The Mist |
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Portrayed by Kristen Stewart |
Statistics |
Full Name |
Nash |
Age |
27 |
Height |
5'7" |
Build |
Lean |
Eyes |
Green |
Hair |
Black |
Factions |
Solo |
Occupation |
Hero Killer |
Alignment |
Villain |
Claim to Fame
Not a bit of it. Yet.
Reputation
Experienced villains might recognize her as the daughter of that old-time villain, the Mist. The mousey one with the stutter, who could never look you in the eyes. But, then, they might not recognize her now. And, while no name has been attached, a series of serial murders across Europe, small time superheroes mostly, has started to make headlines. But not many have made the connection.
Biography
Nash was born into supervillainy, raised in a life of crime. Her father, the Mist, was already old when she was born - she never met her mother and Kyle, her brother, could barely remember her, being only a couple of years older. They never even learned their last names. Father said it was better not to know them, to keep secrets safe if one of them got caught, to only go by aliases, each of them only getting their first names. They never even knew their father as anything other than Father. He, predictably, was abusive and, being a sexist old bastard, levelled much of his disdain and bile towards his daughter. Kyle was being groomed to take his place, while Nash was to be Kyle's helper. Not even a sidekick, just a getaway car and someone to get supplies. Kyle, however, became quite close to his sister, the two usually left behind when their Father went out on jobs or, as became increasingly common as Father got older, while Father was locked up. Kyle tried to shield Nash from as much of the abuse as he could and assured her she'd have a chance to be more than just his gofer. In fact, Nash became an essential part of the group, somewhat behind Mist's back. She became the chief tactician and planner for heists, the one who scouted locations and checked details, looking for flaws. She could still barely meet Father's eye (or anyone but Kyle's), nervous and stuttering even as a young woman, almost frail.
Finally a few years ago, Father brought them out into the field with them. Kyle underwent the transformation through the Mist machine, gaining the same powers as their father, and they went after the old man's long time nemesis. The nemesis, however, had a son of his own and he tracked down the Mist's lair. Having expected to find it empty, Nash managed to take him from behind, hitting him with a crowbar and holding a gun on him. When she looked down the barrel at the young man, though, she couldn't find it in herself to pull the trigger. She told the hero of her father's plans, which had become increasingly mad, and asked the young hero to help her and her brother finally be rid of his foul influence. The hero agreed and Nash let him go. Three hours later, that same young hero, for reasons he surely felt were justified, not only captured Nash's father, but killed her brother, leaving nothing but ash, not even a body to bury. By the time he returned to the lair, Nash was gone. She knew it wasn't only the young hero (although she truly does hate him), but superheroism in general that was to blame. Sanctimonious, lawless, masked freaks. She used the machine one more time, granting herself the powers of her family legacy and Nash became The Mist.
Nash went to Europe, using her father's old contacts to get training, weapons and time to plan. And she began to kill, at first only helpers as she once had been, and then heroes themselves. Small-timers to be sure, but, then, they were only practice, auditions for her big return. The stuttering, nervous girl that had once spared a life was no more. Nash was coming back and this time, she would have no mercy at all.
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Character Details
Where once Nash was a timid, shy young woman, the murder of her brother has transformed her into very much the opposite. Cruel, calculating and vicious, she savors violence, having giving herself over entirely to villainy. She plays coy sometimes, teasing, the cat playing with the mouse and just as willing to tear it apart with her teeth if it tries to run. She might have some redeeming qualities, deep down, some spark of innocence, but she'd snuff it out if she found it. She doesn't want her soul saved, she wants to watch the world burn. Preferably, she'd start the fire with a pile of capes. She is truly obsessed with her hatred of superheroes and costumed vigilantes and has made it her life's mission to kill as many of them as she can - although she might just torture some of them for a long time first. There's satisfaction in that, too.
Gaseous Form |
The Mist, as her codename would imply, possesses the ability to turn herself into a gaseous state. While no one's ever analyzed the components of her gas form, they appear to be non-toxic or poisonous, although they can smother or choke someone from lack of oxygen if she goes into their lungs. In her mist form, she's completely inccorporeal and, after a minute or so after dispersal and before reformation, invisible (in the transition period, or if she's partially transformed, her mist-form has a green-tinged quality). She can transform fully, including any inanimate objects on her person up to fifty pounds, or partially, simply turning an arm or her head into mist form to dodge blows, or having her hands alone form in the mist to strangle an opponent. She can maintain her mist form for about four hours before requiring a rest period. |
Gaseous Movement |
In her gaseous form, Nash can essentially fly, being virtually weightless and able to float in the air, although she can't achieve speed much more than 25 or 30 miles per hour. She can move through tiny cracks and narrow gaps, getting through most any sort of security system undetected. Anyplace air can get into, she can get into, although, if she wants to reform, there needs to be enough space inside for her corporeal body. She can also hover completely still for long period of time, just waiting like a trap set over a doorway or inside of someone's home. She can resist winds up to thirty or forty miles per hour, but can be dispersed by anything much stronger than that. The more powerful the dispersion, the longer it will take her to reform - theoretically, she could be killed this way, but it would take a great and likely deliberate attempt to separate her molecules (and she would likely reform before it could happen). |
Burglar |
Nash is sneaky. Being able to turn into an invisible mist certainly helps, but, even without it, she's plenty sneaky and knows how to handle a lock or creep along a rooftop unseen. Largely, she trained herself to do it because that was the -right- way. Over-relying on superpowers is what got her brother killed and her father locked away over and over again. She won't make that same mistake. |
Meticulous |
Nash has OCD, to an extreme degree, and she's extremely picky and precise in the details of her planning. She double and triple checks every possibility. She always makes sure to have back-up plans and back-up plans for those plans. She never goes in without having at least three escape routes scouted. She was always her father's planner, the one who designed his heists as she grew up. He could just never follow the plan because he was an arrogant, senile old man. Nash doesn't have that problem. |
Stalking |
Nash stalks her prey, in the same way that an obsessive fan or a serial killer might. She follows, she learns routines, memorizes addresses. She goes through their garbage to know what they eat, what they read. She learns their passwords and reads their e-mail, follows them on social networks through false accounts. And, most notably, she has learned how to do it all without being detected. |
Torture |
Nash has become practiced in the art of torture. She studied, first of all, for the practical knowedge of how to hurt, damage and maim someone, how to make them cry and scream at her demand. What worked, what didn't, how far she could push it. They deserved it, they all deserved it, and she intended to dish it out. And she taught herself because she needed to kill that part of her that had any mercy or hesitance. She needed to look screaming horror in the face and smile back at it. And now she has. One does not want to be left at Nash's tender mercies. |
Mindgames |
Nash loves to play with the minds of her prey as much as she does torment their bodies. She can be alternately coy and almost tender, to relentlessly brutal. She usually has spent some time learning the psychology of any long-term prey, a real obsession, and so she knows somewhat how they think, where their weaknesses lie. She'll exploit every one of them. She likes to keep her enemies on edge, looking over their shoulder, nervous and wary and yet still knowing that they'll never see her coming. |
Combat |
Nash's intensity and obsession has allowed her to increase her levels of skill quite quickly, whipping her body into shape. She's focused her martial arts studies on Krav Maga (for its efficiency), muay thai kickboxing and judo. While not a master in any of these disciplines, they give her a fair range of moves to choose from and, now that she's incorporated a style with her misting form, she can be an incredibly dangerous opponent in such situations. She's also done a fair amount of practice involving knife fighting, usually with a short dagger, mostly because she likes to see her enemies bleed. |
Marksmanship |
Since her brother's death, Nash has trained relentlessly with the gun, largely automatic pistols, although she does have some practice with revolvers and small submachine guns. While not world class by any stretch, she can hold her own on any firing range and can hit a target from a fair distance with accuracy. Her skill level would be equivalent to that of an FBI field agent. |
Traps |
Nash spent some time with anarchist terrorist cells in Europe, learning tactics and methods. She's become a good hand with demolitions, mostly of the makeshift sort, pipe bombs, IEDs, that sort of thing. Nothing too sophisticated, but plenty enough to make a big noise, scare the hell out of people and probably shrapnel a few civilians to death. She has also studied the construction of more elaborate rig-traps, of the sort favored by puppet-faced serial killers and people with giant arcade mazes at their disposal, although she is in no way an expert on such things. She can still put together a nice, straightforward death trap, though, and set it in place waiting for the superheroic rat to get his neck snapped in it. |
Languages |
Nash travelled with her father often to far-flung places, seeking both refuge and opportunities for crime. Along the way, she picked up a few languages, a skill she added to during her recent European tour. At current, she speaks French, Japanese, German, Farsi, Spanish and Italian in addition to her native English. |
Hate |
Nash has given up mercy, killed all empathy within her. She used to be almost sweet, relucant in her pursuit of crime, dragged along by her brother and father. Now she's filled with raw, all-consuming hatred. She's discovered it feels good to hate. That it feels right, pure, righteous. She has no hesitation, she has almost no fear. The power of that raw hate can be rather intense for anyone who touches her thoughts, although not actually harmful - but it does make her give off quite a scary aura and sensitive or empathetic people will likely find her chilling. |
The Old Gang |
Her father had been in the crime business for a long time, and a lot of his old contacts are still good, whether it be for black market goods, places to hide out or agents to hire goon squads. Most of them usually laugh when Mist's little girl shows up, but they're not laughing once she's shoved her pistol in their mouth and scared the hell out of them. Through the old guys, she's starting to find the younger guys, the more cutting edge crooks, but, on the other hand, old criminals have managed to survive, and that ain't nothin'. |
Lairs |
Nash still has access to several lairs her father set up in a few major cities, and has managed to restock them from her more recent crime sprees. She usually has about ten thousand in cash on hand at each, in 20s and hundreds, nicely laundered. She has weapons stashes, with ammo for pistols and a variety of weapons. And, of course, the lairs provide her hideouts from which to plot her plans. The lair in New York notably has the Mist machine, the device which empowered her as well as her father and brother. Not having her father's former skills with superscience, she has no real idea how it works, beyond you push the button and you step in it. It worked, though. |
Containment |
While her mist form allows her to escape most conventional forms of capture, anything with an air tight seal, whether it be a force field or some sort of dome or a telekinetic bubble, could potentially capture her inside it and seal off any chance of escape. Of course, maintaining that long term might prove difficult. She's also vulnerable to being sucked into vacuums or airless spaces, like any other gas. |
Surprise |
While Nash can take her mist form essentially instantaneously, surprise attacks can hit her before she has the chance. Since it takes conscious thought, rather than reflex, to transform, she can be hit from behind, shot from a distance or in other ways taken off guard and take damage without having a chance to make herself incorporeal. |
Obsession |
Nash is obsessed with getting her revenge on superheroes for the death of her brother and the insanity of her father. She thinks about little else, her thoughts are utterly consumed with it. Imagining revenge, picturing different ways, hatching different schemes. This all consuming focus is unbalanced and can make her push herself beyond her limits or take chances she shouldn't in her desperation to achieve her goals. She has often gone multiple days without sleep, using drugs to keep herself awake, so that she could finish a plan. While her obsession makes her dangerous, it can also make her vulnerable. |
Rages |
Nash's hatred is somewhat at odds with her once delicate nature. As a result, it sometimes overwhelms her, especially in the heat of battle or when she has an enemy seemingly at her mercy. She will simply lose control of herself, overwhelmed with almost a fit of raw hatred and rage, screaming, crying, just unleashing her destroyed soul upon them. In such a state, she barely knows where she is, almost akin to a temporary psychotic break - and, of course, there's always the chance that someday she won't come back. |
Dramatic |
Mist has a flair for the dramatic, put simply. She always loved theatre, the stage, acting, all of that jazz and she has found that flair can apply surprisingly well to serial murder. She's one of those villains who's occasionally prone to soliloquies and rants, who wants their enemy to feel humiliated and shamed, not just defeated, to not just win but to win with style. Sometimes, you've just got to take an ugly win over a dramatic loss. |
Wind |
Powerful winds can force Mist's gaseous form to move or disperse, leaving her separated or off-course, unable to reform herself for a period of time. If she feels herself beginning to be separated, she can do sort of an emergency condensation, returning to her human form with a sudden rush, but doing so is painful and might not leave her in the best of circumstances. Those with the ability to control wind or gas will be able to direct her movements as they will so long as she remains in her Mist state. |
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Logs
Victimized
December 27th, 2014: Drugged-up villains run wild in the Greenwich art scene, amidst a rising tide of flames. Flash and Audrey come to the rescue. Nash, having sown this havoc, gathers the fruit in the end.
(log: 20141227-victimized | tags: flash lux the_mist | posted: 28 Dec 2014 06:31)
Heartbeat
December 7, 2014: The Mist and Fracture are surrounded during a mixer. United by hate.. they rise.
(log: 20141207-heartbeat | tags: fracture nyc the_mist | posted: 08 Dec 2014 03:05)
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