Wasp

Wasp Portrayed by Brea Grant Statistics Full Name Janet van Dyne Age 24 Height 5'4" Build Athletic Eyes Blue Hair Auburn Factions None Yet Occupation Independently Wealthy Sociliate Fashion Designing Superhero Alignment Hero Claim to Fame Janet is a famous wealthy socialite. The daughter of the deceased Vernon van Dyne one of the world's greatest scientists. Owner of van Dyne Industries. Also the superhero known as Wasp. Reputation Her reputation amongst high society is excellent, quite the social dilatant. Amongst the Super Heroes she still has to cement her reputation. Biography Janet Van Dyne was born to world renowned scientist, Dr. Vernon van Dyne of van Dyne Industries (stock symbol VDI). As a child she was spoiled and self-entitled, feeling like the world revolved around her and just about everyone and anything else was beneath her notice. Janet had developed a keen sense of fashion and design and even as a child would make her own clothing and soon had a wardrobe that was the envy of her female peers. When Janet in early adulthood her father was murdered by an extradimensional horror one of his experiments released into our world. That event that opened Janet's eyes, she realized just to a degree just how shallow and empty her life had been up to that point and she strove to better her life. While there were many charitable causes that demanded attention she only had one thing in mind, that being getting revenge on her father's killer. That was what motivated her to become a heroine. In her quest for revenge and to set right the monster being loose on our plane of existence Janet came across a scientist working for van Dyne industries by the name of Hank Pym who offered her his aid. She was went through a series of biological and genetic procedures as well as being exposed to unstable molecules called Pym Particles. They granted her the various abilities including the ability to shrink in size. Pym also introduced specialized cells to Janet's body, allowing for her to 'grow' wings and antennae as well as shoot energy blasts from her hands that Janet would come to call 'Wasp Stings'. He helped her to adapt to her new powers, teaching her how to adjust to shrinking as well as learn how to fight while in mid-air. She also took martial arts classes, something she found herself to be very good at. Janet started to call herself Wasp and designed costumes based on the flying insect. She managed to banish the alien with Ant-Man's help and has been quietly fighting crime without managing to gain the attention she was hoping for. The decision to make herself known and discard the secrecy occurred pretty recently. Time for The Wasp to step into the Spotlight.

Character Details Personality Carefree - She is enjoying being a superhero a lot. Outside the repressed Trauma that brought her down the road of being a superhero she is still the cheerful bright sort she has always been. To her at this point in her career being a super hero is almost a game. Flighty and Self-Centered - She hasn't shaken all of her wealthy socialite ways and they still surface on a regular basis. Curiosity - she is unreasonably curious about everything. That curiosity will probably get her in trouble but in general it helps drive her. Fearless - She is quite fearless, not everyone would dive into combat against powerful super villains while being half an inch tall after all. Abilities Size Reduction Due to genetic modifications and experimentation with Pym Particles Janet has gained the ability to dramatically reduce herself in size. This can normally range from her normal height down to the size of the insect for which she gets her codename, roughly an inch in height. She can do smaller sizes than that, much smaller, but the exertion begins to put a strain on her body and molecular stability. Janet can chose to maintain her standard density at this reduced mass, or not at all. The lost mass does not just vanish into the ether, it is shunted into a pocket dimension those in the know call Kosmos, for later retrieving. While at a reduced size her strength is boosted, giving her the capability of bending up to one-inch in diameter steel bars and pack a wallop with her punches. Size Addition Shrinking is not the only trick the Pym Particles infusing Janet's altered biology gives her access to. She can grow as many times big as she can small when it comes right down to it, up to several hundred feet tall. Larger sizes, just as with smaller sizes, are possible but again the exertion begins to put significant strain on her body and molecular stability. Growing that rapidly requires a rapid acquisition of mass, from the same pocket dimension that mass gets shunted into when she shrinks. This extra-dimensional mass doesn't just add size to her, it also fortifies Janet's from a cellular level all the way up through her bones and muscles. This lets her support her increased size and geometrically increases her strength to superhuman levels. This is to say that at only 10ft tall she could bench press 1000lbs, at 25ft she could manage to bench press 10tons, and at 100ft she would be bench pressing 50tons. Once she grows past 25ft tall a large portion of her strength is consumed supporting her own increasingly large size. She rarely uses this ability due to the strain large sizes seem to bring, reserving it for an emergencies. Flight One of the genetic tampering done to her during the modifications and Pym Particle infusions was the implantation of double wasp wings. They are shunted to the same pocket dimension when she is any bigger than foot smaller than her normal height, or over four foot tall for ease of reference. They are entirely functional and allow her to fly at relatively fast speeds of 40 miles per hour. Wasp Stings An additional ability from the body and genetic modifications is the ability to harness an amplified form of her body's own natural bio-electric energy. The wasp stings or stinger blasts as she likes to call them have variable potency she can control and are capable of blasting through high-density structures and even cause extreme pain to superhumanly durable beings. Insect Chat And Control Just like her wings she has wasp antennae that are usually shunted into the same pocket realm as the excess mass. These antennae allow her to communicate with and control high insects such as Wasps, Yellow Jackets, Ants, Termites, and others. Functionally it is a biological version of the technology that Ant-Man uses. Just as with the increased size, she very rarely uses this ability. Truth be told this biological modification to her kind of creeps her out and it is hard to look great with antennae. Fashion Designer Janet has a serious eye for fashion. She just has the knack and ability to put it together in her head, a sense of style and design. She has designed all of her own costumes, and has multiple different versions of the outfit at this point. Easily an entire large walk-in closet worth of them in her penthouse for example. She has also designed some of her more mundane street outfits, collaborating with some of the designers in the New York Fashion district. She wants to work on other superhero's outfits as well, making them better. Multilingual Janet is fluent in both English and Spanish Skilled Combatant She is very experienced with a very special kind of hand-to-hand combat. This special fighting form takes advantage of her variable size and increased strength when applied against foes that are normal sized. This involves striking pressure points and weak spots before the opponent even knows what is happening. It also involves rapidly decreasing and reducing size dependent on the situation she finds herself in. Finally it incorporates techniques and capabilities involving flying and being airborne. This isn't to say she isn't well trained in her human or larger forms, she has taken in a lot of training in standard hand-to-hand and martial arts to enable her to learn how to apply them to her unique circumstances. Deduction She may not be Sherlock Holmes but she is a natural detective, it just isn't a skill she has applied or honed. She is very intuitive and deductive, very likely to be one of the first people on the scene to put together what is going on or has happened. Advantages Van Dyne Industries Founded by world renowned scientist Vernon van Dyne it all went to Janet after her father was killed when an experiment went horribly wrong. Janet may own well over fifty percent of the publically traded company, but she isn't interested in being a CEO, content instead to sit on the board and have other pursuits. She has access to some of the best researchers and facilities on the planet. Van Dyne Fortune Her father's fortune and her stake in van Dyne Industries is more than enough to let her live as a seriously indecently wealthy socialite. She has access to luxury trappings such as her fifth avenue park view penthouse, private jet, yacht, and more. Unstable Molecular Costumes Through her company and other connections she has access to unstable molecular steel mesh formula. Her costumes, which she designs and makes, are made using this material which provides several helpful benefits. It protects against scrapes, abrasions, and is bullet resistant, but not bullet proof. It will stop some bullets, but not all. Nor would it stop multiple bullets that hit in the same location. The costumes can expand and contract with the wearer. It can be conveniently worn under clothing, but when done so, part of the armor is stored in a microscopic state. When worn under clothing, the costume provides limited protection. Disdvantages No Longer Human She was extensively experimented on biologically and with Pym Particles. There is a chance there may be unforeseen side effects such as medicines and viruses no longer affecting her as they would a baseline human. Buried Trauma She has some deep seated psychological scars from her father being killed by an extradimensional alien his experiment unleashed. No one without some deep seated problems lets a brilliant if eccentric research scientist experiment on them with some seriously experimental biological and molecular sciences. She may have managed to, with help, banish her father's killer from this dimension and buried the scars, but they are still there. Relationships Image Name Relation Information Henry "Ant-Man" Pym Friend Her friend, employee, and crime fighting partner. Notes <This section is optional. You can delete it.> Character Gallery Logs 2015 Business Synergy March 15, 2015: Karen Starr and Janet van Dyne meet to discuss business opportunities. (log: 20150315-businesssynergy | tags: power_girl wasp | posted: 16 Mar 2015 06:31) Secret Agent Man February 27, 2015: Wasp runs into Flash Thompson in action. (log: 20150227-secretagentman | tags: flash_thompson wasp | posted: 04 Mar 2015 05:57) A Bold Suit February 3, 2015: Cameron follows up with Janet Van Dyne for outfit upgrade suggestions, and socializes a little. (log: 20150203-a-bold-suit | tags: columbia nyc wasp | posted: 08 Feb 2015 03:49) Dinner, Dancing, Doctor February 2, 2015: After a scavenger hunt, Dr. Pym surprises Janet with a dinner and dancing. (log: 20150202-dinner-dancing-doctor | tags: ant-man defenders nyc wasp | posted: 02 Feb 2015 09:36) The Downward Spiral January 25, 2015: Janet, Hank, and Carol are trying to enjoy a night out when Spiral gets bored and decides to send the party crashing through the floor. (log: 20150125-the-downward-spiral | tags: ant-man defenders ms_marvel nyc spiral wasp | posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:02) Costume by van Dyne January 20, 2015: Miss Marvel gets a makeover while two Hanks watch. (log: 20150120-costume-by-van-dyne | tags: ant-man beast defenders ms_marvel nyc van_dyne_industries wasp | posted: 21 Jan 2015 19:12) Tea And Business <January 17, 2015>: <Janet Van Dyne and Morien Washington discuss how their can help those suffering from the recent attacks.> (log: 20150117-tea-and-business | tags: newyork ozymandias wasp | posted: 17 Jan 2015 19:28) AIM to Bust January 16, 2015: AIM Weapons deal disrupted by SHIELD and friends (log: 20150116-aimtobust | tags: eliza metal the_calvary wasp | posted: 20 Jan 2015 07:14) Wardrobe Malfunction! January 14, 2015: Rowan gets jumped by a mechanical army. Wasp, Lunair, and Scarlet pitch in Cameron's clothes don't fare so well. (log: 20150114-wardrobe-malfunction | tags: columbia lunair metropolis rowan scarlet_witch wasp | posted: 12 Jan 2015 04:10) Of Wasps and Ant-Men January 7, 2015: The Winsome Wasp and Astonishing Ant-man discuss teaming up with the Irredeemable Iron Man. (log: 20150107-of-wasps-and-men | tags: ant-man defenders nyc van_dyne_industries wasp | posted: 08 Jan 2015 10:00) Back to: Current Cast