Character type: Original
Moral Compass: Good
Motivation: Thrill of Adventure

Name: Laurel Candor
Alter Ego: Esper
Age: 19
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 110 lbs
Body type: Trim, athletic
Affiliation: None presently (OOC: I would like to put her in the Outsiders, ideally.)

Base of Operations: Gotham City
Known Relatives: Parents Michael + Emily, younger brother Thomas all based in Metropolis. Paternal Grandmother Laurel based in Philadelphia.

Personality: Laurel is a very positive, outgoing, flirtatious young woman. She has had most of her life handed to her on a silver platter, but isn't especially spoiled; she has seen how most people live, and it has tempered her attitude greatly. Never-the-less, she has a very bright personal outlook on life and this is reflected in her day-to-day attitude. She can be serious when necessary, but usually prefers not to be.

Attributes:
Wealth: 7
Dexterity: 6
Strength: 2
Body: 4
Intelligence: 6
Will: 7
Mind: 10
Influence: 5
Aura: 5
Spirit: 5

Skills:
Acrobatics: 4
Animal Handling: 0
Artist: 3
Charisma: 8
Detective: 3
Gadgetry: 4
Martial Arts: 6
Medicine: 2
Military Science: 1
Occultist: 3
Scientist: 3
Thief: 1
Vehicles: 3
Weaponry: 2

Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis, Astral Projection, Mind Control

Gadgets: Mask with starlight vision lenses.

Weakness:
Family isn't really there for her, draws from a trust fund.
Limited use of mind control powers, still developing them; mostly useful for one shot short bursts of something or other (i.e. "sleep" or "pain" or "run away"). Extended control is a real challenge at this point in time. She has become adept at rudimentary memory wipes, anthough expert memory tampering and alteration is currently beyond her skill.
Telekinesis can become unreliable when used on multiple objects.
Martial arts regimen helps her focus her control of mental powers; long term inability to meditate and/or practice her regimen will result in increasing loss of control and ability as she loses her center. Mind Control goes first, then Astral Projection, then Telekinesis and finally Telepathy.
Astral Projection not instantaneous; must be in a meditative state. It can project her to other planes, dimensions or realities, but she has extremely limited experience in this regard. She can take up to one individual's astral self with her on such a trip, but it is dangerous and difficult.

History:

Laurel Candor was born to a family of Metropolis socialites that had everything. Money, power, influence... as an old money family with connections to big oil and other major interests, the only thing they didn't seem to have was time for their daughter. Laurel spent most of her time at various upper-class boarding schools in cities around the country- Boston, Gotham, Central City, San Francisco, Seattle, etc. Generally speaking, she saw her family maybe once or twice a year, and this didn't bother her all that much. Laurel had always been fiercly independant, and was content for her only major contact with her family to be her regular drawings from the trust fund.

Thus, she was away from her family at a school in Gotham City when, at 11 years of age her telepathic abilities first began to manifest. She was very confused and somewhat frightened, and contacted the only member of her family with whom she was somewhat close- her beloved grandmother (on her father's side) after whom she had been named, who lived in Philadelphia. Her grandmother immediately dropped everything to travel to Gotham to help Laurel with this difficult time; she herself had manifested a modicum of telepathic ability at a similiar age and, eventually, even a little telekinesis (hardly more than enough to move teacups around). Grandma Candor explained that it was a hereditary trait from the female members of their family, sometimes strong, usually weak, that had been handed down for hundreds of years. They had all developed Telepathy, and most some small degree of Telekinesis, but from there the powers varied from Mind Control to Emotion Control, Illusion Projection to Invisibility, Teleportation to Astral Projection, Dream Manipulation to Posession, Precognition to Clairvoyance and more besides. The origins of this strange familial ability were lost to the mists of history, though the most popular story that Grandma had heard from her aunts was that a wizard long ago had blessed them (other, less credible explanations included mutation, alien tampering and angelic blessings). Truely, it did not matter to Laurel, especially when Grandma explained that she had the potential to be the most powerful telepath in generations of their family.

There was a trouble, though- the powers were extremely dificult to control. Each woman of the family who manifested them had to take some outside activity to focus and manifest them; Grandma's was music. She practiced her music and found her center, thus gaining the self control she needed. Laurel tried art for a while, but her excitable nature proved untamable by such a sedate past-time. At her grandmother's suggestion, she began studying various martial arts at the age of 12, concentrating mostly on various forms of Kung Fu, leavened with many of the serene, meditative aspects of Tai Chi. This approach has worked admirably.

True to her Grandmother's predictions, Laurel's powers developed rapidly and far beyond those of her Grandmother, and they show no sign of having reached their limit. Laurel is hesitant about using some of her more esoteric abilities- an unplanned incident of Astral Projection to the plane of some four-eyed demon or other almost got her killed one time.

She currently attends college in Gotham City. She lives in a small appartment off campus, and has decided over time to use her powers for the good of the world... and alot of fun and adventure... as a Super-Heroine by the code name Esper (ESP, get it?). She studied while in college a number of skills that she will need and used money from her trust fund to assemble a costume and several gadgets that she thinks will come in handy for her, and is just waiting for the right moment for Esper to make her public debut as the world's newest Super-Heroine.

Appearance: Laurel is quite attractive, with wavy red hair flowing down to her waist and sparkling green eyes. As Laurel Candor, she always wears clothes at the height of fashion (and not a little revealing- she is quite the flirt). As Esper, her costume is similiar in design to Power Girl's, from whom she drew her inspiration, except without a cape. The costume itself is blue instead of white, and the belt is a lighter blue with a silver buckle, and pouches for her utility belt equipment. The entire costume has silver trim all around. She wears a mask, of the same color and trim, of similiar design to the current Robin's.


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