Goblin Queen

Ebba Zingmark as Madelyne Pryor

GENERAL Name: Madelyne Pryor Birthdate: 11/30/1933 Faction: Superhero Team Codename: Goblin Queen Position: Position/Job Title/Rank Hometown: Hometown FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): NA Height: {$height} Father: NA Weight: {$weight} Mother: NA Hair Color: {$haircolor} Siblings: NA Eye Color: {$eyecolor} Children: NA

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Powers

• Mutant: Madelyne is a powerful mutant clone. She does not possess the full potential of the original mutant host — and never will, as the psychic trauma is too great for her to withstand. However, she possesses a formidable suite of powers in her own right as noted below.
• Astral Presence: Madelyne can survive apart from her body for up to a week on the astral plane, even if her body is destroyed. She repossesses her cloned body without any effort and resumes living.
• Telepathy: Madelyne's primary mutation makes her an Omega-level telepath restricted largely by a lack of experience and adequate training. Her telepathic abilities are strongest when concentrated upon perception or stealth. Camouflage is her forte, masking her mental signature, memories, and abilities from other telepaths. Projections allow her to change her perceived clothing or appearance, or creating invisibility against sentient minds who simply look past her, but not cameras and recording devices. Madelyne's innate talent for shielding repels mental attacks and reads. She detects psionic activity and other sentience around her with pinpoint accuracy within 500 yards. Her ability to manipulate other minds is somewhat clumsy and best performed at short range with temporary results, like causing a victim to fancy her or favour her suggestions. She can attempt mind control, unconscious suggestions, hypnosis, and emotional manipulation but unwilling targets make it harder for her to work. She has the power of a sledgehammer but little finesse for scalpel work, so her mental attacks tend to be overwhelming, violent, and harsh. Madelyne can perform extremely precise feats with guidance from the Black Queen, Selene. Melding with other psychics allows her to use their expertise natively, and she can siphon their psionic power to bolster her own formidable abilities over a much broader range.
• Telekinesis: Madelyne's secondary mutation manipulates unseen force around objects. Her personal use of telekinesis is quite fine-tuned to form hardened shields that resist physical attacks well. Her shields may freeze projectile weapons, like bullets, but high velocity impacts drain her heavily. She can slowly levitate herself and objects weighing up to one ton, and move up to half that at speeds of nearly 160mph. While she can lift and manipulate smaller objects, she doesn't have any fine control when handling a swarm. Her blasts mostly strike things over and do not display omnidirectional accuracy.
• Goblin Force Manipulation: The Goblin Force is a demonic source of energy that Madelyne natively taps into. She can perform simple rituals that allow her to summon demons ("goblins" from Limbo and other planes), and command them to follow her requests. She gains a relative awareness for any demon in her line of sight. By commanding other summoned or free-range demons, Madelyne may be able to seize control over them. Powerful demons of any rank can shake off her influence. She isn't educated enough to be able to perform major mystical feats as yet.

Skills

• Hostess with the Most-est: Madelyne is an outstanding hostess. She has a natural knack for reading a crowd and determining when a guest is overbearing, someone cannot mix in conversation, or the festivities grind to a halt. With a few discreet words and gestures, she keeps things rolling. Organizing a soiree or a cocktail party don't faze her in the least.
• Empathy: Sensitive to the moods and expressions of others, Madelyne shows uncommon skill determining someone's emotional state. She extends her read to build rapport or subtly manipulate a subject, exploiting vulnerabilities for her own ends. Building trust is her key forte, and most people never realize they are being used.
• Subterfuge: Madelyne's lies do not easily register as mistruths. Concealing her intentions behind a Stepford smile eludes all but the most suspicious, sensitive people. Her psychic scrambling only makes this effect harder.
• Seduction: The Goblin Queen's wiles to bait marks is legendary in the Hellfire Club. She applies herself where the Black Queen will not, wrapping men in particular around her finger with a smile, delicately phrased words, and occasionally harder sells. For all Madelyne excels at getting people to drop their guard, she has contempt for her victims.
• Fashion: Madelyne knows the ins and outs of modern fashion, all the latest trends on both sides of the Atlantic. Name a designer, she can spout the last decade of their greatest works.
• Self-Defense: Thanks to the Hellfire Club, Madelyne has a moderate ability to protect herself in a hand-to-hand fight. Her main strategies are not to be in a brawl at all, but if someone gets handsy, she employs blocks, locks, and evasion to get away.

Advantages

• Black Rook: Madelyne serves as the third most senior member of the Black Court in the Hellfire Club. As Rook, she organizes social affairs and events of the season. Members and aspiring members pay her a hell of a lot of deference for an invitation, frequently offering her favours and promises to sweeten any deal. She can call upon any member in standing to assist her within reason, and the incredible financial resources and influences are a major advantage when she needs to get something done in the media or other bastions of power. Guards protect her at all times inside the HFC's buildings, accompanying her on business.
• Clones: The Black King of the Hellfire Club has DNA samples from her he may constitute into another clone at any time. Even if her body is destroyed, Madelyne's spirit can be housed in a new form within a short window lasting no more than a week.
• Money: Though not rich in her own right, Madelyne calls upon absurd amounts of spending money as 'favours' or accounts through the HFC. It's expected she'll enrich herself.
• Scrambled Mind: Madelyne has such powerful psychic abilities that reading her history and implanted memories is next to impossible even for extremely powerful psychics. She repels these efforts unconsciously.

Flaws

• Not a Real Girl: Madelyne isn't a person, she is a clone, one of many developed by the Black King. Her implanted memories of a happy life and upbringing conceal the bitter truth, and its discovery may leave incredible emotional and psychological damage to her.
• Unstable: She exhibits classic signs of bipolar behaviour, especially a destructive temper during periods of psychological instability triggered by stress.
• Power Trigger: Madelyne does not have complete control over her powers. When she loses control of her powers, she hurts people, destroys property, and terrorizes the public. Worse, she doesn't have a kill switch.
• Hellfire Club: Being associated with a backstabby group of powerful people brings enemies, jealous associates, and a raft of obligations. She may be the Black Bishop but if the HFC says jump, she better do a superb jete.
• Demon Magnet: Madelyne is a magnet for demons from Limbo and other realms. They inherently like her a lot and the weaker-willed ones have an instinctive desire to follow her requests. The more powerful ones aren't so easily influenced, though they see a kinship in her. Not exactly a plus here.

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