| Strength 4X | Intellect 6C | |
| 1 Edge | * | Hand Size |
| Agility 7B | Willpower 6C |
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Julie Power, the much nicer face of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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(Bio):
Real Name
Julie Power.
Aliases
Jules, Blondie, Rainbow Brite, Lightspeed.
Identity
Known.
Citizenship
United States.
Place of Birth
New York, New York.
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Calling
Guardian
Hindrance
Obsessive (Family)
Personality
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(Skills):
Aerial Combat, Marksmanship, Martial Arts; Criminology, Sociology; Observation, Performance.
(Powers):
- Kymellian Kaleidoscope (Unique Power)
- Flight 12
- Force Field 12 (Power Slam)
- Invisibility 6
- Lightning Speed 12
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(History):
Origins.
Julie Power was born in New York, the daughter of Dr. James Power, a brilliant physicist and Margaret Craig Power, an equally talented artist. The second of four children, her younger years were filled with the passions of her parents in equal measure, making for a blend of sciences and intellect, and creativity and culture, leaving her just as often winning science fairs as she was joining her baby sister in decorating the family fridge. Margaret and James were as involved in their children’s education as any official teachers, often sharing their excitement over their own work by taking some, or all, of the four Powers kids to their respective labs/studios.
Their father’s latest invention at the time was an incredible means with which to convert anti-matter into something perfectly eco-friendly, and sustainable. Most incredible, that it seemed to actually be well on its way to functional. The four children were brought to his laboratory to witness what was meant to be its first non-trial run, and looked on with a level of excitement that only the children of brilliant minds like Maggie and James could possess for such a thing. But instead of it being a forgone success, the finished prototype exploded, expelling the vast amount of energy that it had created. Almost more inexplicable than the fact that it had failed in the first place, was that no one was badly injured, and the energy hadn’t seemed to leave the contained lab at all.
Within days, however, it became clear where the extra power had gone : into the Power’s children. All four of them, from Alex who wasn’t even a teenager yet, to Katie who was barely of age to start school, began to display extraordinary abilities. Julie’s manifested as a sheathe of prismatic light that not only shielded her from harm, but allowed her to fly. Leaving a trail of rainbow colors in her wake from the sheer speed at which she traveled.
Power Pack.
Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie did what only comes naturally when you jointly discover that you can do the sorts of things that are normally only dreamed of, or read about in the colorful pages of a comic book. The made themselves into super heroes. Surreptitiously, Julie sewed their first costumes inspired by crayon drawings that their baby sister had come up with. They took on names for their heroic alter egos, and began at first with rescuing kittens from trees and school mates from bullies. As the control of their abilities progressed, so did the scope of their activities. They would join in battles that children really had no business being in, but acquitted themselves well because of their intelligence, improvisation, and most importantly : team work.
It doesn’t take genius level intellect to notice that the four little super heroes that were gaining such notice in the newspapers happen to coincidentally look a great deal like your own children, however. Perhaps their parents had known all along that the children had been gifted with special abilities the day of the accident, and hadn’t wanted to stifle their creativity. Confronted with their activities, the children expressed their desires to continue to help others, and use their powers to fight the bad things that other heroes did. Maybe Margaret and James knew there was little chance that forbidding their normally obedient children from heroics would actually make them stop.
Whatever their reasoning, from that day on, the kids would have a little more formal training. Enrolled in martial arts classes, meant to help them stay safe, and this time their mother helped them with more elaborate and well made costuming. The “Power Pack”, as they called themselves, would patrol the streets and skies of New York for almost five years.
Normalcy.
As they grew up, the two eldest Powers began to realize that while they had education, experiences, and abilities that other kids could only dream of, they were missing out on something fundamentally important. The simple act of just being teenagers, and for their younger siblings, being children at all. Despite Katie and Jack’s objections, Julie and Alex would disband the family team and approach their parents for help in removing themselves from the situation. The timing lined up well enough with opportunities on the West Coast, or maybe Margaret and James created them, and so the Power family packed up and moved to California.
Julie took the opportunity of a new city, new school, and people who didn’t know her to reinvent herself. Already blonde and pretty, it was a simple matter to hide her intelligence beneath a bubbly blonde exterior. Because everyone knew that boys didn’t like girls that were smart, when they could instead prefer the popular cheerleaders. Her training left her far more agile than other teenage girls could normally hope for, and getting a spot on the squad was more than simple. School plays were another outlet, where she could try to hone a craft that she was already doing on a day to day basis : pretending.
She lived the “perfect” high school life, doing her best to ignore the pressuring from the younger siblings to go back to being the “more” they were supposed to be, and when she graduated from high school, inexplicably valedictorian though none of her classmates had ever realized that she was actually smart, as well as popular, Julie Power once again did what was natural. Accepted into Empire State University, and granted a full ride scholarship which she didn’t really need, she’d return to New York. Because despite her history there, it was where pretty girls went to become actresses.
New York.
Whether it was something about the city itself, and its memories, or just being on her own for the first time Julie soon discovered that her efforts to pretend to be a normal, All-American teenager were much more difficult than she’d anticipated. Their little suburb in California had been quiet, and peaceful and here there was seemingly things going wrong at all ends. Many times, she’d find herself unable to stop from helping others in trouble from building fires, to muggings. She wouldn’t have sought attention or accolades for these acts anyway, but failing at her own resolution to not be that person any longer made her slip away as soon as she was sure the victims were safe. Julie began to make friends in her classes, mostly centered around the arts.
California, and ‘The Life’ followed Julie across the country before too long. Her baby sister, Katie, had run away from home to join the eldest two Power siblings in New York convinced that she could talk them back into being the heroes that they were meant to be. That life, being a hero and fighting the good fight, was all that Katie really seemed to know and quitting it wasn’t as easy for her, since she hadn’t wanted to in the first place. There’d been an accident with her explosive set of abilities, and no one in California was really equipped to help her deal with it like someone who knew what it was like. Julie interceded on Katie’s behalf, promising to keep an eye on her, and with a little extra room and board money from their parents, she moved out of the dorm rooms and got an apartment for them to share.
Only months into the pair’s reunion, they found themselves on a strange ship with no concept of how they had gotten there. Not just any ship, a spaceship. The Power girls, and a mishmash of other individuals from around the world, had been snatched up and placed aboard for a mission through the galaxies. Terrifying at first, Julie began to loosen up and just go with it, because there didn’t seem to be anything for it, and any other way to get home. She made friends with the other stranded shipmates, and continued to keep an eye out for her sister. Some of their stops were exotic, some were horrific. On one planet, the crew found themselves forced to go up against an army of children and Julie was faced with the first truly life or death decision of her young life. Protect Katie, protect the other crew members or die. It was the first time that lethal force was the only answer, and Julie took her first life that day. Many lives.
Shaken, it began the downturn of their voyage. During an altercation on the ship itself, Julie, Katie and a number of others were sucked out of the airlock when someone mistakenly opened the cargo bay doors to damage their opponents. Convinced she was going to die, she clung to her sister, only to be saved at the last moment by Doctor Doom. But not everyone was so lucky, and the boy her own age that she had begun to have feelings for was not returned to them. After that she was only too eager to get back to Earth, and to never use her abilities again. It again proved not possible. Julie tried to pick up the pieces of her life, after months gone with no word her family thought the worst, something that affected Alex particularly poorly, and her academic pursuits were for the first time in her life, in a shambles. No sooner had she straightened it all out, she began to find herself snatched up over, and over again. Taken to different dimensions with a group known as the Exiles.
S.H.I.E.L.D.
After one of those little trips, Julie received a phone call summoning her to the Triskelion, headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D. Assuming it was related to the trip to space, which they’d signed confidentiality agreements over, she was nervous about what they might wish to speak to her about. She was ‘given’ the opportunity to protect her family from scrutiny in exchange for coming to work for the agency, particularly in the role of Pete Wisdom’s assistant. It wasn’t really a choice for her at all, and she accepted the position. Again, and again, she would be given ‘choices’, with her family as the dangling carrot.
Julie learned that it wasn’t only herself and Katie that they had files flagged for alien contamination on, but all of them. Her parents were not the normal folks that she had always believed, and had in fact been to space long before their children, which in a way explained their acceptance that Julie couldn’t tell them where she and Katie had been all those months, when Alex and Jack were not so complacent about the matter. Not long after their marriage, they had encountered an alien named Aelfyre. The Kymellian convinced the newlyweds of a desperate need on his home planet, and they traveled with him to his home planet, where the Powers worked with a Kymellian mineral extensively, developing a sustainable, completely eco-friendly power source that in effect, saved the planet entirely.
The radiation had saturated their bodies, altering their genetics and this was then passed along to each child in the family. Their abilities, it was supposed, were not a freak accident after all but something that was set in motion, if unrealized, long before that day in the lab. Again. Explaining her parents’ understanding on the entire subject of the child superheroes. Julie struggled to balance her world view, as she struggled to keep track of her baby sister, school and everything else. Particularly managing her boss, and how she interacted with him. She formed a new friendship with Alison Blaire when the two were pushed together and encouraged to demonstrate their matching abilities to inspire courage in others during a zombie outbreak, and later found herself the victim of an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D., hostage for a month without anyone truly realizing where she was, and unable to speak of it on her return.
It left her withdrawn, scared, and noticeably less cheery than her always happy persona usually made her. She sent Katie back home to California, convinced she shouldn’t be trusted to look out for herself, let alone anyone else. When her boss was nearly killed in a bombing, she took a rather cowardly opening to quit the agency. It didn’t last long, however, because a search for those effected by the cosmic cube pulled up her name and she was, once again, brought in for questioning. Brought into the fold again, mostly through an ignored resignation, Julie was named a full Agent and underwent the training for it. None of which she much cared for. She had no interest in taking lives, less in carrying a firearm, and she had already spent half of her lifetime in combat. When she was named as Wisdom’s bodyguard it suddenly became more necessary. Not because the man needed a bodyguard, which was what made the ‘promotion’ outright humiliating to the girl. She’d already worried that people believed she was his assistant, simply because she was pretty, blonde, and docile. This seemingly unsuitable, and unneeded, job made it so much worse.
So she worked. Hard. To prove she deserved a set of jobs she never asked for, and didn’t really want. She shifted her educational focus to things that pertained to her job, instead of the long lost ‘dream’ of being an actress. Politics. Law. Psychology. By trying to prove she wasn’t given a job that someone twice her age would be more fitting in, just because of her looks and Wisdom’s general reputation as a pervert, Julie became incredibly skilled in its capacity. Managing appointments, and travel was the easy part, and she did it flawlessly. More and more, she was asked to give briefings, and speak to the press. It was probably a bigger shock to her, than them, when she was given the official title in public relations, and at the same time, put forward as the star of a new television show, paying homage to former Director Bobbi Morse.
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