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Nevyn_Black said:
That's what I love about being a writer. I like to take impossible things like magic and explain in some fashion that makes sense, how it happened. To me, that is more entertaining than just saying that Ninja's can do anything.
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Exactly. Exactly. Exactly.

All things in moderation. There's a place for Jedi mind-trick timey-wimey handwaving and "that's how the world works" sort of dismissals, but if there's an explanation in place that says *why* the world works like that, so much the better.
 
Vail_Indigo said:
For me?

Delirium
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I have ever had a sisterly affection for her.

Like me, she was once a creature of delight, but has since been damaged.

Barnabas is one of my favorite characters in "Sandman" because of how he looks out for her.
 
Sheesh, you guys have been prolific today. I figured I needed to slip something in, just to stay in the game.
 
This is what happens when I get stuck home from work in the snow. I get itchy, heh.

Sorry for leaving you in the dust. :/
 
ChasNicollette said:
That's a shame.

Maybe if he goes off into space he can find a Space Girlfriend?

That Fatality lady is cute, she hates Green Lanterns, they could bond!
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We'll see where it ends up. I've got some ideas, but I want to let it flow and let his story come about organically. Like a Bean curd and Alfalfa sprout salad.
 
Oi vey.. weaving so many threads into place is... stressful. lol. Only a few more to work in for the groundwork to be in place. Muhahahahahaha evil plans are go!
 
Can't wait to catch up on the thread, day after tomorrow's shift. I need some heroes in my life like I've NEVER needed them before, Mister "Lunaramblings"! ;)

*waves to Miss "TearsoftheWorld"* Welcome back, to the *REAL* Supergirl! ;)

*thinks the duo exchange of Miss "Vail_Indigo" and Miss "ChasNicollette"...is affectionately cute!*

*nods to "Nevyn_Black"!*
 
Just a reminder, I struggle to keep up with the OOC, so if you want me to edit something IC, please PM me O.O
 
Foxy.

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Celebrity Faceclaim:
Kali Hawk

Name:
Mari Jiwe McCabe

Alias:
Vixen

Base of Operations:
Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City

Alignment: (Good/Bad/Antihero)
Good

Affiliations:
Justice Society (Reserve)

Family:
Richard McCabe (father, deceased)
Jeanne-Mari Jiwe McCabe (mother, deceased)
Joshua McCabe (grandfather)

Friends:
Justice Society

Bio:
Richard McCabe was a well-to-do philanthropist of German-Jewish and Native American descent who spent half his time in New York and the rest in Nigeria, hoping to improve educational conditions and engage in other humanitarian pursuits. Over the course of his philanthropy, he met a Nigerian woman of Ghanaian descent named Jeanne-Mari Jiwe-- they fell and love and married. In 1996, they had a daughter, Mari. As they raised Mari, Richard and Jeanne-Mari continued to travel back and forth between Nigeria and New York, one foot in both worlds, so that Mari would understand both her heritages. In her teen years, she even dabbled in a modeling career when in The States.

Jeanne-Mari had been handed down a totemic fox necklace from her ancestors, and she wore it everywhere she went. In early December 2013, however, she stopped wearing it-- she complained to Richard that she would "hear voices" every time she put it on, whispering, growling, chirping, and chittering.

Meanwhile, Mari had excelled in her studies both in America and Nigeria, and while in Africa had been attending a Secondary School alongside Nigerian girls in Chibok. However, attacks by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad, the group unofficially known as Boko Haram, had been steadily increasing in violence and militarization since 2009. As Boko Haram opposed the Westernization of Nigerian culture and education and the increasing disparity between the poverty-stricken and super-rich, they specifically targeted Richard because of his moneyed ways and Western influence, murdering both him and his "traitorous" wife on 14 April 2014.

Mari escaped this attack because she had been called into school with a number of other students to take final exams in physics, as the school year had to continue despite the deteriorating security situation. Unfortunately, here, too, Boko Haram's violence was felt-- they broke into the school, pretending to be guards, and kidnapped hundreds of girls-- Mari among them.

As the convoy of trucks carrying the captives slowed through a forest, Mari and a handful of other girls managed to jump off, hide in the woods-- she and the others had attempted to convince more to come with them, but many girls were too frightened to attempt escape.

While over 50 of those girls managed to escape, hundreds remained-- many of them would never be recovered, instead sold into slavery or forced into marriage. To this day, Mari struggles with survivor's guilt that she didn't stay with the others, despite being lauded for her bravery in escaping.

She did, however, return home to find her parents had been slain, and as her world continued to crumble around her, she found herself sent back to New York to live in Chelsea with her father's father, Joshua. He was kind, and wise, but he struggled to understand what Mari had been through. They had a strained relationship, though not an unloving one.

When Mari turned 18 in the autumn of 2015, she received her portion of her inheritance from her deceased parents, including a loft in Chelsea, considerable but not infinite money, and her mother's fox necklace, which had been safely locked away months before the attack.

Putting it on in memory of her mother, Mari immediately heard the same strange whispering voices and animal noises about which her mother complained, and as she strained to make out what they were saying, she thought she heard the growl of a tiger. Reaching up to touch the center of the pendant, Mari willed herself to hear that tiger's voice--

--and found herself suddenly filled with great strength, and speed, ferocity, heightened senses, and the ability to claw through brick and stone.

By hearing the voice of the tiger through the totem, she had become the tiger.

Mystified but fascinated, Mari discovered that any animal she thought of when touching the center of the amulet would cause her to manifest that animal's abilities in the form of conceptually-analogous superhuman powers.

While investigating the totem further, she traveled to Keystone City to consult Ceri Grant of The Fairfax Foundation on the nature and the history of the artifact. Ceri explained to her about comparative mythology, and how the Trickster archetype has taken many forms-- sometimes Coyote, sometimes Rabbit, sometimes Spider, sometimes Fox. The legend surrounding this totem was that it had been made for a Ghanaian warrior named Tantu by Kwaku Ananse himself, harnessing the powers of The Animal Kingdom so long as those powers were used to protect the innocent. But perhaps falling victim to the Spider's tricky nature, Tantu found that the totem did not do for him what he had asked, and it was instead passed down to his descendants in honor of his dream to protect others.

For whatever reason, The Tantu Totem had at long last now come to life, and Mari promised herself that she would honor that dream-- and honor the lives she had been unable to protect before.

Before she left Keystone-Central, she used the totem again, trying to help people still disenfranchised by The Flashpoint Crisis earlier that year-- and in so doing encountered The Flash himself, who then called in his de facto mentor, The Arrow.

While the Flash was at a low ebb emotionally and about to check into Ravenscar in order to try and restore his sanity, he was momentarily encouraged that another young person was willing to take up a hero's mantle. It was he that suggested the name "Vixen," just as Arrow had suggested "Flash" to him in turn.

It wasn't so long before she got a suit. Surprising both of her predecessors, however, she did decide to not wear a mask.

Nine years later, Vixen keeps up the good fight. While she has been ordered by ARGUS to not involve herself in internal Nigerian events, she has worked hard to protect the innocent here in America-- especially refugees displaced by African terror.

Powers:
The Tantu Totem mystically enables Vixen to tap into The Red-- the astral plane of The Animal Kingdom, otherwise known as Earth's morphogenetic field --and manifest the abilities of any one animal at a time, granting them to her in the form of conceptually-analogous superhuman powers. For instance, she can manifest the flight and speed of a peregrine falcon, though she does not sprout wings. She can gain the proportionate strength of an ant, or the leaping distance of a flea, any animal she can think of, so long as she can touch The Tantu Totem to trigger the manifestation and concentrate on the animal she needs.

If she is within a short distance of an animal with super powers of its own, such as Gorilla Grodd or Krypto, she can use The Tantu Totem to temporarily mimic those super powers as well as the animal's baseline abilities. She may also be able to do this if she encounters another person with Red-based powers, copying their abilities as an extension of The Red.

She has recently developed the ability to speak to animals and influence them so long as she is wearing The Tantu Totem-- not unlike Doctor Dolittle.

Vixen has studied hard to learn about animal abilities, making her a de facto zoologist. Sternly instructed by The Arrow that she cannot rely on a magical bauble to keep her safe, she has also strenuously trained in fighting styles and other skills so that if the totem ever fails her as it did Tantu, she won't be completely helpless.

Mari speaks English, French, German, Yiddish, and Kibaku-- the language native to her mother's hometown in Nigeria.

Weaknesses/Disabilities/Vulnerabilities:
Mari's powers are dependent upon The Tantu Totem. Separated from this, she is only human.

While wearing the totem, she can manifest only one animal at a time-- if she picks an animal ill-suited to a situation, she'll have to switch and try again-- which she can only do if she is not prevented from touching the totem.

On rare occasions, Mari has been known to be influenced by the animal spirits she channels, and is sometimes overwhelmed by the personality of whatever wild creature she is currently manifesting.

Because the Tantu Totem is mystical in nature, it and Vixen are vulnerable to phenomena that disrupt magical effects.

She still harbors vestiges of PTSD from her kidnapping and her parents' violent death.​
 
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