Tabby

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Tabby
Player: @Chase
Origin:	Magic
Archetype:	Stalker
Security Level:	50+ (30's)
Server:	Confidential
Personal Data
Real Name:	Tabitha Lachann
Known Aliases:	Lolcatgirl, Alleycat
Species:	Feliform
Age:	18
Height:	'
Weight:	under 100lbs
Eye Color:	green/gold
Hair Color:	Black-grey-white
Biographical Data
Nationality:	USA
Occupation:	Student
Place of Birth:	'
Base of Operations:	'
Marital Status:	single
Known Relatives:	father (estranged)
Known Powers
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Known Abilities
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Equipment
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Background

Tabby's home life wasn't the best- an overworked mom who died on her 13th birthday, a dad on disability, addicted to pain meds and alcohol, living in an old Victorian home on a mostly-overgrown farm at the edge of a dying small Massachusetts town. About her only solace was the attic space she'd adopted as a playroom- full of all sorts of books, crystals, and knickknacks that would appear right at home in a modern witch's lair.

The fact that nothing blew up or created a portal to another world in all her childhood play is a minor miracle herself, but that luck ended on her 14th birthday during an alcohol-infused self-loathing-driven ritual meant to imbue oneself with great power: an invitation for possession. Something took her up on the offer, and the frantic attempts to un-do the invitation included but was not limited to- a tri-county car chase, the destruction of sixteen mailboxes, 18 totalled cars, including her dad’s half-reconstructed ’76 duster, driving said unregistered, not-street-legal duster under the influence without a license, the desecration of a church, the destruction of a centuries-old work of art, and the near-death of one police officer. Tabitha, needless to say, was remanded to juvie for 4 years (only because the original judge couldn’t extend the sentence further) and her work with FBSD began as "probationary" in a form of community service to go toward reparations.

The night ended in the church, shortly after angrily yelling at a tabernacle that it was time for God to "put up or shut up" she blacked out and awoke- demon possessor gone, but in her current feliform. She's been trying to reverse it ever since.

Tabby spent 4 years enrolled in St. Ives Prep- a juvie facility that’s normally reserved for wayward teenage girls of America’s elite. She was a charity case- one of the poor lower-class that would have had trouble fitting in even if she hadn’t been the only one covered in fur. Socially, she was an outcast rebel dreaming of the day she’d leave, lay low until she found a cure, complete her community service, go to college, and hopefully re-start her life without all that old baggage.

She arrived in the city four months ago and proved that there’s no plan- however simple- that she can’t foul up. She hasn’t found a cure, still owes tons of community service, hasn’t secured financial aid for college, and rather than keep a low profile, she’s gained her own unwanted internet celebrity, appearing in hundreds of memes, video shorts, mashups, deepfakes, video game mods, and even appeared on the boxes of a Brickstown pizzeria (“Tastes like Victory”) .

There’s even a Tabby Tracker website that trades sighting pics for a chance at a free pizza!

Despite constantly trying to suppress the attention and drive away her “fans,” she’s now got her own subreddit and was recently the “topic” for a fanfiction site’s contest. Of course, this is your typical “internet celebrity” with a rabid, focused fanbase, but for much of the real world, “Tabby, who?” is much more common, so she couldn’t capitalize on this notoriety even if she had to.

Powers

In CoH Terms, Tabby's a Kinetic Melee / Willpower Stalker that identifies as an Energy Blast / Super Reflexes Sentinel. Thus, she sees herself as an abject failure.

Spellcraft- Tabitha is magically aware and giften, but not trained- at least not well-trained. She's studied spells that SHOULD release arcane energy blasts, but they "fizzle" (her words- violently explode may be better) shortly after leaving her fingertips.

Aura Sight Well, It's more of a aura synesthesia. Where others see auras, someone she encounters may "taste like the color blue" or feel like an electric current tastes. She's got very little control over it and has no idea what it means, but if you have an intriguing aura you want her to notice, share it. Sometimes it can serve a purpose.

Claws She does have catlike retractable claws on her fingers. When retracted, it appears as if her fingers are short- missing a joint. She hates the almost-paw-look so keeps gel-caps snapped on the claws, keeping them extended and more finger-like. They have a tendency of falling off (or failing to come off) at the most inopportune time. The claws are at least as useful as you’d expect from a lesser “great cat” -- intimidating against the unarmored foe but likely to just get snagged on heavy armor.

Durability Tabby's more than willing to take pride in her feline agility, but that's a bit misplaced. Yes, her heightened senses and agility have saved her in the past, but in many cases, she's more like the clumsy cats that dominate youtube. She has her moments, but many time it's her durability that wins the day- while she doesn’t regenerate or heal up magically overnight, she can take quite a beating and keep on moving. Her ear may be nicked, her face covered in scratches, her tail kinked, and half the fur may be burnt off her buttock, but she’s still able to truck along, cursing and channeling her inner Bruce Willis.

Tabby's sense of touch is highly magnified. On the plus side, it does allow her to sense shifts in the air currents before a blow falls, for example, and this does contribute to her agility... when she lets it. Unfortunately, the adage of "rubbing a cat the wrong way" really works here too, and that applies to things like bulky clothes that stifle that sensory input or brushes against the hairs. The sensory overload (sometimes described as "a million acupuncture needles at once") is one reason she prefers the "natural" look.

Character Hooks

Internet Memes/Rumors- Consider Tabby’s internet noriety as something of a collaborative-writing game. If you can think up something insane that her "fans" have done or rumors they're spreading about her, I’ll play along. Or, heck, let her see you snap a pic for the Tabby tracker!

Former Classmates- Got a character that had a similar “bad teen” past, or who has a friend of a friend who was enrolled/confined-to St. Ives? Imagine any story about any high schooler’s antics, particularly those that blow up in someone’s faces. Put it in an all-girls version of the bully boarding school. I’ll play along.

Food- If you’re in a place and Tabby’s in a place and free food’s in the place, Tabby’s eyeing it, approaching it, or already eating it. If you’re eating it, then she’s probably doing her best not to watch you eat it while still being unwaveringly drawn by every crunch, chomp, or slurp.

A Past- Tabby’s got a case worker from the “special offender” part of the probation office- a group that usually handles rehabilitating villains. She’s got a redacted juvie record and was kept in juvie for a very long time. Among the cops of the Brickstown precinct who’ve also had to deal with incidents involving her, there’s a lot of rumor on what she may have done. No rumor too wild.

Mage Sight- As noted, Tabby can "see" auras. If you have an intriguing aura you want her to notice, share it. She's insatiably curious. If *you* have mage sight, she comes across as a strange amalgam- almost a mosaic of several different auras rearranged uniquely together.