Powers
Phasing: Amazing
- Airwalking: Feeble
- May Phase up to 10lbs at a time, on a Red Feat roll she may phase up to 200lbs but takes Amazing damage once the power is shut off.
- Render objects or people temporarily out of phase.
Talents
Computer, Fencing, Literature, Business/Finance, Streetwise, Languages: English and French
Contacts
Yeoman, Dr. Tachyon
History
Maloy grew up on Long Island, New York, and had a normal middle-class childhood. She was tall and awkward as an adolescent, and therefore shy. She was always bookish, preferring tales of roniance and adventure, such as those by Rafael Sabatini and Alexander Dumas. When she got through the awkward teen-age years she grew to be tall and graceful and quite beautiful, though she doesn't really believe it.
Her love for romantic literature led her to take up fencing. She was quite good in college, placing high in several national tournaments, but lacked the killer instinct to be a champion. After graduate school (Masters in Information Science at Syracuse University) she returned to New York City and got a job as a reference librarian with the public library system.
Maloy had realized the extent of her wild card abilities for some time before she put them to use in the beginning of 1986 as the daring sneak thief Wraith. She chose this avocation more for the excitement and roniance she associated with it than any real criminal leaning. Though she obviously profits from her crimes, she donates most of her loot to favorite charities that usually involve battered wives, abused children, or abandoned animals.
As Wraith, Maloy is utterly insubstantial to the material world. Nothing can harm her. She can move like a ghost, soundless and invisible, through anything. Long practice with her ability has enabled her to appear as a misty shade and draw in enough air to talk. She can stay insubstantial for only a minute or two. If she remains a wraith too long, she suspects that she would dissipate and never be able to pull herself together again.
She can transfer her power to a limited extent by touch. Because she can "ghost" only a limited amount of extraneous mass (no more than ten pounds at a tinie) she wears only a string bikini and mask when ghosting.
On Wild Card Day 1986 she got into a lot of trouble by stealing Kien Phuc's personal diary detailing his secret life as a Shadow Fist crimelord. During the course of the day she also met, and was immediately attracted to, Daniel Brennan, Kien's avowed enemy. In order to save Brennan's life she partially destroyed Kien's right hand, thereby making a bitter, lifelong enemy. Though she and Brennan saw each other off and on for the next couple of months, their relationship never developed because Brennan was hesitant to draw her into his violent and often dangerous vendetta against Kien.
Despite Brennan's best intentions, however, Kien penetrated Maloy's secret identity, and gave Brennin the option of ceasing his war against the Shadow Fists or someday finding her dead. Brennan chose Maloy over revenge, and the two of them left New York City in the summer of 1987.
Despite being introduced to the seamy side of life in the course of her escapades, Maloy is still a romantic at heart who enjoys excitement and adventure. She loves Brennan with a burning passion; the air of danger about him is part of what attracts her, as is his rather hopeless crusade against the Shadow Fists. She is not herself a violent person. Violence frightens her. Blood and gore sicken her. But she will do what she has to do to aid Brennan in whatever way she can.
by bob malooga
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