Brenda App for Transmigration 9
Your Name: Zippy
Your LJ: lady_zip
Your E-Mail: m_w_zippy@hotmail.com
Your AIM, MSN, or Yahoo handle: LadyMWZip
Character's Name: Brenda
Character's LJ: shes_intense
Character's canon: DC Comics (v3 Blue Beetle)
Brief (around 300 words) personality outline of your character:
Brenda is for the most part a usual teenage girl, but one who applies herself to her problems and those of others with loyalty and focus that belies her age and lack of experience.
Brenda is extremely dedicated (Paco would call her obsessed) about her academics in particular, giving more thought to her future college choices than most 16 year olds. She channels those skills into research and organization on an epic scale when it comes to her friend Jaime's 'career' as the third Blue Beetle. She is also relatively skilled when it comes to hand to hand combat, having taken some martial arts and knowing the basics of how to defend herself or disable someone else.
She is vegetarian (has said that she prefers not to eat anything 'that has a face') and she tends to deflect difficult topics of conversation with denial, humour, or changes of subject if she can. Sass, well-channeled anger, and sarcasm are a vital part of how she copes with her life day to day.
At one point she had a rather pointed crush on Jaime, but that seems to have gone by the wayside as her life circumstances have changed. After the conflict with the Reach in El Paso she and Paco have been skirting around a mutual attraction that hasn't quite been realized.
Brief (around 500 words) history and background of your character:
Brenda has been best of friends with Paco and Jaime since they were all in kindergarten. Her mother died when she was around 11 or 12 and afterward an unstable home life with her abusive father left her desiring a sense of control over her life. As dad grew more and more violent and unpredictable Brenda responded by applying herself to outside interests with abandon, pouring herself into her schoolwork in particular.
Her life became increasingly chaotic and changed utterly when Jaime first donned the Blue Beetle armor and then disappeared for over a year. When the police questioned her about her friend vanishing Brenda's father concluded that she MUST have done something wrong and beat her so severely that she was hospitalized. Shortly after he died in a DUI orchestrated by Brenda's maternal aunt, Amparo, who was secretly the crime boss 'La Dama'.
Not knowing her Aunt's secret identity Brenda moved in with her and was just getting used to an entirely new life when Jaime returned. She quickly got wrapped up in his adventures as the Blue Beetle which resulted in her finding out about how her father had really died and what her Tia Amparo actually did for a living... Distraught and hurt she managed to forgive Jaime and Paco for keeping the secret from her, but she could not reconcile with her Aunt's way of life so easily.
She moved in with Jaime's family - the Reyes' - for a time and remained with them, caught right in the thick of it as Jaime's final plans took shape and the evil aliens known as the Reach tried to invade earth. She reconnected briefly with her Aunt Amparo when she called her for help during the invasion.
In the midst of the battle she was knocked out while trying to get Jaime's little sister Milagro to safety and after witnessing what he thought for a moment was her death Paco took a precious second aside in the midst of chaos and kissed her.
When everything died down they promptly denied the kiss ever happened ('heat of the moment right?') but it continued to hang over them as Jaime's post-Reach life propelled him into local-politics and disputes about border security. Brenda continued staying with the Reyes family, missing her aunt but reluctant still to forgive her way of life and associate with her again.
After Brenda and Paco spent a night in a hostage situation together with the new Dr. Polaris's daughter Paco spoke first on feeling that their connection during the Reach battle had not been a mistake. Although cautious and with sarcasm Brenda agreed to the modest proposal of a date with him.
The next day, nothing will be the same.
Sample post:
Example in a test-post here done for dc_nation where I have also applied for Brenda.
If the character has magic, mutant, or otherwise metahuman abilities, please explain: Unless being angry or a badass normal is dampened by the ship somehow, Brenda's powers should work fine.
Non-superhuman special abilities of note: Brenda has some reasonable martial arts skills and can typically defend herself without a problem against normal people and sometimes against not-so-normal ones. She also seems to have a decent knowledge of simple fire-arms (or at least how to hold said firearms in a threatening manner while being backed up by a dude with a stick).