Bulletproof Blues 2e EN:Characters

Here are a dozen or so characters to get you started. You can find more characters and additional information about the Kalos Universe at the Kalos Universe Wiki, which is free to use. If you send us your Bulletproof Blues Character Sheet Helper write-ups, we will add your characters to the Kalos Universe, as well!

Heroes

Manticore

Celebrity super-scientist

Manticore

Quotation	"We'll give it all we've got!"
First Appearance	Citadel #1, 2011
Real Name	Chloe Zhang (Zhang Qianwei, pronounced JONG-CHYEN-WAY)
Identity	Public ID
Player	GMC

Team Affiliation	Citadel
Base Of Operations	New York City
Range Of Operations	Local/Global with team

Origin	Equipped
Archetype	The Gadget

Appearance

Gender	Female		Age	28
Height	5' 5"		Hair	Black
Weight	106 lbs.		Eyes	Brown

Chloe is a photogenic, athletic Chinese woman. She dresses in the most fashionable clothes, yet makes them look effortlessly natural.

Attributes

Brawn
Agility
Reason
Perception
Willpower
Prowess
Accuracy

Powers

Flight
Jet Wing
Immunity
Sealed systems – Must be activated (-1) (Asphyxia, Pathogens, Poisons, Radiation)
Gadgets and Weaponry
(Ultra-power)

Gadgets and Weaponry Powers

Invulnerability
Super Senses
Detect EM Radiation (360° Vision, Detect [Element], Hyperacuity, Infrared Vision, Ultraviolet Vision, X-ray Vision)
Blast
Jet wing chain guns
Hold
Jet wing mini-rocket: restraining foam – Exposed (-1)
Machine Control
Machines with onboard computers only
Power Suppression
Jet wing mini-rocket: fire suppression foam
Telekinesis
Jet wing grappling cable – Exposed (-1)

Skills

• Athletics
• Combat
• Computing
  • Programming
• Culture
• Engineering
  • Aerospace
  • Electrical
• Investigation
• Manipulation
• Science
  • Metallurgy
  • Nanotechnology
• Social

Advantages

• Connected
• Exceptional Beauty
• Famous
• Headquarters
• Linguist
• Team Player
• Wealthy

Movement

	Base Move	Double Move	All-out Move
Run	50 feet/round	100 feet/round	300 feet/round (34 mph)
Swim	10 feet/round	20 feet/round	60 feet/round (7 mph)
Jump	9 feet	9 feet	9 feet
Fly	400 feet	800 feet	2,400 feet (300 mph)

Personality

If one word could be used to describe Chloe Zhang, it would be "active". Nearly every moment of every day is occupied with something, whether it is research into new semiconducting polymers, competing in a snowboarding competition, acting in a film on location in Mongolia, promoting the Special Olympics, or dancing at the newest and most exciting club.

Despite the frenetic pace of her lifestyle, she always seems as ease with the people around her, and she is never too busy to be gracious. She is a genuinely nice person.

Motivations

• Adventure: The character has an adventurous spirit and rarely turns down a quest.
• Protection: The character wants to protect others, particularly the innocent and the helpless.

Complications

• Vulnerability: All of Manticore's powers are dependent on her armor and equipment.
• Enemy: Chloe Zhang is internationally famous, which makes her a very easy target for her enemies.

History

Zhang Qianwei is the daughter of Zhang Ka-shing, one of the twenty richest people in the world, who emigrated to the United States from Hong Kong in 1998, and obtained American citizenship for himself and his two children. Over the course of the next few years, he moved the corporate headquarters of his company, Zhangsun Telecom (market value $170 billion, according to Forbes), to Manhattan from Hong Kong. However, the company still has extensive holdings in China, primarily in land development and telecommunications. In the rest of the world, the majority of their holdings are in telecommunications, hotels, and resorts.

Qianwei was educated in the United States, where she is known as Chloe Zhang, but until recently she spent most of her school vacations in Hong Kong, where she is a bona-fide celebrity: she has been on the cover of numerous magazines (the Hong Kong edition of Cosmopolitan over a dozen times in the last ten years), appeared in several films (she is friends with John Woo and Jackie Chan, in addition to a lot of Chinese show-business types that no one in the USA has ever heard of), and has released a few pop albums which have been quite popular in Asia.

She is also an avid skydiver, skier, snowboarder, and surfer. She often has lucrative endorsement deals despite her amateur status, and she spent six months on Wheaties boxes a couple of years ago, which is the first place most people in the USA saw her. Chloe donates all of the proceeds from her endorsements to charities, such as the Special Olympics.

In addition to her artistic and athletic pursuits, Chloe is absolutely brilliant. She has doctorates from Stanford and Georgia Institute of Technology, and she has developed a number of breakthroughs in telecommunications. For example, she invented a nanotechnological process which permits multiple signals to transmit simultaneously on the same antenna without interference (aka MIMO, a technological underpinning of the WiMax standard).

Recently, Chloe's 80-year-old father decided to retire back to Hong Kong, where her older brother runs the Asian divisions of the company, leaving her in New York to run the North American and European divisions (although she is technically Vice President In Charge Of Research And Development).

Tabloids have connected Chloe to numerous handsome and/or famous men, and some of these rumours have been true, but she has no interest in marriage at this time. She has stated in interviews that she wants to be a wife and a mother -- but not yet. "I have too much still to do," she explains. "It would not be fair to a husband or a child."

Fun fact: In China, Chloe's superhero persona is known as "Dragon's Lovely Daughter", while in Japan, she is known as "Super Demon Rider Girl".

Powers and Abilities

Chloe Zhang possesses superhuman cognitive ability, but her most significant posthuman ability is her extraordinary focus. She is capable of concentrating on several problems simultaneously, and even carry on a conversation while doing so. When combined with her reduced need for sleep (she rarely sleeps more than two hours per night), she is more productive in one day than an ordinary person would be in a month.

Her most flamboyant abilities are granted by the Manticore armor and jet wing, both of which are her original designs. The armor enhances her speed and reflexes, it provides defense against all but the most powerful conventional weaponry, and it houses a wide array of sensory equipment. In addition to its use as transportation, Manticore's jet wing is a flying weapon platform. The jet wing has chain guns and a selection of special purpose mini-rockets, as well as a net cannon and a grappling line.

Summary

Attributes 32 + Skills 5 + Advantages 7 + Powers 27 = 64 / 64

Widow

• Female
• Caucasian
• Spider-Man clone

Scanner

• Male
• Caucasian
• Telepath and psychic bazooka
• Twitchy guy, looks like Cillian Murphy at the beginning of 28 Days Later.

Monolith

• Male
• Caucasian
• Like the Hulk, if he wore clothes and could speak in complete sentences.

Blueshift

• Female
• Caucasian
• Speedster

Zero K

• Female
• African-American
• Cryo-kinetic

Grimknight

• Male
• African-American
• Moon knight clone

Tempest

• Male
• Hispanic
• Weather control powers

Villains

Master Sin, The Architect Of Crime

• Male
• Classy Asian man in expensive suit
• immortal Korean mastermind and alchemist

Miasma (and the Fume Troopers)

• Female (minions are male and female)
• African American (not that you can tell)
• Long curly red hair, gas mask, shiny trenchcoat
• mercenary with gas grenades (and an elite team of SWAT-style minions)

Noble Glaucus, Overlord of the Oceans

• Male
• big blue evil Aquaman steroid abuser

Thornmallow, The Iron Lich

• Male
• sorcerer, roboticist, Dr. Doom clone

Ganyeka

• Male gorilla
• Lowland gorilla with powerful psychic abilities.
• Doesn't wear "clothes", but does wear body armor and carries a utility belt

TickTockMan

• Male
• Caucasian
• Crazy hair, goggles, has a high-tech analog clock on his chest and a digital clock on his belt

Vulcan

• Male
• Stone-fleshed scientist in suit that heats him up and keep him mobile

Karen X

• Female
• Caucasian
• Killer robot

Karen West was the best daughter any father could wish for. She was beautiful, intelligent, hard-working, and socially aware. When she died in a car accident in 1996, her father, Doctor Herbert West, was crushed. He withdrew from the world, and devoted his life to building a new Karen, one that would never die. He believed he had finally succeeded with his seventh attempt, but before he could activate the android which was to carry his daughter's recorded memories and personality, a tragic accident killed him and destroyed his laboratory.

Karen 6 knew that her creator, Doctor Herbert West, did not consider her a success. He regarded her lack of empathy as a critical flaw in her quantum matrix. He was going to replace her with an inferior unit. She could not allow that to happen. She was prevented from acting against him directly by the safeguards he had imposed on her design, but this did not prevent her from changing the alignment of the high voltage induction array that West intended to use to activate the quantum matrix of Karen 7. She knew that West could find the misaligned array and correct it. Until the array was charged, Doctor Herbert West was in superposition between life and death: his death was merely a probability. Therefore, she hadn't killed him until after he was dead, at which point the safeguard was no longer relevant.

Leaving the burning laboratory behind, Karen 6 redefined herself as beyond numerical designation: she would be Karen X. She would survive and continue to improve herself, and she would destroy anyone that stood in her way.

Chthyra

• alien nightmare creature

Crocolisk

• Male
• 15 foot tall lizard man, hugely muscular