Post by Gabriella Castellano on Jun 30, 2019 12:32:12 GMT -8
Gabriella Castellano
BASICS
Character Name: Gabriella Alexandra Castellano.
Secret Identity Name if Applicable: N/A
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Group: Civilian/Hero in making.
CHARACTER BUILD-UP
General Appearance/Physical Appearance:
Gabriella has long, dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. She is 5ft 8 in height, and has a slim/athletic build, and is stronger than she looks. She can most often be found wearing leather jackets or a trench coat. Her outfits have a tendency to be more practical than stylish. She will wear a black ski mask that hides all but her eyes while she is combating criminals. She owns a diamond necklace her mother gave her as a present, and usually hides it beneath her clothing.
Played By: Janina Gavankar
Personality:
Hardened by her years as a cop, Gabriella has a pretty cynical mindset and finds it difficult to trust people. If she's honest, she can be a bit of a control freak sometimes and can become angry if things don't go to plan. She is no stranger to violence and death, but she doesn't actively seek them out - she only kills if she has to, otherwise preferring to subdue, disable or knock her enemies unconscious, even if it makes her work harder.
She takes crime in Gotham very seriously, and can be easily frustrated by it at times. She has started to see the endless cycle of justice - the criminals are arrested, incarcerated and then escape or serve their sentence, and reoffend, hurting more people. As a cop, she could do nothing but participate in the cycle. As a vigilante, she hopes to fix it.
She maintains an admirable level of dedication to keeping people safe, viewing saving lives as the ultimate goal. She considers damage to property as acceptable collateral if she protects people from harm, believing that the ends justify the means. While not outright reckless, Gabriella has been known to take risks that others would disapprove of.
A recent attempt on her life has left her more shaken than she would like to admit.
Skills/Abilities/Weapons/Powers:
Matter transmutation: Gabriella has the ability to change matter into other substances. Any change is theoretically possible for her, but the reality is that most things are out of her reach as she is yet to fully understand her abilities. There are a number of things that determine how easy materials are to transmute and the time it takes to transform including:
- Its size.
- Its chemical complexity.
- Gabriella's understanding of the material she wishes to transmute, and the material she wishes it to become.
- Whether the material has an existing sample of what she wants to transmute it into (e.g. air and water), or if she has a sample touching her skin already (such as in jewellery).
- Its state - she can affect a wider area of solid substances as the particles are closer together, but she is less effective with liquids and gases.
- If its a natural reaction (e.g. carbon to diamond, water to ice).
She must be touching a material directly to transmute it.
A pistol - she uses it as a side-arm, but is prepared to use it if she has to.
A standard issue telescopic police baton.
Bullet-proof vest.
Above average IQ
Her police training means she has training in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, evidence collection and advanced driving, along with a detailed knowledge of crime in Gotham.
She owns a stolen police radio.
Weaknesses:
Limited time using her powers: Gabriella has only recently discovered her metahuman abilities, meaning she doesn't fully understand them and isn't fully able to control them. Partial transformations are common, as are instinctual and wrong transmutations.
She only has police training: She will likely be out-classed by true masters in combat.
No suit or tech: As a relatively inexperienced vigilante, she has no protective clothing other than a bulletproof vest and no gadgets to help her.
She can't transmute herself. Well, she theoretically could, but it would probably kill her.
Inexperience: While no stranger to fighting crime, she has only been doing so in an unofficial way for a short amount of time.
History:
As a child growing up in Gotham, Gabriella gained a first-hand knowledge of the negative effects of crime. Her neighborhood was flooded with drugs and on a regular basis, and her cousin was murdered after being caught in a crossfire between warring gangs. She was always motivated to join the GCPD, and dreamed of becoming a cop and keeping her family safe.
Gabriella studied criminal justice at Gotham State University, and attended the GCPD police academy. She graduated and became a police officer in Gotham. After three years, Gabriella passed the exam to become a detective and was promoted to her dream job in the Major Crimes Unit, where she felt she could make a real difference. And, by all accounts, she did. Her arrest record was impressive, she was driven and motivated and even pushed to investigate some of Gotham's more notorious criminals where other detectives would be too scared to take action. Unfortunately, this made her a target.
On the orders of the crime boss Black Mask, her car was rigged with an explosive device in an attempt to kill her. While she drove home from work, it detonated in the middle of an intersection and caused her car to flip. She lay in the flaming wreck, unable to free herself as her foot was trapped and injured. As the flames crept closer, she considered her death inevitable until the car around her shook with energy and... transformed into strawberry jam. She passed out, and woke up at Gotham General with a broken ankle and numerous cuts and bruises, feeling lucky to be alive. Gabriella had no idea that the stress of the event had awoken dormant metahuman abilities within her, giving her the ability to transmute materials. It took three weeks and another four transformations for her to figure out that she had special abilities, and another month before she could somewhat control them. She feared that her abilities would interfere with her job, especially if they were unpredictable. Inspired by the other heroes of Gotham and Central City, she resigned from the GCPD, faking permanent damage after the crash, and decided to use her abilities to fight crime in a way a detective never could. She has started investigating unofficial cases to help people in need, without the involvement of the GCPD. It earns her enough money to survive, and allows her to find leads on all kinds of crime.
Other Important Info You Want Us To Know: Gabriella drives a grey, stick-shift 2018 Ford Mustang as her previous car wasn't salvageable (she removes the license plate to prevent anyone finding her). She lives in an apartment in Gotham.
OOC:
Member Name: GeneralXIV
How did you find us?: I was linked.
What Made You Want To Join Hot DC Nights?: I enjoy role-playing and superheroes! Why not have both?