GENERAL CHARACTER STATISTICS
Hero Name: Magica
Powers: Knowledge of the Arcane in the form of casting spells using either a wand (or acquired enchanted sword) or inscribing. Limited to her imagination and energy level as well as movement or ability to vocalize.
Alter Ego: Irene Newman
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Birthplace: Tin Island, a small community just off the coast
Occupation: Bartender at The Bellowing Bugle Bar and Grill
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Hero Appearance:
Civilian Appearance: When at work the dress code calls for a white dress shirt, black slacks and a half apron. On days off she's more often found in free flowing skirts, over sized sweaters and a riot of color with her red hair free from confinement.
Strengths: Despite being a magic user and thus the assumption she would be physically weak, Magica is fit and in shape, usually able to keep up with any ordinary criminal in a chase or dodging punches.
Weaknesses: She IS only human and while her magic can augment any ability for a duration, it comes with a cost. The cost typically comes from herself unless she can find and tap into another mystical source of energy.
MENTAL CHARACTERISTICS
Current Goal/Purpose: Just getting by. The pain from the past is starting to lift enough that she is beginning to question what she wants to do with her life again.
Talents: Magica is good at thinking outside the box, which really helps her with some unorthodox spell casting.
Inabilities & Fears: Due to the tragedy of the recent past, Magica does have a fear of being unable to help anyone close to her and hence losing them. She also is very timid at any sort of flying, by mechanical or mystical means. It makes her very nervy.
Personality: Anyone that has met her in the last two years would describe Irene as a quiet, slightly moody young woman who would be very pretty if she would just smile more. Those that knew her before remember a vibrant young woman with a good imagination tempered with a healthy dose of skepticism. Not one to take anything at face value she doesn't assume the worse of everyone, but just gives people just enough credit to still disappoint her.
HISTORIC BACKGROUND
General History: Irene was born in a boring backwater little town on a little island far from the hustle and bustle of city life. But the lure of a better life eventually had her parents move to Ouranopolist. While their own possessions were meager being a young couple with a small child, they were lucky enough to buy a house for cheap, the previous owner having died there and many of the possessions left there. Some things where moved up into the attic, while others where used, at least until they could upgrade.
Irene loved playing up in the attic, it was secluded and had all sorts of odd things she didn't get in trouble for touching. Among all the dusty clutter she found a hand written book, and at first she would pretend to read it, not having even been in school yet, and would make believe it was a great magic book. But as the years went by each time she opened the book she found more and more in there she understood and began to realize it WAS a magic book.
Then there was the first time she saw one of the city's famed super heroes. Her family, among many other bystanders, were saved from an alien blob. It was then at the tender age of twelve that Irene thought she too could help people with what she learned from the book.
It was during her first attempts at being a hero that she came across Visionary. At first he tried to dissuade her from attempting to do heroing, she was after all a kid, but it became apparent that she was going to keep on sneaking out and trying to "take car of the bad guys" one way or another, so it was better if she didn't do it by herself.
Known as Magica, the young hero in training idealized her mentor, who was fairly young himself, though not a wet behind the ears kid. At first her command on any of her powers was very limited and she had to learn how to be more focused and resourceful. Sometimes the lessons were very bitter. Eventually she graduated passed using the book to using the lessons from the book to produce her own flavor of mystic powers.
Irene got older and went to high school and eventually fell in love. Everything in life was perfect at this point. Magica was a well known junior hero and many of the city's heroes counted her as an ally and friend, even if she was still Visionary's side kick. Irene did well in studies despite her other activities and her and Mark, her boyfriend, went from mooning over each other from across the class room to going stead their senior year.
College was suppose to be more of this bliss. Irene was even ready to let Mark know her secret, though there were hints he might have already known. Then everything fell apart.
Present Life:
Two years ago a super villain went on a rampage in the heart of Ouranopolist. It took several A-listers to finally subdue the monstrous crazed menace , but not without many losses. Mark was among the dead, which if not horrible enough, happened as Magica tried to stop the villain, unable to save the one she loved the most.
She quit. She gave up on heroing and tried to forget everything, she wouldn't talk to her family or her mentor about it and she started failing her classes. She had no focus or passion. Then Detective Rose found her one afternoon and offered her a job until she was ready to go back to school. He didn't need her as a hero, but as someone that could deal with them. That was something she could do. She had her doubts but agreed to try it out for a few weeks. A year later she's still bartending at the Bugle.
THE A LIST HERO
Name: Visionary
Known Powers: Aura sensing, precognitive with both "random" visions and prepared (touch, meditation) visions & a few magic items with limited functions he's picked up on various adventures.
Exploitable Weakness: While the uncontrolled visions are something that Visionary has always possessed, and can enrapture him, his ability to see auras and purposely use mental abilities to see into the past or predict the future is thanks to his right armbrace which posses the Eye of Tears. If the Eye is taken off his person all extra abilities go with it.
General Personality:Self-assured, a little conceited, and a bit self-righteous. One of those heroes who is very goody-goody and has a little bit of a problem seeing shades of grey sometimes.
History with B-list Hero:
Visionary looks upon Magica as a little sister. Sometimes annoying, obnoxious, and hard to get along with, but over all he enjoyed teaching the little witchy girl how to be self reliant, and how to use her powers to their fullest extent. Her quitting the heroing business did not dissolve their friendship and he continues to try to be a mentor to her, even if sometimes she doesn't want his meddling.