App 2.0
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Kitty
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: quipquipquip
IM: hulkkeysmash
E-MAIL: iwillactuallycheckthis at gmail dot com
RETURNING: Y, with Nico Minoru, Bruce Banner, Anya Corazon, and Toro Raymond.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Virginia "Pepper" Potts
FANDOM: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Directly after Iron Man vol 3 issue 69. Her original app had her at Vol 3 issue 58, so this will be a slight time jump.
BACKGROUND:
Once upon a time, there was a brilliant young businessman named Tony Stark. He was, as any good brilliant young businessman is, as egotistical and good looking as he was wealthy. He rarely made mistakes, but when he did they were usually caught up in the jaws of the media and lauded around like a head on top of a pike. Though he was a technical genius, Tony made a mistake in his financial tallyings that would have lost his company a great deal of money---a mistake that a low-ladder-rung employee named Virginia Potts caught and brought to his attention, thereby adverting disaster.
Impressed with her abilities, Tony offered her a position as his personal secretary. Virginia accepted, and it was the beginning of a beautiful relationship of her keeping her alcoholic employer afloat and in line. It was never easy, since she had the luck of having a boss who moonlighted as a superhero, but she took it relatively in-stride and didn't threaten to quit more than once or twice a week.
Eventually, Pepper found herself in a sort of triangle romance between Tony and another one of his employees, Happy Hogan. She married Happy, but still carried something of an implied flame for Stark as well. Hers was a complex life, full of fourteen hour days of babysitting her boss-cum-hero, but it was a good one despite the things that Tony did to himself. Between finding that her husband was cheating on her (or so she thought), one of Tony's suits of armor gaining sentience and then giving him a mechanical heart, and dealing with Tony's crazy Asian girlfriend/plethora of enemies, Pepper was always on her toes.
Just before the point I pulled her from, she had lost the only child she had ever conceived due to one of Tony's enemies beating her within an inch of her life. She had recently reconciled with her ex-husband, and had yet to tell him. Happy drank heavily during this time, distancing himself from her further and further until Tony finally told him about the baby. It betrayed Pepper's trust in a fundamental way, and she gave up information on him---as well as a mechanism that automatically shut down the Iron Man armor---when the police put the screws to her. They've since reconciled, but it was one of the first times that Pepper went against Tony's wishes.
PERSONALITY:
Pepper Potts will not take any of your guff. That is the core of her personality: she is smart, capable, stable, and she knows it. She can fix mistakes in Tony Stark's accounting (no, really), pull incriminating shots from a two-page spread about whatever Tony's done this week, talk down even the ballsiest papaprazzo, and do it all in two inch heels. Multitasking as the long-suffering secretary of Tony Stark and Iron Man's best friend, she has had her work cut out for her for years. She may be working in a man's world, but she has never had any intention of being stepped on by anyone.
There are two people in Pepper's life who have shaped it. Her relationships with the incorrigible playboy Tony Stark has monopolized most of her adult life; she started out working for Stark as a nobody, but he quickly pulled her out of the line as somebody to him---but never defined exactly what. She has worked---and overworked---herself for years, part out of maternal obligation to a man so obviously incapable of lasting relationships and part out of love. She is just that kind of woman. Her loyalty and stubbornness know no bounds, but she is nothing if not practical. Instead of going for the rich boy, she went for the tough-luck ex-prize-fighter, Happy Hogan. The gyrating relationship of friendship and attraction between the three of them has built Pepper into being the woman she is today.
POWER:
Limited technopathy: Pepper is not a computer genius by any means, but being in Tony's circle means that you know your way around a keyboard. In an effort to help boost her to Tony's level, she will have LIMITED technopathic abilities. Basically, she'll be able to mentally make a computer do what she thinks it is capable of. Her view on technology is advanced, but still set in 2001. She will be able to view the Network, monitor what Tony allows her to, and do her work 600% more efficiently.
Off-button: This power is permissions-only. When she reaches a certain level of emotional turmoil, she can essentially signal electronics to turn themselves off. It is very limited and takes a lot of concentration. It's a sympathetic ability that will take Pepper a long time to fully understand and control. If she is attacked, only the most immediate threat will be disarmed. The effects last anywhere between two minutes and five hours, depending on the sophistication of the machine she shut down.
Tony homing: her original power at C&C; the ability to know where Tony is by intuition.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
Original entry post
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Sample Third Person Log with Tony Stark
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
All Tony-related power upgrades have, as usual, been cleared with Jill first!