Post by Dawn on Dec 20, 2009 4:35:34 GMT -5
Name: Edwina Joanna Kord
Alias: Eddie, The Blue Beetle
Age: 18
Height/Weight: 5'4"/110
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Persuasion: Good
History:
Edwina Kord is the daughter of Rick and Samantha Kord. Rick was the half-brother of Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. Rick was born to Ted's father though an illict relationship, but was quietly adopted without the younger Kord's knowledge until after his father's death. Rick had no real interest in his other relations, as his father had made it clear that Rick would have nothing to do with his father's holdings.
So, while sorting through his father's things, Ted Kord realized that not only did he have a half-brother, but also a young niece, Edwina Joanna Kord. After being rebuffed by his estranged kin, Ted decided he would at least help the girl from behind the scenes. After all, it seemed unlikely that Ted himself would ever be a father, so he moved to hopefully pass on the family company some day. He began by having Kord Industries pay to have the girl stay at a series of private boarding schools specializing in both music and science. Her father reluctantly agreed, wanting her to have the advantages of the Kord fortune even if he couldn't.
Eddie showed aptitude and interest in science, engineering, music, and athletics to some extent, though her grades were not often the best... the structured lessons bored her and unfortunately there were few opporrtunities at these schools for self-study. She interned at several different Kord Industries labs and offices through high school, and after special tests given to her by the corporate staff was allowed to even work hands-on in some of the most cutting-edge laboratories.
The company was then sold to Wayne Enterprises, and with the new administration came the end of Eddie's special treatment. She did not have the resume to be officially hired by the company (though she was finishing degrees in Electrical, Mechanical, and Computer Engineering), nor the business knowledge to enter the company's bureaucracy. So, inspired by her chance to play with such great toys, Eddie threw herself whole-heartedly into finishing her studies. Unfortunately, by the time she emerged from the halls of Academia, Kord Enterprises as her uncle and grandfather knew it was now being controlled by villians and worse.
On the eve of her eighteenth birthday (which happened to be the day that Ted Kord was killed by Maxwell Lord in Switzerland), Edwina was visited by an attorney, who told her that she was old enough to come into her inheritance. He explained that she was the proud owner of 55% of the stock in K.O.R.D. Inc: Kord Omniversal Research and Development Incorporated. The attorney had overseen Ted's attempts to salvage what was left of his father's company and the various facilities and storehouses of Blue Beetle equipment, and now Ted wanted someone besides him to benefit. Of course, he had no idea that he was about to die.
He sent her a note as well:
"Edwina,
I know that we never met, but I hope I can make it up to you someday. You are old enough to make yor own decisions, but I regret not being a part of your life even if your father wasn't able to let me. I hope this will be a little down payment on my apology.
Yours, Uncle Ted.
P.S. If you figure out the secret in this package, it's all yours. But please, if you don't want it don't tell anyone else until we can talk it over."
Of course, they never did.
The secret was a hidden set of coordinates and passkey frequencies to a townhouse on the Chicago waterfront complete with a secret underground base connected to Lake Michigan. There Ted had a full lab and sets of Blue Beetle gear as a backup in case of emergency. Eddie was of course very surprised, but she decided to do as her uncle had wanted... she would wait until they could talk.
When news came of his death, Edwina decided to try and make Ted proud, she would do everything possible to live up to the legacy of the Blue Beetle... even if she didn't exactly fit in the costume.
So, she began to hire personal trainers and to seek out martial artists who could help her hone her body and skills, but her aptitude and interests were not so much in that area, so she became only a competent fighter and athlete. She was much more interested in trying to figure out Ted's more interesting and experimental technology. Edwina became somewhat involved in the company, though she wisely chose not to meddle in the day-to-day running of things.
Now she feels ready to reveal herself to the world and the multicolored-spandex crowd as the new Blue Beetle. Too bad there already is one.
Powers:
Eddie Kord is quite brilliant, approaching even her uncle Ted Kord's intellect. She does not have the wealth of experience or training he did, so she tends to have to rely on leaps of intution when working on a difficult problem. She has moderate skill in hand-to-hand combat, and is now becoming a well-trained athlete. She is practicing her acrobatics, but there is something to be desired in that category as yet.
As the Blue Beetle, she utilizes Ted Kord's technology and has made a few improvements of her own.
These gadgets include:
Baby Bugs - small anti-grav drones used for surveillance
BB gun - a solar-powered pistol capable of firing a disabling strobe of light or a blast of compressed air that could knock down several men. The gun's safety measures are keyed ot the suit's gloves, and so cannot be picked up and used by anyone else.
- a wrist-mounted grapple/zip-line with several charges
- a protective suit with strobe-resistant goggles that protects against contact agents, impacts, glancing blade strikes, radiation, shrapnel, and is bullet-resistant (as a suit of kevlar body armor). The suit is also temperature-controlled and is heat and cold-resistant. The suit has full communication gear, and the goggles can use night-vision, infrared, and thermographic filters/electronic enhancement. The suit can be sealed for vaccuum, underwater operations, or gas attacks. Eddie can also remotely control her drones or the Bug airship through the suit. Eddie has mounted a pair of anti-gravity pods to the back of her modified suit complete with compressed-air engines allowing her to fly for about an hour at a time or hover almost indefinitely.. This is mostly an emergency measure for accidently falling off buildings or if a need arises to get somewhere higher that her grapple launcher can't be used. It it not intended as a transporation device, and her movement is relatively slow, perhaps 30 miles per hour. The suits cowl cannot be unlatched without conscious effort on her part, so she cannot be easiily unmasked. The suits gloves have a buffered computer interface, allowing her to crack security systems and computers without having to worry about viruses or other countermeasures. The suit is insulated against electric shock, as well. It has about an hour of full life support, and has a small water resevoir and concentrated energy paste.
- a utility belt with only a few gadgets, including a magnetic lockpick widget that also has an acid spray only useful to open locks in case the mechanism cannot be manipulated.
-The Bug is a solar-powered anti-gravity bases airship that has a mobile lab, stun blasters, magnetic manupulators, defensive shields, and manipulator claws. It has an emergency medical lab and stasis chamber in case of critical wounds. This version can fly at supersonic speeds, and even reach orbit, but Eddie does not feel confident enough to pilot the ship that fast or that high herself, and the automatic pilot will not go beyond the speed of sound unless in an emergency.
She is studying some alien technology that Ted was working on, some sort of propulsion systems for a jet that seemed to have never needed to stop for fuel or energy. This was something Ted was working on for the Birds of Prey based on the New Gods Mother Boxes, but Eddie is still far away from comprehending how this functions.
Comic: Original character
Alias: Eddie, The Blue Beetle
Age: 18
Height/Weight: 5'4"/110
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Persuasion: Good
History:
Edwina Kord is the daughter of Rick and Samantha Kord. Rick was the half-brother of Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. Rick was born to Ted's father though an illict relationship, but was quietly adopted without the younger Kord's knowledge until after his father's death. Rick had no real interest in his other relations, as his father had made it clear that Rick would have nothing to do with his father's holdings.
So, while sorting through his father's things, Ted Kord realized that not only did he have a half-brother, but also a young niece, Edwina Joanna Kord. After being rebuffed by his estranged kin, Ted decided he would at least help the girl from behind the scenes. After all, it seemed unlikely that Ted himself would ever be a father, so he moved to hopefully pass on the family company some day. He began by having Kord Industries pay to have the girl stay at a series of private boarding schools specializing in both music and science. Her father reluctantly agreed, wanting her to have the advantages of the Kord fortune even if he couldn't.
Eddie showed aptitude and interest in science, engineering, music, and athletics to some extent, though her grades were not often the best... the structured lessons bored her and unfortunately there were few opporrtunities at these schools for self-study. She interned at several different Kord Industries labs and offices through high school, and after special tests given to her by the corporate staff was allowed to even work hands-on in some of the most cutting-edge laboratories.
The company was then sold to Wayne Enterprises, and with the new administration came the end of Eddie's special treatment. She did not have the resume to be officially hired by the company (though she was finishing degrees in Electrical, Mechanical, and Computer Engineering), nor the business knowledge to enter the company's bureaucracy. So, inspired by her chance to play with such great toys, Eddie threw herself whole-heartedly into finishing her studies. Unfortunately, by the time she emerged from the halls of Academia, Kord Enterprises as her uncle and grandfather knew it was now being controlled by villians and worse.
On the eve of her eighteenth birthday (which happened to be the day that Ted Kord was killed by Maxwell Lord in Switzerland), Edwina was visited by an attorney, who told her that she was old enough to come into her inheritance. He explained that she was the proud owner of 55% of the stock in K.O.R.D. Inc: Kord Omniversal Research and Development Incorporated. The attorney had overseen Ted's attempts to salvage what was left of his father's company and the various facilities and storehouses of Blue Beetle equipment, and now Ted wanted someone besides him to benefit. Of course, he had no idea that he was about to die.
He sent her a note as well:
"Edwina,
I know that we never met, but I hope I can make it up to you someday. You are old enough to make yor own decisions, but I regret not being a part of your life even if your father wasn't able to let me. I hope this will be a little down payment on my apology.
Yours, Uncle Ted.
P.S. If you figure out the secret in this package, it's all yours. But please, if you don't want it don't tell anyone else until we can talk it over."
Of course, they never did.
The secret was a hidden set of coordinates and passkey frequencies to a townhouse on the Chicago waterfront complete with a secret underground base connected to Lake Michigan. There Ted had a full lab and sets of Blue Beetle gear as a backup in case of emergency. Eddie was of course very surprised, but she decided to do as her uncle had wanted... she would wait until they could talk.
When news came of his death, Edwina decided to try and make Ted proud, she would do everything possible to live up to the legacy of the Blue Beetle... even if she didn't exactly fit in the costume.
So, she began to hire personal trainers and to seek out martial artists who could help her hone her body and skills, but her aptitude and interests were not so much in that area, so she became only a competent fighter and athlete. She was much more interested in trying to figure out Ted's more interesting and experimental technology. Edwina became somewhat involved in the company, though she wisely chose not to meddle in the day-to-day running of things.
Now she feels ready to reveal herself to the world and the multicolored-spandex crowd as the new Blue Beetle. Too bad there already is one.
Powers:
Eddie Kord is quite brilliant, approaching even her uncle Ted Kord's intellect. She does not have the wealth of experience or training he did, so she tends to have to rely on leaps of intution when working on a difficult problem. She has moderate skill in hand-to-hand combat, and is now becoming a well-trained athlete. She is practicing her acrobatics, but there is something to be desired in that category as yet.
As the Blue Beetle, she utilizes Ted Kord's technology and has made a few improvements of her own.
These gadgets include:
Baby Bugs - small anti-grav drones used for surveillance
BB gun - a solar-powered pistol capable of firing a disabling strobe of light or a blast of compressed air that could knock down several men. The gun's safety measures are keyed ot the suit's gloves, and so cannot be picked up and used by anyone else.
- a wrist-mounted grapple/zip-line with several charges
- a protective suit with strobe-resistant goggles that protects against contact agents, impacts, glancing blade strikes, radiation, shrapnel, and is bullet-resistant (as a suit of kevlar body armor). The suit is also temperature-controlled and is heat and cold-resistant. The suit has full communication gear, and the goggles can use night-vision, infrared, and thermographic filters/electronic enhancement. The suit can be sealed for vaccuum, underwater operations, or gas attacks. Eddie can also remotely control her drones or the Bug airship through the suit. Eddie has mounted a pair of anti-gravity pods to the back of her modified suit complete with compressed-air engines allowing her to fly for about an hour at a time or hover almost indefinitely.. This is mostly an emergency measure for accidently falling off buildings or if a need arises to get somewhere higher that her grapple launcher can't be used. It it not intended as a transporation device, and her movement is relatively slow, perhaps 30 miles per hour. The suits cowl cannot be unlatched without conscious effort on her part, so she cannot be easiily unmasked. The suits gloves have a buffered computer interface, allowing her to crack security systems and computers without having to worry about viruses or other countermeasures. The suit is insulated against electric shock, as well. It has about an hour of full life support, and has a small water resevoir and concentrated energy paste.
- a utility belt with only a few gadgets, including a magnetic lockpick widget that also has an acid spray only useful to open locks in case the mechanism cannot be manipulated.
-The Bug is a solar-powered anti-gravity bases airship that has a mobile lab, stun blasters, magnetic manupulators, defensive shields, and manipulator claws. It has an emergency medical lab and stasis chamber in case of critical wounds. This version can fly at supersonic speeds, and even reach orbit, but Eddie does not feel confident enough to pilot the ship that fast or that high herself, and the automatic pilot will not go beyond the speed of sound unless in an emergency.
She is studying some alien technology that Ted was working on, some sort of propulsion systems for a jet that seemed to have never needed to stop for fuel or energy. This was something Ted was working on for the Birds of Prey based on the New Gods Mother Boxes, but Eddie is still far away from comprehending how this functions.
Comic: Original character
