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girlwithout) wrote2015-01-11 02:56 pm
girlwithout) wrote2015-01-11 02:56 pm
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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Rikki Barnes | Nomad
CHARACTER AGE: Approx. 16
SERIES: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: In the story “Underneath the Skin”, just after the Black Widow gives her the antidote to the chemicals that would have made her explode. (A large part of the reason I’m choosing this canon point is because Rikki had more or less started to accept that she might be about to die again and started to consider whether she was going to wake up in a new reality again, which should make the transition easier and less abrupt.)
CLASS: so very hero
BACKGROUND:
Rikki’s original home universe is a pocket universe that Franklin Richards created when fleeing from Onslaught. It shares many similarities with the Heroes Reborn universe, which was also created by Franklin as a way to shelter many of 616’s heroes from being killed by Onslaught, but it is not the same universe. A few facts that are true of the Heroes Reborn universe were established for this Rikki, such as the way she met Steve (noted later in this app) and the fact that she had a team called the Young Allies.
Within the pocket universe, Rikki Barnes is a superhero legacy of sorts. Her grandparents are Richard Barnes (who is heavily implied to have been a “Bucky”, Captain America’s partner; I set Rikki as James Buchanan Barnes’ great-niece, since his name is where the nickname “Bucky” came from) and Peggy Carter, who raised her and her older brother John after an undisclosed incident killed their parents. Given that Rikki’s 616 counterpart died in childbirth along with her mother, however, it’s fair to assume that her home universe’s mother died in childbirth as well.
Rikki grew up more or less normal civilian and dedicated herself to the goal of attending the Juilliard school of dance. When her older brother got into a super-racist white power organization and accidentally alerted her to the fact that he was running away, she followed him and stumbled on the realization that the organization was affiliated with the Master Man and the Red Skull. After her attempt to confront him went sour, she ran into the Red Skull, who tied her to a nuclear warhead the organization was planning to launch at LA.
Captain America chose that point to burst in and save the day, rescuing Rikki, and she, in turn, helped him defeat the Red Skull’s group. He took her on as his new partner, where she took on the legacy codename Bucky. She was trained in combat by both Captain America and SHIELD (and likely had a few sessions with other Avengers as well) and took to her new role like a duck to water, happily kicking ass at the Cap’s side until Onslaught invaded their reality on the trail of Franklin Richards. Rikki was given the job of looking after Franklin while the Avengers dealt with the crisis and ended up sacrificing herself to save her universe and everyone in it by throwing herself and Onslaught into the Negative Zone, only to wake up in the 616 universe.
It is revealed in Onslaught Unleashed that Rikki Barnes did die in the Negative Zone, mostly, but Onslaught basically took a piece of her that survived and shoved it into the 616 as a way to get its foot in the door of a new universe. (She is not aware of it at the time I’m bringing her in from, and it does not need to affect her role in Mask or Menace – this is just background information.)
While in the 616 universe, Rikki sought out her family and found an orphaned, much nicer version of her brother. She forged a new identity so she could attend school with him and befriend him. Unfortunately, she ran afoul of an organization known as the Secret Empire when she ruined their plans to test mind control on the student population of their high school. In the ensuing mess, John Barnes was shot and killed.
After a grieving period, Rikki sought out some of the people working for the Secret Empire with the intentions of taking them down. Her attempt failed, but in the process she ran into Anya Corazon, another teenage superhero known as Arana, who she befriended. Once again, she forged a new identity (this time under her real name) and started attending school in Brooklyn with Anya so she could stay close to her new friend.
There are only a couple written events that happened between then and Rikki’s entrance into the game. She was targeted by a serial killer who sought out homeless teenage girls like herself as a way of reliving his first murder, that of his daughter. She escaped and alerted the police to his actions. Another is that the 616 Steve Rogers was discovered to have memories of having been the Steve Rogers from her universe and sought her out. Due to having a panic attack in the middle of a fight when she saw him being targeted by an enemy with a gun, she nearly decided she couldn’t handle having him in her life when she might lose him again, but eventually came to the decision that having that relationship with him was worth it.
Immediately prior to being brought into the game, she was recruited by the Black Widow for a mission related to a terrorist organization that discovered a way to turn people into essentially living bombs. The mission went badly and both Rikki and Black Widow were captured. Rikki was tortured several hours for information about who their inside source was before she escaped by breaking her thumbs to get out of the handcuffs holding her to the chair and using her captor’s gun to weaken the door. She discovered that the Black Widow had already escaped at that point, and the two of them went looking for their inside source. While the Black Widow and their source were working on destroying the group’s information on how to make the bomb drug, Rikki fought several of the group’s members and was injected with the drug. The inside source induced hypothermia in Rikki to slow her metabolism down and buy them time while the Black Widow located an antidote. Rikki’s being taken from this situation after the antidote is given to her.
PERSONALITY:
Rikki is brave, resourceful, and stubborn as hell, but she’s still a teenager with a teenager’s vulnerabilities who had to cope with being in a universe that’s just different enough to be a shock and in which she doesn’t have an identity. She primarily views her continued existence as a kind of second chance or “purgatory” she’s received in reward for her actions, but exactly how much of a reward she thinks that is warps over time. After her alternate!brother’s death, Rikki begins to see herself as more of a curse on the 616 reality and half-believes her existence is responsible for destroying/tainting the people she knew from her reality. When she meets Steve Rogers, he addresses this and assures her that bad things just happen in 616 just as in her reality, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she 100% believes it.
Prior to being a superhero, Rikki spent much of her life dedicated to learning dance and eventually attending Juilliard. As a superhero, Rikki is very skilled, having been trained by Captain America and SHIELD in her role as Bucky, but she was a formidable fighter even before she began formal training. She’s very focused on whatever goal she chooses, whether it’s professional dance or saving people, and good at planning and adapting. Rikki continued to work as a superhero in the 616 universe on her own, without the previous support she had from the Avengers and SHIELD, and accepts the new identity of Nomad that the Black Widow gives her (although at the time she does not know who provided the uniform and file on its history to her and being uncertain if it was the result of someone pulling her strings behind the scenes or a present from someone who believes she’s worthy of the name).
During her time in 616, she was homeless in both the usual sense of not having a permanent address and in not having her proper reality to live in, but she is extremely resourceful and preferred to make it on her own to putting herself in, say, the foster care system. Prior to attracting the attention of the Secret Empire, she chose to make her way alone, getting jobs off-the-books like dishwasher etc. in order to afford a hotel room. When she moves to Brooklyn, she camps out in an abandoned house and has to resort to things like sneaking into her school early to have a shower, going to soup kitchens, etc. On a game-specific note, although she prefers to make it on her own, she will mostly likely be willing to accept the military’s benefits (housing, health care, etc.) as long as it’s offered with a reasonable amount of independence, as opposed to the foster system, which would have basically taken over her life and given her no say in it.
Rikki is incredibly resilient and has made it through many trials most teenagers would not be able to handle. Her brother tried to kill her, she became a superhero, she sacrificed herself for her world, she woke up in an entirely new reality with no real knowledge of why or how it happened and managed to forge a new life for herself, her 616 brother died, the list goes on.
POWER:
VARIATION ON THE SUPER SOLDIER SERUM
The serum essentially boosts the person’s regular physical abilities, making them more resilient, stronger, faster, quicker to heal, etc. It’s not perfect. But a broken bone, for example, might heal in a matter of days rather than weeks, and it would require more force to break the bone.
ABILITY TO PROJECT ENERGY SHIELDS
The ability to create energy shields similar to the one she wields in canon (http://marvel.wikia.com/Energy_shield) using her mind. They are capable of blocking solid objects. Although it seems like it should be a purely defensive power, Rikki was trained by Captain America and has a tendency to use shields as blunt object weapons. How much power/energy it takes to create a shield would be in direct proportion to how many shields she’s creating, how big they are, and how great a hit they have to protect against. Shielding a small area against a fairly heavy hit would cost her roughly the same amount of energy as shielding a fairly large area against a pretty weak hit. Stretching her abilities too far would result in physical symptoms (headaches, inability to keep the shields going, exhaustion, etc.).
CHARACTER NAME: Rikki Barnes | Nomad
CHARACTER AGE: Approx. 16
SERIES: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: In the story “Underneath the Skin”, just after the Black Widow gives her the antidote to the chemicals that would have made her explode. (A large part of the reason I’m choosing this canon point is because Rikki had more or less started to accept that she might be about to die again and started to consider whether she was going to wake up in a new reality again, which should make the transition easier and less abrupt.)
CLASS: so very hero
BACKGROUND:
Rikki’s original home universe is a pocket universe that Franklin Richards created when fleeing from Onslaught. It shares many similarities with the Heroes Reborn universe, which was also created by Franklin as a way to shelter many of 616’s heroes from being killed by Onslaught, but it is not the same universe. A few facts that are true of the Heroes Reborn universe were established for this Rikki, such as the way she met Steve (noted later in this app) and the fact that she had a team called the Young Allies.
Within the pocket universe, Rikki Barnes is a superhero legacy of sorts. Her grandparents are Richard Barnes (who is heavily implied to have been a “Bucky”, Captain America’s partner; I set Rikki as James Buchanan Barnes’ great-niece, since his name is where the nickname “Bucky” came from) and Peggy Carter, who raised her and her older brother John after an undisclosed incident killed their parents. Given that Rikki’s 616 counterpart died in childbirth along with her mother, however, it’s fair to assume that her home universe’s mother died in childbirth as well.
Rikki grew up more or less normal civilian and dedicated herself to the goal of attending the Juilliard school of dance. When her older brother got into a super-racist white power organization and accidentally alerted her to the fact that he was running away, she followed him and stumbled on the realization that the organization was affiliated with the Master Man and the Red Skull. After her attempt to confront him went sour, she ran into the Red Skull, who tied her to a nuclear warhead the organization was planning to launch at LA.
Captain America chose that point to burst in and save the day, rescuing Rikki, and she, in turn, helped him defeat the Red Skull’s group. He took her on as his new partner, where she took on the legacy codename Bucky. She was trained in combat by both Captain America and SHIELD (and likely had a few sessions with other Avengers as well) and took to her new role like a duck to water, happily kicking ass at the Cap’s side until Onslaught invaded their reality on the trail of Franklin Richards. Rikki was given the job of looking after Franklin while the Avengers dealt with the crisis and ended up sacrificing herself to save her universe and everyone in it by throwing herself and Onslaught into the Negative Zone, only to wake up in the 616 universe.
It is revealed in Onslaught Unleashed that Rikki Barnes did die in the Negative Zone, mostly, but Onslaught basically took a piece of her that survived and shoved it into the 616 as a way to get its foot in the door of a new universe. (She is not aware of it at the time I’m bringing her in from, and it does not need to affect her role in Mask or Menace – this is just background information.)
While in the 616 universe, Rikki sought out her family and found an orphaned, much nicer version of her brother. She forged a new identity so she could attend school with him and befriend him. Unfortunately, she ran afoul of an organization known as the Secret Empire when she ruined their plans to test mind control on the student population of their high school. In the ensuing mess, John Barnes was shot and killed.
After a grieving period, Rikki sought out some of the people working for the Secret Empire with the intentions of taking them down. Her attempt failed, but in the process she ran into Anya Corazon, another teenage superhero known as Arana, who she befriended. Once again, she forged a new identity (this time under her real name) and started attending school in Brooklyn with Anya so she could stay close to her new friend.
There are only a couple written events that happened between then and Rikki’s entrance into the game. She was targeted by a serial killer who sought out homeless teenage girls like herself as a way of reliving his first murder, that of his daughter. She escaped and alerted the police to his actions. Another is that the 616 Steve Rogers was discovered to have memories of having been the Steve Rogers from her universe and sought her out. Due to having a panic attack in the middle of a fight when she saw him being targeted by an enemy with a gun, she nearly decided she couldn’t handle having him in her life when she might lose him again, but eventually came to the decision that having that relationship with him was worth it.
Immediately prior to being brought into the game, she was recruited by the Black Widow for a mission related to a terrorist organization that discovered a way to turn people into essentially living bombs. The mission went badly and both Rikki and Black Widow were captured. Rikki was tortured several hours for information about who their inside source was before she escaped by breaking her thumbs to get out of the handcuffs holding her to the chair and using her captor’s gun to weaken the door. She discovered that the Black Widow had already escaped at that point, and the two of them went looking for their inside source. While the Black Widow and their source were working on destroying the group’s information on how to make the bomb drug, Rikki fought several of the group’s members and was injected with the drug. The inside source induced hypothermia in Rikki to slow her metabolism down and buy them time while the Black Widow located an antidote. Rikki’s being taken from this situation after the antidote is given to her.
PERSONALITY:
Rikki is brave, resourceful, and stubborn as hell, but she’s still a teenager with a teenager’s vulnerabilities who had to cope with being in a universe that’s just different enough to be a shock and in which she doesn’t have an identity. She primarily views her continued existence as a kind of second chance or “purgatory” she’s received in reward for her actions, but exactly how much of a reward she thinks that is warps over time. After her alternate!brother’s death, Rikki begins to see herself as more of a curse on the 616 reality and half-believes her existence is responsible for destroying/tainting the people she knew from her reality. When she meets Steve Rogers, he addresses this and assures her that bad things just happen in 616 just as in her reality, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she 100% believes it.
Prior to being a superhero, Rikki spent much of her life dedicated to learning dance and eventually attending Juilliard. As a superhero, Rikki is very skilled, having been trained by Captain America and SHIELD in her role as Bucky, but she was a formidable fighter even before she began formal training. She’s very focused on whatever goal she chooses, whether it’s professional dance or saving people, and good at planning and adapting. Rikki continued to work as a superhero in the 616 universe on her own, without the previous support she had from the Avengers and SHIELD, and accepts the new identity of Nomad that the Black Widow gives her (although at the time she does not know who provided the uniform and file on its history to her and being uncertain if it was the result of someone pulling her strings behind the scenes or a present from someone who believes she’s worthy of the name).
During her time in 616, she was homeless in both the usual sense of not having a permanent address and in not having her proper reality to live in, but she is extremely resourceful and preferred to make it on her own to putting herself in, say, the foster care system. Prior to attracting the attention of the Secret Empire, she chose to make her way alone, getting jobs off-the-books like dishwasher etc. in order to afford a hotel room. When she moves to Brooklyn, she camps out in an abandoned house and has to resort to things like sneaking into her school early to have a shower, going to soup kitchens, etc. On a game-specific note, although she prefers to make it on her own, she will mostly likely be willing to accept the military’s benefits (housing, health care, etc.) as long as it’s offered with a reasonable amount of independence, as opposed to the foster system, which would have basically taken over her life and given her no say in it.
Rikki is incredibly resilient and has made it through many trials most teenagers would not be able to handle. Her brother tried to kill her, she became a superhero, she sacrificed herself for her world, she woke up in an entirely new reality with no real knowledge of why or how it happened and managed to forge a new life for herself, her 616 brother died, the list goes on.
POWER:
VARIATION ON THE SUPER SOLDIER SERUM
The serum essentially boosts the person’s regular physical abilities, making them more resilient, stronger, faster, quicker to heal, etc. It’s not perfect. But a broken bone, for example, might heal in a matter of days rather than weeks, and it would require more force to break the bone.
ABILITY TO PROJECT ENERGY SHIELDS
The ability to create energy shields similar to the one she wields in canon (http://marvel.wikia.com/Energy_shield) using her mind. They are capable of blocking solid objects. Although it seems like it should be a purely defensive power, Rikki was trained by Captain America and has a tendency to use shields as blunt object weapons. How much power/energy it takes to create a shield would be in direct proportion to how many shields she’s creating, how big they are, and how great a hit they have to protect against. Shielding a small area against a fairly heavy hit would cost her roughly the same amount of energy as shielding a fairly large area against a pretty weak hit. Stretching her abilities too far would result in physical symptoms (headaches, inability to keep the shields going, exhaustion, etc.).