player information ● name: Jamie ● age: 18+ ● contact: PM / natalia_vdova / natalia_vdova#0150 @ Discord ● other characters: Ava Orlova
character information ● name: Janis Sandusky ● canon: Powers (TV) ● canon point: End of season 1, circa her death ● age: Looks late-30s, but is significantly older. I typically put her as being born in 1914, but all we know for sure is that she was at least 20-something during WWII.
● (canon) background:Wiki – This is a link to the episode summaries because the Powers TV wiki is seriously freaking barebones. As in, Janis' is basically just a list of powers off the superpower wiki. That said, if needed I can do an Actual Summary.
● abilities: She is said to be the Strongest Power (Wolfe seems to be stronger, but considering he achieves this by devouring other Powers, this is likely not an equal comparison). She has superhuman strength, she is neigh-invulnerable (compromised only by a device that is specifically made to be able to nullify the abilities of any Power – you can't perform an autopsy on her body). She can fly, routinely breaking the sound barrier, and able to go from fighting a hurricane in Asia to fighting the villain Wolfe in LA in about ten minutes (which is a distance of about 7,000 miles). She's either able to breathe without the presence of air, or doesn't need to breathe. Even compared to other Powers she is very long-lived, and seems to age better than the rest of them. She's also supposed to be one of the best fighters. Our opening shot of Retrogirl involves a red blur that takes two powers fighting with fire and ice and casually knocks them out of the sky like they're children.
She is a world-renowned superhero, charismatic and demanding, a leader able to unite the Powers communities the world over. She's seen the advent of powers adapting to every generation, and she's savvy enough to be able to move with it, adapting to every change so she stands as an unchanging symbol. She also manages various charitable organizations and navigates a decidedly unfriendly media landscape.
● strengths: Stalwart – Janis has been fighting the good fight for 70 years. She is at the forefront of every catastrophe, fights for strangers again and again. Not just from the bad guys, but she literally fights against natural disasters, punching hurricanes. She talks about walking away from being a superhero, but she seems to be literally incapable of doing it. She's dependable to her own detriment, shoulders the weight of the entire superhuman community without complaint, to the point that with her death the various factions immediately fall into rancor. She is almost always willing to carry a burden for someone else Caring – She is at heart a person that cares about other people. She's loyal, almost to a fault. Breaking her word carries a serious weight for her, and more than just the lives lost, it's promising to find someone and failing that cuts. She's a philanthropist, running a number of charities, and genuinely seeming invested in them, even if she's clearly not a fan of the media circus that follows. At funerals she is an empathetic shoulder for anyone that seems to need it, and she worries for the well-being of her friends, whether it's Christian in the wake of losing his powers, or Harley and his alcoholism. Morality – She is a very moral person, but she isn't some cinnamon roll, either. She is literally held up as the line in the sand on what the right thing to do is, she is the person where you can pretty much say that if you're not on her side, you are probably doing the wrong thing. And it's this facet that allows her to unite pretty much all of the powered people, and stave off a constant threat of unrest, even in the face of the Powers Registration Act. ● weaknesses: Bitter – The flip side of fighting this fight for as long as she has is that she's very aware of what it has turned into. The way that people who would never step up to so much as slow down a mugger pass judgment on every small misstep of Powers, turning the deaths of heroes into media spots and sales figures. She's very aware of the game and she's good at playing it, but she hates that she has to. This results in a tendency toward seeing the agendas of people, and that she can be judgmental if someone does something she doesn't agree with. Stubborn – The detrimental flip side to many of her positive traits is that she has a tendency to dig her heels in. As Cobalt Knight notes in his eulogy, she doesn't compromise. She treats things as pretty black and white, and once she sees something a certain way she's unlikely to change her mind. In line with this, she tends to say what she means, though she is generally capable of filtering if it's liable to end up on the evening news. Tired – Another downside to how long she's been doing this, is just how tired she is. This seems to be less about being tired of saving people, so much as she's tired of the way the world has changed. The media-hounding, the way that she talks about websites that dissect every inch of her body every time she steps into public. Her job is no longer just about fighting the bad guys and preventing disaster, it's about having the right public persona. And she's incapable of having any time to herself in public, to where she idealizes getting away from everything, pretending she could walk away-- which she can't. ● job skills (optional): Combatant, strategist/organizing people, search and rescue. She's been doing this stuff for seventy years, c'mon. ● housing (optional): Communal, please. Or put her in the barracks.
● prose/action sample: There were some nights where Janis just doesn't want to be alone. Where everything seems a little too crushing, the weight of the world a little too heavy, and she is strong enough to admit when she's feeling weak. Like tonight, where after hours of flying into a category five hurricane trying to save as many people as she can with her own two hands, and hitting that wall she can't punch through- the one that says you can't save everyone- she just needs a little human interaction. And Harley is always good for that.
It had been a little strange at first, after the Powers Registration Act, finding their way back here. That line in the sand that had made them suddenly more and less than friends-- Harley with his government contracts backing the status quo and Janis always willing to fight for what's right. The sturggle then had been mild enough, but it's starting to spark again. She misses the old days, Unity with SuperShock and Cobalt Knight, or only a few decades back with Olympia, Christian and Harley. Another symbol, but the ages had changed, and suddenly they were on lunchboxes and Sunday morning cartoons, movies and MTV specials. Retro Girl, the life and times!
It's late, sitting on the edge of his bed, her hair still just slightly damp, still in that bright red and gold flightsuit, googles dropped on the floor as she sighs and tries to breathe. Most superheroes try to save the world from the bad guys. Janis tries to save it from itself. From disaster and poverty and everything that takes the life of innocents, makes people suffer. And when there's no villain, no standard for victory, everything feels like a failure.
"I'm just so tired."
She admits it with a tilt of her head as she looks up at the doorway. She doesn't think there are many people left that she could say that to, because there are so few people left from their generation, people that can imagine how heavy it gets. Her friends from the forties are dead. Her team from the sixties is reduced to her, with SuperShock MIA for the last forty years and Cobalt Knight retired into politics, pushing anti-Powers legislation in a turn of irony that has never escaped her. The falling out had been hard. Her last team had formed around the turn of millennium, but Olympia was dead, Diamond had lost his powers, and Harley was an aging alcoholic, if still a terrifying sort of genius.
Janis Sandusky "Retro Girl" | Powers (TV) | Not Reserved
● name: Jamie
● age: 18+
● contact: PM /
● other characters: Ava Orlova
character information
● name: Janis Sandusky
● canon: Powers (TV)
● canon point: End of season 1, circa her death
● age: Looks late-30s, but is significantly older. I typically put her as being born in 1914, but all we know for sure is that she was at least 20-something during WWII.
● (canon) background: Wiki – This is a link to the episode summaries because the Powers TV wiki is seriously freaking barebones. As in, Janis' is basically just a list of powers off the superpower wiki. That said, if needed I can do an Actual Summary.
● abilities: She is said to be the Strongest Power (Wolfe seems to be stronger, but considering he achieves this by devouring other Powers, this is likely not an equal comparison). She has superhuman strength, she is neigh-invulnerable (compromised only by a device that is specifically made to be able to nullify the abilities of any Power – you can't perform an autopsy on her body). She can fly, routinely breaking the sound barrier, and able to go from fighting a hurricane in Asia to fighting the villain Wolfe in LA in about ten minutes (which is a distance of about 7,000 miles). She's either able to breathe without the presence of air, or doesn't need to breathe. Even compared to other Powers she is very long-lived, and seems to age better than the rest of them. She's also supposed to be one of the best fighters. Our opening shot of Retrogirl involves a red blur that takes two powers fighting with fire and ice and casually knocks them out of the sky like they're children.
She is a world-renowned superhero, charismatic and demanding, a leader able to unite the Powers communities the world over. She's seen the advent of powers adapting to every generation, and she's savvy enough to be able to move with it, adapting to every change so she stands as an unchanging symbol. She also manages various charitable organizations and navigates a decidedly unfriendly media landscape.
● strengths:
Stalwart – Janis has been fighting the good fight for 70 years. She is at the forefront of every catastrophe, fights for strangers again and again. Not just from the bad guys, but she literally fights against natural disasters, punching hurricanes. She talks about walking away from being a superhero, but she seems to be literally incapable of doing it. She's dependable to her own detriment, shoulders the weight of the entire superhuman community without complaint, to the point that with her death the various factions immediately fall into rancor. She is almost always willing to carry a burden for someone else
Caring – She is at heart a person that cares about other people. She's loyal, almost to a fault. Breaking her word carries a serious weight for her, and more than just the lives lost, it's promising to find someone and failing that cuts. She's a philanthropist, running a number of charities, and genuinely seeming invested in them, even if she's clearly not a fan of the media circus that follows. At funerals she is an empathetic shoulder for anyone that seems to need it, and she worries for the well-being of her friends, whether it's Christian in the wake of losing his powers, or Harley and his alcoholism.
Morality – She is a very moral person, but she isn't some cinnamon roll, either. She is literally held up as the line in the sand on what the right thing to do is, she is the person where you can pretty much say that if you're not on her side, you are probably doing the wrong thing. And it's this facet that allows her to unite pretty much all of the powered people, and stave off a constant threat of unrest, even in the face of the Powers Registration Act.
● weaknesses:
Bitter – The flip side of fighting this fight for as long as she has is that she's very aware of what it has turned into. The way that people who would never step up to so much as slow down a mugger pass judgment on every small misstep of Powers, turning the deaths of heroes into media spots and sales figures. She's very aware of the game and she's good at playing it, but she hates that she has to. This results in a tendency toward seeing the agendas of people, and that she can be judgmental if someone does something she doesn't agree with.
Stubborn – The detrimental flip side to many of her positive traits is that she has a tendency to dig her heels in. As Cobalt Knight notes in his eulogy, she doesn't compromise. She treats things as pretty black and white, and once she sees something a certain way she's unlikely to change her mind. In line with this, she tends to say what she means, though she is generally capable of filtering if it's liable to end up on the evening news.
Tired – Another downside to how long she's been doing this, is just how tired she is. This seems to be less about being tired of saving people, so much as she's tired of the way the world has changed. The media-hounding, the way that she talks about websites that dissect every inch of her body every time she steps into public. Her job is no longer just about fighting the bad guys and preventing disaster, it's about having the right public persona. And she's incapable of having any time to herself in public, to where she idealizes getting away from everything, pretending she could walk away-- which she can't.
● job skills (optional): Combatant, strategist/organizing people, search and rescue. She's been doing this stuff for seventy years, c'mon.
● housing (optional): Communal, please. Or put her in the barracks.
● network username: janis
● network sample: Link
● prose/action sample:
There were some nights where Janis just doesn't want to be alone. Where everything seems a little too crushing, the weight of the world a little too heavy, and she is strong enough to admit when she's feeling weak. Like tonight, where after hours of flying into a category five hurricane trying to save as many people as she can with her own two hands, and hitting that wall she can't punch through- the one that says you can't save everyone- she just needs a little human interaction. And Harley is always good for that.
It had been a little strange at first, after the Powers Registration Act, finding their way back here. That line in the sand that had made them suddenly more and less than friends-- Harley with his government contracts backing the status quo and Janis always willing to fight for what's right. The sturggle then had been mild enough, but it's starting to spark again. She misses the old days, Unity with SuperShock and Cobalt Knight, or only a few decades back with Olympia, Christian and Harley. Another symbol, but the ages had changed, and suddenly they were on lunchboxes and Sunday morning cartoons, movies and MTV specials. Retro Girl, the life and times!
It's late, sitting on the edge of his bed, her hair still just slightly damp, still in that bright red and gold flightsuit, googles dropped on the floor as she sighs and tries to breathe. Most superheroes try to save the world from the bad guys. Janis tries to save it from itself. From disaster and poverty and everything that takes the life of innocents, makes people suffer. And when there's no villain, no standard for victory, everything feels like a failure.
"I'm just so tired."
She admits it with a tilt of her head as she looks up at the doorway. She doesn't think there are many people left that she could say that to, because there are so few people left from their generation, people that can imagine how heavy it gets. Her friends from the forties are dead. Her team from the sixties is reduced to her, with SuperShock MIA for the last forty years and Cobalt Knight retired into politics, pushing anti-Powers legislation in a turn of irony that has never escaped her. The falling out had been hard. Her last team had formed around the turn of millennium, but Olympia was dead, Diamond had lost his powers, and Harley was an aging alcoholic, if still a terrifying sort of genius.
And still her best-friend.