Lady Victorious

APPEARANCE- Lady Victorious stand 6’ 6” tall. She has a strong physique yet still all the feminine curves and features of a beautiful woman of African American decent. She wears a white one piece outfit with a large red “V” over her chest and midriff, with a white cape, white gloves, and white thigh high boots. Her skin is a dark mahogany but she was short white hair and brown eyes.

BACKSTORY- Vicky was born in New Orleans before WW2. Her families, like most African American families back then, were poor and contended with the prejudice of their own skin color. But Vicky’s mother was a good church going woman, and her father worked hard in a factory to keep the family with food on the table and a rood over their heads. At a young age her uncle, a small time boxer, taught her how to fight and her grandmother taught her about her Cajun heritage on her mother’s side and about the proud history of her people and the city. Vicky grew up and worked hard to become a nurse, holding onto the do right values she had learned as a child. By the middle of world war 2, Vicky worked hard to sign up for the medical core and gained a spot in the European theater serving in medical tents meant for the few colored units.

At a medical unit near the front lines one night, the unit was overrun by a Nazi counter attack and the entire unit, including Vicky were captured. Instead of being transferred to a prison camp though, a few nurses and doctors were sent to a special field hospital just behind the German lines. The Germans had wounded and captured one of the Allies superheroes. That superhero was in critical condition and would die before any German medical doctors could reach her, thus the Germans were using the Allies doctors they had captured. They wanted the superhero kept alive for interrogation. This superhero was actually a French superheroine named Ms. Victorious. The doctors worked fast to perform surgery to save her, but Ms. Victorious was still in critical condition and the doctors could not promise that she would live. For their help in trying to save the superheroine, the captured doctors and nurses were shot, except for Vicky who was kept alive to monitor Ms. Victorious, knowing that even if the superheroine lived or died she would be killed.

While left unattended with Ms. Victorious in a medical tent, the dieing superheroine passed on vital Intel that had to be gotten to the allies. Vicky was told that the Germans were working on a new super soldier experiment called Project Woden, and experiment not to make just a super soldier, but what the Germans were calling a “God-Soldier”. She pleaded for Vicky to take her gear and try to sneak out and get back to the American lines. After pleading to Vicky, Ms. Victorious died. So dressing quietly in Ms. Victorious outfit, full face mass, and cloak, Vicky made her attempt to sneak away. Luck was on her side and she made it back to the Allies.

When she returned though the strangest thing happened, everyone believed she was the real Ms. Victorious, and the military had written of Vicky Laveau as MIA and possibly dead. Vicky could have come clean then and their, and told the Allied commanders the fate of the true Ms. Victorious, but Vicky decided not to. As she saw it, being a superhero, she had a chance of dong real good in the war. None of the real Ms. Victorious allies caught on to her the switch, and Vicky in her identity as Ms. Victorious kept to herself, only unmasking herself in private. Vicky could had learned French from her grandmother at an early age and could mimic a very passable French accent in English.

Now fighting along side other Allied superheros, she had managed to achieve multiple victories for the Allies, all the while investigating and trying to find Project Woden. But towards the end of the war, the location of Project Woden had been found, commanded by a German SS Commander named Krantz Reinhardt. A company of soldiers stormed the secret base that Project Woden was located at. The Germans were about to complete the experiment, so time was of the essence. During the furious assault, Vicky was wounded badly and evacuated from the fight. In the end Project Woden was destroyed, but Reinhardt got away.

Although Project Woden was stopped, due to being injured and the emergency surgery that was needed to save Vicky, her cover was blown. There was no explaining why a French superheroin that had been fighting at the start of the war turned into a colored woman who only arrived in Europe during the middle of the war. She came clean with everything, what had happened with the real Ms. Victorious and why she had kept up the charade. Some of her fellow superhero allies were angry at the switch (most notably the slightly raciest ones) and the military brass wanted to throw her in prison for fraud and going AWOL. But she had enough allies on her side to keep her out of prison, and she was discharged and sent home.

Years passed, the Allies superheros passed away, yet remembered at a memorial in Washington DC. But Vicky was forgotten by all but the true World War 2 historians. She had managed to eek out a living continuing to be a nurse in small clinics as her reputation in the war tarnished any chance at a real hospital. And Vicky would have remained a tarnished footnote in superhero history if not for the events in 2000.

Reinhardt had returned, and with the help of a fanciest supervillain organization, they were gong to immolate and complete Project Woten. Wanting to know more about the project, the modern day superheroes sought out the only remaining person who knew anything about it, Vicky. Now an old woman Vicky told the superheroes all she knew, but wanted more. She wanted to come with them to help. Although they questioned the thought of bringing an old woman with them, Vicky’s words won them over. To her it was a final chance to complete a mission she had started long ago, and redeem herself for the charade she had pulled taking another superheroes identity.

The new location of Project Woden was downtown New York. The experiment was about to be complete, and Reinhardt was the subject to become the God Soldier. The superheroes assaulted the wearhouse. In the fight, eldery Vicky tried to confront the elderly wheel chaired bound Reinhardt. During their struggle, Vicky was thrown into the chamber that would have made Reinhardt the god soldier. The experiment started up once the door had slammed shut behind Vicky. A massive amount of energy streamed through the chamber and through Vicky, and at once she was rejuvenated and empowered as the experiment altered her DNA to ultimate perfection. When the energy had stopped, Vicky tore through the chamber door and emerged looking young and strong. She quickly dispatched the supervillain forces and captured Reinhardt with great speed and strength.

Newspapers reported the incident, and when they interview the super powered Vicky, she told them her story that had started so long ago in World War 2, and that she would now be known as Lady Victorious. So Vicky is once moer a superheroine, this time protecting the American home front.

POWERS-

Flight- 10 (2000 mph)

Impervious Toughness- 20

Super-Speed- 6 (+22 Inititive, 120mph running speed)

Immunity-12 (Life Support, Aging, Sleep)

Power Lifting – 4 (200 k tons)

ADVANTAGES-

All-Out Attack

Attractive

Defensive Attack

Improved Critical (Unarmed)

Power Attack

Takedown

Fearless

Ultimate Effort

Languages 2 (French, German, Creole)

SLILLS (Rank (Total))

Acrobatics- 6 (8)

Athletics- 6 (8)

Close Combat- 0 (8)

Deception-5 (9)

Expertise (Military) - 2 (5)

Expertise (Science) - 4 (7)

Insight- 6 (10)

Intimidation- 6 (10)

Investigation- 2 (5)

Perception- 0 (2)

Persuasion- 0 (1)

Range Combat- 4 (6)

Slight of Hand- 0 (-)

Stealth- 6 (8)

Technology- 2 (5)

Treatment- 8 (11)

Vehicles- 4 (6)

DISADVANTAGES-

Motivation- Do-Gooder: Vicky was raised by a family that taught her that doing good deeds and being right and honest thing is the best thing to do.

Prejudice: Half of the historians, superhero fans, and superheroes with WW2 idols still believe that Vicky is a fraud for having stolen the identity of the first Ms. Victorious.