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CHARACTER NAME: Katie Power | Energizer
SERIES: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Fantastic Four # 574
CLASS: Hero
BACKGROUND:
The Power family started off as your typical American brood; a freelance artist for a mother, a government employed father, four young kids, a little home overlooking the beach, etc. It was the father’s job that robbed the family of its normalcy. James Power wasn’t just any government employee, he was a scientist who had been working to create a machine to give the U.S. a cheaper energy source. However, Dr. Power was not the first one to think of such a device. Across the universe there existed a race of magic welding talking horse people, because Marvel is exactly the type of universe to house talking horse wizards, the Kymellians. They created a similar device in the past, but their device backfired and destroyed their planet which nearly ending their race. They only survived thanks to their status as a space-faring race. A Kymellian scholar, who was in our solar system to study Earth literature, found Dr. Power’s plans and tried to send word back to his people to get permission to stop the government from testing the device aka blowing up Earth.
The Kymellian’s communications were intercepted by another alien race called the Z’nrx, a race also known as the Snarks because Z’nrx isn’t pronounceable. The lizard-like Snarks wanted to use the device as a weapon and planned to go after Dr. Power in order to steal it. They try to take down the Kymellian and his talking space ship, Friday, but instead send them into the ocean near the Power’s home. It was here that the Power children, Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie, found the Kymellian. The Kymellian revealed himself to be Aelfyre Whitemane, nicknamed Whitey, and saved the children from the initial Snark attack.
Unfortunately, he was unable to save their parents from kidnapping and was too injured from the Snark attack to continue to help. Thus he used a Kymellian technique to split his magic powers and give them to the children so they could become saviors their own world, sacrificing himself in the process. The children used their powers to escape the Snarks , destroy their father’s device, and save their parents. In the process they meet some more Kymellians, one of which was Whitey’s father who adopted the kids as his grandchildren.
After that, the children returned home with their parents and kids tried to go back to normal. The normalcy was cut when their father’s old boss, Carmody, came after the kids, believing them to be mutants. He tried to kill the kids but his plot ended up failing. After the attempted murder, Dr. Power decided to move his family to Manhattan.
The kids took on hero identities and dubbed themselves the Power Pack. In their quest to fulfill Whitey’s command to be Earth’s heroes, the kids took New York by storm and teamed up with some of the big names in the crime fighting business. This included Cloak and Dagger, Marrina, the X-Men, New Mutants, and even a run in with Norse deities. After an attempted kidnapping, the kids make friends with some of the Morlocks, a group of mutants who lived in the sewers, and even took in one of their members as family.
Not long after, Carmody returned to get revenge on the kids. Carmody, going by Boogeyman, kidnapped Katie in an attempt to take out the Power Pack. The kids managed to defeat him and meet a new friend in the process. They befriended Franklin Richards, a child who can dream of event happening around him. Franklin wasn’t an ordinary child with abilities; he was the son of two members of the Fantastic Four, a super hero group who were well known in New York.
Franklin warned the kids about a monster who was coming for them and took them to find another Kymellian who had landed on Earth. This Kymellian was Kofi, a relative of Whitey who had come to protect the Pack against further Snark attacks. Right after they met Kofi, the kids were attacked by a Snark . After the battle, Franklin was made a Pack member.
Shortly after, the Power’s mother was injured during one of New York’s usual a super villain attacks, leaving the kids lonely for the holidays. As Christmas neared, Mrs. Power became desperately ill. While checking in on her at the hospital, the kids noticed a group of demonic creatures stealing infants from the natal ward. They managed to save the children and got involved in stopping the demons’ plot with the New Mutants. One of the New Mutants, Mirage, used her abilities to help Mrs. Power fight through her illness while the rest of the group and the Pack stopped the demonic forces from destroying Manhattan.
Months later, Kofi was captured by some Snarks who were plotting to start war between different factions of their race. After his capture, Kofi learned that his father had similarly been caught by the Snarks. Meanwhile, a group of Snarks went to Earth and were trying to find the Pack. They hoped to transfer the Pack’s abilities to their leader’s son as a way to in the war.
The Pack was kidnapped by the Snarks and became the center of the conflict. The children had their abilities temporarily taken from them but with the help of Franklin, they were able to fight back stop the war and bring a temporary peace to the Snark planet. They gained back powers after this, but they had switched what they could each do. In addition, the Pack lost Friday (Whitey’s spaceship) in the battle.
They returned to Earth and as the Fantastic Four was off being fantastic, Franklin ended up living with the Power family for a while. During his stay Franklin lead the Pack back into the sewers after having a premonition about the Morlocks. They went only to friend most of the Morlocks dead, including the woman they had considered like family. They managed save Leech, the child of the woman they cared for, and seeing his despair of losing a family member spurred Franklin to return to his family.
The kids then had a few little adventures such as destroying a crack house and helping a mutant get some self-esteem. Later the kids got back to serious heroics, teaming up with more big shot heroes. Then they fought Carmody again, who now had some serious backing to his plot to rid the world of anyone ‘different’. The New Mutants helped take Carmody down after he started kidnapping mutant children and one of their group used her powers to send him to Limbo aka the realm of those demons who had terrorized Manhattan around the holidays.
However, Carmody was not yet out of the picture. The demons in Limbo turned Carmody into one of their own and he returned to New York to continue his fight against powered folk. While the Pack managed to defeat him again, he ended up revealing their identities to their parents. This caused tension in the family as their parents had a difficult time accepting their children as heroes and eventually the New Mutants had to use their powers to convince the Power’s that they had normal children.
A few weeks after, while on vacation with Franklin, the kids were asked to go to the Kymellains for a surprise. . The Kymellians had been trying to revive Friday’s systems but there had been no progress since the end of the Snark war. Kofi was convinced that the Pack could help fix Friday due to their connection with the ship’s AI and begged the Pack to go to Kymellia to help. The kids agreed, managed to help with Friday and then got a drama bomb dropped on them. They discovered the Kymellains were the reason their parents had taken the revelation of their powers so badly. The Kymellian had been brainwashing their parents in order to keep the kid’s identities under wraps and any attempt to show the parents the truth would overload their minds. The kids were distraught at the revelations and escaped from the base with Kofi.
While they escaped their main Snark enemy, Maraud, returned to try to destroy the Kymellians. The kids learned of this while on their way to Earth and they turned back to help save the Kymellians from extinction despite their anger at the race. The kids ended up saving the day and switched powers yet again. In return the Kymellians started looking for a way to reverse the brainwashing on their parents.
Later, Franklin had another one of his special dreams that alerted the Pack to a possible threat against Earth. The kids went to space to check it out but accidently end up guiding a space monster back to their planet. The initially were helped by Frankie Raye, an old associate of the Fantastic Four, but her help against the creature soon turned to destruction when her evil side was unwittingly unleashed. While the kids tried to take down Frankie, Dr. Power and Reed Richards were off having coffee just a few blocks away and noticed the commotion. They came to the battle to help and Dr. Power is shocked to find his kids fighting. Across town his wife received a similar shock as she watched the battle on television. Due to the brainwashing by the Kymellians, the resulting mental backlash yet again put a strain on the family. It was also during this time that Franklin came to live with the Powers and Alex started to transform into a Kymellain-like creature.
After a series of mishaps, Reed Richards tried to help cure Alex of his current appearance and save the Power kids’ mother from her mental breakdown. This ended in failure and after trying, Dr. Power decided to send the whole family to the Kymellians in hopes their people could cure his family. The Pack officially put a stop to their heroing on Earth with that event, with Franklin leaving to live with his parents again.
The gang’s trip to space brought into light that their mother and brother were not being afflicted by any sort of illness, mental or otherwise, but that the two were actually duplicates made by a team up of a wayward Kymellian and Maraud. The Pack easily defeated the team and rescued their captured family members. During the battle they were able to switch their powers back to their starting abilities. After the battle, they returned to Earth and took back up their mantle as kid heroes.
The Pack did not get much of a chance to operate as a team again before Alex was called away to help with a mission for the New Warriors, another group of superheroes. Alex stole his siblings’ abilities to aid the New Warriors in their mission and while he was able to help, his siblings were none too happy to have had something so important taken from them. He gave them their powers back, but ended up stealing them again. Alex eventually left the Warriors after Friday was badly damaged during a Warrior’s mission and gave the others back their powers. The Power Pack became operational again and the Power’s gained a change in venue after Dr. Power accepted a job in Washington.
Across the universe, trouble stirred yet again with the Snarks as Jakal, son of Maraud, had returned to cause havoc on the Snark’s planet. Kofi managed to get to Earth in time to warn the Pack about Jakal’s plans, but their mother became suddenly ill which put tension on their departure. While on their way to defeat Jakal, they meet with some Kymellians who give them a new ship for Friday’s AI. The kids arrived on the Snark’s planet and began to fight their way to Jakal, but their individual personal problems with each other and their mother’s illness began to cause problems with their interactions as a team. Jakal is defeated by the Pack in record time, but after they returned to Earth the team disbanded yet again in the wake of learning their mother’s (unnamed) diagnosis.
After that, the kids all went off in their own directions with Julie leaving for California, Alex going for higher education, and the younger Pack members staying with their parents. Katie continued to do some hero work on her own and was offered the chance to join the Great Lake Avengers, to which she declined. She kept in contact with her siblings and her other superhero pals over the years, including old Pack member Franklin. In fact they kept close enough for her to come back to New York for his birthday, which is one party she didn’t see the end of as it is at this point she was pulled into the City.
PERSONALITY:
The most important thing to keep in mind about Katie is that she’s still a kid but shows a level of maturity of someone much older. She acts in ways typical of someone her age; teasing her siblings, obsessing over cartoons, and preferring play over working. But much of who she is has been shaped by her experiences as a kid hero giving her a more mature outlook on many things than would be expected of someone her age. For example, while Katie has some self centeredness about her that would be psychologically typical of someone her age and of someone who was the youngest in their family, she’s also capable of showing a level of empathy that typically doesn’t develop until children become much older. Katie reaching out to Annalee, even after the woman had tried to rip apart her family, shows this quality well. While she initially reacts with the fear and unease around Annalee, as expected from someone her age, she ends up extending an olive branch to the older woman after coming to understand how lonely the elder was. She even asks Annalee to join the Pack’s extended family, hoping that she and her siblings could help ease the woman’s despair. This is a very emotionally mature action for someone Katie’s age.
Her life as a hero has also shaped how she feels about herself. Because her initial and current ability of disintegration is so destructive, Katie has a fear of losing control and hurting others. Despite the fact that many of the Pack’s villains have done truly horrible things, she fears going too far with her powers and that someday she might kill someone. This fear was constant when she was younger, as several times she tried to take a step back and refuse to use her powers because of her worries, but has shown itself even as she ages. This fear is often exacerbated by her brother Alex, who often tried to direct Katie to use her ability during battles and made her feel more like a weapon than a hero. Because of this, Katie is not as active with her ability in battle as one might expect and she purposely tries to stop or trap enemies rather than actually hurt them.
She has a very complex but loving relationship with her family. She is very protective of her siblings. For example anytime one of the other Pack members is hurt, Katie will often yell at their attacker that they are not allowed to hurt her family. She is shown to love her family very much, to the point of willing to do just about anything for their safety and wellbeing. However, Katie is still a younger sister and is always willing to make fun of or purposely annoy her siblings. She also has a tendency to argue with her siblings, most noticeable her brothers, due to their dynamics as not only a family but as a team. She’s often annoyed with her older brother’s tendency to boss her around and her family’s treatment of her as a ‘baby’ because of her status as the youngest. On the flip side, she’s easily made jealous if someone else gets the attention that comes with being the youngest. She wants to be considered older by her family but still wants the perks of being the baby.
Katie’s love of family doesn’t just end at her biological kin. She’s fiercely protective of friends and loyal anyone she decides has earned her friendship. It should be noted it doesn’t take much to make her like you; she becomes immediately friendly with most anyone who shows her a bit of kindness. She often looks at her friends as a part of her family and will even go so far as to call some of her friends by family names, such as calling Annalee her grandmother.
Having skipped two grades in public school by the time she was eight, Katie proves to be intelligent when it comes to typical educational pursuits. She’s shown to be pretty good with electronics, as with her work with Friday. Despite being good in school, Katie isn’t always the best with thinking ahead. She doesn’t always consider about the consequences of her actions. For example she’ll try to disintegrate a manhole cover, not thinking about how that could hurt cars coming down the street. She’s a quick thinker on the battle field in terms of keeping herself alive, but still needs direction from her siblings to develop longer term strategies.
Katie does have a temper. She gets angry when arguing with her siblings and when she thinks someone has or will hurt one of her friends. When one of her friend’s was hurt her empathy will often fly out the window and she’ll demand retribution. Usually this temper is quickly cooled by the people around her and her temper doesn’t cause too much trouble. She holds few grudges, but when she dislikes someone she’s quick to let them know it.
Katie is rather brave for someone her age. This doesn’t mean she’s not afraid of things, actually it’s the opposite. Katie will get scared and cry at danger. She’s brave because she pushes past her fear to do what needs to be done. She has also seen some pretty horrible things in her time, from murder to war, so she has had good reason to be afraid. She’s mostly moved past all the things she’s seen and doesn’t often let those experiences affect her. These experiences do play into her protective side; she knows what can happen to people and wants to make sure those things don’t happen to the people she loves.
Overall, Katie is a cheerful child who’s loving and empathetic. She’s quick to laugh and tease and generally enjoy her life. She’s had more time to live a more normal life than many of her peers and that has allowed her to be a rather well adjusted child. She’s capable of being normal, having friends and doing typical childhood activities. At the same time, she knows how to conduct herself as someone with powers and exhibits the valor you’d expect from a hero.
POWER:
1)Power Balls: Katie has the ability to disintegrate matter and absorb that energy which fuels power balls that she can release from her person. Absorbing energy causes her body to glow and she has a limit to how much she can absorb before having to release the energy. For the game this limit will be set for matter half her size.
2)Accelerated Healing: All the Power Pack kids posses the ability to heal faster than that of a normal human. For comparison, Julie breaks her arm and manages to accelerate the healing of the fracture by a month in less than three days.
3)Instant Costume: In the Marvel universe, the Pack’s costumes exist in a pocket universe from which they can just call out and boom, instant clothes. In the City, Katie will be able to generate her own costume.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[Despite the name on the comm, it's not Katie that pops onto the screen but a furry gray kitten. It paws the screen experimentally and a fit of giggles can be heard the the back ground. The blonde scoops up the creature with one hand and adjusts the camera onto her with the other. She's grinning ear to ear.]
Look what I found wandering around the alley! Isn't he precious?
[She turns her head to smile down at the cat that's currently trying to wiggle out of her grasp.]
The last time I found a kitten on the streets, I couldn't keep him. But I'm definitely keeping this one and if my siblings show up they'll just have to get used to it. The thing is, while I know how to take care of a cat, I'm missing something important. A name. I've tried thinking of a few but I just can't decide. If this little guy was your's, what would you name him?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Katie walked down the street, trying to clear her head. It was hard seeing the same streets she had growing up but knowing that it wasn’t the city she’d known. It was even harder to walk past the street she’d lived on and know that if she went in, the friend’s she had in the building wouldn’t be there. There was supposed to be something comforting about familiarity, but the eeriness of this fake New York just made her feel more alienated. Katie knew the heavy feelings came not from the city itself but the lack of her family and friends. No matter where she had gone in her life, she’d always had at least one sibling with her and in this place even the familiar faces were not the same. Being alone, without even Friday to call on, was frightening to the young girl. But, she’d been through enough to know that crying wouldn’t change any of this. And while that didn’t stop her from shedding a few tears, it was at least helping her adjust.
She came to a stop in at the entrance to a park, one that was very close to the park she and her family had visited when they had lived in the Big Apple. The swings where a different color and less worn than she remembered but she climbed onto one anyway. She pushed off, watching a group of kids her age kick around a soccer ball just a few yards away. It wasn’t necessarily familiar, but it was normal enough to make her smile and feel just a little better about the situation. She waited until she was at the top of her swing and jumped off, using her momentum to run after the kids.
“Hey, can I play?”
FINAL NOTES:
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CHARACTER NAME: Katie Power | Energizer
SERIES: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Fantastic Four # 574
CLASS: Hero
BACKGROUND:
The Power family started off as your typical American brood; a freelance artist for a mother, a government employed father, four young kids, a little home overlooking the beach, etc. It was the father’s job that robbed the family of its normalcy. James Power wasn’t just any government employee, he was a scientist who had been working to create a machine to give the U.S. a cheaper energy source. However, Dr. Power was not the first one to think of such a device. Across the universe there existed a race of magic welding talking horse people, because Marvel is exactly the type of universe to house talking horse wizards, the Kymellians. They created a similar device in the past, but their device backfired and destroyed their planet which nearly ending their race. They only survived thanks to their status as a space-faring race. A Kymellian scholar, who was in our solar system to study Earth literature, found Dr. Power’s plans and tried to send word back to his people to get permission to stop the government from testing the device aka blowing up Earth.
The Kymellian’s communications were intercepted by another alien race called the Z’nrx, a race also known as the Snarks because Z’nrx isn’t pronounceable. The lizard-like Snarks wanted to use the device as a weapon and planned to go after Dr. Power in order to steal it. They try to take down the Kymellian and his talking space ship, Friday, but instead send them into the ocean near the Power’s home. It was here that the Power children, Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie, found the Kymellian. The Kymellian revealed himself to be Aelfyre Whitemane, nicknamed Whitey, and saved the children from the initial Snark attack.
Unfortunately, he was unable to save their parents from kidnapping and was too injured from the Snark attack to continue to help. Thus he used a Kymellian technique to split his magic powers and give them to the children so they could become saviors their own world, sacrificing himself in the process. The children used their powers to escape the Snarks , destroy their father’s device, and save their parents. In the process they meet some more Kymellians, one of which was Whitey’s father who adopted the kids as his grandchildren.
After that, the children returned home with their parents and kids tried to go back to normal. The normalcy was cut when their father’s old boss, Carmody, came after the kids, believing them to be mutants. He tried to kill the kids but his plot ended up failing. After the attempted murder, Dr. Power decided to move his family to Manhattan.
The kids took on hero identities and dubbed themselves the Power Pack. In their quest to fulfill Whitey’s command to be Earth’s heroes, the kids took New York by storm and teamed up with some of the big names in the crime fighting business. This included Cloak and Dagger, Marrina, the X-Men, New Mutants, and even a run in with Norse deities. After an attempted kidnapping, the kids make friends with some of the Morlocks, a group of mutants who lived in the sewers, and even took in one of their members as family.
Not long after, Carmody returned to get revenge on the kids. Carmody, going by Boogeyman, kidnapped Katie in an attempt to take out the Power Pack. The kids managed to defeat him and meet a new friend in the process. They befriended Franklin Richards, a child who can dream of event happening around him. Franklin wasn’t an ordinary child with abilities; he was the son of two members of the Fantastic Four, a super hero group who were well known in New York.
Franklin warned the kids about a monster who was coming for them and took them to find another Kymellian who had landed on Earth. This Kymellian was Kofi, a relative of Whitey who had come to protect the Pack against further Snark attacks. Right after they met Kofi, the kids were attacked by a Snark . After the battle, Franklin was made a Pack member.
Shortly after, the Power’s mother was injured during one of New York’s usual a super villain attacks, leaving the kids lonely for the holidays. As Christmas neared, Mrs. Power became desperately ill. While checking in on her at the hospital, the kids noticed a group of demonic creatures stealing infants from the natal ward. They managed to save the children and got involved in stopping the demons’ plot with the New Mutants. One of the New Mutants, Mirage, used her abilities to help Mrs. Power fight through her illness while the rest of the group and the Pack stopped the demonic forces from destroying Manhattan.
Months later, Kofi was captured by some Snarks who were plotting to start war between different factions of their race. After his capture, Kofi learned that his father had similarly been caught by the Snarks. Meanwhile, a group of Snarks went to Earth and were trying to find the Pack. They hoped to transfer the Pack’s abilities to their leader’s son as a way to in the war.
The Pack was kidnapped by the Snarks and became the center of the conflict. The children had their abilities temporarily taken from them but with the help of Franklin, they were able to fight back stop the war and bring a temporary peace to the Snark planet. They gained back powers after this, but they had switched what they could each do. In addition, the Pack lost Friday (Whitey’s spaceship) in the battle.
They returned to Earth and as the Fantastic Four was off being fantastic, Franklin ended up living with the Power family for a while. During his stay Franklin lead the Pack back into the sewers after having a premonition about the Morlocks. They went only to friend most of the Morlocks dead, including the woman they had considered like family. They managed save Leech, the child of the woman they cared for, and seeing his despair of losing a family member spurred Franklin to return to his family.
The kids then had a few little adventures such as destroying a crack house and helping a mutant get some self-esteem. Later the kids got back to serious heroics, teaming up with more big shot heroes. Then they fought Carmody again, who now had some serious backing to his plot to rid the world of anyone ‘different’. The New Mutants helped take Carmody down after he started kidnapping mutant children and one of their group used her powers to send him to Limbo aka the realm of those demons who had terrorized Manhattan around the holidays.
However, Carmody was not yet out of the picture. The demons in Limbo turned Carmody into one of their own and he returned to New York to continue his fight against powered folk. While the Pack managed to defeat him again, he ended up revealing their identities to their parents. This caused tension in the family as their parents had a difficult time accepting their children as heroes and eventually the New Mutants had to use their powers to convince the Power’s that they had normal children.
A few weeks after, while on vacation with Franklin, the kids were asked to go to the Kymellains for a surprise. . The Kymellians had been trying to revive Friday’s systems but there had been no progress since the end of the Snark war. Kofi was convinced that the Pack could help fix Friday due to their connection with the ship’s AI and begged the Pack to go to Kymellia to help. The kids agreed, managed to help with Friday and then got a drama bomb dropped on them. They discovered the Kymellains were the reason their parents had taken the revelation of their powers so badly. The Kymellian had been brainwashing their parents in order to keep the kid’s identities under wraps and any attempt to show the parents the truth would overload their minds. The kids were distraught at the revelations and escaped from the base with Kofi.
While they escaped their main Snark enemy, Maraud, returned to try to destroy the Kymellians. The kids learned of this while on their way to Earth and they turned back to help save the Kymellians from extinction despite their anger at the race. The kids ended up saving the day and switched powers yet again. In return the Kymellians started looking for a way to reverse the brainwashing on their parents.
Later, Franklin had another one of his special dreams that alerted the Pack to a possible threat against Earth. The kids went to space to check it out but accidently end up guiding a space monster back to their planet. The initially were helped by Frankie Raye, an old associate of the Fantastic Four, but her help against the creature soon turned to destruction when her evil side was unwittingly unleashed. While the kids tried to take down Frankie, Dr. Power and Reed Richards were off having coffee just a few blocks away and noticed the commotion. They came to the battle to help and Dr. Power is shocked to find his kids fighting. Across town his wife received a similar shock as she watched the battle on television. Due to the brainwashing by the Kymellians, the resulting mental backlash yet again put a strain on the family. It was also during this time that Franklin came to live with the Powers and Alex started to transform into a Kymellain-like creature.
After a series of mishaps, Reed Richards tried to help cure Alex of his current appearance and save the Power kids’ mother from her mental breakdown. This ended in failure and after trying, Dr. Power decided to send the whole family to the Kymellians in hopes their people could cure his family. The Pack officially put a stop to their heroing on Earth with that event, with Franklin leaving to live with his parents again.
The gang’s trip to space brought into light that their mother and brother were not being afflicted by any sort of illness, mental or otherwise, but that the two were actually duplicates made by a team up of a wayward Kymellian and Maraud. The Pack easily defeated the team and rescued their captured family members. During the battle they were able to switch their powers back to their starting abilities. After the battle, they returned to Earth and took back up their mantle as kid heroes.
The Pack did not get much of a chance to operate as a team again before Alex was called away to help with a mission for the New Warriors, another group of superheroes. Alex stole his siblings’ abilities to aid the New Warriors in their mission and while he was able to help, his siblings were none too happy to have had something so important taken from them. He gave them their powers back, but ended up stealing them again. Alex eventually left the Warriors after Friday was badly damaged during a Warrior’s mission and gave the others back their powers. The Power Pack became operational again and the Power’s gained a change in venue after Dr. Power accepted a job in Washington.
Across the universe, trouble stirred yet again with the Snarks as Jakal, son of Maraud, had returned to cause havoc on the Snark’s planet. Kofi managed to get to Earth in time to warn the Pack about Jakal’s plans, but their mother became suddenly ill which put tension on their departure. While on their way to defeat Jakal, they meet with some Kymellians who give them a new ship for Friday’s AI. The kids arrived on the Snark’s planet and began to fight their way to Jakal, but their individual personal problems with each other and their mother’s illness began to cause problems with their interactions as a team. Jakal is defeated by the Pack in record time, but after they returned to Earth the team disbanded yet again in the wake of learning their mother’s (unnamed) diagnosis.
After that, the kids all went off in their own directions with Julie leaving for California, Alex going for higher education, and the younger Pack members staying with their parents. Katie continued to do some hero work on her own and was offered the chance to join the Great Lake Avengers, to which she declined. She kept in contact with her siblings and her other superhero pals over the years, including old Pack member Franklin. In fact they kept close enough for her to come back to New York for his birthday, which is one party she didn’t see the end of as it is at this point she was pulled into the City.
PERSONALITY:
The most important thing to keep in mind about Katie is that she’s still a kid but shows a level of maturity of someone much older. She acts in ways typical of someone her age; teasing her siblings, obsessing over cartoons, and preferring play over working. But much of who she is has been shaped by her experiences as a kid hero giving her a more mature outlook on many things than would be expected of someone her age. For example, while Katie has some self centeredness about her that would be psychologically typical of someone her age and of someone who was the youngest in their family, she’s also capable of showing a level of empathy that typically doesn’t develop until children become much older. Katie reaching out to Annalee, even after the woman had tried to rip apart her family, shows this quality well. While she initially reacts with the fear and unease around Annalee, as expected from someone her age, she ends up extending an olive branch to the older woman after coming to understand how lonely the elder was. She even asks Annalee to join the Pack’s extended family, hoping that she and her siblings could help ease the woman’s despair. This is a very emotionally mature action for someone Katie’s age.
Her life as a hero has also shaped how she feels about herself. Because her initial and current ability of disintegration is so destructive, Katie has a fear of losing control and hurting others. Despite the fact that many of the Pack’s villains have done truly horrible things, she fears going too far with her powers and that someday she might kill someone. This fear was constant when she was younger, as several times she tried to take a step back and refuse to use her powers because of her worries, but has shown itself even as she ages. This fear is often exacerbated by her brother Alex, who often tried to direct Katie to use her ability during battles and made her feel more like a weapon than a hero. Because of this, Katie is not as active with her ability in battle as one might expect and she purposely tries to stop or trap enemies rather than actually hurt them.
She has a very complex but loving relationship with her family. She is very protective of her siblings. For example anytime one of the other Pack members is hurt, Katie will often yell at their attacker that they are not allowed to hurt her family. She is shown to love her family very much, to the point of willing to do just about anything for their safety and wellbeing. However, Katie is still a younger sister and is always willing to make fun of or purposely annoy her siblings. She also has a tendency to argue with her siblings, most noticeable her brothers, due to their dynamics as not only a family but as a team. She’s often annoyed with her older brother’s tendency to boss her around and her family’s treatment of her as a ‘baby’ because of her status as the youngest. On the flip side, she’s easily made jealous if someone else gets the attention that comes with being the youngest. She wants to be considered older by her family but still wants the perks of being the baby.
Katie’s love of family doesn’t just end at her biological kin. She’s fiercely protective of friends and loyal anyone she decides has earned her friendship. It should be noted it doesn’t take much to make her like you; she becomes immediately friendly with most anyone who shows her a bit of kindness. She often looks at her friends as a part of her family and will even go so far as to call some of her friends by family names, such as calling Annalee her grandmother.
Having skipped two grades in public school by the time she was eight, Katie proves to be intelligent when it comes to typical educational pursuits. She’s shown to be pretty good with electronics, as with her work with Friday. Despite being good in school, Katie isn’t always the best with thinking ahead. She doesn’t always consider about the consequences of her actions. For example she’ll try to disintegrate a manhole cover, not thinking about how that could hurt cars coming down the street. She’s a quick thinker on the battle field in terms of keeping herself alive, but still needs direction from her siblings to develop longer term strategies.
Katie does have a temper. She gets angry when arguing with her siblings and when she thinks someone has or will hurt one of her friends. When one of her friend’s was hurt her empathy will often fly out the window and she’ll demand retribution. Usually this temper is quickly cooled by the people around her and her temper doesn’t cause too much trouble. She holds few grudges, but when she dislikes someone she’s quick to let them know it.
Katie is rather brave for someone her age. This doesn’t mean she’s not afraid of things, actually it’s the opposite. Katie will get scared and cry at danger. She’s brave because she pushes past her fear to do what needs to be done. She has also seen some pretty horrible things in her time, from murder to war, so she has had good reason to be afraid. She’s mostly moved past all the things she’s seen and doesn’t often let those experiences affect her. These experiences do play into her protective side; she knows what can happen to people and wants to make sure those things don’t happen to the people she loves.
Overall, Katie is a cheerful child who’s loving and empathetic. She’s quick to laugh and tease and generally enjoy her life. She’s had more time to live a more normal life than many of her peers and that has allowed her to be a rather well adjusted child. She’s capable of being normal, having friends and doing typical childhood activities. At the same time, she knows how to conduct herself as someone with powers and exhibits the valor you’d expect from a hero.
POWER:
1)Power Balls: Katie has the ability to disintegrate matter and absorb that energy which fuels power balls that she can release from her person. Absorbing energy causes her body to glow and she has a limit to how much she can absorb before having to release the energy. For the game this limit will be set for matter half her size.
2)Accelerated Healing: All the Power Pack kids posses the ability to heal faster than that of a normal human. For comparison, Julie breaks her arm and manages to accelerate the healing of the fracture by a month in less than three days.
3)Instant Costume: In the Marvel universe, the Pack’s costumes exist in a pocket universe from which they can just call out and boom, instant clothes. In the City, Katie will be able to generate her own costume.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[Despite the name on the comm, it's not Katie that pops onto the screen but a furry gray kitten. It paws the screen experimentally and a fit of giggles can be heard the the back ground. The blonde scoops up the creature with one hand and adjusts the camera onto her with the other. She's grinning ear to ear.]
Look what I found wandering around the alley! Isn't he precious?
[She turns her head to smile down at the cat that's currently trying to wiggle out of her grasp.]
The last time I found a kitten on the streets, I couldn't keep him. But I'm definitely keeping this one and if my siblings show up they'll just have to get used to it. The thing is, while I know how to take care of a cat, I'm missing something important. A name. I've tried thinking of a few but I just can't decide. If this little guy was your's, what would you name him?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Katie walked down the street, trying to clear her head. It was hard seeing the same streets she had growing up but knowing that it wasn’t the city she’d known. It was even harder to walk past the street she’d lived on and know that if she went in, the friend’s she had in the building wouldn’t be there. There was supposed to be something comforting about familiarity, but the eeriness of this fake New York just made her feel more alienated. Katie knew the heavy feelings came not from the city itself but the lack of her family and friends. No matter where she had gone in her life, she’d always had at least one sibling with her and in this place even the familiar faces were not the same. Being alone, without even Friday to call on, was frightening to the young girl. But, she’d been through enough to know that crying wouldn’t change any of this. And while that didn’t stop her from shedding a few tears, it was at least helping her adjust.
She came to a stop in at the entrance to a park, one that was very close to the park she and her family had visited when they had lived in the Big Apple. The swings where a different color and less worn than she remembered but she climbed onto one anyway. She pushed off, watching a group of kids her age kick around a soccer ball just a few yards away. It wasn’t necessarily familiar, but it was normal enough to make her smile and feel just a little better about the situation. She waited until she was at the top of her swing and jumped off, using her momentum to run after the kids.
“Hey, can I play?”
FINAL NOTES:
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