Tracer

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Lena Oxton



«««IDENTITY»»»

Full Name: Lena Oxton
Nickname(s):
Codename: Tracer
Alias(es):
Age: 19
Race: Metahuman
Affiliation: Hero


«««PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION»»»

Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Gender: Female
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 128 lbs
Other Traits:


«««SKILL SET»»»

Powers:
Temporal Displacement
Tracer has the unique ability to accelerate her own personal time. While time around her is unaffected, Tracer can use this to artificially increase her speed, reflexes, and so on. This ability also normally causes her to age more quickly, but she has measures in place to negate this effect.

• Superhuman Speed – Tracer can dash about seemingly endlessly without tiring. While these dashes can range anywhere from a few inches to several feet, she cannot maintain a constant sprint in this manner and will often need to give her powers a break or she risks running the battery dry. These dashes are nearly instantaneous movement, and she is even capable of taking others and objects with her, so long as she can support the weight. Tracer’s abilities also protect her and any passengers from forces such as whiplash. The way this works is that she accelerates her personal time as she moves, causing her to move much more quickly.
  

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• Recall – Tracer can also reverse her own personal time. She uses this to avoid life threatening collisions and attacks by returning to a point she has previously been. The rest of the world is entirely unaffected by this ability. Only Tracer is affected. She is not travelling back several posts, she is changing her position.
  

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Heightened Awareness
Tracer’s powers allow her accelerate her personal time, which gives her infinitely more time to work with her surroundings. She likely knows where everything in a room is at any given time, but it’s not quite a spidey sense. She can dodge most attacks and even fully automatic fire by using this in combination with her super speed.

• Master Acrobat
  Tracer spent a majority of her life in her father’s circus as an acrobat. Because of this, she can jump flip and kick with the best of them, giving her quite the name when it comes to parkour as well. This is treated as a sub power because...well, without her heightened awareness, Tracer wouldn’t be nearly as good at getting around as she really is.
  

Engineer
Tracer spent much of her teenage years working in her mother’s workshop and has learned quite a bit from her. She is capable of making several advanced machines, and her temporal leaps let her do it quite quickly.

Skills:
Multi-Lingual
Tracer can speak English, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Russian, Italian, and even the most exotic of all languages...New Jersian. The only language she never really grasped was French.

Physical Weaknesses:


Temporal Displacement
Tracer’s powers are...finnicky. Essentially the only way she can safely use them is when she’s strapped to her Chrono Accelerator, and she knows it. If she doesn’t have it on when she uses her powers, then parts of her can get lost in other timelines, bits and pieces of her can be lost on the way from destination to destination. It’s a messy business, and she goes out of her way to make sure her displacer never gets damaged.

Cooldowns
Tracer cannot use her dashes continuously. She needs to take brief breaks inbetween, likely no more than a few seconds. However, in this time she can be shot, hit, displaced, and so on. These are her moments of extreme vulnerability.

Size, Stature, and Power
While Tracer has her energy pistols and can punch at absolutely insane speeds...she isn’t very strong. She isn’t going to lift anything a normal teenage girl can’t lift, and she’ll be lucky to survive most strikes. She’s primarily built around speed, and forgoes power and armor for it.

Chrono Accelerator Battery
You’ve seen me mention the battery a few times, yeah? Well that’s because her Temporal Displacer runs on one. Essentially, it’s a self replenishing battery that should keep her safe when using her powers. However, overexerting it will cause the battery to drain, and she’ll be on her own until it resets.

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Mental Weaknesses:
Cocky
Tracer’s ability to hop back in time have caused her to become a bit overly confident in conflicts. She’ll frequently taunt her enemies and deliberately give them openings. It’s pretty obnoxious, honestly.

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Incredibly Naive
Tracer is an idealist, rather than a realist. She will often try to reason with criminals, try and make them understand that they’re in the wrong and then try and redeem them. She’s incredibly easy to manipulate.

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Predictable Movement Patterns
Once you’ve fought Tracer once, she moves rather predictably if you study her patterns. She isn’t aware that she does this at all, but it’s true. To be honest, you can probably smack her straight out of her temporal leap if you pay enough attention.



Equipment:

Chrono Accelerator
See that giant piece of metal strapped to her chest? It’s kind of heavy, and she wouldn’t carry it around it it weren’t important. The Chrono Accelerator was built by Tracer’s mother as an experimental method to save her life as she flashed between timelines randomly, only appearing to her every now and again. As mentioned in the powers section, this device is what allows her to use her powers safely now that she can control her temporal leaps. However, it is highly advised that Tracer wears this device at all times. It keeps her anchored in the present. Without it, she could accelerate years at a time with no way of returning to her previous self. No part of her wants to become 80 year old Lena in less than a second.

Temporal Energy Pistols

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These are Tracer’s trusty pistols that she built to fight crime. Rather than a reload, these pistols require a quick charge from the exact same battery as her Chrono Accelerator. The energy rounds they fire are entirely non-lethal, and they’ll sting more like an airsoft bullet than an actual bullet, so they won’t even do anything to some enemies. They’re meant more as a deterrent than a weapon, really.



«««CEREBRAL PROFILE»»»

Personality:
Tracer is very...spunky. And British. She’s incredibly hyperactive due to her seemingly neverending energy and she’s very quick to act. She loves a good time and adventure and sees the good in all beings.

Strengths:
Sociable
Fun-Loving
British

Interests/Habits:
Multiverse Theory
Engineering
Volleyball
Videogames


«««PERSONAL BACKGROUND»»»

Family Members:
Maria Oxton (Mother)
Kyle Oxton (Father)

Place of Origin: Bristol, England

History:
Tracer was born to a one night stand turned romance between a scientist and a circus performer. I know, you totally saw it coming. Initially, she was a normal girl who went to school and did her work in her mother’s lab. Eventually however, she saw the allure of her father’s circus and was eager to join in. Reluctantly, her mother agreed. But only if her homework was done.

For years, Tracer honed her craft until one day, the rope snapped on her, sending her plummeting to her death. Or so she’d expected. As she fell toward the ground, screaming at the top of her lungs, she suddenly noticed things slow down, and then sound shifted. Almost as if she was in a bubble, listening to everyone else screaming. Then she started to rise back upward until she returned to her spot at the top of the tent, gasping for air and clutching her gut, a gigantic wound now present.

Of course Tracer was quickly escorted to a hospital and patched up, but that experience never left her. Not only was it the most terrifying point in her life, but she’d never felt more alive than when she was shooting back up into the air. It was magnificent. So she’d have try to recreate that, right?

While she didn’t fancy herself suicidal, jumping of buildings and the sort, she did take to trying to force herself back in time like that night. At first she could only do moments at a time, not very long either. Then she got better and better until she started to break down. Entirely.

She found herself being rushed through a very familiar facility, one she’d spent a majority of her childhood in up until this point. As she looked around, she could feel parts of her body for a moment...and then she couldn’t. She looked down and was horrified to see her body parts blinking in and out of reality, jumping between timelines.

After getting over the initial panic and getting to work, Tracer’s mother worked out the Chrono Accelerator. The rest just felt natural to her. Tracer kept working at learning her powers and trying to make the world a better place. Now she’s almost got it down entirely, and she’s just missing that little boost to get into the hero game.

Claimed

Personally, I'm very excited for this character because she looked really awesome in the OverWatch trailers. However, there are 2 specific things that I am worried about before the actually dissecting of the character. To start off, time manipulation and time traveling is a huge no no, It's one of Tib's strict rules we talked about... I believe in the fountain.. So I'm not to sure about the Recall power. On one hand she's practically teleporting, but the way you worded it you make it sound like she can go back in time to know what their attacks are.

Izzy wrote:

Basically, she can return to a point she’s already recently been, maintaining her consciousness and combat awareness of the future, but healing any wounds she sustained over that short period of time.

So what I'm seeing here is that she can go back in time, heal herself as if nothing happened, and then know the persons attack. Again you might just need to reword this.

On top of all of this, you've recently been picking up and dropping a lot of characters, so I'm not too sure if you can grab Tracer just yet. After waiting exactly 2 months for Roman, you dropped him to pick up your Kryptonian, which then you dropped her mid process to make Tracer. I know you are dropping Weiss too, but that proves again that you just made a character only to drop her. I'm talking to Tib about this to see what he has to say, this may end up not being a problem and we can continue as well.

Other things

Heightened Awareness
-Multiple Timelines aren't really allowed with the reasons stated above, you can still keep the heightened senses but you'll have to give her a different reason.

Engineer
Is this master skill? If so that would make it a power, if not you can just throw it under the skills.

This is all I see for now, sorry about the messy paragraphs, I'm still talking with others to find out if it's going to be allowed or not.

Heightened
I know that multiple timelines are set up in DC comics and even in Marvel comics, but this is a roleplaying site. That's messing with Time which is exactly what Tib was against, so my statement before still stands.

Recall
Again I'll have to wait to see what Tib thinks before I do anything.

Engineer
If it's a power could you please put Master in the title so that other people reading you app knows. Or if you don't want it to be master could you move it to skills.

Thank you ^-^

Alright, I got word from Tib and I'm basically getting a no of the time travel. Despite what you say, three people are reading it differently from you and we all just see it as an excuse to ninja dodge on end. With that being said, that power will have to be removed or altered. I am more than willing to help you come up with a similar power! ^-^

Alright there's a few things we need to clarify, you keep on using the word time which is strictly not allowed so you'll have to change that. However, I do see what you are trying to do so my suggestion is turning the time uses into super speed or teleporting.
For example

"Tracer has the unique ability to accelerate her own personal time. While time around her is unaffected, Tracer can use this to artificially increase her speed, reflexes, and so on."
Despite being a personal timeline, it still is time manipulation which Tib doesn't want on the site. I suggest changing it to something like "Tracer has the unique ability to accelerate her speed up to *insert mph here*".

Super Human Speed-
How fast can she go?

Recall
This is still time manipulation and isn't allowed on the site. I suggest instead having enhanced reflexes so that she can dodge things, instead of going back in time.

This is all I see right now, feel free to pm me if you want to work together to make this character the best she can be! ^-^