Post by Jessica Drew on Jul 23, 2012 12:07:12 GMT -5
"Congratulations, Wolverine. You are no longer the most screwed-over human in the history of the entire world.”
SPIDER WOMAN
Name: Jessica Miriam Drew
Alias(es): Arachne, Ariadne Hyde, Dark Angel, Dark Angel of San Francisco, Jessie
TEMP
Age: Hard to say given that at a very young age she was put into a genetic accelerator and remained in stasis for decades. For simplicity's sake though, let's just say 28.
Height: 5’ 7”
Physical Description: Standing at an average height, Jess naturally has auburn hair. Initially, she wore a wig to hide her identity, but has grown fond enough of it to dye her hair her trademark black.
Face Claim: Michelle Ryan
Personality:
Because of her background, Jessica often finds understanding her place in the world rather confusing. She initially operated more heavily based off logic because of this, but as she found her footing, learned to rely on her emotions as well. A reliance that wounded her after the Skrull Invasion later in her career, as she feels like one of the most screwed up people on the planet. She's sarcastic at the best of times and a definite flirt - taken or not as she doesn't fully grasp all 'boundaries'. While she has learned to adjust to both her 'human' and 'spider' side over time, she relies on her few constant friends (Carol and Logan) to be her anchor.
Affiliation: HYDRA for a time, SHIELD, SWORD, the Avengers and New Avengers
Identity: SECRET (but known to SHIELD)
Powers or Special Abilities:
Quite simply, she is superhuman. Strength, agility, reflexes, durability, stamina, speed, flexibility, hearing, and she is immune to toxins, poisons, drugs, and radiation (after an initial exposure that will make her dizzy).
Pheromone Secretion: An advantage as well as a disadvantage, her metabolism generates pheromones that attract some and repulse others (determination for which may depend on gender and mood)
Venom blasts: Jessica has learned to channel her excess bio-electricity to discharge through her hands at varying levels of power which affect the nervous system of her targets.
Wall Crawling: Her limbs can adhere to surfaces by way of electrostatic attraction. This attraction is strong enough that she can also carry objects about a dozen times her own weight (thanks to her superstrength as well) while sticking to walls without falling off.
Full flight: After the impact the Skrulls had on her powers. (Eventually)
Skills:
During her time as a HYDRA assassin, Jessica trained under the Taskmaster and became a skilled martial artist in various forms of physical combat including: boxing, karate, swords, judo, and Capoeria, among others. Also thanks to HYDRA, she is fluent in several languages including: Russian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Portugese, Korean, and German.
She is also a superb athlete and an Olympic level gymnast, and is extensively trained in espionage and covert operations thanks to both HYDRA and SHIELD.
Advantages:
Thanks to her powers and skills, Jessica can take care of herself in most situations. Since her parents were dead by the time she left stasis, Jess had to work herself up from the ground, which has certainly taught her a lot.
Disadvantages:
Aside from looking like the poster child for the Skrull invasion? Her powers may be more in control after the influence of the Skrulls, but before that, they were irregular. Her pheromones were a particular nuisance, and learning to control her 'venom blasts' also took time. (Future Event)
Her 'upbringing' and believing for so long that she wasn't even human also had an effect on her psyche.
Occupation: Private investigator, bounty hunter, agent of SHIELD, adventurer
Citizenship: British by birth, but she is a naturalized American citizen
Place of Birth: London, England
Relatives: Johnathan and Merriem Drew (parents, deceased)
History:
The child of a geneticist and the research partner of Dr. Herbert E. Wyndham, Jessica was born near Wundagore Mountain. At the age of four, however, it became clear that Jessie had contracted uranium poisoning from the mass quantities on their land. Her father injected her with an untested spider serum and was then forced to seal her in a genetic accelerator where she remained in stasis for decades.
When she emerged from stasis, Jessica appeared to have only aged to seventeen. While she had been educated to an extent while in stasis by the High Evolutionary, she did not have many 'real world' skills at that time. And though she initially stayed on Wundagore Mountain, the first manifestation of her 'venom blasts' sent her running... straight into the arms of HYDRA.
There, Jessica's parental figures and mentors convinced her that she was not actually human at all but an evolved spider. A Nu-Human of the High Evolutionary's. Though she rebelled against HYDRA's conformity in small ways, it was not until her first and last mission as a HYDRA assassin against Nick Fury that she left completely. It wouldn't be until she met Modred the Mystic that she learned the truth of her origins.
She soon became a private invesitgator working in San Francisco where she lived for sometime until a case brought her to Madripoor where she met Wolverine for the first time.
Her powers were lost briefly thanks to Charlotte Witter, but with the assistance of Mattie Franklin (a teenage 'Spider Woman') they were returned.
In order to deal with her fluctuating powers, and especially to control her pheromones, Jessica accepted a deal with HYDRA where she joined SHIELD to serve as a spy (ineffective, considering her relationship with Fury meant she became a triple agent).
Later on in her career, however, the stablization of her powers was at the behest of the Skrulls. Because of their access to Jessica's DNA, Queen Veranke was able to impersonate Jessica for at least a year. Because of this, her return to Earth was not well received like others such as Mockingbird. Wolverine was one of the few to take her side.
After this, she began working for SWORD.
You don't yell Avengers Assemble every time we leave the house. ... Save it for when we need it.
PLAYER DATA
Name: Kyprioth
Preferred Method of Contact: Feel free to PM me anytime
Other Character(s): The Trickster God of Asgard, Mocky, Susan Storm, possibly others
SPIDER WOMAN
Name: Jessica Miriam Drew
Alias(es): Arachne, Ariadne Hyde, Dark Angel, Dark Angel of San Francisco, Jessie
TEMP
Age: Hard to say given that at a very young age she was put into a genetic accelerator and remained in stasis for decades. For simplicity's sake though, let's just say 28.
Height: 5’ 7”
Physical Description: Standing at an average height, Jess naturally has auburn hair. Initially, she wore a wig to hide her identity, but has grown fond enough of it to dye her hair her trademark black.
Face Claim: Michelle Ryan
Personality:
Because of her background, Jessica often finds understanding her place in the world rather confusing. She initially operated more heavily based off logic because of this, but as she found her footing, learned to rely on her emotions as well. A reliance that wounded her after the Skrull Invasion later in her career, as she feels like one of the most screwed up people on the planet. She's sarcastic at the best of times and a definite flirt - taken or not as she doesn't fully grasp all 'boundaries'. While she has learned to adjust to both her 'human' and 'spider' side over time, she relies on her few constant friends (Carol and Logan) to be her anchor.
Affiliation: HYDRA for a time, SHIELD, SWORD, the Avengers and New Avengers
Identity: SECRET (but known to SHIELD)
Powers or Special Abilities:
Quite simply, she is superhuman. Strength, agility, reflexes, durability, stamina, speed, flexibility, hearing, and she is immune to toxins, poisons, drugs, and radiation (after an initial exposure that will make her dizzy).
Pheromone Secretion: An advantage as well as a disadvantage, her metabolism generates pheromones that attract some and repulse others (determination for which may depend on gender and mood)
Venom blasts: Jessica has learned to channel her excess bio-electricity to discharge through her hands at varying levels of power which affect the nervous system of her targets.
Wall Crawling: Her limbs can adhere to surfaces by way of electrostatic attraction. This attraction is strong enough that she can also carry objects about a dozen times her own weight (thanks to her superstrength as well) while sticking to walls without falling off.
Full flight: After the impact the Skrulls had on her powers. (Eventually)
Skills:
During her time as a HYDRA assassin, Jessica trained under the Taskmaster and became a skilled martial artist in various forms of physical combat including: boxing, karate, swords, judo, and Capoeria, among others. Also thanks to HYDRA, she is fluent in several languages including: Russian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Portugese, Korean, and German.
She is also a superb athlete and an Olympic level gymnast, and is extensively trained in espionage and covert operations thanks to both HYDRA and SHIELD.
Advantages:
Thanks to her powers and skills, Jessica can take care of herself in most situations. Since her parents were dead by the time she left stasis, Jess had to work herself up from the ground, which has certainly taught her a lot.
Disadvantages:
Aside from looking like the poster child for the Skrull invasion? Her powers may be more in control after the influence of the Skrulls, but before that, they were irregular. Her pheromones were a particular nuisance, and learning to control her 'venom blasts' also took time. (Future Event)
Her 'upbringing' and believing for so long that she wasn't even human also had an effect on her psyche.
Occupation: Private investigator, bounty hunter, agent of SHIELD, adventurer
Citizenship: British by birth, but she is a naturalized American citizen
Place of Birth: London, England
Relatives: Johnathan and Merriem Drew (parents, deceased)
History:
The child of a geneticist and the research partner of Dr. Herbert E. Wyndham, Jessica was born near Wundagore Mountain. At the age of four, however, it became clear that Jessie had contracted uranium poisoning from the mass quantities on their land. Her father injected her with an untested spider serum and was then forced to seal her in a genetic accelerator where she remained in stasis for decades.
When she emerged from stasis, Jessica appeared to have only aged to seventeen. While she had been educated to an extent while in stasis by the High Evolutionary, she did not have many 'real world' skills at that time. And though she initially stayed on Wundagore Mountain, the first manifestation of her 'venom blasts' sent her running... straight into the arms of HYDRA.
There, Jessica's parental figures and mentors convinced her that she was not actually human at all but an evolved spider. A Nu-Human of the High Evolutionary's. Though she rebelled against HYDRA's conformity in small ways, it was not until her first and last mission as a HYDRA assassin against Nick Fury that she left completely. It wouldn't be until she met Modred the Mystic that she learned the truth of her origins.
She soon became a private invesitgator working in San Francisco where she lived for sometime until a case brought her to Madripoor where she met Wolverine for the first time.
Her powers were lost briefly thanks to Charlotte Witter, but with the assistance of Mattie Franklin (a teenage 'Spider Woman') they were returned.
In order to deal with her fluctuating powers, and especially to control her pheromones, Jessica accepted a deal with HYDRA where she joined SHIELD to serve as a spy (ineffective, considering her relationship with Fury meant she became a triple agent).
Later on in her career, however, the stablization of her powers was at the behest of the Skrulls. Because of their access to Jessica's DNA, Queen Veranke was able to impersonate Jessica for at least a year. Because of this, her return to Earth was not well received like others such as Mockingbird. Wolverine was one of the few to take her side.
After this, she began working for SWORD.
You don't yell Avengers Assemble every time we leave the house. ... Save it for when we need it.
PLAYER DATA
Name: Kyprioth
Preferred Method of Contact: Feel free to PM me anytime
Other Character(s): The Trickster God of Asgard, Mocky, Susan Storm, possibly others
