"Is it a stupid name? Well, yes, but with millions of metahumans the number of available names wasn't that big. *Everyone* wants to be named something like Blackwatch or Captain some country or other or Stormrage. Well, no, I'm just the obfuscated operative. No I'm not a spy, You think a spy dresses in *bright white*? Please. Yes I'm a woman, no you're not gonna stuff me into some ridiculous skintight stripper outfit that needs a glue stick to stay on. I think this is very practical thank you very much. What? Of *course* I'm Canadian, why wouldn't I be? You wanna know what!? No, get out of my face, asshole." - Hannah Worthington being (incessantly) interviewed by Fox News.
((Vrakmul here with the first of 144 new characters: Thought the vine could use an outright butt monkey character))
name: Sally Worthington
Alias: The Obfuscated Operative
Gender: Female
age: 26
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Blue
Weight: 96 kilograms
height: 198 cm
Identity: Classified under Technocratic Combine of Canadian registration law.
Origin: Energy X
Birthplace: Exemplaria, Canada
Occupation: Professional superhero, Cosmic chewtoy.
Species: Human mutate. (Homo Sapiens Aberratio)
The Operative
Every Canadian child knows that every twenty three years, a cosmic storm of energy X, named for it's unusual properties and overall mysteriousness, randomly afflicts utterly random people with random superpowers usually related to their personalities, activities, or any other secondary factors when affected. Given that Energy X is incredibly capricious with whom it affects it's entirely possible to have never heard of it as other than having a regular schedule, it otherwise has no real consistency with regards to anything.
Of course, Exemplaria seems to be a favourite target for energy X, as the cosmic energy seems to be pulled towards the city like a magnet, resulting in a massive superhuman population approaching over ten million versus a base human population of forty million, not including twenty million recognizably intelligent machines or extra-terrestrial/dimensional immigrants, With this cyclical mass spawning of superbeings in the city, a great deal of heroes and villains most people will have never heard about have flooded Canada as Energy X mutates have spread outwards. One of these heroes is Sally Worthington.
She's not as famous as the Ant or as Lauded as Tombstone. Having only started in 2012, she's barely even a blip in an ocean full of variably sized blips. It's hard to be noticed when the city has more metahumans than most countries in their entirety. Even the city's mayor is a super. She can't hope to compete with the likes of North Star or Inertron for attention, or all the aliens and out of earthers who walk openly among the now admittedly largely irrelevant population of base humans.
Going from a population of people who despite enjoying massively more comfortable lives with technological achievements well beyond the rest of the world, were always at risk of being squashed by some super villain or the invader or giant monster of the week, to one of the enormous sea of heroes who constantly fight to keep the city safe; was an intimidating prospect. Before she was little more than a smarmy mouthed policewoman. Just another face in the crowd with little excitement because the better equipped divisions or the sanctioned heroes usually got to any trouble before she did.
She suppose she couldn't complain, that meant she wasn't at risk of getting atomized by the likes of Vorgon the Conqueror or devoured by the Tarrasque or hospitalized whenever literal gods had brawls. But one day, while at home and taking some midnight pool dips at her home, the Energy X storm chose her. Incredible space based energies from who the hell knows where took this tall and strong but otherwise not super-exceptional woman and turned her into...a low end metahuman who was utterly indistinct in the already massive crowd of heroes. Gods damn it all.
Though for whatever reason, the mysterious ability of Energy X to seemingly create matter had the decency to give her a supersuit...which was considerate of it It was a snazzy armoured suit too. She didn't quite understand the moon theme behind it though until she decided to go and register as yet another Energy X mutate and try out some heroics as a professional. Her power fluctuated according to the states of the moon, ranging from low low end to might be able to slug out with the ant to being able to lift a light tank and probably still getting one shotted by the ant with a single trapjaw punch. So dazzling, so amazing. So utterly indistinct.
Thank you Energy X.
Still, she did her duty, remaining with the Royal Canadian Police. She was there to deal with the sudden ODESSA invasion of her home city, flooding her city with an army of Neo-Nazis hellbent on avenging their defeat in the second world war. Mass suffering ensued and the skull count rose to the millions. Then Demons invaded at the behest of the Chosen of Baalzebul, at one point standing against the giant demon Marvakanir with nothing but her standard weapons, and a smartphone. One rigging of city speakers to her phone and one hour long of Nyancat later, the horrific demon personally retreated to it's home rather than face any further noise.
But on a fateful September day in 2013, the Hierarchy struck at the world, with one of the hardest blows falling upon Exemplaria. Utter Chaos and destruction followed as the world experienced a death toll over a hundred million strong spread across the planet, a skull count surpassing any single war in history. To the Hierarchy, Hannah lost her entire squad and Exemplaria lost three million people, a number that would have been much higher had the Imperium not intervened and helped route the Hierarchy from what seemed to be inevitable victory through sheer weight of numbers.
She found herself pressed to the breaking point, having to fight an endless stream of alien monsters and their mechanical creations. No longer was she facing her standard stable of supervillains and their cronies or various terrorist organizations, but instead a concerted military invasion by a technologically superior foe whose soldiers had their own terrifying power. And at the beginning of the month; there was hardly a point for her to be weaker.
Unlike many other metahumans, she didn't cross over into space to beat down on the Hierarchy and thus never had to experience the terror of the thoughtsin, but she was put out of the war rather quickly when she sought to challenge a Muton Elite Berserker. With all her weapons and tactics at the ready, with hours of experience fighting these aliens and all her training at the ready, she launched herself at the beast. One trip to the hospital later and she now knows better than to pick a fight with something that regularly reduces armoured super soldiers to greasy stains on it's fist.
Following Andreinov's take over of Canada and his reformation of it into a Technocratic Combine, she's continued to soldier forward despite the royal mess just down south in the states and Andreinov's, in her opinion, incredible shiftiness as her worldview gets expanded with all this madness about space monsters. During her explorations of the post Hierarchy war city, she came across a number of individuals bearing a Black Hand, When she next came to, it was three months later, though she remembered some form of heroic victory and more of her standard life. Dismissing it as the natural stresses of the Job, she's continued her career in obscurity.
Even if it involved accidentally getting dragged into the Cretaceous by an unwitting Dave and just barely missing the K-T impact while the Novii tried surfing the asteroid down to the Earth to impress his girlfriend before she was sent back to her home time. Or being used by Gragvorl as a bat briefly while attacking Taranis for the umpteenth time. Or being the target of the minor lovecraftian entity "Suu'vonoluu the despoiler"'s betentacled attentions. Or just generally having terrible luck.
Powers
Moon enhanced physicality: Sally's power set depends on the current phase of the moon irrespective of whether it's day or not. During New/Old moon phases, she has class five physicality, five times human reflexes, and the ability to run about twice as fast as the average person and can heal from permanently disabling injuries in about a day, major wounds in an hour, and minor injuries in a minute. During crescent phases, these powers are doubled. On gibbous phases, they are doubled again. On the full moon, they are brought to their height and yet further doubled. During a lunar eclipse, her powers are outright halved down from their New Moon base.
Continued: Blue moons make her amphibious and impervious to electricity inspite of these generally being caused by fires, Harvest moons grant her imperviousness to light based attacks, Solar eclipses make her invulnerable to heat, and during so called "supermoons" when the moon is at it's closest point to the Earth, her points are quadrupled, which stacks with any of the above. This is unfortunately, usually not enough to counter her terrible unluck.
Experience and training: Being trained as a police officer and as a superhero and having two years job experience, she's not the best fighter the world has ever seen but she'd floor most people in a one on one fight skill wise, but against all the super-experts and uber kung-fu shaolin death dealers? She can't compete with that.
Moon beams: Wait! One would say. The Moon just reflects light! It doesn't have any energy of it's own! Well, everyone's throwing around dark energy that sure as hell isn't the stuff expanding the universe, and darkness is just an absence of light, so suck it. Essentially very bright and highly forceful beams that she can shoot from her hands, these moon beams generally strike with the force of .50 caliber weapons during the new/old moon phase if she wants to keep up her stamina. They're otherwise incredibly not special. If going all out, she could maybe manage the power of a 75mm WW2 era tank gun and then have to pause and take a breather.
Determination: If she didn't have this, she'd have quit her job a long time ago. Despite her awful luck and constant physical battering, she still keeps on going at it, though sometimes she does know when to say "Screw this I'm out of here!" Like the time when she was brought face to face with Vorgon the conqueror rising from the waters of Exemplaria immediately after skinny dipping.
Intelligence: Sally was an A-B student in school. Not super smart, but generally gifted. She can usually figure things out for her own.
Horrible luck: Nothing ever seems to go as planned for sally. While she's never killed, she's usually humiliated time after time at the most decisive moment possible and seems to be a magnet for general misfortune.
Equipment
Lunar armor: Generally a mesh of polymers that include carbon nanostructures and spider silk and vibranium weave, the Lunar armor is a durable and tough suit that also offers great shock absorbtion, a must when she's so frequently the subject of heavy drubbings. Some parts of her armor are made out of more solid vibranium plating, particularly around the torso area, but also the hips, boots, shoulders, and hand/fore-arm area, as well as a helmet she keeps under the hood to protect her skull.
These are substantially more durable and are great for ensuring her guts aren't spilled on the floor when she ends having a punch out with the bombardier beetle during a new moon day. Her headset comes with a modern but otherwise unspectacular HUD system that includes radio communication and quick database access, but no nightvision, as her moon enhanced physiology lets her see just fine at night. Her cape is capable of memory shaping and being used as a glider, useful for recovering from being thrown across the city.
Moon staff: An adamantium-vibranium staff made for her by Energy X, the moon staff is really just a long metal stick, though it can amplify and triple up her moon blasts in terms of power, allowing her some needed extra ranged ability in a pinch.
Utility belt: Never leave home without it! Not just good for holding up pants but storing all sorts of neat things like mini-bombs, moon shaped throwing stars (which fly true despite their terrible aerodynamics), grapple guns, foam based explosives, snack bars, her phone, and other essentials to superheroing. It is unfortunately also the first thing villains try to steal from her.
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