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Real Name: (l): Unknown; (II): Nigel Frobisher Occupation: (I): Crimelord; (II): merchant banker and crime lord Legal Status: (I): British citizen with criminal record; (II) British citizen with no criminal record Identity: Secret Place of Birth: England Marital Status: (I): Unknown; (II): Single Known Relatives: None Base of Operations: London, England Past Group Affiliations: (I): None; (II): Underling of Courtney Ross Known Powers: Vixen I: None. Vixen I started out as a normal woman with no super powers; now she's a normal fox of unusual color. Vixen II: Shapechenge: Vixen II can shapechange from Nigel Frobisher into the female form of Vixen II whenever he wishes in one round. Equipment: Vixen's connections enable her to purchase advanced weapons and equipment for her troopers. Talents: Vixen I: Vixen has a good understanding of the criminal mind (since she is one), giving her the Criminology talent. She also has the Leadership talent. Vixen II: Nigel is a merchant banker, with the Business/Finance talent. He is learning to become a criminal. Contacts: Vixen I: She has an extensive network of criminal contacts in the London underworld, and a web of less developed criminal connections throughout the south of England. Vixen II: Nigel has worked to expand Vixen's criminal influence. In his normal identity as Nigel Frobisher, Nigel has business contacts in the city (the London financial district), especially with bank executive Courtney Ross. He sometimes works with Gatecrasher's Technet and Jamie Braddock. He has met with (and made a bad impression on) Excalibur, but they are unaware of his dual identity. Role-Playing Notes: Vixen I: The original Vixen's main interest was money and power. She boasted that she'd never help anyone if she wasn't paid to do so, and lived up to that motto. Despite her cockney origins and accent, Vixen enjoyed being treated as a fine lady by her henchmen, and reacted violently to any disrespect. She had a brazen, domineering personality, and was never one to back down from threats from vigilante heroes or rival criminals (although she knew how to cut her losses and run in the face of danger). "There is no honor among thieves" sums up her working philosophy. She thought little of betraying other supervillains, such as Slaymaster, who had worked with her. Appropriately enough, she was eventually betrayed herself. Vixen II: Nigel Frobisher is an average person whose overreaching ambition saw him thrust willy-nilly into the role of a supervillain. As Vixen II, Nigel Frobisher tries to act as close as possible to the original Vixen in order to maintain his masquerade. However, although he is a good organizer and negotiator, Nigel is fundamentally a coward and would be sorely tested in any serious crisis. When Nigel is in his own body, he is an overconfident boor and a rather crude womanizer whose deepest desire is to be as cold, elegant, and ruthless as his boss, Courtney Ross. It remains to be seen if his humiliation by Courtney and his life as Vixen will alter these tendencies for better or for worse. History: Vixen I grew up in the London area, and gradually fought her way to a place as the top dog of the London underworld, specializing in risky crimes such as armed robbery and hiring out her troopers as high-tech mercenaries. She built up an impressive lair containing advanced criminal laboratories, and fought Captain Britain on numerous occasions, once even capturing him and stealing his power-enhancing costume. Vixen's success lasted until she met Nigel Frobisher. An up-and coming merchant banker whose only contact with superheroes was a number of failed attempts to meet Rachel Summers (Phoenix II). Nigel had the misfortune to catch the attention of financier Courtney Ross, or rather, Courtney's evil extra-dimensional counterpart, Opul Lun Sat-yr-nin who had murdered her and taken her place. While visiting a British branch of the Hellfire Club, Nigel lost a million-dollar gambling wager with "Courtney" and rather than suffer the social humiliation of publicly welshing on a debt, he was persuaded to enter her service. Since then, he has been used as a pawn in his mistress's scheme to control the London underworld. Following her orders, Nigel contacted Gatecrasher's Technet and arranged for them to rescue Jamie Braddock from Africa. After convincing Braddock to cooperate, he then arranged a meeting with Vixen I. Vixen I expected to hear a business proposition. Instead, Nigel intended to eliminate her and take over her gang. Jamie Braddock's new reality-altering powers transformed Vixen into a white fox and Nigel was turned into a duplicate of Vixen, with the ability to assume his own form at will. In service to Courtney Ross, Nigel has since used his masquerade to take over and expand Vixen's criminal influence among the various London mobs. The original Vixen is now an ill-tempered house pet of Jamie Braddock. Vixens Troopers: Vixen commands a large number of criminal underlings. Their statistics are given below:
Known Powers: None. All of Vixen's troopers gain their abilities from their equipment. Equipment: The equipment of Vixen's troopers (and sometimes Vixen herself) includes: Body Armor: Some troopers wear Body Armor with Typical rank protection vs. physical and energy attacks. Vixen doesn't use it, preferring more fashionable camouflage pantsuits. Guns: Vixen's troopers are armed with assault rifles and pistols (Excellent range, Good Shooting damage) Jet Packs: Vixen's gang have sometimes used jet packs enabling them to fly at Good speed. Talents: All troopers have the Guns talent, and Vixen's troopers usually include individuals skilled in a variety of specialized criminal talents, such as Safecracking. |