I would be very interested in this. If you recall, I submitted
Minobu Tetsubo, AKA, Tatsu for Project Freedom. I'd just reduce him to PL8.
I'm very interested in this game; after reading Project Freedom and listening to Jalinth sing your praises.
EDIT: the build and background
Minobu Tetsubo; "Tatsu"Strength 3, Stamina 6, Agility 4, Dexterity 3, Fighting 8, Intellect 3, Awareness 2, Presence 2
AdvantagesAgile Feint, Attractive 2, Defensive Attack, Evasion, Ranged Attack
SkillsAcrobatics 4 (+8), Expertise: Pop Culture 1 (+4), Expertise: Streetwise 1 (+4), Insight 3 (+5), Intimidation 3 (+5), Perception 5 (+7), Ranged Combat: Blast: Blast 6 2 (+5), Sleight of Hand 1 (+4), Technology 2 (+5)
PowersPlasma Control Array:
Primary Power Silver Arrow: Blast 6 (fire, DC 21; Accurate 2: +4)
Plasma Flare: Dazzle: Burst Area Dazzle 7 (Alternate; Resisted by: Fortitude, DC 17; Burst Area: 30 feet radius sphere; Reduced Range: close)
Soothing Light: Healing: Healing 6 (Alternate; Persistent, Stabilize)
Inferno Fist: Strike: Strength-based Strike 5 (Alternate; DC 23; Reach (melee): 5 ft., Secondary Effect [3 extra ranks])
Flight: Flight 3 (Speed: 16 miles/hour, 250 feet/round)
Immunity: Immunity 3 (Environmental Condition: Heat, Uncommon Descriptor: Shapeshifting)
Regeneration: Regeneration 2 (Every 5 rounds)
Senses: Senses 1 (Infravision)
OffenseInitiative +4
Silver Arrow: Blast 6, +10 (DC 21)
Plasma Flare: Burst Area Dazzle 7 (DC Fort 17)
Inferno Fist: Strength-based Strike 5, +8 (DC 23)
Grab, +8 (DC Spec 13)
Throw, +4 (DC 18)
Unarmed, +8 (DC 18)
LanguagesEnglish
DefenseDodge 10, Parry 10, Fortitude 6, Toughness 6, Will 6
Power PointsAbilities 62 + Powers 29 + Advantages 6 + Skills 11 (22 ranks) + Defenses 12 = 120
Minobu Tetsubo was born into a large, happy family in Freedom City. He was a fairly normal youth, with a good relationship with his family. He never really learned Japanese, considering it unneeded(though he knows enough of it to swear - and a lot of his teachers, growing up, didn't know the language, enough for him to get away with it). He learned Okinawan Karate at his grandfather's knee, however; one of the few things they both enjoyed. But overall, he was a child of the modern world - reading comics, playing video games, messing with computers, and looking up to superheroes.
Until shortly after his sixteenth birthday, when, on a walk with his Grandfather durring the summer solstice, they saw strange lights in the sky overhead. The two, wanting a better look, rushed home and climbed the stairs to the roof of their appartment building, and watched a magical dance of lights in the sky.
Then one of those lights abruptly dove towards them, its form resolving into what looked like a silvery dragon, claws outstretched and reaching for them both. Minobu pushed his grandfather behind an air conditioning intake, saving him from the dragon's touch, but was not, himself, so fortunate.
The silver light entered him, imbuing the youth with potent cosmic powers and altering his body; changing his body from that of an unremarkable youth of asian descent into a statuesque, striking, and exoticly beautiful woman. At the same time, it did not modify his mind to match, both a blessing and a curse.
In addition to the changes to his body, Minobu gained the ability to manifest a silvery plasma; a dangerous ability he was careful to control lest he harm his family or home.
The family discretely made contact with a minor wizard known to the Asian community of Freedom City, who discovered that part of the shapechanged youth's power came from an infusion of strange, cosmic energy, including an energy that prevented any shapeshifting magics from having any effect. Puzzling out the source of this, or a way to counter it, was beyond the old wizard's abilities - indeed, the energies bound to him resisted any attempts to damnpen their effects.
Minobu withdrew from school, withdrew from all of his life, and tried to cope with the change. At first, his family tried to be supportive, and they tried to find ways to counter what had happened to him - magic, they already knew, was out, and it was quickly discovered that his body healed any injury it took quickly, and back to his new female form; ruling out surgeries. His temper frayed as hope after hope was dashed. After a few months, he began to have strange dreams - the only part of which he could remember was an unfamiliar voice, but he could recall no words. This also did no good for his state of mind.
One night, inevitably, he snapped, lashing out and burning his younger sister. Though he realized his ability to heal immediately thereafter, he knew that it could have been far, far worse, and he ran away from home, for fear that he might harm those he loved through his poor control and his temper. He began calling himself 'Tatsu;' meaning 'dragon,' to provide more protection - deniability for his family if he caused further harm.
For most of a year he lived on the streets, trying to stay 'under the radar' as much as possible. But as time went on, and he simmered with anger at the hand life had dealt him, he began to lash out, engaging in a spree of vigilante violence against those he considered the scum of society. Drug dealers, gangbangers, pimps; all attracted his ire. He refrained from killing, a lifelong respect for life and a strong sense of self-discipline tempering his fury. Natural skill, combined with the superpowers he was slowly coming to understand and control, kept him ahead of their vengeance, and offical ire, for some time.
But nobody told him how nicely the chemicals of a meth lab would react to plasma bolts.
The resulting explosion destroyed a condemned tenement(thankfully, one that was empty of residents or squatters at the time) and knocked him unconsious. He woke up in a FCPD van with a set of power dampeners on. Drug lab or not, Freedom City took a dim view of that level of property damage, especially when committed by an admitted vigilante. He was thrown into solitary confinement, as a way to avoid... unpleasantness due to his gender issue, and stewed, alone with his thoughts and acursed body.
When brought to trial, he did his best to be co-operative and contrite; and pleaded guilty to the various destruction of property, arson, and vigilantism charges(save for two incidents that he was not involved in) and this co-operation stood him in good stead; he was charged with Three-to-Five years prison time, with potential time off for behavior, and a similar amount of probation.
Power Origin: The dragon of light Minobu saw that night was a spirit of cosmic energy; the last fragment of a dying starseed falling to Earth. It imbued his body with its power, changing it into a form that would facilitate its spirt slowly healing; perhaps to burn anew in some alien sky. That spirit still sleeps; the power it has granted meerly a side-effect of its presence within his changed form. But even as it sleeps, it dreams...
Motivations: Minobu Tetsubo is mad at the world. He wants, more than anything, to have his powers taken away permanently so that he could get his proper body back; and go back to a normal, borring, computer geek, male life. Unless and until something like that happens, well, there's plenty of bad people on whom a young man can vent his frustrations, and even do the occasional constructive thing. If in doing so, he could get a shot at someone capable of fixing him owing him a favor, or at least a favorable introduction to such a person, he'd be all over it.
The prison shrinks who've talked to him are aware of the above.
Personality: Minobu is a big bundle of anger and neuroses - he hates his body, he hates the fates and what they've done to him, and he generally hates his life. He desperately wants to go home; but does not want to bring any shame onto his family(and especially not onto his grandfather, who taught him to oppose evil, as well as the basics of martial arts). He also fears to face them, afraid of their reaction to his harming his little sister. His self esteem is very, very poor. He tries to bury all of this behind a stoic mask, but the mask is fragile, leading him to lash out with his abilities or with words - he is very sarcastic and acerbic.
When he's in a good mood, but for the apearance and voice he could be just another young geek, able to talk for any length of time about his favorite music, comics, TV shows, video games, or computers in general. When he's not in a good mood, he tends to brood, snap and snark. He tries to control those reactions somewhat, but he is not terribly great at doing so.
He's learned a bit, while he was away from home and before prison, that he'll get a little less flak when he presents himself as a tomboy, but he hates the implicit lies involved in doing so. A strong will and drive keeps him going, but even it is wearing thin.
Physical Description: Minobu Tetsubo is eighteen years old, and has the body of a supermodel, and he hates it. Six-feet-seven-inches tall, with dark hair, striking green eyes, a dusky complexion, ample breasts and a near 'perfect' hourglass figure, he looks exotic and striking. To counter this, he keeps the hair cut short, binds the breasts, and dresses as boyishly as possible, preferring shapless sweatters, hoodies, baggy pants, and generally looking as un-feminine as possible. It doesn't tend to work.
More than anything in the world, he wants to go back to being a forgettable, five-foot-six Japanese-American guy you could lose in five seconds in any city in America.
Complication: Body issues.Tatsu's powers had the very unwanted side effect of changing his body into a form of a girl. A very attractive girl. It did not change him mentally, leaving him trapped in a body of the wrong sex. This has left him with a mighty big chip on his shoulder; angry at the world. He hates it when men make passes at him or try to flirt, and he hates being treated like a girl in general.
Complication: "I am a creature of warmth..."While fairly resistant to the effects of extreme heat, Minobu is very sensitive to the cold - to the point that his powers are less effective when he's somewhere that is below the freezing mark. Even without that, he gets uncomfortable in temperatures below roughly 59 degees Fahrenheit, which serves to shorten his temper and make him more irritable. (exact penalties at GM's discression)
Complication: DreamsThe starseed that imbued Minobu with power sleeps, but it does not sleep quietly. It dreams, and Minobu shares in those dreams; visions of strange and alien times, places, and beings. These dreams scare him almost as much as everything else about the situation combined.
Power visuals: Minobu's abilities manifest in the form of plasma. When active, his flight power causes his hair to turn into shining silver, and a trail of silver energy flows from it as he flies around, a'la Starfire. A similar aura collects around his hands when he heals, spreading to and absorbing into, the recipent of his healing power.
The dazzle is a blast of silver light. The plasma-punch surrounds his fists with an almost solid aura, so concentrated is it, that bursts when it hits. The blast takes a form almost like an arrow or crossbow bolt trailing energy.
