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Name: Kathrine
Age: 24
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IC Information:
Name: Galatea
Fandom: DCAU: Justice League Unlimited
Timeline: during her fight with Supergirl on The Watchtower
Age: Unknown literal age, but physically in her early to mid-20s
Appearance: Picture here Galatea is blonde with blue eyes and her hair is cut into a bob around her chin. She’s not the tallest girl around, but at 5’7”/5’8” she’s tall enough. And she tends to wear heels so she looks even taller. Her clothes tend to be skintight and just a little on the side of revealing.
Abilities:
As a clone of Supergirl aged to her prime, Galatea has all the abilities that she could have potentially gotten. She has super strength (semi-trucks? small buildings? Nothing to her), super speed (not as fast as the speed of light, but well beyond the speed of sound), super hearing, and she has super healing (hours/days what might take a normal human a few weeks/months). She is nearly invulnerable, but things like very large explosions or high voltage electrocution can still hurt her. And kryptonite, the given weakness. She also has a very high level of stamina (which means she doesn’t get tired easily or need as much sleep, part of why she dislikes boredom). Her vision goes from normal to x-ray to microscopic to heat/laser beams whenever she wants. And the flying, too. Gravity means so little to her. She also has a psychic link to the Supergirl of her world, but it’s been jammed currently for the sake of keeping Supergirl out of her head and vice versa.
Personality:
Galatea, when one first meets her, is not what you could call a “good girl.” She can pretend and she can play along to lull people into a false sense of security or to get what she wants out of them, but Galatea in many ways looks at other people as tools/toys. Her upbringing happens so quickly (from embryonic cells to adult woman with lethal powers in less than five years) that she didn’t have the chance to make bonds with a large group of people or learn to care about anyone. Her maturity level is a strange mix of high critical reasoning, adult responsibilities and childish egocentrism. Her priorities are herself and her mission. She was created as a clone of Supergirl so she could take Supergirl, Superman, and any other super-powered threat to the world down if needed and no one has ever let her forget that. So if she wants to amuse herself or do something just for the hell of it, she will, because she deserves a little freedom, don’t you think? A girl just wants to have a little fun every now and then.
Still, beneath her selfish and flippantly cruel exterior, Galatea is a person filled will doubt. The only person who really shows her affection is Dr. Emil Hamilton, who is also the one who headed the project creating her. She looks at him as her father, the person she wants to please more than anyone (except perhaps herself), but she also doubts that he cares about her and sometimes wonders if he only sees her as a weapon. The fact she cannot truly trust anyone around her in Cadmus is also part of the reason she doesn’t trust anyone else. She has lived with the fact that she’s a clone her entire life (few short years that it’s been) and thus in many ways she’s not “real.” But Galatea refuses to accept this and one of the reasons she really wants to kill Supergirl is so that she can be the only one, the better one. She knows she’s faster, stronger, smarter and more capable than Supergirl, but the fact she is a “copy” of her will always eat at her.
The only reason why she even revealed herself to Supergirl to begin with was their psychic link. Supergirl was seeing Galatea’s memories of training programs and murders she had committed for Cadmus, while Galatea was feeling Supergirl’s emotions and sense of camaraderie/caring for other people. It got in the way of her missions and made her hesitate in killing on command. Doing that made her a liability to Cadmus and to Hamilton, which Galatea was not going to let stand. So she made the choice to get rid of Supergirl, but it backfired and Galatea was severely injured.
Cadmus healed her and enhanced her aging even more so that she was at the peak of her physical development. Good thing to her, because she wanted to get even stronger and get back at Supergirl, but it also showed that Cadmus only cared about making her the perfect weapon against the metahumans of the Justice League. She herself didn’t really even care about the Justice League, no matter how often it was drilled into her head that they were all potential threats who could attack the Earth at anytime. She followed orders because that’s what she was supposed to do and it would keep Cadmus and Hamilton happy with her. When her own interests outweighed those orders, she disregarded them and did what she wanted.
Killing Supergirl became her own way of proving that she was not only real, but also better in every way. If she did that, it also gave Hamilton and Cadmus what they wanted, so to her it was a win-win situation. This shows that even though Cadmus trained her (and in many ways brainwashed her) for their cause, Galatea is still a person who can think for herself and will do so when she wants to. For Tea, it’s all about pleasing Hamilton (and Cadmus) and pleasing herself. Doing what she wants and when, because this is the only way she can prove to herself that she’s a real person and more than what anyone else thinks of her.
History:
To understand Galatea’s history, first you have to go back to around the year 2000, when Darkseid attempted to take over the Earth by brainwashing Superman into becoming his right hand man. When this happened, the world was basically SCREWED. Superman did eventually get his memories back and stopped Darkseid, but now humans knew that even the Man of Steel who protected them could be turned against them. And they wouldn’t have any way of stopping him. Supergirl was injured during the attack from Apokolips and Superman took her to Emil Hamilton’s lab for treatment. At this time, Emil kept all of the samples he took from her and later on, with the backing of Cadmus (an organization that also had secret backing from the U.S. government), he lead a program to create superhumans of their own. Ones that would be loyal to the USA first and foremost and also there to protect the world from metahumans too powerful for anyone else to handle.
Within five years, they not only managed to clone Supergirl, but also use radiation and chemical enhancements to age the clone quickly into adulthood. Galatea was subjected to several different training regiments, including being trapped in a virtual reality room that ran simulations of missions for her to accomplish within a certain amount of time. She was an assassin and she learned well how to get the job done and stay out of the limelight. The problem was that in using Supergirl’s DNA, they basically created her identical twin and thus forged a psychic link between the two of them. Galatea suffered from nightmares that were truly memories and feelings of things that Supergirl (aka Kara Zor-El) had experienced and likewise Kara was having dreams that were also truly Galatea’s memories.
This made Galatea a liability because feeling Kara’s memories and emotions made her susceptible, hesitant to kill on command as she had been trained to do. So she made the choice herself to lead Supergirl into a trap and kill her. She even set herself up in an intimate relationship with a news reporter, just so she could feed him information and set up the bait. Only this didn’t work out because Kara had help from The Question and Green Arrow. There was an explosion when the base she had led them to self-destructed and Tea was caught in the blast. She was injured so badly that she spent months recovering. Cadmus decided that she needed to be even stronger and used chemical enhancements to age her into her physical prime, which is around her mid-20s.
She was still training and preparing when the Lex Luthor highjacked the beam cannon on the Watchtower and used it to fire on an evacuated Cadmus laboratory-a blast that also damaged buildings in the surrounding city. Cadmus saw this as a sign of aggression by the Justice League and called on Galatea to lead an army of Ultimen to attack the Watchtower. Galatea was with Hamilton and hugged him before she left, one of the very few signs of affection she ever shows anyone for her own sake, but he is the man she considers her father and how she treats him differs from her behavior with anyone else. It is on the Watchtower while she was trying to destroy the core reactor that she faced off against Supergirl again and even ignored a call to pull out of the fight made by Amanda Waller because she was so intent on killing her. This was the chance she’d been waiting for and she wouldn’t let it slip away again, although she would have been pulled into the Facility before the end of their fight.
Roleplay Sample - Log: (Canon-based)
Boring. That was the word of the day. And the word of the day for the last week. Tea had been trapped in the training lab repeatedly, forced to put up with mundane tests and exercises for hours and all she really wanted was to be able to punch something-or someone-until it broke. She would have been bored to tears if she ever cared enough to shed any.
“How long is this going to take, Doc?” There were several “docs,” but they all knew who she was talking to. The only one of them she gave a damn about-and the only one of them she could put up with for more than ten minutes, although she was sure the feeling was mutual. She tilted her head toward the observation deck from where she stood on the lowered platform, easily lifting the two-ton weights inside the reinforced container. She’d been holding them for half an hour already.
“Just a little longer, Galatea,” Hamilton always sounded so pacifying when he spoke to her and said her name that way. As if he knew just how hard it was for her to stand still like that, but orders were orders and they both knew they had to follow through. The sympathy was nice even if it wasn’t what she wanted.
She huffed, rolling her eyes even though no one could see her beneath the bulk of the huge container. “You say that, but we already know I can handle much more. I’ve been healed for weeks now.”
There was silence from Hamilton, but she could hear them puttering around up there. The glass wasn’t as sound proof as they would like to think. Better for her.
“We need to make sure that the enhancement process didn’t negatively affect your muscle mass and dexterity. We wouldn’t want you to get sudden cramps or spasms as a side effect.” Calm as always, he was. Sometimes it drove her nuts. Did he always have to be the voice of reason? Did he always have to be right? Must be a dad thing. Not that she called him that to his face often-ever. Maybe someday if she was feeling like giving him a heart attack.
“If we’re really trying to test my limits, then this sure isn’t it.” To prove her point she does a quick overhead press of the weight before shoving them upward, watching it shoot into the air as if they were a pillow and fall back down like a rock. With a quick flex she strikes out, punching in the freight-sized container and watching as it scrunched up like an accordion and ricocheted into the wall with a loud screeeeeee-BOOM. Oh hey, she could see into the room across the hall now.
There was a flurry of activity upstairs, voices shouting, and she knew the lab-coat rats were getting worked up, probably calling Waller already to talk about the damages. She shook her hand and then looked up. Hamilton was watching her with this look on his face and she almost stood straighter, less sure of herself. But she wouldn’t let him see that.
“We will proceed to the next training regimen. I’m sure you’ve missed the simulator.” She smirked and could have sworn his lips twitched in response.
“Just what I’ve been waiting to hear,” she said and then flexed her hands again, releasing the tension from them. She noticed something out of the corner of her eye and looked down. Damn, she frowned. She chipped her new nail polish. Guess she would have to remember to bring her gloves next time.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
Snazzy place you have here. If you like white walls and hospital food. If you’re wondering? I don’t.
[She’s pissed. Beyond pissed. This is the most ridiculous bullshit she’s ever been through and they had to pull it right when she was about to punch Supergirl’s head into a wall. She rolls her shoulders, restless, ready to get into whatever fight might be waiting because she is not staying here. And then she smiles like it’s a warning, not an invitation.]
Now if anyone would be so nice as to direct me to whom I need to hit first to get out of here, that would be great. If not, I’ll have to find them on my own and I might just have to punch a few faces before I get to the right one. Trial and error, you know?
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?
Galatea isn’t someone who takes being tortured lying down, but she’s also extremely stubborn and resourceful. She would survive it just because the idea of letting someone else get the better of her isn’t one she can stand. She can take a lot of damage, since she is nearly invulnerable, but she also has undergone a lot of training that helps her deal with torture and manipulation. At the same time, her emotional stability is depending on her own self-image and believing that she is truly a person and not just a clone. Anything that disrupts that will have a huge effect on her.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. None!
Name: Kathrine
Age: 24
AIM: N/A
MSN: N/A
Y!M: N/A
E-MAIL: spkathrine[@]gmail.com (spkathrine @ googletalk)
Are you new? If not, list your current characters: None!
IC Information:
Name: Galatea
Fandom: DCAU: Justice League Unlimited
Timeline: during her fight with Supergirl on The Watchtower
Age: Unknown literal age, but physically in her early to mid-20s
Appearance: Picture here Galatea is blonde with blue eyes and her hair is cut into a bob around her chin. She’s not the tallest girl around, but at 5’7”/5’8” she’s tall enough. And she tends to wear heels so she looks even taller. Her clothes tend to be skintight and just a little on the side of revealing.
Abilities:
As a clone of Supergirl aged to her prime, Galatea has all the abilities that she could have potentially gotten. She has super strength (semi-trucks? small buildings? Nothing to her), super speed (not as fast as the speed of light, but well beyond the speed of sound), super hearing, and she has super healing (hours/days what might take a normal human a few weeks/months). She is nearly invulnerable, but things like very large explosions or high voltage electrocution can still hurt her. And kryptonite, the given weakness. She also has a very high level of stamina (which means she doesn’t get tired easily or need as much sleep, part of why she dislikes boredom). Her vision goes from normal to x-ray to microscopic to heat/laser beams whenever she wants. And the flying, too. Gravity means so little to her. She also has a psychic link to the Supergirl of her world, but it’s been jammed currently for the sake of keeping Supergirl out of her head and vice versa.
Personality:
Galatea, when one first meets her, is not what you could call a “good girl.” She can pretend and she can play along to lull people into a false sense of security or to get what she wants out of them, but Galatea in many ways looks at other people as tools/toys. Her upbringing happens so quickly (from embryonic cells to adult woman with lethal powers in less than five years) that she didn’t have the chance to make bonds with a large group of people or learn to care about anyone. Her maturity level is a strange mix of high critical reasoning, adult responsibilities and childish egocentrism. Her priorities are herself and her mission. She was created as a clone of Supergirl so she could take Supergirl, Superman, and any other super-powered threat to the world down if needed and no one has ever let her forget that. So if she wants to amuse herself or do something just for the hell of it, she will, because she deserves a little freedom, don’t you think? A girl just wants to have a little fun every now and then.
Still, beneath her selfish and flippantly cruel exterior, Galatea is a person filled will doubt. The only person who really shows her affection is Dr. Emil Hamilton, who is also the one who headed the project creating her. She looks at him as her father, the person she wants to please more than anyone (except perhaps herself), but she also doubts that he cares about her and sometimes wonders if he only sees her as a weapon. The fact she cannot truly trust anyone around her in Cadmus is also part of the reason she doesn’t trust anyone else. She has lived with the fact that she’s a clone her entire life (few short years that it’s been) and thus in many ways she’s not “real.” But Galatea refuses to accept this and one of the reasons she really wants to kill Supergirl is so that she can be the only one, the better one. She knows she’s faster, stronger, smarter and more capable than Supergirl, but the fact she is a “copy” of her will always eat at her.
The only reason why she even revealed herself to Supergirl to begin with was their psychic link. Supergirl was seeing Galatea’s memories of training programs and murders she had committed for Cadmus, while Galatea was feeling Supergirl’s emotions and sense of camaraderie/caring for other people. It got in the way of her missions and made her hesitate in killing on command. Doing that made her a liability to Cadmus and to Hamilton, which Galatea was not going to let stand. So she made the choice to get rid of Supergirl, but it backfired and Galatea was severely injured.
Cadmus healed her and enhanced her aging even more so that she was at the peak of her physical development. Good thing to her, because she wanted to get even stronger and get back at Supergirl, but it also showed that Cadmus only cared about making her the perfect weapon against the metahumans of the Justice League. She herself didn’t really even care about the Justice League, no matter how often it was drilled into her head that they were all potential threats who could attack the Earth at anytime. She followed orders because that’s what she was supposed to do and it would keep Cadmus and Hamilton happy with her. When her own interests outweighed those orders, she disregarded them and did what she wanted.
Killing Supergirl became her own way of proving that she was not only real, but also better in every way. If she did that, it also gave Hamilton and Cadmus what they wanted, so to her it was a win-win situation. This shows that even though Cadmus trained her (and in many ways brainwashed her) for their cause, Galatea is still a person who can think for herself and will do so when she wants to. For Tea, it’s all about pleasing Hamilton (and Cadmus) and pleasing herself. Doing what she wants and when, because this is the only way she can prove to herself that she’s a real person and more than what anyone else thinks of her.
History:
To understand Galatea’s history, first you have to go back to around the year 2000, when Darkseid attempted to take over the Earth by brainwashing Superman into becoming his right hand man. When this happened, the world was basically SCREWED. Superman did eventually get his memories back and stopped Darkseid, but now humans knew that even the Man of Steel who protected them could be turned against them. And they wouldn’t have any way of stopping him. Supergirl was injured during the attack from Apokolips and Superman took her to Emil Hamilton’s lab for treatment. At this time, Emil kept all of the samples he took from her and later on, with the backing of Cadmus (an organization that also had secret backing from the U.S. government), he lead a program to create superhumans of their own. Ones that would be loyal to the USA first and foremost and also there to protect the world from metahumans too powerful for anyone else to handle.
Within five years, they not only managed to clone Supergirl, but also use radiation and chemical enhancements to age the clone quickly into adulthood. Galatea was subjected to several different training regiments, including being trapped in a virtual reality room that ran simulations of missions for her to accomplish within a certain amount of time. She was an assassin and she learned well how to get the job done and stay out of the limelight. The problem was that in using Supergirl’s DNA, they basically created her identical twin and thus forged a psychic link between the two of them. Galatea suffered from nightmares that were truly memories and feelings of things that Supergirl (aka Kara Zor-El) had experienced and likewise Kara was having dreams that were also truly Galatea’s memories.
This made Galatea a liability because feeling Kara’s memories and emotions made her susceptible, hesitant to kill on command as she had been trained to do. So she made the choice herself to lead Supergirl into a trap and kill her. She even set herself up in an intimate relationship with a news reporter, just so she could feed him information and set up the bait. Only this didn’t work out because Kara had help from The Question and Green Arrow. There was an explosion when the base she had led them to self-destructed and Tea was caught in the blast. She was injured so badly that she spent months recovering. Cadmus decided that she needed to be even stronger and used chemical enhancements to age her into her physical prime, which is around her mid-20s.
She was still training and preparing when the Lex Luthor highjacked the beam cannon on the Watchtower and used it to fire on an evacuated Cadmus laboratory-a blast that also damaged buildings in the surrounding city. Cadmus saw this as a sign of aggression by the Justice League and called on Galatea to lead an army of Ultimen to attack the Watchtower. Galatea was with Hamilton and hugged him before she left, one of the very few signs of affection she ever shows anyone for her own sake, but he is the man she considers her father and how she treats him differs from her behavior with anyone else. It is on the Watchtower while she was trying to destroy the core reactor that she faced off against Supergirl again and even ignored a call to pull out of the fight made by Amanda Waller because she was so intent on killing her. This was the chance she’d been waiting for and she wouldn’t let it slip away again, although she would have been pulled into the Facility before the end of their fight.
Roleplay Sample - Log: (Canon-based)
Boring. That was the word of the day. And the word of the day for the last week. Tea had been trapped in the training lab repeatedly, forced to put up with mundane tests and exercises for hours and all she really wanted was to be able to punch something-or someone-until it broke. She would have been bored to tears if she ever cared enough to shed any.
“How long is this going to take, Doc?” There were several “docs,” but they all knew who she was talking to. The only one of them she gave a damn about-and the only one of them she could put up with for more than ten minutes, although she was sure the feeling was mutual. She tilted her head toward the observation deck from where she stood on the lowered platform, easily lifting the two-ton weights inside the reinforced container. She’d been holding them for half an hour already.
“Just a little longer, Galatea,” Hamilton always sounded so pacifying when he spoke to her and said her name that way. As if he knew just how hard it was for her to stand still like that, but orders were orders and they both knew they had to follow through. The sympathy was nice even if it wasn’t what she wanted.
She huffed, rolling her eyes even though no one could see her beneath the bulk of the huge container. “You say that, but we already know I can handle much more. I’ve been healed for weeks now.”
There was silence from Hamilton, but she could hear them puttering around up there. The glass wasn’t as sound proof as they would like to think. Better for her.
“We need to make sure that the enhancement process didn’t negatively affect your muscle mass and dexterity. We wouldn’t want you to get sudden cramps or spasms as a side effect.” Calm as always, he was. Sometimes it drove her nuts. Did he always have to be the voice of reason? Did he always have to be right? Must be a dad thing. Not that she called him that to his face often-ever. Maybe someday if she was feeling like giving him a heart attack.
“If we’re really trying to test my limits, then this sure isn’t it.” To prove her point she does a quick overhead press of the weight before shoving them upward, watching it shoot into the air as if they were a pillow and fall back down like a rock. With a quick flex she strikes out, punching in the freight-sized container and watching as it scrunched up like an accordion and ricocheted into the wall with a loud screeeeeee-BOOM. Oh hey, she could see into the room across the hall now.
There was a flurry of activity upstairs, voices shouting, and she knew the lab-coat rats were getting worked up, probably calling Waller already to talk about the damages. She shook her hand and then looked up. Hamilton was watching her with this look on his face and she almost stood straighter, less sure of herself. But she wouldn’t let him see that.
“We will proceed to the next training regimen. I’m sure you’ve missed the simulator.” She smirked and could have sworn his lips twitched in response.
“Just what I’ve been waiting to hear,” she said and then flexed her hands again, releasing the tension from them. She noticed something out of the corner of her eye and looked down. Damn, she frowned. She chipped her new nail polish. Guess she would have to remember to bring her gloves next time.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
Snazzy place you have here. If you like white walls and hospital food. If you’re wondering? I don’t.
[She’s pissed. Beyond pissed. This is the most ridiculous bullshit she’s ever been through and they had to pull it right when she was about to punch Supergirl’s head into a wall. She rolls her shoulders, restless, ready to get into whatever fight might be waiting because she is not staying here. And then she smiles like it’s a warning, not an invitation.]
Now if anyone would be so nice as to direct me to whom I need to hit first to get out of here, that would be great. If not, I’ll have to find them on my own and I might just have to punch a few faces before I get to the right one. Trial and error, you know?
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?
Galatea isn’t someone who takes being tortured lying down, but she’s also extremely stubborn and resourceful. She would survive it just because the idea of letting someone else get the better of her isn’t one she can stand. She can take a lot of damage, since she is nearly invulnerable, but she also has undergone a lot of training that helps her deal with torture and manipulation. At the same time, her emotional stability is depending on her own self-image and believing that she is truly a person and not just a clone. Anything that disrupts that will have a huge effect on her.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. None!