<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/54/Hellion-small.jpg)</td><td><strong>Code Name:</strong> Hellion<br/><strong>Group Affiliation:</strong> None<br/><strong>Current Base of Operations: </strong>New York City<br/><br/><strong>Real Name:</strong> Felicity Keene<br/><strong>DOB:</strong> 3/22/1953<br/><strong>Place of Birth:</strong> Albany, NY<br/><strong>Martial Status:</strong> Single<br/><strong>Known Relatives:</strong> Felicity Keene is the niece of US Senator John Keene.  Her public persona, Victoria Barrowe, has no known relatives.<br/><strong>Extent of Education:</strong> BS: Anthropology, Psychology- Columbia<br/><strong>Religion:</strong> Lutheran</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>Aliases:</strong>Rada Baikov, Viktoriya Drygin, Linda Sarver.<br/><strong>Alias Legal Status:</strong>Baikov, Drygin, etc. do not exist in public record.  Fingerprints read to Interpol as Linda Sarver, wanted for smuggling, forgery, assault, larceny, kidnapping.  CIA reads as a "blackball", KGB as equivalent-- render inoperable on contact.<br/><br/><strong>Bio:</strong>The Keene family is widely touted by conservatives as among the nation's most respected, particularly because Sen. Keene is considered responsible for some of the most influential legislation to have been produced in this half of the 20th century.  However, Felicity was raised beyond that facade of glamorous appearances and rigorous morality in the pit of her family's secret corruption.<br/><br/>Their upstate NY manor home was the scene of years of ritualized abuse and careful psychological manipulation; as a female, she was expected to have no significant bearing on the family's future except as bridal link to some advantageous political ally or as a positive publicity stunt, and her value at that seemed to tarnish year-by-year after numerous acts of rebellion she mounted during her teenage years. She transferred between private schools stateside and abroad, only making the occasional Valium-subdued public appearance with her family as if she were a doll to be dressed and paraded out until, almost by some miracle, she started to gradually 'play along', and the violence, promiscuity, and nonconformity began to abate around her sixteenth birthday.<br/><br/>She managed to graduate with high honors-- a feat partially due to her family's influence, but primarily based on her own intelligence.  After studying for three years at Columbia, she joined the military and specialized in intelligence with counter-Soviet focus.  She was recruited to the ranks of the CIA at the comparably young age of 25.  Keene used her family's profound political influence to her advantage as a government intelligence operative, and gradually used blackmail to coerce her uncle's allies in the ranks into providing her espionage opportunities.<br/><br/>This proved to be a nightmare for the CIA; they learned that the psych profile they'd built on Keene was unreliable-- she'd sold them on a false psyche, and they lost track of the agent completely somewhere in Moscow in 1978, only to learn that she'd supposedly defected.  In 1981, the KGB lost track of her as well; she did not re-emerge, and both sides quietly claimed to have 'rectified the situation'.  Truthfully, however, neither side had any clue what had become of her.<br/><br/>In 1983, she returned to New York to set up a new identity, having undergone some basic surgical procedures in Switzerland in order to alter her appearance; it was clear to her that nothing could be changed between these two countries, and that helping one or the other would be simply throwing a match on a bonfire.  She is through with being a tool, a doll, a bartering chip, a weapon... no, she'd be what she used to dream about at night, the thing she imagined she'd seen among the shadows of branches through the windowpane by moonlight, those specter shapes dancing just past her uncle's shoulder on the ceiling... she would be a force of vengeance, a ghost, a monster.<br/><br/><strong>Secret Identity: </strong>Victoria Barrowe<br/><strong>Occupation: </strong>Real Estate/Club Owner<br/><strong>Legal Status: </strong>Clean Record, US citizen, NYDMV licensed operator.<br/><br/><strong>Known Abilities/Skills:</strong>Covert entry, stealth.  Firearms- advanced.  Sabotage.  Technology (PC).  Russian culture and languages.<br/><strong>Fitness:  </strong>Exceptional.<br/><strong>Martial Arts:  </strong>Field training provided by CIA includes Jujitsu and Akido.  Spetznaz specialized training in hand-to-hand, armed lethal combat.<br/><br/><strong>Particularities, Limitations, and Weaknesses:  </strong>Like most costumed heroes, "Hellion" is a human being with no meta-human abilities.  Since having abandoned the constraints of her family and career, she's been able to face more the repressed traumas of her childhood and is considerably unstable emotionally in regards to the suffering of those with whom she can identify-- victims, particularly young women or children.  When in an emotionally agitated state, self-control and self-preservation become more difficult to control.<br/><br/><strong>Equipment, Weapons and Paraphernalia:  </strong>Hellion's costume is composed of experimental materials she managed to extradite from the USSR.  Highly resistant to harm, the material is a low-sheen, high-density oriented-fiber polymer that resembles Mylar but can be form-fit by heating and rapid cooling to set the fiber 'memory' to fit an individual.  While not as resilient as full body armor, it allows her a full range of motion without being conspicuous.  She wears articulated, reinforced gloves with hooked steel fingertips she doubles as climbing tools or weapons.  Under a black trenchcoat she carries a range of handy devices... a set of lockpicks, a tube of superglue, a zippo lighter, a few epinephrine pens (one loaded with morphine), a roll of gauze, and a roll of high-tension "100 mile-an-hour' tape (duct tape's evil twin).<br/><br/><strong>Physical Information:</strong><br/><strong>Ethnic Group: </strong>Western European descent<br/><strong>Gender: </strong>Female<br/><strong>Sexual Orientation: </strong>Bisexual<br/><strong>Age: </strong>32<br/><strong>Height: </strong>5'4"<br/><strong>Weight: </strong>120 lbs.<br/><strong>Hair: </strong>Black, shoulder-length<br/><strong>Eye: </strong>Blue<br/><strong>Distinguishing Characteristics:</strong>She has a couple of scars that, while she has an alibi for each one, look suspiciously like the kind of injuries one might sustain in combat.  She has single-pierced ears, some minor dental work, and the almost unnoticeable scars of facial surgery.<br/><strong>Physical Appearance:</strong>"Victoria" has a lithe, supple form, large, slightly uptilted eyes, and full lips that give her an Eastern European look.<br/><strong>Costume Description:</strong>The sleek polymer fits like latex, but doesn't bunch when she flexes.  It fits from her jawline to her toes, affording little modesty despite the thoroughness of its coverage, and is fastened and loosened with a set of zippers at the base of her head and at the thighs.  For a mask, she carries a pair of goggles, but usually sticks with a neck-and-lower-face mask painted in the depiction of a grinning skull.  (see example: I'm not about to hotlink this.  http://www.cyclegear.com/images/streetapparel/wickedwear_halfmask_skull_LG.jpg (http://www.cyclegear.com/images/streetapparel/wickedwear_halfmask_skull_LG.jpg))<br/><br/><strong>Reputation: </strong><br/>She's an iconoclast trying very hard not to slip into utter nihilism, she's dedicated to the fighting impossible battles against corruption in government and society.  The trick is, however corrupt or perverse her targets might be, some aspects of her fragile psyche may be more corrupt and more perverse.  She's so desperate to protect the 'innoccent' of the world that she's violent, deceptive, condemning and at times even diabolical.<br/><br/>A damning news headline labeled this reckless, violent vigilante a "Hellion"-- a name that was embraced by the vigilante with glee.  She revels in not being accepted by society and in breaking the law to protect those whom the law fails.  Despite her frequent run-ins with 'The Topknots,' she's quietly regarded as a type of folk-hero among non-organized criminals and and apocalyptic, nihilistic punks of the 1985 counter-cultures.  In that way, at least, she's galvanizing social dissidents against the outright anarchism of the gangs, though she's doing little to bolster faith in the establishment.<br/><br/>She operates based on stealth and surprise, and her methodology and purpose are frequently compared by journalists to the infamous Rorschach.  In truth, she lacks his experience and his single-minded code, though his moral relativism is one area that would easily unite these two for a common goal, even if one would never openly assent to work with the other.  And since her appearance in the news is fairly recent, most of the other heroes would doubt her longevity.  Still, there's something alluring about the raven-haired girl running the streets every night, fleeing policy and breaking the bodies and spirits of the violent animals that prey on the innocent.<br/><br/><strong>Public Face: </strong><br/><strong>Normal Attire:</strong>"Victoria" dresses in business-class attire toned down with a tinge of urban cool... as a club owner, she's expected to be professional but not square.  She tends to wear antique jewelry, paints her eyes, works in some varieties of hairstyle-- typically high-class hairpieces, as part of her disguise.<br/><strong>Known Facts: </strong>Victoria Barrowe runs a dance club downtown, donates to art shows and fundraisers, and has even achieved a small degree of recognition in some circles.<br/>