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Strobe
Player: @whitequeen
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"I wasn't gifted with perfect bone structure so I could shy away from photo ops."
Character Build
Class Focus:	Support
Power Level:	40
Research & Development:	Arms
Biographical Data
Real Name:	Jordan Natascha Shaw
Known Aliases:	Dancefloor, Lightwave
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 Roberts (sister), Alan Roberts (brother-in-law) Daniel Roberts (nephew)
Characteristics
Age:	28
Height:	5'7"
Weight:	125 lbs.
Eyes:	Blue
Hair:	????
Complexion:	Confidential
Physical Build:	Athletic
Physical Features:	Eyes glow when energy is being 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
Energy projection, absorption and manipulation
Equipment and Paraphernalia
Confidential

Attributes
	Strength	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Endurance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Agility	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Speed	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Fighting	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Projectiles	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Durability	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Resistance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intelligence	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Psyche	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intuition	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Charisma	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
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((Strobe was born as an homage to Dazzler, Songbird, and Kylie Minogue, but has evolved so much since her conception - from a ditzy comic relief airhead to what I hope comes across as a fully realized, three-dimensional heroine who has given me so much amazing RP in the last couple of years that I haven't felt the need to ever make another character.))

Men categorize women in one of four ways: mothers, virgins, sluts, and bitches. None of the above is suitable for the modern woman. But, you can create your own image by selecting pieces of each archetype that work for you: the sexual attractiveness of the slut, the wisdom of the mother, the integrity of the virgin, the independence of the bitch. This leaves men confused and unable to pigeonhole you. What they are forced to do instead is...take you seriously.

Background

Jordan Shaw was born on March 25, 1985 in Long Island, NY, and moved shortly after to Scarsdale with her father and sister due to her parents' divorce. With a successful surgeon father, she enjoyed a comfortable upbringing. 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. A wannabe artist, she had hoped to go to a Rhode Island art school, while her father encouraged her to study something more practical. Although they had reached an agreement - a double major - their relationship was never fully repaired.

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, shunned by her peers, and inducted into a group of militant mutant students. She dated and eventually got engaged to Julian Stone, or 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 returned to New York.

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Beginnings

Out of a job and with an empty resumé, Jordan stayed with some of her mutant friends from college, eventually getting sucked into the vigilante lifestyle they led 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, she grew very popular and became a public figure representing the superhero community, showing up to events and talk shows regularly and enjoying her status as a fashion icon and tabloid fodder.

While popular, her socialite lifestyle and apparent airhead personality rendered her a joke as a superhero and she was not taken seriously by most criminals. Serial celebrity flings further reduced her credibility and damaged her popularity and reputation so much that she became 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 her fall from grace, his death, and her guilt that she might have prevented it, 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.

Millennium City

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 now lives with fellow superhero Mister Fifth. Equipped with a new costume, a new name, and a better grasp on her powers, she has been doing well in Millennium City, recently joining renowned supergroup Eternals, Inc. and trying to re-establish herself as a celebrity and superhero.

Powers

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 and replicates sound waves, and manipulates them into shockwaves. Theoretically she is powerful enough to generate sonicbooms, but she has less confidence in and control over her sound powers and so uses them pragmatically rather than offensively.

Barrier Warrior - Uses energy shields to protect, contain, levitate, and assault.

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Invisibility - Bends light to make herself or others invisible; this takes an enormous amount of concentration on her part and she cannot expend much energy on anything else at the same time.
Emotion Control - Through manipulation of light patterns, soundscapes and ambient light, she can exert a degree of emotion and mood control, and uses this to get people to like and feel comfortable around her.
Nigh Invulnerability - Can encase herself in a skin-tight layer of extremely durable hard light.
Healing Factor - Heals at a normal rate, but can speed up her own healing factor or others' with channeled energy. However, she is not an especially powerful 'healer' and can't affect internal or deep wounds. She has also learned to seal and cauterize surface wounds with her light control.

Personality

Attention Whore - Confident, good-looking, cosmopolitan, and witty, Jordan attracts attention, knows it, enjoys it, and abuses 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.
Rich Bitch - 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.
Obfuscating Stupidity / Manipulative Bitch - Keeps her conversations light and airy and intentionally gives off the impression that she is superficial; in reality, she is savvy, pragmatic, and an expert in manipulating how she is perceived.
Alpha Bitch - Has a massive ego which manifests itself in a constant stream of sarcasm 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 and has a pathological, maybe unhealthy, need to assert her domination over men and let them know women could easily rule the male-dominated world of heroism if they wanted to.
Team Mom - Has a soft spot for younger heroes, especially girls, and looks after them as hard as she tries to pretend she's not interested.
Really Gets Around - Self-explanatory.
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.

Quirks

Jordan is reasonably athletic and runs every day.

She is an awful cook and despite her best efforts has failed all the cooking classes she has attempted. This is something she will not admit to anyone.

She has a dog named Lilly. Lilly is one of the few living beings Jordan will openly show affection toward.

That's not her real hair color. She will never tell you what it is.

Testimonies

Playlist

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1. "Run the World" - Beyoncé my persuasion can build a nation
2. "Royals" - Lorde I'm in love with being queen
3. "Supervixen" - Garbage bow down to me
4. “Maneater” – Nelly Furtado she's a maneater, make you buy cars, make you cut cards, make you fall real hard in love
5. "Sparkling Diamonds" - Nicole Kidman we are living in a material world, and I am a material girl
6. "Torture Me" - Metric if I find peace of mind, torture me
7. "Brass In Pocket" - The Pretenders I'm gonna make you see, there's nobody else here, no one like me
8. "The One" - Kylie Minogue can you feel me?
9. "Innocence" - Bjork when I was once innocent, it's still here, but in different places

10. "Shake It Out" - Florence + the Machine I am done with my graceless heart, so tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
11. "For Once In Your Life" - Courtney Love I know that I'm a hungry, lost girl, but please stick around and I'll build you a world