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[center][sub][b](The first two sections of the below sheet are from the POV of SHIELD. More fun that way.)[/b][/sub][/center]

[b][color=cc0011]Identity:[/color][/b]

According to our team that ran into her (and paid for it) she introduced herself formally as Princess Diana, Defender of the Amazons, Shield of Themyscira, Goddess of War. 

Her last known (fake) passport reads: Diana Prince.

SHIELD has simply come to call her...[i][b]Wonder Woman[/b][/i].

[b][color=cc0011]Origin/Backstory:[/color][/b]

First, let me start off with what we know:

You don't want to corner her. A force recon team tried it in Istanbul in the mid-80s, and it didn't work well for the force recon team. Every single commando in the team was left sipping from a straw for a few months. Worse, she was able to get men trained for over two decades on how not to talk to give her everything we had on her, and then some. 

The mid-80s? She's old. We do believe we're dealing with the same woman, not a mantle passed down through the generations. This isn't Zorro, folks. The Historian theorizes she may be thousands of years old; although the oldest possible hit on her we have is from a photograph taken just after World War One. Of course we can't be certain it's her, but we're certain it's her. Again, from the Historian:

[indent][i]"It's quite fascinating, but I do believe we have evidence of this individual dating as far back as the Ancient Greeks themselves. In 1978 a Hydra think tank was discovered and secured in the Bavarian Alps; an old mine turned Nazi conclave during the Second World War turned Hydra facility after the Second War World. In the catalog of the facility's contents was bits of an ancient text believed written by Polybius (c. 208-116 BC), an ancient Greek who was captured by Romans and turned historian in his captivity. He makes note of a daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta that stands apart from Olympus, hidden by Zeus along with her place of birth, though for what reason Polybius fails to state. The most intriguing thing is that while Polybius refers to Zeus as Jupiter in the Roman style, he refers to the daughter as αρτεμης--Attic Greek for "safe", but not the word most commonly used for the Greek goddess Artemis (that is αρταμος, "the butcher", a more fitting word for a Goddess of hunting). I must assume if Polybius meant the goddess Artemis he would have used the latter, but as the Roman name for Artemis is Diana, it seems reasonable to deduce that (writing to a largely Roman audience), Polybius did this to differentiate between two separate figures. That Polybius was revealing a mysterious figure previously unknown to the Romans. The Nazis, in their quest for the mythological, zeroed in on this figure in hopes Zeus' hiding her meant she remained in the mortal plane, and even believed to have a photograph of her from just after the First World War also cataloged among the facility's contents. The Germans named her the Amazon; quite fitting if this is in fact the daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons according to myth. Though why an Amazon Princess would be wearing a tiara as in the photo is unknown, so perhaps the photo is of just a mortal woman of impressive stature. An interesting story, all the same."[/i][/indent]


The force recon team reported the woman that they cornered in the Mid-80s was, you guessed it, wearing the same tiara in the photo and looked exactly like the woman from the photo found in the Hydra lab. As it's not the strangest thing in the SHIELD archives, we believe the Historian didn't just stumble onto proof an ancient Greek was telling the Romans about an interesting story, but an actual super weapon they could use, that Polybius was bargaining with this information. Lucky for the Romans, they never found her, and never got the chance to corner her.

Secondly, what we think:

Mentions of such a woman pop up, again and again and again, and always when things in the world get violent. A figure matching the description is mentioned rescuing German women from Russian troops in the twilight of World War Two. If you don't know what the standard practice was when a member of the Red Army found a German woman, I'll let you look that up on your own, but it wasn't pretty. Another description shows up in the Greek Civil War around 1948; again saving a group of women from men that had other than honorable intentions. Again, in the Korean War, saving a group of American nurses from a MASH unit from enemy fire. The Six-Day War. The Ethiopian Civil War. The Troubles. Soviet war in Afghanistan. The Falklands. Every time she swoops in, saves people, disables all belligerents in the area, and zooms out. 

This is a do-gooder, with a soft spot for other women; makes sense if she's really an Amazon. The profilers think she's a warrior that grew restless on the place of her birth that Zeus supposedly hid from the world to protect her, and started wandering. While her spurts of activity due correlate to conflict zones, she doesn't appear at all conflicts, leading them to suspect she has a life outside of wandering do-gooder, or that she isn't supposed to be wandering off too much. But if she really is living on a hidden Themyscira from myth, and really is a/the Goddess of War, then her odd periods of activity tend to make more logical sense. She'd have things to tend to from time to time.

But now that the world's really started to change from the emergence of metahumans left and right, does this mean the table's set for this restless goddess to finally become truly active? Depends on who you ask. One of our agents got a strange tip from an English "magic" user (putting it politely) that a God of Dreams and a Goddess of War were going to have a sit-down somewhere in London; wanting to exchange the location for information on some demon. Our agent disregarded it, and maybe that was to our detriment, because that was only a year ago. 

Satellites and cell phone hacking have produced no less than a dozen images of this woman in the last year; most recently in Washington, DC, of all places. That was a month ago. She's getting active, and she's doing it without hiding so much. More importantly, doing it outside of open warzones. We think she's finally coming out to play with the other metahumans. 

[i]Update:[/i] Agent Steve Trevor has been dispatched with Drone Recon Squadron 5 to a small Greek airbase secretly used by the CIA, and us. If she's really out there on some island, we'll find her. Goddess or not, Amazon or not, we're absolutely certain of one thing: this is a Wonder Woman, and we need to find her before Hydra does.

[b][color=cc0011]Attributes:[/color][/b]

As the Goddess of War, Diana has a supernatural connection to all soldiers, and may grant a boon to those warriors she deems both in need and worthy of such honor. As most modern day warriors subscribe to other deities, Diana's role has become that of a watcher and (at most) a subtle influence in the background. Whereas this idleness drove Ares to scheme and plot fatal mischiefs, Diana is at peace with sitting on the sidelines as Goddess of War. Afterall, she takes a decidedly more direct approach to influencing world affairs.

Otherwise, she has shown in the past the abilities of superhuman: Strength, stamina, agility, reflexes, durability, speed, and flight. In addition as a Goddess, she does not age beyond her physical prime--unless she desires to. She is also an enhanced intellect, focusing more on strategy and tactics than the technological or scientific; but as a visitor to the 'modern age' she's shown the ability to catch up amazingly fast; as she was able to use a modern smartphone in less than five minutes despite never being on the internet before. As part of that enhanced intellect, she seems capable of learning (and retaining) any martial art intuitively just by observing. Batman, eat your heart out.

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[b][color=cc0011]Aegis of Athena[/color][/b]

Her bulletproof bracelets were formed from the remnants of Athena's legendary shield, the Aegis, to be awarded to her champion. The shield was made from the indestructible hide of the great she-goat, Amalthea, who suckled Zeus as an infant. These forearm guards have thus far proven indestructible and able to absorb the impact of incoming attacks, allowing Wonder Woman to deflect automatic weapon fire and energy blasts of various types and degrees. In addition, Hephaestus has modified the bracelets to allow Wonder Woman the sorcerous ability to manifest weapons of metal mystical in appearance from each bracelet. Each weapon, marked with a red star, takes shape from a flash of lightning, and when Wonder Woman is done with them, the weapons disappear, supposedly, back into her bracelets.

[b][color=cc0011]Lariat of Hestia[/color][/b]
The Lasso of Truth, or Lariat of Hestia, was forged by Hephaestus from the golden girdle of Gaea. It compels all beings who come into contact with it to tell the absolute truth and is virtually indestructible.

[b][color=cc0011]Other Items[/color][/b]

Diana occasionally uses additional weaponry in formal battle, such as ceremonial golden armor with golden wings, pteruges, chest-plate, and golden helmet in the shape of an eagle's head. She possesses a magical sword forged by Hephaestus that is sharp enough to cut the electrons off an atom.

Wonder Woman's Tiara has also been used as a razor-edged throwing weapon, returning to her like a boomerang. The Tiara allows Wonder Woman to be invulnerable from telepathic attacks. It allows for Diana to telepathically contact people such as the Amazons back on Themyscira using the telepathic power of the red star ruby in the center of her Tiara.

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[b][color=cc0011]Character Goals:[/color][/b]

My main goal is to introduce Wonder Woman to the modern world; a storyline of discovery both internal and external, both for the world, and for Diana herself. I want to show her struggling, at times, to understand the motivations and values of current society. Just as importantly, I want her introduced to the metahuman community. She's a standard bearer; she leads, simply put, but she's got to follow and inspire confidence before she leads. Without going out and meeting other metahumans, there's no way she can be a leader in something like the Justice League. Speaking of, she won't trust SHIELD initially, but she will have admired the Justice Society--possibly leading her to try and sow the seeds for an eventual new 'Justice' team.

Initially, if we're both accepted, lydyn and I planned on introducing Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman in the same story arc: Hawkgirl crash lands on Themyscira; this will force a Diana who has had to take on the throne after Ares murdered her mother and grown solitary in nature to emerge to confront this unwelcomed visitor. It will also temporarily break Zeus' spell over the island, allowing Steve Trevor's drones to find the island long enough for SHIELD to attempt to make contact, if they want. The goal of the story arc is to end with Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman leaving Themyscira and attempt to make a difference in this new world.

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