Vesper

Vesper
Player: @vesperlyn
The Telepathic Vixen
Character Build
Class Focus:	Crowd Control
Power Level:	40
Research & Development:	N/A
Biographical Data
Real Name:	Charlotte Cushing
Known Aliases:	Vesper
Gender:	Female
Species:	Mutant Human
Ethnicity:	White
Place of Birth:	New York City, New York
Base of Operations:	Millennium City, Michigan
Relatives:	Robert Cushing, Father; Emily Cushing, Mother
Characteristics
Age:	27
Height:	5'11
Weight:	"As if!"
Eyes:	Green
Hair:	Platinum blonde
Complexion:	Light
Physical Build:	"The best body money can buy!"
Physical Features:	Unusually long legs
Status
Alignment:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Chaotic Good
Reputation:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Reputable
Identity:	Secret
Years Active:	<1
Citizenship:	United States of America
Occupation:	Personal Attorney
Education:	BA, JD
Marital Status:	Single
Known Powers and Abilities
Telepathy
Equipment and Paraphernalia
An enviable shoe collection

Attributes
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	Agility	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Speed	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Fighting	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Projectiles	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Durability	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Resistance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intelligence	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Psyche	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intuition	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Charisma	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
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B I O G R A P H Y

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Vesper (née Charlotte) is the only child of Robert and Emily Cushing. The Cushings are new money, Upper East Side Manhattanites; Robert Cushing is a successful Wall Street corporate raider. Their marriage was one of convenience: Robert required a blonde, buxom trophy wife; Emily had a taste for luxury but neither the talent nor the means to acquire it. The young Charlotte suffered neglect from two parents absorbed entirely in their own worlds. Robert only praised his daughter for her physical appearance, while her mother resented Charlotte for eclipsing the aging woman with her youthful beauty.

Her telepathic abilities manifested at thirteen. The secretive girl did not disclose her newfound power to her parents; instead, she pilfered their minds for access to their financials, slowly siphoning funds to jumpstart her life far away from the toxic environment from which she came. Charlotte secured her legal emancipation through dubious means and relocated to Millennium City at the age of seventeen, bringing her sizable investment portfolio with her.

Eager to pursue a lifestyle of hedonistic decadence on her own terms, Charlotte deployed her telepathic talents to become a fixture on the Detroit party scene. The blonde leveraged a connection from high school to work part-time as a secretary for the then-CEO of Happy Stay Hotels, Drake Cosweld. Outside of her secretarial duties, she was a club kid turned local celebrity, famous for her scandalously revealing outfits and flirtatious demeanor. The press dubbed her "Vesper" because, like the martini immortalized by James Bond, once you've tasted it, it's all you'd ever want to drink. The name stuck as a sort of handle for her promotional work on the club scene.

For all her mature pretensions, Vesper was still very much a naïve young woman who had not learned her rights from her wrongs. She fell deep into drinking and drugs, cavorted with an illicit crowd, and spent her money unwisely to satisfy any whim that popped into her pretty blonde head. Eventually, this self-destructive partying lifestyle caught up with her. The Purple Gang had financed some of Vesper's jetsetting activities, and it was time for her to pay the piper. The gang conscripted her into their employ as a means of paying off her astronomical debt, leveraging her psionic gift for a variety of criminal enterprises. Vesper quarreled with her captors, and reluctantly battled some superheroes in (mostly) losing efforts, but she could find no way out of her predicament without implicating herself in serious legal jeopardy.

Enter Carl Davis, the hero known as Break Down, a true man of the people in Westside. During a routine patrol, he liberated Vesper from her captivity and offered her an alternative path to the downward spiral of debt and crime consuming her life. She was placed under Carl's probationary supervision for the purposes of reforming her criminal instincts and training her to fight injustice. Her rehabilitation was largely a success, though Vesper retained her predilections for vanity and subtle psionic manipulation.

Faced with the daunting prospect of finding gainful and honest employment, the blonde put herself through law school with a sizable scholarship reserved for redeemed villainesses. Though Vesper's ability to process and retain complicated arguments and information was felt to be lacking by most of her professors, her charm and wits propelled her to modest success at school. Her first client asked Vesper to represent her in a lawsuit against her former friend and employer, Drake Cosweld. Vesper was game for the challenge of taking down a man like Cosweld, but the entrepreneur had her number. He made Vesper an offer she couldn't refuse, and the blonde now handles all of his legal matters and is his front-facing assistant.

P S Y C H O L O G Y

Vivacious. Flirtatious. Playful. A huge %$^&ing ditz. Vesper epitomizes the "dumb blonde" stereotype: she can be vain, shallow, and self-centered, with the shakiest of handles on topics unrelated to sex, fashion, and beauty. She craves attention, and she is not shy about using her looks or body to acquire it. She is not, however, an irredeemable narcissist: Vesper is a smooth talker and a charming socialite. If she put these skills to uses other than self-gratification, she'd make a killer diplomat, lobbyist, or public relations executive. Moreover, behind the glitzy exterior is a girl desperately looking for love and approval from someone who could fill the void left by her disinterested parents.

A B I L I T I E S

Vesper's telepathic mutation grants her the standard abilities of most psychics: she can listen to others' thoughts, project thoughts and illusions into other minds, broadcast telepathic messages, place a mind under psionic sedation, or fire bolts of psychic electricity that can fry a victim's neural synapses. She specializes in "soft" mental control, deploying her own brand of sultry seductiveness in addition to her telepathic powers of persuasion to influence the minds around her in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

She is by no means an expert in the use of her power, having received no formal training in telepathy. She faces considerable difficulty trying to subdue strongly willed individuals, and negative physical stimuli such as extreme exertion or pain can "scare away" her mutant gift. In addition, Vesper lacks the raw psionic might of a psychic like Menton; however, she compensates for a power shortage with preternatural, laser-precise dexterity, dancing through a person's psyche with effortless grace...provided she gains access to these treasure troves of memories first.

Vesper has no combat training, and she will avoid engaging an enemy with her fists unless deprived of all other options. In battle, she finds success telepathically coordinating the movements of her teammates, casting psionic illusions to torment her foes, or serving as an enticing "distraction," turning heads and leaving a combatant open to an assault from a more powerful teammate. Though some might dismiss the blonde as little more than a telepathic cheerleader, Vesper can be deadly when underestimated: when she trains her telepathy on a single, undefended mind, there's no telling what sort of permanent damage she could inflict.

T R O P E S

Abusive Parents, Brainless Beauty, Damsel in Distress, Distracted by the Sexy, Dumb Blonde, Femme Fatale, Heel-Face Turn, Heroic Seductress, She's Got Legs, Show Some Leg, Stripperiffic, The Upper Crass

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