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Character Name: Felicia McCready (Cici, Licia, Sidhe, Angel)
Background/History:
World/Setting
The year is 2014. This Earth is one many may recognize as our own, for it is very similar to the world we know today, from the historic events, the wars, popular culture references, discrepancies in poverty versus the wealthy, and even the advancements of technology (that the public are allowed to know about). It is not completely identical, but you wouldn’t notice some of the bigger changes at first glance. Sexual exploration and discovery is not as restricted or as obsessed over by the media, discrimination over race and sexual orientation is also not as prominent in first world countries like the United States as they are in our own world today. There is a strong push for cooperation and acceptance that the government encourages regularly and has been for the last fifty odd years (the civil rights movements and sexual revolution were even more successful), although it wasn’t until the Supers came out of the woodwork that this growing tolerance and acceptance was put to the test. Over the last twenty-some years people designated as “Superhuman” due to enhanced physical and psychic abilities have become more and more common.
Supers have existed in secrecy and small numbers for centuries (some claim there is proof of them even going far back as Ancient Mesopotamia), but it wasn’t until the 1980s that the media and publicity really started to take off and their presence in society could not be denied due to the boom in the Super population across the globe. It is estimated now since the “Superdemic” with more and more Supers declaring themselves that there are over 2 million Superhumans worldwide, with a majority of them under the age of 50. They are still a small number in comparison to the rest of the population (almost 3% of the world population as a whole, with the US demographic being only 1% of the country’s full population), but it’s not unusual for the average American to have a Super neighbor or for their children to go to school with young Supers or the children of Supers.
Some people don’t agree with them being integrated into society, but the official stance of the United States’ government was that these people were equal citizens and should be treated as such. They have just as much to offer and could be productive citizens just like everyone else. They are merely “gifted” just like someone who is good at math or has a talent for engineering. This doesn’t stop discrimination against them on personal or local levels (some states even have craftily worded laws that give non-enhanced humans preferences in jobs and salary because Supers can do the work “easier” and through that logic shouldn’t be paid as much since they have more “opportunities” to find other jobs), but there are stricter punishments and fines for those who are found guilty of breaking civil rights laws protecting minorities. It is a thinly veiled stance to maintain a semblance of harmony as while there are plenty of average humans who are resentful or even cautious about what Supers can do or might attempt given their special abilities, the US government would like to keep those people on the side of the Americans and not have them use their abilities against them.
That is where D.E.L.T.A. comes in. The Department of Enhanced Logistics and Technological Advancements is an organization that studies advanced sciences and technology and one of its main priorities is Superhumans. DELTA was the department created to study, work with, and provide support to Superhumans and maintaining coexistence between Supers and non-enhanced humans. This is not all that they do, though. DELTA is also in charge of tracking down, monitoring and containing Supers that are at a high threat level, even removing the threat entirely if necessary. For the most part it works in teams called “Squads” that mobilize out of regional offices around the country, primarily employing Supers to keep these other “Renegade” Superhumans in line by recruiting from the very people they are monitoring.
Additional Information about the Setting
Character History
Felicia McCready was born to an older Evangelical couple in Paskatawan, Oklahoma. Barely a year after she was born, Felicia “grew” angel wings. Her parents called on the Pastor Lucas Roman and he told them that she was a gift from God they would have to prepare to serve Him when the time came. In the widespread, rural town, the obsessive adhering to religion and the words of their religious leaders is not only tradition, but ingrained into their community’s culture. Felicia was raised in seclusion and made to read the Bible several times a day along with her homeschooling studies to “learn the Word she was meant to teach.” This left her feeling removed from the world outside and she learned quickly that if she wanted things, she had to play the role her parents expected of her. She did not do this because she believed in God as they did, but because it was what she was told to do.
And then she learned about Supers and more doubt was sown. Her parents had spoken about the demons who were “pronouncing their sin” all over the country and she wondered if she was truly an angel and not one of “the abominations.” Around the time she turned ten years old, she discovered that her parents owned a computer which was locked in a tiny office she wasn’t meant to enter. She would sneak into this room while they were away (as the house had deadbolts on the outside she could not unlock herself to keep her from leaving when her parents were not home) and taught herself how to use it, which gave her a very different view of the outside world than she’d ever had before. Because of her parents’ behavior as she grew up, she learned how to play various roles as it suited her, being the perfect “angel” to get their attention and praise, and also to hide what her true motives were. More and more often she wanted them gone from the house so she could surf the internet and go into chatrooms by lying about her age so she could meet people. Google, AIM, and Skype became her best friends.
She still played the role her parents expected of her, but as she got to explore the outside world through the web, Felicia wanted less and less to do with the world within her own home. Pastor Roman groped her wings when she was 15, which led to her beating him unconscious and having a huge fight with her parents. During this fight she was so angry and wanted to get at them so much that her wings temporarily transformed into ones more leathery, clawed and bat-like. Her parents swore she had been possessed by the Devil and Felicia used their terror to escape and run away. It wasn’t easy as she had never used her wings to fly before, so she ended up hitchhiking much of the way north, but not all of those offering to help her were as nice as she thought they were at first. One night, out of exhaustion, she tried to land on the road where the lights were and almost got hit by a car.
The driver, Yul Walken was a nice guy, mid-20s and offered to give her a ride the rest of the way into Chicago, Illinois. She spent a week with him and he even gave her his gold credit card with a $5,000 limit and told her she could find him at DELTA. Felicia spent the next six months running up bills on his credit card and buying as much technology as she could. After that, she found the closest regional DELTA office, walked in and demanded to be allowed to see him. From that point on Felicia was a part of DELTA and she found out the truth about what else the agency was involved in. They trained her in using her abilities, studied them to try and better understand how they worked and this is how they discovered they were not real wings, but energy constructs that took on the physical form of wings.
A year later she was assigned to work on Yul’s own team, the Omega Squad, under the codename Sidhe, which was a more covert team that would investigate unusual activities and track down Supers that were considered high-risk or potential threats. Felicia was never very good at the “covert” aspect of their missions, but she always worked very well as a good diversion to what the rest of the team was doing. It was hard not to pay attention to the girl with the angel wings and her cover as a DELTA spokesperson meant most people didn’t ask questions about why she was in particular locations. There were several offers to transfer her fulltime to the Theta Squad (public relations, spokesmen, and media manipulation team), but she refused. Omega was like a new family to her and she enjoyed being with them, but really, she didn’t want to be separated from Yul who was like a surrogate big brother.
That is, until the mission where a rogue Super (William Baker) who was planning to use his powers to manipulate his way into Harvard University (he didn’t have the academic brains to get there on his own, but telepathy and mind control sure do work to a guy’s advantage), went drastically wrong. They had just intended to bring the young man in for questioning, but not knowing he was a full on telepath, the team was slowly pitted against each other in the few days they spent around him, to the point they were at each other’s throats. If it wasn’t for Yul taking an attack from Felicia, their teammate Kali would have been decapitated. Instead he was severely injured and temporarily paralyzed from the waist down and their other teammate John Archer was killed. It took Yul off the team and Felicia was on mandatory leave for two weeks while they made sure there were no lasting traces of the Rogue’s influence in her mind. During that time, she accepted the standing offer to be transferred to Theta Squad.
Her new team was less drastic and more widespread. The Theta Squad works all over the country and has alliance teams with other groups in countries across the world. She got to be in the limelight and make nice with her new teammates. She even struck up a sexual relationship with Samuel Akens, who was pretty much the poster boy sweetheart of the team, because his visual empathy was disrupted by her energy constructs and he couldn’t read her as he did everyone else. Recently they’ve been stationed in Los Angeles, California, working to promote the new Unity in Support Center opening there to promote the usefulness of Supers in society and how non-enhanced humans could relate to them.
Personality:
Felicia is not a religious person, now, but her parents were fanatics living in a rural town in Oklahoma. Religion was very strong in the tiny, spread out community. She was raised being told she was an Angel on Earth and isolated for it, to the point that now she goes out of her way to talk around any kind of philosophical or religious topics. She lost her faith and doesn’t want it back, but won’t judge others for having it…too much. Just keep it away from her and everything is good. She’s more than likely to make a joke or be dismissive of those topics and come up with something else to talk about, doing it in such a way that some find it funny, while others may feel easily ignored. She doesn’t care as long as she gets the result she wants. Even if she comes across melodramatic in the process. Given all the soap operas she watches, she would take that as a compliment.
She is someone who has learned how to read people and try to give them what they expect from her. She may not be completely sweet and innocent, but she can play the good girl who just wants everyone to get along and work together. That is the face she is expected to present for Theta Squad and she isn’t always as good as it as her handler, Agent Burgess would like, as Felicia is also someone who tries to do as many outrageously lively things as she can. Sex in the Statue of Liberty? Why not make it a threesome. Her teammate is very particular about protein smoothies in the morning? She’ll swap out their seaweed with some she picked up at the beach. She gets reprimanded in private often.
Despite being a Superhuman, Felicia did not join D.E.L.T.A. for protection or even because she wants to do the “right thing” and protect humans from dangerous Supers. None of that is really her concern. She joined because Yul Walken was one of the first people to show her that she was running away from life rather than taking control of it. In the week they spent together while he was on leave in Illinois, he taught her a lot about what it meant to be a person with free will, and she had been so sure she had proved she could be independent when she had run away from home. And so a few months later, she used the card he had given her and walked right up to one of the regional DELTA offices and demanded to speak to him and only him. That’s how she had learned to handle things. Be upfront, don’t let anyone stop her from what she wanted and be willing to do what it took to get it.
After Yul was injured and pulled from the Omega Squad, Felicia was confused and felt adrift. She didn’t know what to do with herself. She hadn’t wanted to be a fighter or a secret operations agent to begin with. So she took the transfer to Theta Squad, because he was the only reason she was there (or so she liked to convince herself). Some of the others called her a traitor and she had felt a little bad about not even telling them about her transfer until the day she left, but Felicia doesn’t hold herself back because of guilt.
She doesn’t believe in fear, either (or so she would like to think). Fear is for those who aren’t willing to take risks with their own lives and make their own destinies. The flaw in this is that she doesn’t acknowledge the things that she is truly afraid of, such as her feeling of losing people close to her and the fear of being alone. Instead she plays these off as being less than what they are. She’s not a bad person, but she knows she also isn’t a selfless person. She spent most of her life being told that she was made by God to serve him and worship him and lead others to Him, to the point that now that she is in charge of her own life, that’s her number one priority. She only takes orders from people she trusts, only gives that trust to people she thinks worth her time. For Felicia, she is Number One and nothing so far has changed that. It’s one of the reasons she enjoys playing pranks because while it shows she cares (in some twisted way) because she only pranks people she genuinely likes, it also makes her the center of their attention for some duration of time, even if it’s just because they’re annoyed with her. She’s okay with negative attention, but lack of any attention at all leaves her feeling isolated, lonely, and in need of validation.
One of the quirks she has that some people may find odd is her obsessive need to have the latest hand-held technology. The newest Android phone? She had it pre-ordered six months in advance. Fanciest looking multi-media player? Got the Beta and then upgraded when the final version came out. She owns three tablets with color-coded accessory keypads. Felicia has to stay connected. She needs access to the internet and Twitter and all the people following her blog. Internet has been important to her for so long that she doesn’t know what to do without it.
Even though she has to have access to the internet, Felicia loves talking to people face to face just as much. It’s the attention she craves, but she has to be in control of it. She doesn’t like people having the advantage in any situation. She can’t even stand people touching her wings. It makes her feel like they are touching something deep inside her and she is more than likely to punch someone rather than just telling them to let go. Yul is one of the only people who gets away with it without bodily harm because he feels comfortable and safe. But other than that she is fairly affectionate and doesn’t mind hugging and kissing people, even just for the hell of it, as long as she is the one taking the lead. Flirting is a game to her and it’s only fun if everyone wins.
Abilities/Powers:
Felicia’s wings are not real wings, though they do allow her flight capabilities. They are excess energy her body releases that take the construct form of angelic wings. That is why she is capable of using the energy in the wings and firing the feathers like projectiles. It is also why she can fly using them despite her muscles and skeletal structure not being strong enough to maintain flight on their own. The form of the energy is controlled by her mental state, but due to her upbringing they remain looking like angel wings. The most she has been able to do with them is flatten them against her back when she wears long coats so they don’t appear as noticeable.
She has not yet been able to intentionally alter their form beyond that, but it is something she is currently working on. So far she has managed to alter the color of the feathers. The energy in these wings has the ability to cut through steel and even rock, but only to a certain depth, and can also be used like miniature explosives. The energy regenerates after 10 minutes or so and the wings “grow” back. If she uses too much energy, the wings can become more intangible, transparent, and she needs to consume more calories and protein to build her energy back up. The wings feel to others in whatever way they feel to Felicia herself, and so the feathers feel like real feathers while the bones feel strangely fragile for being so large, but do not break no matter the pressure put on them. Because it is her own body’s energy, when someone is touching her wings, she is able to sense their intent and emotional state. It makes it very uncomfortable for her, to the point she hates it when most people touch them.
Items/Weapons: Her cellphone. She’ll want it even she can’t use it to call anyone.
Sample Entry:
[If there was one thing Felicia didn’t appreciate, it was ending up in a place with no running water and then ended up covered in dirt. The silence was totally creepy, but she’s dealt with worse. She cannot deal with the filth in her hair and a broken heel on her pumps from tripping down less than perfect stairs while trying to find a clue about where she is.]
Okay, for future reference? It’s not polite to teleport people without their consent. And maybe you leave a note about those steps. [She brushes some twigs out of her hair.] What is up with this phone? I’m sorry 2005, but you can have this back because I think this poor thing is ready to retire. Now I’d love to know how I got here and the quickest exit back to L.A. Or the nearest wifi hotspot. Maybe the hotspot first. Please?
Sample Entry Two:
They were sitting in the green room, waiting for the light that would signal their turn on the stage and Felicia was bored out of her mind. She enjoyed talk shows enough, especially when she got to be on them, but the wait? Why the hell couldn’t they just skip waiting and edit out whatever they didn’t want to show up on the broadcast? It’s not like they couldn’t do it. She could edit video with her phone, she figures that a studio has more than enough technology to handle that. Live broadcasts were not as much fun in her opinion. Too many chances for mistakes and Molly saying things that shouldn’t be said in front of cameras for Felicia to see why they bother with them.
But whatever, it’s just her and Mr. Perfect so it’s not like they have to worry about a lot of mistakes in the cards. It shouldn’t be much longer now right? She turns her eyes back down to her phone, typing in a smiley into the text box she has open and then sending the message. It’s less than five seconds later when she hears the always amusing sound of the Star Wars theme song beaming from the phone across the table from her. Sam pulls his simple little touch-screen out of his pocket.
“Who could be messaging me right now?” He’s talking quietly, as he always does, but that little crinkle between his eyes shows up just as soon he undoubtedly sees the sender. He glances up to her briefly and then rolls his eyes before giving into the distraction and typing something back.
Her phone vibrates—because unlike Indy she actually does that—and she snickers a bit at the response he gave her.
;-) is not a conversation starter. Not even a word. And you can talk to me in person.
Why does he have to use capitalization and punctuation? So boring. She responds back.
maybe i don’t want some1 to hear why i want 2 say.
Was that a blush on his cheeks? Sam could be too easy, but he didn’t seem like he was shutting her down, so maybe he was curious enough to keep going. He may not be able to read her like he could read others, but Felicia didn’t think she was a hard person to get to know. She didn’t believe in fake attitudes or overcompensating. She was who she was. Most of the time, he seemed to like it.
Then it’s something that can wait until after the show.
She rolls her eyes because he really can be too predictable.
but ive been thinking about it for a while. how big it was. hot easy to get my mouth around and im usually really good at swallowing.
And he jerks his head up to look at her like she’s completely lost her mind and Felicia almost laughs out loud, but if he hasn’t spoken, she isn’t going to either. One of them had to give in first and it wouldn’t be her.
so thick. had to use both hands to hold it. couldn’t squeeze too hard either. made too much of a mess that way.
And maybe that was going too far because Sam drops his phone as soon as he read the text and she burst out laughing, hand covering her mouth but by no means quiet. Just then the door opened and a young intern stepped in, asking if they needed anything. Sam looks mortified, looking at her and then at the intern, who was more than confused. Felicia just waved a hand at her dismissively, completely nonplussed.
“We’re good,” she assures her when Sam doesn’t respond. “But get me another of those giant éclairs. With the cream not the custard. They’re delicious.” The look Sam sends her makes her start snickering all over again.
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Character Name: Felicia McCready (Cici, Licia, Sidhe, Angel)
Background/History:
World/Setting
The year is 2014. This Earth is one many may recognize as our own, for it is very similar to the world we know today, from the historic events, the wars, popular culture references, discrepancies in poverty versus the wealthy, and even the advancements of technology (that the public are allowed to know about). It is not completely identical, but you wouldn’t notice some of the bigger changes at first glance. Sexual exploration and discovery is not as restricted or as obsessed over by the media, discrimination over race and sexual orientation is also not as prominent in first world countries like the United States as they are in our own world today. There is a strong push for cooperation and acceptance that the government encourages regularly and has been for the last fifty odd years (the civil rights movements and sexual revolution were even more successful), although it wasn’t until the Supers came out of the woodwork that this growing tolerance and acceptance was put to the test. Over the last twenty-some years people designated as “Superhuman” due to enhanced physical and psychic abilities have become more and more common.
Supers have existed in secrecy and small numbers for centuries (some claim there is proof of them even going far back as Ancient Mesopotamia), but it wasn’t until the 1980s that the media and publicity really started to take off and their presence in society could not be denied due to the boom in the Super population across the globe. It is estimated now since the “Superdemic” with more and more Supers declaring themselves that there are over 2 million Superhumans worldwide, with a majority of them under the age of 50. They are still a small number in comparison to the rest of the population (almost 3% of the world population as a whole, with the US demographic being only 1% of the country’s full population), but it’s not unusual for the average American to have a Super neighbor or for their children to go to school with young Supers or the children of Supers.
Some people don’t agree with them being integrated into society, but the official stance of the United States’ government was that these people were equal citizens and should be treated as such. They have just as much to offer and could be productive citizens just like everyone else. They are merely “gifted” just like someone who is good at math or has a talent for engineering. This doesn’t stop discrimination against them on personal or local levels (some states even have craftily worded laws that give non-enhanced humans preferences in jobs and salary because Supers can do the work “easier” and through that logic shouldn’t be paid as much since they have more “opportunities” to find other jobs), but there are stricter punishments and fines for those who are found guilty of breaking civil rights laws protecting minorities. It is a thinly veiled stance to maintain a semblance of harmony as while there are plenty of average humans who are resentful or even cautious about what Supers can do or might attempt given their special abilities, the US government would like to keep those people on the side of the Americans and not have them use their abilities against them.
That is where D.E.L.T.A. comes in. The Department of Enhanced Logistics and Technological Advancements is an organization that studies advanced sciences and technology and one of its main priorities is Superhumans. DELTA was the department created to study, work with, and provide support to Superhumans and maintaining coexistence between Supers and non-enhanced humans. This is not all that they do, though. DELTA is also in charge of tracking down, monitoring and containing Supers that are at a high threat level, even removing the threat entirely if necessary. For the most part it works in teams called “Squads” that mobilize out of regional offices around the country, primarily employing Supers to keep these other “Renegade” Superhumans in line by recruiting from the very people they are monitoring.
Additional Information about the Setting
Character History
Felicia McCready was born to an older Evangelical couple in Paskatawan, Oklahoma. Barely a year after she was born, Felicia “grew” angel wings. Her parents called on the Pastor Lucas Roman and he told them that she was a gift from God they would have to prepare to serve Him when the time came. In the widespread, rural town, the obsessive adhering to religion and the words of their religious leaders is not only tradition, but ingrained into their community’s culture. Felicia was raised in seclusion and made to read the Bible several times a day along with her homeschooling studies to “learn the Word she was meant to teach.” This left her feeling removed from the world outside and she learned quickly that if she wanted things, she had to play the role her parents expected of her. She did not do this because she believed in God as they did, but because it was what she was told to do.
And then she learned about Supers and more doubt was sown. Her parents had spoken about the demons who were “pronouncing their sin” all over the country and she wondered if she was truly an angel and not one of “the abominations.” Around the time she turned ten years old, she discovered that her parents owned a computer which was locked in a tiny office she wasn’t meant to enter. She would sneak into this room while they were away (as the house had deadbolts on the outside she could not unlock herself to keep her from leaving when her parents were not home) and taught herself how to use it, which gave her a very different view of the outside world than she’d ever had before. Because of her parents’ behavior as she grew up, she learned how to play various roles as it suited her, being the perfect “angel” to get their attention and praise, and also to hide what her true motives were. More and more often she wanted them gone from the house so she could surf the internet and go into chatrooms by lying about her age so she could meet people. Google, AIM, and Skype became her best friends.
She still played the role her parents expected of her, but as she got to explore the outside world through the web, Felicia wanted less and less to do with the world within her own home. Pastor Roman groped her wings when she was 15, which led to her beating him unconscious and having a huge fight with her parents. During this fight she was so angry and wanted to get at them so much that her wings temporarily transformed into ones more leathery, clawed and bat-like. Her parents swore she had been possessed by the Devil and Felicia used their terror to escape and run away. It wasn’t easy as she had never used her wings to fly before, so she ended up hitchhiking much of the way north, but not all of those offering to help her were as nice as she thought they were at first. One night, out of exhaustion, she tried to land on the road where the lights were and almost got hit by a car.
The driver, Yul Walken was a nice guy, mid-20s and offered to give her a ride the rest of the way into Chicago, Illinois. She spent a week with him and he even gave her his gold credit card with a $5,000 limit and told her she could find him at DELTA. Felicia spent the next six months running up bills on his credit card and buying as much technology as she could. After that, she found the closest regional DELTA office, walked in and demanded to be allowed to see him. From that point on Felicia was a part of DELTA and she found out the truth about what else the agency was involved in. They trained her in using her abilities, studied them to try and better understand how they worked and this is how they discovered they were not real wings, but energy constructs that took on the physical form of wings.
A year later she was assigned to work on Yul’s own team, the Omega Squad, under the codename Sidhe, which was a more covert team that would investigate unusual activities and track down Supers that were considered high-risk or potential threats. Felicia was never very good at the “covert” aspect of their missions, but she always worked very well as a good diversion to what the rest of the team was doing. It was hard not to pay attention to the girl with the angel wings and her cover as a DELTA spokesperson meant most people didn’t ask questions about why she was in particular locations. There were several offers to transfer her fulltime to the Theta Squad (public relations, spokesmen, and media manipulation team), but she refused. Omega was like a new family to her and she enjoyed being with them, but really, she didn’t want to be separated from Yul who was like a surrogate big brother.
That is, until the mission where a rogue Super (William Baker) who was planning to use his powers to manipulate his way into Harvard University (he didn’t have the academic brains to get there on his own, but telepathy and mind control sure do work to a guy’s advantage), went drastically wrong. They had just intended to bring the young man in for questioning, but not knowing he was a full on telepath, the team was slowly pitted against each other in the few days they spent around him, to the point they were at each other’s throats. If it wasn’t for Yul taking an attack from Felicia, their teammate Kali would have been decapitated. Instead he was severely injured and temporarily paralyzed from the waist down and their other teammate John Archer was killed. It took Yul off the team and Felicia was on mandatory leave for two weeks while they made sure there were no lasting traces of the Rogue’s influence in her mind. During that time, she accepted the standing offer to be transferred to Theta Squad.
Her new team was less drastic and more widespread. The Theta Squad works all over the country and has alliance teams with other groups in countries across the world. She got to be in the limelight and make nice with her new teammates. She even struck up a sexual relationship with Samuel Akens, who was pretty much the poster boy sweetheart of the team, because his visual empathy was disrupted by her energy constructs and he couldn’t read her as he did everyone else. Recently they’ve been stationed in Los Angeles, California, working to promote the new Unity in Support Center opening there to promote the usefulness of Supers in society and how non-enhanced humans could relate to them.
Personality:
Felicia is not a religious person, now, but her parents were fanatics living in a rural town in Oklahoma. Religion was very strong in the tiny, spread out community. She was raised being told she was an Angel on Earth and isolated for it, to the point that now she goes out of her way to talk around any kind of philosophical or religious topics. She lost her faith and doesn’t want it back, but won’t judge others for having it…too much. Just keep it away from her and everything is good. She’s more than likely to make a joke or be dismissive of those topics and come up with something else to talk about, doing it in such a way that some find it funny, while others may feel easily ignored. She doesn’t care as long as she gets the result she wants. Even if she comes across melodramatic in the process. Given all the soap operas she watches, she would take that as a compliment.
She is someone who has learned how to read people and try to give them what they expect from her. She may not be completely sweet and innocent, but she can play the good girl who just wants everyone to get along and work together. That is the face she is expected to present for Theta Squad and she isn’t always as good as it as her handler, Agent Burgess would like, as Felicia is also someone who tries to do as many outrageously lively things as she can. Sex in the Statue of Liberty? Why not make it a threesome. Her teammate is very particular about protein smoothies in the morning? She’ll swap out their seaweed with some she picked up at the beach. She gets reprimanded in private often.
Despite being a Superhuman, Felicia did not join D.E.L.T.A. for protection or even because she wants to do the “right thing” and protect humans from dangerous Supers. None of that is really her concern. She joined because Yul Walken was one of the first people to show her that she was running away from life rather than taking control of it. In the week they spent together while he was on leave in Illinois, he taught her a lot about what it meant to be a person with free will, and she had been so sure she had proved she could be independent when she had run away from home. And so a few months later, she used the card he had given her and walked right up to one of the regional DELTA offices and demanded to speak to him and only him. That’s how she had learned to handle things. Be upfront, don’t let anyone stop her from what she wanted and be willing to do what it took to get it.
After Yul was injured and pulled from the Omega Squad, Felicia was confused and felt adrift. She didn’t know what to do with herself. She hadn’t wanted to be a fighter or a secret operations agent to begin with. So she took the transfer to Theta Squad, because he was the only reason she was there (or so she liked to convince herself). Some of the others called her a traitor and she had felt a little bad about not even telling them about her transfer until the day she left, but Felicia doesn’t hold herself back because of guilt.
She doesn’t believe in fear, either (or so she would like to think). Fear is for those who aren’t willing to take risks with their own lives and make their own destinies. The flaw in this is that she doesn’t acknowledge the things that she is truly afraid of, such as her feeling of losing people close to her and the fear of being alone. Instead she plays these off as being less than what they are. She’s not a bad person, but she knows she also isn’t a selfless person. She spent most of her life being told that she was made by God to serve him and worship him and lead others to Him, to the point that now that she is in charge of her own life, that’s her number one priority. She only takes orders from people she trusts, only gives that trust to people she thinks worth her time. For Felicia, she is Number One and nothing so far has changed that. It’s one of the reasons she enjoys playing pranks because while it shows she cares (in some twisted way) because she only pranks people she genuinely likes, it also makes her the center of their attention for some duration of time, even if it’s just because they’re annoyed with her. She’s okay with negative attention, but lack of any attention at all leaves her feeling isolated, lonely, and in need of validation.
One of the quirks she has that some people may find odd is her obsessive need to have the latest hand-held technology. The newest Android phone? She had it pre-ordered six months in advance. Fanciest looking multi-media player? Got the Beta and then upgraded when the final version came out. She owns three tablets with color-coded accessory keypads. Felicia has to stay connected. She needs access to the internet and Twitter and all the people following her blog. Internet has been important to her for so long that she doesn’t know what to do without it.
Even though she has to have access to the internet, Felicia loves talking to people face to face just as much. It’s the attention she craves, but she has to be in control of it. She doesn’t like people having the advantage in any situation. She can’t even stand people touching her wings. It makes her feel like they are touching something deep inside her and she is more than likely to punch someone rather than just telling them to let go. Yul is one of the only people who gets away with it without bodily harm because he feels comfortable and safe. But other than that she is fairly affectionate and doesn’t mind hugging and kissing people, even just for the hell of it, as long as she is the one taking the lead. Flirting is a game to her and it’s only fun if everyone wins.
Abilities/Powers:
Felicia’s wings are not real wings, though they do allow her flight capabilities. They are excess energy her body releases that take the construct form of angelic wings. That is why she is capable of using the energy in the wings and firing the feathers like projectiles. It is also why she can fly using them despite her muscles and skeletal structure not being strong enough to maintain flight on their own. The form of the energy is controlled by her mental state, but due to her upbringing they remain looking like angel wings. The most she has been able to do with them is flatten them against her back when she wears long coats so they don’t appear as noticeable.
She has not yet been able to intentionally alter their form beyond that, but it is something she is currently working on. So far she has managed to alter the color of the feathers. The energy in these wings has the ability to cut through steel and even rock, but only to a certain depth, and can also be used like miniature explosives. The energy regenerates after 10 minutes or so and the wings “grow” back. If she uses too much energy, the wings can become more intangible, transparent, and she needs to consume more calories and protein to build her energy back up. The wings feel to others in whatever way they feel to Felicia herself, and so the feathers feel like real feathers while the bones feel strangely fragile for being so large, but do not break no matter the pressure put on them. Because it is her own body’s energy, when someone is touching her wings, she is able to sense their intent and emotional state. It makes it very uncomfortable for her, to the point she hates it when most people touch them.
Items/Weapons: Her cellphone. She’ll want it even she can’t use it to call anyone.
Sample Entry:
[If there was one thing Felicia didn’t appreciate, it was ending up in a place with no running water and then ended up covered in dirt. The silence was totally creepy, but she’s dealt with worse. She cannot deal with the filth in her hair and a broken heel on her pumps from tripping down less than perfect stairs while trying to find a clue about where she is.]
Okay, for future reference? It’s not polite to teleport people without their consent. And maybe you leave a note about those steps. [She brushes some twigs out of her hair.] What is up with this phone? I’m sorry 2005, but you can have this back because I think this poor thing is ready to retire. Now I’d love to know how I got here and the quickest exit back to L.A. Or the nearest wifi hotspot. Maybe the hotspot first. Please?
Sample Entry Two:
They were sitting in the green room, waiting for the light that would signal their turn on the stage and Felicia was bored out of her mind. She enjoyed talk shows enough, especially when she got to be on them, but the wait? Why the hell couldn’t they just skip waiting and edit out whatever they didn’t want to show up on the broadcast? It’s not like they couldn’t do it. She could edit video with her phone, she figures that a studio has more than enough technology to handle that. Live broadcasts were not as much fun in her opinion. Too many chances for mistakes and Molly saying things that shouldn’t be said in front of cameras for Felicia to see why they bother with them.
But whatever, it’s just her and Mr. Perfect so it’s not like they have to worry about a lot of mistakes in the cards. It shouldn’t be much longer now right? She turns her eyes back down to her phone, typing in a smiley into the text box she has open and then sending the message. It’s less than five seconds later when she hears the always amusing sound of the Star Wars theme song beaming from the phone across the table from her. Sam pulls his simple little touch-screen out of his pocket.
“Who could be messaging me right now?” He’s talking quietly, as he always does, but that little crinkle between his eyes shows up just as soon he undoubtedly sees the sender. He glances up to her briefly and then rolls his eyes before giving into the distraction and typing something back.
Her phone vibrates—because unlike Indy she actually does that—and she snickers a bit at the response he gave her.
;-) is not a conversation starter. Not even a word. And you can talk to me in person.
Why does he have to use capitalization and punctuation? So boring. She responds back.
maybe i don’t want some1 to hear why i want 2 say.
Was that a blush on his cheeks? Sam could be too easy, but he didn’t seem like he was shutting her down, so maybe he was curious enough to keep going. He may not be able to read her like he could read others, but Felicia didn’t think she was a hard person to get to know. She didn’t believe in fake attitudes or overcompensating. She was who she was. Most of the time, he seemed to like it.
Then it’s something that can wait until after the show.
She rolls her eyes because he really can be too predictable.
but ive been thinking about it for a while. how big it was. hot easy to get my mouth around and im usually really good at swallowing.
And he jerks his head up to look at her like she’s completely lost her mind and Felicia almost laughs out loud, but if he hasn’t spoken, she isn’t going to either. One of them had to give in first and it wouldn’t be her.
so thick. had to use both hands to hold it. couldn’t squeeze too hard either. made too much of a mess that way.
And maybe that was going too far because Sam drops his phone as soon as he read the text and she burst out laughing, hand covering her mouth but by no means quiet. Just then the door opened and a young intern stepped in, asking if they needed anything. Sam looks mortified, looking at her and then at the intern, who was more than confused. Felicia just waved a hand at her dismissively, completely nonplussed.
“We’re good,” she assures her when Sam doesn’t respond. “But get me another of those giant éclairs. With the cream not the custard. They’re delicious.” The look Sam sends her makes her start snickering all over again.