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Biographical Information
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| Name: | Christina Flint |
| Age: | 16 |
| Place of Residence: | Ravenswood Academy, Orchardville, MI |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Legal Status: | Minor; Vigilante |
| Identity: | Secret |
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Physical Features
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| Gender: | Female |
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian |
| Hair: | Blonde |
| Eyes: | Blue |
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Known Powers
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| Electrical draining; Increased strength, stamina, and resilience | |
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| Any equipment must be heavily shielded from electrical drain | |
Originally from Hudson City, New Jersey, Christie Flint was transferred to Ravenswood Academy when she, along with many other teens in the city, began exhibiting nascent superpowers. Despite the change in location, Christie and her peers retained the Hudson City tendency of taking the law into their own hands, helping to form the teenage vigilante group which would eventually call itself the Hotshots.
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Powers
Electrical Drain
Christie draws the electricity out of anything she touches. This effect is involuntary, and prevents her from using any kind of electronic device without strict precautions.
Overcharge
The electrical energy that Christie draws out is stored by her body, and she can use it to push her body to extreme feats of strength and endurance. She can also simply discharge it, but that results in it radiating from her body indiscriminately.
Background
Early Life
Christie comes from the Red Hill neighborhood of Hudson City. Despite high poverty rates, it is hardly the worst place in the city to grow up in, but several of Hudson City's worst neighborhoods are nearby. As a child, she was simply thought to be unlucky with electronics; wristwatches would die when worn, the television would show static when touched, and so on.
Adolescence
The older Christie got, the worse her electrical drain became. She was no longer allowed to touch the television set, the refrigerator, or the telephone at home. The machines in her school's meager computer lab would shut off when she tried to use them. When the other kids her age were starting to get their own cell phones, she was left behind.
Christie's problems came to a head when, after accidentally draining the television her class was supposed to watch a film on, she retaliated to another student's teasing with a slap of unforeseen force: inflicting a concussion and sprained neck on the unfortunate victim. Her disciplinary report flowed upward from her school's superintendent, joining over a dozen others that pointed to a burgeoning class of supers in Hudson City.
Ravenswood Academy
It didn't take long for the Hudson City Council, who were eager to maintain their city's "super free" reputation, to work out a scholarship with Ravenswood Academy, located in a suburb of Millennium City, Michigan. It was a prestigious school, and a better future than most Hudson City natives could hope for.
However, it was a difficult transition for many of the new students, Christie included. She was used to living in a dog-eat-dog environment where no one was to be trusted. Now she was expected to live in a comfortable, affluent suburb where people could walk the streets without fear. They even deferred to the local government and police here!
The Hotshots
Despite the attitudes of her new home, Christie saw problems that were all too familiar: Petty crime ran rampant, and a police force that was too beleaguered - or too timid - to deal with it all. Collaborating with her displaced comrades in secret, they formed a new group dedicated to solving things the Hudson City way:
To assist the authorities while expecting nothing in return; to enact justice when it exceeded the long reach of the law; to make every community of Millenium City safe, at any hour of the day. They were a new breed of vigilante whose efforts would blaze against the city's darkest shadows. They were Hotshots!
