Savage

Anna Karina as Violet Sabre

GENERAL Name: Violet Sabre Birthdate: {$birthdate} Faction: X-Men, Secret Intelligence Service (not publicly known) Codename: Savage Position: Student, MI-6 Secret Superweapon Hometown: London, England FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): Single Height: 5'7" Father: Col. Flint Sabre (adopted) Weight: 120 lbs. Mother: Babette Sabre (adopted) Hair Color: Black Siblings: None Eye Color: Blue Children: Garf the dog

Background

So, in case you weren't aware, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Nazis experimented on pregnant women for a variety of reasons. One of these women gave birth a week before the liberation of the camp. It is not known whether she died in childbirth, or afterward. The baby girl survived.

The baby girl was adopted by one of the British soldiers who helped to liberate the camp. She was brought home (home being London) and named Violet. Her life was fairly normal.

When Violet underwent puberty, her mutant powers manifested themselves. Unable to control them at first, she could not turn off telepathic contact with her parents. Due to the strange side effects of her powers, this made their heads explode. Whoops!

The incident was covered up by the Secret Intelligence Service, AKA MI-6, who took a far more keen interest in paranormal moments such as this than the public is generally aware of. Violet was made a project of theirs, code-named 'SAVAGE' in official documents. Her powers were honed and developed, and she was used to make telepathic contact with Soviet agents in order to assassinate them from afar, either by shutting down their brains or outright exploding their heads.

At the same time, Violet was adopted by her handler, Col. Flint Sabre, with the cover story being that she was the orphaned child of his wife's cousins. Flint recognized that Violet was more than a weapon, and wanted her to be able to live a normal life. After gaining MI-6 approval to send Violet abroad to help develop her powers, Flint used an old military connection to get her a place in Charles Xavier's school.

That brings us to October 1963.

IC Events

Traits

Powers

• TELENUKE: Violet is a mutant with the power of telepathy. Her specific variety of telepathy is a mutation of a mutation, though. Her presence in the minds of others is an actively destructive element. She can read the thoughts of others, but the longer she spends in there, the more their brain will begin 'backfiring' and important systems will begin failing. If Violet makes contact for a second or so, the subject will suffer a disorienting 'brain fart' sort of episode — becoming confused or stunned in the middle of whatever they're doing, but quickly able to shake it off. Long connections can result in permanent brain damage, and with effort and concentration, Violet can push it so far that the subject's head will literally explode.
• Typically, Violet's telepathy is capable of operating within her range of unassisted perception — i.e. a target she can see, hear, or otherwise register the presence of without outside aid. For her missions attacking Soviet agents, MI-6 used experimental machinery to boost her signal range from England to as far as Russia, but she can't accomplish this under her own power.
• Those with significant telepathic defenses, particularly individuals with telepathic powers of their own, will obviously be less susceptible to the debilitating effects of Violet's powers. N.B. that the destructive element of her power is only 'outgoing' — that is, if someone else was to read her mind, they would not be at risk, but if she was to project herself outward towards THEM, it would be dangerous.
• This is covered in greater detail in the Flaws section, but at the moment, Violet has a post-hypnotic block in her mind designed to prevent her from using her powers without proper supervision. While low-level usage of her power (i.e. the "brain fart" effect described earlier in this section) often eludes the block, this is not 100% reliable, and in times of stress (such as on a hectic battlefield), she may find herself unable to focus her powers in any way whatsoever.

Skills

• MILITARY: From the onset of puberty, Violet spent her teen years as a secret project of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service. From living on various bases and being the sham daughter of an officer, Violet is familiar with the life of an Army brat, and from her work for MI-6, she's familiar with military protocol, the language of reports, some degree of spycraft, etc.
• SELF-DEFENSE: Violet has the strength and stamina of a young woman her age and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. She possesses a degree of self-defense training, sufficient to defeat an opponent on par with 'a mugger with a knife.'
• LANGUAGES: Violet is fluent in English as a first language. She speaks French fluently, largely due to her adopted 'mother,' Babette, who is a French native. (Babette also taught her how to smoke.) She is also fluent in German and Russian, largely through telepathic contact with Soviet agents who speak those languages.

Advantages

• FAKE FAMILY: Violet is, on paper, the daughter of Col. Flint Sabre, MI-6, and his wife Babette. They currently live in the United Kingdom while she attends school abroad, but if she needed to reach out to them for help, she could. This goes for both conventional parent-child help, and contact with MI-6.
• XAVIER'S: Violet was sent by her father to study at the Xavier Institute, in the hopes that her telepathy might be honed into a slightly less lethal power. She possesses all the rights and privileges of a student in good standing, including room and board.
• GARF: Garf, short for "Garfield," is Violet's dog, who she brought with her to the Xavier Institute. Garf is an Old English Sheepdog who is six years old. Garf is of easy-going temperament and generally is able to calm Violet down by being around her — though if he perceives his mistress being threatened, both Garf's bark and bite are on the table.

Flaws

• TRAUMA: Violet carries the trauma of her powers with her. Though MI-6 has done its part to condition her to be able to act without remorse, she is still a teenager who has used her mutant powers to explode people's heads. This weighs more heavily on her than she likes to let on, especially since telepathic contact means that she's actually IN the other person's head as their brain shuts down and they die.
• SECRETS: It is still highly classified that the MI-6 project codenamed 'Savage' is actually a teenager girl being used to detonate the skulls of Soviet agents. Violet's mind is actually rigged with telepathic 'partitions' designed to block trespassers from accessing any of that information. Obviously, on a campus full of telepaths, someone with a walled-off section of their mind may be a cause for concern. Likewise, SHIELD may find it interesting if they notice a UK living superweapon suddenly living on American shores.
• STRESS: Violet does not manage well under any kind of significant stress. Her missions to telenuke Soviet agents were rigidly conducted affairs that followed ritual and procedure. When faced with difficult situations that do not conform to that kind of Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 pattern, or where there is no one to make decisions for her, Violet can become overwhelmed to the point of total retreat. Generally speaking, her dog Garf is enough to keep her relaxed enough to manage, but Garf can't always be there!
• POWER BLOCK: Before being sent to America, Violet was rigged with post-hypnotic blocks to keep her from using her powers without proper supervision. As noted in the Powers section, very low-level use of her abilities — enough to cause a 'brain fart' in others — is often not covered by this block, but there is no 100% guarantee of this. When Violet is stressed or anxious, her powers can stop working completely. The way around the block is a certain series of code words that allow whoever speaks them to direct her in the use of her powers, and like a good little Manchurian Candidate, she will comply without reservation or hesitation. Obviously, a skilled or powerful enough telepath could also break the block, but with more unpredictable circumstances. This block also means that Violet does not passively scan the minds of others, as many telepaths do, and as such does not have the passive boost to empathy or 'people-reading' that these other telepaths have.

Gallery

Logs

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1963-11-22 - Dallas, Room 4 (log: hulk kree-skrull-war lorna plot violet)

1963-10-13 - Amblers Assemble! (log: danny-rand domino duke morgan noh-varr once-upon-a-hellmouth plot violet)

1963-10-10 - Behind The Music (log: jono karolina laura social violet)

1963-10-04 - Welcome to Mutant School (log: illyana kitty noemi social violet)

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