Lucia Jacques
Nicknames:
Luci, Lux
Age:
25
Power:
Electrokinesis and mild technopathy
Side effects:
She is very clever with computers and machines. Sometimes, when sheās in an emotional state, her powers activate involuntarily, usually no more serious than a static shock. Very rarely, when she was under stress, she has been reported to accidentally shock someone at about the level of a Taser, and on one occasion, she killed her victim.
History:
Lucia was given up by a teenage mom who couldnāt possibly afford or take responsibility for an infant daughter. However, her superhuman powers were latent even when she was an infant and the lines of foster parents who tried to handle her just couldnāt, literally. At first they didnāt realize that the power outages, the electric shocks, the broken CD players, and the like they constantly experienced were due to the baby, they just decided that they were too swamped to take care of her. By the time Luci was ten, though, people started to think she was weird. The treatment she got in all her schools just for being a foster kid was multiplied a hundredfold by the innate ability of children to find someone different from them and torment them half to death. The last foster parent she had was when she was sixteenā¦she doesnāt talk about him. Heās the one that died. After that, Luci lived for two years trying not to let the police find out that she was alone. When she was eighteen, she got herself a job as a mechanic and saved up enough money to buy a crappy apartment and start trying to move up in the world.
Personality:
Bitingly sarcastic, aggressive Luci knows that she has to do what she has to do. She doesnāt like hurting people, but she will if thereās no other option. Sheās also very clever, though more so with machines than with people. Itās tough to get to know her, because she usually assumes that whoever she meets is out to get her, but once youāre in her inner circle, you become a fellow victim, not an aggressor, and sheāll do her best to protect you. Probably, the best way to really develop camaraderie with her is fight back, verbally if not physically. She respects people who stand up for themselves, not people who try to demean others to make themselves better.
Appearance:
She has pixie-cut blonde hair that stands on end when sheās charged, dark brown eyes that look almost black, and a skinny, light build. Sheās fairly short, too, only 5ā2ā. She doesnāt really care what clothes she wears, so they usually end up being tank tops and jeans, sometimes whatever she found at the thrift store. The thing she splurges the most on is make-up, especially that for the eyes.
Skills:
Repairing machines, programming computers, karate
Supernaturally speaking, she can control electricity, creating electrical fields or forming currents strong enough to paralyze or even kill humans and black out city blocks. She canāt do all that in one day, she gets tired and hungry after using her powers too much. To an extent, she can also use her powers to fix things like computer hardware.
Other: She usually has a slightly singed appearance, with burns especially on her palms, where she usually directs electric shock. They donāt really hurt, theyāre just about as unpleasant as pins and needles.
Answer: Pie, apparently.