Scrapper

Intro
Scrapper (aka. Joanne Hopewell or just Jo) appeared on the superhero scene in the Colonial Bay area in early March of 2063.

Powers
Jo's body is infused with a "solid force" that provides her strength, durability and ability to fly. In addition, she can exude small amounts of this same force to create tools, manipulate objects at range, and create solid statues that can be seen and touched (by standard touch and sonar and radar). This substance is usually purple, with moving swirls of black and red, but Jo does have the ability to control the color (making it solid purple, red, black, or any combination of those colors). In addition to common shapes like extra arms and baseball bats, she can make an effort to control her solid force's appearance to create what she calls "force statues". Force statues lack the strength of her other force shapes: they don't feel 'real' and shatter like glass if weight is applied to them.

This force is so strongly tied to Scrapper's cell structure that it gives her skin the texture (but not the appearance) of hard glass, blunts her sense of touch, and automatically patches wounds (preventing bleeding). She has stated on more than one occasion that the strong tie between her body and her force powers is not naturally occuring, but the result of a "tempering" process she underwent in her early teens. In the case of serious wounds (such as when her body tried to double in mass in April 2063 without the cells necessary to support such a change), her body can form a protective chrysalis around itself.

Those with the ability to detect magic say Jo has additional magical potential, but she was initially reluctant to display any magical abilities in Colonial Bay. This gradually changed with her magical apprenticeship to Ellbeth and her admission to the Princesses' Guard. On their first mission she cast a teleport spell multiple times to ferry the team to the combat site. By June 2063, she is freely and publicly casting spells whenever her force powers prove ineffective, although teleport remains her most commonly cast spell.

Public History
Joanne Hopewell is the daughter of the minor supervillain Jammer and was raised in foster care. If you ask her, she will tell you a long involved story about being whisked away to another dimension between ages 12 and 18, but no such missing persons report can be found. What can be found are school records, an application for a driver's license at age 16 and a hospital visit for a car accident with a concussion shortly before Scrapper appeared on the scene with powers.

Secrets
Jo's story about being whisked away to the another dimension on her twelfth birthday is true. For six years, the little blonde haired girl served as companion to Princess Dawn (later known as Queen Day) and was trained as bodyguard. Unknown to Scrapper, she was returned to a slightly different Earth than the one where she was born and there are two Joanne Hopewells running about. Because her powers manifested at a 18 instead of 12, the native "Anne" Hopewell is unlikely to have Scrapper's fine image control, strength and durability; but is equally likely to have a greater quantity of purple force outside of her body to play with (i.e. less Superman/Captain Marvel and more Green Lantern/Star Sapphire). It is unknown whether the two women will be friends, rivals or enemies or whether Anne will be a blonde or (like Scrapper) dye her hair.

Personality
During the six years between age twelve and eighteen, Princess Dawn regularly erased Jo's memories every time the spoiled princess did something that Jo would not approve of, or the pair had a disagreement of any kind. While Jo's memories were restored shortly before arriving in Colonial Bay (and her adult body acquired soon after), she never had an opportunity to really develop naturally mentally and still tends to think like a teenager: mentally shoving people into categories that are not always a perfect fit, acting out when other people do not act the way she thinks they should, etc.

Due to her time off-planet, Scrapper is quick to suspect hidden motives and slow to trust, particularly the charismatic, classically beautiful people that make up a large portion of the superhero population. However, once she relaxes a bit, she often displays a snarky sense of humor and a tendency to not take herself too seriously, despite her dark fashion sense. She is also quick to take charge in any combat situation, even when others don't follow her orders.

This confidence does not extend to dating: she is not yet comfortable with suddenly having an adult body and being no longer treated like a twelve year old.

Roles
Scrapper tends to divide supers into 'bruisers' (high durability and hand to hand damage), 'strikers' (more damage than bruisers, particularly at range), 'terrain control' (illusions, darkness, entanglements, etc) and 'support' (healing, power augmentation) with specific duties for each of those roles. From her time off-planet, she is used to being a bruiser surrounded by terrain control specialists (wizards) and is still adjusting to the large number of stronger/more durable bruisers in Colonial Bay. In addition to the four main combat-team roles, she has also hinted at additional roles (for example, a 'hound'). She isn't quite sure what to make of speedsters and is tentatively assigning them their own category.

Princesses' Guard
In late March, 2063. Scrapper joined the Princesses' Guard; as much to protect humans from the fae, as to protect fae from humans. Scrapper considers herself the only trained bodyguard in the Princesses' Guard, which adds to her tendency to take charge in combat situations. She also considers herself a bruiser first and a striker second, but is quick to recognize Titan and other team members are often better suited to those roles.

Description
Scrapper's appearance has changed radically since she arrived in Colonial Bay.

March 2063


In a world where dizzying beauty and misshapen monsters exist side by side, the pale twelve-year old girl before you is decidedly not in either category. Although slight of build and only 4' 9" tall in stocking feet; her hands, feet, eyes and wide mouth all seem sized for a person at least a foot taller. This effect is only emphasized by thick black eyeliner, black platform combat boots with two inch thick soles and black fingerless padded MMA gloves.

From the top of the calf-high boots, purple and white striped socks peek out, hugging her slender calves until pooling around her knees in a riot of broken elastic. Her mid-thigh length pleated skirt is purple and black plaid and held up to her non-existent hips by black leather suspenders. Under the suspenders, a scuffed graying black t-shirt is worn with the word "BRUISER" across her flat chest in the barely visible remnants of white lettering.

Her straight hair is pulled up into a pair of high pigtails but is still long enough to skim her waist. It is dyed some indeterminate glossy color between purple and black.

April 2063
In April of 2063, Scrapper grew up fast:



At a touch under six feet tall, the young woman before you is fit and athletic with trim well-defined muscles like a professional dancer. Her long hair is dyed black with faint purple highlights where it catches the light and is pulled back into a simple single braid.

She is dressed in a black tank top and snug black jeans tucked into black heeled calf-high boots. A black watchband rests on her right wrist, but contains a plain black disk instead of a watch face. She wears minimal makeup (mainly mascara) and has painted her fingernails black.

June 2063




In early June 2063, Scrapper's shirt was ripped off her back and then, in an incident only a few days later, all of her clothing was burned off her body. Shortly after, she began regularly wearing a highly durable short dress made of multiple layers of a lightweight fabric resembling chiffon and the exact same purple color as her force powers (but without the moving swirls). Although she does not go out of her way to show them off, the outfit includes matching shorties[].

Although it appears lightweight and offers the already-durable Scrapper no additional protection, the new fabric has proven, so far, to be as fireproof and durable as the woman wearing it.

March 2063

 * [[Media:Starguard and Scrapper vs Captain Frost and Freakshow|Starguard and Scrapper vs Captain Frost and Freakshow]]
 * Ghost arrives on Earth-1
 * The Princesses' Guard is introduced
 * Princess' Guard Interludes (Bulldozer)
 * Tour of Undermoon Embassy
 * Defending the Undermoon Warehouse from Private Joke
 * Metal Zombie Atlas
 * Princess' Guard Interludes (Ghost)
 * Hippity, Hoppity, Easter's on its Way!

April 2063

 * Undermoon Embassy Social
 * Fire Flight, and Lowers' Powers
 * Princess Guard Interludes (Directing the Guard)
 * Scrapper Transformed (April 7, 2063)
 * Princesses' Guard Interludes (Lorelei and Scrapper)
 * Aegis Girl meets Tigress, Scrapper and Bard
 * Princess Guard Interludes (Ghost and Scrapper)
 * These Boots Were Made for Worldwalking
 * Foursome ala High School Drama - No fighting but a good sampling of Scrapper's personality and her relationship with Marcus Bard.
 * Lessons from Riptide

May 2063

 * When Big Kitten Plays
 * Formidable Formicidae
 * Big Man on Campus
 * [[Media:Scrapper Engaged|Scrapper Engaged]]
 * Completely Snowed
 * Cool Shades
 * Goblin Prisoner
 * Downtime

June 2063

 * Remember Where the Flying Carpet is Parked
 * Intro Bifrost - cage match

July 2063

 * Log:Independence Day, 2063