RE: Capes: Origins
04-28-2019, 01:55 AM
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Secret Identity: Sophia Stark
Alias: Nothing yet, just Sophia Stark.
Description: Sophia stands at 6'2", with a strong, sturdy build from a childhood of rough, rigorous farming in Nebraska. She has long cornsilk hair (typically tied back), a tanned skintone (from working in the sun), and looks to be in her mid to late twenties. She typically wears flannel or plaid shirts and jeans, with functional work boots. In winter, she utilizes a nice old brown leather jacket. When manning her food truck, she usually wears an apron.
In terms of personality, she's usually pretty friendly and chipper. She has a strong sense of morality, enjoys cooking, and has a great love of comic books (from IDENTIFYING HEAVILY WITH THEM), superhero movies (FOR THE SAME REASON), comedy movies, and funny videos on the internet.
Biography: Sophia was born in parts unknown somewhere around 27 years ago. When her adoptive parents found her, she was just a baby, having crash-landed in somekind of futuristic escape pod in their cornfield. You see, Henry and Abigail Stark were farmers. Henry's father had been a farmer, and his father a farmer, all the way back to the 1890s. They'd never had a child of their own, as a childhood accident involving a microwave had left Henry infertile. So when they found a strange human-looking baby in those fields? They adopted her, and hid the strange pod in a hole beneath their barn. It was a damn good thing NORAD hadn't picked that up. Abigail's brother had some connections in local government, so they managed to falsify a birth certificate for this baby, citing her name as Sophia Stark. Her false birthday was stated as June 19th, 1993.
Sophia had a relatively normal childhood! She helped out on the farm, went to school, loved her parents. Things seemed pretty normal. Then one day, when struggling to open the frozen door of her father's truck, she tore the door right off and fell flat on her back. Her parents explained how they'd found her, showing her the completely busted and non-functional pod under the barn. She reacted with a level of existential dread unfamiliar to her young mind, but she recovered. It didn't matter where she came from! She loved her parents, and that's all that mattered.
In school she hid her strength and never tried out for sports, instead diligently studying the culinary arts. She became an excellent cook, renowned by her family for her prowess. When she graduated high school, she moved away from Nebraska (wanting to live in the big city), and ended up saving up money working in a restaurant (Ol' Jack's Best BBQ). Eventually, she bought a food truck, and managed to make a pretty successful business out of it. She got a decent apartment, makes excellent money, and is doing what she loves.
But something inside her does bother her. With all these abilities, couldn't she be helping people? Couldn't she be doing more than just serving EXCELLENT ribs, wings, and BBQ sandwiches? Perhaps so...
Costume Description: Nothing yet! She's yet to fight anything in life, other than tough kitchen stains and occasional irate customers.
Character Abilities: Well, Sophia is an excellent cook, placing great emphasis on her BBQ cooking! She makes INCREDIBLE ribs, BBQ sandwiches, hamburgers, wings, really anything conventionally sold at a BBQ restaurant. She's also well-versed in farm chores such as cleaning stables and barns, bringing hay to the livestock, driving tractors, riding horses, and planting seeds. She has no college education, though she received excellent grades in high school. On top of that, she can lift up to forty tons, survive getting blindsided by a freight train, run at up to 60 miles per hour, and can leap ten stories in a single bound. But who cares about that stuff?
Home City: New York City! Her apartment is in Brooklyn, which is where she usually mans her food truck.
City description: You don't need a description of New York City. Well, if you do, it's built at the mouth of the Hudson River. The dominant cultural and financial center is Manhattan, with the other boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island) each also housing an ungodly number of people.
Friends, family and associates:
(not getting TOO into detail on personalities to give Gallo a chance to develop them)
Family
Thaddeus "Teddy" Stark - Adoptive paternal grandfather, Henry's father. June 19th, 1924 - February 24th, 1988. Died of Cancer. He was a humorous and good-natured man. Liked smoking a pipe, and well-known for his strength and size. Fought in the US Army in World War II, fighting first in Africa then in France. Never talked about his war years, though old war friends often called him the Bear of Beauvoir.
Margaret Stark - Adoptive paternal grandmother, Henry's mother. April 4th, 1925 - December 31st, 2005. Died of a heart attack. She was a fun, wild, daredevil of a woman who loved taking risks. Was also a mean cook, and gave Sophia her love of culinary adventure.
Henry Stark - Adoptive father, farmer, born January 20th, 1970. A kind, generous, compassionate, and surprisingly progressive man who operates his farm in Cornshrine, Nebraska. He is a fan of baseball, though he hates football. Too pointlessly violent. He gives his farm hands fair wages, and practices safe, sustainable agriculture.
Abigail Stark - Adoptive mother, farmer, born July 7th, 1971. A good-natured, charitable, and similarly progressive woman who helps her husband operate his farm. She enjoys building models and painting in her spare time.
Edward Stark - Adoptive uncle, brother of Henry Stark, born March 2nd, 1971. He's a naval engineer living in Norfolk, Virginia. He and his brother are on good terms, and Edward is quite thankful that Henry took over the family farm. He is a calm, quiet, and professional man. Loves sea life.
Martina Stark - Adoptive aunt, wife of Edward, born May 14th, 1973. Owns a successful bar near the water. A charismatic and peppy woman.
Dr. William Stark - Adoptive cousin, son of Edward and Martina, born August 22nd, 1993. A rising star in the scientific field, William currently works at Livingstone Labs in Newark. Sophia and him are friends, and she visits him often. He's a driven and passionate individual, though not without a comedic side, and often fills his work with jokes and puns when he can get away with it.
Thaddeus "Ted" Stark - Adoptive cousin, son of Edward and Martina, born November 29th, 1995. The free-spirited member of Edward's household, Thaddeus is in a mildly successful traveling band, and enjoys drinking, partying, and generally living one hell of a crazy lifestyle.
Anna Stark - Adoptive cousin, daughter of Edward and Martina, born June 7th, 1997. The quiet, calm, composed child, she is currently going to college in DC. She intends to become a veterinarian.
Billy Lee - Adoptive maternal grandfather, Abigail's father, born January 21st, 1950. Fought in Vietnam, former amateur boxer who once got his ass annihilated by Mohammad Ali, professional poker player, hardworking handyman, and now bestselling author of children's books. Billy Lee is a constantly-grinning joker of a man who has lived one hell of a crazy life. Settled in Cornshrine in 1978, born in Detroit, Michigan.
Joanne Lee - Adoptive maternal grandmother, Abigail's mother, born March 1st, 1952. Expert seamstress and designer. Does a lot of freelance work to help with the household finances. A courteous, polite, and proper old woman.
Arnold Lee - Adoptive uncle, Abigail's brother, born February 2nd, 1968. The Mayor of Cornshrine, former lawyer. He's a good, upstanding man. Likes golf, hiking, and has a strong admiration of Chinese culture and history. It's what his degree was in before going to law school.
Emily Lee - Adoptive aunt, Abigail's sister-in-law, born December 16th, 1970. A nurse at the small Cornshrine hospital. She's a sarcastic, witty woman with a love of knitting and Dota 2. She is really into Dota 2.
John Lee - Adoptive cousin, child of Arnold and Emily, born April 2nd, 1995. Goes to college in Boston. Enjoys video games, swimming, and running. Is on the university track team. Studying to be an IT specialist.
Emma Lee - Adoptive cousin, child of Arnold and Emily, born January 20th, 1997. Goes to college in Chicago. Is a poet, a writer, and an artist. Is studying English and wants to become a professor.
Friends
Brianna North - Best friend from high school. Born May 9th, 1993. Bright, kind, and driven woman currently attending medical school down in Maryland. They keep in touch via Discord and phone calls! Likes playing the Sims and other sim games.
Anton Uralov - Good friend that Sophia met while working at Ol' Jacks. Roughly 29. Immigrated from Ukraine. He still works at Ol' Jacks. She talks with him from time to time.
Besides that, she doesn't have very many real friends. There's a number of regular customers she talks to, and she made some more distant work friends at her old job. She also had MORE friends in high school.
She's just not in touch with them at the moment!
Employees - Sophia pays all her employees a solid, fair, livable wage. Because it's New York City and life is financial hell.
Madison Keller - Employee. Born October 9th, 1997. She mans the cash register while Sophia usually does the cooking. She is taking university classes online with intent to become a high school teacher. Likes dogs, art, and is pretty reliable overall.
Miguel Rodriguez Garcia - Employee. Born June 2nd, 1994. He's worked with Sophia since she started the food truck, and is versatile in that he can both man the cash register AND cook. His parents come from Puerto Rico, though Miguel was born in New York City. He likes going to concerts and playing video games.
Alias: Nothing yet, just Sophia Stark.
Description: Sophia stands at 6'2", with a strong, sturdy build from a childhood of rough, rigorous farming in Nebraska. She has long cornsilk hair (typically tied back), a tanned skintone (from working in the sun), and looks to be in her mid to late twenties. She typically wears flannel or plaid shirts and jeans, with functional work boots. In winter, she utilizes a nice old brown leather jacket. When manning her food truck, she usually wears an apron.
In terms of personality, she's usually pretty friendly and chipper. She has a strong sense of morality, enjoys cooking, and has a great love of comic books (from IDENTIFYING HEAVILY WITH THEM), superhero movies (FOR THE SAME REASON), comedy movies, and funny videos on the internet.
Biography: Sophia was born in parts unknown somewhere around 27 years ago. When her adoptive parents found her, she was just a baby, having crash-landed in somekind of futuristic escape pod in their cornfield. You see, Henry and Abigail Stark were farmers. Henry's father had been a farmer, and his father a farmer, all the way back to the 1890s. They'd never had a child of their own, as a childhood accident involving a microwave had left Henry infertile. So when they found a strange human-looking baby in those fields? They adopted her, and hid the strange pod in a hole beneath their barn. It was a damn good thing NORAD hadn't picked that up. Abigail's brother had some connections in local government, so they managed to falsify a birth certificate for this baby, citing her name as Sophia Stark. Her false birthday was stated as June 19th, 1993.
Sophia had a relatively normal childhood! She helped out on the farm, went to school, loved her parents. Things seemed pretty normal. Then one day, when struggling to open the frozen door of her father's truck, she tore the door right off and fell flat on her back. Her parents explained how they'd found her, showing her the completely busted and non-functional pod under the barn. She reacted with a level of existential dread unfamiliar to her young mind, but she recovered. It didn't matter where she came from! She loved her parents, and that's all that mattered.
In school she hid her strength and never tried out for sports, instead diligently studying the culinary arts. She became an excellent cook, renowned by her family for her prowess. When she graduated high school, she moved away from Nebraska (wanting to live in the big city), and ended up saving up money working in a restaurant (Ol' Jack's Best BBQ). Eventually, she bought a food truck, and managed to make a pretty successful business out of it. She got a decent apartment, makes excellent money, and is doing what she loves.
But something inside her does bother her. With all these abilities, couldn't she be helping people? Couldn't she be doing more than just serving EXCELLENT ribs, wings, and BBQ sandwiches? Perhaps so...
Costume Description: Nothing yet! She's yet to fight anything in life, other than tough kitchen stains and occasional irate customers.
Character Abilities: Well, Sophia is an excellent cook, placing great emphasis on her BBQ cooking! She makes INCREDIBLE ribs, BBQ sandwiches, hamburgers, wings, really anything conventionally sold at a BBQ restaurant. She's also well-versed in farm chores such as cleaning stables and barns, bringing hay to the livestock, driving tractors, riding horses, and planting seeds. She has no college education, though she received excellent grades in high school. On top of that, she can lift up to forty tons, survive getting blindsided by a freight train, run at up to 60 miles per hour, and can leap ten stories in a single bound. But who cares about that stuff?
Home City: New York City! Her apartment is in Brooklyn, which is where she usually mans her food truck.
City description: You don't need a description of New York City. Well, if you do, it's built at the mouth of the Hudson River. The dominant cultural and financial center is Manhattan, with the other boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island) each also housing an ungodly number of people.
Friends, family and associates:
(not getting TOO into detail on personalities to give Gallo a chance to develop them)
Family
Thaddeus "Teddy" Stark - Adoptive paternal grandfather, Henry's father. June 19th, 1924 - February 24th, 1988. Died of Cancer. He was a humorous and good-natured man. Liked smoking a pipe, and well-known for his strength and size. Fought in the US Army in World War II, fighting first in Africa then in France. Never talked about his war years, though old war friends often called him the Bear of Beauvoir.
Margaret Stark - Adoptive paternal grandmother, Henry's mother. April 4th, 1925 - December 31st, 2005. Died of a heart attack. She was a fun, wild, daredevil of a woman who loved taking risks. Was also a mean cook, and gave Sophia her love of culinary adventure.
Henry Stark - Adoptive father, farmer, born January 20th, 1970. A kind, generous, compassionate, and surprisingly progressive man who operates his farm in Cornshrine, Nebraska. He is a fan of baseball, though he hates football. Too pointlessly violent. He gives his farm hands fair wages, and practices safe, sustainable agriculture.
Abigail Stark - Adoptive mother, farmer, born July 7th, 1971. A good-natured, charitable, and similarly progressive woman who helps her husband operate his farm. She enjoys building models and painting in her spare time.
Edward Stark - Adoptive uncle, brother of Henry Stark, born March 2nd, 1971. He's a naval engineer living in Norfolk, Virginia. He and his brother are on good terms, and Edward is quite thankful that Henry took over the family farm. He is a calm, quiet, and professional man. Loves sea life.
Martina Stark - Adoptive aunt, wife of Edward, born May 14th, 1973. Owns a successful bar near the water. A charismatic and peppy woman.
Dr. William Stark - Adoptive cousin, son of Edward and Martina, born August 22nd, 1993. A rising star in the scientific field, William currently works at Livingstone Labs in Newark. Sophia and him are friends, and she visits him often. He's a driven and passionate individual, though not without a comedic side, and often fills his work with jokes and puns when he can get away with it.
Thaddeus "Ted" Stark - Adoptive cousin, son of Edward and Martina, born November 29th, 1995. The free-spirited member of Edward's household, Thaddeus is in a mildly successful traveling band, and enjoys drinking, partying, and generally living one hell of a crazy lifestyle.
Anna Stark - Adoptive cousin, daughter of Edward and Martina, born June 7th, 1997. The quiet, calm, composed child, she is currently going to college in DC. She intends to become a veterinarian.
Billy Lee - Adoptive maternal grandfather, Abigail's father, born January 21st, 1950. Fought in Vietnam, former amateur boxer who once got his ass annihilated by Mohammad Ali, professional poker player, hardworking handyman, and now bestselling author of children's books. Billy Lee is a constantly-grinning joker of a man who has lived one hell of a crazy life. Settled in Cornshrine in 1978, born in Detroit, Michigan.
Joanne Lee - Adoptive maternal grandmother, Abigail's mother, born March 1st, 1952. Expert seamstress and designer. Does a lot of freelance work to help with the household finances. A courteous, polite, and proper old woman.
Arnold Lee - Adoptive uncle, Abigail's brother, born February 2nd, 1968. The Mayor of Cornshrine, former lawyer. He's a good, upstanding man. Likes golf, hiking, and has a strong admiration of Chinese culture and history. It's what his degree was in before going to law school.
Emily Lee - Adoptive aunt, Abigail's sister-in-law, born December 16th, 1970. A nurse at the small Cornshrine hospital. She's a sarcastic, witty woman with a love of knitting and Dota 2. She is really into Dota 2.
John Lee - Adoptive cousin, child of Arnold and Emily, born April 2nd, 1995. Goes to college in Boston. Enjoys video games, swimming, and running. Is on the university track team. Studying to be an IT specialist.
Emma Lee - Adoptive cousin, child of Arnold and Emily, born January 20th, 1997. Goes to college in Chicago. Is a poet, a writer, and an artist. Is studying English and wants to become a professor.
Friends
Brianna North - Best friend from high school. Born May 9th, 1993. Bright, kind, and driven woman currently attending medical school down in Maryland. They keep in touch via Discord and phone calls! Likes playing the Sims and other sim games.
Anton Uralov - Good friend that Sophia met while working at Ol' Jacks. Roughly 29. Immigrated from Ukraine. He still works at Ol' Jacks. She talks with him from time to time.
Besides that, she doesn't have very many real friends. There's a number of regular customers she talks to, and she made some more distant work friends at her old job. She also had MORE friends in high school.
She's just not in touch with them at the moment!
Employees - Sophia pays all her employees a solid, fair, livable wage. Because it's New York City and life is financial hell.
Madison Keller - Employee. Born October 9th, 1997. She mans the cash register while Sophia usually does the cooking. She is taking university classes online with intent to become a high school teacher. Likes dogs, art, and is pretty reliable overall.
Miguel Rodriguez Garcia - Employee. Born June 2nd, 1994. He's worked with Sophia since she started the food truck, and is versatile in that he can both man the cash register AND cook. His parents come from Puerto Rico, though Miguel was born in New York City. He likes going to concerts and playing video games.