Katya Petrovna Krylova

Katya's power drawn from the Shadowcat half of her DNA, the capability of slipping her body out of phase with physical reality, allowing her to pass through things (or defensively let them pass through her). She's capable enough she can draw others out of phase with her, even offensively, and she can disrupt technology temporarily when passing through it out of phase.

Power Breakdown

• Phasing - Use Burglary to walk through physical barriers. Standard interior walls are Fair (+2) opposition. Thicker or sturdier barriers provide more opposition.
  
  • Defensive Phasing - +2 Defense rolls against attacks that originate from your zone.
  • Collective Phasing - She can take others out of phase with her with a touch, even if they don't want to go. - Acts like Collective Teleport, allowing phasing another person or object, with a Fight check required if they resist.
  • Tech Disruption - By passing through technology out of phase, she can disrupt or potentially even destroy it, though modern tech is a lot more self-repairing and fault tolerant than it used to be. - May make a Fight check to phase through a piece of electronic technology and freeze it for one round or apply an aspect to the target relating to the technology glitching. Tech based powers affected by this encounter Fair (+2) opposition to Will.

Special Effects

• Inflict Condition - You add an aspect to the target which you can invoke once for free
• Extra Movement - You can move up to two zones for free

Drawbacks

• Technology Tends to Fail Around you - Because of her phasing ability to disrupt tech, it's not an uncommon thing for her to cause low-level disruption even without phasing through things. Her personal tech tends to glitch periodically and those around her a lot tend to have similar problems. Theoretically she could learn to better contain it, but mostly she's just learned to accept it and get the heartiest tech available or else replace it periodically. - Like Machinery Tends to Fail Around you, but for higher electronics. A long term entropic effect that causes tech to breakdown around her faster than it should. Sometimes it can flare up at inopportune times, causing trouble when she needs to be around working tech.

Collateral Damage

• Missed Me - You can ignore all physical damage from a single source, because it strikes everything around you instead.

Katya's Darkstar half of her DNA opened her up to the Darkforce dimension, allowing her to summon and shape the shadowy black energy of that place. Her personal talent of that energy is more self-directed than the blasts and darkforce constructs of her legacy, allowing her to wrap herself in darkforce energy to become a near invisible shadow, fly on the repulsive energy of it, wrap it around herself as solidified perfect replica of (achromatic) stylish clothes or uniform or more functional things like tentacles, armored shells, or bestial overlays (Shape-shifting). Finally, she's able to step into shadows or darkness in limited form of teleportation, traversing the Dark to escape or else coming out in unexpected half-visible and often devastating attacks with sometimes creepy results.

Power Breakdown

• Flight - You may fly. Use Athletics to overcome obstacles or create advantages related to flight.
  
• Invisibility - May become invisible, including clothing and carried items. +2 Stealth against being spotted by living beings. Cameras and similar cannot detect you.
  
• Shape-Shifting - Create the advantage 'Creature Form' using Will. Most creatures are Fair (+2) opposition but especially large, small or complex forms may be more.
  
• Theme: Shadow Projection - Whenever you use your power, you create swathes of living darkness or other shadowy manifestations.
  

Special Effects

• Mental Recovery - You recover from all mental stress
• Extra Action - You can split your shifts between two different yet related actions adding a +1 to each action

Drawbacks

• Overactive Shadow - She may fade out of view or show herself as a hulking shadow beast, but it's not a perfect invisibility nor true body. Her true shadow is always visible. In fact, it tends to be deeper than most peoples and may even occasionally do creepy things like move differently than her. - No matter how invisible or shaped, her real shadow gives away her position and true form, and sometimes it does things on its own that can creep people out or draw attention where its not wanted.

Collateral Damage

• Shadowstrike - She can disappears into shadows with a low-grade teleportation effect and shortly after steps out of them unexpectedly elsewhere to viciously ambush or, less often, evade. A trick that works wonders, but inevitably leaves anyone else alive freaked out and calling for backup or else jumping right to attacking shadows around them with all the consequent damage to innocent people and scenery caught in the crossfire. Everyyyy once and awhile, something worse happens and the Hungry Dark will follow her out, either in some form of shadow creature that she has to contend with or just with lashing tendrils of darkness harming the environment around your exit point. - Mechanically equivalent to Invisibility Collateral Perfect Evasion If you are in a conflict, you can duck briefly into shadow or darkness to evade everyone’s notice. On any subsequent turn of yours, you can appear in any zone out of another shadow. Furthermore, if you attack a target in your zone on the turn you reappear, you gain +4 to that attack. Alternately, you can just leave the conflict. Unfortunately, your sudden disappearance will make your enemies more paranoid, which may encourage them to call in reinforcements. Alternately, sometimes the Hungry Dark will follow you out, either in some form of shadow creature that everyone will have to contend with or just with lashing tendrils of darkness harming the environment around your exit point.

There is a...force or consciousness or something in the Darkforce dimension. A thing that hungers for light and life and energy and Katya unfortunately has a distinct connection to it. Every time she does harm with the darkforce energy or steps through it to attack, that energy gets a little taste of the energy she's taking in harm. And it wants more. It sometimes tries to push her to feeding it deeper, trying to press her towards greater violence or give her dreams of greater power in exchange for just dragging one little wicked being into the dark for it. She's held off largely so far, but she's also never went a terribly long time without doing violence with the power and tested just how pushy it might get with energy - The hunger in the darkness can occasionally try to compel her to greater violence or interfere with her dreams. It could get ugly if she tries to fully deny it someday...and probably uglier if she gives into it completely and starts feeding it people.

Power Breakdown

• Natural Weapon - Fight +2 while brawling with natural weapon.
  
• Theme: Dark Conduit (Mutant Only) - Use of your powers is accompanied by pentagrams, Sulphur smells, flaring demonic sigils and other signs of the dark and unholy.
  

Special Effects

• Area Attack - Attack everyone in a zone
• Physical Recovery - You recover from all physical stress

Drawbacks

• Caught Up In Dark Plans - The power you are linked with is not just an impersonal extra dimensional force. It wants things, and you are Caught Up In Dark Plans.

Collateral Damage

• Black Blessing - If you’re not that worried about the scenery or bystander’s psyches you may throw your conduit to dark powers wide open and drink in its power to really exert your will on the world. You gain the aspect Black Blessing with 4 free invokes. The collateral damage tends to come from power bleeding out into the world, and the effects on your/others psyches from witnessing it.