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Lunamaria HawkeRiiiight, so, uh... I kind of failed at being laconic for her backstory so I'm going to play @The Kid Lantern's for now and just leave her backstory as five words for now. Hopefully going to flesh it out a bit later, though. Also I'm a little worried I made her too powerful, since I wanted to make her a "flying brick" type of character, which is an archetype I don't usually do and thus, um, yeah. Consider this a rough draft for the time being I guess, which I'm perfectly willing to tone down if she needs toning down. ^^; Anyways...
- Archetype: Super Soldier
- Name: Rosalin Wells (Subject-10032)
- Alias: Captain Genome
- Age: 21
- Powers: Captain Genome possesses what many would consider to be the "standard superhero package"; she is endowed with superstrength, the ability to fly, and nigh-invulnerability. Her strength is great enough for her to toss cars about without much effort, and her top flight speed manages to break the sound barrier (although she does need a bit of time and space to accelerate enough to reach this level; regular flight speed for her is usually much lower). Regular mundane blades can't seem to penetrate her skin, nor can most guns; higher yield firearms can knock the wind out of her, though, and she's proven to be somewhat susceptible to high levels of blunt trauma. In addition to the "standard" powers, she also generates a bioelectric field (which some theorize is the true source of her other powers); whilst she can't do anything like project bolts of lightning she can electrify her body to empower her blows, most notably using it as an improvised taser to stun and pacify criminals. The bioelectric field makes her rather resistant to electrical attacks, and it requires a substantially high voltage for her to be affected by such things.
- Weaknesses: Captain Genome's powers don't work on rubber for some reason (although many would point to the theory about all her powers being an extension of her bioelectric field). Her punches seem to lose the strength behind them when she punches something made of rubber, and if encased in it she loses the ability to use any of her powers. In addition, whatever alien species she's been spliced with apparently thrived in warm conditions and hated the cold, and so sub-zero temperatures will cause her powers to gradually weaken. Notably, for all her durability Captain Genome still needs to breathe, and thus whilst it's difficult to strangle her she can still be drowned or choke on poison gas or other such things; surviving in the conditions like the vacuum of space is right out.
- Alignment: Staunchly heroic. Killing is only an absolute last resort, and even then doing so would weigh heavily on her conscious.
- Personality: Idealistic, optimistic, hotblooded, compassionate, nerdy.
- Appearance: Out of costume on the left and in costume on the right.
- The girl who would become known to the world as Captain Genome was born in a lab, as part of a secret government initiative to create a new breed of soldier by combining the genetic codes of both humans and an extraterrestrial being who crashlanded in New Mexico in the 40's. Unfortunately, this initiative was hit by a few snags along the way, not least of all the fact that it took them almost five decades of research to get the splicing process to work properly and produce a viable hybrid. For the first five years of her life she was known only by the number 10032 and treated as little more than a lab animal, as she wasn't expected to survive for long before her body began rejecting her alien half. Unfortunately, around the time they started to realize that she was actually a success, the government decided to finally axe the project and told them to destroy all their research to keep it out of the hands of terrorists, supervillains and journalists.
...So this is ending up longer than you probably wanted so let's just go into cliff notes here: scientist tasked with terminating her couldn't go through with it, adopted her and raised her with his wife, raised to believe in truth, justice, sanctity of life and all that goodness, became a superhero when her powers really started to kick in during her late-teens. - Storylines:
- Rosaline's "father" wasn't the only member of the initiative who didn't follow orders to dispose of their work. Some might even have started to realize that Rosaline is in fact the supersoldier they spent so long working on, and might went to take her back for testing...
- Wait, doesn't half of her genetic code come from an alien race? What if they've developed an interest in Earth?
- Is Rosaline truly the only product of the initiative that worked out? Have some of its former members decided to pick up where they left off?
- Notes: Rosalin is more powerful than either of her parent species due to hybrid vigour. She's also sterile, and can't have children even if she wants to. Main influences: a variety of "Captain" superheroes, the Weapon-X program, the Radio Noise Sisters, Superboy.