NAME: Lucy Anne Burke
ALIAS: Lucy B.
CODE NAME: Stupor
HEIGHT : 5' 5"
WEIGHT: 130 lbs
EYES: Brown.
HAIR: Brown. Usually tied back in a tight ponytail or "Croydon facelift".
RACE: Caucasian
Nationality: English
LOOK: She’s not slender as many of the X-men world women are portrayed to be, instead she has a fuller, curvaceous hourglass figure with a plenty of curves: child-bearing hips, ample bosom and a shapely posterior. Although she isn't beautiful in a conventional sense she is rather attractive in her own sort of way.
She also has a few tattoos on her body including a “tramp stamp” on her lower back.
D.O.B.: 9th June 1990
MUTANT POWER(S): She possesses alcohol-stimulated abilities that enhance her physical strength to superhuman levels proportionate to her alcoholic intake.
Superhuman Strength: The primary effect of alcohol on her is that it greatly increases her strength depending on how drunk she is. Basically her strength level is dependent on the amount of alcohol in her bloodstream; as such the more alcohol she drinks, the stronger she gets. But if the level of alcohol in her were to decrease and she were to begin to sober up her level of super-strength drops significantly until returning to normal base line human levels.
Generally, the higher her blood alcohol level, the stronger and more powerful she becomes although she can still experience the effects of intoxication (drunkenness). Thus, she is drunk with superhuman strength equal to her blood alcohol level.
When mildly intoxicated (or “buzzed”) she possesses superhuman strength sufficient to lift (press) around 15 tons.
When moderately intoxicated (or “tipsy”), she possesses superhuman strength sufficient to lift (press) roughly 50 tons without being greatly hindered by the effects of alcohol, however, her strength can increase with further alcohol consumption.
When heavily intoxicated (or “wasted” / “plastered” / “sh!tfaced” ) she is at her most physically powerful and dangerous, her strength can dramatically increase to the point where she can lift (press) about 75 tons, but suffers from adverse effects associated with being highly intoxicated such as blurred vision, slurred speech, "the spins" (nausea/vertigo), unbalanced walk, vomiting, a severe hangover and so on.
She possesses certain superhuman regenerative properties, however, solely in her liver. This leaves her liver inhumanly resistant to the damaging aspects of excessive alcohol consumption helping to accommodate her alcohol induced abilities.
Due to the nature of her powers, she has an extremely high tolerance to alcohol with her being capable of having a blood alcohol content of upto 0.74%, one of the highest blood alcohol levels recorded which would result in unconsciousness or even death in most normal humans while she remains only somewhat intoxicated (drunk).
The exact limits to her alcoholic tolerance is largely untested, but she can theoretically withstand tremendously high blood alcohol levels well over 0.90%, almost twice the lethal limit (note the word "lethal," not "legal"), she would be left in a drunken stupor though still able to walk and talk. Not make a lot of sense, but talk none the less.
While "powered up" she can appear quite drunk - slurred speech, impaired balance; staggered walk, occasionally vomiting and so forth. Most opponents are quite surprised by this and have a very hard time determining whether she is a threat or not before she starts stompin' and punchin'.
Note: She always keeps a 8 oz stainless steel hip flask of alcohol on her person at all time that helps facilitate her powers for when the situation calls for it. However, when expecting a fight she usually comes prepared with a 1 litre bottle or two of liquor (like vodka), which also can be useful in a dirty fight.
Although in the future the creation of a harness that runs liquor directly into her bloodstream intravenously would increase the effectiveness of powers especially in combat situations.
Weaknesses: Her strength and limited durability are directly tied with her alcoholic intake therefore increase and decrease in accordance with the level of alcohol in her bloodstream. She is only able to use her powers if she is intoxicated otherwise sobriety cancels out her powers. As a result of alcohol being a necessary evil as it is the catalyst for her powers, she is something of an alcoholic.
Although she has limited durability when intoxicated it mainly provides her body the needed protection to be able to lift the massive weight that her super strength allows her to otherwise her physical resistance to impact only increased somewhat when she employed her superhuman strength. Her lack of superhuman resistance to physical injury basically means she isn't bullet-proof, fire-proof or stab-proof leaving her quite more vulnerable to physical harm that most super strong individuals in her strength class.
OTHER ABILITIES: Although she has no formal training or knowledge of hand-to-hand combat she's a brutal and ruthless fighter, who doesn't hold back, relying primarily on brawling and street fighting techniques. However, her superhuman strength make her a much more formidable combatant able to effortlessly manhandle several normal people at a time and confront super-powered opponents.
Personality: Lucy comes across as an rude, intellectually and socially somewhat limited chav. Due, at least in part, to her harsh and turbulent upbringing she is a rather brutish, uneducated and somewhat anti-social individual with more than a few flaws such being a heavy drinker, chain-smoker, particularly foul-mouthed and so on. Generally she acts as a bully and a thug, even before her powers manifested she was used to pushing other people around and taking what she wanted.
She has a short temper, and gets aggressive when stopped from taking what she wants. It takes very little to provoke her to violence, and she tends to solve many problems with her fists - because it works. Although temperamental at all times, she becomes much volatile after drinking and has been known to lash out at friend or foe alike. The main source of her anger is the fact she was placed into foster care at a early age by her mother and constantly moved around in the system. With this in mind, it would be easy to understand that she feels quite lonely and rejected which is the fuel for most of her anger and hatred.
Given the nature of her powers, she has developed an increasing dependency on alcohol as well alcohol becoming a poor coping mechanism for her many problems and issues. Being something of an alcoholic she has quite a dependency on alcohol which can lead her to her being self-destructive and verbally or even physically abusive to others.
Also, she harbours less than favourable racist views towards ethnic minorities to say the least. Whilst she is not often violent or vicious to minorities she doesn't socialise well with them at the best of times usually she shows nothing, but contempt and looks down on them and it is not uncommon for her to be verbally abusive even using racial slurs. Most (if not all) of her racist views are a result of being quite angry, and poorly educated. Despite her anger issues and being slightly racist she's surprisingly capable of being pretty decent and even caring towards the “right sort of people” or “her own kind”.
HISTORY: Stupor, or Lucy Burke, was born and bred in London, England. Raised alone by her single mother that relied almost entirely on benefits and Lucy grew up in a run-down council estate in South London. Lucy's mother developed a drinking problem which lead to her struggling to cope with looking after young Lucy. Around the age of seven her mother put Lucy into foster care where she was constantly moved around often deemed a “problem child” so never had a permanent placement. She also had difficulties fitting in at schools and was expelled from all of the schools she went to because of her abysmal attendance record and bad behaviour. By her early teenage years she was already becoming involved in anti-social and criminal behaviour, i.e., fights, vandalism or theft.
On one particular drunken night when fifteen Lucy was out drinking in the streets of South London and managed to get into a fight with a couple of girls when her powers manifested and she almost ended up beating the girls to death with her bare hands. Eventually she realized her new-found powers were rather unique as she is superhumanly strong, but only when she is drunk. Because of her lack of intelligence and motivation Lucy decided she would use her mutant powers for her own petty ends. As soon as she could, she left foster care and started to look after herself.
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