Character Sheet

Characteristics Cost: 147

Powers Cost: 183

Martial Arts Cost: 50

Skills Cost: 120

Perks Cost: 18

Talents Cost: 3

Total Character Cost: 515

Disadvantage Points: 75

Base Points: 400
Experience Required: 121
Total Experience Available: 121
Experience Unspent: 0

Mellisa Flanagan has always known there’s been some dark secret in her family.  When she turned 13, she was looking for presents, she found the secret.

She discovered that she was the granddaughter of one of America’s greatest heroes… and villains, The Cloak. His hat, his cape, his costume, all of it, stuck in a trunk in the attic.  She confronted her mother, who admitted they had been left behind with her mother.

The elder Ms. Flanagan also pulled out something she’d kept under her bed: a forcefield vest and a pair of guns.  One of the guns was broken, but the other worked fine.

Mellisa had always wanted to be a superhero.  She thought it would be cool.  She’d taken martial arts lessons, learned gymnastics, all the things she thought a super-hero could be.  She wasn’t superpowered, but there were heroes out there that were just talented!  Her grandmother, rich and a little dotty, was happy to indulge her granddaughter in these things.  After all, Grandmama always said, someone should try to redeem the family name!  So, enabled by her Grandmother, she started doing more.  She taught herself enough electronics to maintain the gun, and she’s trying to figure out what’s broken with the other one.

Taking the superhero name of “the Night”, she joined a team that had gathered on the roof of her high school after an attack there, and the team, who became known as Vigilance, discovered the source of the attack: a botched magical ritual to resurrect a murdered girl, but that had brought her back as a half-human, half elemental. This got them caught up in a plot against the superhero Partacel, which the Night helped stop by diverting one of the missiles sent to destroy him.

She dropped out of high school to find her father, who appeared in her life briefly, then was taken away by Russian agents at Logan Airport. She returned from Russia with her fighting skills sharpened, her abilities (granted when the gun was damaged and she was affected by the Atlantean technology within) focused through training, an excellent grasp of Russian, a smattering of Tagalog, a fake Russian passport, and a deep appreciation for the American system of vaccination.

When she got home, her grandmother had passed away. Mellisa recreated her costume for a newer version, updated her gun, restocked her gadgets… and the Night patrols Boston again.

Personality/Motivation:  Mellisa is a thrill seeker at heart, but at least her heart’s in the right place.  She wants to be a superhero, and now she’s living her dream.

• Prime Mover, Rush
  A song about, well, life, and rolling with it.
• D.I.Y., Peter Gabriel
  A song about doing it yourself.
• Army of Me, Bjork
  A song about standing up for yourself, sometimes getting a kick in the ass to do so.
• Mission: Impossible Theme
  Seriously, do I have to suggest what this one is about?
• Battle without Honor or Humanity, Tomoyasu Hotei
  Mood Music: walking into the place like you own it and making sure everyone else know it too.
• The Immigrant Song (the version by Karen O, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
  Another mood song.
• Subdivisions,Rush
  Sometimes, no matter how you try, you just don’t quite fit in.
• Time Stand Still, Rush
  The world keeps going, no matter how much you want to stop it. Sometimes, you need to take a moment, take a breath, and catch up.
• The next two songs are for the superhero team she’s (at least nominally) part of, Vigilance. The first one is when they started, as high school students, with a desire to help city they live in and right some wrongs. The second is after a few years, when they’re older, wiser, more experienced, and understand it’s not just going to become a better tomorrow, they need to stand up and fight for it.
  • • This Will Be The Day, Jeff Williams feat. Casey Lee Williams
      
      They see you as small and helpless
      They see you as just a child
      surprise when they find out that a warrior will soon run wild…
      
      A song about who you really are and why you fight.
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    • Hold Your Ground, Cavo

      Stand up and hold your ground
      Face the ending
      We’ll burn this whole world down
      Build a new beginning now
      This fire keeps getting closer
      Draw the line we’re crossing over
      We’ll burn this whole world down
      Build a new beginning now

      And sometimes, you need to tell the world to get the hell out of your way because they’ve screwed it up and now you’re going to fix it, with or without their help.

• Taking A Stand, Henry Jackman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier soundtrack
  
  When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world:
  “No. You move.”