Realistic or Modern Astra Angels: Virago | Characters

[Kanyayon]

[B]Name:[/B]

[B]Codename:[/B] -Astra Angel name (if applicable). Astra Angel names are always prefixed with "Astra"-

[B]Age:[/B] -At least legal age if an Astral Angel-

[B]Appearance:[/B] -How they look when not transformed-

[B]Biography: [/B]

[B]Favourite Merchandise:[/B] -Which piece of self merchandise they like best-

[B]Least Favourite Merchandise:[/B] -Which piece of self merchandise they like least, or even hate-

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[B]Star Disk:[/B] -The Pangaean star it is representative of-

[B]Armour Appearance:[/B] -How they look when transformed-

[B]Weapon: [/B]

[B]Abilities:[/B] -Passive and active powers that aren't the big shouty attacks. Maximum 3-

[B]Finisher:[/B] -The big shouty called attack that usually finishes off monsters. Maximum 2-

 

[Kanyayon]

Name: Maria Isabel Liliana Saya Hazuki

Codename: Astra Arachne

Age: 24

Appearance: Maria is tall and curvaceous, though the latter is hard to tell of late due to her choice of clothes. She favours deathrock/horror punk fashion, usually going out in studded leather jackets over oversized shirts and combat pants with steel-toed boots. She wears her black hair in a devilock with a long, thin fringe that reaches to her sternum. She alternates between no makeup and extremely brash smeary makeup.

Biography: Maria comes from a Japanese-Argentine family in California and was a history major when she decided to answer a casting call for Astra Angels. Excited at the prospect of a career in acting, at the promise of adventure, and at the chance to do good work saving lives, she gave no second thought to signing a contract with TNW. She was assigned to Astar Angels: Siren, which aired on Napalm, TNW's "manly channel for men". Her first armour, and that of her Siren teammates', was hardly armour at all but a glorified metal bikini (the protests of the Lab engineers were ignored). Predictably, this very quickly led to injuries which forced Siren to go on hiatus for almost a year. Despite that, for the first couple of years, Maria thought of her attractiveness as an advantage she could leverage but the relentless sexualisation wore her down as time when on and after four years as Arachne, she gave herself a deathrock makeover. While others thought of it as a drastic change, she was always a fan of horror and dark rock music and looking the part had been on her mind since she was a teenager, which she never acted on due to shyness. Even so, it was the need to be insulated from the male gaze that set her off. That was not how the media reported it though. And the anger her unapproved makeover garnered from the showrunners saw her booted from Siren and redeployed to a new team, Virago.

Favourite Merchandise: Being included in Marvel's Spider-Verse and getting to be Venom

Least Favourite Merchandise: The Team Siren swimsuit calendar, the body pillow, or the statuette with the squishy boobs (it does not even make sense, her breastplate is solid). Any one of those depending on the day.

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Star Disk: Spider

Armour Appearance: Black chitinous plates with bright red trims, unfortunately still shaped to emphasize her breasts and buttocks even though there is an effort to protect her chest with a sternum and neck guard. Face is shielded by a four-lensed google/mask hybrid.

Weapon: Spider Claws - A pair of wrist-mounted daggers

Abilities:

• Spider Step - Superhuman agility and wall-walking
• Silk Weaving - Spinning spider silk from her fingers
• Stinging Needles - Fling barbed bristles on her gauntlets

Finisher:

• Venom Impaler - Arachne extends blades of miasmic astral energy from the Spider Claws and stabs at an enemy, then releases the energy into them for an explosively devastating result
• Creeping Shroud - Arachne summons a horde of astral spiders to overwhelm an enemy

 

[Sophos]

Name: Cameron Skysdottir

Codename: Astra Luna

Age: 27

Appearance: Tall and slim, with strawberry blonde hair in a pixie cut. Cameron likes to wear "mens" clothing, mostly because she looks damn fine in a three piece suit, but also because she likes flipping people's expectations of what an Astra Angel should be.

Biography: Cameron is, and always was, a "tomboy". Before becoming an Astra Angel, she was a fencing coach. Sadly, when she was outed as a lesbian, she lost her job at the private school she coached at. Desperation drove her to trying out for TNW's newest team, Virago. Despite her initial hesitation, she was welcomed with open arms, especially when they found out she already had "stunt" experience. She found it odd that she was given a moon-themed outfit when she had water-themed powers, but considering the connection between the sea and the moon, she supposed it makes a kind of sense.

Favourite Merchandise: The toy sword based on her saber.

Least Favourite Merchandise: The Astra Angel doll based on Astra Luna. The hair is wrong, and her everyday outfit is not stylish at all.

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Star Disk: The Sea

Armour Appearance: A suit of light plate, with a skirt made of the phases of the moon, and full moons on her knees.

Weapon: A fencing saber with a loop for catching swords and a hand guard shaped like the half moon.

Abilities:

• Rising Tides - Can control the motion and level of nearby sources of water.
• Ride the Waves - Able to run/ride on currents of water.

Finisher:

• Lunar Tsunami - summons a tidal wave to wash away foes.

 

[TrashRabbit]

Name: Xoana Doreteia De Luz Janota

Codename: Captum Viago

Age: 29

Appearance: Xoana is tall and muscular. She's an avid body body builder and it shows. She favors loud patterned dress shirts, jeans and large combat boots. She's not exactly fashion savvy. But when the situation calls for it she will throw on a blazer. She's mixed race from Brazil and her dark hair is long and straight but usually hidden in a bun.

Biography: Xoana is three things; A wrestler, a war journalist and a mechanic. She did not make the cut to be an Astra angel when she auditioned and looking back on it she's glad having seen the shit the other girls have to go through. However her previous experience running around Yemem and Somalia with a camera without getting shot paid off and earned her a call back for the astracaptum wielding camera crew. So far she's had a blast, being the main camera woman for six teams in the past four years. Her expertise in her niche field often finds her posted to the least experienced and difficult teams. She has a fairly good synchronicity with astracaptum even though none is usually required when hiring for this position. Her indie wrestler persona is a heel called lady Morte Denada. It is an off and on gig, usually she gets into the scene of what ever city her team is stationed in, there's not a lot of money it and she's too busy with her work with TNW to really make it pro so its a more of hobby that pays in spurts.

Favourite Merchandise: Funny enough there is a generic astacaptum figurate. It's got posable joints and she has two she leaves around her apartment in lewd positions.

Least Favourite Merchandise: she has secondhand cringe for all the Astra Angels in heaps and is blissfully free of the problem herself.

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Star Disk: none //in the future perhaps Effigy used to become AstraOcculus//

Armour Appearance: Astracaptum is utilitarian looking like some kind of modern body armor with smooth lines and hard edges. The armor is unisex and a dark sable brown with silver trim.

Weapon: Camera

Abilities:
Muliti Camera - She can conjure several different camera so as to film multiple aastra angels at the same time. She's the only astra captum to pull this one off. She's only done this twice and both times it was in situation where being able to see the whole team at once was of tactical significance. She's under intense pressure from corporate to perfect this technique and use it all times and teach it to the other astracaptum.

Finisher:
None

 

[theunderwolf]

Name: Sigrun "Siggs" Bach

Codename:Astra Valkyrie

Age: 26

Appearance: 6'5 Tall, far too many muscles, paint on her fingers so she wears gloves.

Biography: From Small town stupid Wisconsin, Sigrun's family never had any money and after the local Cherry farm shut down (due to corporate pressures if you ask her) Her family was stuck in the middle of nowhere with three kids and no money. Sigg grew up prettily shakily, she inherited her dad's viking stature (unlike her twin brothers notably) but much to her chagrin she didn't get the son replacement treatment from her dad, who spent all his time trying to get her artistically inclined brothers to do a football, when his daughter could beat every boy in the county at the 40 yard dash and most of them at the bench press. That along with the fact that she was over six feet by sophomore year and never had clothes that weren't a size to small made her life just not fun. Also she was bi in small town Wisconsin so she made a rash decision to join the army, after all, the pay was good. She joined the Marine Core and through general competence she was promoted to staff Sergent at 20. This let her send money home and pay the twins through art school (Geri is a pianist, Freki a graphic designer). This meant that at 24 she was honorably discharged she was broke as shit. But if she was honest, the next three months were the best in her life. She took a long vacation at home and her brothers spoiled her a little, which she resented. But She loved going to Geki's concerts and Freki taught her to paint some army men models she bought on a whim. However she had no real ambitions or prospects til she auditioned for the Astra on a whim. To her surprise she was accepted and even compatible. To her greater surprise her first team died around her a year later. Now marketed as a "scarred sole survivor with a grudge" Siggs is joining a new team she won't let die. Hopefully.

Favourite Merchandise: A company made a model of her that she got to paint in the colors of her favorite battlemace 400billion faction! Then when it showed up online someone gave it tabletop rules!

Least Favourite Merchandise: Her armor is an alt skin for D.va in overwatch, when she wanted to be a Bridgette skin. She has mixed feelings about the pin-up calendar.

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Star Disk: The Soldier

Armour Appearance: A close fitting suit with a edge of tomorrow style exo-skeleton

Weapon: Armory control: Siggs can use as many weapons as she can summon with very specific telekinesis

Abilities: Super-Soldier: When her armor is on Siggs is just, better. Not ridiculous but stronger, faster and tougher then she has any right to be.
Call-down Ordinance: Siggs can create weapons from the future! Usually this takes the form of some big ol machine guns (Since she can go telekinetic) But pistols, sniper rifles and pretty much whatever you ask for! As a general rules more small guns, less big guns, a floating minigun is her go-to. (Also it should be noted that her guns are just projections, meaning they can't be studied or disassembled, the soldier disk seems to not like the idea of being the source for these weapons.
Call-down fortification: Siggs can create terrain, like walls or sandbags or toughen up structures that already exist. This is likely her most powerful ability but it hasn't come anywhere close to being fully manifested

Finisher: Orbital Defense Systems: ONLINE: Siggs summons a massive orbital weapons platform and opens fire, raining all kinds of explosive hell on her surroundings.
Calldown Superheavy: Siggs gets a tank. This finisher is better b/c it doesn't kill everyone in a mile radius and doesn't knock her out for three days.

 

[theunearthlyfool]

Name: Wendelin Carsen-Baird

Codename: Astra Witch

Age: 26

Appearance: Short for an Angel, almost 5'5. Dark hair, cropped short and worn spiked. Wears black, square-framed hipster glasses. Dresses comfortably: flannels, skater dresses and leggings, tattered Converse. Wendelin is shy, bookish, and thrifty (not necessarily by choice)

Biography: Has few talents and skills, but likes to read and gather a head full of relatively useless knowledge. Good in school but not having any real ambition, Wendelin never went to college and just worked odd jobs until she turns 26 and can no longer use her mom's health insurance. Out of desperation, auditions for Virago and becomes a white witch/wizard

Favourite Merchandise: the Astral Angels trading card storage box that was specially designed to look like her spellbook (and came with a holographic Astra Witch card)

Least Favourite Merchandise: the Astra Witch trading card, which everyone knows is the most useless in the deck
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Star Disk: the scribe

Armour Appearance: TBD

Weapon: a fancy ballpoint pen that she can either cast spells with, or that changes into a sword when needed

Abilities: Grimoire- a spellbook released from her bracer that expands as she unlocks more of her abilities. Basically wild magic: Wendelin is translating the book as she goes and often has no idea what any particular spell does
With the pen she can take her own notes and uses it to study their powers, how the Astralectrix works, what makes them different from the antithesis, and how far it can be pushed.

Finisher: TBD

FC: Bex Taylor-Klaus (don't @ me)

 

[Graystone713]

Name: Unknown

Codename: Various news outlets are in disagreement about her codename, calling her 'The Pale Rider', 'Astra Bandit', and even 'Antithesis Law'. One particularly grim internet news outlet has even called her 'The Hanged Astra'.

Age: speculated to be in her mid-30's

Appearance: Appears to have a thin, gaunt figure with pale skin, long white hair, and glowing yellow eyes. There is evidence suggesting she may be a form of Antithesis-generated undead, but many dispute this, and one of the Astra angels who faced her claimed to see her as a 'hazy illusion', raising the possibility that any or all of these features are a part of her transformation.

Biography: First reports came in the midwest, reports of minor robberies and crimes being committed by what seemed to be a rogue Astra Angel, despite no teams actively operating in the area. These crimes quickly escalated as a former Astra Angels producer was murdered in his home, quickly followed by the public shooting of an oil company's former CEO. News stations across the country began rabid speculation on her motives and origin, with the internet following hot on their heels. Many have tried to link her to the KIA 'Astral Angels West' team, though none have been successful, and she doesn't resemble any of its members. Her spree of crimes has moved a lot since then, and she has directly or indirectly attacked several Astra Angels productions, noticeably focusing on assaulting higher-ups, destroying equipment/databases, and avoiding engagements with Angels where possible. Interestingly, she has also been reported fighting various forms of Antithesis monsters. She was last seen headed towards the city where Astra Angels: Virago is being filmed...

Favourite Merchandise: They appear to be collecting wanted posters they feature in.

Least Favourite Merchandise: They have been witnessed shooting out cameras and destroying video/audio evidence of their actions.

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Star Disk: There are no clear photos of their star disk, but the teams she has fought describe what sounds like the constellation Libra: The scales of justice.

Armour Appearance: They wear stereotypical western garb, featuring a black hat with a wide brim, a dark duster, multiple bandoliers (filled with real bullets) and a black bandanna covering the lower half of their face. This bandanna features faded golden marks that may be arcane in nature.

Weapon: Big Iron - A large 5-shot break-loading revolver. It appears to be heavily tarnished and features a bloodred star pattern on the front and back of the cylinder. Its magical bullets are seemingly unlimited, but seem incapable of dealing actual 'harm' to living creatures, though they can knock people out. Big iron, unfortunately, can be loaded with mundane bullets and fire them.

Abilities:
Trick shooter: Any shots fired by Big Iron, mundane or magical, can ricochet in extremely improbable ways. This allows the user to shoot around cover, hit difficult targets, and in one supposed instance, disarm three men with a single bullet.
Desert air: The Pale Rider seems to be able to summon magical weather effects of various types, all revolving around desert climates. Extreme heat, dry air, and in some instances, sandstorms have all been summoned by the Pale Rider. With the exception of using sandstorms to cover her escape, this ability has limited application.
Bounty Hunter: Though the mechanics of this ability are not fully understood, she appears to be capable of tracking targets in a supernatural manner. Attempts to confuse or confound her through veiling magic, teleportation, or other unconventional methods of transport fail. She can be delayed, but she WILL find her target.

Finisher:
Showdown: Only witnessed once, this ability appears to freeze time in an area around the Pale Rider and one nearby target. A copy of Big iron manifested in the target's dominant hand. Upon an unseen signal, both Pale Rider and her target could move at full speed. Upon shooting her target, his copy of Big Iron vanished, and time was no longer frozen. Analysts speculate that it may be possible to draw faster than the Pale Rider and shoot her first, but it is not known what will happen if this is done. Given that she has only used this ability once, on a non-angel, she may be aware of this weakness... Does she fear losing?
The Gallows: A lasso bursts from the earth and lands in the Pale Rider's hands. If this lasso lands upon a monster's neck, it will transform into a hangman's noose and a set of gallows rises from the ground, revealing itself as the rope's source. The monster will be dragged to the gallows, and the gallows will rise until the monster can no longer prevent itself from being hung. Once the monster dies, both its body and the gallows turn to sand, blown away by the wind. This ability doesn't appear to be able to target humans or Astra Angels, as the noose will be intangible to them. Especially large/powerful monsters may, however, be able to break the gallows or the rope.

 

[Nellancholy]

Name: Ess,or so she says (Her legal identity remains an affair between herself and the producers.)

Codename: Astra Delphi

Age: Mid 20s

Appearance: At full height,she is about 5 feet and 9 inches,though her hunched posture makes her look shorter. The initial detail one might notice is her asymmetrical dark blue bobcut,partially concealing an eyepatch over her right eye. Then,one's gaze might turn to her blotchy skin and pigeon-toed walk,the kind of detail that might'nt seem to fit an up and coming reality TV star. Typically,Ess favors loose clothing,sundresses,coats and the like,the better to obscure her form.

Biography: Coming from an impoverished background in an unhappy home,only to be invited by a charming older man to live as a kept woman in another country...sounds too good to be true,isn't it?

Well,he definitely wasn't lying about being a rich and influential businessman. He might just have conveniently omitted the bit about other women like her,invited home,meticulously operated on,and made up to be his personal retinue.

Whether through an unfortunate accident or genuine malice,the plastic surgeon paid to give her a new face and prepare her for her new,gilded cage ended up rupturing her eye.

Faced with a mark of such imperfection,her loving benefactor had her disfigured further and thrown out like so much garbage,confident that his position and hers ensured no further consequences for him.

Homeless,injured,and without an identity in a foreign country,Ess worked a few jobs under the table to survive,before the Antithesis emerged from the ice.

Staking everything on one more shot at a genuinely better life,Ess put herself forth as an Astral Angel. By some miracle or good fortune,she attuned to the Oracle Disk,and her new life as a protector began. As for her blemishes...that's nothing the makeup department and her armor can't fix.

In battle,she resembles a ferocious yet compassionate angel,a far cry from her meek,obliging self. But when the armor comes off,so does her strength. Only time will tell if her heart can be made whole again.

Favourite Merchandise: A limited run of painted posters depicting her mundane self,artfully hiding her damaged eye. Half of them now sit in a box inside her room.

Least Favourite Merchandise: Replicas of Astra Delphi's weapon,made into parasols. She can't bear to see kids swinging them around and breaking them,since they're nowhere near as durable as the real thing.

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Star Disk:Delphi,the star of insight

Armour Appearance: When transformed,a frilled white gown appears on her,accompanied by a light but ornate breastplate,faulds,bracers,and heavy boots,giving her the appearance of a cavalier of some kingdom in a fantasy novel. Her hair grows long and silver,her disfigured eye becoming whole. Her posture becomes firm and confident,making her very much a different person.

Weapon: The Eightfold Shard,a large lance with inlaid metal edges,resembling a large parasol. Like a parasol,it can open into a broad shield for defensive use.

Abilities:
Eye of Delphi: Her right eye emits a bright,continuous beam,penetrating darkness and illusion alike.

Empyreal Flight: Wings formed of light sprout from her shoulderblades,enabling her to take flight.

Finisher: Final Descent: Soaring into the sky,she points her lance downwards,letting gravity carry her down to pierce clean through her target.