The sneaky liaison

[Mark Rand]

So far, we've met two of the three superhero team liaisons. Unlike the first two, the third's an agent.

 

In this universe, PRIMUS is called SHIELD and the uniforms are identical to the current Marvel SHIELD ones because I think they're cooler.

 

Denise Dumont, an athletic-looking African-American woman with braided black hair was an acting major in college. In her first play of her final year, she had to portray a fashionably-dressed woman in 1902 Boston. Since women of that era always wore gloves, she had to learn how to do everything with them on.

 

After college, Denise was recruited by the CIA. Once she completed her basic training, she received additional training in seduction techniques and B&E. She worked mainly in Europe and the Middle East and was nicknamed The Black Cat by a Paris newspaper. Problems with a rival agency and the pompus senator it had contacts with forced her to leave the CIA for SHIELD.

 

acting, disguise, seduction all 16-, cat burglar and field agent package deals from Dark Champions, VPP of burglar tools, VPP of SHIELD equipment, watched by SHIELD and, possibly, the CIA, subject to orders, DF: SHIELD uniform, hunted by rival agency and, possibly, pompus senator, reputation as Black Cat, rival as Black Cat

 

Comments, ideas, questions?

[Superskrull]

Re: The sneaky liaison

 

Hmm, well, I'd lose the cat burglar/Black Cat stuff. Why not make her one of the rarer major successes of the Psi-Division. She could have limited telepathic powers, some precognition and a strong dose of psychometry, leading to her tending to use more formal late 19th-early 20th century language and having a fondness for it's fashions, literature and music.

 

If she's to wear gloves outside of her SHIELD uniform, she could wear them to cut down on psychic impressions

 

After all, these personal affectations she uses would certainly have been remarked on in her service record and it may have been the deciding factor in posting her as a liason to a superteam or as a prominent expert dispatched by SHIELD to consult on paranormal phenomena. After all, the spandex set isn't normally as judgemental of the eccentricities of others.

 

As to the hunted by rival agency thing, go with HYDRA or AIM. Both are likely to want a trained ESPer for any number of reasons.

[Mark Rand]

Re: The sneaky liaison

 

The universe actually isn't the Marvel universe. It's the Champions Universe with ideas and such borrowed from many other universes. UNTIL is organized like UNIT from Doctor Who. VIPER is an international criminal organization. Demon has ties to the law firm Wolfram and Hart from Angel the series.

 

Before joining SHIELD, Denise was a CIA agent and trained actress who did a lot of Black Bag jobs. She is, more or less, an adaption of "The Black Widow Revisited, version 2.0" on the Dark Champions board. I'll add the link in here tonight.

 

Denise never used the alias The Black Cat. That nickname was given to her by a Paris newspaper and later picked up by various other media outlets.

 

As far as the other agency and the pompus senator, I was actually thinking of the NID and Senator Kinsey from Stargate SG-1, but VIPER or Argent would do instead.

 

As far as the gloves go, Denise doesn't always wear them outside of the SHIELD uniform. She's just able to do things gloved that most women wouldn't.

 

Edit: here is the promised link. http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50174.