The Posthuman Coalition wrote:Reapplication.Super Identity: Curveball
Real Identity: Tanya Petrovich
Is real identity known to the public: No.
Hero, Villain, Neutral: (Lawful) Neutral
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Appearance: Has a slim but athletic figure, 5'8 and weighing 127 lbs, naturally pale complexion. Highly angular, slightly long face with sharp nose and not-so prominent cheekbones. Copper hair styled in a pixie cut. Has a scar from her left cheek down to her shoulder. Simply think Slavic-Japanese features but with with a highly angular face and eyebrows that looks like Spock's. Also a left arm amputee, only her left shoulder remains. Wears a specially tailored jet black suit coat that conceals firearms and weapons with matching slacks, wears a very dark grey shirt underneath and a satin black tie, also wears low-cut men's size black leather shoes with classic retractable hidden blades in each shoe. Also has cool black lens shades.
Group Affiliation: UN Metahuman Deployment Taskforce
Powers/Abilities:
+Bottomless Magazines: More gadgets than actual superpowers, these hammerspace portable tunneling devices are disguised as machine pistol and pistol magazines, specifically used to store and create infinite amounts of 9x19mm and .40 S&W ammunition seperately. The "magazines", once installed in specific weapons, will instantly grant it (and the user) unlimited ammunition once the magazines are inserted, unless the magazines themselves are removed from the guns. Comes in two different sets that produce two different types of ammo.
+Psychic Limb Generation: Thanks to an experimental chemical injected in her spinal cord, she is able to generate a near-invisible psychic limb in place of her amputated arm whenever she can and needs it, which distorts light around it. Her psychic appendage is the same length of her other arm and is able to lift at maximum 900 pounds with it. However, she cannot manipulate the shape, size, number and length of her arm, and requires slight concentration to maintain it. She can make the arm disappear and reappear again.
+Superb athlete, martial artist, and weapons expert: She always has been an athletic type of person, excelling in various athletic disciplines such as gymnastics and track-and-field. She is also quite a suprisingly decent martial artist despite her handicap, proficient specifically in judo, krav maga, arnis and taekwondo, and equaling or even beating some grandmasters.
Equipment:
+Steyr TMP (2)
+.40 S&W SIG Sauer P226 (1)
+Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife (1)
+Retractable Hidden Shoe Blades (2)
Weaknesses:
-Bottomless Magazines still function like normal magazines, meaning they are meant to be used in specific weapons, will not work with other weapons of different magazine slots, if its not inserted to a gun and are only limited in numbers, really
-Bottomless Magazines do not alter the state of weapons, they only give it unlimited ammo. Thus, the guns themselves are prone to damage and overheating if the user is not careful
-Psychic limb requires a near-conscious level of concentration in order to maintain. However, if the psychic limb is used for too long, (4-5 hours above) it can cause fainting and even damage to the user's system
-Passing out, being taken by surprise, getting wounded will snap her concetration and the psychic arm disappears
-Technically has 100% Grade-A human physiology
-Each time the Bottomless Magazines are attached to a gun it takes them a second to generate all of the metaphysical energy and ammunition. It won't start producing bullets until 2 minutes after it has been inserted into a weapon.
-The Bottomless Magazines draw energy and matter from sub-dimensional parts within our universe. This means that very specific kinds of technology could track the magazines based on transdimensional energy release and if something disrupts these transdimensional forces (like a monster or another weapon) the magazines will run out of materials to make bullets temporarily.
Background:
Tanya Petrovich was born as the youngest of three siblings in Krasnodar, Russia (formerly USSR) to Boris, a KGB agent for the former Soviet Union and half-Japanese mother Yuriya, who had died in birthing Tanya. Her father became cynical and jaded at the news of her beloved wife's death, almost and abandoning and blaming the infant for the death of his wife. Her eldest brother's hobby Nikolai was hunting and biathlon, and in his vacant days he let her curious baby sister take a few shots of his rifle, and turns out that Tanya had a natural ability in marksmanship.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tanya was only three years old at that time, and the KGB dissolved along with the once mighty Union. Her father consequently lost his job and the family was struck hard financially. They had to sell their house and other belongings to avoid debt and moved to Siberia, where they temporarily stayed until her father found a job as a security guard in Moscow eight years after the Soviet collapse.
Tanya's father was a stern, but a gentle man and when he discovered her only daughter's talent in shooting, he gently pressured her to excel in not just that field, but also in athletics and academics. Her father no more less expected only the best from her children, and from a ripe age, he mentally and physically conditioned his children to become strong, even when before Tanya was born. As a result, he forced his children to perform strenuous exercises, and punishments for failing are severe. At point, an eight-year old Tanya was left alone in a middle of a blizzard night with only light clothing once when she had a low mark in a science test.
However, despite severe early training and brutal punishments, Tanya steeled herself and strove to be the best, and has always thought that others are better than her, and must do anything to equal and surpass them, thus developing inferiority complex at such an early age. Yet she truly succeeded athletically, particularly in biathlon and gymnastics and academically in her school years, but her complex has made her aloof and socially distant from her peers, especially in her early high school years.
In the third year of her high school career she and her family had emigrated from Russia to the United States. When she reached 17, she applied for the USMC with parental guidance, serving two tours in both Iraq as a sniper before leaving the military and heading back to her motherland, Russia. There, she was granted special citizenship and joined the Russian spetsnaz group OMON. Unfortunately in a counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya, Tanya was hit by a rocket propelled grenade while she attempted to snipe her targets. Fortunately she survived with her left abdomen and face luckily intact, her left arm however wasn't so lucky.
Her left arm was amputated, and Tanya was honorably discharged and was awarded with service medals. But then, not even rewards are not enough to stop Tanya becoming cynical and feeling lost. She wasn't sure if she was happy that she cheated death or not because she lost her left arm. Without the presence of an arm, Tanya found initial difficulty in doing everyday and household tasks, but she got through it and became accustomed to using and even reloading a gun with just one hand, even outdrawing skilled marksmen in a daily basis.
One day, Tanya would be invited to Geneva, Switzerland by a mysterious man in black who claimed to return his life back to normal and grant her powers she could only imagine. Being cynical in nature she mocked the offer and refused it many times before she gave in. After she agreed, Tanya was then escorted by UN agents from Russia all the way to an hidden metahuman research facility whose location was censored off the map. It was only when she arrived that she realized that she will be experimented upon and thus attempted escape, although the guards prudently apprehended her with a stun gun.
Tanya then awoke with a rather odd feeling in a what seems to be a pristine white hospital room, contrasted by the mint curtains, bedsheets and hospital gown. She then noticed a weird, arm-shaped near-transparent psychic appendage distorted by the light, seemingly attached from the stump of her left shoulder. She immediately got up when he was greeted by the same man he met before. The man identified himself as Michel Doe, a UN Metahuman Deployment Taskforce high-ranking agent and said that she will work under him and the said organization, stating that she will report at New York a week after. Tanya gathered her favorite firearm and knife, twin Steyr TMPs and a Fairbairn-Sykes British commando knife which she received as a present from her father during her graduation day in Parris Island before she officially joined the USMC, and other belongings for departure to New York.
Once she reached the UN headquarters, she was called by Michel Doe to his office, where she was greeted by her new boss. Doe then presented four sets of Steyr TMP magazines and a SIG Sauer P226 with four sets of magazines. Michel Doe then said that these magazines are "quite special", for they never drain of ammo as long as the magazine is installed in the weapon. Tanya then asked what the hell did these magazines come from, and whether her boss was bluffing or not. Doe then calmly responded that each magazine contained a nano-tunneling device of alien origin, with storage capacity like a pocket-sized black hole. Skeptical, Tanya carried the pistol with the magazine attached on it and tested it in a firing range. Tanya fired 10 shot from the pistol, all hitting bullseye, and noticed the lack of need to reload. There, she truly believed it and from that point she committed herself to the enforcement of metahuman laws as a UN agent.
Summary: Tanya Petrovich (AKA Curveball) is a former US Marine a skilled marksman that seldom misses and spetsnaz agent who lost her arm in a counterrorist operation in Chechnya. A psychic arm replaces her left arm and has firearms that never run out of bullets.
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