| Strength 5X | Intellect 8A | |
| 2 Edge | * | Hand Size |
| Agility 6D | Willpower 5C |
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(Bio):
Real Name
Janet Van Dyne.
Aliases
Jan, J, The Wasp.
Identity
Known.
Citizenship
United States.
Place of Birth
Cresskill, New Jersey.
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Calling
Adventurer
Hindrance
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Personality
Blah blah things.
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(Skills):
Aerial Combat; Super-Physiology, Biochemistry, Biology, Physics [Sub-Atomic]; Art [Fashion], Finance.
(Powers):
- Energy Blast 10
- Stunt(s): Invulnerability to Own Blasts.
- Size Alteration 12
- Stunt(s): Power Growth.
- Wings 5
- Stunt(s): Power Dive, Resistance to Pressure.
- Limit(s): Manifest on shrinking.
(Equipment):
- Ultimates Uniform (Unstable Molecules, Coded)
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(History):
- Born to wealthy, world renowned physicist Vernon Van Dyne and his socialite wife, Janet would inherit many of the best and worst traits of each of her parents. Brilliant, and gifted, the girl would often struggle in school because of her boredom with subjects that she had quickly mastered and wanted to move on from. Each new subject, provided it was interesting to her at least, would be doggedly pursued up until the point where Jan had learned all there was to be taught to her by her teachers in both academic and extracurricular activities.Her mother’s sense of adventure, coupled with Vernon’s sharp mind proved to make their child an enormous handful that eventually her mother gave up on. Doctor Van Dyne’s attempts to push some discipline on the girl might have come a bit late in the game of raising her, but they had a rather unexpected effect : Janet found his work, once he finally showed it to her, fascinating. He provided her with a knowledge base to work from far greater than anything all the best schools, which she’d already attended, that money could by were able to. And each time she wanted to know more, he’d find a new carrot to dangle in front of her.
- Janet graduated from her private school early, much to the shock of the teachers there, and would enroll at Columbia University. Her first degree would be in physics, much like her own father, and counter to his fears about her attention span on the subject once that was finished she dove right back in. Pursuing other areas, for the way that she could meld them back into the first. Biology, chemistry. In the midst of her second doctorate, an accident would take her father away from Janet. Finishing his lifelong research became her way of coping with the grief, branching the scope of her scientific pursuits even further. She would compare work with his colleagues, old and new, and her bold tenacity would bully a way into new relationships as well, as she went down the rabbit hole into the world of not just physiology, but that of the superhuman being as well. It was during this period that she began working with the man she would marry, Henry Pym. Excited by his passion for his work, and for her, they’d spend hours and hours together in his labs on their work. The pair were brought into the fold of S.H.I.E.L.D. where they’d have more room to play with Pym’s pet project in the expansion and reduction of space between molecules. His first test subject would be himself, and with Janet desperate to join him in this particular adventure, and then his wife. They became Giant Man, and the Wasp, and it opened her world with the possibility of something that her father had spent his life studying.
- Her stubborn pursuit of the sciences would take a back seat to the life of being on the world’s foremost team of Super Heroes. She trained just as ruthlessly in this as she had at Columbia, which quickly and often became a point of contention with her husband. There was no need for her to learn hand to hand combat, but Janet enjoyed the physicality of it almost as much as she liked provoking her husband or flirting with the male members of the team. Contentions over her being more easily useful in the field, led to Pym sometimes feeling put aside, and the two would have arguments as passionate as they were about their work. Time spent with members of the team to feelings of jealousy, and Janet answered Hank’s hours and hours retreated into his lab trying to improve his own Pym Formula by provoking him even more obviously. Even after she was more than proficient, the turmoil and abuse of her home life made her want to thrive more and more in public. When ‘simply’ being the shrinking Wasp became normal for her, it was back to the drawing board on mastering the flip side of the alteration: Growth. Since this had been Pym’s niche, up until that point on the team, he began to think they were encouraging her so that they wouldn’t need him, and that the team was going to try and take Janet away from him. She was given by S.H.I.E.L.D. a specially manufactured, unstable molecule suit that was able to be manipulated along with her own body. The present would turn out to be the last straw for her husband and the severe possessiveness of his Pygmalion Complex towards Janet, when she ‘waspishly’ wouldn’t tell him where it had come from, because he had missed a dinner locked up in his lab, and the Wasp was left beaten and battered in the aftermath. Janet was hospitalized, and her friend and teammate Captain America would bring a personal sort of justice down on Giant Man for beating the woman. Janet would file for divorce shortly after a fairly well pulped Pym was sent to The Tank, and eke out another little bit of revenge by taking him for all that she could to pay for the humiliation of having their failing made so public.
- Janet sought to shake off the memories, and the trauma, of her marriage by also divorcing herself from the life in the spotlight. Or at least, that particular spotlight. She began to toy with the old hobby of being fashionable, and fashion itself and much like her education had begun, so did the next stage in her life. She couldn’t content herself with just whipping up designs for dresses and instead approached the whole thing like she would have a scientific experiment, or a prototype. Letting the work take her out of the country, as well as out of her old life, Janet learned from top designers in Europe not only their techniques, but how to run a business, how to manage the wealth that she’d had since birth and make it flower. Her collections would grace the catwalks of Fashion Week all around the globe. And as seemed to be the story of her life, once she felt she’d reached a pinnacle? She got bored.
- The two diametrically opposed periods of her life came together, and brought Janet back to New York to once again consult with, and work alongside, some of the world’s most brilliant minds. Delving with Reed Richards into his work on unstable molecules, she’d begin using that and her own gifted size-altering uniform to work on the science of creating works of ‘fashion’ for not just the every day person, but to work and potentially augment their own gifts without requiring the poor hero to get a new wardrobe every few weeks. Finding a purpose once again in this highly difficult, if not impossible task, and in using her wealth and charm to try and help others stand up for themselves.
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