRI - Yes she considers her families AI a friend of hers.
- Adam Starling - Her boyfriend, Boston Police Department Detective, also known as the hero 'American Steel'.
- Hunter - One of her "Uncles" and how she trains with to practice her sword play.
- Silver Eagle - Another of her "Uncles" who she often asks for advice with her bots.
FRIENDS
- Sunny - Kara's best friend, the other half of TEAM DK.
- Gabby - A fellow tech-head and friend.
- Chalice - Rachael is a good friend of Kara's.
- Omniboy - Kara's unofficial rival. She works well with him at times but most of the time Omni and her butt heads.
- Darwindestructible - One of the people that helped rescue her soul, Kara owes Darwin her life.
ALLIES
- Ice-Heart - Kara's go-to when it comes to magic based anything.
- Titan - Mr. Grey is a member of the Sentinels and someone that Kara looks up to as a role model.
- Thundrax - A friend of her fathers and another role model of hers.
- Razira - Kara doesn't have too many females in her life that she specifically looks up to as a role model, but Raz is one of them. Kicking ass as a wolf is so cool.
- Nate - Nate (All Star) and Riptide were pretty instrumental in having her join the Protectors but she also has a deep respect for the man as he risked his life to save her's and her father's.
- Sparrowhawk - She's tough but fair and a good leader.
Known Associates
Freelancer Industries - Kara works part-time at her Father's company, mostly as a receptionist and IT girl.
Young Sentinels - Kara's former supergroup while she was attending Ravenswood Academy.
Enemies: RenSys
Boss Jager
Name: Sirius Jager
Abilities: Unknown
Rank: CEO
Very Little is known about 'The Boss' save for the fact that he runs Renaissance Systems (RenSys). He is calm and calculating and seems to treat most things as if they were a chess match. Currently unknown to PCs is he is a clone of Chaosiris.
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Erzengel
Name: Allie Seryna
Abilities: Technokinetic, Weapon Proficiency
Rank: Bodyguard
Very little is known about the 'Erzengel' outside of the fact that she is a clone of Alenna Seryna made by VIPER. She has shown technokinetic abilities and the ability to understand and use any and all weapons with the proficiency of a master simply by holding it. She is dangerous, intelligent, and a mystery.
Active
The Master
Name: Fabian Rios
Abilities: Mind Control
Rank: Pharmaceutical Expert
Rios was going to college and took up dealing drugs to help pay for his tuition. He soon came to realize he had psychic powers and that certain drugs allowed him to mentally control people. Taking his knowledge of chemistry to a darker level, he created a drug known on the street as 'Mirror' and with it he could fully take control of and manipulate people amassing a large empire.
Active
Enemies: Various
Lust
Name: Rebecca Voclain
Abilities: Lust Manipulation, Telekinesis
Team: Member of the S.I.N.S.
She is an augmented human and was a victim of a rogue scientist named Dr. Alfred Wei, who sought to engineer his own private army of meta-humans to help him take over the world. This plan was eventually stopped before Wei had gathered his army. A UNTIL Field Agent, her team was captured, tortured, brainwashed, and experimented by Dr. Wei.
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Mistress Tempest
Name: Lorraine Crest
Abilities: Weather Control, Winged Flight
Team: None
Tempest uses her ability to manipulate and control weather to rob banks and jewelry stores. She has had many run ins with both Keio and Kara and has recently started up a small rivalry with Kara after she stopped her from robbing a bank.
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Skinwalker
Name: Unknown
Abilities: Shapeshifter, Sorcery
Team: None
Skinwalker is a male Navajo witch who uses dark magics to murder people, he is also known to eat the flesh of his victims. On top of his magical powers he also has the ability to transform into various animals, most commonly that of a Coyote. Very Dangerous.
Active
RP Hooks
- Member of "Freelancer Industries" (Her Father's Company and Super Group).
- Member of the Protectors of the World.
- Former member of the Young Sentinels.
- Also known as 'The Boston Blitz'.
- Graduate of the Ravenswood Academy.
- Attends Harvard.
Trivia
FACTS
- Due to her father's status as a god, she is by all technicalities a demigoddess.
- Like her father, Kara has Teleportation Sickness, the shock of teleporting tends to make her nauseous and usually violently ill. Portals do not seem to cause it though.
- Hides it well but she has mild PTSD from being mind controlled on multiple occasions.
- Can Play the Piano.
- Trained in her Father's fighting style.
- Regularly practices Gymnastics, finds it stress relieving.
- Favorite Drink - Half & Half Iced Tea Lemonade.
- Favorite Food - Squidballs.
- Favorite Video Game - Mechwarrior Series.
- Favorite Movie - Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
- Favorite Song - "Here Again" - Approaching Nirvana.
- Favorite Sports Teams - San Diego Chargers (NFL), Boston Celtics (NBA), Atlanta Braves (MLB), Boston Bruins (NHL).
- Favorite Board Game - Arkham Horror.
OPINIONS
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- "It's scary how much like her mother she is." - Seth McIlroy
- "Kara is awesome! Asskicking powers and gadget stuff and she's an all around cool person! We totally need more super nerd girls punching faces out there!" - Dobergirl
- "Competent, though a bit more whimsical than I'd prefer. I think we'll see a lot of good come from her on the team regardless. She's an eternal optimist, which can only help boost the morale of others on the Protectors." - Sparrowhawk
- "I'm just starting to get to know her, but how is she so kickass and cute? She knows how to dress too!" - African Violet
- "She's a good kid. Helpful, too. She may be a little too fresh and just a bit green, but her heart's in the right place, I can tell you that much. Her and Sunny are just little bundles of fun." - All-Star
- "Kara has grown up into quite the capable hero. Her abilities are impressive just by themselves, but when augmented via her ACE Armors, her powers get boosted to incredible levels. I still worry she's too young, but she can definitely handle herself out in the field." - Razira
Meta Information
Live Action
- Actress: Either Emily VanCamp or Hayley Williams
INSPIRATIONS
- Buffy Summers: Aka the Vampire Slayer, Kara uses a lot of Buffy Speak
- The Green Lanterns: Main inspiration for her Psycho-Electrokinetic constructs.
- Cara: One of my friends from High School and primary basis for Kara's personality.
- Winry Rockbell: Bits and pieces here and there, mostly her dedication and technical prowess.
- Keioseth: She is his daughter after all.
Personal Soundtrack
- 1. Theme Song: Calypso - Spiderbait
- 2. Waking Up: Never Forget You - Noisettes
- 3. School Day: Take It Off - The Donnas
- 4. Hanging Out With Friends: Weekend Song (D.END Remix) - The Freestylers
- 5. Homework: Shut Up and Let Me Go - The Tings Tings
- 6. In the Lab/Computer Work: 19/2000 (Soulchild Remix) - Gorillaz
- 7. Patrolling: I Love Rock And Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
- 8. Fight: Trouble - Pink
- 9. Charged Up: Takedown - Blue Stahli
- 10. Escape: Perfect - Flyleaf
- 11. Breakdown: Our Truth - Lacuna Coil
- 12. Memories: Everything Fades - Poets of the Fall
- 13. Back in the Saddle: Escape Plan - Paramore
- 14. Prep: I Miss The Misery - Halestorm
- 15. Face to Face: You Make Me Wanna Die - The Pretty Reckless
- 16. Final Fight Scene:You're Gonna Listen - In This Moment
- 17. Ending Credits: Scrape The Sky (feat. Fresh Big Mouf) - Can't Stop Won't Stop
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| Team Leader Sparrowhawk | ||
| Field Leaders: Captain Adamant • Peacemaker • Razira • Thundrax | ||
| Protectors Charter Members: African Violet • Atomac • Blue Cyclone • Blue Pheasant • Citizen 13 • Cosmic Glory • Fahrenheit • Gold Rush • Hydro Light Of Being • Lucky Shot • Marauder • Mercuriel • Oni • Sinsonte Azul • Tesseract • Wildeye • Witchery Way | ||
| Protectors Reserve Members: Aura • Noble • Psion • Wolfgirl | ||
| @Keioseth's Characters | ||
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| Heroes: Keioseth • Keioseth II • Cobalt Crush • Starlancer • Asche • Voukashin • Kanaloa • Crimson Mage • Bruno McLeod • Jace McLeod Kwiksilver • Arcturus • Drystan Zauberei • Boun Takashita • Skyraider | ||
| Villains: Renegades • RenSys • Rogues Gallery | ||
| Places & Things: ACE Suit • The Garage | ||
| Groups: Freelancer Industries | ||
