Sara is confident, brazen, impulsive, hotheaded, short tempered, stubborn, independent, sarcastic, often viciously blunt and hosts a black and white view of the world that is strongly etched in stone.
There is very little wiggle room in between the lines when it comes to Sara Pezzini. You are a decent person or you're shit. Friend or nobody. Trustworthy or a liar. This viewpoint is a sticking point for Sara and at times can become a setback she finds external and internal conflict with. A lot of this isdue in part to upbringing and motivations the rest past experience. She has always wanted to be a police officer, not just one that gets by at the job but a great one, one of the best of the best, an example for others.
Underneath the rough edges and Sara Pezzini has a pure and sensual side that craves some liberation and even normalcy. A desire exists in there to escape it all and live without the responsibilities of protecting others or being the Bearer of the Witchblade. The pragmatic and visionary side of her knows better though, such dreams are simply that, illusory and temporary. Sara is a fortress and rarely lets anyone in and for good reason.
| Intellect |
Sara was her father's daughter, despite the circumstances that lacked her a mother. Watching her father from day to day, listening to him talk once she came to the age of comprehension gave her a drive, an ambition, and a feel of true purpose.
People need people like her father, her father needed people like her.
Sara pressed from High School into College, as well as within the Academy to prove herself capable of 'Protecting', down to sleepless nights of studies and 'dedicated' hours in the dark retracing her own steps and that of the Courses. Graduating top of her Class, her intellect is just that. Top Notch.
From Legal Studies Major, to Forensics and Humanities Minor, as well as the constant echo of her father's words and her own sleepless observations of the Street, Sara has put herself into a locked in state of deduction and reason, even if she sees everything like an age old Hitchcock Film Reel.
Sara is hard to question on her End Game, because chances are she has lost more than just sleep to be sure that she is Just and Right, and those that need Protected, are Served well. |
| Athleticism |
| A textbook overachiever with the inability to to sit still for any length of time Sara is a very athletic individual. She keeps in top physical form with a regulated workout routine that includes yoga, weights, dancing, kickboxing, running, swimming and a limited degree of gymnastics. She isn't the cop you want to try and outrun. |
| Law Enforcement |
Sara is a very skilled homicide detective with extensive knowledge in investigative techniques, profiling and applied psychology, interrogation, urban combat tactics, research, analysis of a crime scene, shadowing, police procedure, lockpicking, first aid (certified), criminology, the law, street smarts, visual recognition and pursuit.
In recent years her knowledge has started to extend in to the occult. |
| Marksmanship |
| When other little girls were playing with Barbie Vincent Pezzini was teaching his daughter how to properly handle, shoot, maintain and even modify small arms. Shes a crack shot with most pistols and revolvers while also being capble of using shotguns and semi to automatic rifles. Shes even tossed a live grenade or two in her time. |
| Martial Arts |
Sara is a talented fighter, she has a background in self defense from her father, further honed by NYPD's Progressive Mixed Martial Arts schooling and is a kickboxer by hobby with applied /field/ experience. She is knowledgable enough in martial arts she can recognize fighting styles and techniques employed by others.
Part of the Witchblade and imprinted knowledge of previous Bearers has Sara's combat abilities on a swaying scale depending on threat level. She has also become quite adept at use of melee weapons of all kinds due to the transforming traits of her supernatural symbiote. |
| Witchblade Gauntlet |
The Witchblade Gauntlet is a supernatural, powerful and advanced symbiotic artifact of unknown origin. It bonds to a female user and grants her access to an arsenal of unique abilities.
The gauntlet itself has many various and supposed origins, for instance; an Atlantean tale claims it to be the Malignancy Gauntlet created by the ancient sorceress Skorzenobia. A corruptive and seducing object birthed of strange alchemy, demonic imprisonment and black magics. A second tale cites the Gauntlet being one of thirteen artifacts linked directly to the fate of the universe and a more recent story says the Witchblade is the offspring produced when representatives fo light and dark forces formed a union of truce. Togther these entities birthed a power capable of surpassing both. So on and so forth. Truth behind these stories and many others remains yet undetermined.
List of Current Abilities
*SENTIENCE:* The Witchblade itself is coherent. Hosts it's own intelligence and acts out of self preservation, desires of it's own and a will. The Bearer can hear the Witchblade's /voice/ in their own mind. It is limited in it's dialogue and usually says just enough to get it's point across or convey it's base intentions.
On a positive note it can take action of it's own accord at times which will point out threats and even defend itself or the Bearer acting as a sometimes "Spidey-Sense".
On the downswing this also causes the Witchblade to lash out unexpectedly, attack others or behave in spontaneous unexplained mannerisms or antics.
*MORPHIC RESONANCE:* The Witchblade is adaptive and reactive to environment and what is needed even when not called upon by the Bearer. The adaptive aspect of the Witchblade manifests most easily and noticably as armor that is either scant to full bodied dependent on situation. This chitonous bioarmor is protective to it's wearer and grants resistance to conventional weaponry, small arms, fire, exposure and great falls and powerful impact. This armor coating extends further in to a mutable and changing quality often manifested in the form of claws, blades, whips and projected spikes, even shields can be produced or cocoon like encasings that protect host or those near enough. Other options have been gills for underwater, wings for flight, barbs and tentacles for climbing, extra limbs, hooks to swing from, a tail for combat, ocular overlays that simulate thermal vision…. the Witchblade is quite extensive in it's capabilities and when not in Gauntlet form sits dormant as a Cuff.
*SUPERNATURAL*: The Witchblade is by it's very origins considered an occultic artifact. It can sense mystical and supernatural objects and creatures, even incorporeal spirits, ghosts and the dead to undead. At times even reveal those which obscure themselves. Due to it's unique nature it can also inflict harm uApon such entities as though it was one of their own and has a decent returned resistance to magical forces up to the point of even being able to dispel enchantments, curses, bindings, shrug off mystical assault and control. The nature of the Witchblade and it's past users can also be accessed through dreams or waking flashes if she can ever learn to harness these she has an extensive library of past lives and their experiences to access.
*PHYSICAL AUGMENTATION:* Due to the symbiotic relationship of the Witchblade and it's Bearer the host is granted increased physical attributes in regards to strength, durability, regeneration and to some extent speed. Strength can range from ripping steel apart, slicing a thick tree in half and flipping full sized sedan. Regeneration has shown critical wounds can be recovered from and if /pieces/ are available even new body parts can be regrafted. It is untested if /resurrection/ is possible. The speed aspect applies to the Witchblade's own self, with beyond human speeds it can react and dice up incoming projectiles, yank its Bearer to the side or deflect bullets. As the Witchblade has bonded at a cellular level it has also slowed Sara's natural aging process.
*WITCHFIRE*: The Witchblade is capable of producing eldritch and pyrotechnic output, projectiles, explosions, jets of flame, blasts or fireballs. All of these are possible and come in the form of hand blasts, vented bursts, wide eruptions, and auras or fiery sheathing around limbs or weapons. Although Sara changed up colors to greens and purples she often sticks with typical orangeflame. No matter the case the energy output s quite destructive and at it's source considered 'magical'. Currently range of potential damage can be as small as an m80 to as large as a city block. |
| Native New Yorker |
Sara is the daughter of a well regarded police officer: Vincent Pezzini. Her family has lived generations in New York and its what she knows. New York is home. She currently lives in Chelsea, home bases at the 18th Precinct in Midtown North while remaining on call to the other 76 or so thanks to recent /promotion/.
It is safe to say she has good area knowledge, familiarity with the turfs and some pull if she requires it. Shes also gotten the occassional free pie. |
| N Y P D |
Sara has been a homicide detective since graduation from the academy. Its what shes dreamed of and her favorite movie as a kid was Starsky an Hutch, it has shaped her life that and the fact shes a daddy's girl. Her father, the hero cop. She wanted to walk in his footsteps and now she is and she takes it very seriously. This is her career and she has all the necessary resources applicable including badge, registered handgun, a squad car, etc.
Recently Detective Pezzini has been assigned beyond just homicide to NYPD's new joint station "Special Cases" task force which focuses on working with the DEO and taking cases that fall out of their radar. It's an added responsibility and something she has done all along anyways.
Her direct senior officer is Joe Siry and partner following the death of Michael Yee is Jake McCarthy. |
| Eternal Big Sister |
Julie Pezzini and Lisa Buzanis are dependents of Sara. Jules is the younger Pezzini sister, the girl who turns all the men's heads, goes to the hottest clubs, takes only the best drugs and joins the most dangerous religions and attracts the baddest boys. Shes carefee, wild and might just be cursed.
Lisa Buzanis is the daughter of a close friend that passed. Naive, fragile, young, eager and far too pretty for her own good she become constant source of required attention for Sara over the years especially since shes started idolizing Jules. |
| Goodbye Heroes |
| The law is Sara's bread and butter. She does her very best to adhere to it and its a struggle when the world is pouring hellfire, angelic warriors, soul takers, metahumans and crazy eyed mutants at you. As much as it is a boon to be a legit law abiding and enforcing individual it also forces you to adhere to a whole new minefield of red tape. Shes grown up wanting to be a cop and the blood that runs through her veins might as well be blue. |
| Supernatural Entity |
| While in thi symbiotic relationship Sara Pezzini classifies as something other than human. Its wrapped up through her and together they register as something /else/. Not always the good first impression you want to make on some. |
| Trouble Magnet |
| The Angelus, the Darkness, Kenneth Irons, the Cult of Darkness, Demons A, B, C, up through and including F M L are all drawn to the Witchblade, Sara, those close to her and her life. As the Bearer there is great responsibility and even greater threat. She has learned most if not all of those attracted to her out there do not have good intentions at all. Beyond those listed there are many more who simply wish to attain the Witchblade for yes, you guessed it, often nefarious designs. |
| Unholy Partnership |
| There is nothing kind or friendly in her relationship with the Witchblade, it is simply destiny and her duty at this point. She understands what it gives her but also is pragmatic enough to realize theres a lot at stake. It also doesn't help when it swipes cigarettes out of her hands, randomly kills people who may or may not be threats, plagues her with visions she doesn't understand, messes with her senses, keeps her from sleep and in general makes life a living hell on Earth. |
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