Linnunrata (called ‘Airborne’ in English)
(Niklas Laine)
PL 6 (93 pp)
Abilities: Str 12, Dex 16, Con
14, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 14
[18 pp]
Attack: Melee +2, Ranged +2, +6 with Blast or Trip [4 pp]
Defense: +2 / +6 with air shield (+1 flat-footed) [4 pp]
Initiative: +6
Damage: +1 hand to hand, +8 Blast or Trip
Saves: Toughness +2 / +6 with air shield (but only +2
flat-footed), Fort +3, Ref +5, Will +0 [4 pp]
Skills: Acrobatics 2 (+5), Bluff 6 (+8, +12 vs. those who
might find him attractive), Climb 1 (+2), Computers 1 (+3), Concentration 0
(+0), Diplomacy 2 (+4, +8 vs. those who might find him attractive), Disguise 0
(+2), Drive 1 (+4), Escape Artist 0 (+3), Gather Information 2 (+4), Handle
Animal 0 (+2), Intimidate 0 (+2), Knowledge (behavioral science) 1 (+3),
Knowledge (civics) 2 (+4), Knowledge (business) 1 (+3), Knowledge (popular
culture) 2 (+4), Knowledge (current events) 1 (+3), Knowledge (theology &
philosophy) 1 (+3), Language (English), Language (German), Language (Finnish),
Medicine 2 (+2), Notice 0 (+0), Perform (guitar) 3 (+5), Perform (singing) 5
(+7), Search 2 (+4), Sense Motive 2 (+2), Stealth 4 (+7), Survival 0 (+0), Swim
1 (+2)
[11 pp, 44 ranks in skills]
Feats: Attractive 1, Attack Specialization (air attacks)
1, Blind-Fight, Distract (bluff), Evasion 2, Fearless, Hide in Plain Sight, Improved
Initiative 1, Improved Throw, Improved Trip, Move-by Action
[12
pp]
Powers:
Flight 3 (50 MPH) [6]
Immunity 4 (environmental pressure, environmental
cold, need to breathe) [4]
Trip 8 (wind cannon, Extra: Knockback,
Power Feats:
Alternate Power – Trip 8 (gale, Extra: Knockback, Area (cone), Flaw: Range 1 (touch)),
Alternate Power – Blast 8 (tightly-focused
‘cutting’ winds)) [18]
Force Field 4 (Extra: Link +0 to Shield, Flaw:
Limited (not vs. attacks against which he is flat-footed (provides Defensive
Roll, not Toughness)) [2]
Shield 4 (Extra: Link +0 to Force Field) [4]
Super-Senses 5 (extended 1 (hearing),
extended 1 (scent), scent, accurate (hearing), danger sense (hearing)) [5]
[39 pp]
Abilities 20 + Combat 8 + Saves 4 + Skills 11 + Feats 12
+ Powers 39 = 93 pp
Niklas is your garden-variety mutant, caught in a blizzard as a child,
and thrown off his feet by a gust of wind, he didn’t come down for hours. He’s
the youngest member of the team, and spends whatever time he can get away from
his ‘boring job’ of super-heroing rocking out in a
strictly third-rate ska band that is pretty much
feeding off of his fame to compensate for their lack of talent.
He’s exuberant, young and convinced that he’s immortal. Niklas thrives on attention, and is prone to making up
stories, such as the one about the ethereal wind-goddess that empowered him and
chose him to carry his people’s fame to the world, or the one about how he’s an
‘old soul’ in an eternally young body and actually much older and wiser than he
looks. After he’s managed to impress / seduce / hornswaggle
his latest gullible audience, he’ll as quickly forget whatever nonsense he was
saying and breeze on to his next act of foolishness.
His Finnish ‘code-name’ Linnunrata
refers to the milky way as the ‘path of birds’ that
human souls follow through the sky after death. He certainly didn’t pick it,
even if he is certainly smart enough to have done so. He just likes the English
‘Airborne’ better. (He was campaigning for Skyclad,
with a costume to match, only to be unanimously shouted down by his
team-mates.)