Typhoid Mary
| Typhoid Mary (Scenesys ID: 1249) | |||
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| After a particularly violent action scene with bullets whizzing past her ears, grenades being lobbed, kicking ass, and burning people to a crisp, Typhoid Mary laughs, manic and frenzied, "WHO WANTS TO F***?! ...I mean, WITH ME. WHO WANTS TO F*** WITH ME, NOW?!" | |||
| Profile | |||
| Full Name: | Mary Walker | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Species: | Mutant | ||
| Theme: | Marvel (VFC) | ||
| Occupation: | Mercenary / Psychopath | ||
| Citizenship: | United States of America | ||
| Residence: | New York City | ||
| Education: | High School Dropout | ||
| Status: | Active | ||
| Groups: | Light, Hench, Martial Arts, Mutant-OOC, Street Level-OOC | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 29 | Actual Age: | 29 |
| Date of Birth | 15 March 1998 | Actor: | Christy Mack |
| Height: | 180 cm (5'11") | Weight: | 82 kg (182 lbs.) |
| Hair Color: | Blood Red | Eye Color: | Milk White |
| Theme Song: | "Ich Tu Dir Weh" by Rammstein | ||
Profile
Bad things turn good girls into bad ones. Mary Walker is a good girl, she swears, cross her heart. But she's a fragment, a piece of a whole -- there are others inside, jostling for position. There's Mary, pure, angelic. Bloody Mary, vengeful, misandrist. And Typhoid, all heat and sickness, all sex and blood. Gifted with the mutant power of pyrokinesis, Typhoid gets her kicks in the murder-for-hire biz, and leaves utter chaos for the rest of herself (and anyone foolish enough to follow) to sift through afterward.
Current Player Approved: October 7, 2018
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Description
Tall and fit, Typhoid Mary has the type of indefinable presence that drags the limelight after her. Part of it is her poise, sultry and aggressive. Part of it is her look, which is somewhere between punk, BDSM, and the future. Shaved to the skin at the sides, her wide mohawk stripe of unnaturally dark red hair is roped into long, skinny dreadlocks, and her face -- wide-eyed and ferally beautiful -- no longer sports the half-kabuki mask she once wore, but deeply shadowed eyes and pure-white contact lenses that mask the direction in which she's looking.
Typhoid wears thoroughly inappropriate leather. A tall, black posture collar (though, apparently, flexible enough for her needs) encases her neck and frames the unforgiving beauty of her jaw-line. In lieu of a shirt, she's wearing what could charitably be described as a harness--her breasts' shame-buttons taped down beneath twin black X's. Her hands sport leather sheaths that leave her knuckle-ringed fingers free, her thumbs thrust through holes designed for that purpose. How long these sheaths are is unclear, as her arms are otherwise covered.
History
Born to a pair of people who never should've had children, Mary Alice Walker grew up rather quickly in the skeezy, filthy streets of Brooklyn, New York. When she turned the ripe age of ten, her mother killed herself by leaping out a window from their fifth floor apartment in the slums--in Mary's view, she escaped and got freedom from the abuse.
When her father and his dealer tried to abuse her, her powers manifested, lighting both men and the apartment on fire. Bloody's first appearance. She woke up in a strange motel as Mary. She had no idea where she was or what happened--only that she was...free. After a short time on the streets, she found her way to a brothel owned by a very prominent crimelord.
She did well enough at the brothel until the night a vigilante and assassin clashed in its hallways. The assassin, a friend of her father's, triggered Typhoid to rise and she threw herself into the fray, killing the man, only to be thrown through a window by a stray vigilante kick. While in the hospital, her care paid for by the crimelord, things are cleaned up for her. When she awakes from a coma, Typhoid is firmly in control. Before she could be sedated, however, she stabbed her doctor in throat with a needle.
Personality
At her core, Mary is an incredibly damaged human being. She is a product of her horrific upbringing. She's a survivor that (a) fortune (by way of opportunistic crimelord) found, and trained, honing her feral murderous impulsivity into a formidable, deadly assassin. Each of her personalities are distinctly different, have different tastes and goals in life, and even affect actual biological differences when they emerge, down to having different scents and different physical appearances, including hairstyles, eye colors, fingerprints, and more.
Mary (called Sweet Mary by her other personalities) is the innocent of the collection. She is rather vapid and airheaded, a would-be/has-been actress trying to make it big. She can't handle very stressful situations and she comes out very rarely, since Typhoid and Bloody tend to keep her penned -- mostly for her own safety.
Bloody is rather the other end of the spectrum. She is often believed to be non-verbal, for she rarely speaks -- her level of insanity and her murderous intent is quite clearly telegraphed by her crazy eyes and feral, animalistic body posture and language. She is about as misandrist as it's possible to be, and will often murder any male she comes across, if she thinks she can get away with it -- and, sometimes, even when she knows she shouldn't. When she has time on her side, she's a serial killer, highly ritualistic in her dispatching of people. However, Typhoid generally is able to keep her under, locked deep inside, to keep this rather dangerous hobby at bay.
Abilities
AGILITY
As a result of all of her training, and due to an innate ability to move quickly, Typhoid Mary's agility has been greatly honed to the point that, when she is sword-fighting, she can deflect bullets from a close range--if she is /really/ on top of her awareness, she can deflect semi-automatic fire. Her reflexes are extraordinarily keen and her dexterity is crisply precise, allowing her to move and react with speeds that seem superhuman.
MICRO SHAPESHIFTING
This power is something Mary Walker has no control over and it only works, currently, when she shifts between her personalities. In each persona, she has an entirely different physical body, including facial features, body scent, biorhythms, hair style, and so on. She typically has red hair and green eyes, though each one of the personae have their own shade and style. Typhoid has tattoos while Sweet and Bloody do not. Bloody is covered in tons of scars that neither of the others possess, though they all have their own scars. This is why those with super senses are unable to connect her as Typhoid to Sweet, or as Bloody to Typhoid, and so on.
PYROKINESIS
The most violent manifestation of Typhoid Mary's mutancy is her ability to start fires with her mind. Obviously, there must be sufficient atmosphere for fire to burn. With a casual thought, she can start a small fire in the environment. With minor effort, she's capable of igniting a human being's clothes or flesh. With a good deal of effort, she can immolate a human completely. Mary is immune to the results of her powers, will not burn if she happens to catch fire, and can absorb fire into her body to stop things from burning.
As with her other powers, Typhoid's level of control varies from personality to personality.
Sweet Mary: no conscious access to this power, but capable of accidentally accessing it.
Typhoid Mary: full access, possesses the greatest control and finesse.
Bloody Mary: full access, but less finesse, more likely to lose control/go overboard.
TELEKINESIS
One of the powers in Mary's psionic suite is telekinesis, the power to move things somewhere in the range of ~10 pounds with her mind. She only has her personal practice with this power as she's used it throughout her life, and as such, she is an unpredictable, often creative practitioner compared to most active-in-violence teeks.
As she's worked hard to hone her control over TK, Mary has significantly increased the amount of weight she's capable of carrying in telekinetic burdens, and as such--though she tends to favor small, easily manipulated objects, such as knives--she is able to throw down with heavier hitters than she was, previously.
Like all of Mary's powers, her telekinesis is given different levels of prominence amongst her three distinct personae.
Sweet Mary: no conscious access to this power.
Typhoid Mary: full access, and, through determination to become better, has become more proficient in using it creatively in combat, close-quarter and otherwise.
Bloody Mary: full access, often uses it to assemble makeshift armor pieces out of knives and razors, the most erratic in temperament, doesn't have the same level of creativity or the finesse of Typhoid, tending to use it like brute force.
TELEPATHY
One of Mary's less remarked-upon mutant powers is her telepathy. Lacking formal training in its techniques, Mary has instead learned via doing. She'd be snuffed out like a candle in a psychic battle with Jean Grey or Moondragon, but she is by no means a weakling--just rough around the edges.
Mary's telepathy is typically used as a hypnotic mechanism: she implants suggestions into people's minds. This mental subterfuge is often accompanied by an empathetic reading of the target, so that Typhoid can tailor her speech/behavior to make her implanted suggestions more effective. In some cases, she can simply brute-force hack the brain and make people sleep, but this usually is only successful against those with less-than-stellar psychic defense.
Mary's powers are, as stated, largely untrained. Those with strong psychic defenses or strikingly high willpower are capable of deflecting or overcoming her hypnotic entreaties, and mind-scanning. As with her other powers and skills, Mary's telepathy is partitioned between her personalities.
Sweet Mary: no conscious access to this power.
Typhoid Mary: full access, and makes the most use of it; it's actually one of her most dangerous weapons.
Skills
COMBAT
As always, Typhoid's skills are divided amongst the three discrete sections of her collective psyche.
The least skillful of these is represented by Sweet Mary. She has taken a few women's self-defense courses, and that is about the extent of her combat prowess.
The most skillful, of course, is represented by Typhoid Mary with blades. Meanwhile, Bloody Mary is only slightly less skillful than Typhoid due to her tendency to lose control of her cool and attack like a berserker. Without blades, both Typhoid and Bloody Mary, are still formidable due to both being skilled, savage opponents, even (and sometimes /especially/) when unarmed. Both of these personae are in Olympic-level physical condition and black belts in Judo and various Judo-derived techniques, several times over.
Their precise fighting styles differ by personality -- Typhoid favoring a mixture of Zen Sword, a myriad blend of Judo, her telekinesis, and pyrokinesis -- and Bloody favoring telekinesis, thrown blades, guns, and brutally merciless beat-downs with no flair or panache whatsoever. Despite these differences, broadly speaking, they are on a par with one another.
KILL METHODS
As a /DAMNED/ good assassin, Typhoid Mary knows practically every way possible...to kill a person. She knows how to make it look like an accident. She knows how to frame someone else. She knows what chemicals to mix to make a wide array of poisonous cocktails that kill quickly, moderately, and slowly.
She knows the different kill methods of gangs, in order to frame them. She knows how to kill cleanly. She knows anatomy, pressure points, and how to read tolerance levels. She knows more about killing people than she knows about world geography, mathematics, or English grammar rules. It's her way of life and she loves what she does.
MANIPULATION
The three sides of Mary all practice different forms of manipulation, most of which are effective at skewing a playing field to her own advantage.
Sweet Mary doesn't actively manipulate people into doing what she wants, although she is a soap-opera-level actress. She does, however, often passively manipulate people by being such a sad-sack naif -- it's only natural to want to take her under your wing and heal her many problems.
Typhoid Mary is the dirtiest player in the game when it comes to this stuff. She'll get people, men and women alike, so turned around they won't know what they're even doing anymore -- and she'll be in total control the whole time, giggling. She uses telepathy, seduction, blackmail, threats, begging, faux obedience... whatever works. And, she always finds what works.
Bloody Mary's idea of manipulation is manipulating a knife right into your face, and then doing so a whole bunch more times until your face is no longer a face.
SECURITY
Since assassination often involves getting past someone's defenses, Typhoid's become intimately acquainted with a wide variety of security systems and locks, learning the best way to bypass them and gain access, or simply how to avoid their various traps. She can quickly assess any security layout to know its capabilities (and her ability to bypass them). And, of course, she can flip the tables and establish complex security routines and program said systems for defensive needs.
STEALTH
One of the most important parts of the art of assassination is the ability to go undetected. She can move in shadows with ease. She has mastered the art of moving silently, even when heavily armed. Put simply, she's good at all that ninja stuff you've heard so much about.
TORTURE
Typhoid Mary knows how to torture people. It's, in fact, one of her most useful skills. She doesn't limit herself to physical torture, either. She employs any and every method of inducing fear and pain in her prey. She's been trained to read body language well enough to determine how the target in question responds to various methods of pressure.
From what she discovers through the initial phase of torturing, she then mixes and matches her repertoire of torture methods to create the most effective torture cocktail to get whatever information she needs...or, to simply cause the most excruciating pain without actually killing the person until she's ready for them to die.
UNDERWORLD KNOWLEDGE
Having been inducted into a very prominent crimelord's organization as an adolescent, Typhoid has seen the inside of organized crime from all its levels, observing the flunkies and the underbosses as well as the man, himself, in action. She has a keen knowledge of criminal networks worldwide, although most especially in New York, and can navigate easily in shadowy and illegal societies.
ZEN SWORDSMANSHIP
Since she was an adolescent, taken into the care of a nameless benefactor with criminal ties, and started on the path to becoming a master assassin, Mary has shown an uncanny proficiency with bladed weapons. Though she was trained in and became a black belt in practically every form of Judo and Judo-variant known to man, she insisted on a blademaster to train her.
Because she showed such a proficiency, her benefactor found the best blademasters and hired them to train her in a rotation. As a result, she got, perhaps, the most comprehensive training possible in the use of both single and dual-wielded blades. After years and years of concentrated, grueling training and rigorous testing, she was finally allowed to graduate from her training as a formidable master of Zen Swordsmanship.
It should be noted that, Zen, in terms of her Swordcraft, is about focus and the ability to function without thought, with an empty mind. For Typhoid, her fighting is one place where she feels safe and at home, where she can let go, and so Zen is a good word for the place she goes to when she's in sword combat.
Resources
CONNECTIONS
Mary has worked hard to build up her list of contacts and connections. Painstakingly, she's weeded out the trustworthy, and murdered the untrustworthy. She follows the trail of trustworthy contacts' vetted connections and rigorously checks out each and every person she takes into her circle of 'trust,' as it were.
She's now running in more elite circles than in her past, which makes things more dangerous and difficult to find trustworthy connections, but she's practiced at this and has a foothold from which to continue her tedious, but time-tested method of making secure connections on whom she can rely.
IRON WILL
Because she is a survivor, in the face of all of the abuse and suffering she's withstood, no one could argue that Mary doesn't have an iron will. When she sets her mind on something, she will accomplish it or damned near die trying. Going through assassin training during her adolescence taught her to exert discipline and patience in the face of achieving her goals. Mary is stubborn and hard-headed, but like with everything in life, some bad comes with the good...and vice versa.
MONEY
Murder, as it turns out, is lucrative. Typhoid has enough money in various places to make a clean getaway and never work again. How much is hard to calculate, because there are accounts and holdings that one personality has, without informing the others. Typhoid has been really focusing on amassing a sizeable nest-egg for herself, including finding an investment banker for a portion of her savings, and taking on more and more work. Typhoid has the most money of the three, by far. Bloody tends to take advantage of Sweet Mary's money or scavenging from the people she kills, having no ability to be calm enough to take on work.
MULTIPLICITY
Perhaps due to complications from her psionic powers, Mary's Dissociative Identity Disorder is even more of a puzzle to extra-sensory or extra-sensitive individuals. A telepath reading Typhoid Mary's mind would not be able to recognize Sweet Mary's mind later. Everything about her physiology changes, even down to her scent, confounding the likes of Daredevil.
REPUTATION
Typhoid Mary is a favorite assassin of the most prominent of crimelords. She has also received invitations to become part of vaunted associations for assassins. These -- along with her gory handiwork -- gives her a certain infamy. This is useful, since other mercs know who she is and what she's capable of. This is also a bit of a negative, because it puts her on the radar of people like the Punisher. Mostly useful, though.
SECRET IDENTITY
Not only is Typhoid Mary's government name -- Mary Walker -- a secret from her enemies (and most allies), the activities of Typhoid and Bloody Mary are largely a secret from Sweet Mary. Those who attempt to catch her in her civilian life will find a scared young woman who quite literally wouldn't know what anyone was talking about. Not everyone would show mercy, but enough do to make it useful.
SWANK WEAPONS
Mary has quite a collection of weapons, the majority of which are blades of varying sizes, types, and lengths. Since she's been rubbing elbows with people who are better connected than she, she's been gifted with various weapons--two of which are her prized possessions.
Perfectly balanced, with grips made to fit her hands, twin katanas with filigreed blades made of 51CrV4 / 1.8159 alloy special steel, a high carbon steel that has been perfectly tempered and honed to a surgically sharp edge, wrapped around a masterfully tempered low carbon steel base that provide a strong, durable core that ensures her prized blades won't easily shatter are now her main weapons of choice. She sleeps with these blades and will do almost anything to protect them.
TRUCE
One of the main problems with having Dissociative Identity Disorder is that one's three discrete identities will all try to lead their own lives. Before the truce, Mary's three personae fought for dominance of the body they share, and because of that constant instability, it was hard for ANY of the three to maintain real, functional lives.
However, Typhoid had the idea to communicate with Bloody by writing notes back and forth. Though Bloody's responses were often carved into bodies, she allowed that, if Typhoid was more brutal in her killing of male targets--and, ensured she took more male marks than females--she would stop fighting so hard, and would help keep Sweet Mary buried deep, giving Typhoid almost total control.
Weaknesses
BAD ROMANCE
Typhoid is a survivor of horrific abuse, and a key moment in her life is arguably when she was kicked out of a window while working as a prostitute. Despite or because of this, she -- Typhoid, specifically -- pursues romantic relationships (most often with men) that are actively bad for her, and who pose some sort of danger to her freedom or health. Sweet Mary, meanwhile, is constantly in need of a white knight, and Bloody Mary pretty much believes that most men should be forcibly emasculated. To say that all three have weird, dysfunctional relationships is an understatement.
CHAOS MAGNET
Though Typhoid's successfully negotiated a somewhat tenuous truce between herself and Bloody, leaving Sweet Mary to sleep for very long periods of time, deep within... She, in any persona, seems to attract crazy people and, in general, trouble. Perhaps in a previous life, she spat on the grave of a saint or was responsible for a horrendous plague or something, but she does seem to be cursed with attracting dangerous friends, and even more dangerous enemies.
FEVER
When Typhoid Mary is the dominant persona in Mary's body, she manifests physiological changes unique to that identity: namely, that she seems to be perpetually running some kind of fever. Simply put, one can gauge Mary's current level of mania based on just how hot she's "running," physically. The calmer she is, the less feverish she is to the touch.
Vice versa, this fever intensifies as Typhoid becomes stressed--whether by irritation, frustration, anxiety, or otherwise. If she doesn't take care to keep herself calm and as evenly keeled as she can manage, Bloody Mary can more easily take control.
When Bloody Mary is dominant and as calm as she is capable of being, her skin is slightly uncomfortably hot to touch--and, when she gets angry, she unconsciously creates a pyrokinetic field that rides atop her skin, emanating heat waves like a black-top in the unforgiving summer sun, which is capable of burning someone if their hands are unprotected.
Sweet Mary has none of these complications.
FLAGGING CAREER
Because of the activities of Typhoid Mary and Bloody Mary, the 'normal' persona, Sweet Mary, was unable to properly maintain her career, acting in television soap operas. Because her other personalities tend to have more control and run around all night killing people, Sweet Mary Walker was an unreliable talent, at best, prone to missing days or having on-set breakdowns.
Since Typhoid struck the truce with Bloody, Typhoid has had the majority of control, both of the others ganging up on Sweet Mary and keeping her locked out of control over the body. As a result, Sweet Mary was let go by both her soap opera, and her talent agent. She is in danger of becoming a dreaded has-been, a D-list celebrity.
PRETTY RECKLESS
When Typhoid's bloodlust is running on high, generally in the middle of battle, she can often forget herself and become somewhat reckless, drunk on killing. She takes more risks than she might normally, if her head were in a calmer place. However, feeding her bloodlust does help keep Bloody sated for violence, even if doing so can put Typhoid at greater risk of danger.
SELF-DESTRUCTIVE
Mary is an extremely damaged individual. She doesn't know what it is to lead a 'functional' life. Her childhood was ruined, her adolescence was spent as a prostitute-cum-assassin-trainee, and her adulthood has been filled with murder and mayhem. Her ideas of 'normal' lives come from television. While she may, at times, crave normalcy in her life, any time she starts to achieve some level of peace and comfort, she does something irrational to mess it up. Deep down, she doesn't feel she deserves happiness, no matter how much she might wish she did.
SPLIT IDENTITIES
Mary has dissociative identity disorder (DID), with three distinct personalities who all operate as fully autonomous individuals, limited only by the one body that they share. They used to exist in a state of grudging truce (or, rather, each personality threatened to destroy things the other ones love). There is now a better-managed truce, but they are still capable of getting into disagreements and, when they fight, it gets ugly.
This constant instability is, of course, hard to predict and control in practical terms. Mary's psyche is a minefield, at constant risk of explosion. Sometimes, shifts from one dominant personality to another are enacted by means outside of the group dynamic: traumatic violence or abuse from men can trigger Bloody Mary roaring to the fore, etc.
WALKING CHAOS
Logs
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| Take a walk on the ..., normal side | February 14th, 2020 | Walker and Fantomex talk after a mission that went .., mildly ok. They find some common understanding. |
| Calm Before the Storm | January 27th, 2020 | Fantomex gives Robert and Mary some privacy...to talk about happiness and mistakes. |
| Decisions, Decisions | January 21st, 2020 | Catwoman muses over potential changes. Typhoid Mary, looking for someone else, encounters her. Evaluations follow. |
| Marked for Death in Markovia! | January 16th, 2020 | The Squad manages to keep their target alive (and staying mostly incognito while doing so!), even if Markovians are protesting en masse against that target. |
| Loss of Life | January 16th, 2020 | The Suicide Squad prepares for its next mission: preserving the status quo in Markovia. Things will surely turn out well! |
| Striking from Below | January 9th, 2020 | Typhoid Mary hunts down information about a snake-themed gang, meets up with Cottonmouth of the Serpent Society, and is offered a means of entry to meet whoever they're taking orders from. |
| Death Blossoms in Winter | January 2nd, 2020 | In a back-alley tournament in Chinatown, Cassandra Cain defeats Asp--but Typhoid Mary shows up everyone with a brutal takedown. |
| Subway Troubles | December 20th, 2019 | Andi encounters trouble on the subway, then perhaps more as Typhoid Mary enters. |
| Cell Service | December 19th, 2019 | Typhoid Mary--or, at least, one of her personalities--is provided with a recruitment offer to join the Suicide Squad. |
| Baba Yaga: Almost Half Way | September 10th, 2019 | Typhoid continues to kidnap children. What should have been number six is foiled by Daredevil. He learns that there will be more to come in the following month, unless Typhoid is stopped. |
| Old records off the shelf | August 20th, 2019 | Karaoke night at Club Evolution, with many from Xavier's in attendance. Sam and Shannon also talk things out, all is well. |
| Mary Shelley Ain't Got Nothing On This | August 8th, 2019 | Elektra and Tyhoid meet. Surprisingly (or not) they get on. |
| Rumble in the Cocrete Jungle | July 23rd, 2019 | Hammerhead attempts a hostile takeover of the Dragons' business. Unfortunately, he's picked a very bad time for it. |
| Saturday Night Blues | July 21st, 2019 | Karen and Kate enjoy a payday feast at Josie's.. and invite one of Karen's workmates to join them. A food time was had by all. No secrets were spilled (tm). |
| The Qualty or State of Being Human | May 14th, 2019 | The heroes succeed in saving Norton and in turn freeing Megatron. |
| Should you choose to accept it. | May 6th, 2019 | Norton hires Walker. |
| Mary mary quite contrary.. | April 30th, 2019 | Walker is at the Blue Lady taking pictures for a client. She meets Thomas Raith during her job. |
| Just Another Manic Monday | April 2nd, 2019 | Several old friends meet a new one. Otherwise known as Matt takes new hire Mary to Josie's where he runs into Elektra, and Danny Rand. |
| Breakin' the Law | March 1st, 2019 | Summary needed |
| All That Beef | January 27th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Bars Make Holidays | December 27th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Iceberg Ain't Just Lettuce Anymore! | December 6th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Collateral Damage | November 16th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Quite Contrary | October 19th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Bad Company | October 15th, 2018 | Summary needed (OOC: Language warning) |
| In The Heat of the Dark | October 7th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Wombat To The Slaughter | August 28th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Cutscenes
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| Baba Yaga: The First | August 19th, 2019 | Typhoid Mary kidnaps the first victim |