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Character Name: Cerise Alternate Identities: Unknown Player Name: NPC |
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| APPEARANCE | |||||
| Hair Color: | White/pink/maroon/black | ||||
| Eye Color: | Violet | ||||
| Height: | 5' 11" | ||||
| Weight: | 125 lbs | ||||
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| Cerise is an attractive female of an unknown race that appears human save for the variegated feathers she sports in place of hair. | |||||
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Cerise is a native of the planet Shaskofrugnon, one of many planets in the galaxy ruled by the alien Shi’ar. Little has been revealed about her home planet, though Cerise has mentioned that neither males nor females on her planet form emotional bonds. She was startled to see children on Earth as her people emerge fully grown from the Source, which may be some form of artificial procreation. Sometime after she emerged from the Source, Cerise became a warrior of the Grand Jhar and served as a navigator on a Shi’ar encruitment ship. Their mission was to recruit planets in the outlying regions of the star system to join the Shi’ar Empire. Cerise’s commanding officer C’Efn was a cruel man who preferred to recruit new races through brutal shows of force, rather than peaceful enlightenment as was their charter. During Cerise’s first mission aboard the S.G.E. encruitment ship, she watched in horror as C’Efn destroyed the ruling city of the Knsashii, a peace-loving porpoise-like people. Cerise confronted C’Efn who laughed at her compassion and naiveté and ordered her back to the ship. At that moment, Cerise knew that she had to do something to stop C’Efn before he destroyed more worlds. Despite her objections, C’Efn continued his attack on the planet. Cerise watched helplessly as millions were slaughtered. She had failed to save the Knsashiians but had a plan to ensure that no further worlds suffered. Cerise programmed the ship’s navigational computers to pilot it into a nearby sun. She recorded a confession accepting responsibility for the death of her crewmates, donned a deep space suit and escaped in a shuttle. Cerise had intended to pilot herself to the nearest Shi’ar outpost and inform Empress Lilandra of C’Efn’s campaign of terror. But in the course of making her escape, Cerise’s craft was hit by a solar flare and thrown off course. She passed through a stargate and found herself in orbit around Earth. Teleporting to the surface, Cerise arrived in the lighthouse home of Excalibur. Her explosive arrival and the decidedly alien appearance of her armor led the Technet, who were training with Nightcrawler, to attack her. Cerise defended herself while trying not to harm the Technet. When Nightcrawler recognized this and tried communicating with the intruder, Cerise removed her helmet and introduced herself. She asked which of the various creatures present represented the planet’s dominant species. Nightcrawler replied “Humans.” Ironically, Cerise looked more human than any of them. Cerise fabricated a story regarding her arrival there, portraying herself as a stranded explorer from a distant system seeking fun and adventure. |
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A genetically engineered member of an unidentified race (possibly a Shi’ar, but certainly a subject of the Shi’ar Empire), Cerise’s physique is more robust than humans, and she has the ability to generate and manipulate energy fields of coherent light. She can use that to dazzle opponents, as a blast of pure energy, or form solid objects such as swords, force fields, shields, funnels and more.?At one point she flew a 10 ton Sentinel shell across the Atlantic Ocean, with 10 other passengers inside it.?She can also fly under her own power, and hold her breath for 6 or 7 minutes. Part of her Transit Suit (which was burned out on her first appearance) are the Battle Dress Gloves, which she now wears separately.?These contain broad-band sensor arrays, allowing her to search for specific life forms, energies, and temporal/dimensional anomalies. Cerise has had military and combat training from the Shi’ar, and is a skilled starship navigator and pilot. Note: As with all Marvel characters, I have had to make a few assuptions with the build to make ths character more 'survivable'. In this case adding a Force Field that she can put up at the cost of offensive power. She uses 30 points of the Multipower pool for defense and reduces her attacks to 60 points to compensate necessitating those power be 'm' slots rather than 'u' slots. Note 2: Originally I wrote her up with her Battledress Armor but removed it as it was never seen again after her first appearance. |
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Engineered to be a soldier, calm and professional in action, Cerise nevertheless seeks a more peaceful life, and would rather avoid violence if possible. She found her urges to protect innocents greater than the loyalty to the army she had been born and indoctrinated into. Friendly and a loyal team mate, she was nevertheless quiet on the subject of her past. She found life on Earth strange, and would often be confused by local customs, although she did develop a liking for the ’lip-massage' greeting. |
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