Flare

La Heroína Caliente

Flare

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First Appearance	Westguard #1, 1993
Real Name	Consuela Hernández-Velasquez
Identity	Public ID
Player	Robert Edwards
Origin	Gifted
Archetype	Elemental
Team Affiliation	Westguard
Base Of Operations	Los Angeles, CA, USA
Range Of Operations	Local

Description

Age	34		Nationality	American
Height	168 cm (5' 6")		Hair	Brown
Weight	56 kg (123 lbs)		Eyes	Brown
Gender	Cis Female		Sexuality	Heterosexual

Consuela is an attractive Mexican American woman in her early 30s, with brown eyes, long brown hair, and lightly tanned skin. When handling legal matters, she dresses in flawlessly tailored suits. When things are more casual, she dresses in stylish outfits which flatter her figure. As Flare, she wears a metallic yellow unitard with decorative flames at the wrists and boots, leaving only her hands and head uncovered.

Attributes

Agility 5
Brawn 2
Presence 3
Reason 4
Power Level 6
Endurance 7

• Normal Lift: 55 kg (pony keg of beer)
• Max Lift: 110 kg (heavy adult)
• Throw 25 kg: 2 m
• Jump: 1 m

• Max Effect: 32
• Max Range: 1 km
• Max Area: 10 m radius
• Max Mass: 1,600 kg

Skills

• Computing
• Culture
• Diplomacy (+)
• Hand-to-hand Combat
• Investigation
• Perception
• Ranged Combat

Gifts

• Connected
• Elusive
• Famous
• Pro From Dover (Criminal Law)

Powers

Blast

Standard action, Ranged, Area, Normal

Damaging Aura

Free action, Hand-to-hand, Normal

Dazzle

Standard action, Ranged, Area, Alteration

Flight

Move action, Self-only

Fly: 40 m (240 m / 140 km/h)

Force Field

Quick action, Self-only

Personal Immunity

Constant, Self-only

Equipment

Cell Phone (PL 1)

Commlink (PL 1)

Movement

	Base Move	All-out Move
Run	40 m	240 m (140 km/h)
Swim	13 m	78 m (47 km/h)
Jump	Jump: 1 m
Fly	40 m	240 m (140 km/h)

Personality

Consuela is confident and outgoing, and most people find her immediately likable, even when facing her in a courtroom. She is well known to the public, and is often approached by strangers for an autograph or a selfie; she is usually patient with these requests and accedes with good humour, unless she has a pressing need and her time is short. She is one of the more easy-going members of the WestGuard superhero team, making jokes or even playfully flirting with new members. She can shift gears in a heartbeat, however, and focus completely on the task at hand when it is time to get down to business.

Motivations

Adventure

The character has an adventurous spirit and rarely turns down a quest.

Justice

The character seeks to ensure that misdeeds are met with appropriate punishment.

History

Consuela grew up in the Mission Hills neighborhood of San Diego, the middle child of an affluent family. Her plasma powers manifested when she was in her teens, and she caused significant damage to her parent's house before she discovered she could turn her powers on and off. She shared this discovery with her parents, who dealt with the situation as well as they could, considering that the couch was still smouldering. After a long discussion, her parents insisted that Consuela should focus on her studies and finish her education before revealing her powers to anyone else, and Consuela wisely agreed.

Consuela attended Stanford University for undergraduate and law school, then joined the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. She worked for the District Attorney's Office for several years, honing her legal skills while also secretly mastering her plasma generating powers. With her legal career established and her powers fully under her control, she revealed her posthuman abilities to the leaders of the Los Angeles superhero group WestGuard, and she applied for membership. After a grueling psychological evaluation, she was accepted. Flare has been a core member of WestGuard ever since, supporting the team with her posthuman powers and her legal expertise. Since joining WestGuard, she has become a celebrity. Her intelligence, comfort with public speaking, and personal attractiveness have made her popular on social media and as a news show guest.

Powers and Abilities

Consuela has the strength and stamina of a fit woman who engages in regular exercise. Flare can generate ionized gas, or plasma, with a maximum temperature in excess of 8,000 degrees Celsius. She has a limited amount of control over the plasma she creates, allowing her to use it to fly, to generate a molecule-thick force field, and to create destructive blasts. She is fluent in English, Italian, Japanese, and several dialects of Spanish, in addition to her native Mexican Spanish.

Summary

Character Points Spent: 60
Unspent Experience: 0
Attributes 40 + Skills 8 + Gifts 4 + Powers 8 = 60 / 60