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player information.
name: Box
are you over 18?: Yup
personal lj: the_safe_air
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: Aim: bardwithnoname. Plurk: likeabox
characters in abax: Isra bint’Hassan Abdi - Original Character
in character information.
series: Comics: Nextwave
name: Tabitha Smith
sex: F
age: Early twenties, maybe? 22?
race: Mutant!
height: 5’3”
weight: 110
canon point: post-series
previous cr: Nope!
history: Wikipedia knows all
personality:
Some kinds of rocks are smarter than Tabby on a good day. She can barely count, can’t spell her own name, and says netspeak out loud, particularly ‘zomg’. She talks like the 21st century version of a valley girl, complete with ‘likes’ and ‘you knows’. A lot of her dialogue contains neologisms and forgotten, mangled metaphors, and sometimes she just trails off into a neverending series of ‘yeahs’. She spends a lot of time talking on her cell phone, and treats the superhero business that interrupts the call like that’s the bigger issue than fighting the giant robot of the week. Most of her calls are more akin to her telling a story than an actual conversation. She can be very, very shallow, with very low standards and open legs.
Tabby is explicitly too dumb to fool. That means any attempts at mind control or manipulation will fly right over her head. Granted, a lot of other things do, too, but this is the one area where it’s helpful. She’s adept at stealing, to the point that her kleptomania is the impetus behind the entire series as it stands. For a superhero, she’s good at making the right bits explode. The one time Monica wasn’t around to tell everyone what to do, she actually came up with a workable plan on her own. Still, she’s not exactly a picture of modern morality. She hates cops in particular, to the point of kicking one when they were down.
Tabby doesn’t really have hidden depths. What you see is almost exactly what you get. Still, there’s a few shiny bits underneath the shallow surface. She comments on other people’s outfits on occasion, so she’s pretty good at the practical kind of fashion. Tabby’s more bubbleheaded than malicious, even on a bad day. She’s even capable of throwing a bit of snark around every now and then. While not very articulate about it, or anything else for that matter, Tabby does show pity and sympathy on occasion, particularly to the field of broccoli dudes that had to be exploded. She’s people oriented and outgoing. She may be a kleptomaniac, but she’s not a heroic sociopath. Just don’t ask her to do your taxes any time soon.
abilities/powers: Tabby has the ability to make things explode. No, really, she does. Okay, technically what she does is create ‘balls of psionic energy’ and then those balls explode. But the salient point is the explosions. She’s got her powers well under control, and tends to count down with a series of “ticks”, and if not that, at least a big “boom” before she lets the explosions fly.
She also has the ability to steal all your stuff. Her stealing the HATE marketing plan is what lead to the team quitting in the first place, after all. Cops do keep arresting her for it, so she can definitely be caught in the act, but it’s a very good idea to hide any wallets and loose valuables in a locked, safe place if she’s around.
She’s explicitly too dumb to fool. Any telepaths who attempt to get up into her mind aren’t going to find anything particularly interesting, and any attempts at mind control or mental screws will sail right over her bubblehead. She isn’t immune to it, so much as she simply doesn’t have a mind to read. However, with other skill levels, it’s probably possible to get at least *some* idea of what she’s thinking. Just don’t go in expecting the next great American novel.
first person sample:
So, I went to this party the other night with Jen, you know her, right? The one with the red stripey hair? And she’s has these platform heels she always wears because she’s like, ridiculously short and she needs to try and make up for that sooomehow, but it doesn’t work at all. But-- yeah, anyway, I went to this party with her and it totally sucked. This guy, and he wasn’t even that cute, like a two out of... I don’t know, eleven, on the scale of hot. This guy spilled his beer on me! And he totally messed up my skirt! And like, he didn’t even apologize or buy me one or give me his number or anything. But I got his wallet, so I guess that means I win.
third person sample: Being a superhero sucked. Not all the time, but enough of the time to count. For one thing, every time some blimp blew up or robots invaded from an underground base, she had to drop her call and go help. Or something. Which wasn’t at all fair. She racked up huge bills due to roaming charges, or she would have if she ever paid them. Paying was a thing that happened to other people, like taxes and dying. A lot of other people did the dying, but half the time they turned out to be robots or skrulls or robot skrulls or something and that made it okay. Morality was a complicated thing if people were involved. Well, it would be if Tabby ever paid attention to it in the first place. It got in the way of the stealing, so she usually didn’t.
And for another thing, sometimes superheroes died. Dying used to be pretty rare, like going the speed limit or cops stopping in bad neighborhoods. Now it happened pretty much once a month or so. Usually to the mutant guys, the x-whatever they’re calling the team lately. She was on the team back when it was x-force, but now there’s the x-men and the new mutants and the new amazing ultramutants and whatever, there’s way too many of them to count even if they did all get de-mutantated a few years ago. But even that’ll change tomorrow, or maybe next month, or a few years right now. Just like how dying’s kind of like a bus trip to Mexico. A few years later they come back like nothing ever happened and can’t remember a thing because they drank too much tequila.
That’s the thing that sucks about being a superhero. Everything changes so much that it doesn’t matter what the new change is before it changes back. It’s enough to make a person go crazy, if that origin story wasn’t already taken. Plus, have you seen the outfits the villains get? Nothing but purples and reds.
case no: 40-06-50
name: Box
are you over 18?: Yup
personal lj: the_safe_air
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: Aim: bardwithnoname. Plurk: likeabox
characters in abax: Isra bint’Hassan Abdi - Original Character
in character information.
series: Comics: Nextwave
name: Tabitha Smith
sex: F
age: Early twenties, maybe? 22?
race: Mutant!
height: 5’3”
weight: 110
canon point: post-series
previous cr: Nope!
history: Wikipedia knows all
personality:
Some kinds of rocks are smarter than Tabby on a good day. She can barely count, can’t spell her own name, and says netspeak out loud, particularly ‘zomg’. She talks like the 21st century version of a valley girl, complete with ‘likes’ and ‘you knows’. A lot of her dialogue contains neologisms and forgotten, mangled metaphors, and sometimes she just trails off into a neverending series of ‘yeahs’. She spends a lot of time talking on her cell phone, and treats the superhero business that interrupts the call like that’s the bigger issue than fighting the giant robot of the week. Most of her calls are more akin to her telling a story than an actual conversation. She can be very, very shallow, with very low standards and open legs.
Tabby is explicitly too dumb to fool. That means any attempts at mind control or manipulation will fly right over her head. Granted, a lot of other things do, too, but this is the one area where it’s helpful. She’s adept at stealing, to the point that her kleptomania is the impetus behind the entire series as it stands. For a superhero, she’s good at making the right bits explode. The one time Monica wasn’t around to tell everyone what to do, she actually came up with a workable plan on her own. Still, she’s not exactly a picture of modern morality. She hates cops in particular, to the point of kicking one when they were down.
Tabby doesn’t really have hidden depths. What you see is almost exactly what you get. Still, there’s a few shiny bits underneath the shallow surface. She comments on other people’s outfits on occasion, so she’s pretty good at the practical kind of fashion. Tabby’s more bubbleheaded than malicious, even on a bad day. She’s even capable of throwing a bit of snark around every now and then. While not very articulate about it, or anything else for that matter, Tabby does show pity and sympathy on occasion, particularly to the field of broccoli dudes that had to be exploded. She’s people oriented and outgoing. She may be a kleptomaniac, but she’s not a heroic sociopath. Just don’t ask her to do your taxes any time soon.
abilities/powers: Tabby has the ability to make things explode. No, really, she does. Okay, technically what she does is create ‘balls of psionic energy’ and then those balls explode. But the salient point is the explosions. She’s got her powers well under control, and tends to count down with a series of “ticks”, and if not that, at least a big “boom” before she lets the explosions fly.
She also has the ability to steal all your stuff. Her stealing the HATE marketing plan is what lead to the team quitting in the first place, after all. Cops do keep arresting her for it, so she can definitely be caught in the act, but it’s a very good idea to hide any wallets and loose valuables in a locked, safe place if she’s around.
She’s explicitly too dumb to fool. Any telepaths who attempt to get up into her mind aren’t going to find anything particularly interesting, and any attempts at mind control or mental screws will sail right over her bubblehead. She isn’t immune to it, so much as she simply doesn’t have a mind to read. However, with other skill levels, it’s probably possible to get at least *some* idea of what she’s thinking. Just don’t go in expecting the next great American novel.
first person sample:
So, I went to this party the other night with Jen, you know her, right? The one with the red stripey hair? And she’s has these platform heels she always wears because she’s like, ridiculously short and she needs to try and make up for that sooomehow, but it doesn’t work at all. But-- yeah, anyway, I went to this party with her and it totally sucked. This guy, and he wasn’t even that cute, like a two out of... I don’t know, eleven, on the scale of hot. This guy spilled his beer on me! And he totally messed up my skirt! And like, he didn’t even apologize or buy me one or give me his number or anything. But I got his wallet, so I guess that means I win.
third person sample: Being a superhero sucked. Not all the time, but enough of the time to count. For one thing, every time some blimp blew up or robots invaded from an underground base, she had to drop her call and go help. Or something. Which wasn’t at all fair. She racked up huge bills due to roaming charges, or she would have if she ever paid them. Paying was a thing that happened to other people, like taxes and dying. A lot of other people did the dying, but half the time they turned out to be robots or skrulls or robot skrulls or something and that made it okay. Morality was a complicated thing if people were involved. Well, it would be if Tabby ever paid attention to it in the first place. It got in the way of the stealing, so she usually didn’t.
And for another thing, sometimes superheroes died. Dying used to be pretty rare, like going the speed limit or cops stopping in bad neighborhoods. Now it happened pretty much once a month or so. Usually to the mutant guys, the x-whatever they’re calling the team lately. She was on the team back when it was x-force, but now there’s the x-men and the new mutants and the new amazing ultramutants and whatever, there’s way too many of them to count even if they did all get de-mutantated a few years ago. But even that’ll change tomorrow, or maybe next month, or a few years right now. Just like how dying’s kind of like a bus trip to Mexico. A few years later they come back like nothing ever happened and can’t remember a thing because they drank too much tequila.
That’s the thing that sucks about being a superhero. Everything changes so much that it doesn’t matter what the new change is before it changes back. It’s enough to make a person go crazy, if that origin story wasn’t already taken. Plus, have you seen the outfits the villains get? Nothing but purples and reds.
case no: 40-06-50