Menagerie

Menagerie
Player: @jhuno
Menagerie, wearing her casual outfit.
Biographical Data
Real Name:	Candice Rose Alexandra
Known Aliases:	Yuki Hayashiro
Gender:	Female
Species:	Human
Ethnicity:	Caucasian
Place of Birth:	Tallahassee, Florida
Base of Operations:	Soti's Island, Atlantic Ocean
Relatives:	Father: Deceased, [Name Redacted], Mother: Deceased, [Name Redacted]
Characteristics
Age:	43
Height:	5'6"
Weight:	175
Eyes:	Blue
Hair:	Blonde
Complexion:	Fair
Physical Build:	Average
Physical Features:	None
Status
Fame:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Global
Alignment:	LG LN LE NG TN NE CG CN CE
Identity:	Publicized
Years Active:	3
Citizenship:	North America
Occupation:	Comic Artist/Writer
Education:	K-12
Marital Status:	In a relationship
Known Powers and Abilities
False Protopathy/Telekinetic Constructs
Equipment and Paraphernalia
Kevlar vest, "Kitsune" enchanted polearm with interchangeable heads, "Airtaser" electricity projector

Physical Attributes
	Strength			Weapon
	Durability			Armor
	Speed			Reflexes
	Resistance			Stamina
	Dexterity			Agility
	Combat			Regeneration

Non-Physical Attributes
	Energy			Psionics
	Telepathy			Willpower
	Sorcery			Technology
	Intelligence			Knowledge
	Charisma			Bravery
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History

Menagerie has done a little bit of everything, and filled nearly any role that one can think of. From victim to savior, slave to deity, recluse to social butterfly. This information is indeed usable in an IC context, though it's not completely accurate.

Childhood

Menagerie does not like to talk about her childhood very much, and with good reason. Born as part of a eugenics experiment run by VIPER in the sixties, she was kept "pure" and isolated from any and all contact with anyone but her handlers, in order to keep her emotionally stunted and docile. On her tenth birthday, once her brain chemistry had somewhat stabilized, it was time to fit her with the technology that would keep her psionic abilities in check. However, something went wrong and the head surgeon - a protopath by the codename of Flux - experienced a grand mal seizure, which disrupted his powers and teleported the young Menagerie to the nearby city of Tallahassee, Florida. While subtle attempts were made to recover the child, nothing ever came of them and Tallahassee Nest was eventually dismantled on June 3rd, 1983 after Flux underwent a second seizure during an assault, which resulted in the death of him and the vast majority of the soldiers within - VIPER, UNTIL, and PRIMUS alike.

((OOC note: While eugenics were involved, Flux was intending to create an emotionless, aimless protopathic slave for himself in order to overthrow VIPER's leadership. Naturally, only a select few would know this bit. Menagerie actually rescued herself - or rather, an older version of herself did with the help of a time traveler.))

Eventually, Menagerie was adopted by [Name Redacted], who named her Candice Rose Alexandra, since he liked it better than Jane Doe. Candice quickly caught her education up to the rest of her agegroup thanks to a short-term version of the Supergenius gene which eventually fizzled out. However, the drastic reduction in learning speed went on to awaken [Name Redacted]'s abusive nature, which started slowly at first - mostly just verbal berating - before become more intense and varied, spurred on by Candice's emotionless demeanor. This abuse would last until [Name Redacted]'s death on New Year's Eve, 1987/88, when Detective Marshall Williams caught him in the act after responding to a noise complaint.

((OOC note: Detective Williams was Menagerie's first tulpa, created in a panic after her adoptive father nearly beat her to death in a drunken rage. Again, esoteric knowledge.))

However, Menagerie's life wasn't all grimdark terror and pain. Between 1984 and that fateful night in 1988, Candice was engaged in a sort of youthful romance with fellow student Ariel Williams who harbored romantic, unrequited feelings for her. While Menagerie is unable to remember the specifics of the relationship, she does credit Ariel with being the reason her life turned out as well as it did.

((OOC note: Ariel and Candice's "relationship" was actually more than just a bit on the skeevy side. Ariel used the pretext of figure drawing as an excuse to tempt her, and eventually stepped up to requesting a more physical "reward", which Candice eventually agreed to. They were once caught in 1986, which caused a minor scandal in Tallahassee that was quickly resolved and forgotten about. Eventually, Ariel and Marshall Williams married and moved to Vibora to raise a child together.))

Recovery

Following the death of [Name Redacted], piled on top of everything else she had been through, she decided to check herself into an insane asylum. Legacies from her childhood manifested as a phobia to being viewed as physically attractive, an instantly-violent reaction to being touched, and that complete lack of emotion from her creation. These combined and led to a number of altercations with fellow inmates, which invariably ended with bloodshed after Candice somehow got her hands on a sharp object - actually manifestations of her creation power. She was shuffled around the country, eventually being settled in Detroit after the local asylum had anti-psionic fields put in place, which spelled an end to Candice's shanking days. After being forced to confront her neuroses, Candice eventually recovered well enough to be released back into society.

Perhaps as a means of coping, Candice adopted the penname Yuki Hayashiro and started work on the series known as Menajelio no Yuutsu - a manga-styled romance comic that explores the personal lives of metahumans. Eventually, the persona of Candice Rose Alexandra faded away, being replaced by the relatively cheerful, hopelessly Japanophilic Yuki Hayashiro, known for numerous appearances at conventions, always cosplaying a character from her series. It was at these conventions that Menagerie learned her few actual spells: Dazzling Lights, intended to momentarily blind attackers, and Heffner's Fiery Friend, supposedly created by the founder of Playboy Magazine as a means to light cigars.

However, the popularity of her series wasn't enough to pay the bills and eventually Yuki took on the persona of the arcane summoner known as Menagerie - the monster-summoning main character of the series - in order to both publicize Menajelio and collect bounties put out by the police. Over time, she began to enjoy the superhero life and Menajelio became more of a side-job.

((OOC note: While she did appreciate the bounty money, her reasons for taking on the superhero life are numerous. Her primary goal was to eventually take over the world, via a sort of "soft takeover" by building up enough notoriety that nobody would question her intentions. Secondary was discovering precisely what made her powers work and what caused them as until June, 2013, she was a complete amnesiac, only able to remember things by having her tulpa remember them for her - which took the form of literal guidebooks in the main control room of Tallahassee Nest.))