"The Quickest Girl in the World" Velocity

Grade: Anyone who feels like dealing with a speed demon class C+/B- Villain.

Talia Valentine was a lab scientist's assistant at Star Labs, who was very competitive with her coworkers. She always wanted to look better than any of the firms interns and over time became vicious in this pursuit. She even went as far as to sabotage their experiments and findings just so she could stay on top. One day, the question had been brought up on how to imitate an experiment former scientist Barry Allen had been working on before he quit his job due to personal unexplained reasons. One of Talia's fellow co-workers was getting close to creating the same concoction before Talia; she could not let this happen. So one night when everyone was gone she snuck into the lab and began mixing her own formula with the other lab assistant's in the hopes that she would get results quicker. Little did she know, fateful lighting would strike on that stormy night through the window and hit the vial she had been working on. Causing it to explode and cover her in the enhanced formula. A week later, she would start to notice when she wanted others to be quiet their words would slow until suddenly they stopped mid sentence and didn't know why. She also seemed to note as she moved through busy crowds, she would push through the group pretty quickly while the rest of the people walking began to slow down almost to a crawl. It wasn't until she realized her skin turning a pale white that she figured out the failed experiment had turned her into a metahuman. But, unlike most who would've been horrified, Valentine embraced her new gifts and decided to be come a costumed assailant; dubbing herself Velocity. Now she could show the entire world just how special she really was.

Full Name: Talia Valentine
Codename: Velocity
Alias(es):"The Quickest Girl In The World"
Age: 22
Classification: Metahuman

Hair Color: Light Red
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'8

Powers:

Inertia Absorption - Meaning if Velocity is within 15 feet of a moving object, she can take it's speed and add it to her own. A good example of this ability is if a car drives past Velocity, she'll suck the speed it's gaining right from it and add it to her own speedforce until it comes to a slow halt. Another example is like rubbing a match against asurface and watching it catch on fire. As an object passes her, it amps up her own speed and takes it's own speed from it. If the object is speeding past her and is gone with half a second or so, she will only take half it's original speed from it. Dropping a vehicle such as a motorcycle from 90 miles per hour to 45. To fully absorb all the speed from something, she needs to keep within 15 feet of it for 3 to 10 seconds. The amount of time it takes to absorb inertia lengthens the faster the thing she's absorbing.

Though this ability is less effective on slowing down large groups, it works wonders for her own speed gaining capabilities. She will take speed from each moving thing at once and add it to her own simultaneously. This means a crowd of people moving at even 4 miles per hour, can equal up to 40 miles per hour worth of a speed boost for her; if there's 20 people in it and she just passes by them. If she sticks with the group, she'll just keep sucking from them like a recharging station.

Speedforce Abilities - Because she is a speedster, Talia's reflexes, durability, appetite, thinking, linguistic skills and athletic ability are all extremely improved. She also gains enhanced healing due to her bodies recovery being sped up and can heal from wounds within a matter of seconds to minutes depending on severity. She also can catch things in slow motion and hear very fast. Though, all these abilities can only be accessed when she's absorbed inertia from the things around her and activated her speedster capabilities, which she can choose not to use if she pleases. Lastly, when she reaches excessive speeds she can vibrate her molecules to move through solid surfaces and speed up her own heart rate until it perceives to have flat lined. Though, for this she needs to have absorbed 220 miles per hour's worth of inertia or more.

Weakness:

Cannot stop on a dime - If she is running towards a dead end, Velocity will crash into it unless she can run up or down it.

Slippery surfaces - Talia has problems running on ice or on water during stormy weather, due to the constant uneven surface of the ocean or any body of water rocking to violently.

Non-moving objects - Since her powers require her to steal speed from others. If nothing's moving around her, then she is unable to gain the inertia necessary to activate her speed force capabilities.

Time Limit - Velocity's powers only work for 10 to 20 minutes. During that period if she is unable to generate more speed, she will get slower and slower until she reaches a normal human's capable speed levels and not even a very fast one at that.


Likes: racing, living fast and dangerous, winning, being better, receiving recognition.

Dislikes: losing, wasting time, boredom, being ignored, things that take a long time.

Equipment: None

Habits/Quirks: Turns everything into a challenge to see who can do it better and doesn't really respect anyone who doesn't acknowledge how great she is. Talia also thinks she's above laws because everyone besides her lives in the slow lane of life.

Personality: Velocity has a fiery personality that matches her red hair. She always wants to win and be better than her opponent. Especially when it comes to boys and especially when it comes to other speedsters or fast heroes like The Flash. Competition is her bread and butter.

Place of Origin: Star City