[OW M&M] Watchwoman

[z-Watchwoman]

Personal Information:
Identity: Serene Fathi
Hero Name: Watchwoman
Occupation: Billionaire Genius Philanthropist/Vigilante
Legal Status: United States Citizen
Marital Status: Umarried
Known Relatives: Jalil Fathi (father, deceased)
Allegiance(s): Alan Greene (man servant), New York City

Physical Traits
Weight: 149 lbs
Height: 5’9”
Apparent age: early twenties
Gender: Female
Apparent Ethnic Background: Caucasian/Persian
Actual Ethnic Background: Alien/Human hybrid
Eye Color: Red
Hair Color: Brown
Handedness: Right


Uncostumed Appearance: Serene is, in a word, breathtaking, as if she walked around all the time as a photoshopped model. She is tall and well-built, with gentle curves and some muscle. Her face is perfectly featured, with large dark red eyes and a full mouth. She has a trail of glowing spots that run from the outer corners of her eyes down her body. Because she doesn’t leave the house except in costume, she’s usually dressed in expensively comfortable clothing: cashmere sweaters, fine cotton shirts and professionally distressed jeans.
Costumed Appearance: Watchwoman wears an all-black uniform that covers her head to toe. The only definite thing about her is that she’s female, with the well-toned physique necessary to handle a vigilante lifestyle. The suit sports the Watchman’s lantern motif—like Watchman, Watchwoman “watches the shadows for crime.”

Powers, Skills, and Personality:
Known Powers: The one power she has is not used or talked about; Watchwoman has the ability to cause people to fall in love with her. The effects are usually temporary and fade quickly save in a few rare cases.
Abilities/Special Skills: Watchwoman is a highly trained athlete and crimefighter with an arsenal of tools to help. She is undeniably a crime-solver though, with tricks and tools to help her determine whodunit.
Personality: The young woman’s personality has been stifled by her father’s expectations and training. Even after his death, she can’t shake his plans for her. As a result, she’s somber and overly serious; without the need to pretend to be a local socialite like Jalil was, she doesn’t even pretend to express her emotions well.

Public Background: Serene
Little is known about the elusive daughter of Jalil Fathi. Serene arrived suddenly in the limelight when she was adopted by the wealthy man at a young age; no one is quite sure why the playboy bachelor chose to adopt any child, much less a one-month old one that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Her records were sealed at her adoption has created much speculation by conspiracy buffs who wonder exactly who this young woman is, and why the need for secrecy. Many people assume that he is her real father and that her mother’s identity is that of a princess or a married woman.

Serene was seen in public with her father until puberty. At age twelve, her public appearances were completely curtailed and she was not seen again. Rumors of a kidnapping attempt have led people to speculate that the daughter was injured and is being kept out of the public eye so she couldn’t embarrass her father.

Isolation hasn’t stopped Serene entirely. She started a charity group called the Serenity Foundation. While she worked behind the scenes and over the internet, Jalil managed any face-to-face operations.

Jalil’s death after a “home invasion” has spurred new speculation about the mysterious daughter. She attended the funeral heavily veiled, but she doesn’t appear to be disfigured—quite the opposite. However, she continues her previous philanthropic work through the internet, and her family’s faithful manservant, Alan Greene.

Public Background—Watchwoman: The vigilante Watchman had long been operating in the City; in the last two years, he’s been joined by another hero, one calling herself Watchwoman. Given the length of time that Watchman had been functioning at that point—almost twenty years—public speculation was that he was training his replacement.

Two weeks ago, the rumor started in the criminal underworld that Watchman was dead. This is possibly true, as he has not been seen in that time. Watchwoman has increased her surveillance to a degree, but the lack of Watchman-sightings has the criminal element feeling a bit bolder now.

Jalil’s Death
Watchman was out patrolling when he was ambushed by several criminals working together. He fought his way free and back to his car, which drove him home. He collapsed into Serene and Alan’s arms, and they couldn’t revive him. He didn’t even tell them who was responsible for his death.

His vehicles and most of his tools rendered themselves inoperable upon his death. Alan and Serene will have to figure out how to break the security on the system—it is Falil’s final test for his daughter. If she can break it, she’ll have the vast resources that Watchman possessed.

Private History: Father

Jalil Fathi started his career as the Watchman after the death of his Iranian American grandparents. He had already lost his mother and father to a car accident, so losing a second set of parents was devastating. This time, it wasn’t fickle fate that had taken them; it was a villain whose stray bullets had struck them. It had been a needless, tragic death, but the Watchman was born that day. Jalil dedicated himself to protecting his city, training to the peak of physical perfection and developing gadgets. Where those did not suffice, his indomitable will carried him through the day. Jalil is particularly protective of the TransCity line; his father funded the project and turned it over to the City after it had paid for itself.

He remained unbroken until he met the villainess Amore. She was running a simple scam to get men to supply her with delicate government information, which she then sold to her peers. The Watchman tracked her down and after a significant chase, cornered her. Her tears and begging didn’t pierce his shield of justice, but her pheromone-laden scent did. He was seduced, and she followed through, especially after seeing the handsome face under the mask. After he collapsed into a blissful sleep, she slipped out.

Waking up was an unpleasant experience. Furious, he began to research her powers and soon realized that it was based on scent. He got a gas mask to block her powers and went looking for her again. After months of searching, he found her, and she was pregnant.

The Watchman was shocked, but being as smart as he was, he knew that there was a chance he was responsible. He secured her in his secret lair under his house and waited. Amore had her baby there, and the daughter was tested against Watchman’s DNA. It was a match, and he took custody.

Amore begged and pleaded, and finally Jalil relented. Amore was allowed to stay in the house and spend time with the baby, provided she followed the rules. For a time, things were good; Amore was allowed to spend time with her child, named Serene. Watchman officially adopted her to avoid a public scandal, and things went well. Then Amore grew restless and bored; after much nagging, she was released into the rest of his house where their child was and where he could keep an eye on her.

Things were normal until after Serene was five, when Watchman realized he was in love with Amore. Sure that she’d done this to him using her pheromones, he had her returned to prison as he began to work on a cure to nullify their effects on him. By the time he realized that he had loved her, not being forced to by her powers, Amore had broken out of jail and was on the lam.

Since then, Amore has seen her daughter only rarely. When Serene grew her pheromone glands at age twelve and found herself restricted from society at large, Amore broke into the house and spoke to her privately about the changes she could expect in her body. When she was done, Serene called her father and Amore fled before she was captured again. This time, she disappeared; the current theory is that she is no longer on the planet.

Watchman gave Serene every advantage he can, throwing funding at her needs and schooling. It was his penance, in his own mind, for failing to see the truth and denying Amore the chance to reform and be with her daughter.

Private History: Mother

The woman who would become Amore, one of Earth’s least lethal but no less dangerous villainesses, was born to a royal family on a distant planet. There, half of all communication is done by scent and lights from the Al-shecs gland, allowing them to mix speech, scent and sight into a rich conversation.

When Amore, then named Kaz’rozha, turned thirteen, she was married to her eleven year old brother. They were not to consummate until older, but Kaz’rozha hated her brother, wanted adventure, and didn’t want to be the Queen. So at age sixteen she ran away.

She found her way to Earth, where she learned that the primary species, humans, were very susceptible to her pheromone releases. She was found by Mr. Smiles, a social villain, who saw great value in her abilities. He mentored her into supervillainy. Soon, she was running a scam to get men to supply her with delicate government information, which she then sold to the supervillains who had befriended her. It was, to her mind, a safe, non-harmful way to make money off of others. Being an alien, she may not have understood the damage she was doing on a larger scale, but she was certainly aware that stealing was wrong.

Her downfall occurred when the Watchman caught her trail. For three terrifying days she ran from him, only to be cornered in her hotel room. In desperation, sure it wouldn’t work on him, a real-life superhero, she used her pheromones to cause him to love her. She was so afraid that her glands pumped out too much, and pheromone-laden scent did a more than adequate job of making him friendly; it seduced him. She planned to fight him off, but then she saw his handsome face – and famous face. Everyone around the world knew of Jalil Fathi, the wealthy billionaire, and Amore gave in rather than running more.

She did run after the sex, getting a good enough head start to evade him while he snoozed in post-coitol bliss. Amore was able to stay comfortably ahead of him for several months, until her increasingly gravid body slowed her down. He caught her and was prepared this time. Her child was born in his underground cells.

Her life changed in that moment, and for the better. Holding her daughter gave Amore the first real peace she’d ever felt. In that perfect moment, she named her daughter Serene, after the emotion she’d given her mother.

Then it all became a nightmare; Watchman was confirmed as the father, and he came to take Serene away. For the next several days, it looked as though Amore would lose her Serenity. She begged and pleaded, promising Jalil anything. Finally, an arrangement was made, and for a while it was satisfactory.

The happiest time in Amore’s life happened when she finally convinced Watchman that she wanted only to live with her daughter. Watchman moved her into his mansion, and she was so happy for two years. Then Watchman accused her of bewitching him again. He took her to the prison, ignoring her tears and promises that she hadn’t done anything. As he locked her away, she asked, “Would it be so bad to really be in love with me?” His answer shattered her heart, never to recover: “Yes, it would be. It would be the worst thing.”

Heartbroken, Amore rotted in the prison. Watchman attempted to get her out again for some reason, but his attempts failed and she grew more depressed. The only thing that kept her going was thoughts of her daughter. It was those thoughts that gave her the strength to escape and the determination to hide. Amore moved to a deserted island she’d bought through a shell company and settled into quiet obscurity.

When she heard about Serene Fathi’s isolation, she put two and two together and realized that her daughter was undergoing puberty. She broke into the Fathi mansion and told her what to expect as she became a woman. Her daughter listened with horror, and Amore’s heart broke when she realized that Serene feared becoming Amore. The villainess fled and left her alone—for now.

[z-Watchwoman]

Watchwoman - PL 10

Strength 1, Stamina 2, Agility 2, Dexterity 2, Fighting 2, Intellect 5, Awareness 2, Presence 7/3

Advantages
Attractive 2, Benefit 5: Billionaire, Close Attack 2, Defensive Roll 4, Equipment 5, Improvised Tools, Inventor, Languages 1, Ranged Attack 3, Skill Mastery: Investigation

Skills
Acrobatics 5 (+7), Athletics 7 (+8), Close Combat: Fighting Batons: Strength-based Damage 6 2 (+4), Deception 1 (+8), Expertise: Criminology 3 (+8), Expertise: Streetwise 3 (+8), Insight 5 (+7), Intimidation 1 (+8), Investigation 7 (+12), Perception 4 (+6), Ranged Combat: Throwing Stars: Strength-based Damage 6 2 (+4), Stealth 1 (+3), Technology 2 (+7), Vehicles 3 (+5)

Powers
Al-shecs gland: Cumulative Cloud Area Affliction 8 (1st degree: Entranced, 2nd degree: Compelled, Resisted by: Fortitude, DC 18; Cloud Area: 15 feet radius sphere, Cumulative, Insidious; Limited: Affects only feelings of Love, Limited Degree, Sense-dependent: Scent)
Daughter of the Irzarki (Advantages: Attractive 2)
. . Enhanced Trait: Enhanced Trait 8 (Traits: Presence +4 (+7))
. . Glow: Feature 1
. . Nose for Pheromones: Senses 4 (Accurate: Scent, Acute: Scent, Analytical: Scent; Limited: Pheromones only)
. . Sorting Scents: Immunity 2 (Uncommon Descriptor: Pheromones)
Grapple Gun: Movement 1 (Swinging)
Mini-Tracers: Senses 2 (Tracking: Choose Sense 2: full speed)
Rebreather: Immunity 2 (Suffocation (All))
Utility Belt (Removable)
. . Bolos: Affliction 6 (1st degree: Hindered, Vulnerable, 2nd degree: Defenseless, Immobile, DC 16; Alternate Resistance (Dodge), Extra Condition, Increased Range: ranged; Limited Degree)
. . Fighting Batons: Strength-based Damage 6 (DC 22; Multiattack)
. . Grenades: Burst Area Blast 4 (DC 19; Burst Area: 30 feet radius sphere)
. . Smoke Bombs: Cloud Area Concealment 4 (All Visual Senses; Cloud Area: 15 feet radius sphere)
. . Throwing Stars: Strength-based Damage 6 (DC 22; Increased Range: ranged)

Equipment
Commlink, Falil Manor, Flashlight, Grapple Gun [Movement: Movement 1, Swinging], Hidden Caves, Mini-Tracers [senses: Senses 2, Tracking: Choose Sense 2: full speed], Rebreather [immunity: Immunity 2, Suffocation (All)]

Offense
Initiative +2
Al-shecs gland: Cumulative Cloud Area Affliction 8 (DC Fort 18)
Bolos: Affliction 6, +5 (DC Dog/Fort/Will 16)
Fighting Batons: Strength-based Damage 6, +6 (DC 22)
Grab, +4 (DC Spec 11)
Grenades: Burst Area Blast 4 (DC 19)
Throw, +5 (DC 16)
Throwing Stars: Strength-based Damage 6, +7 (DC 22)
Unarmed, +4 (DC 16)

Complications
Addictive Power: Serene's Al-shecs gland produces a pheromone that causes people to love her. This power usually fades with no lasting effects (beyond the normal reactions of someone having their emotions manipulated) but in a few rare cases, it creates an addictive desire for continued use of the power.
Enemy - Mr. Smiles: (Inspired by the Joker) This sinister villain is largely an unknown quantity. Even Watchman didn't know who or what he was. He has an interest in Serene that started with her mother, but with Amore's disappearance, he appears to have transferred his attentions to the daughter.
Identity - Serene Fathi: Serene has to protect her identity as Serene Fathi, daughter of the billionaire Jalil Fathi. It would be difficult if people knew she was Watchwoman.
Motivation: Acceptance: Serene wants acceptance from her father, and she's driven to try to crack the code on his systems so that she can gain access to his tools. Until then, she's scrapping by on her own wits and pluck.
Motivation: Responsibility: With the death of Watchman, Serene is now responsible for upholding the safety of the city alone--or she feels alone, anyway. Along with her inheritance, her father left her with the great responsibility to take up the Watchman mantle.
Phobia - Amore: Serene fears becoming her mother, the villianess Amore. She refuses to use her power one people for that reason.
Secret: Serene hasn't been seen in public since she was twelve. It was assumed that she was gravely injured in her kidnapping and won't go in public anymore. Rumors include the whispers of horrible scarring and severe emotional trauma. In truth, Serene's Irzarkian heritage started to show itself and she couldn't appear in public without revealing who her mother is.

Languages
English [N], Persian

Defense
Dodge 11, Parry 11, Fortitude 9, Toughness 6/2, Will 10

Power Points
Abilities 38 + Powers 33 + Advantages 23 + Skills 23 (46 ranks) + Defenses 33 = 150