Doppel

Doppel
Author	/u/Argerro
Civilian name	Atalia Lisbon
Alignment	Hero
Affiliation	None (Devilfish)
PRT Classification	Changer 6/Stranger 3
Born	(2001-05-02) May 2, 2001 Calhoun, Georgia
Status	Active

Atalia is known as a quiet, yet brilliant CS major at DSU, so much so that the staff seem to want her to go onto get a Ph.D. there. Doppel, on the other hand, is something of a special case among capes in Devilfish. She seems to barely care for money, prestige, or power. When she is heard of, which is a very rare thing indeed, it is usually about her helping citizens against smaller time crooks, thugs, or capes. There have also been rumors of a new hacker in the corporate espionage scene based here in Devilfish, but there never seems to be any evidence of hacking or break ins aside from the stolen information being leaked to the web. Those that live near the DSU campus may have heard other rumors regarding large wild cats or wolves prowling the alleyways and streets of Devilfish.

Character Sheet

Appearance

Every form: Every humanoid form she takes keeps several hard to see tattoos, namely the current date on her forearm, and her blood type over her heart.

Civilian: Atalia’s everyday form is that of a 5’7” bookish girl of average build. She has blue eyes, freckled cheeks, lower back length dark brown wavy hair, and can be seen to have some curves. Usually wearing long sweaters, has some pretty good fashion sense, and big round rimmed glasses.

Cape: Technically she can take any build or form when she is working, but she favors a 5’10” athletic feminine form. Since she can change her clothes on the fly, her “suit” is her skin. She tends to make it look like a black, chitinous suit, with golden lines down the extremities and torso that all connect at the shoulder blades, and her face looks like a dark metal face mask, but moves like normal. This is, of course, all her skin and can change on the fly, but conversely, despite being slightly harder than normal human skin, still makes her take the damage directly to her body. Her utility belt holds her weapons, and tools. The clasp on the front is sturdy but quick to remove, just in case.

Equipment

Atalia is a firm beliver in the 'have but not need' ethos of combat. She carries backups for just about everything just in case. She feels that having the extra power helps her when her power does not b\make her a physical powerhouse like some other capes out there on the streets.

• Long fixed blade tanto

• Telescopic baton

• Taser

• Vintage Handcuffs

• A 1911 with all identifying info filed off

• An easy release utility belt

• Burner smartphone

Resources

Atalia is relatively well off due to her side work, great scholarships, and lack of spending her money on anything. Why buy what she cant fit in her dorm and/or doesn't need? So what she does have tends to be very high quality and lasts a long time. She only really ever buys something that she finds she needs, or her old version broke. She is probably saving up for her own place to live, but why leave the campus if she doesn't have to?

• A single person dorm room at DSU

• Personal affects (very high end computer, large variety of clothes, thousands of dollars in higher level textbooks for various tech fields, etc.)

• Thrift shop violin + maintenance kit

• Lockpicking set

• A motorcycle with license (Kawasaki KLR 650)

• The money she allows herself to spend from her scholarship refunds and from her side work as a hacker, professional voice actor, and vigilante

Wealth Level: 6

Skills and Specializations

• Decent at violin

• Extremely talented coder/hacker

• Well-practiced with costume makeup

• Training to be proficient with combat (hand to hand, gunplay, and melee weapons) at the uni gym

• Lockpicking

• Staying awake for days at a time and still functioning

• Able to comfortably move and fight at any size and shape she can manage

• Lying/Acting

Personas

Though Atalia can change her form at will she has 3 main persona’s she adapts. Her civilian, cape, and hacker persona.

Civilian: Atalia is a computer science student at DSU with a presidential scholarship and several other grants that pay her way. She is mostly unknown by all those except in the faculty but is well liked for her talents at least. Quiet and bookish, she spends a lot of time in her room coding, studying, practicing violin, and working as a voice actor over the internet for some easy money.

Cape: Doppel is cocky, sarcastic, and theatrical when in a direct confrontation with people that know she is a cape. However whenever doing her ‘hero’ work she is usually working covertly to infiltrate places she can’t hack into to get the information she needs. She tends to work alone but isn’t against teaming up to face a threat. She occasionally mixes it up and actually just patrols in costume to help people in trouble.

Hacker: Moonlit Sage is decently well known in grey hat circles online. For one, she allegedly was the solo operator who deleted, and subsequently burned, millions of dollars in student debt. Seen as a hero in certain circles who have heard of her work, or those who had student loan debt. Tends to crack into places to delete debt or release confidential information that she feels the public needs to know.

Mentality

Atalia believes in her heart in doing the right thing for others no matter what. Her first and largest rule is ‘help others, do no harm’. After that she completely believes in a person’s autonomy to do what they want as long as it doesn’t harm others. She sees what she is and believes that she has been given the power to do right by the little man that can’t help themselves when so many super baddies, regular corporate baddies, and government entities that wish to do them harm.

Power

Trigger Type: Natural Single

Doppel can shapeshift into any realistic, four limbed, biological creature between the sizes of a mid-range dog and a very large man (about 8 feet tall and very heavy-set). She does not create nor destroy any mass when doing so (her mass is set and unchanging at 135 kg). However, she can change the density of any part of her body, allowing her to make her cape form have thicker, tougher skin that functions almost like chitinous armor. Her power’s biggest drawback of only allowing four limbed creatures has an upside, and that is she instinctively knows how to move and function no matter what she changes into. She has very fine control of her changes, from the coloration, density, fur presence, teeth/claw sharpness, etc. of her shifted form.

As a secondary minor power, she is able to perfectly change her voice in any way she wants by shifting her mouth size, vocal cord dimensions, etc. This allows her to mimic someone, or something, perfectly as far as sound goes. Her acting ability allows her to manage the tone and inflection usually.

As a tertiary minor power, it seems that, as long as she keeps her head down, people tend to ignore her when in an average human form. Its not impossible to be seen or remembered, and it has no affect on digital media like cameras, but if she is dressed like a janitor and carrying a mop, the corporate suits and security will tend to glance over her. This does not count if she draws attention to herself, has a non-human form, or would be considered an abnormal human (i.e., a 7-foot-tall man).

Backstory

Atalia had always been a bright kid, and later, logical person. Her name used to be Alan. Alan parents were kind enough but were both narcissists. If Alan behaved, and respected their wishes, he was showered with praise and loved. He was never really happy, never quite felt right in his own skin. At the age of sixteen Alan met someone who opened his, or rather, her eyes to the possibilities. Alan learned that she was trans. She finally felt happy, right even, that she could be normal and have normal feelings. She thought her parents would be supportive, they had always seemed nice and accepting, mostly because she never questioned them or misbehaved. She was wrong. The disowned her, said that she wasn’t their son, much less their daughter, and to disappear. And so she did. Soon she triggered, wanting nothing more than to be someone else, be ignored, and to be normal. She Kind of got all three of those, in a way. But she knows that she will never be normal with her powers.

Extra

Credit for character art goes to AzakaChi-RD-17