Subject: Seriously you have no idea how much I love cooking up capes.
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Posted on: 2015-03-18 23:41:00 UTC
NEMESIS: Pandemonium (Shaker 8, Thinker 3)
POWERS: The ability to create what she calls a "Limbo Zone" - an area of land where there is nothing. No light, no warmth, just darkness and silence. The introduction of energy into this system, beginning by just walking into the place, begins to twist it into a nightmarish hellscape, the details of which change every time according to the subconscious fears of those imparting energy.
BACKSTORY: Growing up in an extremely Catholic household in a rural Irish village, the young priest's daughter was a lonely child, strange and isolated, often off in her own world. She sought escape, you see; escape from the endless violent acts and indignities her parents inflicted on her to "proof her against the sin of the world". While she was eventually adopted (amid a national scandal), she still harbours the bitterest loathing for the Christian God and his faithful, and frequently goes out of her way to attack churches with her power.
NEMESIS STATUS: Both ideologically and in terms of power, she is antithetical to Templar, a hero she doesn't consider to be a true hero at all.
VILLAIN: Silica (Blaster 8, Brute 5)
POWERS: The creation of a... well, force field is the wrong word. Or words, as the case may be. He is able to create an area of intense heat and pressure extending about a foot from his body (at maximum), which he generally uses to form constructs out of what basically amounts to volcanic glass. Spears, shields, sculpture, as long as it's a fairly simple shape he can make it. It also renders him rather effective at tanking shots; anything up to 40K-style Bolter rounds gets melted down by his field before it can touch him, and he's obviously not fazed by flamethrowers.
MOTIVE: A former abstract sculptor from the West Midlands, Silica worked in glass and had an exhibit at the Tate Modern gallery - an exhibit that was entirely destroyed during a superpowered fight between two groups who both purported to be heroes. When he exhibited a similar collection at Tate St. Ives, it was smashed to pieces by a self-professed heroine with poor control over her powers unleashing a storm of gravitational anomalies all over the shop and accidentally levelling the museum. When he exhibited again... you get the idea. Now he works as a professional herokiller, and if you can afford his rates, Silica will stop at nothing to make sure your target dies as horribly and slowly as possible. And with superheated glass and an artist's imagination, that's not the kind of fate you want.