|
Fighting: |
Ex |
|
Agility: |
Ex |
|
Strength: |
Ex |
|
Endurance: |
Gd |
|
Reason: |
Ty |
|
Intuition: |
Rm |
|
Psyche |
Ex |
|
Health: |
70 |
|
Karma: |
56 |
|
Resources: |
Gd |
|
Popularity: |
5 |
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Former vigilante, now an adventurer
Legal Status: American citizen with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Chord (father), Miyami (mother), Tai (grandmother), brother (Midnight’s Fire)
Base of Operations: Taylor Foundation
Past Group Affiliations: Midnight’s Fire gang, New Warriors
Known Powers:
Living Silhouette: Silhouette has the Remarkable ability to assimilate and recorporate herself into and out of any area of darkness or shadow, shifting into the Darkforce dimension. While in shadowform she effectively vanishes, becoming totally insubstantial. This ability is similar to Phasing, except that it only works in darkness or shadow and doesn’t disrupt electrical systems. Silhouette doesn’t seem to be able to walk through solid materials, although she can slip between the cracks of a door or through a villain’s grasp with ease. A drawback to her power is that her normal clothes (and crutches) do not become insubstantial with her. When not in her special costume made of unstable molecules, this can lead to embarrassing situations!
Enhanced Sensory Perception: Silhouette has a Remarkable level Combat Sense and gets +1CS when using her normal senses (sight, hearing, etc) to notice things or avoid ambush.
Equipment:
Weapon: Sil can strike with her crutches, using them as +1CS weapons of Excellent Material Strength, inflicting Good Blunt damage. Night Thrasher recently built an electrical taser charge into them, allowing her to cause Excellent Energy damage by touching someone with them (Fighting FEAT).
Limitations:
Silhouette suffered a serious spinal injury and moves with the help of two crutches. Walking without them is uncomfortable to her, but she possesses super-normal strength, speed, and reflexes. In time of need, she can move as fast or faster than a normal person (with or without her crutches), hence her high ratings for Agility and Fighting. But if forced to stay on her feet for more than a few minutes without her crutches, the Judge should reduce her Fighting and Agility by at least 1 CS.
Talents:
Silhouette has the Acrobatics and Martial Arts talents, and can speak accented Korean.
Contacts:
Besides being a member of the New Warriors, Silhouette is on favorable terms with the Punisher.
Role-Playing Notes:
Silhouette is a quiet person, who nevertheless believes in helping people who are in trouble. She loves Dwayne Taylor (Night Thrasher), but feels that he is overprotective of her, obsessed with his guilt over her injuries, and often too grim, tense, and withdrawn for his own good. Silhouette sometimes tries to draw him out of his shell and get him to share his troubles or take decisive action. She is usually successful.
Silhouette is disgusted by the criminal activities of Midnight’s Fire, and no longer considers him her brother. However, she still cares for the person he once was, and might help him if he were in trouble if she saw a chance to reform him.
As a physically active person, she is sometimes frustrated with the limitations her disability places on her fighting prowess: she once exclaimed that she “wasn’t whole anymore.” However, Silhouette is a determined woman who has learned to live with and transcend her handicaps, and she has recently begun functioning once more as a costumed crime fighter.
Her shadow-shifting ability makes her the New Warrior’s best scout, and in battle she usually waits on the sidelines, using her insubstantiality to sneak up on foes, then turning solid to make a quick slashing attack with her crutches.
History:
Silhouette grew up knowing little of her past, believing her parents to have been killed in a car accident when she was a baby. Silhouette had known of her mutant powers from childhood, but kept them concealed. As a teenager, she worked with her brother, Midnight’s Fire, using their enhanced speed and senses to battle street crime. Together, they ran a series of sting operations, gaining criminals’ confidence, then busting their gangs. During this period she met Dwayne Taylor, and fell in love with him. Dwayne joined them, and the crimefighting duo became a trio.
One night Silhouette was infiltrating a Chinatown gun-running operation with Dwayne and Midnight’s Fire as backup when a police officer unexpectedly appeared. Things quickly went sour; afraid the policeman was going to shoot Silhouette, Midnight’s Fire prepared to throw a knife at him. Dwayne stopped him, but the result was a firefight with Silhouette caught in the middle. A stray bullet struck her in the spine, and she collapsed, mortally injured. Midnight’s Fire blamed his sister’s fate on Dwayne Taylor’s interference and the two parted bitter foes, Dwayne believing Silhouette was dead.
When their paths crossed again, Dwayne was Night Thrasher, and Midnight’s Fire had turned to crime for real, running another Chinatown gang with connections to Advanced Idea Mechanics. With the help of the New Warriors, Dwayne defeated Midnight’s Fire. He might have killed him except that Silhouette reappeared. She hadn’t been slain after all, but the desperate operation that saved her life had left her scarred and crippled.
Silhouette was disgusted at the revelation of Midnight’s Fire’s criminal activities and she abandoned her brother, resuming her close relationship with Dwayne. Since then, they’ve been trying to work out their feelings for each other.
Silhouette revealed her shadowshifting powers to the New Warriors when she helped protect her friend Father James against the assassin known as Bengal. She has begun wearing a costume, and is functioning as a full-fledged member of the team. She has also assisted the taciturn Night Thrasher in his role as team leader, arranging a reconciliation between Night Thrasher and Nova, who had resented the highhanded way Night Thrasher had dragooned him into joining the New Warriors.
As a New Warrior, Silhouette has fought a variety of foes, including the White Queen and her Hellions, Psionex, Harness, and Gideon. Most importantly, she has acted as a pillar of strength, providing crucial emotional support for Night Thrasher during the recent revelations of corruption within his Taylor Foundation.
Silhouette’s personal life has lately been rocked by revelations about her true parentage. Night Thrasher’s guardian, Tai, turned out to be Silhouette’s grandmother, and told Sil that Chord, Night Thrasher’s other guardian, is her real father. It has now been revealed that Miyami, Silhouette’s mother (and thus Tai’s own daughter) faked the deadly car accident in order keep Silhouette and her brother out of Tai’s hands. When Tai discovered this and learned of Silhouette’s true parentage, she killed Miyami and attempted to slay Silhouette, all to further a mysterious “pact.”