Strong Suit
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Hispanic-American
Terry Toledo is the daughter of 'El Cerebro Ceruleo' and 'Flor de Mayo', members of the 1980s South American super team 'Los Amigos Invencibles'. Born after her family resettled in Millennium City, she was perfectly prepared for when her powers inevitably manifested. At 16, she's developed powerful metal manipulation abilities. However, Terry has never shown much interest in heroics, preferring instead to follow in her father's footsteps as an engineer. Still, things change - when a family nemesis that promises to destroy everything she holds dear arrives in Millennium City, Terry put aside her apathy for capes and tights, and instead obtained the experimental alloys that transform her into Strong Suit.
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Biography
History
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Personality and Appearance
Teresa is taller than most girls her age, coming in at 5'7, and what an outwardly lanky appearance sets her apart from most of her peers. Still, she's inherited her mother's famed beauty, with gentle features and hazel eyes that peer out from behind a pair of glasses. When she dons the Strong Suit, she gains four inches in height, effective in making her an imposing opponent. The metal that composes the armor is dark grey, but Teresa painted portions red in order to better fit in as a costumed crime-fighter. The armor is sleek but heavy, yet when Teresa is moving, it appears almost impossibly fluid.
While in the suit, her voice is modulated to sound an octave lower, both to intimidate her opponents and to help hide her identity.
In most things, and school specially, she is very reserved, always expecting the worst when it comes to social interactions. Her strong focus on knowledgeable pursuits usually alienates most of her classmates, even the ones that are considered highly intelligent.
As Strong Suit, it's a different story. As a more or less reluctant hero, Teresa came into the field with a rather strict vision of what a superhero should be. As such, she's definitely not shy about making sure her colleagues know what she thinks is the best course of action. A life of being socially isolated due to her heightened intelligence has had the side effect of making her a rather confident and overbearing presence, if she's pushed towards it. Despite being moderately abrasive, she holds on to very strong convictions of compassion, loyalty, and honor, and is a pacifist at heart.
Powers and Abilities
Terry's principal superpower is ferrokinesis - the ability to manipulate metal. This power only began manifesting in the past couple of years, beginning as merely a parlor trick but growing rapidly into a formidable ability. She is able to exert a sort of telekinesis over moderate metal masses, and can even manipulate the physical properties of metals close to her.
Even so, Terry is still relatively inexperienced with the power, and though she has powerful capabilities, her ferrokinesis is limited by both her distance from and the mass of the metal she wishes to exert her power over.
- Further than 100 feet - Minimal kinetic control over small masses of metal.
- 70 to 100 feet - Can control the trajectory of smaller metallic masses. Free movement is limited.
- 50 to 70 feet - Can control the trajectory of medium metal masses. Full control over smaller masses.
- 20 to 50 feet - Slight influence over larger masses. Full control over medium masses. Able to slightly alter the molecular structure of smaller metal masses.
- 10 to 20 feet - Significant kinetic and molecular control over most metal masses.
- Immediate range - Maximum power. Complete control over the motion and physical properties of most metal masses.
Terry is even capable of bypassing the distance dampener between her and a metallic mass by finding a physical metallic link between her and the object. Usually, her cable-launcher serves to fulfill that purpose.
Terry is also extremely intelligent, showing almost unnatural intuition for science and engineering for someone her age. Her sharpened mind also allows for excellent reflexes, hand-eye coordination, and impressive aim. A couple of years of karate, insisted upon by her parents, have taught her basic combat skills, but her limited training makes her fighting style very rough and tumble.
Not that she minds - she is literally covered in 225 pounds of metal, all of which she has precise control over; the suit grants her artificial superstrength as a result, and Terry can use sheer momentum to become a human ram, able to crash into things with great force, specially if she gets a running start.
Equipment
Terry's main piece of equipment, of course, is the Strong Suit. It's made of an experimental metal called Decium, which was developed by Force Ten Technologies, with the help of her father, a member of the group and a materials scientist. While Terry could theoretically mold any metal to make the Strong Suit, Decium was specially crafted to be able to morph into different shapes through electrical discharges. Though she doesn't have that power, the molecular pliability makes it an ideal choice, giving Terry both fluidity and solid protection.
The design of the Strong Suit, which Terry developed herself, is completely free of any electric components, with the exception of the voice modulator Terry employs, and her communicator. All the functions of the suit are activated and controlled by Terry's ferrokinesis. Among the Suit's features are:
- Cable launchers - coiled within each of her gauntlets is carbon-reinforced length of cable, which serve Terry as tools, weapons, and as her main mode of transportation via grappling onto the environment and swinging with the help of her powers. The cables allow her to form a connection between her and metal objects at a distance, allowing her more control than she'd normally be able to exert over them. The cables are detachable from her gauntlet at several points in the coil, enabling her to launch them out at enemies to bind them, or to tie objects or people to each other.
- Shurikangs - The metal that lines the front of Terry's gauntlets is able to 'peel off' at will into projectiles that act as a mix between shuriken and boomerangs. Though they are sharp and durable, they are also light, allowing Terry to be able to control their trajectories even at longer distances. They're able to strike targets both with force and precision, and are her main ranged tool.
- Chain - When old school techniques are required, Terry has a length of chain wrapped around her waist that she can use as a melee weapon, to great effect. Of course, it can also be used to bind enemies.
