Viento Negro (Batman, Inc.) - PL 10
Abilities - 44pp
Strength 2, Stamina 2, Agility 4, Dexterity 3, Fighting 8, Intellect 1, Awareness 2, Presence 0
Advantages - 31pp
Agile Feint, All-out Attack, Assessment, Close Attack 4, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll 2, Equipment 3, Evasion, Fearless, Hide in Plain Sight,
Improved Disarm, Improved Trip, Languages 1, Minion 5, Move-by Action, Power Attack, Precise Attack (Close, Cover), Prone Fighting, Quick Draw, Redirect, Takedown 2, Uncanny Dodge
Skills - 19pp
Acrobatics 8 (+12), Athletics 10 (+12), Close Combat: 12-section Stun-Staff 2 (+10), Expertise: Social Sciences 4 (+5), Investigation 8 (+9), Stealth 6 (+14/+10)
Powers - 35pp
12-section Stun-Staff (Easily Removable) - 14pp
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Shock Discharge: Cumulative Affliction 6 (1st degree: Dazed, Impaired, 2nd degree: Stunned, Disabled, Resisted by: Fortitude, DC 16; Cumulative, Extra Condition, Linked (Whip Mode and Staff Mode); Limited Degree)
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Whip Mode: Strength-based Damage 4 (DC 21, Advantages: Improved Disarm, Improved Trip; Indirect 3: any point in fixed direction or fixed point in any direction, Linked: Shock Discharge, Reach (melee) 2: 10 ft.)
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Staff Mode:
Strength-based Damage 4 (Linked; DC 21; Linked: Shock Discharge, Multiattack, Reach (melee): 5 ft.) +
Strength Effect (Linked; Multiattack)
Consummate Athlete - 5pp
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Leaping 1 (Leap 15 feet at 4 miles/hour)
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Movement 2 (Safe Fall, Sure-footed 1; Limited: Safe Fall limited to near a surface [1 rank only])
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Speed 1 (Speed: 4 miles/hour, 60 feet/round)
Noctis Body Armor (Removable) - 16pp
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Dampening Soles: Enhanced Trait 2 (Traits: Stealth +4 (+14))
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Enhancer Goggles: Senses 4 (Visual Counters Concealment (environmental conditions), Darkvision)
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Microfiberoptic Coating: Concealment 6 (All Aural Senses, All Visual Senses; Blending, Partial)
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Chameleon Weave: Concealment 6 (Alternate; All Aural Senses, All Visual Senses; Blending, Passive)
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Teflon-Kevlar Lining: Protection 5 (+5 Toughness; Impervious, Subtle)
EquipmentBinoculars, Cell Phone (Smartphone), Communicator, Lock Release Gun, Motorcycle, Rebreather, Utility Belt [Grapnel Gun: Movement 1, Swinging; Bat Arsenal], Video Camera
Grapnel Gun: Movement 1 (Swinging) 2ep
Bat Arsenal (equipment array, 18ep base) 21ep
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Flash Bomb: Burst Area Affliction 6 (1st degree: Impaired, 2nd degree: Disabled, 3rd degree: Unaware, DC 16; Alternate Resistance (Dodge), Burst Area: 30 feet radius sphere, Increased Range: ranged)
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Shuriken Flurry: Cone Area Damage 6 (DC 21; Cone Area: 60 feet cone, Selective)
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Smoke Bomb: Cloud Area Concealment Attack 6 (Extra Ranks 4, Sense - Sight, DC 16; Cloud Area: 15 feet radius sphere, Attack: Fortitude)
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WInd Batarang: Strength-based Damage 5 (DC 22; Accurate 5: +10, Increased Range: ranged)
OffenseInitiative +4
Flash Bomb: Burst Area Affliction 6 (DC Dog/Fort/Will 16)
Grab, +12 (DC Spec 12)
Shock Discharge: Cumulative Affliction 6, +14 (DC Fort 16)
Shuriken Flurry: Cone Area Damage 6 (DC 21)
Smoke Bomb: Cloud Area Concealment Attack 6 (DC Fort 16)
Throw, +3 (DC 17)
Unarmed, +12 (DC 17)
Whip Mode/Staff Mode: Strength-based Damage 4, +14 (DC 21)
Wind Batarang: Strength-based Damage 5, +13 (DC 22)
ComplicationsNoctis Battery: Her prototype suit runs on a power-hogging battery. After the first couple of hours continuous operation, the suit's Senses and Concealment effects gain the Unreliable flaw (roll), and shut down completely until recharged after three failures in a row.
Not A Minion: Mrs. Garza-Iñarritu is very supportive of Cynthia, but also very demanding, sometimes expecting too much from her daughter and pushing her over the limit. Any crime-fighting business Viento Negro does, it first passes through her.
Responsibility; School: Cynthia is a college student. She might have a light load thanks to her mother's influence, but there's still things she has to do.
Responsibility; Family: While her mother is her main sponsor as a vigilante, Cynthia still has to go along her expected role as a daughter of a wealthy family. especially with the increased public and media exposure of her father, Carlos Alberto Garza González, owner and CEO of Grupo Industrial Garitu.
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish
DefenseDodge 11, Parry 11, Fortitude 7, Toughness 9/7, Will 8
Power PointsAbilities 44 + Powers 36 + Advantages 31 + Skills 19 (38 ranks) + Defenses 21 = 151 (25 ep free)
Sandra Garza-Iñarritu (mom) - PL 10
STR -1, STA 0, AGL -1, DEX 0, FGT 0, INT 3, AWE 4, PRE 4
Equipment: Cell Phone (Smartphone), Family Estate. Advantages: Assessment, Attractive, Benefit, Wealth 3 (millionare), Connected, Contacts, Equipment 4, Fascinate (Persuasion), Fearless, Languages 3 (English, French, Russian, Spanish), Skill Mastery: Investigation, Skill Mastery: Persuasion, Well-informed. Skills: Deception 4 (+8), Expertise: Management 7 (+10), Insight 11 (+15), Intimidation 4 (+8), Investigation 9 (+12), Persuasion 11 (+15). Offense: Init -1, Grab +0 (DC Spec 9), Throw +0 (DC 14), Unarmed +0 (DC 14). Defense: Dodge 3, Parry 0, Fort 5, Tou 0, Will 10. Totals: Abilities 18 + Powers 0 + Advantages 19 + Skills 23 (46 ranks) + Defenses 15 = 75
Complications: Motivation: Justice, Obsession (dismantling criminal power structures), Responsibility (a socialite and business manager)
Appearance: A beautiful, elegant, middle-aged woman with hard gray eyes and dirty blonde hair.
Personality: Driven, strict, sometimes cold and utterly professional. A charmer in social situations and a warm, doting and often overbearing mother in private.
Powers and Abilities: A consummate businesswoman with contacts in all tiers of the industrial world.
Background: A self-made entrepreneur who married into a richer family and manages hers and her husband's businesses, all the while managing to support and raise her children with minimal help from hired help. When her son was murdered, her drive was focused into a cold and silent rage and she has begun forging dangerous connections with the seedier side of global industrialism.
Family Estate - PL 10
Tou 10, Size Huge
Features: Communications, Concealed 1, Fire Prevention System, Garage, Grounds, Gym, Hangar, Library, Living Space, Personnel, Power System, Security System 1, Workshop. Totals: Abilities 3 + Powers 0 + Advantages 0 + Features 13 + Skills 0 (0 ranks) + Defenses 2 + Equipment 0 (0 ep) + Weapons & Armor 0 (0 ep) = 18
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Real Name: Cynthia Garza Iñarritu
Gender/Age: Female/21
Nationality/Ethnicity: Mexican/Hispanic-Mediterranean
Base of Operations: Monterrey, Nuevo León; México
Profession: College student
AppearanceComing from the wealthy class of Mexico's Northern states, Cynthia does not look like many foreigners expect a Mexican to look. She has clear almond skin that tans easily and deep green eyes under thick lashes, with wavy auburn hair she wears shoulder-length. She has a very athletic build and moves with strength and grace, and her figure is a combination of soft curves and solid stance.
She likes to don slightly flirty clothes like summer dresses, spaghetti-strap tops and flowy skirts, etc. The Noctis prototype she wears when fighting crime is a full-body suit that fits her snuggly, completely black with dark gray bands at the sides of arms and legs, filled in with an hexagonal grid pattern. The experimental fabric is transparent around her midriff from ribcage to hips, and on the lower half of her face. The "exposed" skin is painted with diagonal, wavy black lines. When the Noctis suit is fully engaged, she looks slightly transparent as the suit's optic fibers reproduce the light coming from the other side of the body. her 12-section staff is wrapped diagonally around her torso, from where she can snap it solid with a single gesture.
PersonalityCynthia is confident but somewhat reserved. Her entire life has been lived with the purpose of making her mother proud. She's frustrated that she can't achieve her mother's academic and intellectual expectations, but she has made up with her athletic prowess. Unlike many of her friends, she did not spend her life in an ivory tower and is acutely aware of the social inequalities that plague her country, and volunteers periodically for social programs like adult alphabetization, rural vaccination, disaster relief, environmental protection, etc. While a devout Catholic, she has many liberal views and stands for an individual's right to choose. Upon her brother's murder, all that scattered energy focused into a single purpose (aided, though, by her mother's spurring): end the evil that criminal gangs and corrupt politicians inflict on her beloved city and country.
Powers and AbilitiesCynthia is a gifted athlete with a couple of gold medals in the last Panamerican Games, pushing the envelope of human capabilities with only a slight effort, although since she received training in martial arts she limits herself to avoid drawing parallels between her ability and the antics of Viento Negro. Her martial arts training is courtesy of Master Kirigi, who also trained Batman and his protegees as well as not few of the League of Assassins. She was taught how to kill, but she has sworn never to do it. Extreme pain and grievous bodily harm is acceptable punishment.
She has two pieces of bleeding-edge technology procured by her mother's contacts: the Noctis suit, a LexCorp prototype that enhances her stealth by bending light and dampening the sounds she makes (the reason she began to be called "the Black Wind" by the criminals she beat up). The Noctis project was abandoned due to its energy requirements. The other piece is her weapon, a variation of the Shaolin 3-section staff. The 12 sections are carbon graphite with an electroconductor mesh, linked by chains and powerful magnets that grant it the ability to change between a staff mode for quick, devastating strikes, and a whip-like weapon Cynthia wields like a Ninjitsu manriki-kusari that offers greater reach and flexibility. Both versions can conduct electricity to shock those it hits.
BackgroundA child of wealth and privilege in the Northern Mexican city of Monterrey, Cynthia Garza grew up in a safe little world with a father who gave quiet support and a mother who actively (and often forcefully) encouraged both her and her little brother into achieving their full potentials.
She was not as smart as her mother or her brother, Jorge, but she was very good at sports. Her father used to joke that the children were born reversed, with the girl being the strong and sportsy and the boy being smart and creative. Mrs. Garza tolerated this slightly chauvinist joking, but when alone encouraged the children to be proud of who they were and what they could do. And to take shit from nobody, not even their father.
Cynthia pursued her athletic interests earnestly and enthusiastically, and she never lacked for proper training with the best instructors abroad. Her first run ins with governmental corruption and ineptitude almost leave her out of her first (and only) Panamerican Games, but her mother intervened and she got to participate and won a couple of golds in track-and-field events. This won her notice of international trainers and was offered a scholarship in an international exchange program, and she traveled to Metropolis for her high school studies.
This apparent fast-track to success was cut short when, back in Mexico, her brother was abducted and ransomed, but found dead after an agonizing year of fear and uncertainty. Her family changed. Her father became more politically involved, wrangling with the ineffectual political class and empty social movements that accomplished little else than some time in the news.
Her mother was a very different beast altogether. She brought Cynthia back to Monterrey and had a very, VERY serious talk with her. By the end, they agreed on something: the time for justice was over, what they wanted was
revenge. Pulling on all her contacts, Mrs. Garza found a new trainer for Cynthia, the infamous Master Kirigi, and used the family company, a provider of hight-tech parts for international firms, to smuggle Cynthia's new gear. While Cynthia trained, Sandra Garza-Iñarritu began investigating into the American gun manufacturers and the way their weapons found their way into Mexican criminals' hands. She found out about the botched Operation Fast and Furious and was angered that even the American government fumbled in favor of the cartels.
When Kirigi declared Cynthia ready, Sandra already had a list of targets on both sides of the border. At first Cynthia fought the criminals in anonymity, but following Batman's truism about the superstitious nature of criminals (which went double with the wealth of magical-thinking in Mexico), the press began hearing about "un viento negro que ataca desde la noche misma", a black wind striking from night itself. And thus she was called Viento Negro, achieving the same urban legend status that Batman achieved at the beginning of his career.
Directed by her mother, Viento Negro also gained notoriety among US officials, because she began intercepting gun shipments on the American side of the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo, as it's called in Mexico). Authorities found both buyers and sellers severely beaten up, their shipments similarly savaged (often rendering it useless as evidence).
Cynthia's activities as Viento Negro have taken a toll on her college studies, but her mother enrolled her into a light load schedule so that she can both get her education and pursue their mutual agenda of fighting the scum that took their brother and son away from them.
Quotes:Cynthia:
"Mom, this... suit...; it's too snug! And why is my belly exposed like this?"Sandra:
"Don't worry, sweetheart; it's transparent fiberoptic weave, it's as protected as the rest, but you want to show off your curves, you want those macho bastards to know they were beaten by a girl."Viento Negro:
"Join Batman, Inc...? Uhm... I think you want to bring that with my mom, Mr. Batman, sir."Return to top
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