Faora |
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Portrayed by Antje Traue |
Statistics |
Full Name |
Faora Hu-Ul |
Age |
28 |
Height |
5'7" |
Build |
Athletic |
Eyes |
Blue |
Hair |
Black |
Skin |
Caucasian |
Factions |
None |
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Sub-Commander in the Military Caste on Krypton.
Reputation
A newly arrived being of great power and ability, Faora-Ul has been involved in several powered altercations across the globe. None involved loss of life, and though reports are conflicting, they seemed to have involved some amount of misunderstanding or aggression from a party other than herself.%r%rIn each instance, there was no loss of life, and while there are only scattered reports of her ability to fly, withstand tank fire, and topple buildings on the internet, world governments and certain private organizations have taken a more pointed interest in her whereabouts.
Biography
Faora Hu-Ul was destined to serve, as all members of her family were, born to be soldiers and leaders in the Military Caste of Krypton. She did not realize until her brother's death in a training accident that she was destined to /lead/. Her father, having taken the loss of his son to heart, withdrew from planetary politics. Faora Hu-Ul became Faora-Ul, named as a man might be named, and took her brother's place in the line of succession.
Driven to show that she was meant for the greatness her brother would never achieve, she climbed from his shadow and proved herself most capable, dedicating her life to the militaristic order of Edo Tigris, and soon caught the attention of General Zod. As his greatest ally and protege', Zod filled the void in Faora's life that her withdrawn father had left behind.
In the ten years of service with the General, she came to understand what it was to be a soldier without a real enemy to fight. Sometimes Kree or Skrull pirates would dare test their borders, but never in a meaningful way. In private the General confided his displeasure at the decline of their society, and she learned of the time before, a time when Krypton's empire spanned the known galaxy, where they conquered and claimed what they might as a birthright.
It was this timeframe that inspired the closest of Faora's allies to what might be again, and though she knew that serving as the head of her house might give her a voice before Krypton's ruling council one day, the time did not seem like it would come soon enough.
Then, the quakes began. Unrest followed, worry among the citizenry that their plentiful stores of geological energy might be at risk. She had heard the rumors of scientists, led by the House of El, warnings that things were much worse. And so too had Zod. She did not understand the friendship of her mentor and those from outside the military, but did not question his simple but alarming order when the time came:
Prepare.
It was a subtle call to war, and Faora knew it, but she was caught in conflict, for the day Zod had summoned her, so too had her father. Long withdrawn from inter-caste politics and true leadership of House Ul, she would have ignored him if not for his message, equally subtle but cryptic.
Ascension.
It was the day a new leader took over the head of a great House, as important a day as one's name day, and Faora, after working hard to achieve what few women did in such a traditionalist society, was ready to take her place. Instead of exaltation she found only betrayal. Set upon by her own house guards, she was told it was for her own good.
Her father had betrayed Zod's machinations, and he and his would be sent to the Phantom Zone. Faora's fury was unmatched save for gratuitous application of stunbursts from the House guard, and her story would have been the same as every other Kryptonian's if not for her loyalty to General Zod. In the days that passed following Zod's sentence, Faora escaped and stole a Patrol Craft used to ferry Phantom Zone prisoners through the dimensional barrier. Pursued by Kryptonian Defense forces, she knew her plan was a desperate one, and as her ship came under fire she thought she had been struck a fatal blow when the sky lit up around her.
Instead the reality was far worse. She watched as her world burned and began it's implosion, and in an act of desperation she triggered her craft's Phantom Generator as the shockwave hit. Caught suspended in the drifting miasma between dimensions, Faora's craft swirled along the edge of the Phantom zone in a place that time had no meaning, at least until her craft located another beacon across the dimensional boundary and used all it's remaining power to trigger another rift.
She did not understand the blinding yellow of the sun in her eyes, nor the blue horizon spinning before her. She knew only the terror of crashing into Earth's ocean, and the newfound power it's star had infused in her on her short journey to the bottom of the sea. The weeks that followed reminded her of her first weeks in training on Krypton. New powers. New possibilities. New beings to threaten her and test her mettle.
Soon Faora came to understand their languages, their petty squabbles and dismal technology. It was a world that should be conquered, and she might have set out on that journey despite their champions, if not for the alarming presence of a man bearing the colors and sigil of the House of El. For now she waits to spot him again, in real time. To confront him on his purpose here, and how he came to survive what so many had not.
Character Details
Does a lion feel remorse for the gazelle trapped in her jaws? Probably not. And why should Faora-Ul be any different? Long ago Kryptonians worked to craft their DNA as any good architect might, and it was the caste system that made sure their world has all the experts it needed in all the right places.
Including expert killers.
Though Krypton had long given up on it's warfaring, expansionist ways, tradition kept the military in full power, and power is what Faora was raised on. Exceptionalism without emotion. Action without morality. Loyalty without question.
These are the pillars of her persona, which might seem ice cold on casual interaction, whimsy and delight taken only with the execution of a successful mission. She has a soldier's honor, but it is one she only extends to worthy combatants, and held only as a standard with which to test herself against. She has no problem with underhanded methods or outright deception, but only when the mission demands it.
In casual, every day interactions she seems the detached, begrudged authoritarian, cold in expression and swift to dismiss those she deems beneath her attention. Only when impressed do her eyes light up, and in this world of champions, she would be loathe to admit how often she has been amazed by their capability, if not their discipline.
All that said, she does have the capacity to feel as any living being might, but her scope of who is /worth/ caring for is extremely limited. Attempting to change this scope may be a worthy endeavor for some brave collection of souls, should they run out of steep mountains to climb elsewhere.
Super Strength |
Faora has the strength all Kryptonians possess under a yellow sun, able to move hundreds of tons or more - if she were to put her strength to the test. For now her great power has been limited to the few instances of conflict she's engaged in on the planet, and given her lack of typical morality, it is a minor miracle that she has yet to kill anyone. She does not fully understand why objects of great size do not simply crumble under their own weight when she lifts them, and so she may not be able to fully take advantage of the bio-electric field and all the advantages it provides over simple, brute strength. |
Invulnerability |
The energy of Earth's sun has forced Faora's cellular structure into an state of ultimate resilience, and combined with the bio-electric field that permeates her body, she is all but indestructible. This does not mean that she will not feel pain or suffer injury - both can happen, and given that she has not fully explored the extent of her resilience, she walks with confidence only through the most mundane of threats. |
Super Senses |
Faora's senses have been amplified in much the same way as her other natural abilities. She has telescopic, microscopic, and full spectrum vision, able to see far into the electromagnetic wavelengths of light. She also has the ability to see through solid objects with varying degrees of intensity, able to peel back layers of a book's pages or see all the way to someone's skeleton. Super dense materials, such as Lead, can block this ability. Her hearing is likewise enhanced, and she can hear farther into the high and low end frequencies than most humans or even animals on Earth. With concentration she can even pick out specific radio signals, though like all of her abilities, she has not fully explored the limits of this ability. |
Heat Vision |
Really an extension of her X-Ray vision, the focused projection of energy from Faora's eyes is one of her more peculiar powers. While other Kryptonians blessed with the gifts of a yellow sun may have learned to control this ability with pin-point accuracy, Faora has mostly been concerned with pushing it to it's absolute limit, channeling beams of destruction with titanium melting force. With enough practice she may learn the ability to simply heat up objects or cut scalpel-sized lines across delicate surfaces without harming the material beneath. |
Super Speed |
The first ability Faora mastered outside of her prodigious strength was her speed, reveling in the heightened reflexes and ability to nearly blink across the battlefield when the situation calls for it. She can catch bullets with ease and run across whole cities in mere moments. |
Super Breath |
Faora has only barely scratched the surface of this ability, once while embattled she shouted at the top of her lungs and blew out the side of a building she was fighting in. She does not really understand it's existence, or that she has the ability to both create strong winds and sub zero temperatures if she learns to control it. |
Kryptonian Physiology |
Kryptonians metabolize solar radiation to supplement their bodily functions, and evolved under a Red Sun that provided them with enough energy to live out lives with near-human abilities. Though Red Solar radiation is the preferred energy of a Kryptonian body, Yellow or Blue solar energy acts as a super-charging drug on the system, continually rejuvenating it to it's most preferred and pristine state, while enhancing biological processes to the extreme.
As such, Faora is immune to sleep, disease, aging, and may go without food, water, sleep, or even breathing for extreme periods of time - years if need be. Her body is also fortified by the bio-electric field that makes her nearly indestructible, protecting her against the catastrophic effects of vacuum exposure or other harsh environments. Though it is difficult to injure her, her enhanced metabolic processes will repair damage quickly - mending broken bones in days instead of weeks, while cuts might mend in only hours. |
Flight |
The bonds of gravity have no hold on the last Scion of House Ul, and though she began testing this ability with great leaps and bounds, she has learned that will alone allows her to traverse the skies. Though she has not fully tested the extent of this ability, she has made cursory trips to the moon and back, and traveled the globe faster than Earth's meager tracking technology can keep up with. She also uses this ability to travel underwater, and her home in what is left of the craft that brought her to this world. |
Kryptonian Intellect |
While Faora might not be classified as a genius, Kryptonian society had far surpassed Earth's cutting edge sciences, math, and other mundane teachings long ago. While Faora is as versed in them as anyone else from her culture, she also possesses an eidetic memory and near-instant recall. There are still plenty of humans smarter than her (though she'd never admit it), but she's had a head start that lets her comprehend her new world with relative ease. |
Horo-kanu Expert |
While all Kryptonians learn some basic ability to defend themselves, those of the Military Caste live and breath the arts of war. Faora was no different, and excelled at the Martial Art of Horo-Kanu, one that focused on disabling your opponent by attacking their pressure points. While this martial art has a foundation that can work well enough against any vaguely humanoid shaped being, against Kryptonians it is especially effective, turning what might be a glancing blow under a yellow sun into a debilitating nerve strike that can stagger, disorient, or even temporarily disable a limb. Faora had reached the height of it's practice before leaving Krypton, and was considered a master in the art. |
Military Training |
Faora is a skilled tactician and trained soldier, able to operate Kryptonian military hardware with ease. While this is unlikely to come up very much in her current situation, it still allows her to identify small arms, armored units, and military aircraft at a glance, even if she might not know their exact purposes. She knows how to rally troops, lead an assault, and make a tactical retreat. |
Noblix |
Noblix is an artifical life form and helper drone that was stored upon Faora's Phantom Zone Patrol Craft. It's loyalty matrix is attuned to House Ul, and for now it tends to the meager undersea lair that her disabled patrol craft provides her. While mostly used as a sounding board for Faora's plotting, Noblix has served as an anchor through the difficult reality that Faora has come to face: Her people are all but extinct, and somehow she must salvage their legacy. Though he has limited combat abilities Noblix can also defend the interior of the patrol craft, though most powered beings would easily disable him. |
Patrol Craft |
The craft that brought Faora to Earth was originally intended to ferry prisoners to and from the Phantom Zone, as well as patrol it's interior to look for points of dimensional weakness. While the flight systems are damaged and it currently rests in an undersea canyon in the Atlantic, it retains hull integrity and has the ability to monitor communications on Earth even from the sea floor. As such, it has become a makeshift home for Faora, a cold, soulless place where her and her drone, Noblix, ponder the nature of their exile to this world of weak beings with plentiful champions. Still, it has technology that surpasses that of humanity, and is an apt base of operations to gather intelligence and plot her next moves. |
House Ul |
Before leaving Krypton, Faora was next in line to lead her great house, and though it is unlikely this high status among her people will matter to many she carries with her the prestige of her lineage and the weight of her societal standing should she encounter any other exiles from Krypton. |
Kryptonite |
Faora, like all Kryptonians, requires a solar based metabolic process to survive. While red solar energy does not interact with the radiation produced by Green Kryptonite, yellow solar energy cannot be absorbed by Kryptonian cells while in it's presence. As such, when exposed to Green Kryptonite while in a yellow sun environment, Faora will immediately lose all the enhanced protections of yellow solar energy and her body will begin to starve, rendering her not only weakened and powerless within mere minutes (depending on the quantity and strength of the Kryptonite), it will in fact kill her given enough time. Other kinds of colored Kryptonite may have different effects, from disorientation, emotional distress, madness, and physiological distortion. These are exceptionally rare compared to Green Kryptonite, however, which is quite rare itself. |
Red Solar Radiation |
Kryptonians evolved under a red sun, and like all life on Krypton, absorb solar radiation to supplement their biological functions. While they can absorb any kind of solar radiation, and yellow and blue solar radiation give Kryptonians near-miraculous powers, their bodies will prioritize red solar radiation and immediately begin absorbing it for biological functions in it's presence. This means that even if her body has stored some amount of yellow solar radiation, she'll see a drastic reduction in her abilities in just moments, followed by a total loss of her powers after just a few hours of exposure. Returning to a yellow or blue solar environment will immediately reverse these effects. |
Superiority Complex |
Faora does not simply think she is better than those around her - she /knows/ it. Genetically ingrained in her caste and family for a thousand generations, it has been a warrior's overconfidence that led her to her successes, and almost certainly accounted for the majority of her failures. Defeat is chalked up to random, uncontrollable elements or the betrayal of those she saw as inferior pawns, and though she might find useful allies in the future she will never consider them her equal unless they are Kryptonian, no matter their power or promise. Her long term plans are doomed to defeat unless she can crush everyone under booted heel and make her complex a reality, or otherwise learn the ways of Kal-El - an unlikely proposition. |
Magic |
Faora shares the Kryptonian weakness to magic effects, and though not as vulnerable as an average person might be to a direct magic attack, her abilities to defend against them are greatly reduced. She has no special resistance to non-damaging attacks, and damaging attacks will cause severe pain, a large amount of damage, and sustained or compounded attacks can kill her. |
Person Of Interest |
While not officially declared a threat to the nations of the world, Faora's entrance on the world stage of powered individuals was a violent one. In many respects this was borne of misunderstanding, a language barrier (that has since been overcome), and Faora's belief that these puny people had offended her in some way. In reality she stumbled upon a powered incident in progress (twice), where she did as much damage to the criminals involved as she did to the would-be heroes. Miraculously, there was no loss of life, and each time she extracted herself from the situation before she could be questioned or detained. As such, certain agencies around the world, both altruistic and nefarious would like to have a word with her. Some may want to lock her up, others may want to bend her to their will, or make her an offer of partnership. In each case this is unwanted attention that will make it very hard for Faora to operate incognito. |
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RP Logs & Journals
August 31, 2018: Walk All Over You Part 1
The X-men, armed with information about the strange enhanced plaguing many around the world fly to deliver a crippling blow to FuturePharm…and fall into a trap that leads to many consequences.
(permalink: log:7901 | tags: bruiser cyclops faora hope_summers hulk iron_man marvel_girl meggan moonstar polaris pthe quicksilver scarlet_witch x-man | posted: 02 Sep 2018 07:37)
July 21, 2018: The Shadow
A brief conversation among the Brotherhood proves some men cast long shadows.
(permalink: log:7706 | tags: faora frenzy quicksilver tnp | posted: 21 Jul 2018 05:38)
June 07, 2018: Echoes of Future Past
The Brotherhood seeks to meet with Cable concerning Trask and the collars, but finds themselves ambushed. GMed by Faora.
(permalink: log:7498 | tags: brotherhood cable faora frenzy quicksilver scarlet_witch | posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:08)
May 26, 2018: Unchained Melody of Freedom
Faora-UI decides to make an example out of Captain America. A certain ghostly SHIELD agent offers an assist.
(permalink: log:7440 | tags: captain_america coulson faora implosion tnp | posted: 26 May 2018 05:11)
April 17, 2018: We are not our fathers
Cable makes a deal with the Brotherhood to acquire a stolen TRASK collar.
(permalink: log:7279 | tags: cable faora frenzy quicksilver scarlet_witch | posted: 18 Apr 2018 18:01)
April 05, 2018: The Promise of a Legacy
Faora-Ul accepts a long standing invitation to speak with Sharon Carter away from the field of battle. Against her instincts, Faora shares a shocking secret.
(permalink: log:7213 | tags: agent-13 faora implosion | posted: 05 Apr 2018 04:55)
April 03, 2018: Extirpation
The Brotherhood attacks a Trask Industries facility, with intent to steal some of the X-Gene Inhibitor Collars in development.
(permalink: log:7206 | tags: brotherhood faora frenzy quicksilver scarlet_witch tnp | posted: 04 Apr 2018 05:08)
March 27, 2018: Warriors In Unity
Faora-Ul delivers aide to Mutant Town, and there she meets Frenzy, the Powerhouse of the Brotherhood
(permalink: log:7166 | tags: faora frenzy tnp | posted: 27 Mar 2018 03:53)
March 27, 2018: Godfall
Superman meets Faora-Ul
(permalink: log:7147 | tags: faora implosion superman tnp | posted: 24 Mar 2018 03:22)
March 03, 2018: When The Gods Align
Pietro and Wanda Maximoff are brought a shocking revelation by an alien visitor.
(permalink: log:7044 | tags: faora implosion quicksilver scarlet_witch | posted: 04 Mar 2018 21:38)
February 27, 2018: Guardians in Opposition
Sharon Carter pursues armed criminals, and finds a defender of another cause waiting for her quarry.
(permalink: log:7029 | tags: agent-13 faora implosion | posted: 01 Mar 2018 05:46)
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