I'm a big fan of the comic strip Liberty Meadows, and I couldn't resist converting the strip's buxom star, Brandy to Hero System terms. Behold (and correct if necessary)!
<font size=+1><b>Brandy</b></font>
Player: NPC Hero, created by Frank Cho
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><font size=2><b>Val  </b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Char   </b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Cost</b></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>15  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>STR</b></font></td><td><font size=2>5</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>13  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>DEX</b></font></td><td><font size=2>9</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>12  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>CON</b></font></td><td><font size=2>4</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>12  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>BODY</b></font></td><td><font size=2>4</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>16  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>INT</b></font></td><td><font size=2>6</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>12  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>EGO</b></font></td><td><font size=2>4</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>16  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>PRE</b></font></td><td><font size=2>6</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>25  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>COM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>10</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2> </font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>3  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>PD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>2  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>ED</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>4  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>SPD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>17</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>5  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>REC</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>24  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>END</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>26  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>STUN</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2> </font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>6"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>RUN</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>2"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>SWIM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>3"  </font></td><td><font size=2><b>LEAP</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr></table><b>Characteristics Cost:</b> 65
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Martial Arts Maneuver</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">  </td><td>Brandy Boxing </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td>1) Block: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, +2 DCV, Block, Abort </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>2) Clinch: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, -1 DCV, Grab Two Limbs, +10 STR for holding on </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td>3) Cross: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +2 DCV, STR +2d6 Strike </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>4) Hook: 1/2 Phase, -2 OCV, +1 DCV, STR +4d6 Strike </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>5) Jab: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, +1 DCV, STR Strike </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td>6) Eye Gouge: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, -1 DCV, Flash 4d6 </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>7) Hoist n' Heave: 1/2 Phase, -2 OCV, -2 DCV, Grab Two Limbs, +20 STR to Throw </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4  </td><td>8) Low Blow: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, +1 DCV, 2d6 NND </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>9) Tackle: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, -1 DCV, STR +v/5 Strike; You Fall, Target Falls; FMove </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>10) Throw: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +1 DCV, STR +v/5, Target Falls </td></tr></table><b>Martial Arts Cost:</b> 38
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Skill</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>+4 with HTH Combat </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Acrobatics 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">8  </td><td>Animal Handler (Birds, Canines, Porcines, Reptiles & Amphibians, Ursines) 13- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Bureaucratics 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Concealment 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Conversation 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>Cramming  </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">6  </td><td>KS: Animal Psychology (INT-based) 15- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>AK: Liberty Meadows (INT-based) 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>Paramedics 13- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Persuasion 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>PS: Animal Psychologist (INT-based) 14- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Riding 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Seduction 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Stealth 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2  </td><td>Survival 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3  </td><td>Tactics 12- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>Teamwork 13- </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">8  </td><td>TF: Common Motorized Ground Vehicles, Riding Animals, Skating (iceskating or rollerskating), Sleds, Small Rowed Boats, Two-Wheeled Muscle-Powered Ground Vehicles </td></tr></table><b>Skills Cost: </b>96
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost  </b></td><td><b>Perk</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1  </td><td>Fringe Benefit: License to practice animal psychology </td></tr></table><b>Perks Cost:</b> 1
<b>Total Character Cost:</b> 200
<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Val  </b></td><td><b>Disadvantages</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">30  </td><td>Dependent NPC: Oscar the Weiner Dog and Truman the Duck 14- (Incompetent; Group DNPC: x2 DNPCs) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Distinctive Features: extremely beautiful and sexy woman (Concealable; Extreme Reaction (lust); Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Hunted: Evil Brandy 8- (As Pow; Harshly Punish; PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15  </td><td>Psychological Limitation: worries about her weight (Common; Strong) </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Unluck: 4d6 </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">0  </td><td>Normal Characteristic Maxima </td></tr></table>
<b>Disadvantage Points:</b> 100
<b>Base Points:</b> 100
<b>Experience Required:</b> 0
<b>Total Experience Available:</b> 0
<b>Experience Unspent:</b> 0
Character Information
Height: 5' 10" Hair: Black
Weight: 145 lbs Eyes: Blue
Appearance: Brandy is a tall Caucasian woman in her mid-20s with long black hair, and a magnificent figure (complete with an ample bustline, a trim midriff and a backside to rival Jennifer Lopez). She usually dresses very casual; she's almost always in jeans (both pants and shorts) and either a t-shirt or (in colder weather) a sweater bearing the name of her old college (where she was a cheerleader for several years).
Background: Brandy is the star of the riotous comic strip "Liberty Meadows," set at a Maryland animal reserve (and lunatic asylum!), where she works as an animal psychologist. She is an amalgamation of many beautiful women (including Lynda Carter, the 70's TV Wonder Woman and legendary pin-up model Bettie Page), all of whom have one thing in common: cartoonist Frank "Monkey Boy" Cho, the strip's creator, had the hots for them. Brandy spends her days dealing with the reserve's inhabitants, including midget circus bear (and resident gadgeteer) Ralph, hypochondriac bullfrog Leslie, alcohol and tobacco addicted male chauvenist pig (literally) Dean, and her two favorite charges, oil spill survivor Truman the Duck (a hyper-polite soul with the mind of a child) and his running partner Oscar the Wiener Dog. She lives with Truman and Oscar as well as her flirtateous roommate Jen, a busty blonde who works as a computer scientist for NASA. Brandy's other function is to serve as the object of obsession for the other star of the strip, nerdy Frank the vet, who Brandy is secretly attracted to, but who can't work up the nerve to ask Brandy out. She also spends her days trying to appease (and avoid) her mother who wants to marry Brandy off to the first handsome man who asks her.
Personality: Brandy is the most rational of Liberty Meadows' inhabitants. She is intelligent and idealistic, trying to find the light at the end of every dark tunnel. She is a natural born leader, and can take charge of almost any situation. She is also very insecure, especially about her weight (both Truman and Oscar have tried to help her get over this insecurity by jumping on her bathroom scale with her; this has merely served to anger her). She is also quick to jump to the defense of her friends, and is a dangerous hand-to-hand combatant.
Quote: "Oh, fudge."
Tactics: Except for her incredible good looks, Brandy is basically just your average animal psychologist, and has skills appropriate to her chosen line of work. Her main assets are her keen mind, her INCREDIBLE body, and her considerable fighting skills. Her fighting style is referred to as, for lack of a better term, "Brandy Boxing," as she is clearly well versed in the mechanics of throwing a punch (she has yet to use a foot strike) so she has likely learned Modern Boxing from somewher, but she is also capable of catfighting with the best of them. In the comic strip, she has demonstrated her unarmed fighting technique many times, including once against an evil version of herself in a knockdown, drag-em-out, battle for the ages. Her fighting skill is also handy for rescuing Leslie from giant evil ticks (which she has done AT LEAST twice) and for repelling obnxious ex-boyfriends. However, she shares one disadvantage with the rest of the cast: Unluck, which is necessary to make sure the stories are strange and funny (the GM is encouraged to make sure the results of an Unluck roll are as bizzare and drop dead hilarious as possible).
Campaign Use: Brandy is a good contact for those with "cartoon animal" PCs. She also makes for an irresistable romantic interest for PCs with "ladies man" tendancies (or even lesbian characters!).
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