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Prism
Player: @whitequeen
You can be the king but watch the queen conquer.
Character Build
Class Focus:	Support
Power Level:	40
Research & Development:	Arms
Biographical Data
Real Name:	Natasha Jordan Shaw
Known Aliases:	Dancefloor, Strobe
Gender:	Female
Species:	Mutant
Ethnicity:	Caucasian
Place of Birth:	Long Island, NY
Base of Operations:	Millennium City, MI
Relatives:	Kristoffer Shaw (father, deceased), Julianne Shaw (mother), Katja Sanford (sister), Alan Sanford (brother-in-law) Daniel Sanford (nephew)
Characteristics
Age:	[REDACTED]
Height:	5'7"
Weight:	125 lbs.
Eyes:	Blue
Hair:	????
Complexion:	Confidential
Physical Build:	Athletic
Physical Features:	Eyes glow with stored
Status
Alignment:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Chaotic Good
Reputation:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Prominent
Identity:	Publicly known
Years Active:	8
Citizenship:	American
Occupation:	Socialite
Education:	Two B.A.s from Smith College
Marital Status:	Single
Known Powers and Abilities
Light and sound manipulation; energy absorption
Equipment and Paraphernalia
Confidential

Attributes
	Strength	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Endurance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Agility	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Speed	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Fighting	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Projectiles	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Durability	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Resistance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intelligence	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Psyche	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intuition	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Charisma	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
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Background

Natasha "Jordan" Shaw was born on October 25, [REDACTED] in Long Island, NY, and moved shortly after to Scarsdale with her father and sister due to her parents' divorce. With a successful surgeon for a father, she enjoyed a comfortable upper-class childhood. Jordan attended Stuyvesant High School, participating in theater and tennis, and later attended Smith College. Though she and her father had never been close-knit, they got along peacefully until it was time for Jordan to transition into college. As an aspiring artist, she had hoped to go to a prominent New York art school, while her father encouraged her to study something more practical. Her father would not pay for her to study what he thought a frivolous subject, and their relationship grew strained. Her mother moved further upstate, and her carefree lifestyle was a source of amusement to Jordan until they grew closer after her father's death.

Jordan knew from age 12 that she was a mutant with the ability to manipulate energy. She treated her powers with general indifference and hid them until she was accidentally outed as a mutant in college, subsequently shunned by her peers, and inducted into a group of militant mutant students. She dated and eventually got engaged to a fellow mutant named Boreas, the de facto leader of the group, who helped her understand and use her abilities and introduced her to the world of vigilantism. The two split up after graduating college and Jordan took a job as a paralegal for a property law firm; eventually she grew tired of her desk job, packed up and left Boston for New York.

Beginnings

Out of a job and with an empty resumé, Jordan stayed with some of her mutant friends from college, eventually getting roped back into their vigilante lifestyle and taking the name Dancefloor. She took modeling gigs by day to support herself while training to refine her powers by night. While her modeling career never took off, she drew attention as a heroine for her flashy powers, good looks, influential style and prominent charity work. After only a few months in the city, her popularity surged and she became a notable public figure, attending galas, talk shows, and charity events regularly and relishing her status as a fashion icon and tabloid fodder.

Despite her popularity, her socialite lifestyle and apparent airhead personality rendered her a joke as a superhero and she was not taken seriously by either criminals or her peers. Serial celebrity flings further reduced her credibility and damaged her reputation so much that she grew disgruntled and went into withdrawal.

During a riot on Roosevelt Island in August 2012, her father was killed in the chaos. Unable to cope with both her fall from grace and his death, Jordan fled once again to her mother's house in upstate New York, moving to Millennium City, MI at her sister's suggestion shortly after.

MC

Jordan lived with her sister for a few months after moving to Millennium City but could not adjust to life in the suburbs and bought a downtown apartment where she lived with fellow superhero Mister Fifth. Equipped with a new costume, a new name, and a better grasp on her powers, she joined renowned supergroup Eternals, Inc. and successfully re-established herself as a celebrity and a heroine. Aside from a short hiatus after the Eternals disbanded, Jordan has remained active in the city's superhero community - this time with more awareness of how to handle the public eye - and can frequently be seen with her partner Warden.

Powers

Prism is an immensely powerful mutant who has become a highly skilled energy manipulator - however, while her body absorbs energy in all forms, she can only discharge it in the forms of light and sound. She is adept at manipulating light into various forms, and has inimitable control over sound. Her signature ability is the creation of a diamond-hard shell of hard light, which quickly depletes her energy reserves but renders her indestructible as long as she can maintain it.

• Frickin' Laser Beams - Primary ability is energy manipulation, projection and absorption; with it she can create lasers, concussive beams, constructs, shields, holograms, intense flashes, patterns, and body armor.
  
• Make Me Wanna Shout - Amplifies, nullifies, manipulates and replicates sound waves. Capable of echolocation, echokinesis, disorienting screams, subsonic influence, vibration emission, and creation of sonic constructs.
  
  

  
• Invisibility - Bends light to make herself or others invisible; this takes an enormous amount of concentration on her part, she cannot expend much energy on anything else and can only affect others tactilely.
  
• Energy Absorption - She can absorb energy she feels coming into direct contact with her body and use it to bolster her own abilities.
  
• Sensory Overload - Prism can render her enemies helpless through a combination of disorienting lights, unsettling sounds, and pulsing energy waves.
• Nigh Invulnerability - Can encase herself in a skin-tight layer of extremely durable hard light.
  

Personality

• Attention Whore - Confident, good-looking, cosmopolitan, and witty, Jordan attracts attention, knows it, and thrives on it.
  
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey - She is no stranger to using her looks to her advantage and has no problem objectifying herself to achieve her needs.
  
• Spoiled Brat - She is wealthy not by her own volition and had an easy, comfortable upbringing, so is sometimes out of touch with how normal people live and often expects others to do her bidding.
  
• Manipulative Bitch - Intentionally gives off the impression that she is superficial; however, she is deceptively savvy, pragmatic, and elusive.
  
• Alpha Bitch - Her massive ego manifests itself in a constant stream of condescension and a delusion that whatever she says and does will go unpunished.
  
• Unscrupulous Hero - Has trouble adhering to strict moral codes. She won't kill or torture, but perhaps enjoys chaos and combat a little too much.
  
• Stubborn Mule - Vehemently independent and will refuse help even when she's fully aware that she needs it.
  
• Dominatrix - She is a fiercely vocal and passionate feminist.
  
• Jerk With a Heart of Gold - As much as it frustrates her, she does have an unwavering commitment to doing good, and there is a heart deep, deep, deep within her.
• Really Gets Around / Hard-Drinking Party Girl - Self-explanatory.
  
  

Allies

• Warden - Prism's partner in life and crime.

Quirks & Notes

• Jordan is very athletic and runs every day.
• She is an awful cook and despite her best efforts has failed all the cooking classes she has attempted.
• She has a cat named Ellie.
• That's not her real hair color. She will never tell you what it is.
• She watches her diet closely and is always trying something new, i.e. juice cleanses, 40-hour famines, macrobiotic diets, etc.
• She can fly but rarely does so. If I didn't have to get her a travel power to get around in-game, she wouldn't have one.
• Prism's face claim is Diane Kruger.
• She has a relatively deep voice for a woman; however, she adopts a higher, girlier voice when she wants something.
• She never leaves the house without a full face of makeup, meticulously styled hair, and a flattering and fashionable outfit.
• She has no mental defenses.
• She is nearly always texting, smoking, looking through her purse, playing with her hair - never quite giving her full attention.
• Her most famous celebrity relationship was with Ryan Reynolds, which was national tabloid news.
• My primary influences in creating Prism were Marvel's Songbird, Dazzler, and Emma Frost, and celebrities Kylie Minogue, Sienna Miller, Courtney Love, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. There are also elements of Jenna Maroney (30 Rock), Edie Britt (Desperate Housewives), and Jordan Baker (The Great Gatsby).
• Art credit goes to chou-roninx and Zachula on deviantart.

Testimonies

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Playlist

1. "Supervixen" - Garbage a hit is hard to resist, and I never miss; I can take you out with just a flick of my wrist
2. "Dancing Queen" - ABBA you're a teaser, you turn them on, leaving them burning and then you're gone
3. "Run the World" - Beyoncé my persuasion can build a nation
4. “Maneater” – Nelly Furtado when she walks she walks with passion, when she talks she talks like she can handle it
5. "Le Disko" - Shiny Toy Guns it's a chance, gonna move, gonna fuck up your ego; silly boy, gonna make you cry
6. "Get Outta My Way" - Kylie Minogue you talk, I walk, wanna feel the danger
7. "Wanderlust" - Bjork relentless restlessness liberates me