·Faction: Villain
·Super Name: Graviteen
·Real Name: Cecilia Maria Townsend
·Base Of Operations: Gothic City
·Age: 17
·Gender: Female
·Height: 5'5" (168 cm)
·Weight: 132 lbs. (60 kg)
·Physique: Slightly athletic
·Eye Colour: Brown
·Hair Colour: Brown-red
·Identity: Secret
·Date Of Birth: July 4th 1996
·Place Of Birth: Gothic City
·Origin Of Powers: Scientific accident
·Known Aliases: Cess, Zero G-irl, Gravilina, Gravitas, Gravity Girl, GG, Forcey, Awesome Queen Of Gravity
·Group Affiliation: Currently none
·Avatar Appearance: Old Arana
·Did You Know?: Graviteen’s father is the villain known as Professor Superior
·Battle Cry: "You are KIDDING me!?!"
GRID POINTS:
Agility: 3
Durability: 2
Energy Projection: 2
Fighting Ability: 3
Intelligence: 2
Mental Power: 3
Speed: 2
Stamina: 3
Strength: 2
BIO
Life is not easy growin’ up bein’ the kid of a super villain, ya know? Never knew where Mom went but she could probably not bear it anymore. To others Dad always claimed he had killed and buried her somewhere. I don’t believe it. He couldn’t have hurt a fly. But perhaps he had once in his life been menacing enough to convince her to let me live with him. They say there’s a wonder in every century.
When I was still little Dad would tell me bedtime stories about how the genius Professor Superior outwitted dumb muscle bags like Dark Vengeance and other brutes. I sat there in my little bed and adored him with big brown eyes knowing fully well that this were real stories about my daddy and how her heroically brought food on our table.
Couldn’t last forever I guess.
In fact it only lasted till elementary school. Do you remember that year? Yeah, I entered elementary school the same year the Dark Vengeance cartoon show went on air. It became an instant classic of my generation. Every Saturday morning every kid was glued to the TV for 20 minutes when the cartoon version of Dark Vengeance brought justice to Gothic City. No wonder I wasn’t allowed to watch it and became an outsider every Monday morning when the new episode was the raging topic number one on the school yard.
You know how kids are. Eventually I found a way to watch it and my whole world was shattered! Dark Vengeance was not a brute in this series as he was supposed to be and they claimed he was the best detective in all the world! No! No way! This was not what my dad had told me! Disgusted and upset I turned the TV off and swore never to watch that filthy piece of propaganda again. Of course this was hard because the show was so immensely popular but I simply refused to talk about it whenever the topic came up.
Then came the second season… They introduced whole bunch of new villains. Enigma, The Kidder, Dire Frost, Jetstream, Fire Demon, Human Monolith, The Commander, Astral Claw, Mantis, Fatal Rose, Poisoned Needle, Actor, Veraxxx, Emperor Processor, Robokill, Dementor, Monochrome… The names knew no end. Neither did my enthusiasm.
I mean I actually knew some of them. Monochrome’s daughter was my best friend I regularly played with. Jetstream, Human Monotlith, Emperor Processor and Robokill came over once a month to have a poker game with Dad and he had dated Veraxxx on a single occasion I think. I would have liked it better if he had asked Fatal Rose because she was SO FRIGGIN BEAUTIFUL but somehow his luck only sufficed for Veraxxx.
There was one thing though that excited me more than all these names together: Professor Superior! Yes, my daddy would finally be part of the show that everyone loved. Finally things would be set right. He would heroically show up and end the lies, would set things straight and reveal this Dark Vengeance for the jerk he was. Yeah, my daddy would come and correct this error. Remind you, I was only seven.
With all the energy I could muster I arranged to stay over night at a friend’s house when the episode was set to air. Everything was so perfect. Like in some bad sitcom. The TV, milk and cookies, us and the show on Saturday morning. I was electrified the moment the intro started. Finally!
And then my little toddler hopes were crushed. Professor Superior was an idiotic, goofy, third string punching bag who managed to knock himself out with one of his inventions three seconds after he had appeared on screen. The main villain was Mantis, a lethal martial artist who had always been a jerk toward my father, who even had the nerve to shake his head and facepalm at my cartoon-father.
I was in shock. Like paralyzed I watched the episode not able to say a single thing. I mean how could they dare to do that to my super-smart father who had a degree in Physics AND Quantum Physics? When it was finally over I darted up, out of the door and sprinted the two streets over to our house in my little pajamas. Crying I hurled myself into Dad’s arms. He sighed, held me and stroked my hair till I stopped sobbing. Then he sighed again and said those six words that I will forever remember.
“Darling… I gotta show you something.”
Slowly, almost in bullet time, he walked over to the old closet in our living room that had always been locked. There he got an old folder, sat down on our dining table with an expression I had never seen on him before and waved me over. Insecure and silent I crawled on his lap and watched him turn the fateful pages.
Newspaper articles. Dozens of them. All relating to Professor Superior.
“New villain in Gothic City: Professor Superior – Turns out to be an utter joke!”
“Another plan of Professor Superior foiled by Dark Vengeance!”
“Professor Superior arrested by GCPD – Dark vengeance: I was not even needed here!”
“Professor Superior turned in by Mantis after failed super villain team up!”
“Another invention of Professor Superior blows up!”
“Professor Superior robs the wrong transport!”
My Dad’s shame spread over seemingly endless pages. And when he finally closed the paper folder tears glistened in both our eyes. To me it was finally clear: My dad, my hero, had lied all the time! He was not more than that as what he had been portrayed in the show: A terrible fumbler, simply a bungler, the lowest tier of the super villain community possible. Even his poker buddies only came over because he was so easy to beat. The little comfort we enjoyed in every day life stemmed from his few successful jobs. He did not even have those degrees, he was an university dropout!
Now that my illusions were shattered my eyes were somehow opened for the world. Nearly every week there was another report in the news about another unsuccessful coup of my Dad. He maybe landed a successful one every two months or so. I tell ya, I was so happy my friends did not know who my dad was.
So I grew up, avoided Dark Vengeance and every other distantly related topic as good as I could pretending not to know what a sucker my dad was. It was not easy, that much I can tell you. One of the highlights was when Dark Vengeance showed up during our breakfast to cash my Dad in for some semi-elaborated counterfeit plot.
Now I am 17. Life is hard enough being a teenage girl of that age but recently my dad got caught by Quickster. I mean: QUICKSTER! Okay, he’s kinda cute but… Quickster!!! He’s like the BABY of the Gothic City super heroes. I thought he could not sink any deeper.
And then Honor Girl showed up. It was like her third mission and she still caught him with minimal work. I remember how I sat on the couch in the cold light of the TV and tried to hide under a blanket while Dad was publically declassed by a girl of my age in the 6 pm news.
At least my personal life is okay. I’m in my senior year in high school, I’m in the gymnast class, have a lot of friends and I’m not ugly, too. There is this guy, we’re kinda best friends since a few years and once I thought I did… well… like him… more than just as… a friend… you know? We would hang out together all day at school, talk, laugh, share secrets and stuff. But he always told me he had one secret he could not share with me. Share a secret? Guess after I all I was not more than a friend to him. Life sucks. Love life sucks even more.
In the end he had better kept that damn secret to himself! Of course he could not keep that last, final secret.
One evening while I was busy with homework (math yuck!) I heard a strange sound. I followed it to my window and noticed someone wasthrowing tiny stones against it. And there, in our garden stood this one, special guy! Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh goooooood! What was I about to do? Open the window? Yeah, that was an idea! Something to start with. The window was barely open when he already began to speak.
"Hey, Cess? Remember that secret I blabbered about but then didn't tell you, when you got all upset? Well, I did some thinkin'. You are kinda like my friend and all. Well, more than kinda. Definitely my friend. Good friend. Real good, maybe best even. I don't really have other friends so it's not much competition. But anyway! I figure I could probably trust telling you this secret of mine....Well I'll show you!"
All I witnessed after that was a little yellow tornado that stirred up the fallen leaves from our old maple tree. And suddenly there stood… Quickster! I couldn’t believe my eyes! The guy that I liked, more than liked, for several months now was actually the same guy that I considered to be responsible for one of the lowest points of Dad’s life! Fate had to be kidding!!! I don’t know what the look on my face was when I hastily closed the window with a loud bang, surprise, fear, maybe shock, but I could very well read the expression on his face. He was hurt. And concerned. The next moment he was already a thin yellow line dashing down the road.
I sat down on my bed, pulled my knees close to my body and began to weep. Why was life so unfair? Why had it always to be me? Why? Why? Why? Did I not deserve a single bit of luck? I never had one to look up to and now the person I had looked up to turned out to be my worst nightmare. Why? Why always me?
A malicious thought entered my mind. Dad! It was all Dad’s fault! If he had not been a wannabe super villain, or if he had been at least a real super villain, this all would not be a problem by now! Why did I have to suffer for his incompetence? It was time to tell him that, to unload all my rage on him and tell him that he had ruined his daughter’s life.
My steps thundered down the stairs full of anger as I rushed towards his makeshift laboratory in the basement where he had buried himself the last few days to “work on a special project” once more. Only another destined fail that would lead to more fail.
Angry, full of hard words I wanted to yell at him I slammed the door open. Dad turned around in shock, the machine he just worked on glowed in a menacing red light. His lips changed to form a warning but then it was already too late. The next moment everything went red.
When I came to my senses again the first thing I noticed was my father looking at me with a concerned face. He spoke a lot of words to me but I couldn’t understand them yet, they made no sense to me. What had happened? And why was I floating almost a meter above the floor? Wait? Floating? A meter? F…
Something had changed. Something had really changed. What or if to the better or the worse I cannot say right now. Simply that it has changed…
Powers:
Tactile Gravitokinesis – The failed experiment of her father changed Cecilia’s molecules insofar that she is now able to manipulate the gravimetric field of pretty much everything she touches. She can inverse the way gravity works on herself, objects or others into any direction (so she could make the gravitational force go from up to down or from left to right), enhance or reduce it. She has to establish contact to have influence over it, it does not work over a distance though she can keep it up after she broke the contact. So far she has developed following useful creative applications:
-Super Strength: Completely negating the effect of gravity her lifting capability is almost unlimited. She still has to figure out how to apply this affect to her punching strength.
-Flight: By negating gravity on herself she is able to fly at subsonic speeds.
-Superspeed: When she reduces the gravitational pull on herself she can run with 100 mp/h for short bursts. This is rather limited by her own stamina and the effect of friction on her than everything else.
-Repelling Attacks: Inversing the gravity on herself and the attacker at the same time she is able to repel the force of attacks. This needs a lot of timing and good luck since she can only work this miracle in the moment of direct contact before the force is transferred so it works only in the most fortunate cases and not on energy attacks.
Weaknesses:
Normal Human: Although she has powers Cecilia is still a normal human without enhanced strength, durability or stamina which means she can be shot, stabbed, bleed to death, needs water, food and oxygen like any normal human. She is also not used to telepathy meaning her mind is pretty much an open book for anyone with this power.
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