JEM (Jerrica Benton)
Created By: Christy Marx
Role: The Main Character, Daddy Warbucks-Type Spender
Voice Actor: Samantha Newark, Britta Phillips (singing)
PL 8 (105)
STRENGTH 0
STAMINA 1
AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 2
DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 4
AWARENESS 4
PRESENCE 4
Skills:Acrobatics 3 (+6)
Athletics 4 (+4)
Deception 2 (+6, +11 Jem)
Expertise (Business) 7 (+11)
Expertise (Rock Star- Singer) 12 (+16)
Expertise (Acting) 4 (+8)
Insight 4 (+8)
Perception 2 (+6)
Persuasion 2 (+6, +11 Attractive)
Stealth 2 (+5)
Advantages: Beginner's Luck, Benefit 2 (Wealth), Fascination (Rock Star), Inspire 2, Leadership, Ranged Attack 2, Ultimate Rock Star Skill
Powers:"The Jem Star Earrings" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [26]
Illusion 8 (Sight & Hearing) (Extras: Continuous, Independent) (40)
Enhanced Advantages 2: Attractive 2 (2)
(42 points)
Offense:Unarmed +2 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Initiative +3
Defenses:Dodge +3 (DC 13), Parry +2 (DC 12), Toughness +1, Fortitude +2, Will +8
Complications:Secret (Identity)- Jerrica must remain hidden as Jem. There was no reason for this at first, but now that Rio loves both women, she must remain hidden to avoid embarassing and infuriating him.
Enemy (The Misfits, Eric Raymond)- Raymond gained a controlling interest in Jerrica's father's company before he died, and he never forgave Jerrica & Jem for ruining his chances to make millions there. He and his goon squad, The Misfits, are obsessed with destroying Jem & The Holograms and Jerrica alike. The Misfits, Pizzazz in particular, are devoted rivals in the music business, and will counter-act every Holograms act with a copycat motion.
Rivalry (The Stingers)- When Riot and the Stingers arrive in town, there's yet ANOTHER rival band on the docket.
Responsibility (Starlight House & Starlight Music)- Jerrica inherited her father's businesses, including an home for orphaned girls, and a music business. So much of her money is wrapped up in the House and other charities that the companies are almost worthless, monetarily.
Relationship (Rio Pacheco)- Jerrica & Rio have been together since they were children. However, Rio is also increasingly-obsessed with the mysterious Jem.
Honor (Will help out enemies in trouble)
Fame- Jem is ridiculously famous, and will get mobbed whenever she goes out in public.
Relationship (The Holograms)- Jerrica/Jem is a devoted musician, and loves her bandmates like sisters.
Total: Abilities: 36 / Skills: 42--21 / Advantages: 10 / Powers: 26 / Defenses: 12 (105)
-And here's Jem, our Daddy Warbucks-like mother-figure to a ton of orphans, and paramour two times over for poor Rio Pacheco. She's also the object of Riot's affections, as well as being a figure of international fame, and a target for the jealous & greedy Eric Raymond and his clients, The Misfits. Jem's your typical heroine in that she's rather dull and super-moral about everything, but altogether she's not a bad female lead.
-For her stats, I used common sense based off of the 65 episodes I've seen of the series. She's physically weak, but quite tough CON-wise (she's survived some VERY dangerous situations; boat crashes, animal attacks, etc.), very dextrous, and her mental stats... well. He's the competent owner and operator of Starlight Music, a girls' orphanage, and a manager in several bands' careers, in ADDITION to being about the most famous single singer in the ENTIRE WORLD, and the master moral-speaker for the gaggle of orphans (and a certain younger sister) under her charge. It should be noted she downplays her Charisma a bit in her Jerrica identity (or rather, she only lets it out when she's playing the rock star Jem), but she's still got ungodly scores in most Charisma-based checks (she's regularly and repeatedly had to talk down angry mobs thanks to the Misfits' latest schemes).
-Skills are self-explanatory. Pretty much the most popular singer alive, so her Expertise is nuts when combined with her Presence. High Expertise Skill, Deception (oh, MAN has she had to use that), etc. Her Inspire Feat is so high because she's had to convince a LOT of people they didn't suck, and drawn the best performances possible out of every bandmate at LEAST once. Other Feats are just boosts for her skills mostly, with a lot of 80s-esque happy fun moral Feats as well (Teamwork, etc.).
-The Jem Star Earrings are pretty expensive for something that's only really good at fooling people. Thankfully, the people in the Jem universe are REALLY DUMB (shown in most of my later stats), so they can be fooled by things like a torrential downpour that couldn't actually GET THEM WET and assume Jem & Jerrica are different people despite only being seen together like twice, even by the boyfriend of both girls. She can make some BIG illusions (giant eagles, flash floods, etc.), but those are quite rare. It's usually just Synergy the Computer Lady doing everything
-Now, despite coming to over 100 points, Jem's pretty useless in a fight unless she's JUST being a distraction, as most of her skills are life-based in the real world and not for combat. Not to say she hasn't seen a LOT of danger, because she has, but I don't think I've ever seen more violence out of her than a sharp kick to the shins.
-Her Complications were fun. Pretty much every episode of that show was devoted to SOME kind of charity for the orphans she took care of, she also had to run the business, keep Rio from finding out BOTH of his main squeezes were the same person and thus losing him, keep the Misfits from KILLING her, compete with the Stingers and avoid Riot's attention, honor her father, keep her identity secret, all the while being a fair and compassionate person to her enemies. So it's no wonder she always won. Chick can activate like six Complications at once.
Note: The "Jem" identity is completely illusory. She differs from Jerrica enough that even close friends (ahem, Rio Lane... I mean Pacheco) have NO IDEA they're the same person, and dresses a whole lot fancier than Jerrica (who was relatively plain for the 80s, merely devoting herself to garish pastels and giant bows). Also note that because of the Illusion power, Jem has an Attractive Feat of at LEAST 1, and I went with two ranks (she's made like three or four men fall in love with her just by LOOKING at her, without even trying).
EDIT: I didn't know you did a Silverclaw build... Wow, you sir have great taste: I loved that era of Avengers.
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