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[color=fff200][b]Name: [/b][/color] Jessica Dane

[color=fff200][b]Cape Codename: [/b][/color] Hornet

[color=fff200][b]Age: [/b][/color] 16

[color=fff200][b]Appearance: [/b][/color] Jessica has a slim and athletic build and is tall for a girl her age at 5’ 8” tall. Her arms and legs are long and slender, but also visibly toned. She has a naturally pale complexion, along with auburn hair and light green eyes; her pale skin makes the rather prominent scar along her cheek even more noticeable, a long and wide line reaching from just below her left eye to just above her jawline. Smaller scars that are less visible can also be seen on her chin and along the left side of her jaw.

Her hair is about medium length, reaching down to her shoulders, and is straight. Jessica tends to keep it tucked behind her ears, leaving strands to often fall down cross her face; it has been too long since she has had it cut. Aside from the scar, her most prominent feature are her wide green eyes; she has a button nose, a small mouth with thin lips and a rounded chin on an overall oval-shaped face.

She tends not to wear much make-up beyond some basic concealer and lip gloss and have never bothered with covering up her scars. Not a fashionable person, in her own opinion, Jessica favour plain clothes in solid colours; she prefers whites and blacks over bright colours and long sleeves over short.

The costume that Jessica wears when she is working as Hornet is made up of yellow and black, with the under layer being the latter and her mask and other pieces being the former. She wears a black body suit under armoured sections of Kevlar and ceramic which are painted a bright yellow with lines of black to break up the solid shapes. These armoured pieces are mostly found on her upper body and on her forearms and shins; a chest plate that covers her upper chest and back, gauntlets on her arms and boots with incorporated shin guards. They are there to provide additional protection for situations where her invulnerability wears out or isn’t active, but are designed to be light enough not to be restrictive. Her mask is similarly protective; a full face helmet that also covers the top of her head over a black cowl that hides her hair. It is the same yellow colour and her armour and is similarly broken up by black lines and black eye lenses.

It is a little garish, but the bright colours are intended to be eye-catching for the purpose of drawing attention towards her, especially when she appears suddenly, to aid in her role as an ambush fighter and distraction.

[color=fff200][b]Personality: [/b][/color] Jessica is a person imbued with a lot of self-confidence in herself; a trait which has been an asset to her, but which is also the source of her biggest flaws and weaknesses. She feels at ease in social situations, finding it easy to approach people and be sociable in new environments, but can be a little forward and pushy in how she approaches people; as such her integration into the Ward team has been mixed, making easy friendships with some and souring early interactions with others.

She can be brash at times, hasty in her approach, which can be both a positive and a negative depending on the situation. On the one hand it means minor situations and things that are in her capabilities get solved quickly, but it also means that more delicate situations are not handled with the care that they should be. Jessica is at her best when matched with someone who can temper her impulse to dive right into the mix. Although this can be difficult to achieve, as Jessica is also something of a busy body who has a hard time keeping her nose out of problems, regardless of if they concern her or not.

Additionally, Jessica is a person who finds it easy to be passionate about things, whether that is a new hobby, a cause, a piece of media or a friend. If something catches her attention she can quickly become invested in something and start to dedicate a lot of her energy towards it. This passion can also give her something of a temper problem; though she rarely gets angry on her own behalf, Jessica has a tendency to quickly become angry on behalf of others.

[color=fff200][b]Power Classification: [/b][/color]Mover/Brute 

[color=fff200][b]Power Description: [/b][/color] A Mover/Brute with the ability to teleport, but only if the destination is within a set distance of another person, roughly 1.5 to 2 meters, and also within a 100 degree cone within that person’s line of sight. This essentially limits them to only being able to teleport directly in front of people, relative to the direction they are looking at the time.

For a brief window following this teleportation, somewhere between 3 and 5 seconds, they are granted temporary invincibility and enhance strength. The obvious use of this power-up is to utilise it offensively, to teleport directly to a target and attack them while immune to retaliation, but it can also be used defensively, to teleport in front of an ally and use the invulnerability to shield them from harm.

[color=fff200][b]Strengths: [/b][/color] 
[color=fff200]Athletic: [/color] Jessica is on the track and field team in her high school. She competes in multiple events, but is only a starter in one of them, which is the high jump. The other events she competes in are the 400m and 800m races. Since gaining her powers, Jessica has also been taking kick boxing lessons to improve her ability to fight.
[color=fff200]Observant: [/color] In most cases Jessica has a good awareness of her surroundings and the movements of people around her.
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[color=fff200]Conflict resolution: [/color] Jessica has a tendency to be quick to anger and can be overly aggressive when confronted; in general she has a hard time keeping her cool and backing down from a situation in which she thinks she is in the right.
[color=fff200]Jumps to conclusions and to action: [/color] Favouring a hasty approach to most situations, Jessica has a problem of jumping to conclusion and acting on those conclusions. This can be an asset, but only if the conclusion she jumps to is the right one, which is less often than she thinks.

[color=fff200][b]History: [/b][/color] Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Jessica’s family moved to Bridgewater when she was ten years old when her father, who is a PRT trooper, received a promotion to sergeant and was transferred to a new posting in the city. At the time this was a difficult for her, having to transfer to a new school in a completely new city in the middle of the school year and she initially had a hard time fitting in; she was not bullied, nor mistreated, just isolated. She did not have the confidence to approach anyone and no one made an effort to approach her either. This didn’t change until middle school when Jessica made an effort to reach out by trying out for the track team of her school and found that she both enjoyed it and was good at it. Having found something that she could do well and with teammates that she had made friends with, Jessica became much more confident in herself and more outgoing as a result. She is now fairly popular at her high school, a well-known individual within its halls, and tries to reach out to people who are quiet or alone; she wants to be the type of person that she wished she met when she was alone.

A year ago, when Confessor unleashed his ghosts on the city, Jessica’s mother left the city to return to Chicago and stay with family at the urging or Jessica’s father, who cited that the city was going to be too dangerous for the next few days. He stayed, because it was his job to stay, and Jessica also decided to stay, both because she didn’t want to be away from school for an unknown amount of time and also because she was underestimating the severity of the situation. Both Jessica and her father made it through the Confessor incident with no harm coming to them and it wasn’t actually until some days later in the aftermath of the attack that something happened.

Jessica and a friend of hers from school were caught up in an attack by a local gang as part of a burgeoning war with another group in the city. It was sudden, they were outdoors, in public, then suddenly people around them were panicking, running from something up ahead, Jessica heard gunshots and then there was an explosion. When Jessica came to she was on the ground next to a wall, having been thrown around by something; either the blast or a power or just knocked aside by the fleeing crowd, she didn’t know. Her head was spinning, the left side of her face felt numb and was burning at the same time; blood was on the ground below her and more from falling as she watched, but she couldn’t process that she had been injured. She heard her friend screaming and tried to stand, looking around for her, but someone pushed her to the ground. Jessica tried to stand again and again and it wasn’t the third time that she realised there were people around her who were stopping her from getting up, hitting her, pushing her, laughing at her.

She sobered up then as the gravity of the situation settled in. She’d been hurt, she was surrounded by a few members of some gang she didn’t know, there was smoke and rubble and people running around and she could still hear her friend screaming. She tried to get up again, more urgently this time, and someone kicked her in the ribs, hard. Every time she tried to move they would do the same, hit her, shove her down, getting closer, hemming her in, still laughing, having fun with her mounting distress. She could still hear her friend screaming. She had to get away, she had to get away, she had to get to her friend, she had to get them both away.

Jessica triggered.

Jessica was able to escape, but her friend did not. From what she was told later, her friend most likely died in the initial explosion and it wasn’t even her she had been hearing while she was on the ground; it was unlikely she’d have been able to pick out one voice from everything that was going on anyway. Jessica still isn’t sure if she should believe that or not.

When her father found out that she had triggered, there was no choice other than for her to join the Wards; she would have chosen that path anyway, but with a PRT sergeant for a father it was always going to be the obvious choice. She debuted as Hornet a couple of months after her trigger and has been active as a Ward since.
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