Players Name:Vith
Power Level: 10
Trade-Offs: -3 Attack for +3 Damage, -3 Defense for +3 Toughness
Unspent PP:0
Characters Name:Lina (Li, Na)
Alternate Identity:Grandstand
Height:Five foot 2 inches or fifty feet
Weight:110 lbs or 25 tons
Hair:Black
Eyes:Blue
Description:
Civvie:Lina is an attractive young woman of average height and build. Someone you'd notice in a bar but not someone you'd remember later. She has shiny black hair that reaches partway past her shoulders, a clear, pale complexion, and bright blue eyes. She's usually dressed in stylish, designer clothing despite her apparent lack of a job. One item is always constant though, around her neck is a thick silver choker with a clear gem on the front it.
As Deva:Deva is an attractive woman who stands exactly fifty feet tall, wearing a shiny, plastic looking suit of grey and yellow that covers her torso, arms, and most of her face. Leaving her long legs and glossy back hair uncovered as well as her blue eyes.
History:Lina (Her first name is Na, her last name is Li. Her father filled out her school papers as 'Li Na' which ended up with her teachers and classmates calling her Lina), her mother's name is Kate and she was already pregnant with Lina when she married her husband Cheng, who had immigrated from China some years before. He adopted his wife's child, loving her as one of his own and was quite strict with her younger siblings if they tried to tease her about not being blood related to their father.
She grew up in a loving household, upper-middle class. Her father was chemist and her mother worked in advertising, both had long hours which left little time for their children. Lina for her part, did her best to please her parents, excelling academically, giving up extra-cirricular activities to help take care of her brothers and sisters. This gave her little time for a social life outside of school but she got by, making a few close friends and spending an inordinant amount of time online.
Then came college where Lina got her first taste of real freedom. For the first time since she was a little girl she didn't have to worry about anyone but herself and her grades which of course led to alot of partying. Too much in fact, one can only live off 2 hours of sleep a night & a diet of ramen and zima for so long before their body gives out. Her parents were not particularly happy to receive a call that their eldest daughter had not only been admitted for alcohol poisoning, but was now being kept due to a mixture of exhaustion, malnutrition, and extreme dehydration. They also didn't believe her when she tried to claim that she 'Felt fine and the doctor's were lying to pad her medical bills'.
After that she learned to relax a little, balance fun, work, and relaxing(somethign she'd never learned how to do at home) mostly due to her parents threatening to drag her home if she didn't. Lina majored in physics, eventually lucking out and interning for a R&D lab owned by Crosstech. It was home to a dual project. Somewhere, they'd managed to get their hands on a necklace that could shrink anything that touched it. It was easy enough to duplicate, but had one problem:it was powered by gems. Diamonds, rubies, etc. It would shrink then absorb them and they would wear away to nothing while the item was in use. So Crosstech had one group of scientists trying to figure out how to make this more cost effective while another group was trying to reverse engineer it to make things bigger. But so far the only progress either had made was a material that would stretch indefinately without tearing. Unfortunately it was neither sturdy nor cheap.
Lina, who was ecstatic at first, was more than slightly disappointed to learn that she would get all of the grunt work. Making coffee, copying things and working as a go-between for the two groups who'd been slowly building something of a unfriendly rivalry, not only trying to finish their own research but the other teams as well. She didn't really learn much either, since her security clearance wasn't high enough. If it wouldn't have looked so good on her future resumé she'd have quit after the first week. But she stuck with it anyway, sneaking glances and reading over files when no one was looking.
The competition came to a head one day, both of the groups running very volatile experiments practically side-by-side since their labs were seperated by a single wall. Lina herself doesn't know what happened, having snuck off to take a nap in the break room since no one would need her. What she remembers is waking up and noticing three things at once: She was very cold, nearly naked, and something was poking her in the back.
That something turned out to be the couch she'd been napping on, Lina was huge! And getting bigger, quickly she realized as her clothes popped and tore. This stunned her so much that it took her a few minutes to notice that she was sitting in wreckage. The entire building had been brought down. Hearing the pained cries of her coworkers she quickly started shifting through rubble, carefully digging out the dying figures that looked like they were the size of dolls. The ones she could find anyway, at least half seemed to be missing. She was too large to use the phone, spending an hour digging through the rubble for the necklace that would shrink her. Hopefully without killing her. It'd workd fine on animals.. but they'd been normal sized.
It took her nearly an hour to find it, thankfully it worked without any adverse affects. It wasn't very comfortable, giving her an odd sensation of being smothered and squeezed at the same time. But by then it was too late, the ambulance arrived finding her sobbing and wrapped in a labcoat, covered in odd cuts from the rubble. Crosstech paid her medical bills and quietly let her go, claiming she breached her contract when she called 911 instead of the special emergency number they'd set up and threatened her with fines and jail time if she ever talked about it. This was all done through a lawyer and they didn't take her calls, doing their best to wash their hands of the whole thing, never giving her a chance to explain that she was now fifty feet tall and could use some help getting back to normal.
A few days later her necklace ran out of power causing her to revert back to her now 'normal' size and destroying her car trying to make it back to the ruins of her lab lacking options she raided the wreckage of her old lab, managing to recover some diamonds(Enough for a month or two. A small fortune that she couldn't spend) and enough of the stretchy material to make something to cover herself with. Breathign a sigh of relief when it stretched with her to her full height. While she was doing that it occured to her that if she did indeed tell anyone what happened.. she'd end up in a lab alot like this one, being poked and prodded all day long. A thought that disturbed her so much she forgot to cover her tracks, leaving a rather large footprint in the dirt.
Crosstech found this and quickly put two and two together. Quietly sending a team to capture her for further study, Lina was assaulted as she was packing up her apartment(she'd decided to move back home for a while) and made an amazing discovery: her strength and durability hadn't diminished with her size. Gleefully defenestrating mercenaries who were armed with tranq darts that couldn't penetrate her skin. She manged to get one to talk and realized what she'd feared was true. Grabbing what she needed she decided to move to across America to Freedom City (she currently resided in California). And go back to college, taking a train and commiting a series of quiet jewelry heists to keep her powered.
During her trip she realized she enjoyed her new powers, ripping vault doors off like they were made of paper, being able to flip over cars with a flick of her hand... If only she could find a way to shrink back on her own. She could continue the research on her own, maybe contact a few other geniuses in the field.
Personality & Motivation:Lina has slowly turned into a selfish young woman who loves to have a good time while managing to retain a good work ethic(mostly motivated by the fact that if she can 'fix' herself then she can keep all the stuff she steals) She does her best to not hurt anyone she doesn't have to and most of her targets tend to either be jewelry stores or any sort of hi-tech research/item she thinks might help her achieve her goal.
Complications:
Secret Identity:Theft and assault are illegal, as such she tries to keep her illegal activites and powers a secret from everyone while balancing a normal life as a college student with an overprotective family checking up on her way too often.
The quiet war:Crosstech wants her to study, but they want her kept a secret nearly as she does. So they do their best to get her back as quietly as they can. From maxing out her credit cards on embarassing things to armed thugs trying to kidnap her.
Squeamish:Lina is rather squeamish. She can handle blood but not much beyond that. Bugs, sludge, sewage.. things like that tend to stop her in her tracks.
Too big:Her necklace requires alot of diamonds to keep her normal sized. Sometimes she forgets or simply can't stage a good heist in time and she ends up suddenyl alot bigger with disasterous results.
Not very likeable:Lina can come off as insulting, rude, and mean, rubbing people the wrong way. Often ending up disliked by people she doesn't even remember, getting overcharged, skipped over and generally ignored when other people wouldn't.
Easily distracted: Lina is distracted by anything she thinks might help her fix her condition. While she won't do anything stupid she will take risks in order to attain the object of her obsession. Sometimes even if it looks like a trap sometimes.
Stats: 22pp
Str: 12/36 (+1/+13)
Dex: 14 (+2)
Con: 16/28 (+3/+9)
Int: 16 (+3)
Wis: 10 (+0)
Cha: 14 (+2)
Combat: 28pp
Attack: +7(+8 Small, +6 large, +5 Huge, +3 Gargantuan)
Grapple: +23(+19 Small, +27 Large, +31 Huge, +35 Gargantuan)
Defense: +7 (+8 Small, +6 Large, +5 Huge, +3 Gargantuan) (flat-footed: +3, +3 Large, +2 Huge, +1 Gargantuan)
Knockback: +6 (+5 Large, +10 Large, +14 Huge, +18 Gargantuan)
Initiative: +2
Saves: 1pp
Toughness: +13 (+9 Con, +4 other)
Fortitude: +10 (+9 Con, +1)
Reflex: +3 (+3 Dex, +0)
Will: +0 (+0 Wis, +0)
Skills: 52r = 13pp
Acrobatics 4 (+7)
Craft (Electronics) 4 (+7)
Computers 4 (+7)
Investigate 2 (+5)
Knowledge (Life Sciences) 5 (+8)
Knowledge (Physical Sciences) 5 (+8)
Knowledge (Technology) 4 (+7)
Language (English Base, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Russian) 4
Notice 5 (+5)
Medicine +3 (+3)
Perform (Dance) 5 (+8)
Profession (Scientist) 3 (+3)
Search 4 (+7)
Feats: 7pp
All-Out Attack
Chokehold
Improved Grab
Improved Grapple
Improved Pin
Power Attack
Stunning Attack
Powers: 79pp
Growth 12 (Giantness; Extras: Continous; Flaws: Permanent; PFs: Innate) [37]
Protection 4 (Resilient Epidermus;) [4]
Device 11 (Easy to Lose;) [33]
Super Strength 2 (46 str lifting/carrying; Extras:Ground Strike) [3]
Device:
Size Reduction Matrix (S.R.M.) 55/55pp
A small clear sphere embedded in a dark grey metallic base. Usually hanging from a chain on her neck.
Shrinking 17 (Extras: Continuous, Normal Strength; PFs: Normal Speed, Normal Toughnessx2) [55]
Drawbacks: 0pp
DC Block:
ATTACKS: SAVE DC: DAMAGE TYPE:
(Name of Attack) (Save DC/Type) (Type of Damage: Bruise/Injury, or other)
Unarmed --- 28/Toughness --- Bruise (Staged)
Stunning Attack --- 23/Fortitude --- Daze/Stun
Groundstrike --- 23/Reflex --- Trip(130 ft radius -1 for evey 10ft of distance)
Carry Capacity = Str 46 (Hvy Load 6,000 lbs.)
Costs: Abilities (22) + Combat (28) + Saves (1) + Skills (13) + Feats (7) + Powers (79) - Drawbacks (00) =150
