Trigger Warning: Origin story involves Sexual assault and Physical Abuse.
Name:Jealousy Type:Daredevil Allegiance:None Origin:
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Social
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Character
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Inspiration:(4) Pool(4)
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Strength:3
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Charisma:3
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Perception:3
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Virtue:Survivor
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Intuitive:2
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Dexterity:4
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Manipulation:3
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Intelligence:3
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Vice:Fanatic
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Reflective:
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Stamina:3
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Appearance:2
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Wits:3
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Willpower:8
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Destructive:2
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Physical: Athletics (4) Martial Arts (3) Melee (3) Stealth (3) Endurance(3)
Social: Intimidate (2) Style (3) Savvy (3) Command (2)
Mental: Awareness (2) Investigation (2) Intrusion (2) Drive (2)
Backgrounds: Cipher (4) Followers (2) Resources (3) Devices(3) Sanctum(1) Nemesis(3)
Knacks: Indomitable Will, Lightning Reflexes,Untouchable, Dance of Death,
Initiative(9) Soak (3/1, Her cloak provides her an additional 2/2) Movement:Walk (Dex+2m) Run(Dex+12m) Sprint(DexX3+20m)
Bruised (-0) Hurt (-1) Injured (-1) Wounded (-2) Maimed(-3) Crippled (-4) Incapacitated,
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Rate/Clip/ Conceal
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Notes:
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Whip
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Str+2 lethal
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Throwing Knives (4)
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Str+2 lethal
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Fighting Claws
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Str+1 lethal
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Additional notes:
Equipment: Aside from the above weapons, She carries a pair of smoke grenades, and has a set of lockpicks secreted inside of her face mask. She also possesses a line throwing gun. Her leather whip is treated every evening with habanero pepper juice. If the whip damages a character in combat they are afflicted with searing agony (it doesn't do any extra damage but it does reduce a characters dice pool by 5 for the rest of the scene or until they manage to counter the burning with baking soda or some such. water will only make it worse. a Player may attempt to resist the effects of the capsicum by spending willpower and rolling Stamina+Resistance. Each success mitigates the reduction by 1. Regardless, being wounded with the whip causes horrific scars and Jealousy often goes for called shots on a person's face. Any botch on a dodge roll means that Jealousy has hit the character in the eyes and they are effectively blinded as well.
Appearance/Clothing Tendencies: When unmasked, Jealousy is a youngish caucasian woman with a serious mein and long, well cared for, glossy black hair. She has a long vertical scar running from her hairline to her jaw line on the right side of her face. (it just barely missed her eye.) She has the build and musculature of a former dancer that has turned to the martial arts.
When Jealousy is working she wears a body stocking and boots. She has a utility belt with many of her weapons. She also sports a long thick cloak with a hood. (sewn into the interior of the cloak is some light chain mail to provide her with a bit of armor) and a bone white half mask that covers the right side of her face. All of the clothing is in complimentary shades of green which matches the one visible green eye...burning with madness and hatred.
House, Circle, Influence: Jealousy has only recently begun to understand the need for a few goons to soak up some of the opposition. As such her gang is of only five men. While Jealousy never threatens or raises her voice against them. they live in mortal terror of her. They've seen what she's capable of. She has quietly purchased a small defunct cosmetic factory for her hideout. Her nemesis is anyone from the Cerrenzi family.
What has gone Before:
Morgana Alexander was a beautiful child. She won pageants in her teens. Although she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag, she had a burgeoning career as an actress and a model. Life was good and she was content. She came from an upper middle-class family and was making her own way in the world.
She met Nico Cerrenzi at a party. Nico was a dream. He was rich and very good looking and very smooth. Morgana caught his eye and they began talking. Six months later they were married after a whirlwind romance. Morgana's parents didn't like Nico but they were so much in love that they didn't care. Morgana's mother said that it was too soon. But they didn't care. Even when it was becoming increasingly evident that Nico was maybe involved in shady business beyond the olive oil business, Morgana put her worries aside. Nico loved her and she loved him and that was all that mattered.
After 2 years of marriage, the cracks began to show. Nico was insanely jealous. His wife was a great beauty and men naturally turned to look at her. Often he got into trouble picking fights with strange men. He began to be increasingly erratic. He even began to blame Morgana for the attention that she received from other men. At times they would go out and he would show her off like a trophy but if someone talked to her or flirted with her, Nico would lose it, and later that night there would be a fight...maybe even a beating.
Nico shut down her acting career and modeling. ("No wife of mine is going to work.") and began to keep her a virtual prisoner in their home. He ordered her to be the perfect Catholic wife and she fell short of the mark he set for her...the beatings would start again. He pressured her to have a baby but Morgana didn't want a baby. She was smart enough to want out. So she got out.
She had met a fellow at church will waiting for confession. They had talked and the tale of her woes came out of her in a rush. Joe (for that was his name) was horrified that a lovely woman could be subjected to such oppression and offered to help her get clear of her asshole husband while she got a divorce. Divorce was a serious thing in those days. A woman of Morgana's status had to be hard up indeed to seek out such a thing. One night she packed a few things while Nico was out late, (doing God knows what.) and they left.
Nico and his boys found Joe and Morgana about two weeks later. They chopped off parts of Joe's anatomy while he watched and then put two bullets into his head. all in front of Morgana. Then Nico took up a sharp knife and slashed Morgana once across the face.
"You Whore! Now nobody will want you or help you ever again!"
He took her home and beat her some more and then raped her...and then he made his last mistake. He went to sleep.
Morgana did things to Nico that most gangsters shiver about when they hear the story. Then she dropped out of sight for two years.
Morgana died that night and Jealousy was born. Jealousy has a psychotic hatred of those who are beautiful or appear to be happy. She gives them one chance. She sends them a little note to let them know that they have caught her eye and unless they want to receive her attention they will pay the blackmail that she desires. If they refuse, She turns up and horribly disfigures them. She's occasionally gone after plastic surgeons and robbed the payroll trucks of fashion and makeup companies. She's disfigured works of art. and anytime she can stick it to the Cerrenzi family along the way she does so.
Jealousy has a psychopathic hatred of the beauty that caused her so much misery and ironically, of the fact that she's lost it. She is on a fanatical quest to destroy all the beauty that she sees in the world around her or at least make people live in fear of the day she comes to take their beauty away.
Story Uses:
The Psycho: Jealousy can obviously be played as a slightly 4-color type of villain in a pulp campaign. She turns up at a social function like a charity masked ball to make off with the proceeds or she'll turn up at a beauty pageant and hold the girls hostage (possibly hurting a few along the way and certainly scaring the shit out them.) She might take a dislike to a certain movie star and go after them only to find the players hired as body guards. Anything with beauty as a motif is a possibility to be used. Jealousy has a real Phantom of the Opera meets Catwoman edge to her. don't be afraid to lean into it.
The Tragic Figure: Finding out who this crazy woman is not going to be an easy thing.(Cipher 4) Morgana had no criminal record, the Cerrenzi family doesn't like to talk about her or Nico ("The Don gets upset. You know how it is.") and her family has no idea what ever happened to Morgana. They assume that Nico finally killed her. Nobody in her gang has even seen her full face, much less know the whole story. Those players that piece it together from the disparate elements, especially her family's story will find a whole new tragic edge to Jealousy. An edge they might be able to use to stop her reign of ugliness. Heck, addressing her by her true name might be enough of a shock to her system that she might flee until she recovers her composure.
Doomed Love?: Morgana is still in there. Buried under Jealousy, a hero who reaches out to her might be able to connect with Morgana. But woe betide anyone who flinches when she takes the mask off. (guess what? You've got a new Nemesis.) Also, while Morgana might want to stop all the cruelty and violence and while she may have fallen in love with one of the players, Jealousy won't let it happen. (Note that the reaching out is what is most important here. Morgana could fall in love with a good looking man or an ugly one...just as long as he sincere and good hearted. this might be an interesting chance for a romantic storyline for a character that is normally passed by.) Needless to say, Jealousy will do anything she can to survive. Jealousy is Morgana's rage and hatred incarnate. Only one of them can survive. Can your player(s) make the difference in this life and death struggle?
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