Age: 17
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Young Blood?: N
Bio:
Zoe Foster was born in Wilmington, North Carolina to Charles and Ava Foster. She has an older brother named Owen whom she looks up to, and a younger brother named Jackson whom she tolerates. Owen was the most gifted child in the family: handsome, excellent grades, talented athlete. As toxic as it could have been growing up in his shadow, Zoe idolized her brother. Owen was always kind to his siblings, taking them places they wanted to go and watching them when their parents went out. Overall, Zoe couldn't have asked for a better childhood.
Growing up in a mostly mundane but loving household allowed Zoe the freedom to explore things she was interested in, mainly music. In middle school she played in the school band, but graduating to her early high school years she moved to more... exciting genres. Zoe migrated from violin to guitar and started practicing rock music, eventually forming a band with a few fellow students from high school named Rampant Remedy. It was somewhat after this that Zoe discovered her powers, as someone accosted her on the street and tried to assault her late one night after band practice. She willed him to get away from her; and in response her powers reacted and blasted him back, leaving an indentation in the concrete behind her.
Since then, Zoe had been a delicate case. She didn't have complete control over her abilities, more or less responding to her emotions rather than her thoughts. Her parents tried many solutions: from getting Zoe a therapist to control how she felt to prevent any accidents to taking her out of school to be homeschooled for her sophomore year of high school. It was a lot to put on a teenager, and Zoe had a rough year following all of the change. The only thing that kept her sane was watching the heroics of the local NASL team, the Carolina Bluejays. Those people had control over their powers, and used them to do a lot of good things for people. Seeing the situation she was in, the Bluejays became a source of inspiration for Zoe to focus on and learn from. She eventually wrote a letter to them after reaching a point in her therapy where she was comfortable enough to return to normal life, telling the team that they were her everything during the last few months.
Much to her surprise, the letter got a response; the Bluejays showed up to her school to greet their fan. Originally organized as a way to generate more good publicity for the team, the experienced heroes were surprised at the capabilities that Zoe presented when she was in control of her powers. So surprised in fact, that team leader Hardlight offered the young girl a tentative position on the team, provided that she still attend school and get an education while training with the Bluejays. Zoe herself was surprised beyond words, but hurriedly accepted the offer, leading the potential hero to transfer schools to one near the team's HQ in Charlotte and live in an apartment partially provided by the team's earnings. She trained after class with Accelerator, a hero who's powers lined up with Zoe's in application, learning tricky ways to utilize the change in movement to confuse her opponents and even maneuver herself with her abilities.
Now a professional hero-in-training, Zoe is preparing to enter alongside the Bluejays in this season's first NASL meetup in New York City. It has been a long time coming, filled with ups and downs, but the hero Impulse is finally ready to step onto the stage and show everyone what she's made of.
Powers:
- [Vector Manipulation]: Zoe can manipulate the direction and magnitude of vector's affecting people and objects; in layman's terms: she can control the direction and intensity of an object's motion. This leads to speeding up, slowing down, or redirecting anything that isn't nailed down.
- [Inertia Manipulation]: By reducing or increasing an object's inertia, Zoe can make objects and people incredibly heavy and hard to move, or light as a feather with little resistance. The change in inertia persists until Zoe loses concentration or releases the effect.
- [Combat Training]: Zoe's been trained by the Bluejays in basic hand-to-hand combat and keeping her calm in a fight. Nowhere near the level of the more accomplished heroes, she can at least hold her own in a tussle.
Limitations:
- All the force Zoe absorbs has to be redistributed to things she is touching, or her body will absorb all of it, causing potentially severe damage. Things that a normal human could stand up to are handled without issue, but slow, gradual changes to vectors allow her to bear more of the stress, though there is a limit to her (by all other metrics) normal human body.
- Zoe can only affect the inertia of things that she is touching, though she needn't continue touching it to affect it.
Weaknesses:
- [Nothing Special, Really]: Notwithstanding her powers, Zoe is a normal human with all the weaknesses being a human entails. With awareness she can perform drastic feats or survive attacks she shouldn't, but not without her abilities.
- [Burden to Bear]: Zoe's powers seem like it would be hard to overpower her, but the core of her ability is that she still has to feel the inverse effects of the vectors she changes. If she has nothing to anchor herself to, all of the strain hits her body and (as above) she isn't immune to that.
- [Stay on Target!]: Zoe's ability to affect inertia requires her to touch her target and maintain concentration on the effect. If she gets distracted or knocked around, the effect will end.
Likes: Music, thrill-seeking/extreme sports, partying with friends
Dislikes: Bullies, sitting through boring lectures, the way Tiger smells after a workout
Additional Information
Birthday: March 31st
Favorite food: Chinese food
Greatest fear: Isolation
Miscellaneous info:
- Her favorite types of music are tunes that pump you up and songs you can relax to. Music that affects your mood and all.
