Masks: Halcyon Superheroics 101: Fennec Fox

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Identity

Real Name: Fennec Fox

• named by the media for his lack of intimidation ability as a "cute fox, embraced it changing from the Kit orange to a sandy yellow

Civilian Name: John Voss

Look

• Man
• White
• trendy clothing Bought without personal opinion or care more a costume than his hero wear, just money spent on what everyone else is wearing
• Modern costume Sandy yellow hoody replaces the hunters cloak, and cargo pant, utility belt and good quality trainers,
• Animal insignia, yellow fox half mask, technically a solidified aspect of his fragment of the fox spirit considers this his true face, when he summons his true face he also gains spiritual manifestations of a sandy fox tail and neck ruff, Fox like teeth and claws, and his eyes shift to be more fox like. At times of strong emotions these might leak into civilian mode mostly the eyes and claws but never fully and easily missed by most. These additions to many not mystically aware looks fake, neither biology or magical.

Labels

• Danger -1
• Freak 2
• Savior 1
• Superior 0
• Mundane 0

Conditions

• Afraid []
• Angry []
• Guilty []
• Hopeless []
• Insecure [@]

Abilities

Has

• Athletic perfection: Training from the age of 7 plus mystical fox like abilities
• Holmesian deduction: Training sure but mostly the "fox instinct"
• Gadgetry:
  • Incomplete list:
  • Collapsible metal tonfa,
  • Throwing teeth: plastic and ceramic throwing daggers can be used as knifes, throwable blunt knock out weapons, tiny tracking teeth plus other utility variants,
  • Smoke pellets
  • Grappling hook,
  • security infiltration tools: physical and digital,
  • Fox pawprints: various sized pawprint shaped, uv coded environmental control gels, comes in Slick (balance disrupting), sticky (restraining) and marking (various visible and uv colours), plus uv light and specs

Legacy but lacking

• Intimidation
• Fearsome reputation

Note abilities a mix of 60% training 40% fox spirit blessing.

Moves

• Fight the good fight*: When you pull your punches while directly engaging a threat, you can roll +Savior instead of + Danger. If you do, you cannot choose to impress, surprise, or frighten your foe.

• The legacy matters*: When you take Influence over someone from your legacy (or give them Influence over you), mark potential and take +1 forward. When someone from your legacy causes your Labels to shift, mark potential and take +1 forward.

Moment of Truth

This is the moment when you prove how much the mantle belongs to you. You seize control of all your powers, and you defeat even impossible odds to prove you are a true, genuine hero. Of course, after you prove something like that, it’s going to be hard to justify going back to the Team…

Team Moves

When you share a triumphant celebration with someone, tell them whether you see them as an equal. If you do, give them Influence over you and mark potential. If you don't, shift Superior up and any other label down.

When you share a vulnerability or weakness with someone, tell them a secret about your legacy (including your own true feelings about it) to clear a Condition and give them Influence over you.

Potential

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Backstory

• When did you officially become a part of your legacy?
  • Way too young, I was adopted by Red fox from the orphanage months after the fox spirit chose me, than a year after my adoption at only 7 my training started and by 10 I was working with red fox as his sidekick The Kit
• What's the best story you always heard about your legacy?
  • The time the silver fox (back when he was the second red fox) saved 2 buildings worth of hostages via intelligence and skill, instead of making the choice of who to save as forced by the villain.
• How does the public perceive your legacy?
  • As vigilantes not worthy of the name supers due to our perceived lack of powers as the public don't know about our spirit blessing
• How does your legacy tie into your reasons for being a hero?
  • My legacy comes with training as well as spirit gifted abilities, it hasn't prepared me for a normal life, I'm a hero because of my legacy but it stolen my childhood and normality
• Why do you care about the team?
  • Peers of my own age, Individual I can talk to with my true face on rather than the human mask.

When Our Team First Came Together

• All things considered, we did well and impressed an established hero. Who was it?
  • The Green Shadow a mystical hero if a bit do what you must to save the day type. The entity is a long time rogue of this Hero and while we struggled we did better than most would against such a villian.

Gm Questions

• So what does Fennec think about the other Kit? Friends? Enemies? Teeth-clenched teamwork?
  • The New Kit is still forming at start of game, it's a source of fear of replacement and redundancy. Fennec know's they are coming soon, they can feel the blessing growing, at best they're a new nephew but Fennec worries they are his replacement.
• And what's Fennec's relationship with Red Fox like at the start of play?
  • Strained concern Parent, and Ex-superior rolled into one complex parcel. Like it's time for Fennec to start working independent but Red fox is not ready as a parent and Fennec more thinks he's ready over feeling it.
• What does your costume look like?
  • Done with images see thread
• What message is it trying to send?
  • That I accept the media view of me and I accept their announcement that I'm less scary and more visible. But also this is me this is not the costume, my costume is what I wear in school and the streets, which say boring rich kid.
• What is your home life like?
  • Caring if strict, after school I go home walk through the mansion, go down the pole into the FoxDen and put my face on to have dinner With Red and Silver, occasionally Artic. Talk about our days, almost a debrief but mostly catching up. Then I do homework before leaving for my patrols as red fox leaves to what ever social event he's got in his public costume for the night. On no patrols days, between practise and training, I'm found reading or gaming in my DenRoom, occasionally visiting the mansion library or play board games with silver.
• Outside of school and home, where are you most likely to be found when not in hero mode?
  • At what ever social event, or invitation by another kid it would be too rude or noticeable too refuse. Occasionally I visit the cities museums, galleries and libraries, might make my adult identity a patron of the art and literature.
• Would you choose to spend time with your teammates outside of Team-related activities?
  • Yes, they fun and know fun things to do.
• Which Hero, other than your mentor, do you look up to?
  • Doc Jupiter, he's been to space, he's smart knowing so much about science.
• Which Villain do you dread encountering the most?
  • You'd think Pampas fox, but really he's more obsessed with Red right now, I more dreading The Mocking Bird, there is something more then criminal intention in their eyes, something I don't like.

Relationships

Team

You once got caught doing something that shames your legacy with La Rabia.

Oddly this one doesn't sound shameful They was helping La Rabia with a public children's charity event in hero mode, doesn't sound shameful on the surface but The foxes are meant to be secret, sly, work from the shadows, most of the public should have doubts we actually exist and to see us should be a moment of fear and intimidation, not handing out food to homeless children. Fennec is conflicted feels it was a right and good thing but understands he's acted against how the Foxes work, to be seen is failure and failure is shameful.

You trust Io and told them an important secret of your legacy.

Well less told and more showed, I showed them one of the foxholes and how to recognise and access them in general, tiny rooms hidden over the city, most are just a couple of shelves full of medical supplies, spare or specialist equipment, commlink to the FoxDen and a couple of stools to rest during long patrol's. Brought them in because I needed to replace a couple of throwing teeth and a bandage.

Legacy

Red Fox [III] is still active and prominent in the city.

Silver Fox (previously the second Red Fox acted as silver fox in later years when his sidekick replaced him as main Fox) is retired and judgmental.

Pampas fox (all the training none of the blessing, myth has it a blood son of a previous fox, Also Pampas is a species of "false fox") is the greatest opponent your legacy ever faced…and is still at large.

The below I created but I missed read one of the legacy questions (is the next possible member of your legacy. some reason read it as next to take the main mantle) so the artic fox is an older mid legacy character built to be ready to replace the current Red Fox, and The Next Kit was designed as something Fennec knows is coming. Artic Fox (has unique camouflage skill/Gadget, works independently) The Next Kit, not yet chosen but the fox instinct tell Fennec their coming and going to be Artic's sidekick,

How the legacy works The Fox legacy normally runs in a cycle: a Kit trains under a Red Fox, becomes independent, then eventually becomes the next Red Fox and takes on a Kit of their own. But for the first time, a Red Fox has had two Kits, and now one Kit is already emerging before the next Red Fox is ready. Note the Spirit choses orphans. Fennec is starting to realise the cycle doesn't actually have a place for him.

Foxes Civilian Covers The current patriarch is Daniel Voss [Silver Fox] adoptive son of Frederic Voss, Daniel Voss took over The Voss industries in 1973 till 1997. Like his father Daniel adopted a son Harry Voss [Red Fox III] current owner and silent partner of Voss industries Harry is famous for being prominent figure in Halcyons high class social scene seen at most gala, charity events or formal party. Harry adopted two kids the oldest being Jim Voss [Artic Fox] like his father a feature of local social events, though of teh night club and music event nature and occasional J of minor popularity, but also recognised as a technological expert having created a number of technology in sound and light displays and projectors. The Youngest John has been shielded from the public eye official story is they are waiting for him to graduate before introducing him to the world.

Influence

Recieved

• Preston Digits
• Io

Given

• Io
• La Rabia
• Gravitas
• Preston Digits