Character Sheet
Elseworld Vai
Category : Homemade characters
Subcategory : Others
Type : Hero
Game System : DC Heroes (Blood of Heroes S.E.)
Elseworld Vaï v1.1
Source of Character: An old Elseworld Legion campaign
Reasons: This version of Salu existed within the Elseworld Legion RPG continuity - see the corresponding entry on writeups.org.
Helper(s): Kal El el Vigilante (illustration)
Game Stuff
Vaï
| Dex: 07 | Str: 04 | Bod: 05 | Motivation: Justice |
| Int: 07 | Wil: 06 | Min: 06 | Occupation: Legionnaire |
| Inf: 06 | Aur: 04 | Spi: 06 | Resources {or Wealth}: 003 |
| Init: 022 | HP: 075 |
Skills: Acrobatics (Dodging, climbing): 06, Charisma: 06, Gadgetry: 03, Martial artist: 09, Military science: 06, Scientist: 03, Thief: 05, Vehicles: 06, Weaponry (Firearms)*: 07, Weaponry (Knives): 09
Advantages: Area Knowledge (Imsk), Rank (Capitaine)
Connections: Legion (High)
Drawbacks: Guilt (Guernica massacre), MPR (her left eye and left leg are cybernetic), Creepy Appearance (scars)
Equipment:
- Cuirasse de combat M3 (body armour) [BODY 06, Flash (Illumination Only): 03, Skin Armor: 02, Limitations: Skin Armor can be avoided with a +2CS Trick Shot]
- Fusil d'assaut Modèle 41 Génération 2 ("Pulse rifle") [BODY 05, Projectile weapons: 07, Ammo: 20, R#2, Advantage : Autofire] with underslung 30mm grenade launcher [BODY 05, EV 08 (Area of Effect 1 AP), Range: 03, Ammo: 05]. The default round is a M38 HEAP round ; variant rounds include Projectile weapons: 07 (Bashing only) (M230 baton round), Bomb: 08 (M51A bounding fragmentation round), Projectile weapons: 07 (area of effect 2 APs), M108 canister round), Flame project: 07 (Area of effect 0 APs) (M60 white phosphorus incendiary round), Flash: 05 (M72A1 Starshell)
- Pistolet semi-automatique Modèle 43 [BODY 05, Projectile weapons: 04, Ammo: 12, R#2]
- An intimidating Trench knife [BODY 10, EV 03 (05 w/STR, 10 w/Martial arts), Sharpness (EV): 01, Limitation: Sharpness doesn't apply when using the knife for Bashing Combat, as a knuckleduster]
Background
Real name: Salu Maria Angela de Baï
Other Aliases: Salu Vaï
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Arno (father)
Group affiliation: Second Bataillon de Choc, 13ème RIMA, Légion
Etrangère, FMP-FPU [2nd Shock Brigade, Thirteenth Marines Regiment,
Foreign Legion, United Planets Federation Peacekeeping Forces]
Base Of Operations: Mobile
Height: 5'2" Weight: 105 lbs
Eyes: Light violet Hair: Black
Powers and Abilities
Vaï is a highly trained and experienced soldier and officer from the Legion, with extensive special forces and police action experience. She is also an astoundingly competent martial artist and knifefighter - she is undefeated in close combat.
She also has the rare, recessive "shrinking trait" found in a small number of Imskians, allowing her to shrink down to the size of an atom.
History:
Salu de Baï was part of the generation that never knew the bliss and wealth of the early XXXth century. She was born after the Great Depression of 2929, the terrible crash that nearly brought down the economy of the United Planets. Her home planet, Imsk, was hit hard and during most of her life Salu would witness the rise of the nationalistic, conservative, ultra-Catholic movements that often openly flirted with Fascism.
As a child, Salu was almost pathologically shy and reserved - she never managed to talk in public, including in the classroom. This caused strong hostility from her father, who had hoped that his daughter could somehow work in show business and not in Imsk's huge heavy industry plants. Arno de Baï had been maimed in an industrial accident, and raising his good-for-nothing daughter on his meager pension was a serious strain.
After she turned eleven, the stuttering, painfully shy Salu started to regularly disappear for days. She was unable to explain her disappearances, instead going into crying fits. A sympathetic police officer determined that the young de Baï obviously wasn't running away, and had her medically examined after yet another missing person alert from her furious father. It was quickly determined that Salu de Baï was suffering from an uncommon genetic disorder sometimes found into the Imskian population - spells of sudden, disorienting shrinking down to the size of a grain of sand.
This condition, derived from the genetic heritage of a small cadre of genetically-superpowered pioneers back in the days where Imsk was colonized, was usually fatal. However Salu was actually able to navigate even when nearly invisible to the naked eye, and to grow back to normal size with great effort. She was kept at an hospital for tests for the better part of a year.
This is my knife
When she turned 16 and the time for her military service came, her infuriated father, seeing her abysmal grades at school, forced to volunteer for the actual combat military - instead of the usual non-combat heavy labor detail of most conscripts. Imsk was at that time experiencing numerous skirmishes with space pirates, and conscripts were needed to man garrisons so professional troops and volunteers such as Salu could be deployed thorough the system.
Initially, de Baï was particularly miserable in Imsk's army, but the harsh discipline made certain that soldiers were just working hard and following orders, not speaking much or thinking - which was sort of OK. She actually started to get decent evaluations as a soldier, and when the military learned about her superhuman abilities (the highly chaotic Imskian administration being better at losing and delaying personnel dossiers than at processing them), she was moved into a marines company. Her shrinking abilities had been deemed an obvious asset for boarding actions. Much later, de Baï dryly joked that she was so used to feeling terrified and lost that the bloody chaos and deadly confusion of boarding actions were nothing new to her.
The United Planet military doctrine stresses heavy cross-training for space action military forces, and during one such training session with the military of other UP planets de Baï met Luornu Durgo. Durgo became her first real friend and the one person she could actually talk to without too much stuttering. She and Durgo later got a simultaneous transfer from their respective planetary forces to the joint United Planets Peacekeeping Forces. In this corps she met several future Legionnaires, and was even wooed by none other than the super-soldier Ord Quelu, from Lallor.
However, on Imsk, a military coup was brewing, and many Imskian soldiers were recalled from the joint forces, including Salu. Her powers made her a potent assassin, but she was ultimately considered as unreliable by the conspirators. The head of the future coup, General Behamonde, had de Baï locked into a sensory deprivation tank for months. Behamonde's first attempt at a coup failed - though he had enough political clout to avoid being sentenced to prison. De Baï was rescued from her tank, but it was obvious that she was psychologically scarred from her months of arbitrary torment.
There are many like it, but this one is mine
De Baï was drastically changed by the torture, and vowed that she never would be a victim again. She immersed herself in a brutal regime of physical training sessions, close combat training and combat simulation. She also applied for a Foreign Legion enlistment, wanting to break away with everything and, as is the Legionnaire's wont, start a new life. She enlisted under the alias of "Salu Vaï".
The strong discipline and esprit de corps of the Legion were to her liking, bolstering her new self-image, and she passed the various training sessions to become a fusiller-commando marin . Amazingly, she soon joined the highly regarded, elite commando troops of the Deuxième Choc - a sort of cross between Airborne Rangers, Marines Force Recon and CIA hit squads. She took command of her sentimental life, dumping Quelu and dating several men in turn - including a dalliance with another legionnaire, famous sex symbol Dirk Morgna. After various disappointments, she realized she had taken the wrong path for her and started a love affair with fellow Deuxième Choc commando Ayla Ranzz, which continues to this day.
When civil war broke out on Imsk, most of the Army sided with General Behamonde - but they faced an odd alliance of unions, Leftists, Anarchists, students and various anti-Fascists, many of those being off-worlders. Vaï, with her invaluable ability, was called back to the Imskian Army through diplomatic pressure. Vaï's loyalties were torn during the war - her sense of duty as a soldier was strong, but she suspected that her previous imprisonment and sensory deprivation had been the work of the junta and felt little sympathy toward Behamonde and his clique. This was compounded when a small number of soldiers, many of them friends from the Deuxième Choc took an extended leave of absence to act as instructors and field leaders for the opponents to Behamonde.
Vaï fought during the infamous battle of Guernica, which saw the deliberate targeting of civilians in an all-out war effort, in defiance of all UP regulations. The carnage was tremendous, and Vaï was severely wounded in unclear circumstances - it would appear that she gunned down a detachment of Dark Circle mercenaries working for Behamonde while they were slaughtering civilians inside a church.
Vaï was tossed into the stockades for the rest of the civil war, which Behamonde eventually won. However she was freed by a daring commando raid of her Deuxième Choc comrades before they left the planet, as they followed one of the key laws of the Foreign Legion - never leave a Legionnaire behind, whether dead or alive.
My knife is my best friend
Back in UP space, Vaï had the eye and leg lost at Guernica replaced by artificial ones, but refused to have the facial scars erased, claiming that she wanted to remember.
When the shock troops of the Deuxième Bataillon de Choc were forced to go AWOL, Capitaine de Vaï was one of the highest-ranking officers to join the mutiny, and naturally become one of the key commanders of the renegade commandos. She's still struggling, along with her comrades, so the legendary unit can regain its honour.
Description:
De Baï has a short, black crewcut and obvious scars on the left half of her face. She wears a gray Legion uniform with RIMA markings and the Deuxième Choc patch.
Personality
Vaï is one of the highest-ranking officers in the Deuxième Choc who is still conducting field ops, along with Krinn, and thus very often in charge of operations. She is a confident, self-sufficient and very serious soldier and officer - with an excellent understanding of modern military leadership. She and the others have tackled numerous problems and won, with very little in the way of casualties, and she is quite willing to engage very powerful opponents and high intensity, high risk situations with her fellow Legionnaires.
No longer stuttering and excessively shy, she still has the habit of thinking for a bit before she talks. She often appears a bit cold or reserved - she noticeably lightens up when Ayla is present.
