APPROVED: BACKGROUND_1 The Early Years
* Anna Marie Ritter is born to Boris and Nina Ritter in San Diego Ca. Boris is a plumber in the Navy. Nina is a mechanic.
- Boris and Nina divorce with irrevocable differences. Anna stays with Nina* Annie is a pretty and popular in school. She is tall and a natural athlete.
- While touring Nurad Industries, there is an explosion. Annie and several of her classmates are seriously injured and exposed to a toxic cloud of experimental biological and chemical agents. Annie is something of a hero, saving several classmates.
- Annie and her fellow classmates are changed by their exposure to the NuRad chemicals; their skin turns orange along with other changes that are different from student to student.
- Because Nurad is the main employer in the area, and responsible for the bulk of the local economy, most families accept settlements. Although Nina Ritter doesn't want to accept a settlement, she evemtually caves in to pressure and takes the settlement as well.
- Annie continues to get bigger and thicker. When she graduates she is over seven feet tall.
APPROVED: BACKGROUND_2 Orange Crush
* She attends Oregon State University and her body continues to change. She grows larger. Her pinkies wither and in a grotesque bathroom moment, she pulls them off. Her nose soon follows. Annie is horrofied and hides in her dorm room as much as possible while her body transforms. Although Oregon is fairly progressive and accepting, Annie suffers from a lot of hate for being so distinctly different and fails to complete her junior year.
- Annie gets an apartment and becomes a recluse, living on her settlement. During this time she works her way through depression and into acceptance, then pride in her new self. She attends some mutant support groups. At one of these meetings she meets Big Bonnie, a mutant who encourages Annie to join her in a small time wrestling organization.
- Annie tries out wrestling and finds it a lot of fun, and she enjoys the company of fellow freaks. She goes out on the road, wrestling as "Orange Crush"
- During a gig in Chicago, she stumbles into a supervillain in the middle of a crime and defeats him. She likes it. She starts studying up on how to become a superhero.
- Meanwhile her wrestling career gains momentum, and she decides to head to NYC to try to join the big leagues…of wrestling and more importantly, of heroing.
APPROVED: PSY1 Tomboy
Nina Ritter is a proud and independent woman who taught her daughter to be the same. Annie is a jeans and t-shirt kind of gal, who prefers beer to wine, and who can fix her own truck thank you very much. She is uncomfortable being girly, though some of that is from the realities of being her size. Girly girls can make her feel inadequate, which she definitely doesn't enjoy.
APPROVED: PSY2 Proud
Annie likes her body. She likes the power of it and she has grown to love the look of it. She is definitely proud of what she can do with it.
APPROVED: PSY3 Altruism
Annie wants to help. She can't stand by and see others in need without trying. She doesn't know exactly how someone becomes a superhero, but she's slowly been working herself into the position to try. It is the real reason that she's in New York.
APPROVED: PSY4 Confident
Annie was confident before she turned orange. It took a lot of time to get used to who she has become, but now that she has, she is even more confident than ever before. And when she is at her big size and stripped down to her costume she feels there is pretty much nothing she can't handle.
APPROVED: PSY5 Stubborn
Annie's mother is stubborn. Annie is mule-headed. Giving up is something she doesn't know how to do.
APPROVED: PSY6 Motivation
Annie wants to be a hero. She wants to use her abilities to make the world better. To prove to everyone she isn't a monster, that being different isn't a bad thing.
APPROVED: PSY7 Goal
Annie wants to be a hero. She wants to help people like her live better lives.
APPROVED: POW1 Strong
Annie/Gogo is strong. Very Strong. She can lift and put over her head 40 tons . She can bend steel with ease, damage tanks, pick up cars and fling them down a street like baseballs. Because of her strength she can jump long distances, able to leap to the top of a five story building and down up to 400' in a long jump.
APPROVED: POW2 Tough
Annie/Gogo is very difficult to hurt and even harder to take out. Her orange skin and the stuff underneath it are all resistant to damage. She can take shots from the likes of Wonder-Man, The Thing, and She-Hulk and not be pulverized. She takes little physical damage from bullets and can absorb shots from most conventional weaponry, though with the bigger stuff she is definitely going to feel it. She is resistant to heat and cold and minor electrical effects. She is able to withstand between -100 and +500 degrees without damage. She can grab a live wire (a standard 120 household) without dying. When damage does get past her resistances, she can absorb a great deal of it before dropping and regenerates when she has time to recover. (out of combat)
APPROVED: POW3 Nimble Monkey
Annie/Gogo is surprisingly agile for such a big and bulky individual. She can sprint at 50mph and her reaction times are peak human. She is extremely good at hopping around. Those massive arms aren't just for show and she is able to climb and swing about like a monkey in the branches as easily as she would run.
APPROVED: POW4 Big Orange
Annie can shift her size from Big to Even Bigger and when she does so, she grows stronger and tougher. Her strength doubles which makes her able to lift 80 tons. She can leap twice as far and twice as high. Her toughness increases so that the bullets that might have hurt her when small bounce harmlessly off her skin.
When she is "Even Bigger" Annie might be a lot tougher, but she is more prone to getting hit. She's a bigger target and her reactions are a bit slower than normal. Also, thanks to the boost in confidence that comes with the growth, she is less inclined to defend herself with the same vigor.
APPROVED: POW5 Not Human
Flashlight Eyes-Annie can see in the dark by turning on what are essentially IR flashlights inside her eyes. This lets her see out to about 300 feet in pitch black. Her eyes glow bright whenever she does this however.
Big Mouth-She can eat almost anything she can put in her mouth and suffer no ill consequences.
Big Lungs-She can hold her breath really well.
APPROVED: ADV1 Wealth
Thanks to her settlement with NuRad, Annie is set for life. She doesn't need to work to live comfortably. She has a loft/warehouse home in NYC, an old Bronco that is customized for her size and a sizeable bank account.
APPROVED: ADV2 Wrestlers and fans
Annie is known and liked by many small time wrestlers from local leagues around the country. She is friendly enough with them for the occasional favor, though that is of course a two way street. She's famous enough to have some fans as well.
APPROVED: SKILL1 Martial Arts
Annie has been wrestling for a couple years, and has put in some serious time training with it to get competent. Her training has included the basic MMA skillset of boxing, brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and greco roman wrestling. She is competent in all, a master of none, though her body makes her a natural at wrestling.
APPROVED: SKILL2 Gymnastics
Annie had done some gymnastics when she was a cheerleader, and was pretty good. She has been practicing with it ever since becoming an unlimited wrestler as you has to have some high flying skills if you want the bigs to really look your way. She's no olympic gymnast, but she can do some fancy moves from time to time.
APPROVED: SKILL3 Showmanship
Annie can put on a pretty good show in the ring to illicit crowd response. This includes talking on the mic, playing the heel or the hero as the script demands.
APPROVED: FLAW1 Size
Even when she is in her 'normal' size, Annie is big and powerfully built, making it incredibly hard to find things in her size, easier to spot at a distance, hard to cram into vehicles or tight spaces.
APPROVED: FLAW2 Monster
Even when she isn't pumped up to full size, Annie can only blend in from a distance. Even with a ballcap on, sunglasses to hide her solid green eyes and loose clothing, she is noticeably non-human. She only has three fingers. Typing is problematic. Her internal organs are all wrong and doctor visits are right out if she gets sick (luckily something that rarely happens).
APPROVED: FLAW3 Appetite
She is huge, and eats like it. Her body mass is 3 times that of a big man, and she eats more than three times what a big active man would eat. 10,000 calories a day is about what it takes to maintain herself.
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