Brightflame (Peta
Cullen-Krinn)
PL 10 (143 pp + 40 pp in ‘standard Legion gear’)
Abilities: Str 12, Dex 14, Con
16, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 10
[20 pp]
Attack: Melee +5, Ranged +5 [10 pp]
Defense: +5 [10 pp]
Initiative: +6
Damage: +1 in hand to hand, +10 Disintegration
Saves: Toughness +3 / +13 with Force Field (10
Impervious), Fort +6, Ref +2, Will +7 [8 pp]
Skills: Acrobatics 2 (+4), Bluff 0 (+0), Climb 2 (+3),
Computers 2 (+4), Concentration 0 (+2), Craft (chemical) 2 (+4), Diplomacy 0
(+0), Disable Device 1 (+3), Disguise 0 (+0), Drive 2 (+4), Escape Artist 0
(+0), Gather Information 0 (+0), Handle Animal 0 (+0), Intimidate 4 (+4),
Investigate 2 (+2), Knowledge (life sciences) 2 (+4), Language (Interlac, Native), Medicine 4 (+6), Notice 2 (+4), Perform
0 (+0), Pilot 2 (+4), Profession (medic) 2 (+4), Profession (scientist) 4 (+6),
Ride 1 (+3), Search 2 (+4), Sense Motive 2 (+4), Sleight of Hand 0 (+2),
Stealth 0 (+2), Survival 2 (+4), Swim 2 (+3)
[10 pp, 40 ranks in skills]
Feats: Improved Sunder, Precise Shot 1, Favored Opponent 5
(constructs), Challenge (demoralize with Intimidate as a Move Action at no
penalty), Improved Initiative 1, Endurance 1
[10 pp]
Powers: Disintegration 10 (Power Feat: Alternate
Power – Corrosion 10 (Extras: Contagious, Duration (concentration)),
Immunity 1 (own powers),
Corrosion 10 (Extra: Aura, Linked to Force Field,
Flaw: Action (movement), Power Feat: Selective)
Force Field 10 (Extras: Impervious, Linked to
Corrosion, Flaw: Action (movement), Power Feats: Immunity 2 (disease, poison))
[75 pp]
Devices:
Device 8 – Legion Flight Ring (hard to lose, Flight
5, Communication (radio) 15 (Area 10, Subtle), Comprehend 2 (speak and
understand any spoken language))
[32 pp, 40 pp worth of powers]
Device 2 – Transsuit (hard
to lose, Quick Change, Immunity 9 (life support))
[8 pp, 10 pp worth of powers]
[40 pp in devices]
Peta
and her younger brother Meph were born only minutes
apart to current Legion leader Jasmine Cullen (Kid Quantum II) and Legion
founding member Rokk Krinn
(Cosmos). Growing up with a taste for adventure, Peta
often dragged her brother into all sorts of trouble, often on the alien worlds
their parents frequented, as they would take an occasional leave of absence to
tour the galaxy with their twins, invariably running into *some* sort of
trouble… Peta thrived on this lifestyle, while her
brother was less impressed.
Not having any developed super-powers by her early teens, Peta decided that she would become an emergency services
worker of some sort, perhaps even a doctor, because she couldn’t imagine not
helping others, even if she couldn’t be a Legionnaire. She poured herself into
research, even browbeating an exasperated Brainiac 5
into helping her find information on the cutting edge. (Finding the available
data woefully inadequate, and inconveniently formatted, Brainiac
5 ended up spending a few hours designing a full-year lesson plan, one that saw
Peta and Meph through the
various emergency services exams with two of the highest scores ever
recorded!). Paradoxically, her stay-at-home brother spent a lot of time out and
about during their teen years, thriving in the urban environment among people
his own age, just as she did ‘roughing it’ on alien worlds. Privately, she
worried that he wasn’t pulling his weight, since he spent so much time slacking
with his friends.
Peta
and Meph had just turned fifteen when Dreamer showed
up at Legion HQ and the next thing she knew, she was being bundled out the
door by her parents, who were uncharacteristically dismissive of her questions.
Meph was just coming home from a late night out
when he got a confusing panicky call from his sister, and was just entering
the plaza at a dead run when the crimson Boom Tube slammed down like a thunderbolt
and took their parents, and the only real home they’d ever known, away forever,
leaving only a smoldering crater in the center of Legion plaza, and an empty
place in their hearts that would never again be filled.
Peta’s powers manifested only moments later, with golden-green
torrents of nuclear fire pouring off of her in waves, disintegrating everything
around her as she screamed for her parents to come back. It was synchonicity that Meph also
manifested his powers at that moment, unconsciously repairing and shielding the
surroundings from his sister’s grief, too caught up in trying to contain the
waves of power pouring off of her to have time to confront his own feelings.
Walking into the waves of energy lapping around her, he quelled the nuclear
fires and repaired the damage that she had already inflicted with his own
atomic forces, and held her while she cried herself out.
When Brainiac 5 returned, Peta was one of the first to force her way to his side, to
try and find out what had happened to their parents, but he had no recollection
of the Legion’s last moments, and indeed awoke as a greater threat to the city,
one that she and Meph had to help to contain, using
her newfound powers to blow rogue SP vehicles and construction mechs from the sky, while Meph
healed those injured, and repaired and reinforced whatever structures he could.
When Brainiac 6 appeared,
constructing a new headquarters where her home had once stood, seemingly
defiling her parents’ memory, she was ready to blast it from the sky, but Meph held her hand and told her to wait, recognizing Graym, Garm and several others
among the gathering crowd. When it was pointed out to her that this was a
temporary structure, specifically designed to complement Legion HQ *when* (not
if) it returned, her face tightened in resolve and she was among the first to
volunteer. Noting that she had, as usual, volunteered him as well, Meph, as usual, went along.
In the months that the Legacy team has been active, she
has found herself in a relationship with the frustratingly laid-back Lamn Mallor, son of Lar Gand (Valor) and Tasmia Mallor (Umbra). She likes
him, a lot (and will never admit that he reminds her a little bit of her
brother), but it gets hard to have a serious talk about where they are going as
a couple when she’s in mid-making-a-point, and yes, perhaps she’s raised her
voice, but he’s just sitting there with his arms crossed and *smiling,* the
bastard. And then he shakes his head, grabs her up in his terrifyingly strong
arms with that searchingly serious look in his eyes and kisses her. He’s just
impossible to reason with!
The less said about her kid brothers’ relationship with
that cradle-robbing creature of the night, Twilight, the better. He’s all
sneaking around, like *everyone* doesn’t know. She’s supposed to be a
*teacher,* for grife’s sake, and it’s not like she
was ever good enough to be an actual Legionnaire, and she’s *old,* and could it
be any grosser to date someone who dated your father! What the hell is he
thinking? It’s like a Greek tragedy, which you’d think she’d be old enough to
know about...
Peta
is in good shape, and works out regularly, always 'out-drawing' Meph on contests of speed, or out-lasting him on endurance
races. She has lighter skin, more like her father, and dark brown eyes. She
wears her black curly hair cut close to her scalp, to keep it out of her way
and has a uniform that looks quite a bit like her mothers, but with leggings
and in shades of dark metallic gold and jade green. (Her 'fire' is a brighter
dazzling green, and sheds a warm yellow glow.) Their parents never officially
married, considering it an archaic custom, and Peta
and Meph have chosen to take both of their parents
family names (in a slightly different order), rather than pick one.