Complexity

{$actor} as Victoria Eira Stackpoole

GENERAL Name: Victoria Eira Stackpoole Birthdate: {$birthdate} Faction: N/A Codename: Complexity Position: Peggy Carter's Nanny Hometown: London FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): NA Height: 5'4" Father: Edward Stackpoole (Deceased) Weight: 100 lbs Mother: Megan Stackpoole Hair Color: Blonde Siblings: Seren Stackpoole (Sister, alive), Geoffry Stackpoole (Deceased) Eye Color: Blue Children: NA

Background

Victoria Stackpoole was born during World War Two. Her father and older brother both died in the London Blitz. Hailing from an upper-middle class family that was reduced to poverty by the war and crush of history, she's bitterly resentful against Hitler in particular, Germans in general, and the chaos and disorder of the world. Having received a degree in Mathematics from Queen Elizabeth University, she's proven herself to have a head for finance and pattern recognition, and has come to New York to try and make her way in the world.

IC Events

Recent activities include playing with the stock market and being hired as Peggy Carter's nanny.

Traits

Powers

• Mutant: Victoria (Complexity) is a mutant, Homo Superior. Her mutation revolves around a field of mathematics that are in their barest, most unknown infancy in the game's time period: Complex Systems Theory. There are infinite variables in any complex system, and no-one can quantify them, let alone measure all of them…but she can manipulate them, with effort.
• Pattern Recognition: The most basic and simple aspect of Victoria's power is that she is extremely adept at recognizing patterns. Any sort of patterns. They can be mathematical, scientific, financial, behavorial. If there is a minute item out of place from the general pattern, or a minute item which indicates a larger picture, she'll spot it. She quickly spots the variables in any given system. She would make an excellent detective. This is not enhanced intelligence, per se, but merely an alternate form of perception and insight into the world around her. Generally speaking this requires actual perception. So in the case of a crime scene, she must see it. In the case of a political election, she must study the data. In the case of psychology, or someone acting out of sorts, she must talk to them. It isn't a psychic power in any way. It is a cognative power.
• Chaotic Systems Manipulation: This power enables her to manipulate the variables in chaotic systems. Not merely 'complex' systems, but chaotic ones - with hundreds, thousands, or even millions of variables. This isn't an instant power, it requires effort. First, she needs to perceive what those variables are, which could take observation (perhaps dangerous!) or research and study/etc. Once she understands the variables she must manipulate them. If she were manipulating a political election, she might speak to a few key voters in hard to reach areas, or tear down 30 specific signs at apparently arbitrary points in time. She could not use this power to cheat at cards at a poker table (though pattern recognition might make her a good player) … but if she had thirty people all willing to go into a casino and follow her instructions, she could probably clean it out.

• The more chaotic the system, the better. Again, it should be noted that the use of this power requires 'effort' to actually change variables, and that such effort must be proportional to the change. So, if she wants to cause a tornado in a specific area in Japan on a specific day…well, she actually might be able to do that. But she'll have to prepare for it by studying loads of data patterns, and possibly release several hundred to several thousand butterflies at specific cities in the world at specific times in advance. Not impossible by any means. But definately effort.

• This power works well on things like financial systems, large crowds, cryptogaphy (what is cryptography but the manipulation of variables?), and so on. Essentially the sort of systems that come up in an 'applications of chaos theory' google search. Its not a carte blanch to effect anything. It must be an actual system with hundreds or thousands of variables. Likewise, while her power may not have much in the way of 'instant gratification' or immediate combat uses, she's the sort of person whom would be -exceedingly useful- to have on hand in any battle, as a battle of any size has thousands of variables…what better example of complexity and chaos could there be?

Skills

• Education: Victoria is a graduate from the Ladies Department of King's College in London (also known as Queen Elizabeth University). Though her grammer-school education was as atrocious as anything in America, focusing on home-economics (sewing, cooking), secretarial prep (diction, handwriting), and the like, over 30% of British women already attend college, so her higher educational opportunities were greater then they might be for an American. She has a degree in mathematics, and has a broad-based liberal-arts education, including English Literature (obviously), as well as a smattering of the higher sciences; physics, geology, chemistry and the like.
• Finance: Victoria has not had formal training in economics, and has only had a smattering of courses in home-finance in grammer school. Nevertheless, she's quite well read, has a degree in mathematics, and her natural powers predispose her towards this field.
• Politics: Victoria follows politics obsessively.

Advantages

• Money: Victoria has, through use of her power, access to rather extraordinary amounts of money. When one can manipulate stock prices, as well as commodity values and exchange rates, it tends to make aquiring currency rather easy. Unfortunately for her, she's in a time period where women are not, in much of the world, allowed to directly have bank accounts or credit in their names without male cosigners, so she has to do it through intermediaries, which can be troublesome at times. The assumption of the world is that women have wealth and power through their husbands, or inherited via their fathers, or shared with their brothers. She's unmarried and does not come from a wealthy family, so this is rather more challenging for her (at this juncture) then it would otherwise be for an average character with access to such funds.

Flaws

• OCD: Though you might think that someone whose powers involve manipulation of chaos would be disorganized and cluttered, nothing could be further from the truth. Victoria is an obsessive-compulsive neat-freak. She sees the chaos and complexity inherent in all things, and as a result tries to control what she can. She dislikes dirt, disorganization and mess. She has very high standards of acceptability for neatness and behavior, and refuses to deviate from them. She'd impose them on the whole world if she could.
• Ambitious: Victoria is intensely ambitious. Not so much for power par se, as for control. She's not a micro-manager (rather the opposite) but desires to have her fingers in as many pies as possible, so to speak. Whether directly or through intermediaries, she rarely turns down a chance for influence, power or control.
• Woman: Women's liberation has come a long way, but still has a long way to go. Women are, by and large, expected to be wives and mothers. They do not hold political power, there are many fields where it is not appropriate for them to be in, and the patriarchy is in full force and control, so to speak. They are seen as less intelligent, overly emotional, and often sexualized in demeaning ways. For a women with ambitions, this can mean hard choices and a difficult road. Even more so for an attractive, young, and intelligent blonde. She's not liable to be taken seriously by a wide swath of menfolk.

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1963-06-20 - Meeting the Nanny...Finally! (log: complexity social sousa)

1963-06-14 - I used to be Captain America (log: avengers complexity peggy plot shield simon steve-rogers teddy uj)

1963-06-05 - A New Nanny (log: complexity peggy social)

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