<div class="floatleft">(http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s449/tracyfreegirl/Cadre%20of%20Guardians/Copycat_zpsponqrgbi.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Copycat</strong></span><br/><em>Mimic (Genetically engineered alien weapon inhabited by the mind of a 22-year-old college student</em><br/><strong>Player:</strong>tracyfreegirl<br/><strong>Secret Identity:</strong>Nyssa Katina (secret)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>22<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5' 4"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>110 lbs<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Description</strong></span><br/>Copycat is a human merged with the body of an extradimensional being that has simulated the appearance of her deceased best friend. Her alien body was a weapon, designed to mimic beings it encounters, but she has either lost or is unable to access the shapeshifting abilities of her alien body. The only power she retains is her ability to copy powers from others. She can mimic the power of a single individual upon touching them. The power lasts until she replaces it with another power, or decides she no longer wants to keep the power. Along with the power she copies, she generally gets any associated weaknesses, and sometimes picks up personality traits or strange interests and hobbies from her subjects.<br/><br/>As the body was designed to fight, she retains its skills as a fighter, though they are more combat reflexes than anything of which she is consciously aware. Her memory is phenomenal, and she sometimes retains skills and knowledge from those she mimics. Part of the alien design was to assimilate information about its surroundings, and that seems to have bled over into her personality; she is highly interested and knowledgeable in current events and pop culture.<br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Stats</strong></span><br/><strong>Group Affiliation:</strong> Cadre of Guardians<br/><strong>Base of Operations:</strong> Overwatch<br/><strong>Power Level:</strong> 10<br/><strong>Power Point Totals:</strong> Abilities: 32, + Powers: 80, + Advantages: 8, + Skills: 10, + Defenses: 20 = Total: 150<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Abilities</strong></span><br/><strong>Strength:</strong> 1, <strong>Agility:</strong> 1, <strong>Fighting:</strong> 8, <strong>Awareness:</strong> 2<br/><strong>Stamina:</strong> 1, <strong>Dexterity:</strong> 1, <strong>Intellect:</strong> 1, <strong>Presence:</strong> 1<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Defense</strong></span><br/><strong>Dodge:</strong> +5 (6), <strong>Parry:</strong> +5 (13), <strong>Fortitude:</strong> +5 (6)<br/><strong>Toughness:</strong> 0 (1), <strong>Will:</strong> +5 (7)<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Offense</strong></span><br/><strong>Initiative:</strong> 5<br/><strong>Unarmed Attack:</strong> +8, Damage 1<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Powers</strong></span><br/><strong>Power Duplication:</strong> Variable 10 (50 points for duplicating one target's powers), Continuous<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Advantages</strong></span><br/><strong>Very Attractive:</strong> +5 deception &amp; persuasion checks to deceive, seduce, or change attitude of anyone who finds looks appealing<br/><strong>Improved Initiative:</strong> +4 to initiative checks<br/><strong>Uncanny Dodge:</strong> not vulnerable when surprised or caught off-guard<br/><strong>Assessment:</strong> use Insight Skill to learn an opponents combat capabilities<br/><strong>Skill Mastery (Insight):</strong> Make routine checks with one skill under any condition.<br/><strong>Eidetic Memory:</strong> Total Recall, +5 circumstance bonus to remember things, including resistance checks against effects that alter or erase memories. Can make Expertise skill checks to answer questions and provide information as if trained; can answer questions involving difficult or obscure knowledge even without ranks in the skill due to the sheer amount of trivia picked up.<br/><strong>Jack-of-all-Trades:</strong> Use any skill untrained, even skills or aspects of skills that normally cannot be used untrained, but still must have any required tools.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Complications</strong></span><br/><strong>Motivation:</strong> Acceptance (Nyssa was never a pretty or popular girl, and she loves the attention she's getting in her amazing new body. <br/><strong>Weakness:</strong> One of the drawbacks of this adaptive body is that when acquiring the power of her target, she sometimes also acquires their weaknesses, as well. Sometimes one lasts longer than the other.<br/><strong>Quirk:</strong> Sometimes Nyssa absorbs more than just the powers of her subject, and finds herself drawn to strange hobbies and interests she picked up from someone she copied. On occasion, she has even displayed personality traits of her subjects. So far it has been merely strange and always fairly brief, but there is always the possibility that she may one day be overwhelmed, making her act like her subject.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Skills</strong></span><br/>Acrobatics 6<br/>Athletics 4<br/>Expertise: Current Events 4<br/>Expertise: Popular Culture 4<br/>Insight 4<br/><br/><em>*11 May 2015 - edit: removed 2 levels of Athletics skill, added Very Attractive advantage which had been in my notes but I somehow overlooked*</em><br/></div></div><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Background</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Background</strong></span><br/>Nyssa was a plain girl of average intelligence, but a gifted telepath. Growing up, she couldn't help but read the minds of those around her, and the idle thoughts and petty judgments of her friends caused her to develop a self-confidence issue. She could hear the guys all thinking about how gorgeous her best friend Jenny was, imagining her naked, or worse still, doing disgusting things with them naked. She could hear Jenny's thoughts abut Kim's cute outfits, or Julie's lovely shoes, but never anything so flattering when she saw Nyssa. She came to believe that she was nothing special, and that boys would never be interested in her, and to wish over and over that she were Jenny instead of boring, plain Nyssa.<br/><br/>Her telepathy made it hard to make and keep friends, but she did find a few who didn't seem to judge her. Oddly enough Jenny was among them; it seemed the most beautiful girl in school was also fairly easy to block out. Nyssa found that she could spend time with Jenny without reading her thoughts, something she found difficult with others. They became the best of friends, and even decided to go to the same college. Tragedy struck on Jenny's nineteenth birthday; the car she was riding in was struck by a drunk driver and she was killed instantly. Nyssa was devastated, but after months of grieving, finally found the strength to move on with her life.<br/><br/>She never revealed her powers to her friends, but at the end of her sophomore year at college, she was discovered by another telepath, Rose McEwan, the retired former superhero <em>Psyche</em>. Rose was a professor at the college, and also contracted her powers out to a corporation (possibly Dark Water Industries?). Sensing her potential, she took young Nyssa under her wing (and collected a large finders fee from the company.)<br/><br/>Nyssa let the company test and catalog her abilities, and finally was tapped for a new project. The company had discovered a method to access other dimensions, and had begun opening portals to multiple dimensions. After an incident caused the deaths of most of the researchers, the company began to use a combination of technology, telepathy, and magic to probe the new dimensions before sending risking the lives of their people.<br/><br/>Nyssa searched for sentience telepathically in the other dimensions they had accessed during their experiments. For weeks on end she found nothing. But then one day there was something there, a mind, a presence. The being she discovered was curious, inquisitive, and unknown to her, had been specifically designed to mimic, slay, and replace anything it contacted.<br/><br/>The telepathic link allowed it access to her mind, and it took the form it saw there, Nyssa's ideal form, the way she always wished she looked: the image of her best friend Jenny, and begged for help. Nyssa could sense the alien mind, knew it wasn't human, but she saw Jenny, and Jenny needed help. She couldn't just leave her there, in that alien dimension. Maybe Jenny had fought her way back from some sort of afterlife and was trying to tell her something. She had to know, she had to do something. <br/><br/>That something was to let it in; a choice she couldn't make on her own. She reached out telepathically, and for the first time since she was a small child tried to control another mind. Panic and hope at seeing her friend again made her strong, and she forced the technician to open the portal wider, wider, let Jenny through! Then everything happened at once.<br/><br/>The Jenny creature lunged into our world, but was caught in the containment field. Nyssa reached out to help Jenny, and the rest of the technical crew caught on to what was happening and tried to shut everything down with the kill switch. It was too late. Nyssa lashed out, the psychic attack holding the techs just long enough for her to reach out at touch Jenny before they shut everything down. the backlash of the portal closing so suddenly created a vacuum with Nyssa and the Jenny creature stuck in the middle, caught between worlds. One of the technicians tried to save her and opened the portal back up, but another panicked and closed it again. The flux between two dimensions reversed the vacuum, and everything exploded.<br/><br/><br/>Nyssa awoke in a hospital bed. Her body felt wrong, she couldn't concentrate, couldn't think, everything was foggy, there were no thoughts but her own. She couldn't hear them anymore, she was alone in her mind. When she headed to the bathroom, she caught her reflection in the mirror, and she gasped. She was no longer Nyssa. She had been replaced by a beautiful woman with a perfect body, the mirror image of her best friend Jenny, the most beautiful woman she had ever known. <br/><br/>Slowly, step by step, her mind recreated the events of the incident. The portal was not designed to transport anything, just access the other dimension, but somehow Jenny had come through, or the thing that looked like Jenny. They had touched as the portal was closing and reopening, pulling them both back and forth in the energy fluctuations and somehow, they had become one. They had merged. She remembered a struggle, a battle for dominance. Her mind had been stronger; she must have won the fight. But what had happened to her body? The other worldly Jenny must have been the stronger of the two bodies, and therefor remained.<br/><br/>She was now considered an asset to the company who wanted to dissect her new body to discover its secrets, but her mentor Rose helped her escape. Tactical teams were dispatched to stop them, and when their hopes of escape seemed impossible, Rose sacrificed herself so Nyssa could escape. <br/><br/>Alone, with no money, no family that would recognize her, no identity other than that of a dead girl, Nyssa lived on the streets for several days. On her third and hungriest day, she was attacked and nearly raped, saved at the last minute by (insert member of the Cadre here). When (hero) helped her up, her powers kicked in, and she copied (hero)'s powers. Seeing her abilities, she was invited to come back to Overwatch for observation, and eventually given a place on the team.</div></div>