Evangelia is a sixteen-year-old high school student, and thus possesses few of the skill sets an adult might. Before a certain penguin entered her life, she was a cheerleader, with a natural talent for acrobatics that has served her well in her career as a superhero. In the last year, she's acquired a surprising level of skill in diplomacy, a good working knowledge of small-unit tactics and the rudiments of leadership (in her opinion; others seem to think more highly of her abilities in this field). She's also learned more than she ever wanted to know (or believed possible) about the habits and behaviors of sapient British penguins.
Sailor Null is allegedly a studio/fashion photographer of some artistic merit when she's not inflicting dark vengeance upon evildoers. Her search to replace the power of Light that abandoned her has given her a broad but shallow knowledge of arcane lore, primarily focused on those Entities and energies that are willing to empower mortal champions. Being more than a little obsessed with her perceived mission, she has little in the way of a personal life and thus few if any skills that are not related to either of her two occupations.
The Nameless Terror was a professional wrestler who generally competed in the ring as a "heel" ("villain") before his superpowers were activated and his strength began its relentless spiral upward. This of course disqualified him from professional "competition" (translation: the promoters' insurance would not cover potential damages should he ever lose control), but he left the circuit with a number of useful talents: he's an excellent actor, is surprisingly charismatic for someone as forbidding as he appears, and he can play a crowd like a violin.
Looney Toons, as most folks probably already know, is a double-threat engineer capable of handling hardware and software with equal ease: on the one side, he is a cyberneticist specializing in robotics and AI, and on the other he is a highly-skilled programmer in a plethora of languages. In the pursuit of understanding his metatalents, he's also become one of the foremost experts in magic in the world (not number one, but definitely in the top 25). His knowledge encompasses not only folklore and legend, but also active magical traditions the world over, the theoretical basis of magic, the ethics of magic, practical implementations and its interactions with conventional physics. He is also, mostly by chance and necessity, something of an enchanter, capable of creating magical and technomagical devices with sufficient effort and focus. Additionally, he's more than competent at small-group tactics, general strategy, general security functions and systems, and has some native talent (though no formal training) in teaching. He speaks English, French, Japanese and Valdemaran.
Beach Baby is a fitness freak, with a little of almost every kind of exercise and training system under her nonexistent belt. A former beauty queen, she's adept at charming and manipulating people and is a fair actress when she needs to be. As might be expected, she's an excellent swimmer; she surfs, too, though not well enough to compete. In addition to English, she speaks a smattering of gutter Spanish.
Some Random Schmuck is in his daytime job Jerzny Brzniewski, Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Number Generation for the Rhode Island lottery. His skills include accounting, playing the ocarina, orienteering and underwater demolition. He's also quite good at games of chance (including the lottery, which he is not allowed to play because he works for it). He speaks English, Yiddish, Basque, and an obscure dialect of Tibetan.
Lord Omega, as befits an assassin droid, has two main skill sets: a) hunting and b) killing. Any others, particularly social skills, are unneccessary, or worse, a distraction. His native tongue is binary code, but he will gladly use his English language module to inform his targets of their impending doom.
Huntmaster Kethek also has an undue focus on hunting and killing, being as that is his formal role in the Fleet, but he has been known to kick back and enjoy several sports and pasttimes specific to his people and culture. He's also a fair hand at a number of technical fields, but much of his skill is specific to the Race's unique implementations and does not translate well to Earth-built systems. In addition to his native tongue, he's got a very good grasp of English, thanks in part to an Arachnos memory-implantation process.
The One and Only Moe is the elder brother of The One and Only Curly. Like Curly, he has connections and knowledge of the "real" Hollywood behind the scenes. He's a skilled stunt man and fight-coordinator, said skill being gained from years of wild slapstick comedy rather than by learning from other stunt men. For the same reason he's got a good technical knowledge of movie-making, although he's never actually used it. Moe is also a fair financial manager, having had to watch over not only his own money but that of his spendthrift brother for the last few decades.
Saber Blue 2042 is a freedom fighter from the future of Recluse's Victory, sent back in time by a rebel force in the hopes that a series of small changes applied decades before that future comes to be can tip the balance of the timeline and eliminate any possibility of it coming to be at all. To this end she has been well-trained not only in combat but in history and sociology, and in a kind of "applied history" theory not unlike Asimov's "psychohistory". Advanced memory-implantation technology has been used to give her an encyclopedic knowledge of the timeline that led to Recluse's Victory.
Sailor Loon is, as most people here probably already know, the young photojournalist Lisa Vanette, who in the COH timeline was born in 1983 and works for the Paragon Times. Her skills include photography, composition, news-style writing and (to a small degree) editing. She is a trained gymnast, although she hasn't seriously practiced in a long time and is no longer at competition level. She's learning magical theory to complement her exploration of her new powers. She speaks Japanese and English.
(I know I'm leaving out Sergeant Pepper and several others. Don't worry, I'll get to them eventually.)
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...
Sailor Null is allegedly a studio/fashion photographer of some artistic merit when she's not inflicting dark vengeance upon evildoers. Her search to replace the power of Light that abandoned her has given her a broad but shallow knowledge of arcane lore, primarily focused on those Entities and energies that are willing to empower mortal champions. Being more than a little obsessed with her perceived mission, she has little in the way of a personal life and thus few if any skills that are not related to either of her two occupations.
The Nameless Terror was a professional wrestler who generally competed in the ring as a "heel" ("villain") before his superpowers were activated and his strength began its relentless spiral upward. This of course disqualified him from professional "competition" (translation: the promoters' insurance would not cover potential damages should he ever lose control), but he left the circuit with a number of useful talents: he's an excellent actor, is surprisingly charismatic for someone as forbidding as he appears, and he can play a crowd like a violin.
Looney Toons, as most folks probably already know, is a double-threat engineer capable of handling hardware and software with equal ease: on the one side, he is a cyberneticist specializing in robotics and AI, and on the other he is a highly-skilled programmer in a plethora of languages. In the pursuit of understanding his metatalents, he's also become one of the foremost experts in magic in the world (not number one, but definitely in the top 25). His knowledge encompasses not only folklore and legend, but also active magical traditions the world over, the theoretical basis of magic, the ethics of magic, practical implementations and its interactions with conventional physics. He is also, mostly by chance and necessity, something of an enchanter, capable of creating magical and technomagical devices with sufficient effort and focus. Additionally, he's more than competent at small-group tactics, general strategy, general security functions and systems, and has some native talent (though no formal training) in teaching. He speaks English, French, Japanese and Valdemaran.
Beach Baby is a fitness freak, with a little of almost every kind of exercise and training system under her nonexistent belt. A former beauty queen, she's adept at charming and manipulating people and is a fair actress when she needs to be. As might be expected, she's an excellent swimmer; she surfs, too, though not well enough to compete. In addition to English, she speaks a smattering of gutter Spanish.
Some Random Schmuck is in his daytime job Jerzny Brzniewski, Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Number Generation for the Rhode Island lottery. His skills include accounting, playing the ocarina, orienteering and underwater demolition. He's also quite good at games of chance (including the lottery, which he is not allowed to play because he works for it). He speaks English, Yiddish, Basque, and an obscure dialect of Tibetan.
Lord Omega, as befits an assassin droid, has two main skill sets: a) hunting and b) killing. Any others, particularly social skills, are unneccessary, or worse, a distraction. His native tongue is binary code, but he will gladly use his English language module to inform his targets of their impending doom.
Huntmaster Kethek also has an undue focus on hunting and killing, being as that is his formal role in the Fleet, but he has been known to kick back and enjoy several sports and pasttimes specific to his people and culture. He's also a fair hand at a number of technical fields, but much of his skill is specific to the Race's unique implementations and does not translate well to Earth-built systems. In addition to his native tongue, he's got a very good grasp of English, thanks in part to an Arachnos memory-implantation process.
The One and Only Moe is the elder brother of The One and Only Curly. Like Curly, he has connections and knowledge of the "real" Hollywood behind the scenes. He's a skilled stunt man and fight-coordinator, said skill being gained from years of wild slapstick comedy rather than by learning from other stunt men. For the same reason he's got a good technical knowledge of movie-making, although he's never actually used it. Moe is also a fair financial manager, having had to watch over not only his own money but that of his spendthrift brother for the last few decades.
Saber Blue 2042 is a freedom fighter from the future of Recluse's Victory, sent back in time by a rebel force in the hopes that a series of small changes applied decades before that future comes to be can tip the balance of the timeline and eliminate any possibility of it coming to be at all. To this end she has been well-trained not only in combat but in history and sociology, and in a kind of "applied history" theory not unlike Asimov's "psychohistory". Advanced memory-implantation technology has been used to give her an encyclopedic knowledge of the timeline that led to Recluse's Victory.
Sailor Loon is, as most people here probably already know, the young photojournalist Lisa Vanette, who in the COH timeline was born in 1983 and works for the Paragon Times. Her skills include photography, composition, news-style writing and (to a small degree) editing. She is a trained gymnast, although she hasn't seriously practiced in a long time and is no longer at competition level. She's learning magical theory to complement her exploration of her new powers. She speaks Japanese and English.
(I know I'm leaving out Sergeant Pepper and several others. Don't worry, I'll get to them eventually.)
-- Bob
---------
...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...