Alt
Name: Iphigenia ‘Tai-Ho’ Courtlandt
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Personality:
For a product of old world wealth, Iphigenia is a surprisingly personable individual. She demonstrates understanding, high empathy, and good humor. She doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously, is self-aware of her flaws, and likes to make self-deprecating jokes poking fun at them. For an upper-class girl, she has always been unafraid to dive headfirst into the gritty and grimy aspects of both society and simple mundane things, and Iphie genuinely lacks the haughty demeanor that can be found on others in her social class.
But if one wants to get to know her, he should not be fooled by her amicability or down-to-earth nature, lest he be taken advantage of. Succinctly described as an exceptionally self-controlled, marginally narcissistic, high-functioning sociopath, Iphigenia is a cold, calculating and manipulative person under a well-crafted social veneer. Lacking any innate empathy, she emulates her behavior through sheer intelligence and perception. Although she surrounds herself with many friends, she only considers less than a half-dozen individuals her true friends. Though unlikely, sometimes cracks in her facade can show through or even be absent completely, although the latter is observed only in the presence of her closest inner circle.
Certain aspects of her personality can be quite fleeting and mercurial, depending on the environment she’s in and the company she’s entertaining. She often alternates from being reserved and polite to outgoing and energetic, the latter of which she has a predilection for and is her true nature.
Driven and motivated, crossing Iphigenia or gaining her ire is not a pleasant experience on account of her vindictiveness. It is difficult to draw her to genuine, open anger, but god have mercy their soul should somebody fall under her angered eye; for once she has a goal set, she will attempt to bulldoze everything that stands in its way.
Biography:
Iphigenia was born a single child to an old family lineage that hails from sunny England. Formerly a textbook wealthy, white Anglo-Saxon protestant family, the spread of globalization has diversified the family line in the past 150 years such that Iphie is a mixing pot of different ethnicities, being Anglo-Saxon, Japanese, and Chinese. Brought into the world by a family of unfathomably large wealth, she was a quite pampered and comfortable kid.
Despite her comfort, she was never one to be idle as a child. With a majority owner of an inherited multi-billion dollar technology conglomerate for a father and the Japanese minister of MLIT for a mother, she had quite a few expectations to live up to, both personal and external.
This task was a challenge that the young British girl quickly rose up to, if only to at least maintain the status quo; to be the next generational head of the company her forefathers wrought with tears and sweat for three centuries in the making. Excelling in computer sciences, she was mildly notable enough in her earlier years to be known uncreatively as “that computer genius girl” on the internet. Her abilities culminated in her taking an engineering position at her family’s own company, a milestone that would be unusually significant only a merely a year after starting there.
The first sign of something amiss in her daily life was rather mundane; while swapping a drive from a laptop computer, the device suddenly turned on, stinging her as electrical arcs from the laptop connected with her fingers. This event, having no lasting effects and with the device continuing to function, was dismissed and quickly forgotten.
It was on a mellow, slightly breezy day with blue skies that a broadcasting and telecommunications spire on a high-rise building suffered a communications failure. The failure was large enough such that an entire team of engineers were summoned to remedy the issue. While not part of this team, Iphigenia attached herself to this crew to learn more about it, a minor decision that quickly became life changing when a lightning strike unexpectedly struck the spire, destroying it instantly in an impressive display of pyrotechnics. For a few moments, her life was fire and brimstone before everything went black.
Iphigenia awoke from her coma just under a week later, in the presence of her father and childhood maid, who was hoveringly uncomfortably close to her. From them she learned that the spire had collapsed, sending the oversized noodle to the streets below, and the skyscraper had burned for three days. The entire engineering team had been killed save for herself, who had been found unconscious in the gutted superstructure of the tower observation deck. While not immediately related, the events now known as ‘The Surge’ happened a mere few days later, throwing the family into further disarray. While recovering from the aftermath of the incidents over the course of the following weeks, Iphie discovered she had become able to manipulate electricity from the fiasco in the towering inferno.
The stress of the abyssal attack and the damage it wrought brought her father to an early grave with a heart attack at age 66. With his early passing, the majority shareholder of Courtlandt Holdings became the recently-of-age Iphie, and with her ownership, the majority of the board seats of the corporation. Naturally, being only 20, she couldn’t very well run the company by herself, preferring to maintain the status quo with trusted appointees to the board. One of her few decisions as owner, however, was to offer support to the fledgling organization of the Final Five.
With a hands-off involvement with the business, Iphigenia was able to spend time to further understand her newly acquired abilities. During this period of time, she was able to make even more of a name for herself, culminating in her transition from a supporting member to one of the Final Five.
Stats:
Might - 1
Finesse - 11
Fortitude - 2
Health - 3
Speed - 3
Perception - 11
Arcane - 7
Spirit - 2
Heroism - 1
Abilities:
Super Electrician Girl
Iphigenia possesses an ability that gives her near comprehensive control over electricity. Lightning bolt from the heavens? Snap! Electrical surge from the hand? Crackle! Toaster not hot enough to toast those strudels well? Pop! Electricity cut to your PC? Who needs a Universal Power supply or a generator? You probably get the idea; there’s wide variety of uses. Furthermore, it’s exceedingly difficult for her to be electrocuted. Hell, you can probably use Iphie as a temporary replacement for a section of high-voltage transmission wire if you somehow persuaded her to do such a thing. Don’t try to have her power a city block, though. That kills the rich girl.
“That Computer Genius Girl”
Since data is all 0s and 1s in the form of a digital signal, with enough finesse the next logical step is the remote control of unsecured networked computer systems. Iphie can literally do anything she can do at a computer if a piece of metal she touches has a direct connection with a network cable with the targeted computer in question. This can’t be used with the next skill unless the device is very close or the connection very persistent, because that would also kill the rich girl.
“That Actual Computer Girl”
Since the brain is essentially just electric pulses, the final logical step is directly interfacing with a computer by directly touching it. In this manner she can penetrate some secure systems or take control of them. That shoreline battery? Yeah, she can control that. The caveat of this ability is if the connection is severed unexpectedly, the interfaced device is destroyed, or an unexpected backward surge of voltage occurs, Iphie would be rendered braindead as she’s literally transferred her consciousness over to the target device. In other words, cover the fuck out of this girl if she’s doing this shit, because this too, will likely kill the rich girl. In theory, however, if the processing power, memory speed, and storage capacity are sufficient, she might be able to persist in the device even though her body is deaderinos.
The Girl with an Electric Personality
What’s an electric girl in the Final Five without the ability to conduct electronic warfare? In this regard, Iphie is like a walking equivalent of a modern US, Chinese, or Japanese destroyer, at least in regards to EM attack and electronic countermeasures. Essentially, she can jam radio signals, spoof missiles, and disable radar. Anything the electronics suite of a warship can do, she can do it. Exceptional in that it’s pretty hard to kill the rich girl with any of this.
Equipment:
Iphigenia has two pieces of noteworthy “equipment”:
-Courtlandt Holdings, Inc.; produces household appliances, consumer and business electronics, and energy solutions. For some reason it also has an ice cream producing subsidiary, ever since a member of the family bought Ben & Jerry’s from Unilever on a whim during a drug induced ice cream binge fifty years ago. It also has a thinktank and a startup cybersecurity firm under its umbrella, courtesy of Iphie.
-
Dolla dolla bills yall Money
Anything else such as her current phone or laptop are probably fleeting.
Theme Song