Cracked
Control/Mez/Support

Secret Identity: Samantha ‘Sammy’ Finnigan
Age: Appears 13-29?
Gender: Female
Height: 5’4 – 5’8?

Appearance:
A Venetian styled porcelain mask of a sleeping woman is the first and last thing noticeable about her. The mask has a series of long cracks through it. This is all you ever remember about the “hero” known as Cracked. Does she wear some sort of cloak… What is her voice like…. How old is she?…. Is she even real? Your memory is always very fuzzy after meeting her and you are very tired.

Cracked always wears her mask to prevent people from dying. A non violent person by nature she believes in justice but is bitter and lonely. She can only make friends with supers and even they have a hard time remembering anything about her physically. If they accidently see her… well they will be having the same conversation in five minutes. Cracked often fully covers herself in order to have any type of conversation. She also often resorts to writing instead of speaking to converse. She has accidently influenced people when she was just trying to convey a message. So you can understand the difficulty she experiences when trying to make connections to other people. She can’t talk to them, They can’t look at her, and her abilities make any form of real relationship impossible.

Powers:
• Seeing any of Cracked’s skin causes temporary memory loss and sleep. The effect wears off within a few minutes if not looking at Cracked (like once the eyes shut from sleep). The more skin exposed the longer and more powerful the effect.
• Looking directly into Cracked’s eyes causes not only memory loss, but the brain of the person starts shutting down. Organs ‘forget’ how to function. Most non supers cannot recover from this effect in time to survive. Supers generally being hardier than the average person might recover provided their eyes remain closed while unconscious.
• If not looking at Cracked her voice won’t influences actions, but will affect the very nature of a person. If she tells you to move faster…. your speed is increased, if she tells you not to die…. your body will regenerate at an accelerated rate, if she tells you to leave her alone… you are less likely to approach her.

Interactions with Major origins/powersets:
• The closer to organic you are the worse the sleep effects. Fully technologic supers are immune to the sleep effect but processing information takes about 20% longer.
• The memory loss feels like “brain fuzz”. You remember what you do, but not why. You remember Cracked was there, but can’t describe her. You remember you had a conversation, but not about what. Even technology based supers get a heavy “static” that corrupts data about her. No known images of Cracked exist… or maybe you just forgot that they do.
• Cracked can accelerate her own body if she speaks to herself. She can bring her own body to the level of a professional athlete, but not anywhere close to that of a super who has increased body function. (Silencing cracked requires having a unique super power or removing her mask to physically silence her.)
• Cracked avoids physical combat if she can. Mostly for the above reason, but also because if her clothing gets torn… more of her skin is exposed. This furthers the effects of her powers, something she tries to avoid. (Physical combat with cracked is like fighting a teenage girl… not really dangerous if you know how to fight.)
• If your character is blind the effects are halved. You move slower and feel fatigued. A blind hero/villain will experience intense pain where their eyes are/were if they are ‘looking’ at Cracked’s eyes. However they won’t pass out
• If your character is deaf or currently unable to hear her, she cannot support you or verbally influence you.
• If your character has hyper sensitivity to vibrations it acts as having both sight and hearing.
• If you have a willpower power set you have a 50% chance to ignore her commands (if you want to). If you succeed you still lose some motivation to perform the action. (Only give 80% effort)
• The cracks in her mask expose roughly 10% of her face. This is the basis of everything written about her. If she is fully exposed (like at the beach in a 2 piece) you could lose 2 weeks to a months worth of memory.
• She is highly resistant to mez and control sets.
• She only has barely above human resistance to elemental and physical damage sets. The quicker the elemental power or harder the physical damage set hits the lower her resistance. (Lightning bolts would suck… a developing hail storm could be self willed to last through.)
• The strongest type of character vs her would be a tech origin super strength, super speed character. Or an extreme range/traps burst dps build.

Backstory:

Cracked turn the corner. They were still following her. “Go faster”, she whispered to herself. Tearing through an alley at a speed a running back would be impressed by she vaulted some crappy mini cooper. Behind her the minis alarm went off and a terrifying crunch quickly silenced it. Whoever had sent these demons after her wanted her badly.
Cracked ducked and slid under a minivan. She had lost most of the demons almost a half hour ago. They were bred strong, but not exceptionally fast. This last one however was keeping up. Cracked stood and was knocked to the ground. Her head cracking against pavement as the demon pressed its advantage. Cracked prepared for what was to come, she had been bested.
The demon lurched sideways. She had made it…. She was in Titan City proper. The male hero punched the monster again. It’s outer plate like skin denting in at least 8 inches. Monster and man slamming into each other over and over. Each taking damage as blows were rained down. The hero collapsed to a knee as the demon landed a brutal hammering blow on his shoulder.
“Win! Win now!” Cracked screamed out in desperation.
The hero rose, clenched both fists and swung with might even he had never experienced before. The robots torso caved. Fluids and meat spilling out on the street. The hero turned. He was dashing, brave, and strong. Cracked smiled and rushed forward to thank him.
The man collapsed to both knees, clutching his chest….. Her mask had cracked around the left eye. They had made eye contact.
“No, not them as well! Not the heroes!” Cracked turned and ran. As she retreated down the road to find a place to hide she heard the man take a heaving breath. She hadn’t killed him, she was so relieved.
Cracked sat down. The man wouldn’t even remember why he had destroyed the demon, or that he had saved her.
She was supposed to meet someone here who was like her, different. She just couldn’t remember who, or why. Cracked composed herself. Shutting her left eye she stood up and began to walk. She would find her place in this city. She had to find her place in this city…. Otherwise the grinning man would take her.

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