The Contingency - Lightshow

Lightshow/Black Light PL 10

John Lennon used to call her "The Girl with Kaledoscope Eyes"

Background

Lucille Diamande Lux was one of the headliners in the early 60's in both the supers and art scene. Her publist said that she managed to crawl out the slums of New Orleans, through a combination of determination, grit, talent, good looks, and extra-sized double helping of charisma. While generally true, the part about the ghetto is a fabrication. Her father is a respected doctor who worked at a "colored hospital" in Louisiana, and brought up in upper-miidle class black home. Other than that her life pretty much follows the press releases.

She started off as a backup singer for James Brown, then lead singer of Dee Lux and the Bouffants. They are mainly remembered for thier only hit "I'm Far Too Good (For You.)" Although she was a one hit wonder, it give her publicity and paid her way through college with a major in art. When she saw the direction of rock and roll and pop art about to change, she hopped on board. With her contacts in the music world, her career skyrocketed. In the free wheeling 60's art and music scene, her gender and race made her a novelty rather than an outcast. Although still had to work twice as hard and twice as well to get a name for herself.

Her hard work paid off. She was hired to create one of the first laser and liquid lightshow extravaganzas for a huge televised concert. It was like a dream come true. However, a long time rival artist, who bacame Crazy Quilt showed up with a plan to take over the concert's cutting edge laser light show. Which, by the way featured the recently developed technology of holograms. Crazy Quilt, mad genius that he is, augemented the eqipment to emit solid light and tied up poor Lucille to the transmitter. When the curtains opened and all eyes were upon her, he would pull the switch and everyone watching in person and on TV would be under his control. To make a long story short, the SWAT team came and saved the day. Almost. Unable to turn off the device Lucille sacrificed herself and absorbed all the higly charged psychodelic light energy, eating her up alive. Almost. Lucille is now composed of living psychodelic light, and can summon swirling masses of solid light to entrap, damage or entrance her opponents. Lucy can also transform herself into solid light and fly away, leaving sparkles like diamonds in her wake.

While she can re-assume her human form, she cannot hide her "kaleidoscope eyes." She normally wears big dark sunglasses to hide them.

Officially she goes by the name "Lightshow." However the newpapers and people seemed fixated on the fact she was black and so she is commonly known as "Black Light." Which still sounds cools, so she only stresses the piont if the person is being a jerk.

Oh, and if anyone wants a submarine she knows where you can get a yellow one, cheap

Character Sheet

Appearance

• Age: 26
• Height: 5'4"
• Weight: 120 lbs.
• Race: Black
• Eyes: Psychodelic
• Hair: Black

Abilities

• Strength 0
• Stamina 3
• Agility 2
• Dexterity 1
• Fighting 1
• Intellect 1
• Awareness 4
• Presence 6

Powers

• Light my fire - Liquid Light Control [The ability to summon and control blobs and streams of ""liquid light"" usually involving psychodelic patterns.](43 points):
  • Reach out, I'll be there (Dyn): Create 7 [Movable +1 Continous +1 Dynamic +1;  ; Innate (+1) and Precise (+1) and Accuracy +2 (+1)]
  • Dyn: You got hold on me: Move Object 7 [Damaging +1 Perception Ranged (+1); Precise (+1) Throwing Mastery (+1)]
  • Dyn: In the sky, with diamonds: Flight 15 [Continuous; Aquatic (+1)]
  • Alt: Day Tripper: Affliction 10 [Resisted by Will +0 Consentration +1 Perception ranged +2; Instant recovery -1]
  • Alt: Dyamite with a laser beam: Damage 15 [Ranged +1] (Pure power littel control)
  • Alt: We hope you will enjoy the show: Illusion 1 [Sight +2 and sound +1 Independent +1; Selective+1; Area +23 (16 million cuft)]
  • Alt: I Can See For Miles : Remote Sensing 8 [Range 2 miles Vision and hearing; Simultaneous; Noticable (-1)]
  • Alt: Dazed and confused: Affliction 4 [Euphoria/Ecstasy/Unaware; Area +3 (240ft Rad) Selective +1 Cumulative +1 Consentration +1]
  • Alt: The Wall: Create 10 [Selective (+1) Stationary (0)]

• Fade away and Radiate:(17 points)**
  • Alt: Liquid form: Insubstantial 1 [Innate+1, ; Reaction (+1) Subtle(+1)]
  • Alt: Energy form: Insubstantial 3
  • Alt: Force Field: Protection 15 [Sustained (0)]

• Only The Strong Survive:(31 points)*
  • I'll be watching you: Senses 8 [Darkvision (2 Ranks) Radius for vision (2Ranks) UV (1 Rank) IR (1Ranks) Counters Illusion (2 ranks); [Innate (+1) Noticable (-1)]
  • Sunshine Superman: Immunity 10 [Immunity to light effects]
  • Space Oddity (LS): Immunity 10 [Basic Life Support]
  • I couldn't sleep at all last night: Immunity 1 [Does not sleep]
  • I've been alive forever: Immunity 1 [Unaging]

Equipment

A house in New Orleans that she calls the "Raising Sun"(0)

Advantages

Attractive 1

Attractive 1 [Enhanced]

Skills

• Athletics (+0)
• Deception 2 (+8)
• Expertise: Art 6 (+7)
• Expertise: Music 4 (+5)
• Insight 4 (+8)
• Intimidation 2 (+8)
• Perception (+4)
• Persuasion 4 (+10)
• Ranged Combat: Array 4 (+5)
• Stealth (+2)

Offense

• Initiative +2
• Array +3, Damage 15
• Most powers Perception Ranged

Defense

• Dodge 2, Parry 1
• Toughness 18 (Def Roll 0)
• Fortitude 3
• Will 12

Power Points

Abilities 36 + Powers 91 + Advantages 2 + Skills 12 + Defenses 8 + Base 2 = Total 150

Complications

• Recognition:Wants Publicity
• Identity:Public
• Rivalry:Crazy Quilt
• Weakness:Unsure of powers. They are still new to her. as well as potential loss of her humanity.
• Weakness: her current body is not a biological one, so if severly wounded she needs special healing. IE high intensity lights.

Design Notes

Inspired by "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds," although in this universe it is she who inspired the song. Lucy powers have nothing to do with psychotropic drugs, although the manisfestation of her power resemble LSD and drug induced hallucinations. The reason for this is that her powers are rooted deep in the creative subconscious mind, the part of the mind that is most influenced by psychotropics. Thus her powers and illusions almost never pass close scrutiny, and seem like something off a Peter Max poster, an immediate indicator thta it is not "real" but its still hypnotic.

Lightshow is meant to be a powerful but inexperienced superheroine. She is new to the combat and espionage thing.

Her new body gives her many abilities. But she can no longer needs to breathe eat or drink or sleep, she can no longer breathe, eat, drink, or sleep. She has also has anosmia.

She is nearly useless in stealth situations since she her powers, even flight and enhanced vision, attact attention. Also although she has light powers, its "hard light," so her attacks are actually physical impacts rather than lasers.

While her eyes function normally, she senses light via a sixth sense.