The origin of Sheline


Calash

 

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Here is some info about my heroine Sheline. Currently I'm playing her on Virtue. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome.

Heroine info :
Real Name: Janice Witchtail
Hero Name: Sheline
Gender: Female
Age: 22
D.O.B.: 02/14/1943
Height: 1.85 m
Weight: 55 kg

Origin: Science
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary Power: Martial arts
Secondary Power: Super reflexes
Power Pools: Speed, Leaping

Appearence:
Tall athletic woman with long red hair, yellow catlike eyes, cat ears, a tail, extractable catlike claws at her fingertips and a fine yellow/brownish fur with black spots (like a cheetah) covering her entire body.

Outfit:
A light blue leotard, a pair of light blue boots and a black utility belt with a buckle shaped like a cat’s head.

Powers:
Sheline's transformation into a feline form improved her speed, agility and reflexes to well beyond normal human range. Combining her martial arts skills with superhuman speed and agility makes her a dangerous melee fighter. Her speed allows her to deliver blows very quickly. Her supreme agility and reflexes make it a lot easier for her to dodge attacks and she is even capable of dodging bullets from simple handguns. However dodging a burst of bullets from an automatic weapon is much harder for her as there are too many projectiles to keep track of. Her superhuman speed allows her to run 100 km/h for several hours. She can even max her speed to 300 km/h this although she can only sustain that speed for several minutes before running out of energy.

Weakness:
Her feline abilities give her enhanced senses. Vision, hearing and smell are well beyond human levels. This also causes some of her weaknesses. Her hearing allows her to hear ultra-high tones above the human hearing range. Longtime exposure to these ultra-high starts affecting her mind and cause her to go into a feral rage where she’ll attack anyone in sight, even her team members. Her smell has also improved to the point where she can identify people by their scent. Her improved smell can also be a weakness to her as the stench from devices like stink bombs can severely nauseate her. Her fur keeps her warm in cold places. But when she is excremely active in a warm place her body might start to overheat and she will pass out.

Origin story:
Not much special, still have to make a consistent story of it. Like everybody else in the Freedom Force, Sheline got her powers due to exposure to a massive amount of energy X.

Janice Witchtail was born in Patriot City as a normal human during the second world war. Exact date was 14 February 1943. Her family consisted of her father, her mother and a sibling sister. They lived in one of the suburbs on Patriot City on Oakstreet 18. Her father was a police officer with the Patriot City Police Department. He was always ready to help others and risked his live several time to help civilians. He was a rolemodel to Janice and one of the reason why she decided to become a hero after she had gained her powers. Her childhood was a rather normal one. She had good grades at school and her childhood dream was to become a veterinarian. Her dream to become a veterinarian made her to take home and nurse back to health all the wounded animals she found outside. During her teenage years she also took martial arts lessons to learn self-defense and mastered a brown belt in karate. In 1961 she graduated high school with excellent marks and was awarded a scholarship to study veterinary science at the Patriot City University (PCU). She moved to the PCU campus and also took a little job in the Patriot City Zoo. The job in the zoo mostly consisted of cleaning the animal shelters. It was a hard and dirty job but she liked it because she was near all those animals. She also figured that working for the zoo with this job would give her a better chance when asking for a traineeship. The first two years at campus passed rather uneventfully and she made good progress on her study.

That all changed during the spring of 1963. An alien named Mentor traveled to Earth with a shipment energy X. His plan was to use the energy X to give several humans superpowers so they could help him the Domain, an corrupted evil power his once proud and noble race had become. However his spaceship was destroyed by the Domain upon entering Earth orbit. He himself managed to use an escape pod and landed in Patriot City. The energy X canisters scattered across Earth, most of them landing in Patriot City, giving birth to several superheroes and supervillains when normal people were infused by the energy X. Just that afternoon Janice was working in the zoo, cleaning the feline shelters. One of the energy X canister, from the remains of Mentors spaceship, fell into the cheetah shelter she was cleaning. It cracked open and Janice was flooded with the energy X. The high amount of energy X fused some feline dna fragments into Janice's dna, forming the basis of her powers. This new feline dna-strand started to transform her body into a more feline shape. This took only a few days because the large concentration of energy X accelerated the entire process. Her body became taller, slimmer and more athletic, her once green eyes had changed into yellow cat-like eyes, her ears shifted and changed into cat-like ears, she grew a tail, a fine yellow-brownish fur with black spots (like a cheetah) started to cover her entire body and complemented her long red hair, some of her teeth changed into large fangs and she grew extractable cat-like claws at her fingertips. The transformation also enhanced all her senses. She now has night vision and can see much sharper than normal humans. She can also hear sounds to soft to be heard by normal humans and can hear ultra-high tones above the human hearing range. This last can also be a weakness as ultra-high tones start affecting her mind and cause her to go into a feral rage where she’ll attack anyone in sight, even her team members. Her smell has also improved to the point where she can identify people by their scent. Her improved smell can also be a weakness to her as the stench from devices like stink bombs can severely nauseate her. Her transformation also improved her speed, agility and reflexes to well beyond normal human range. She is capable of running at 100 km/h for several hours and can max this to 300 km/h although she can only sustain that speed for several minutes before running out of energy. Her supreme agility and reflexes make it a lot easier for her to dodge attacks and she is even capable of dodging bullets from single handguns. However dodging a burst of bullets from an automatic weapon is much harder for her as there are to many projectiles to keep track of. She also has some basic knowledge of medicine, due to her veterinarian study, and is capable of treating her own wounds or those of her team members.

This transformation severely disturbed her self confidence. Seeing herself as a freak without a proper place in normal society she fled from the PCU campus. She took hiding in an abandoned warehouse in the slums, sneaking out only at night to steal some food. There she was found by a small patrol of the Freedom Force, Patriots City's hero group, who were investigating a strange and relatively new energy X signature. One of the members of this group, Mentor, persuaded Janice to come with them to their HQ, The Freedom Fortress. After a while at this place Janice learned to accept her new body and appearance as she saw even weirder people over there. Because the other members of the Freedom Force cared for her and accepted her she started to feel at home there. She started thinking about how her father risked his live to help other even without having superpowers. This made that she decided to quit becoming a veterinarian and start using her special powers to help the citizens of Patriot City. So she joined the Freedom Force as a recruit and she choose Sheline, short for She-feline, as her hero name. She started training to learn how to use her powers and even learned some new powers, like how to control her chi energy. As a uniform she was wearing a light blue leotard, a pair of light blue boots and a black utility belt with a buckle shaped as a cats head. As a frequent member of the Freedom Force patrols she rapidly grew in power and experience. When their friend and team member Man-bot was captured by the Timemaster, as part of a plot to destroy the celestial clock, Sheline was the first to volunteer for the dangerous rescue mission. When the Freedom Force finally defeated the Timemaster in an extra dimensional space, Man-bot managed to gain control of the celestial clock. Man-bot used this celestial clock to create a portal back to the Freedom Fortress. Sheline was the last to go through the portal but somehow Man-bots control must have slipped, warping the portal through space and time. Instead of arriving at the Freedom Fortress in Patriot City in 1963 she ended up here in Paragon City during the Rikti invasion in 2002.

Caught of guard, as she was surprised to see this strange world, she was shot by a Rikti soldier and left for dead. A brave and anonymous hero recovered her severely wounded body and brought her to a hospital. Sheline was in a coma for the duration of the Rikti invasion and has only recently recovered. Although having lost much of her powers and strength due to her long coma, she is willing to continue her crime fighting career by entering Paragon City and protecting it from any evildoers.

Pictures :
Freedom Force picture of Sheline
Sheline screenshot 1
Sheline screenshot 2
Sheline hero ID
Crey Industries analysis of Sheline


 

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very cool, look for Neko LLX a menber of Kitties on the Prowl and we can do some RP team ups


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-Positron 06/07/06 07:27 PM

 

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Mentor....Energy X..... Domain.... I know this game.

All we need now is Liberty Lad and Minute Man

I do like it though. Very well written and descriptive.


 

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Mentor....Energy X..... Domain.... I know this game.

All we need now is Liberty Lad and Minute Man

I do like it though. Very well written and descriptive.

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You are right Calash. It's the Freedom Force game. I created my character Sheline in Freedom Force almost two years ago and had thought up the energyX/cheetah dna story as explanation of her powers and appearance. I added a bit more and converted it a bit so people who hadn't played that game would still understand the story.