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:	36
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 Neutral
Reputation:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Big-time
Identity:	Secret
Years Active:	<17
Citizenship:	United States of America
Occupation:	Unemployed
Education:	Some High School
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. 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 jet-setting 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.

Her journey to freedom was arduous; but the trials she underwent steeled her resolve and deepened her expanding psychic abilities. She took revenge upon her creditors, slowly dismantling their psionic protection until their minds succumbed to a rather painful scalping. In her thirties, battle-tested and matured, Vesper now heads her own psionic racketeering enterprise, raiding the minds of the wealthy for trade secrets or evidence of illegal activity; when these precious pearls come into her unscrupulous possession, she ruthlessly blackmails her targets under the cloak of telepathic anonymity. Vesper's success is evinced by her now obscene investment portfolio, and the blonde bombshell must ensure that her links to criminal activity remain expunged from the minds of the MCPD or other meddlesome heroes.

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. In truth, she performs as a bimbo to disarm her victims to encourage their underestimation of her; in so doing, their minds become less guarded and easier to plunder. Vesper's femininity is a weapon to acquire power and a shield to deflect notice away from her true intentions. Vesper may only be loyal to herself, but she is not a needlessly sadistic person. That said, those who have crossed swords with her may beg to differ.

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 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 dislikes hand-to-hand combat, 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

D I S C O R D

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