"I never feel guilty for being privileged."
Basic Information
Name:
Zoë Gambino
Nickname/Alias/Etc:
Blindspot
Gender:
Transgender Female
Age:
23
Height:
5'9
Weight:
130 lbs.
Home District:
Turtle-Creek
Appearance
Hair Color:
Blonde
Eye Color:
Blue
Ethnicity:
Caucasian, Italian
Physical Appearance:
Up until Zoe began transitioning, she was growing like any other boy. Right before she hit puberty, her parents placed her on testosterone blockers to keep her from developing male features. The estrogen she starting taking really did her justice. Zoe began transitioning into a beautiful woman as if she was a cis female. She developed curves, fair skin, long silky blonde hair, and full breasts which to her surprise were a perfect size (Since then, she's gone up a cup size after she turned 18.) Her voice sounds like a cis female, unlike some male to female transwomen who decide to transition later in life and have a slight deepness when they speak. Despite the doctors telling her that the process could stunt her growth, she is now a whopping 5’9 bombshell. Both sides of her family are tall so it was only natural she acquired those genes regardless of her transition. Her most notable features are her crisp blue eyes where one could get lost in for days. And to address the elephant in the room: yes, she has had sexual reassignment surgery. She got the surgery done at 21 and her transition is now complete.
Attire:
Zoë usually wears top of the line designer clothing like Versace, Ralph Lauren, Christian Dior, Louboutin, and many more. Zoe is always up to date with her fashion and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing something out of date. Pink and black are her favorite colors so most of her wardrobe consists of such. The type of clothes she normally wears range between cocktail dresses to a simple short-short and a blouse.
Personality
Innate & Outward Personality:
Zoë can be quite the introvert sometimes. This may be hard to believe due to her expensive looking appearance. After her parents decided to let her transition, Zoë was subjected to nonstop bullying transforming her into a very depressed individual. Often times she had thought about killing herself just to make it stop. These feelings lead her to become very anti-social and awkward. Zoë always had the urge to just hide when she was in a crowd of people, especially if they were looking directly at her. After gaining a special friend, she was taught to stand up for herself and not allow bigotry to ruin her self-worth.
Zoë began to dress to impress and garnered a fuck all attitude about most things. She started to carry herself with more confidence and completely change her personality. Zoë has the tendency to be very vain at times and stare into her makeup mirror too often. Zoë also has a very addictive personality, mostly with makeup and shopping. Also due to the hormone treatment, her emotions are in a start of constant flux. She can go from sweet to bitch in a few seconds without thinking about it. There are times where she does flaunt her money around in people’s faces, making it known that she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. When not acting arrogant, stuck up, and rude, she can be quite the sweetest person. It all depends on her hormone levels that day.
So basically, if there’s something you need to know about Zoë is that she ain’t no basic bitch. Believe me; you don’t want to cross her. She is a leader, someone you’d rather have as your ally than your enemy. She can be very compassionate and nice, but won’t kneel down for anyone. Wherever she goes, she makes heads turn with her dashing looks and strong personality. She doesn’t have to ‘look’ for attention; it always seems to find her. The fact that she's cis passing only inflates her ego even more.
Zoë began to dress to impress and garnered a fuck all attitude about most things. She started to carry herself with more confidence and completely change her personality. Zoë has the tendency to be very vain at times and stare into her makeup mirror too often. Zoë also has a very addictive personality, mostly with makeup and shopping. Also due to the hormone treatment, her emotions are in a start of constant flux. She can go from sweet to bitch in a few seconds without thinking about it. There are times where she does flaunt her money around in people’s faces, making it known that she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. When not acting arrogant, stuck up, and rude, she can be quite the sweetest person. It all depends on her hormone levels that day.
So basically, if there’s something you need to know about Zoë is that she ain’t no basic bitch. Believe me; you don’t want to cross her. She is a leader, someone you’d rather have as your ally than your enemy. She can be very compassionate and nice, but won’t kneel down for anyone. Wherever she goes, she makes heads turn with her dashing looks and strong personality. She doesn’t have to ‘look’ for attention; it always seems to find her. The fact that she's cis passing only inflates her ego even more.
Hobbies/Interests:
There isn’t a time that goes by where she does not want to buy something whether it is in a store or online. Her addictive personality is always tugging at her very being to buy something she doesn’t need or to have the latest things. Zoë is also a stickler to working out and staying healthy. She’s a full blown vegetarian and doesn’t like the taste of meat. With her workout regimen, she’s kept the perfect body. The fashion industry is a huge part of her life, especially in makeup artistry, fashion designing, and modeling.
Skills/Talents:
Zoë has artistic ability and loves arts and crafts. She is a talented designer and loves sketching new outfits as well as makeup artistry. She strives to be a model, designer, or a makeup artist one day. Also with her new ability she acquired, she’s developed the talent of being stealthy and undetectable. She can get around anywhere or infiltrate just about any place without getting caught.
Prized Possession:
Her makeup bag and sketch pad.
Quote(s):
History/Bio:
Zoë was born Zachary Gambino in Verthaven's very own Turtle-Creek, the wealthiest part of town. Her father is CEO of a software company that's in partnership with the I.S.D. and NEST. The software is used to track down Metahumans and keep their information in a database. Born of Italian decent, family was everything and everyone stuck together. At an early age of only two, Zachary found a fascination with women’s clothing and all toys that were marketed towards girls. Every time his parents were to take them away, he would scream and throw a fit until he was allowed to play with them. Of course his parents just passed this as a phase that he would grow out of. This persisted into elementary school where he preferred to be called by female pronouns and to be referred to as Zoë named after his favorite Sesame Street character.
After taking Zoë to a doctor that specialized in gender identity disorder, it was concluded that their son was indeed transgender. Loving their now daughter very much, they went through with her transition. They began buying her female clothes, changing her documents, and calling her by her correct names. Through this, Zoë’s parents were scrutinized by young kids and even teachers, saying that allowing their son to do this was a type of abuse. However, being in a relatively liberal city, they were supported for the most part.
Before Zoë hit puberty, she was taken to a doctor to start her testosterone blockers and estrogen. Coming from a wealthy family, most of her transition steps were affordable. After beginning her hormone treatment, Zoë began blossoming into a beautiful female, and not a “nasty hairy boy” like she feared of becoming. Going into junior private high school, she was picked on relentlessly. Even though she was enrolled as a female, word got out of her being trans and it went downhill from them. There were times Zoë had to lock herself in the bathroom to stop the bullying. This caused her to go into a deep depression, even having thoughts of suicide. Teachers did nothing to stop the torment. Her personality started to change, causing her to be very anti-social and quiet.
After meeting a dear friend that summer after finishing junior high, she began changing her outlook on this. With a fresh start into a private high school, she began wearing all of her favorite brands and having flawless makeup. All the men she spoke to never knew she was born male mostly due to the fact she never started male puberty. One boy in particular she took an extreme liking to, even to the point of stalking him. This is how her ability manifested.
When trying to sneak out of her house, she suddenly turned invisible out of panic when her parents almost caught her downstairs. With this ability, she used it to stalk to boy she liked. She began to master it and use it for her own bidding. She used it to get back at all of the people who did her wrong. She took the role of Queen Bee and carried herself with utmost confidence.
Zoe is currently finishing her Masters degree in Business Administration and Fashion at a private college that is fully paid for by her parents. Even though fashion and makeup is what she wants to do, she decided to get some business experience just in case she was needed for he father's company. At the moment, Zoe is booking modeling gigs and doing fashion shows all over Verthaven and the country. She's become quite a familiar face in the social scene due to her status and her father. No one knows of her metahuman status except her family and other metahuman acquaintances she met. She ultimately wants to start her own fashion and makeup line in the near future.
However her dreams have come to halt due to recent events. Because of recent attacks and with NEST being in the middle, it has caused Zoe to distrust her father. Even though he doesn't work directly under them, he's partner's with them which caused skepticism between him and his daughter. She has on more than one occasion drilled him for information and cried if he was doing things to harm people like her. It wasn't the first time he gotten his daughter into messes and used her power to gain information from others. Zoe and her father has had a rocky relationship since her powers manifested. Even after everything began to die down, she has yet to talk to her dad but keeps a close relationship with her mom and siblings. She currently lives in a high-end apartment in Turtle-Creek with her family's mansion several blocks away.
After taking Zoë to a doctor that specialized in gender identity disorder, it was concluded that their son was indeed transgender. Loving their now daughter very much, they went through with her transition. They began buying her female clothes, changing her documents, and calling her by her correct names. Through this, Zoë’s parents were scrutinized by young kids and even teachers, saying that allowing their son to do this was a type of abuse. However, being in a relatively liberal city, they were supported for the most part.
Before Zoë hit puberty, she was taken to a doctor to start her testosterone blockers and estrogen. Coming from a wealthy family, most of her transition steps were affordable. After beginning her hormone treatment, Zoë began blossoming into a beautiful female, and not a “nasty hairy boy” like she feared of becoming. Going into junior private high school, she was picked on relentlessly. Even though she was enrolled as a female, word got out of her being trans and it went downhill from them. There were times Zoë had to lock herself in the bathroom to stop the bullying. This caused her to go into a deep depression, even having thoughts of suicide. Teachers did nothing to stop the torment. Her personality started to change, causing her to be very anti-social and quiet.
After meeting a dear friend that summer after finishing junior high, she began changing her outlook on this. With a fresh start into a private high school, she began wearing all of her favorite brands and having flawless makeup. All the men she spoke to never knew she was born male mostly due to the fact she never started male puberty. One boy in particular she took an extreme liking to, even to the point of stalking him. This is how her ability manifested.
When trying to sneak out of her house, she suddenly turned invisible out of panic when her parents almost caught her downstairs. With this ability, she used it to stalk to boy she liked. She began to master it and use it for her own bidding. She used it to get back at all of the people who did her wrong. She took the role of Queen Bee and carried herself with utmost confidence.
Zoe is currently finishing her Masters degree in Business Administration and Fashion at a private college that is fully paid for by her parents. Even though fashion and makeup is what she wants to do, she decided to get some business experience just in case she was needed for he father's company. At the moment, Zoe is booking modeling gigs and doing fashion shows all over Verthaven and the country. She's become quite a familiar face in the social scene due to her status and her father. No one knows of her metahuman status except her family and other metahuman acquaintances she met. She ultimately wants to start her own fashion and makeup line in the near future.
However her dreams have come to halt due to recent events. Because of recent attacks and with NEST being in the middle, it has caused Zoe to distrust her father. Even though he doesn't work directly under them, he's partner's with them which caused skepticism between him and his daughter. She has on more than one occasion drilled him for information and cried if he was doing things to harm people like her. It wasn't the first time he gotten his daughter into messes and used her power to gain information from others. Zoe and her father has had a rocky relationship since her powers manifested. Even after everything began to die down, she has yet to talk to her dad but keeps a close relationship with her mom and siblings. She currently lives in a high-end apartment in Turtle-Creek with her family's mansion several blocks away.
Relationships
Family:
Maria Gambino – Mother
Hector Gambino – Father
Alexander Gambino – Younger Brother
Ashley Gambino – Older Sister
Hector Gambino – Father
Alexander Gambino – Younger Brother
Ashley Gambino – Older Sister
Dynamics:
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Abilities
Power Class:
Super-System & Elemental
Power:
Invisible Energy Manipulation - Zoe has the mental ability to manipulate an unknown invisible energy for a variety of effects, including the rendering of herself and other objects invisible, and the construction of solid, invisible force fields. In an as yet unknown manner, this energy interacts with the cells of her entire body in such a way as to produce a new form of energy with unusual properties.
- Invisibility - By a simple act of concentration, she can cause all wavelengths of visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light to bend around her without distortion; she also somehow directs enough undistorted light to her eyes to retain her full range of vision while invisible. An observer, unaware of the peculiar path light takes around her body, would have the sensation of seeing through her. Zoe can also mentally project the invisible energy produced within the cells of her body in order to render other people or objects invisible. The largest volume she can as yet turn invisible at a single time is approximately 40,000 cubic feet of volume (roughly the size of a swimming pool). She has sufficient control over her power that she can turn parts of her body selectively invisible. Her invisibility is undetected by all forms of technology and can only be sensed by strong psychics. Or one can throw water or paint in the area to see if it will create a silhouette of her body. Zoe can also make objects that are made invisible by other means visible by letting her energy interfere with theirs.
- Force Fields - While the cells of Zoe's body process the invisible energy one way, the cells of her brain process it in a different, more potent manifestation. Through concentration, she is able to project a field of invisible psionic force which she can manipulate into a number of relatively simple forms: walls, domes, cylinders, etc. The complexity of the shape is limited by her ability to imagine (mentally visualize) a particular form and keep it in sharp mental focus. The size of a given psionic force projection is also limited by her mental stamina. The smallest force projection she can visualize (and maintain the visualization) is the size of a marble. The largest solid force projection she can visualize and maintain is about 20 feet in diameter. Her force projections can protect her from most impacts, energy being the easiest to deflect while physical impacts are the hardest. Since this power is an extension of her mind and body, Zoe is affected by inertial forces acting upon her projections. Thus if a car traveling at 60 miles per hour hit a wall of her force that was 6 inches thick, unless she generated a bracing shape against a sufficiently sturdy object, she would be affected as though she were hit by the car directly. Zoe is able to control the surface of the fields rigidity to a certain extent. She can cause the surface of the field to be very hard, depending on its thickness (steel-like), or as resilient as foam rubber. By making the field more resilient she is able to absorb more of the inertia of impacts within the field without having them transmitted to her body. She is also, through training, able to alter the shapes she creates while utilizing those shapes, often to absorb or deflect the force of impacts. Zoe is also able to use this ability to simulate telekinesis to an extent. She can wrap objects/people in a bubble of force energy and push/pull them to a desired area. She is capable of using her force fields offensively, throwing her force fields at opponents to knock them over. Zoe can simulate flight by wrapping herself and others in a bubble and floating to a destination. Because of mental strain, she can only carry two other people inside and can only travel a few miles before becoming fatigued. By combining her invisibility and his force field ability, Zoe can create cloaking shields, hiding everything inside a force field from being detected.
Limits:
Invisible energy can only stay active for as long as the user can concentrate. While her invisibility can stay active for quite a while before having to revert back, her shields take more energy to create. Her shields limits can take more physical attacks, but are weakened when hit by bullets. Zoe’s shields are limited to so many bullets before they disperse and she’s vulnerable for attack. Her more complicated feats such as simulating TK or flight require more concentration and skill than a regular wall. Too much strain can cause nose bleeds, headaches, and cause her to pass out.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks:
Rain and other liquids, solids, fire, etc. can show the user's shape while invisible as well as smoke. In extremely cold temperatures, Zoe’s invisibility may become distorted to wear you can possibly see her. Although she can remain undetected by most Cerebral’s, she can’t remain hidden by all of them. Powerful clairvoyants in particular are able to sense her when she’s around. People with optical powers have a higher chance of detecting her as well. The power also takes concentration. If it is broken, she becomes visible again. Zoe is unable to stay invisible for a long time due to the amount of energy it takes. As stated above, her force fields can block most things but at a cost. If she doesn't have time to brace herself before a powerful hit, she can become affected by the force impact with a shield or not. The moment she loses concentration on her force fields, they cease to exist.
Other:
Zoe has a dog named Princess.
Her favorite makeup brand is MAC.
Her favorite food is cheese pizza.
Her favorite color is pink.
Her father is the CEO of a major computer software company catering to Metahumans and their allies.
Her favorite makeup brand is MAC.
Her favorite food is cheese pizza.
Her favorite color is pink.
Her father is the CEO of a major computer software company catering to Metahumans and their allies.
