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Name: Nicky-Lee Young-Vivienne (Usually goes by Young) Nickname(s): Nicky, Lee, Nick Status: Paradigm Special Operations Commander Age: 35 years old Gender: Female Nationality: Canadian Ethnicity: Russian, English, French Height: 5’7” Weight: 135lbs Religious Beliefs: Agnostic Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual Appearance:
Nicky used to love colouring her hair in many different ways, but has found herself enjoying keeping it just blonde. So she dyes it blonde all the time. Her hair is usually left in waves, and either loose or tied up in a bun when working.
Her style tends to be punk, her clothing often ripped in stylish ways. She's also adopted wearing aviators and black jackets or trench coats.
Personality: Nicky comes in two forms most of the time. When she needs to be taken seriously, she becomes professional, cold, and task oriented. Otherwise, she's usually very laid back about just about anything, especially in the company of friends or old teammates.
She makes it appear like she doesn't take anything too seriously, laughing and joking about serious matters, but it's mostly to try and calm others down.
When interacting with younger agents, she tries to be real in terms of the danger they face, and she has a special interest in their progress. Unfortunately, she lacks a bit of sympathy when dealing with emotional subjects, and will usually treat such situations as if they're a 'pain in the ass' for her.
Nicky is a pretty self-focused individual. While not incapable of relying on others, she first and foremost relies on herself. She often has a one track mind, and is quick to disregard everything and everyone around her when she's on some sort of lead.
Her interest in people fluctuates and she usually keeps from building close bonds. She tends to be nicer when someone shares some form of common ground with her. Nicky-Lee doesn't like people she finds no worth in and will make sure you're aware of that.
She can be quite rude, opinionated and sarcastic, which compliments her sassy attitude. If you're worried about honesty, Nicky tends to be brutal with hers. She also enjoys pranking people, and will often do so as a form of "punishment".
Interests: Bringing the fall of the Chthonic Empire, winning, dramas, investigating, technology, cold climates, her team.
Skills: Nicky's adept in stealth and recon, aided quite a bit by her powers.
She's an incredible sleuth, having been responsible for pushing many assignments forward in her youth. This is still true today.
Abilities/Powers:
Nicky has two powers; both the products of sentient powers after she lost her first one. Her natural power had been Phasing but she lost it to LIFE. Ice: Nicky can control and manipulate ice! Due to her experience Nicky's ice is something to be wary of. She can use it in massive bursts, which can be used to form large pillars, cover entire rooms and even reduce a person to an ice statue.
Teleportation: Same with ice, her experience has allowed her to be able to teleport numerous people and she can travel long distances (think instant transmission). The more people and the longer the distance, the longer she needs to "charge up" before poofing.
Ice: Nicky has the ability to control ice, though it doesn't come as easily as her second power. She can create, shape, and control the ice in a psychic manner, as well as send blasts of frost.
Due to the nature of how she obtained it, there's often a struggle for control in non-threatening situations. She has, however, started to learn to suppress the lingering consciousness of her power.
Of course, compared to other ice users, Nicky's own powers are weaker.
Teleportation: Nicky can teleport freely anywhere within twenty feet in any direction.
Intangibility: Nicky can walk through walls and sink through floors! Becoming intangible also allows her to ignore most forms of energy. So punches just like fireballs go right through her without any painful results.
She can’t make other people intangible, however she seems somewhat capable to extend it to objects. And by that, I mean just her clothes.
Nicky’s early life was nothing special. Like a lot of families, her parents were divorced, and she and her siblings lived with their mom, who eventually became engaged to another man. No big deal. Perhaps the only thing that made them a little unique was that apart from the oldest child Jessy, the rest of the kids were quintuplets (Oldest to youngest being Leona, Lance, Noëlle, Nicky and Malyk). (No match for octomom, maybe, but they were conceived naturally so suck it).
Nicky’s life only really took a turn when she moved to the states and was enrolled in a school that utilised corporal punishment as disciplinary action. Being surrounded by so many violent people was sca-haaaa-ry, but Nicky managed to stay out of any rumbles. If anything, she was incredibly fascinated with watching fights happen instead.
Then her school blew up and it nearly killed one of her brothers.
So, Nicky changed schools. But all that fighting inspired her, and she went off to find a martial arts class. Oh, and somewhere along that timeline her boyfriend disappeared like a lot of her other school-mates in some strange mass-kidnapping. She never really knew what happened with that, just a lot of teens and kids going missing. So that was probably another incentive to learn the art of ass-kicking. Y’know, have a fighting chance in case she was kidnapped next.
Apart from moving on to take steps in attaining her dream of being a private investigator someday, Nicky’s life hit another dull patch. You could say everything was ordinary, up until MASS CHAOS happened.
She knew about the superfriends running around beating up superbaddies. Powers weren’t exactly a huge OMG thing. However, waking up one day and having her own? Major OMGage. Okay, so she wasn’t flipping out outside and turning into a wolf-man like her neighbour. All she did was kinda fall through the floor. But that shit was EMPOWERING. For the longest time she was ok with being ordinary and maybe a bit of a weirdo-sort-of-social-outcast-because-she-doesn’t-know-what-outside-her-apartment-feels-like. But when you’re pretty much untouchable at will? It’s like your world just changes.
Nicky’s ego inflated juuuuust a little too much, maybe. She was untouchable. She could literally rob a bank and not get shot down by the police, while strutting out with moneybags. ‘Course she didn’t do that, but knowing she COULD was what mattered. Her power was changing her, she knew, but becoming a little self-absorbed wasn’t a terrible thing, right? I mean the confidence was attractive, right? Oh who cares, really? SHE CAN DO ANYTHING SHE WAAAAANTS~.
The only thing she was missing now was her dream job. Paradigm was a close enough alternative. If she could exploit her powers AND investigate stuff, what was she even waiting for? She heard those chumps accepted anyone who wanted to help them. Plus a technically free room and food?
Cha-ching.
Now how to get their attention…?
Timeskip: Nicky had always been an impressive agent. She wasn't without her flaws, but she was proactive and eager. Through her stay at Paradigm, she formed her own task force and became a headache for criminals that had previously escaped from Paradigm. A big enough headache that she had a bounty on her head and was often threatened with or had assassins sent after her.
It was the greatest of compliments.
She played important roles in investigating and pushing assignments forward when she was involved in them, and this would continue to be her focus as time went on.
Having had a brief stay within the walls of Chthonic and learning a lot about their weapons and ideals, Nicky made her first rival there in the form of Chazz Lorenzo. While she insisted her fight was against Chthonic as a whole, it would be apparent that there was a lot of focus on Chazz himself at the start. While the rivalry never ended, Nicky was eventually able to refocus on the Empire as a whole. She made a promise to her eventual husband Nero, following an incident that caused her temporary amnesia, that she would stop trying to fight the Empire on her own. This, however, meant she would need to find other people to help her.
It would take a few years before Nicky could focus on that, going back to helping Paradigm end threats here and there. However a few years down the line, Nicky would be offered a new position in which she could reinstate her task force. It soon became important to keep tabs on the Empire, and Nicky was one of the best at gathering information about them. After dissolving her original group, Nicky would form her new team with Samuel Weston and Kalhan Perrenius, and would gain occasional help from Valencia Tiao when she was available. The team would focus on Chthonic, but would also be dispatched for other high-risk assignments that needed something done quickly and quietly.
For the most part.
Nicky's team has grown a bit since then, however it is the most difficult group to join as she has almost impossibly high standards.