Spiral |
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Portrayed by Zoƫ Bell |
Statistics |
Full Name |
Rita Wayword |
Age |
28 |
Height |
5'10" |
Build |
Athletic, graceful, and multi-limbed |
Eyes |
Pure white |
Hair |
Silver |
Factions |
None |
Occupation |
Supervillain |
Alignment |
Villain |
Claim to Fame
Ricochet Rita was well known in the entertainment industry before her disappearance, but it would take someone who knew her very well to recognize the stuntwoman now.
Reputation
Spiral is feared and despised throughout the Mojoverse. Here on Earth, she's an unknown quantity.
Biography
Rita Wayword was a successful stuntwoman who was unlucky enough to catch the eye of Mojo years ago. She vanished from the planet in 2010 and was rebuilt into a twisted creature capable of seeking out 'talent' anywhere in the multiverse, subduing and kidnapping them, and then surgically altering them into the perfect avatar of whatever ideal was most likely to capture Mojovision ratings at the time. She was good at her work, but her task made it impossible not to speculate about her own origins, which had been wiped from her memory. Using her incredible knowledge of the augmentation process, she was able to strip away many of the behavioral controls built into her, allowing greater and greater acts of rebellion against Mojo.
This could never remain secret forever. When she was found out, Mojo's ire was incendiary and her punishment swift. She was stripped of her rank and exiled back to the backwater planet she was born on.
Ignorant of her origins but deeply curious about the mysterious society that she must have come from, Spiral became a pop culture junkie, indiscriminately absorbing any and all trashy entertainment produced on the planet in the last fifty years. Floored by the underlying similarities to Mojoverse culture, yet humiliated by human society's staid inability to measure up to that universe's excesses, Spiral has made it her personal mission to Footloose our quaint little civilization into something to make the Spineless Ones quiver with envy.
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Character Details
Spiral is an anarchic, hedonistic trash culture hipster dead set on disrupting, transforming, or destroying anything she perceives as 'boring.' Her motivations are opaque and her actions unpredictable.
Dance Magic Dance |
Spiral is a cosmic-level sorceress who taps into the chaotic energy of the Wildways through dance. Her magic is the magic of movement and music, and concerns things like force blasts, teleportation, chance encounters, time dilation, telekinesis, redirection, rhythm, glamour, visual effects, sound, and sudden reversals. Simple effects can be achieved with the flick of a finger or a particularly dramatic tilt of the chin; the more complicated her spells, the more complicated the dance required to weave it. Her spells will often be performed to music, which takes on a mystical life of its own as it is bound up in her sorcery.
In game terms, her combat spells will mainly consist of force blasts, teleportation, and reflection shields, with an occasional hex-style "thing not being where it's supposed to be" for flavor. Mid-range spells might be used as scene setups, as in someone being shanghaied or a 'chance encounter' between otherwise unaffiliated characters. These will always be suggested on a consent basis where they affect other characters. Grand mystical meddling that affects the grid on a plot scale will, of course, be applied for like any other plot.
Given the anarchic nature of Spiral's M.O., I do ask a little leeway for insane, unplanned things that might come up in the course of a scene — dropping a boat into the middle of a city street, turning a building inside out, or creating doorways that only lead you back into the room you just exited, to spitball a few examples. |
Wild One |
Spiral's consciousness has been warped by her exposure to the Wildways, a web of high-dimensional connections between otherwise unrelated places, times, and people across the multiverse. This makes her a superlative lateral thinker: she doesn't have to imagine unconventional solutions to problems, she simply sees them, plain as day. It also makes her mental processes unfathomable by telepaths and psychics of any stripe, with a possible exception for the truly insane.
She's a hedonist and a thrill-seeker who would rather just stir up trouble than hatch some grand villainous plot, and she has a ravenous appetite for trashy pop culture of any era. Her behavior and responses are erratic and unpredictable, making her an unreliable ally when she isn't utterly under someone's thrall. And attempting to impose that kind of control over her, as Mojo did, taps into vicious, vengeful instincts that are definitely more danger than they are worth. |
Harder Better Faster Stronger |
After her own cyborg augmentation, Spiral became the chief body architect at Mojo's Body Shoppe. This makes her an expert surgeon and mechanic, familiar with body modification and augmentation methods far beyond anything known to terrestrial science. Her surgical methods are extreme, to say the least, but it's impossible to argue with her results. This knowledge can be applied for simple medical purposes, of course, but it will take some persuasion to convince her not to make some improvements while she's cutting into somebody.
In game terms, I don't see augmenting other characters as a particularly interesting function for Spiral — she's more likely to allude darkly to some 'improvements' she'd like to make as a way to be creepy or threatening than to actually solve people's problems. It's a potential RP hook for existing cyborg characters — perhaps Spiral had a hand in their augmentations or an opinion on the workmanship. Augmentation for a non-cyborg character would require a ton of lead-in RP, and then be requested like any other plot-based sheet change. |
Stairway To Heaven |
Spiral's magical focus on movement and transportation makes her one of the universe's foremost teleporters. She can move large groups of people anywhere, even across dimensional barriers. She doesn't, however. She spent years as Mojo's personal ferryman, and she's sick of it. She teleports herself where she wants to go, and teleports what she wants to herself. That's the extent of it. Her interests do not extend beyond Earth and trying to reconnect with the culture that she was born to and no longer understands. Mojo exiled her from his realm, and she couldn't be happier to comply. If she were to leave the planet at this point, it would only be to join another human who had already done so.
In game terms, Spiral can go anywhere another character already is (and has an irritating tendency to turn up in the most impossible places), but she will not make travel to any extraplanetary locations possible or draw on any alien resources not specified on her sheet. |
Kiss With A Fist |
Spiral's augmentations and gladiatorial training make her a world-class combatant. Her moves are fast, graceful, and showy, and her ability to carry out complex and differing tasks with each of her arms gives her more potential angles of attack than most targets can defend against. She favors multiple swords, but is versed in a number of other melee weapons and unarmed combat styles, as well. Thanks to her augmentations, she is also considerably stronger than she appears. |
Weapon Of Choice |
Spiral possesses a set of six swords she brought with her from the Mojoverse. They are made of an unknown alloy, incredibly light and strong, and seem to never dull. |
Version 2.0 |
Spiral may not have access to the surgical and cybernetic technologies of the Mojoverse, but she has an intimate knowledge of their workings and has used that knowledge to construct her own operating room/workshop somewhere on Earth. She uses this location to maintain her own augmentations, and it's automated enough that she could teleport there on the brink of death and recover. |
Space Oddity |
Due to her amnesia, Spiral is much more steeped in the culture of the Mojoverse than that of Earth. That makes her behavior seem bizarre and her motivations suspect. She has a voyeuristic streak, preferring to sit back and watch events she has set in motion play out, rather than involving herself too directly. She also has no concept of privacy, individual rights, personal dignity, or high culture. She lacks instinctive aversions to invasive body modification and extreme displays of violence. |
Dazed And Confused |
Spiral barely remembers anything of her human life before she was abducted by Mojo. Even so, she has a profound sense of loss attached to it, and is on Earth to try to reconnect with it in some way. This has mostly been a frustrating and fruitless process, leading her to lash out in frustration at human civilization. |
The Archandroid |
Although Spiral's augmentations push her body beyond peak human performance, they also give her a set of vulnerabilities she wouldn't otherwise have. Parts of her are metallic or electronic, with the usual weaknesses such systems entail. |
You Know I'm No Good |
As one of Mojo's most prominent lieutenants, Spiral was responsible for innumerable kidnappings and forced surgical augmentations. Consequently, she is feared and hated throughout the Mojoverse. Any refugees from that universe, or people who have had any significant contact with it, will despise her or even attack her on sight. |
Antichrist Television Blues |
Mojo ruined Spiral's life several times over. She may not really remember what her life was, but she despises him for what he did to it. That said, he has had a series of failsafes built into her, up to and including the ability to wipe and rewrite her mind and personality. If he wants her cooperation, she's really not in any position to refuse. While he's currently furious with her and willing to write her off entirely, it's not hard to believe that he might somehow attempt to cash in on the investment he made in her one day. |
Relationships
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Name |
Relation |
Notes |
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Mojo |
Disgruntled former employer |
A disgusting creature who can force Spiral to do his bidding at any time. Fortunately, she managed to piss him off enough that he's currently leaving her alone. |
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