dlantoub:
@von_das
Now this is interesting. Assuming my character keeps going on the same mould (not changing playbook), maybe my characters parents contributed to some of your research and vice versa. Although maybe from opposite ends :)
von_das:
I'm not sure how connected her family is to the wider super science community... but then again, some of her distant relatives are a different story. Genetic science isn't exactly her or her father's speciality, but of course plenty of genetic variants seem to feature abnormal energy generation (see: lots of mutants, but I'm sure there are other examples too), so I wouldn't count it out entirely...
dlantoub:
True, but bio-energy is your sphere, and at some point that will link back to genetics, either natural or synthetic. What pool of genes directly creates the most bio-energy?
So.. if you hear about an actual experiment to create a sentient biological weapon, you might be offering information on how much bio-energy might be needed to create x-effect; and of course be interested in how much energy is generated by their test subject.
After all the most obvious example in nature of bio energy is.. the electric eel, and some sharks may have something similar.
von_das:
Good points all. :) I think that's definitely a plausible connection, though I'll need to think some more about the backstory before I decide how to fit it in exactly.
Name: Abigail Pryce
Nickname: Abigail, Abi
Superpowered alias: (not yet active) Leviathan, Levi for short.
Basic concept: Genetically manipulated.
Proposed playbook: Transformed (Thank you Krazny for the suggestion; also been theory crafting how Outsider would work)
Current thoughts:
Abigail was a happy child, although being the child of respected scientists was annoying. Everyone expected her to be as smart as they were, and her teachers despaired that she was not "reaching her potential".
Her parents always asked her wierd questions. "Did anything unusual happen today?" The answer was always "No." Except when another child pushed her down the stairs. "I got pushed down the stairs today, aren't you supposed to break a bone when that happens?"
Indeed, her parents seemed to be getting more and more concerned until just a few months before her admittance to the school.
She had fever for a week, and when she came out of it, she had lost all of her hair, and her skin had grown into rock hard scales.
Her traumatic (for her at least) change did not extend to her not needing glasses. And her parents decided to surprise her with an invitation to a school which they said would help come to terms with her new status.
What she knows at the current time. Her scales and skeleton make her almost immune to conventional injury. Other people with superpowers probably don't count as conventional.
She came to the academy for her parents, and because she would no longer for in in a conventional school.
She joined the team half by choice and half because her homeroom teacher hinted that her grades might take a dive if she didn't, conveniently leaving out the bit that heroic work would probably cause them to drop anyway.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:13, Tue 04 May 2021.