APPROVED: BACKGROUND_1 Trash
Lillian Crawley grew up white trash, a trailer park kid from a craphole town in Canada, barely a truckstop going from city to city. Her mother danced the pole and waited tables and still barely made rent cause most of what she made got smoked up or swallowed down. Lil fended for herself from a young age, a series of men passing through the trailer. None of them were her father, a man whose name Lil didn't even know. Beatings were frequent and often barely provoked, whether from Lil's mother or from any of her numerous male companions. To her mother, Lil was a pest, kept only for the government checks she brought in once a month. Lil's clothes always came from the donation bins at the local church, other kid's hand me downs so the older ones on the playground could point to their old clothes on her back. By eleven, Lil was smoking cigarettes (right in front of her mother, who didn't care), and she could put down a good amount of whiskey by thirteen. She looked to be heading in the same direction as her mother's life if it wasn't for two things: a special boy and the rise of superpowers in the world.
APPROVED: BACKGROUND_2 Fight
When Lil was fifteen, she met a boy named Barry. Like most boys, he wanted little more than for her to tell him how great he was, hang around next to him, and let him have his way in the backseat. But Barry was into something else: MMA, mixed martial arts. He trained every day, was on the school wrestling team. Lil was immediately intrigued. When she asked the teacher to train her, he laughed at her. She kicked him in the knee, punched him in the ball and, when he bent over, punched hin in the throat. Even then, she had a killer instinct, and she'd had to fight off enough of her mother's drunken scumbags that she already knew how to fight dirty. Impressed by her aggression, he agreed to train her.
Lil and Barry didn't last much longer, but Lil and MMA did. She had to drop out of school at sixteen, getting a waitressing job to pay the bills her mother was too stoned or drunk to earn the money for. She still managed mat time almost every day, boxing, kicking, wrestling, choking. Women's MMA was still barely respected, but she didn't care. She wanted to fight. By eighteen, she started having professional fights and, by 20, she'd earned a reputation and a nickname: 'Diamond Lil'. They said she was unbreakable. They just didn't know how right they were.
APPROVED: BACKGROUND_3 Unbreakable
When she was twenty years old, the Spectre's curse lifted from the world and her metagene kicked in. She hardly noticed at first, until two sparring partners in a row broke their hands when they caught her with jabs. It didn't take a lot of practice to realize that nothing was hurting her anymore. Punches, kicks…hell, they broke a sledgehammer on her head. Nothing. While this might have seemed great, for Lil, it was devastating. With the rise of superhuman abilities, metahumans were quickly barred from MMA competition for having an unfair advantage. Just as her career was on the rise, giving her a chance to get out of that dump of a town, she was disqualified by a quirk of genetics. Invulnerable as she was, no fight against her could possibly be fair.
After sinking into depression for a time, Lil's old coach came to her, to make sure she didn't sink into drugs or the bottle like her mother. He told her about rumors he heard, of superhuman cage fights in America. Underground still and probably illegal, the money was real enough, and between her indestructible body and her actual skill, she could make plenty. The next day, Lil sold most of her things for what little she could get, bought a cheap motorcycle, a passport, and a few cartons of cheap cigarettes and headed for the border. Over the last few months, she's weaved back and forth between New York, Metropolis, and Gotham, a gypsy life going where the fights are. She's already getting a reputation and is undefeated. And if, along the way, she sees a pack of wilding boys or someone about to play predator on a pretty girl, well…Lil doesn't mind taking the time to teach the punk a lesson he won't soon forget.
APPROVED: PSY1 JADED
Lil's lived on the hard side of life since she was little. She's cynical, untrusting and tends to think people are scum by default. It takes a lot to win her respect and her trust. She's been around scumbags all her life and knows how to recognize 'em pretty quick. She doesn't have much patience for positivity types, social workers or that kind of uplifting crap. She's gonna find her own way up, the hard way.
APPROVED: PSY2 FEROCIOUS
Lil has the heart of a lion. Even before her powers, she almost never tapped in the ring, and when she did, it was only in practice, never in an actual fight. She's got a lot of raw intensity, isn't afraid to be pushy or aggressive and demands respect from all who cross her path, men or women. Those who treat her lightly or think they can get one over learn very quickly how wrong they are.
APPROVED: PSY3 DAMAGED
Nobody knows that Lil is screwed up better than Lil herself. How could she not be, with her childhood, with her life? Hell, she had to fight off her first rape attempt when she was seven years old, and she only managed it by grabbing a pair of scissors and holding the guy off until her mother finally sobered up enough to tell him off. And then she slapped Lil around for being a 'slut'. She's extremely closed off, plagued by nightmares, flinches at certain sounds or when people try to touch her without warning. She overreacts, usually with aggression or violence. She's afraid of becoming abusive herself. While she has a few scars on her body from before her powers, she has a lot more on the inside.
APPROVED: PSY4 DETERMINED
Lil isn't going to end up like her mother. She's going to make it, hell or high water. She is never say day, all the way. She trains harder, stays longer and focuses on her technique every day. When she does a job just to make ends meet, she gives it her all and busts her ass to earn her money. Lillian Crawley is a survivor and she'll be damned if she lets anything stop her from reaching her goals.
APPROVED: PSY5 MOTIVATION
Lil's greatest motivation is her own childhood, to get away from that life, from the trap of being nothing, going nowhere, of wasting yourself to rot. Fear, one might call it, of that resemblance to her mother that never goes away, that she still sees in the mirror every day. She's motivated by a competitive fire to be the best and to prove to anyone who ever thought Lil Crawley was trash, was nothing, that they were wrong.
APPROVED: PSY6 GOALS
Make bank, get famous, kick a lot of ass, retire young and pretty and go someplace that isn't as bitter ass cold as northern Canada, where she never has to see a flake of snow again. If she can do some good along the way, all the better.
APPROVED: POW2 Strength
Lil's strength is enhanced above that of a normal human, but to a much lesser degree than one might expect, given her level of imperviousness. Lillian can lift/press around two thousand pounds, a solid ton, above her head. She can shove cars over or leap a few stories up into the air. The main effect of the strength is of her physical blows. When combined with the indestructible nature of her body, her blows become like jackhammers, capable of punching through thick concrete or steel, shattering human bone to splinters, and enabling her to snap steel bars and weapons over her knee like kindling.
APPROVED: POWER1 Invulnerability
Lil's body is sheathed in a skintight forcefield that covers and saturates every molecule of her body. This field makes Lil essentially immune to physical harm. Most standard physical blows (gunshots, punches, even a baseball bat or being hit by a car) will barely register to her, won't even make her flinch or move. Even high level impacts, while they might be able to knock her from her feet or through a wall, will do no actual damage to her. Fire, intense cold, lasers, electricity, none of it penetrates that field to get at the girl beneath. She's called Diamond Lil but, in truth, she's harder than diamonds. Even adamantium weapons, be they blades or bullets, will not pierce her skin, although she might at least feel some pressure (and she wouldn't break the adamantium blades off, like she does if someone tries to chop her with a standard steel blade). Put simply, Lil is essentially, from a material, physical standpoint, absolutely indestructible.
APPROVED: ADV1 Victim's Intuition
Put simply, while she's a hell of a predator now, Lil spent a lot of her life a victim. When someone is that kind of bad, the kind of bad that likes to hurt people or would pick on a little girl or slap around a girlfriend, she can almost smell it on them, read it in their faces, smell it on their skin. It's not a hundred percent reliable, she's been wrong, but not often. When she comes across a bad person, someone who's twisted inside, she usually can tell pretty fast, even before they do anything to truly tip her off.
APPROVED: ADV2 Contacts
While she's not exactly Miss Underworld, Lil knows a few shady characters, mostly as part of her participation in the world of underground metahuman cagefighting. The people who bet on things like that aren't exactly your average insurance salesmen, so she sees plenty of thugs, pugs, mugs and scum. Some of them she's even nice to, if only to get them to cut her in. Lil always bets on herself, of course. She knows bookies and numbers runners, a few drug dealers, some bouncers and muscle, in most of the major cities on the circuit. And most of them will do her a favor, if only to make sure she doesn't kick the crap out of them.
APPROVED: SKILL1 Fighter
Lil is a fighter by profession and inclination, trained primarily for mixed martial arts, but more than capable in street fighting and survival. She's equally potent as a striker and grappler, although she does like to throw hammers and ground and pound when she can. Her training styles have largely been in wrestling, judo, muay thai kickboxing and straight boxing. She's had a little experience with krav maga and tae kwan do, but wouldn't consider herself a disciple of either discipline. Her fighting style is intense and ferocious, usually starting with striking to get an opponent to cover up, then take them down and get their submission, usually by punching them in the face until they give up, although she can take a limb and twist if the opportunity presents. She was already considered a top female fighter in the field before her metahuman status disqualified her, and she has only gained in skill since then. Put simply, combining her skill with her indestructibility, she might be one of the most dangerous women in the world in a hand-to-hand fight.
APPROVED: SKILL2 Scrounging
Lil's lived most of her life on not much, scraping by with government checks and her mother's tips, what didn't get turned into drugs or wasted on crappy shoes and clothes. She can live rough, sack out on couches, knows how to find cheap food or even dig through a dumpster if she needs. She's developed the kind of toughness that lets you put pride aside and just do what you've gotta do to get by. She's not above panhandling if she has to (and she has, on a few occasions, although it was easier when she was a kid).
APPROVED: SKILL3 Con Artistry
Lil's mom was a scammer, although a small time one, always finding some way to weasel money or gifts out of men and to get other people to cut her breaks. Lil's term for it is a little more profane than con artistry, but, put simply, she's got the same talents. She knows how to get one over on people, trick them into giving them what she wants, make them feel sorry for her if she has to. She doesn't use these skills much anymore, but they're still there and, in a crunch, she can put them to use. She can even use her feminine wiles (she's got quite a body under those bulky clothes), although it makes her want to throw up a little. Still, pride doesn't feed your belly.
APPROVED: SKILL4 Intimidation
Lil is what is known, colloquially, as a scary bitch. She's straight-up hostile, aggressive, pushy and has no qualms about bullying someone else to get what she wants. Lil's philosophy is dog eat dog, and she'll pick on the weaker members of the pack if need be. She'll protect them, too, when they have her sympathy (usually any girl in trouble will do), but she's scared off big, grown men with a look. A simple demonstration of her indestructibility, like headbutting a brick wall or smashing a bottle over her head, does the trick nicely, too.
APPROVED: SKILL5 Macguyvering
Growing up poor means not getting new things. That means when old things break, you either figure out a way to fix them (yourself) or do without. Lil's quite adept at jerry-rigging solutions with duct-tape, hot-wiring, superglue and anything else she can get her hands on to make a thing work. She can do basic car repairs, some of them without the proper parts, and can keep her motorcycle running. She can fix a hole in the ceiling or faulty wiring in a TV set. The really high tech crap, she has no idea. She never even saw a 'smartphone' until she made it to New York and she still finds them kind of confusing.
APPROVED: FLAW1 Vulnerabilities
While essentially physically indestructible by all known means, that doesn't mean Lil can't be defeated or harmed. She still needs oxygen to breathe, and can be smothered, suffocated or drowned. She can be poisoned, both by ingestion and by inhalation. She needs food and water, like any normal human being, and would suffer from starvation or dehydration if forced to go without (say, by long imprisonment or a power that dessicated the body of moisture or sustenance).
APPROVED: FLAW2 Psionics
Lil is fully vulnerable to psionic control, manipulation, probing, all of that stuff. She has pretty much no discipline or training in this area. If anything, her mind is an open book, her emotions strong and easy to read, her surface thoughts forceful and fairly unguarded. For all her physical ferocity, her mind is a big ol' target for those with the right powers.
APPROVED: FLAW3 Range
Put simply, Lil's only form of offense is physical fighting (well, and occasionally throwing things). If you stay far enough away from her, you can generally stay out of harm's way, especially if you're nimble enough to dodge the occasional hurled object.
APPROVED: FLAW4 Temper
Lil has a temper. A really bad temper. She's actually angry most of the time, but it boils over quickly and she has a habit of overreacting, sometimes violently. It can cause social issues in terms of friends as well as making her act impulsively and without thinking clearly. She charges in like a bull when sometimes she should think and strategize.
APPROVED: FLAW5 Uneducated
While Lil is by no means stupid, she's not well educated by any means. She dropped out of school at the age of sixteen and, frankly, wasn't exactly making the honor roll before that. A large part of that is just her home environment, a lack of focus on schoolwork, and a little bit of a low attention span for anything she considered boring, useless crap. Consequently, science, history, literature, politics, that sort of thing, all kind of blows over her head, means nothing to her. It is the one thing that can make her truly embarassed, having her ignorance exposed or mocked by others.
APPROVED: FLAW6 Trauma
Lil's childhood is pretty much a litany of psychological trauma: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, poverty, deprivation, being outcast and mocked at school, never fitting in, the whole thing. There are plenty of psychological scars there, and she still has frequent nightmares regarding her childhood. A good psychiatrist would have a field day.
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