Post by Scarlet Viper on Jan 16, 2016 15:40:41 GMT -8
Scarlet Viper
Real Name: Katrina Elisabeth Knight
Alias: Scarlet Viper
Identity: Secret
Age: 35
Species: Human-ish
Played By / Face Claim: Catherine Zeta-Jones
Physical Appearance:
Permanent Appearance As Katrina:
Katrina is slightly taller than most women standing 5’10” (178cm). She has very long. thick, jet black hair that nearly ends at her ankles, although she usually wears it up in stylish hairdos held in place by black or silver chopsticks. She has dark brown eyes with naturally long eye lashes. She weighs 165 pounds (75kg).
Katrina is of an English/Castilian heritage. Due to her Castilian mother, she has an exotic look most often referred to as “dusky”. Her skin is medium brown to dark brown depending on how much time she spends in the sun. She always has immaculately French manicured nails although she keeps them short.
Katrina has a very long forked tongue but she has learned to keep it hidden and most people can’t tell even up close, even her lovers.
She has a thick, powerful muscular build with a slightly lower body fat ratio than most American women. Despite her muscular build, Katrina has both an very ample bust and hips.
Katrina speaks with a very posh, English (London) accent. She is considered extraordinarily attractive.
She has several black tattoos on her body. The meaning and symbolism are known only to her. She always wears a pure silver necklace that identifies her as a worshipper of Lilith, the ancient Babylonian goddess.
Her first costume is a long, scarlet silk, open-bodice dress that goes down to her ankles and flares out at the bottom. The dress has slits up both sides nearly to her hips to give her plenty of room to move. The dress offers her little to no protection but gives her immense freedom of movement.
She also will often wear a black body suit augmented with heavy scarlet body armour if she suspects guns will be involved or a lot of hand-to-hand weapons combat. She usually wears some sort of black boots or heels.
Temporary Appearance As Scarlet Viper:
If Katrina is pushed to her physical limits or in a high state of aggressiveness her physical appearance will change (see powers).
When this happens her eyes will become yellow and reptilian and her face will morph into a slightly asp like appearance. Her skin will also becomes darker and hardens somewhat.
Personality: On the best of days Katrina’s real personality is considered cold and dispassionate, on the worst she is icy and cruel. Even people who are able to get close to her consider her distant, arrogant and aloof.
She tends not to get along with anyone that well and she is normally openly hostile to most people.
That being said, when needed, Katrina can turn on the charm and be extremely amiable and especially seductive to both genders. As a master manipulator she knows how to press anyone’s buttons both critically and affirmative. She can charm the pants of a priest or nun.
Being both extremely well educated and well travelled, Katrina can hold her own in almost any conversation.
But despite her perceived charm, Katrina is completely calculating, cold blooded and ruthless. She has no moral centre except for when it pleases her. She has no qualms about killing and has an true affinity for torture.
Katrina is a lesbian.
Powers: Viper's abilities are derived and powered through a magical transformation she undertook in her time with a secret, Lilith worshipping witch coven in the middle east.
Magic: Viper is a practising witch but at this time her magic spells tend to be used for more defensive needs. She currently only has two known spells. One in which she can produce a non-lethal bolt of static electricity around her body as an escape mechanism. Her second spell produces a weak flame that she can use to start a fire or produce light in a dark lighting situation. She uses magic more for ceremonial/ritual circumstances (see history).
Toxic Venom: Viper’s finger tips, mouth and eyes can secrete an extremely deadly venom at will. Using her mouth she can project her venom up to two metres. The potency of the venom depends on her needs but it's usually lethal if left untreated. The only publicly know antidote is a mixture of Cobra, Black Mamba and Taipan Viper antidotes mixed equally but this is not always successful. She can produce a reliable antidote but rarely feels a need to do so.
Immunity: Viper is immune to all known naturally occurring or artificial poisons, venoms and toxins. However, she is not immune to radioactive toxins.
Enhanced Senses: Viper can see in the dark as well as she can see in light via a near reptilian heat vision adaptation. Her hearing is normal expect that she can clearly hear any heart beating within 100 feet.
Enhanced Healing: Viper can heal from light-to-medium wounds at an accelerated rate compared to humans (five times faster) and can ignore most pain.
Speed: For very brief moments in battle, Viper can “strike” at speeds 50-100% faster than peak human ability.
Strength: Viper is 10-20% stronger than peak human conditioning for women her size and age.
High Stress/Last Resort Transformation: If Viper becomes extremely agitated or fears for her life, she can and usually will go under a small transformation.
The transformation consists of her body temporarily becoming much more snake like. Her eyes become glowing yellow and reptilian in appearance, including vertical pupil dilation and long fangs. Her skin becomes much harder and her face slightly elongates to a monstrous snake like appearance.
But most importantly, the transformation temporarily raises all her enhanced abilities including her strength, speed and striking ability to that much in excess of that of even the most peak human performance of either gender.
During this time, she is extraordinarily dangerous and powerful. However, if this power triggers and she calms down, she is greatly weakened and must sleep within two hours or she will fall unconscious.
Abilities:
Elite Level Professional Assassin
Highly trained in hand-to-hand martial arts and elite level skill in bladed weapons.
Elite level espionage skills including assassination, disguises, computer hacking, encryption, multiple false identities and breaking and entering into highly secure facilities. Almost unparalleled knowledge of the Intelligence world.
Super-Genius IQ (180) / Musical Prodigy
Elite level manipulator and seductress (men and women).
World class musician and dancer.
Fluently Speaks: English, French, Spanish, Farsi and Latin.
Advanced speaking ability in Arabic, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Italian and Greek.
Weapons/Equipment:
Sais: Her weapons of choice are two, black, razor sharp Sais that she keeps in sheaths attached to her thighs. She is almost never without them even when wearing a dress. She will often coat them in venom before a battle.
Hair Chopsticks: Due to her very long hair, Katrina almost always has two specially made chopsticks in her hair. To the layperson they look like two normal chopsticks but they are actually made from carbon steel with razor sharp ends. She can use them as projectiles or simple daggers. She also will coat them in venom.
Fangs/Nails: Viper regularly uses her venom producing finger nails and mouth to kill or incapacitate her prey.
Specially made heavy duty body armour capable of stopping medium calibre weapons.
High tech computers and encryption devices.
NCR M16 motorcycle with “extras” including but not limited to, hidden machine gun, satellite link-up interface and puncture proof tyres.
Mercedes G Class Wagon/SUV with bullet proof glass and armour, hidden machine guns, extensive defensible/escape functions. Can be made completely air tight and hermetically sealed for up to two hours.
As Katrina is a millionaire many times over, she can buy new equipment as needed.
History: The Scarlet Viper was born Katrina Elisabeth Knight, an only child, to a Castilian mother and a English father. Both of her parents were of minor noble birth so she grew up with the best of everything. By the time she was twelve she had already travelled to over thirty countries due to her parent's philanthropic and business endeavours.
At between age of two and five Katrina was classified with a genius intellect in the top 1-2 percentile for her age. By the time she was five she had written a full baroque symphony. By the time she was twelve she spoke five languages and graduated from high school.
At thirteen she attended Cambridge University in England specializing in history, eastern languages and dance. At eighteen she earned dual PhDs in Biochemistry and Archaeology from Oxford.
She was a loving and caring girl who brightened any room she entered and even in her teen years, her beauty turned many heads.
Tragically her parents died in a car crash during her first year at Cambridge or at least that was what she was told. Thus she inherited both her mother's and father's fortunes and titles. However, once she was eighteen she discovered that both of her parents were actually assassinated due to their rumoured involvement in the cloak and dagger world of MI6.
Bitter at her parents' death, Katrina travelled to the far east as an escape and was "off the radar" for over five years. When she finally returned to the West, she had taken on the persona of the Scarlet Viper. Little is known about how and where she received her combat skills and how she attained her venomous nature. It is generally accepted that she was taken into a coven of Lilith worshipping witches somewhere in either Iran or Iraq. This explains her silver necklace portraying Lilith that as far as anyone knows, she has never removed.
Katrina is now almost paranoid about her real identity to the extent she murdered both sets of grand-parents and dozens of other family members to keep it secret.
During university, while she was still a teenager, she was attacked by several men who had led her to a off-campus party and drugged her. Since then she has only dated women and tends to have a twisted agenda she claims is feminist, but is in actuality is clearly about superiority, not equality.
Between the above event and the death of her parents, Katrina's personality changed from warm and open to icy cold and suspicious of everyone.
As the Scarlet Viper, Katrina works as an elite level assassin for the highest bidder. Her minimum contract is a million US dollars and she has never broken or failed a contract.
Officially MI6, Interpol and the CIA consider Scarlet Viper one of the deadliest, human women on earth. She has worked as an private assassin and contract killer for several "unfriendly" countries. She will trick, betray, seduce, kill, cheat, bite and/or anything it takes to reach her goals.
At one point the MI6 and CIA had a ten million dollar bounty on her head but she easily dispatched the contract killers sent to take her out. She killed most of them through vicious, drawn out torture. After over a dozen unsuccessful attempts on her life both the MI6 and CIA rescinded their death warrants as no contract killers could be found to take the job. It is rumoured she threatened to kill the President of the United States if the offending agencies didn't back off.
She is twisted, hateful and as deadly as they come.
Katrina has been known to take a female lover from time-to-time but the relationship is more of a mistress/concubine relationship.
Katrina is now moving throughout the US and has been rumoured to be in Gotham, Metropolis and San Francisco.
Weaknesses:
Viper is mostly human and can be killed/harmed by bullets, fire, projectile, electricity and so forth.
Viper has an aversion to pure iron as it hurts her more than other metals.
Viper has real trust issues and will almost never work on a team.
Paranoia of her real identity being discovered to the extent she burned off her own finger prints.
Very few contacts in the US.
When she uses her “Last Resort” ability she is greatly weakened and must sleep within two hours.
Her arrogance can cause her to under estimate some opponents.
Can be very impatient.
Other Information:
Katrina owns or rents safe houses in Gotham, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Metropolis and Washington DC. (As well as all over Europe)
She keeps a rather nice, posh apartment in Gotham.
RP Sample: Gliding closer to the strange woman, with the grace of a cobra, Katrina spoke in her best, posh London accent, "Oh dear, we do have a snarky one here don't we? As if Gotham needs another snarky, know-it-all busybody. Tsk...tsk, I was hoping for something more... how should I put it? Original? Never-the-less, how does the game go? You call me a few names, I spew a few insults, blah, blah, blah... everyone gets all sweaty and bruised. It's all rather passé isn't it? Why don't you just be a dear and behave a bit more civilised?"
Grinning wider, she continued, "I do believe introductions are in order as you so eloquently alluded to. And as cute as Red Riding Hood is as an honorific for myself, there is someone else who goes by Red Hood already in this fair city. So alas, I am but still attached to my previous moniker of Scarlet Viper. And unlike a scorpion my sting is not in my tail but in my tongue."
At the end of her words, Katrina gracefully bowed at the waist as formally as she could as if meeting a highly respected person of state.
Straitening up, she pointed at the dead man with one of her sais and went on, "And as that poor fellow discovered, my kiss comes at the price of my sting. But don't worry your cute little tail off, he died with a smile on his face and a thrill in his trousers. What better way can one ask to die? I did him a favour, no?"
By this time, Katrina's eyes had gone into predatory mode, revealing her asp like gaze and vertically dilated pupils. Venom was dripping from her finger tips, her small fangs were starting to elongate and her heart rate was slowing down with every second that ticked by, conserving the energy her body would need to expel if she elected to strike.
Katrina's ice cold stare hardened and fixed on the women, and she asked, "But excuse my rudeness dear, I have gone on haven't I? Please tell us who you are? Shall we have the pleasure of your name?"