| Spitfire |
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| Portrayed by Sienna Miller |
| Statistics |
| Full Name |
Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton |
| Age |
26 (91) |
| Height |
5'4" |
| Build |
Athletic runner |
| Eyes |
Blue |
| Hair |
Platinum Blonde |
| Factions |
None |
| Occupation |
CEO of Falsworth Industries |
| Alignment |
Hero |
Claim to Fame
Daughter of Lord Montgomery Falsworth, Marquess of Falsworth; Widow of Lord Cedric Crichton, Marquess of Crichton; now considered the Dowager Marchioness Crichton. CEO of Falsworth International. Celebrated WW2 war hero.
Reputation
That Spitfire is Lady Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton is well known in Britain — as is the fact that she somehow lost 50 years of age as the result of some sort of swansong mission. She's a war hero, an aristocrat, and CEO of one of the more influential British corporations. A minor British celebrity. However, the intelligence community knows that Spitfire is a senior MI-13 operative and Agent of the Crown, though she is somewhat selective about her missions, these days. She is known for sharp wit, pragmatic decisions, and an indomitable will.
Biography
Born in 1923, in Maidstone, England, Jacqueline Falsworth was the youngest of two children and is now the last of the Falsworth line. Her father, Montgomery Falsworth, Marquess of Falsworth, was the original Union Jack and a founding member of the Freedom Five, an international superteam that operated during WW1, thus creating a legacy of heroism in the family. (His greatest nemesis — and, after a fashion, hers — would turn out to be his own brother? a vampire. Gotta love 1940's pulp fiction.)
Lady Jane Falsworth, Jacqueline's mother, died during the Blitz, causing her distraught daughter to join the Air Raid Precautions organization in London. She would subsequently go on to join the Women's Voluntary Service, the SOE, and, in more modern times, the SAS and MI-13. In 1942, Jacqueline was attacked by her vampiric uncle and left for dead. She didn't die, however, but was, instead, saved by a transfusion of blood from one of her father's more exotic (and virtually immortal) WW2 team mates.
The transfusion activated latent mutagenic abilities in Jacqueline, granting her super-speed and the requisite durabilities and endurances such a gift requires. She joined her father's new superteam, using the codename Spitfire, and became one of the most celebrated heroes of the war, commended for the rescue of the British Royal Family and Prime Minister Churchill at least once — among many other actions.
After the war, Jacqueline retired from heroics, married Cedric Crichton, Marquess of Crichton, and bore a son named Kenneth. She claimed, over the years, that her metahuman abilities had faded, though this was not strictly true. Suffering from a form of PTSD brought on by the atrocities she'd witnessed in the war, she created a mental block that prohibited her from accessing her powers except in the direst of circumstances.
Cedric died in the late-seventies, when Kenneth was in art school, and at the beginning of the eighties, Jacqueline returned home to Falsworth Manor to tend to her aging father. Kenneth became increasingly estranged from his mother, whom he blamed for the anemia that left him weaker and frailer than most other young men his age.
The seventies and eighties were tough times for the British economy and, consequently, for Falsworth Industries, as well. After Lord Falsworth died in 1981, Jacqueline took over his corporate and political responsibilities. Ten years later, she was approached by an old friend seeking her help to rescue some mutual former colleagues. Unable to reach any of her usual contacts, save one, Jacqueline dusted off an old spitfire plane she'd nostalgically kept, pulled out an old Enfield rifle, called in a favour from the one contact she could reach, and joined in the rescue operation. She was critically wounded during the extraction, but was saved by the man they were trying to rescue — the same man who'd first saved her life back in the war. He had medics extract his blood and give it to her, keeping her from dying.
By now in her late sixties, Jacqueline had been contemplating a well-earned retirement. The transfusion, however, did more than just save her from death. It rejuvenated her to the point that her body regressed a good fifty years; she looked and felt like she was in her late teens again. Needless to say, this caused quite a stir among both the British establishment and the gossip rags whose lifeblood was prying into the private affairs of national celebrities and aristocrats.
Her abilities 'returned' — though, in truth, they were simply 'released' because the psychosomatic blocks that had held them in check disappeared — even stronger than before. Younger colleagues tried entice her back into public life, tried to rid her of the habits of the old lady she'd been, but they had only limited success. When one of the directors on the board of trustees for Falsworth Industries launched a campaign to oust her from the company, however, she fought back, eventually growing the company into Falsworth International, one of Britain's more influential Fortune 500s.
Family obligations satisfied, Jacqueline turned her attention to more patriotic pursuits. After the death (and transformation) of her son at the hands of a vampiress created by her uncle years before, she accepted Her Majesty's invitation to resume her work as a Special Agent of the Crown. She worked closely with both MI-5 and MI-13, as well as with the SAS and the British Secret Service. She became, for all intents and purposes, 'the elder stateswoman' of British superhumans, on good terms with most of the Kingdom's heroes.
By the late 2000's, however, it had become clear to her that her uncle's attack decades before had left a much more indelible mark on her than she'd first assumed. The blood transfusions she'd received from her father's colleague had, perhaps, altered the vampire's affect on her, delayed it some, but hadn't actually stopped it. Not entirely, at least. When nearly catastrophic mystical forces threatened to overwhelm the United Kingdom, a new recruit to MI-13, a vampire hunter, sensed the vampiric nature within her and tried to stake her. He was narrowly defeated by another colleague with a knack for biokinesis, who was able to keep Jacqueline alive. Once the vampire hunter understood that Jacqueline's vampiric nature was entirely under her iron control and that she, thus, presented no threat to humanity, he trained her in how to better utilize that nature in her work — stabilizing her appearance as that of a woman in her mid-to-late-twenties — and helped her come to terms with her family's long struggle with the masters of the undead.
Now, several years later, Lady Crichton has moved to America in an effort to help build Falsworth America (a division of Falsworth International) and work more closely with several of the more forward-thinking American corporations.
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Character Details
As a girl, Jacqueline Falsworth was a patriotic firebrand and staunch feminist. As she aged, however, she became increasingly the "proper British lady", with a stiff upper lip, staid demeanor, and a tendency to live in the past. Since being de-aged, however, while still understated and possessed of the tight, British reserve one would expect of a woman of her station, she has a something of a new lease on life and harkens somewhat back to her younger self. She's not afraid to let her hair down and have a good time (though her definition of a 'good time' is an evening at the pub with colleagues and friends, rather than club hopping with the latest socialites and starlets-du-jour). Nevertheless, her long life and association with the military and intelligence communities have made her sharp, pragmatic, and disciplined. Despite the celebrity her position and status afford her, she is a very private person, disinclined to needless public display. She is the last of the Falsworths and every inch her father's daughter — tough, resourceful, determined, and indomitable, ever guided by her clear sense of familial honour and patriotic duty.
| Speedster |
Spitfire is a speedster. While she's not likely a conduit for the Speed Force, she is still lightning fast — fast enough that she can't be caught on camera, even as a blur (though the effects of her passing are very clear, since she moves fast enough to light the air on fire briefly with her passing). She can run across liquid surfaces, up walls and other vertical surfaces, and leap incredible distances with a running start. She can also vibrate fast enough to damage materials, allowing her to disintegrate locks or take doors right off their hinges. And when she hits things, her formidable strength is augmented by the speed of the impact.
In addition to the superspeed, her body's metabolism is extremely high, meaning she needs about twice as many calories as a normal woman her size. Her skin is highly resistant to impact and, to a lesser degree, puncture, in order to withstand windshear. Her endurance and stamina are also superhuman, as her muscles build up fatigue-producing acids far more slowly, her joints lubricate far more efficiently, and her skeletal structure is far more resilient than normal. |
| Hot Blooded |
When she was a young woman, Spitfire was attacked by a vampire (her uncle) who left her severely drained of blood. A transfusion from an advanced, pyrokinetic, synthetically-organic android triggered a mutagenic transformation of her own blood properties that had three primary effects: Firstly, it triggered her speedster abilities and altered her physiology accordingly. Secondly, it healed her of all damage suffered in the attack (though it did not confer any sort of lingering 'healing factor'). Thirdly, it prevented her from dying, thus thwarting the vampire's effort to turn her. For whatever reason, her body is uniquely sensitive to the type of synthetic-organic cells that fashioned the android who gave her the transfusion.
Subsequently, she has had occasion to discover that her blood is literally a higher temperature than average and that it can immolate anyone or anything that consumes it — such as vampires not directly of her bloodline. (This can be circumvented if the creature desiring to consume her blood first drinks the blood of one of her relatives, whose blood serves as a sort of temporary, preventative antidote to the immolation, before consuming her blood.) |
| Living Vampire |
Thanks to her uncle's attack on her when she was a teenager, Jacqueline now has many abilities reminiscent of the masters of the undead. Fortunately, she didn't actually die, after the attack, and thus isn't actually a true vampire. Instead, she has most of the perks, and few of the disadvantages. Among these perks are superhuman strength that allows her to tear off limbs and break down barriers fashioned of normal construction materials, superhuman senses that allow her to sense the presence of vampires and other quasi-vampires, and a resistance to magic that makes it much harder for spells to affect her. Technically, she also has a vampire's superspeed, but since that is considerably less than her speedster abilities, it's not something she's actually noticed.
Further, she is effectively immortal, now. She is immune to most vampiric weaknesses (garlic, silver, sunlight, fire, holy symbols or holy water, etc.), except that of a stake through the heart, which has the potential to dust her almost as quickly as it would any normal vampire. She can, however, ignore massive tissue and blood loss — though she's not immune to the pain. With great concentration (and great pain), she can force her body to knit itself back together again. The more severe the injury she attempts to regenerate, the greater the pain and the longer it takes to do so, however. Aside from superficial wounds, it's not a quick fix, by any means.
Finally, she can, at will, manifest both fangs and claws usual to vampires and use them as weapons, augmented, of course, by her superhuman speed and strength. This means she's capable of ripping the throats out of her opponents or otherwise tearing them limb from limb if she can get close enough to them. (Fortunately, she's generally disinclined to sink to such unladylike tactics unless there is no other choice.) |
| Bloody Strong-willed |
| Jacqueline is a Falsworth. This means she's bloody stubborn and determined. Her strength of will is such that she cannot be mesmerized, hypnotized, or otherwise mind-controlled? at least, not for very long. She is strong enough that even a master vampire such as Dracula himself cannot control her as he can other vampires. This helps to strengthen her in several ways, since it gives her the ability to push through mental barriers and physical limitations that would defeat souls with less iron in them. The woman generally can't be broken by anyone other than herself. |
| Peerage |
| Jacqueline is both the daughter and widow of a Marquess. This affords her a certain standing in British society — and is recognized in most upper class societies throughout the world. Although, as a woman, she has not inherited her father's title, nor can she fully claim her late husband's title, she still possesses a considerable degree of influence and respect within the British establishment. Her proper title is the Dowager Marchioness Crichton or, more simply, Lady Crichton. She would only be referred to as Lady Jacqueline when being referenced as her father's daughter. |
| Falsworth International |
| As the last living member of the direct Falsworth line, Jacqueline now controls both the Falsworth estate and all the family holdings, including Falsworth International — a sizable Fortune 500 corporation in Britain. This, along with her own investments over the years, has left her considerably well off. She won't be worrying about money for quite some time. (Good thing, too, given how long she's likely to live.) |
| Decades Of Contacts |
| Jacqueline is a resourceful old bird (for all that she looks like she's in her twenties again). She's made dozens upon dozens of contacts over the years — in the British establishment, in business, in the military, in the intelligence community, and in the seedier places in the world. Both home and abroad, she has a myriad of friends she can call in favours from when she needs. Further, she's on good terms with most of Britain's superhuman population and, as an unofficial 'elder stateswoman' among them, can often motivate them to help when they might not otherwise. |
| Advanced Equipment |
| As both an Agent of the Crown and a woman of considerable means, Jacqueline has access to a plethora of military and black-ops grade weaponry, equipment, and vehicles that she can use as needed. Further, she has personal costumery and armour that has been uniquely fashioned to accommodate the needs of her abilities — most notably able to withstand high levels of friction and impact damage. |
| Business Acumen |
| One doesn't last long as the head of a large, multinational corporation if one is incapable of managing a business at that level. Thus, Jacqueline may not be an economic genius, but she can hold her own in the boardroom. |
| Special Training |
| Jacqueline started training as a young volunteer in the Air Raid Precautions organization back in the forties. Then, she became part of the SOE, the SAS, and, later, MI-5 and MI-13. She has extensive military and espionage training and has had decades to perfect it. Consequently, she's one of Britain's master operatives? all of which is made much easier since she can move too fast for security systems and personnel to detect in time. |
| Temper Temper |
| Jacqueline is, well, a spitfire. She's also a quasi-vampire. So, while she rarely loses control of her actions, she can sometimes lose control of her manifestations when she's particularly angry, frustrated, or under duress. At such times, she reveals fangs and claws, and similar such vampiric traits that can be unnerving, even outright frightening, to those that don't know just how well-controlled she really is. Trigger topics for her include treason against her country, anything to do with her family (father, husband, brother, son, whomever), and anything else that impinges on her personal, familial, or patriotic honour. |
| Bloodlust |
| Although Jacqueline has iron control over herself, she can still suffer from the vampiric urge to consume blood — particularly when she's surrounded by a lot of it. She has never given into this desire, but that doesn't mean it isn't there or that it doesn't bedevil here. |
| Vampiric Nature |
| There are people, places, and things out there that respond — positively or negatively — to vampires. This can create difficulties for Jacqueline. She tends not to touch mystical weapons or artefacts that display any sort of clear valence by either Good or Evil. Mystically Good artefacts tend to want to immolate her. Mystically Evil artefacts tend to want to serve or consume her. In either case, it's not good. She doesn't like it. She also tends to be particularly polite (not that she is often impolite) to the mystically sensitive, particularly if they're of a heroic bent, so that she doesn't end up on their hit list without just cause. To her way of thinking, it's just good business. |
| Split Nature |
| Jacqueline's superspeed and its related qualities are a mutagenic effect of the blood transfusion she received when she was dying as a teenager. Thus, items, compounds, devices, or other means that will disable or inhibit superpowers sourced from a metagene will affect her speedster abilities. Similarly, Jacqueline's vampiric abilities come from a mystical source. Thus, items compounds, devices, spells, or other means that will disable or inhibit superpowers of a mystical nature will affect her vampiric abilities. Note, however, that mystical inhibitors are more effective if they're tailored against vampires, rather than magic in general, since she does have a certain resistance to magical attack. Further, unless she's simultaneous attacked with inhibitors designed for each side of her nature, she will retain the abilities from the unaffected nature. |
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