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Priss (Scenesys ID: 1122)
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God, you still haven't worked it out, have you? You people come to the magic planet an' stay at the science-fiction hotels, an' you see nothing...
Profile
Full Name: Priscilla Kitaen
Gender: Female
Species: Human/Kherubim/Daemonite Hybrid
Theme: DC (FC)
Occupation: Exotic Dancer / Operative
Citizenship: {{{Citizenship}}}
Residence: {{{Residence}}}
Education: {{{Education}}}
Status: Dropped
Groups: SWORD, WildC.A.T.s, Aliens
Other Information
Apparent Age: 20 Actual Age: 22
Date of Birth August 8th, 2003 Actor: Dominique Simone
Height: 181cm Weight: 70kg
Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Purple
Theme Song: Witchy Woman

Profile

Priscilla Kitaen is a beautiful young woman of mixed race who is using her most obvious asset to get herself ahead in the world, working as an exotic dancer, currently employed at a high-end club in Metropolis. She has a criminal record from a few years ago, and records indicate she was living overseas for a while.

Voodoo is also an online handle for a somewhat mysterious lone heroine who has been popping up here and there all around the States and Europe, taking on threats from aliens to magical creatures and serial killers. She tends to deal with threats to the oft forgotten and ignored segments of society.

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Description

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History

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Personality

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Abilities

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  • Chronokinesis: A dormant Daemonite power exhibited once under extreme stress, there has been no further evidence of Priss being able to manipulate time. However, the potential clearly lies somewhere within her muddled hybrid genetic soup, and it could come up again.

    NB: This ability could be potentially unlocked and further defined at Staff discretion and with staff permission in the future. Until such time as that, this attribute is here largely because certain 'detections' might pick up that potential. No ability in this arena will be used without prior permission from Staff and a better definition of ability and detriment is applied and approved.
  • Electromagnetic Manipulation: A dormant Daemonite power exhibited once under extreme duress, there has been no further evidence of Priss being able to manipulate electromagnetic energy fields. However, the potential clearly lies somewhere within her muddled hybrid genetic soup, and it could come up again.

    NB: This ability could be potentially unlocked and further defined at Staff discretion and with staff permission in the future. Until such time as that, this attribute is here largely because certain 'detections' might pick up that potential. No ability in this arena will be used without prior permission from Staff and a better definition of ability and detriment is applied and approved.
  • Empathy: A natural and intuitive empath, Voodoo is constantly aware of the feelings of others around her, both good and bad. Without any act of volition on her part, Priss can pick up the emotions of others in a range of about one hundred feet. Exceptionally strong feelings may reach out to her from as far as two or three times that range. Priss' empathy makes her a natural 'people person' and a gifted performer; it also makes her a natural lie detector; only someone or something utterly and completely devoid of all feeling could escape her sense (non-AI robots, for instance; most AI robots have some degree of emotion tied to their self-awareness).
  • Hybrid Physiology: Priss has a complex hybrid physiology, combining elements of Kherubim, Daemonite, and (mutant) human into a single, unique whole. From her Kherubim ancestry, she has inherited a body that maintains peak athleticism and capability with a minimum of effort, granting her strength, agility, health and stamina that approach the lowest end of superhuman levels, as well as exceptionally acute senses. From her Daemonite ancestry, she has inherited exceptional speed, agility and reflexes sufficient to catch most street vehicles, and even dodge thrown-slug projectiles. From both alien ancestries, Priss has inherited an exceptional resistance to most human pathogens, and has - at least potentially - inherited near-immortality against the ravages of age.
  • Mental Illusions: Priss' mutant telepathic talents include the ability to cause another's mind to perceive things that are not there, or to not perceive things their senses are actually picking up. In general, she can only do this to minds that are not telepathically shielded. She can at most manage this on three or four minds at once, and only if they are in close proximity and the change to their perceptions would be identical.
  • Mind Control: One of the most advanced and powerful psionic effects Priss has mastered is the ability to directly control or dominate the mind of another. She has proven able to control another's actions, even to manipulating their powers to her whim or desire, activating them, controlling them, or shutting them off as she sees fit. She has even proved capable of seizing hold so fiercely as to lock the subject in place, unable to move or respond in any way. Doing so for longer than a minute or so against a strong will is very tiring, and the longest she has managed to maintain this was about half an hour, after which point she collapsed exhausted. Directing another in complex actions requires a great deal of concentration, leaving her physically vulnerable, at best able to stumble along only dimly aware of her own surroundings.
  • Psionic Blast: Priss' mutant telepathic talents include the ability to focus her psionic energies into directed blasts against the minds of her targets. Most non-psionic targets experience this almost like acid poured over their brain, virtually crippling them with agony. Even psionically resistant targets have proven to be affected by this attack, though somewhat less so than non-resistant targets. The power level of her attacks is not as great as other master telepaths, but far more powerful than most with her much lesser level of experience. With great effort, Priss can project this force over a small area of effect at the same time, though the psionic blow would be less forceful as her full force is then spread out across that area and multiple minds.
  • Psionic Exorcism: Deriving directly from the Sight and her telepathic abilities, Priss has a powerful ability to exorcise controlling thoughts or entities possessing or controlling another. This can include a Daemonite possessing a host; a spirit or ghost possessing a living form; another telepath's mental domination in place with a subject's mind; and more. The most significant limitation to this ability is that at least one or the other - the 'host' or the possessor - must be willing to be freed. As such, if someone willingly accepted possession and had not been given cause to regret that decision, she would be unable to purge the possessor.

    This power is very taxing and tiring, and made doubly so by Priss' empathy, which causes her to feel the pain and anger of those involved. She generally finds it easier to accomplish this when in physical contact with the subject, though that is not a requirement. Both subjects, and usually Priss herself, will be disoriented and staggered by the pain and exhaustion of the experience, leaving all three rather vulnerable.
  • Regeneration: An added effect of Priss' Daemonite heritage is that she has gained the ability to regenerate from injuries rapidly, healing even normally mortal wounds in minutes. So long as a significant portion of her brain remains, she can potentially survive and regenerate completely with time and resources.
  • Shapechanging: Priss' Daemonite heritage grants her a limited ability to change her own shape. Usually, this amounts to creating claws and fangs, or perhaps wings capable of gliding. In moments of greatest duress and rage, she has demonstrated the ability to transform completely to a form like a full-blooded Daemonite. The claws and fangs created have proven capable of rending through most terrestrial metal alloys with reasonable ease.
  • Telepathy: Priss was born with very advanced and powerful telepathic abilities, limited largely for most of her life by her lack of training or experience with them. Since becoming aware of her own nature and her powers, she has spent countless hours learning to understand and control those powers. Priss can read the surface thoughts of others quite naturally, and with but a thought can often probe deeper, seeking out connected thoughts and memories. She can network the minds of others together, creating a telepathic communications network, and sustain this for a group of ten or less.

    Priss' telepathy finds no barrier in supposedly 'alien' minds, likely because of her own non-human heritage. Similarly, language is rarely a barrier for long, as her mind naturally seems to soak up a translation for another's thoughts as she explores them. Range seems to be her one significant limitation, as she finds it difficult to do much beyond basic communication and surface-thought scanning without at least line of sight contact with others, and she generally can only best accomplish truly advanced or involved telepathic effects with direct physical contact.
  • The Sight: The prophesied power that drew the interest of both the Daemonites and the Kherubim and put Priss on the path her life has followed since is The Sight, which manifests as the ability to see and sense the truth behind shapeshifted, illusion-masked and possessed or controlled persons. Priss can see the face and form of a Daemonite within a possessed husk, but the same also proves true of one being controlled by a ghost, mind control, or magic. Bewildering to most, Priss is even able to see the truth through video images and photographs, which implies the ability transcends the merely psionic to enter the realm of the magical. There has never been any evidence that anyone or anything can hide from her ability in this arena.
  • Voodoo Magic: No great and experienced battle magi, Priss has still discovered - much to her surprise - that magic is real, and that she has something of a talent for it, owing to yet another mystery of her bloodline unknown to her: she has more than a touch of the homo magi. She has proven capable of drawing upon the power of the Loa, calling forth spirits, raising the dead, and has even become a conduit for the Ghede. Her knowledge and training is pretty well exclusively through the Vodoun tradition, as practiced within the African community of Louisiana.

Skills

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  • Athletics: Priss has always been somewhat athletic. Since discovering her alien heritage and her Coda training, she has maintained extensive athletic efforts; running, swimming, various weight training, stretching and isometrics.
  • Combat Training: Priss has been extensively trained by the best of the best of the Code all-female Kherubim warrior society. This included extensive martial arts training, various melee weapons, and training with energy- and slug- launching weapons. She has put that training to use repeatedly, and has proven quite talented with tactics, strategy and guerilla warfare methods.
  • Dancing: Priss is an exceptionally skilled and talented dancer, from jazz and tap to ballroom and swing, ballet and club dancing. She has parlayed that skill, talent and experience into a profession as a headliner-quality exotic dancer, and she has fallen back on that line of work more than once.
  • Driving: Not exactly a combat-trained NASCAR driver, Priss has however had a moderate bit of training from former teammates in handling a car, truck, or motorcycle in less than ideal conditions or stressful situations. Most often, she just proves herself to be a daringly competent motorcyclist.
  • Languages: Priss is naturally multilingual, raised speaking English, French and Creole. She has since learned several other languages, mostly from prolonged telepathic contact with those native to those languages, including Spanish, Russian, Manadarin, Kheran, Daemonite, Greek, Syrian and Japanese.
  • People: Priss is a really gifted people person. She understands how people think, how they feel, how they will react. She has an excellent instinct for what to say to help someone, calm them down, make them feel better, etc. She has a great talent for both psychology and social dynamics. Admittedly, her talent and instincts have been greatly informed by her Empathic and Telepathic powers, but the skill and talent remains, even when the powers themselves cannot get a read.
  • Piloting: No ace combat pilot, Priss still has exceptional reflexes and coordination, and she has been trained how to pilot a few exceptional aircraft - and even a spacecraft - used by the HALO Corporation and the WildC.A.T.s. She's a decent pilot with a good bit of talent.
  • Stealth: Part and parcel of Priss' Coda training is training in stealth: how to move quietly in a variety of environments, how to adapt to the visuals of various environments to pass unseen, and so forth. She's not necessarily a super ninja, but she's pretty good at moving unnoticed, given a chance.

Resources

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  • Compelling Attraction: Beyond her physical beauty, there is a very real magnetism to Priss that draws the attention, interest and attraction of nearly all who meet her, even when she's not trying. If she truly tries, few can resist her.
  • Gear: Priss has some specialized gear that she obtained while working with the WildC.A.T.s that she has kept and used now on her own. The two most notably exceptional items are a Coda sword made of special metals, capable of piercing steel, and a Kheran technology kinetic blaster capable of delivering a blow of approximately two tons of force.
  • HALO Corporation: Priss has been on the books of the HALO Corporation as an employee and special consultant, bringing down a truly impressive paycheck that was as much bribe as anything, to soothe ruffled feathers. At the moment, she is on an extended leave of absence from the company, and is paying her own way. But she could reactivate her arrangement with them at a moment's notice. She also has the ability to arrange other resources through the company, with some time and effort, including vehicles, safe houses, etc.
  • Motorcycle:Priss has a custom hot-rod motorcycle, with purple-flame detailing. The bike is top of the line, including Bluetooth for communications and music, etc.
  • SWORD: Priss has been hired by SWORD as a special operative, currently answering only to Director Brand herself, assisting with alien operations, utilizing her depth of prior experience. The hope is that she will be doing less alien hunting and more alien management, but only time will tell.

Weaknesses

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  • Bloodlust: With the awakening of her Daemonite heritage, Priss has also awakened the potential for a real berserker rage and bloodlust. In the heat of a tough battle, she can lose herself to a bestial rage, viciously attacking and trying to slaughter her enemies. Someone who gets between her and her enemies will likely find themselves lumped in with her enemies and subject to the same lethal intent.
  • Empathy: Priss' empathic talents can be quite a blessing, but they can also be a bit of a curse. She is as subject to feeling others negative emotions, and potentially overwhelmed by them. This can be especially so with others' pain and suffering.
  • Exotic Beauty: As beneficial as it can be to be exceptionally beautiful and memorable, it isn't always a great thing. Priss finds it very difficult to go low-key or pass unnoticed unless she can literally stay out of sight.
  • Hunted: Priss is a woman of interest, and she is hunted by more than one faction. Daemonites want her for her power, if only to stop her from using it against them. The Kherubim want her for her power to help them hunt and battle the Daemonites. And anti-mutant groups and technologies don't care about her alien heritage; they pick up on her human mutant powers, and target her for that. Added to that, Priss has a few outstanding beefs and issues with the authorities back in Louisiana.
  • Hybrid: Priss isn't human, much as she looks it. She isn't a Kherubim or a Daemonite either. She is instead a hybrid, a mixed-up blend of all three, and a mutant besides. As resistant and resilient as this makes her to earthborne toxins and pathogens, it means she is not nearly as resistant to alien toxins and pathogens as another Kherubim or Daemonite would be. It also means that if she were seriously hurt in some way that her regeneration could not take care of the problem, it is quite likely she would need very specialized medical attention, as treating her would not be like any one of the three, but - predictably - a crazed custom mix of all three at once.

    It also means that Priss just doesn't belong. She's very gifted, and powerful, and has enormous potential. But she can see all sides of many of the issues that can arise between these races, and she often has trouble because none of the three can entirely believe in or trust her.
  • Psychically Loud: Priss is a great deal more powerful psionically than her skill level alone. As such, when she uses her powers, she uses a great deal more psionic energy than a more skilled user would, and that 'makes a lot of noise' in a psionic sense. Others with a sense for such energies - including other telepaths - can pick her up very easily, as if she is firing off the telepathic equivalent of an air raid siren. That tends to bring her a lot of attention at times from those aware of the 'noise' she makes.

Logs

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The Priss Infiltration Method December 16th, 2020 Scandal! Mercury Poisoning! Hastily-Named Robot Bartenders!
That's...kinda imPrissive... December 14th, 2020 Drake and Hunori battle it out on DDR
The Devil and the Voodoo woman. November 27th, 2020 Folks chat then go their separate ways.
You can check in... November 24th, 2020 Kitsune applies pressure on some crooks next door to Voodoo's hotel room. Punisher decides to intervene, as well as Cloak and Dagger, and things become violent.
Relaxing at the Bronze November 24th, 2020 Buffy runs into an old acquaintance and makes a new one too.
Walking alone after dark. November 23rd, 2020 Spike and Voodoo more or less bumped into each other. The resulting insult fest was entertaining and faded to something almost civil.
Oh, /that/ is him November 23rd, 2020 Priss meets Constantine. They talk and eat takeout and all that fun stuff.
What happens in the Fulham Hotel... November 22nd, 2020 Priss and the Hulk fend off not too smart thugs, and the Hulk goes leaping out the city. Priss has groceries too.
Coffee November 21st, 2020 Nick is not all that informative when Priss asks if things are okay
A Nice Day For a Stroll June 23rd, 2020 An attempted kidnapping is foiled by an impromptu Voodoo and Snake Eyes team up.
Nick just flew on in and BOY are his wings tired. June 21st, 2020 Who do, Voodoo. Do what? Gets some odd mental imagery from Nick.
Late Breakfast June 19th, 2020 Alison runs into Priss at breakfast; the two discuss show-business.
A Boost in the Economy May 29th, 2020 Cloak and Dagger eavesdrop a bit on Shredder grooming a young mutant to his side
Boom Baby, Boom, Boom, Boom! May 26th, 2020 Voodoo fights a magic rock monster. Blackout helps. And gets her sword back.
A Meetup of Minds May 25th, 2020 One less 'problem'
Who Do-Voodoo-Do What - Filming a Video May 24th, 2020 Priss meets Wade Shaw. A brief recording session becomes an all day affair
Who Do-Voodoo-Do What - Order Some Gummbo May 24th, 2020 Chatter in the Lounge area of Shaw Studios
Day at the park May 23rd, 2020 Duncan met up with Voodoo after she had a bad day at work. The two just sat and visited for a time.
A Public cookout May 22nd, 2020 Josiah meets Voodoo
Sometimes You Just Want A Grilled Cheese May 20th, 2020 Who do? Voodoo. Do what? Knows about the Phantasm
Read For Me October 6th, 2017 Summary needed
She Followed Me Home Can I Keep Her September 30th, 2017 Summary needed
Apokolips Now: Kalibak The Conqueror September 23rd, 2017 Kalibak and parademons appear to wrest Metropolis from the heroes control.
So, About the Cabal September 18th, 2017 Summary needed
Partners in Employment September 17th, 2017 Summary needed
When Life Gives You Melons September 14th, 2017 Summary needed
Oh Agent, Where Art Thou September 13th, 2017 Summary needed
Gnome Cometh, Redux September 7th, 2017 Summary needed
Voodoo Clubbing September 5th, 2017 Summary needed
SWORD Coworkers Cafe September 4th, 2017 Summary needed
SWORD Learns About Intergang September 4th, 2017 Summary needed
The Patients Run the Asylum September 4th, 2017 Summary needed
Pizza Bear August 29th, 2017 Summary needed
So, I Have This Friend August 26th, 2017 SWORD needs a few good agents who understand about aliens and threats. Priscilla happens to work for them, and she thinks she knows someone who could help. She makes a point of introducing Taboo to her AWESOME BOSS!
A Cheery Cafe August 25th, 2017 Summary needed
After Action Report August 23rd, 2017 So after Priscilla's first op for SWORD - wonderful disaster that it was - she really should finally tell her Boss all about it, and they should discuss what to do about it.
What Big Claws You Have August 20th, 2017 Summary needed
Bullet Blasted Bodacious Buddies August 20th, 2017 Summary needed
Parisian Comfort League August 18th, 2017 Summary needed
So About That Coffee August 14th, 2017 Summary needed
Three by the Sea August 9th, 2017 Summary needed
SWORD Interview August 8th, 2017 Sarah has managed to find a contact number for SWORD; Priscilla has agreed to a somewhat paranoid plan to reach out and contact them. Imagine their surprise when their call earns them a face to face interview with Director Abigail Brand herself. Imagine Brand's surprise when it turns out she knows the mysterious Voodoo already.
Where Paths Lead August 6th, 2017 Another date between Priscilla and Sarah; they talk.
Softly July 25th, 2017 Summary needed
Log July 21st, 2017 SHIELD hires Gambit for a job. Priss is brought in to help with the preparations.
Road Side Corpse Service July 18th, 2017 After a run in with some Daemonites, Priss has a body to get rid of. Miss Moreau spies an opportunity, helps her out, and is a thoroughly creepy, crazy mage.
Entrancing Performance July 17th, 2017 Sarah runs into a customer at the club who is resistant to her influences. Interesting lady ...
Gnome Cometh July 15th, 2017 Priscilla and Sarah meet up for lunch and invite Sadie to join them. This goes all wrong when their lunch date is interrupted by the machinations of the Gnome and the Cabal. Kaldur and Sussa arrive as things go badly.
Second Date July 11th, 2017 Priscilla takes Sarah out on a second date to her gym; they meet up with Sarah's teammates, friends and roommates, Roxy and Caitlin, who want to check out the lady sweeping their friend off her feet.
Good Clean Fun July 11th, 2017 Sarah and Priscilla head off together to complete their date, now that they're done at the gym. A continuation of Second Date.
Brand Investigations: Daemonites and Strippers July 8th, 2017 Abigail Brand, Alien Hunter - well, OK, Director of Intelligence for Alpha Flight - investigates the Daemonite incursion at MysteriX, a strip club in Metropolis. She also interviews one of the dancers for information. Right. Besides just the dancer's number.
Ten Daemonites Walk Into a Bar July 7th, 2017 Priss is doing her professional stripper thing, and Creed comes by intending to do a politician thing. Suddenly a pack of Daemonite-ridden humans show up with heavy weapons and make a mess. Thankfully, Zealot shows up too and helps take them down before it's too late.
Dance When Ya Gotta July 4th, 2017 Priscilla Kitaen encounters Sarah Rainmaker at a protest for a college party she herself is stripping at. Trouble follows.
All Aboard Alpha Flight Station April 15th, 2017 Summary needed

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