[center] [URL=http://fontmeme.com/freefonts/195818/subspace.font][IMG]http://fontmeme.com/freefonts/img.php?f=195818&s=65&t=Friction&c=FF9966[/IMG][/URL] [url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DPKtgdoDBZY/UsV8UsymYMI/AAAAAAAAh-0/_r_jHC233Y4/s1600/Jennifer+Nigri+(3).jpg](Picture)[/url][/center] Birth Name: Cypress Hecate Mara Alter Ego: Friction Gender: Female Age: 22 Country of Operation: Canada / Alberta Archetype: Metahuman Allegiance: Champions Appearance: Cy is a 6 foot tall platinum blonde with dangerous curves. Her eyes are a blueish green and her face freckled. Her skin is a creamy alabaster and she is usually dressed in a provocative manner her favorite clothing is leather. Powers/Skills: Friction Manipulation- by imparting her power into any thing she chooses Cypress can manipulate, generate and otherwise control friction, the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other, ie. whether the contact causes the movement to stop (sticking the targets together) or continue. By decreasing her skin and clothing's friction Cypress is so slippery that she is able to skid across a flat surface at great speeds her movements resembling more those of an Ice skater than a sprinter Her skin and clothing in this state can even deflect kinetic energy attacks such as bullets, swords, knives or even liquid attacks. If she is caught in a trap or stuck in a bind, Cypress can just slip away unless completely enclosed. Inertia Manipulation- This ability allows Cypress to manipulate inertia, basically the amount of resistance matter has to a change in motion or stay at rest by increasing, decreasing and/or maintaining it. She can increase object’s inertia causing an immobile object to be even more immovable, or to make a mobile object unstoppable. She can also reduce an object’s inertia, so a normally powerful object, such as a train, could have its course of motion interrupted with the same effort as would be required to stop a bicycle. Also by manipulating inertia Cypress is able to simulate super strength but only in a horizontal plane. Example: She could theoretically once she plants her feet push a stranded Super tanker back out to sea but she can only lift 250 pounds over her head. (Limitations- to exercise her inertia control on objects other than her own person requires that Cypress herself come to a stop and make herself a stationary target.) Skills: Hockey, Parkor, Computer programing, Hacking, Kenjutsu an Akido Equipment/Resources: Weapons: 6 Throwing knives 2 Tanto Gear: Tech ruggedized Cell phone Biography: Born to a dead mother in the aftermath of a gulf coast hurricane. That flooded her entire town Cypress was barely alive and would have died except that her father a Swedish merchant sailor like any parent refused to allow it. Then as the storm raged around them he named her Cypress after the tree they found refuge in. While the storm raged for about six hours the tidal surge pulled father and daughter out to sea where they drifted without hope. They were finally rescued three days after she was born by the Coast Guard. The men aboard the Coast Guard Cutter thought her survival a miracle and lavished her with attention. Her father clung to life five days after the rescue but then like her mother and 78 members of the community she was from died of chemical poisoning. An orphan Cypress was remanded over to her mother's family in Alberta where she went to live. What should have been the beginning of a beautiful story was anything but as her family neglected her and only kept her around as a way to collect on her father's pension. Eventually due to their neglect Cypress fell ill and had to be taken to the hospital where the authorities took her from them. She was then raised in a children's group home where at the age of 11 she began demonstrating powers and was taken to Project Orchid Canada's Meta program with the eventual purpose that she become a Champion. Her training was intense but focused more athletics at an early age than combat it being thought of as unethical to subject a minor to such. Akido and Kenjutsu were also more competitive sport style than full fledged combat and her training in Hockey to hone her movement. Later when she was 16 the project focused on the more aggressive styles of her martial arts and the power moves of Hockey. While they trained her to use her body the project also saw to her schooling knowing that a well rounded schooling benefited their ends as well. She excelled in classroom studies especially in the field of computers developing the ability to make an excellent hacker and or computer programmer. It was because she was finishing a project at the project that Friction avoided attend the meeting at Nagoya and thus escaped the direct guilt of those that had attended. Cy could use her location during the incident as and excuse but chose not to by appearing on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and offering her country's sympathy to the people of Japan but her own apology as well. Special Notes: Because of the Nagoya Incident Cypress has vowed to atone for all the damage done by becoming the most skilled at power use ever known so that no civilian shall ever suffer for her mistakes. To accomplish her goal she trains constantly honing her power use to a razor sharp edge. She appears on children's shows, does interviews and service announcements. She has no secret identity living on Canadian military or Mounted Police bases.