Player Information
User Name: Yarol2075
IM: yarol2075 (YIM) strscrm2075 (AIM)
Email Address:strscrm2075@aol.com
Player's Age: 28
Character Information
Name: Jenny Sparks (in full Jennifer Elizabeth Sparks)
Code Name: N/A, call her Sparkie and you're likely to get a near fatal shock. She will repond to simply Sparks; she went by Lady Britannia during World War II.
Gender: F
Age: Her birthdate is January 01, 1900.
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian, British
General Appearance: 5' 8" Jenny appears to be 20 years old. She has a decently curvy feminine figure, but nothing spectacular. Jenny has a very pretty face when she's relaxed and happy, which is rarely. She usually wears her shoulder-length dirty blonde hair in a ponytail. Her grey eyes seem to change a nearly white silver to storm cloud black depending her mood and her current state of sobriety. Jenny generally wears very comfortable, also mannish-looking outfits. Her usual outfit is a white suit worn over variety t-shirts, the default being either a black t-shirt that reads in silver letters "Over the Hill and Rolling!" or one with the Union Jack on it. She's usually seen with a cigarette in hand. She also carries a fake taser to cover up any odd shocks she delivers those she thinks deserves them.
Distinguishing Characteristics: N/A
Uniformed Appearance: Jenny wears the standard X-Men uniform; she vaguely wishes she could go back to wearing her Lady Britannia costume.
Affiliation: X-Men
Hellfire Club status: Non-member
Family: Three husbands, two she was widowed from, one she divorced. Most of her immediate family is long deceased, but she keeps an eye on one or two distant cousins.
Personality: Jenny is world-weary, guilt-ridden, and surly. She has a dark wry warped sense humor, slightly bitter, slightly self-directed. She sometimes wonders if she's simply lived too long, seen too much. She carries her burden of guilt like a favorite security blanket. Nonetheless Jenny firmly believes that she has a reason for being here: she's here to protect humanity, from itself if needs be. She has a cynical messiah complex; "shit, I'm gonna have to die to save you tossers, aren't I?" Jenny is British, but she used any expression from any dialect or vernacular that suits her fancy.
Powers: Jenny can transform from flesh to living electricity. She uses this ability in a variety of ways; she can travel along communications and electrical wires. She can deliver electric shocks that vary in intensity, from the slight jolt one would get from a build up of static electricity to fatal electrocutions. If she is fighting in a thunderstorm she can somewhat direct the lightning to her advantage, but that never happens often. Jenny can draw upon power grids for extra power; she does this as little as possible being concerned with the havoc that can cause for the people and homes on the grids. She can, with effort, expand her appearance to tower over buildings and fill up the sky -- she has only done this ONCE in a dire situation and was nearly comatose for a week afterward. With effort she can communicate by hijacking radio signals, although she complain that it gives her headaches. Also transforming from flesh to electricity and back to flesh purges her system of toxins (something she loathes to do since she likes to be drunk and comfortably numb) Jenny is powerful and she knows it; she also know the meaning of the word "restraint." Jenny does not know why she stopped aging at age twenty; privately she thinks it's a childish prank the universe is playing on her.
Weaknesses: Obviously if an opponent in sufficiently insulated, any of Jenny's attacks has limited, if any, effect. Jenny is an alcoholic; she does her best not to let it effect any missions she might be on, but sometimes that bottle/flask/whatever looks mighty tempting. She suffers the occasional bout of depression. Also Jenny firmly believes in equality between humans and mutants, this likely to be a source of friction with any mutant who might believe in the superiority of mutants, however slight.
Other Abilities: Jenny has some very specific hacking skills, since she's lives so long she needs to "renew" her identity at reasonable intervals and being able to get into systems to create corroborating evidence makes things easier. She knows where to get false ID as well.
Detailed History:
Jenny Sparks was born just after midnight on January 01, 1900 to a well-to-do family in London. For the most part her childhood was unremarkable save that Jenny refused to be the proper little lady her parents wanted her to be. When she was old enough she sent to some of the finest schools in Europe. Shortly before World War One, she was in Austria. She made the acquaintance of a starving artist, and when asked for an honest opinion, she gave it. She told him his paintings were terrible, then jokingly told him he might have better luck in politics. It was only an off the cuff remark of a thirteen year old girl, but it's been something she's regretted saying for the rest of her life.
Jenny was called home just before the Great War started and was shipped to the relative safety of her family's country home and privately tutored.
When she was eighteen, much to her disgust, she was pressured into accepting the marriage proposal of her second cousin, to keep the family fortune within the family. The marriage was very short-lived as Herbert was a philandering dilettante who managed to get himself shot by one of his mistresses' brothers. Jenny was a widow by her twentieth birthday. She kept her head held high, the object of much public sympathy as the wronged virtuous wife, and she managed to personally escape any scandal, although her family's name was dragged through the mud.
Shortly after her twentieth birthday, Jenny felt a tingling at the base of her spine. She dismissed it as a minor discomfort caused by her recent difficulties. Then one day she reached to turn on a lamp, and the lightbulb glowed then burst. This startled Jenny, but fascinated her more than scared her. It was written off as freak occurrence by everyone else in her family, but cautiously and secretly Jenny began experimenting. She soon could control the effect, to the point of lighting up light bulb in her bare hands. A few days later, as she was "turning on" a lamp, she heard her sister-in-law approaching the room (that woman never could make a quiet entrance) and desperately wishing she were elsewhere, anywhere, even the scullery. A few moments later, Jenny found herself in the back of the scullery blocked from view by a crate. As she sat on the floor in shock, she saw for the first time, electricity arcing between her fingers. Almost instinctually Jenny began to understand that she was something different, something never before.
This marked a new beginning for Jenny. She decided to hell with society and began scandalous grand world tour without a chaperone or companion. It was the roaring twenties and she was living her life to the fullest. It was in Hong Kong, that Jenny got mixed up with His Majesty's secret service. Thanks to her quick thinking the agent was able to achieve his objective, and it brought her an offer of employment.
Jenny regards this part of her life as perhaps the second happiest time of her life. She had adventure, excitement and romance. Looking back at it now, Jenny is mostly heard to say "It was every bloody cliche in the book." It was also when she met her future second husband, a curmudgeonly old man named Quentin Stokes. Quentin was a combination a cryptographer, inventor, and all around grump. He was also the only officer within the secret service Jenny ever confided in about her super-powers; everyone else thought she was simply a super-efficent agent. Something about him just lead her to trust him.
These good times ended soon enough and Jenny soon found herself caught in espionage during World War Two. It was dirty business during a dirty time. And Jenny carried an additional burden. The artist she had so flippantly suggested get involved in Politics when she was thirteen, had. She became depressed, and began drinking.
Quentin Stokes had other ideas and, after giving her a thorough roaring lecture on her responsibilities, he developed the identity of Lady Britannia for her. As this costumed heroine, she fought along side Captain America, her amazing abilities credited to gee-whiz, gosh, golly, super top, top, top secret technology! To maintain this illusion she wore a backpack that allegedly contained her portable dynamo. During one desperate battle, in an attempt to knock Nazi bombers that were taking off out of the air, Jenny took a chance and expanded herself to tower nearly a thousand feet high. The majority of those planes flew through her, frying their electrical systems, forcing their crews to ditch. Afterward Jenny collapsed, and was insensible for a week. Most people have since wrote the incident off as being an urban legend of the battlefield.
Since her feat obviously could not be credited to secret advanced technology, Jenny had to trust Captain America would keep her secret.
He did.
After the war was over Jenny retired from the Secret Service, too many questions were being asked about her youthful appearance, and claims of good breeding only went so far. However Quentin Stokes was not about to let Jenny simply slip into obscurity, and he asked her to marry him, old man that he was. Jenny said yes.
The next thirteen years were the happiest time of Jenny's life. She loved Quentin and Quentin loved her. Yes, he was old and crotchety, prone to inventing the oddest of things (most of which are still in use in some form or another in the intelligence business) but there was something in him that shined in Jenny's eyes, and she couldn't get enough of it. Eventually, he died quietly, of old age, in his sleep. Jenny was devastated.
After the funeral, Jenny began to drink again, and basically disappeared from sight for a good long time.
Then came the Sixties. Jenny loved the Sixties, the counterculture, the music, and the drugs. Unfortunately this was not good for those around her. Once while she was tripping out she accidentally fried two of her companions. When she came down from her high, she was horrified at what she had done. In guilty grief, she fled, and swore to stick to alcohol and tobacco as her drugs of choice.
The Seventies came. Jenny enjoyed them, but they left her feeling empty, shallow. For two months in 1974 Jenny was married to a minor glam rock star. That caused her to swear off marriage all together.
The Eighties are something of a blur to Jenny, she vaguely remembers enjoying them. She knows she starred in a string of b-movies for the fun of it, under the name Electra Shock, a private joke. In the early nineties she met a man named Charles Xavier. He told her all about herself, himself, and the harmony he envisioned between humans and mutants. Jenny told him she'd think about it, and jumped into the nearest power and ended up half a world away. Four months later, she turned up at the mansion, ready to give him and his X-Men a chance.
Extraneous Information: Some of the incidents mentions in Jenny's biography are taken (and warped) from the Jenny Sparks mini-series, and from the Stormwatch & Authority series.
Writing Sample:
In the Journals section under Jenny's Journal
User Name: Yarol2075
IM: yarol2075 (YIM) strscrm2075 (AIM)
Email Address:strscrm2075@aol.com
Player's Age: 28
Character Information
Name: Jenny Sparks (in full Jennifer Elizabeth Sparks)
Code Name: N/A, call her Sparkie and you're likely to get a near fatal shock. She will repond to simply Sparks; she went by Lady Britannia during World War II.
Gender: F
Age: Her birthdate is January 01, 1900.
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian, British
General Appearance: 5' 8" Jenny appears to be 20 years old. She has a decently curvy feminine figure, but nothing spectacular. Jenny has a very pretty face when she's relaxed and happy, which is rarely. She usually wears her shoulder-length dirty blonde hair in a ponytail. Her grey eyes seem to change a nearly white silver to storm cloud black depending her mood and her current state of sobriety. Jenny generally wears very comfortable, also mannish-looking outfits. Her usual outfit is a white suit worn over variety t-shirts, the default being either a black t-shirt that reads in silver letters "Over the Hill and Rolling!" or one with the Union Jack on it. She's usually seen with a cigarette in hand. She also carries a fake taser to cover up any odd shocks she delivers those she thinks deserves them.
Distinguishing Characteristics: N/A
Uniformed Appearance: Jenny wears the standard X-Men uniform; she vaguely wishes she could go back to wearing her Lady Britannia costume.
Affiliation: X-Men
Hellfire Club status: Non-member
Family: Three husbands, two she was widowed from, one she divorced. Most of her immediate family is long deceased, but she keeps an eye on one or two distant cousins.
Personality: Jenny is world-weary, guilt-ridden, and surly. She has a dark wry warped sense humor, slightly bitter, slightly self-directed. She sometimes wonders if she's simply lived too long, seen too much. She carries her burden of guilt like a favorite security blanket. Nonetheless Jenny firmly believes that she has a reason for being here: she's here to protect humanity, from itself if needs be. She has a cynical messiah complex; "shit, I'm gonna have to die to save you tossers, aren't I?" Jenny is British, but she used any expression from any dialect or vernacular that suits her fancy.
Powers: Jenny can transform from flesh to living electricity. She uses this ability in a variety of ways; she can travel along communications and electrical wires. She can deliver electric shocks that vary in intensity, from the slight jolt one would get from a build up of static electricity to fatal electrocutions. If she is fighting in a thunderstorm she can somewhat direct the lightning to her advantage, but that never happens often. Jenny can draw upon power grids for extra power; she does this as little as possible being concerned with the havoc that can cause for the people and homes on the grids. She can, with effort, expand her appearance to tower over buildings and fill up the sky -- she has only done this ONCE in a dire situation and was nearly comatose for a week afterward. With effort she can communicate by hijacking radio signals, although she complain that it gives her headaches. Also transforming from flesh to electricity and back to flesh purges her system of toxins (something she loathes to do since she likes to be drunk and comfortably numb) Jenny is powerful and she knows it; she also know the meaning of the word "restraint." Jenny does not know why she stopped aging at age twenty; privately she thinks it's a childish prank the universe is playing on her.
Weaknesses: Obviously if an opponent in sufficiently insulated, any of Jenny's attacks has limited, if any, effect. Jenny is an alcoholic; she does her best not to let it effect any missions she might be on, but sometimes that bottle/flask/whatever looks mighty tempting. She suffers the occasional bout of depression. Also Jenny firmly believes in equality between humans and mutants, this likely to be a source of friction with any mutant who might believe in the superiority of mutants, however slight.
Other Abilities: Jenny has some very specific hacking skills, since she's lives so long she needs to "renew" her identity at reasonable intervals and being able to get into systems to create corroborating evidence makes things easier. She knows where to get false ID as well.
Detailed History:
Jenny Sparks was born just after midnight on January 01, 1900 to a well-to-do family in London. For the most part her childhood was unremarkable save that Jenny refused to be the proper little lady her parents wanted her to be. When she was old enough she sent to some of the finest schools in Europe. Shortly before World War One, she was in Austria. She made the acquaintance of a starving artist, and when asked for an honest opinion, she gave it. She told him his paintings were terrible, then jokingly told him he might have better luck in politics. It was only an off the cuff remark of a thirteen year old girl, but it's been something she's regretted saying for the rest of her life.
Jenny was called home just before the Great War started and was shipped to the relative safety of her family's country home and privately tutored.
When she was eighteen, much to her disgust, she was pressured into accepting the marriage proposal of her second cousin, to keep the family fortune within the family. The marriage was very short-lived as Herbert was a philandering dilettante who managed to get himself shot by one of his mistresses' brothers. Jenny was a widow by her twentieth birthday. She kept her head held high, the object of much public sympathy as the wronged virtuous wife, and she managed to personally escape any scandal, although her family's name was dragged through the mud.
Shortly after her twentieth birthday, Jenny felt a tingling at the base of her spine. She dismissed it as a minor discomfort caused by her recent difficulties. Then one day she reached to turn on a lamp, and the lightbulb glowed then burst. This startled Jenny, but fascinated her more than scared her. It was written off as freak occurrence by everyone else in her family, but cautiously and secretly Jenny began experimenting. She soon could control the effect, to the point of lighting up light bulb in her bare hands. A few days later, as she was "turning on" a lamp, she heard her sister-in-law approaching the room (that woman never could make a quiet entrance) and desperately wishing she were elsewhere, anywhere, even the scullery. A few moments later, Jenny found herself in the back of the scullery blocked from view by a crate. As she sat on the floor in shock, she saw for the first time, electricity arcing between her fingers. Almost instinctually Jenny began to understand that she was something different, something never before.
This marked a new beginning for Jenny. She decided to hell with society and began scandalous grand world tour without a chaperone or companion. It was the roaring twenties and she was living her life to the fullest. It was in Hong Kong, that Jenny got mixed up with His Majesty's secret service. Thanks to her quick thinking the agent was able to achieve his objective, and it brought her an offer of employment.
Jenny regards this part of her life as perhaps the second happiest time of her life. She had adventure, excitement and romance. Looking back at it now, Jenny is mostly heard to say "It was every bloody cliche in the book." It was also when she met her future second husband, a curmudgeonly old man named Quentin Stokes. Quentin was a combination a cryptographer, inventor, and all around grump. He was also the only officer within the secret service Jenny ever confided in about her super-powers; everyone else thought she was simply a super-efficent agent. Something about him just lead her to trust him.
These good times ended soon enough and Jenny soon found herself caught in espionage during World War Two. It was dirty business during a dirty time. And Jenny carried an additional burden. The artist she had so flippantly suggested get involved in Politics when she was thirteen, had. She became depressed, and began drinking.
Quentin Stokes had other ideas and, after giving her a thorough roaring lecture on her responsibilities, he developed the identity of Lady Britannia for her. As this costumed heroine, she fought along side Captain America, her amazing abilities credited to gee-whiz, gosh, golly, super top, top, top secret technology! To maintain this illusion she wore a backpack that allegedly contained her portable dynamo. During one desperate battle, in an attempt to knock Nazi bombers that were taking off out of the air, Jenny took a chance and expanded herself to tower nearly a thousand feet high. The majority of those planes flew through her, frying their electrical systems, forcing their crews to ditch. Afterward Jenny collapsed, and was insensible for a week. Most people have since wrote the incident off as being an urban legend of the battlefield.
Since her feat obviously could not be credited to secret advanced technology, Jenny had to trust Captain America would keep her secret.
He did.
After the war was over Jenny retired from the Secret Service, too many questions were being asked about her youthful appearance, and claims of good breeding only went so far. However Quentin Stokes was not about to let Jenny simply slip into obscurity, and he asked her to marry him, old man that he was. Jenny said yes.
The next thirteen years were the happiest time of Jenny's life. She loved Quentin and Quentin loved her. Yes, he was old and crotchety, prone to inventing the oddest of things (most of which are still in use in some form or another in the intelligence business) but there was something in him that shined in Jenny's eyes, and she couldn't get enough of it. Eventually, he died quietly, of old age, in his sleep. Jenny was devastated.
After the funeral, Jenny began to drink again, and basically disappeared from sight for a good long time.
Then came the Sixties. Jenny loved the Sixties, the counterculture, the music, and the drugs. Unfortunately this was not good for those around her. Once while she was tripping out she accidentally fried two of her companions. When she came down from her high, she was horrified at what she had done. In guilty grief, she fled, and swore to stick to alcohol and tobacco as her drugs of choice.
The Seventies came. Jenny enjoyed them, but they left her feeling empty, shallow. For two months in 1974 Jenny was married to a minor glam rock star. That caused her to swear off marriage all together.
The Eighties are something of a blur to Jenny, she vaguely remembers enjoying them. She knows she starred in a string of b-movies for the fun of it, under the name Electra Shock, a private joke. In the early nineties she met a man named Charles Xavier. He told her all about herself, himself, and the harmony he envisioned between humans and mutants. Jenny told him she'd think about it, and jumped into the nearest power and ended up half a world away. Four months later, she turned up at the mansion, ready to give him and his X-Men a chance.
Extraneous Information: Some of the incidents mentions in Jenny's biography are taken (and warped) from the Jenny Sparks mini-series, and from the Stormwatch & Authority series.
Writing Sample:
In the Journals section under Jenny's Journal
