Backlash

Likes: mechanics • working on cars • kick boxing • MMA • video games • rough housing • pizza • whiskey • dogs

Dislikes: most males, particularly the cocky and the feminine • prissy girls, especially teens • macaroni and cheese • the dark • water • reality television • bra and underwear commercials • Twilight

Strengths: agile, both in physical and mental aspects • fast • strong, particularly in her upper torso • flexible (although difficult with the amount of metal she wears) • endurance • quick reflexes • persistence

Skills: precision • accuracy • stun-based attacks • whip-wielding • mechanics––working with engines, power sources, cars, ect. • computer tech––hacking, fixing, inventing, de-wiring • hand-eye coordination • immediate reflexes

Equipment:
Lightning Whips, similar to those that Whiplash (Ivan Vanko from Iron Man) uses.

Habits/Quirks: religiously watches Telemundo and other Spanish channels, although she can’t speak Spanish

Personality: Kat is very hard-headed and really standoffish. Although her intentions may be otherwise, she has a habit of seeing the negative side of any situation and thus comes across as rude. She is also temperamental. Ever since she killed and betrayed her fellow Titan, Model Eleven, Backlash has been a raging powerhouse of hate, confusion, repulsion, delusion, and the embodiment of strait-up teenage girl angst.


History: Katarzyna was born on January 1st in Sczcecin, Poland, to Konrad and Pela Dolinski, two auto-mechanics and heavy machinery inventors who weren’t expecting to have a child, but went love-wild when they were told of their blessing. Until then, Pela had been working alongside her husband, doing everything he did–––from fixing cars to building makeshift helicopters––despite most everyone’s accusations of her career as “No job for a woman; men do the work, women clean the house. That’s what they’re supposed to do.” But Pela always shook them off by saying “if you can build an automatic rifle with a steel exoskeleton and damn seeking bullets, then I’ll consider not using it on you to show just how bad-@ss women can be.”

When the baby came and started to grow, her mother’s influence was clearly in the young girl’s genes. She always defied the stereotypes of typical girls, liking Transformers and hating Barbies, playing in the dirt versus in a pretty pink room, and voicing her opinion and not letting anyone make her think otherwise, even at the young age of eleven, when she really started making a statement by enrolling in junior boxing. Working out and putting herself pass her own physical exertion set a foundation for Katarzyna that would later prove a very strong asset. Her parents always supported her, and sometimes her mom would even get into the boxing ring to help train her daughter. But when Katarzyna turned thirteen, the motherly figure in her life was ripped from her family and held hostage by a local gang that demanded that Konrad gave them all his custom built weapons. When Katarzyna found the gang’s location, she put her jurisdiction to the ultimate test, something she never seemed to quite master. The girl stole her father’s newest, greatest, and most risky invention: a mechanical set of lightning powered whips that could destroy a whole house with just one lashing. They were even more dangerous, however, because their circuitry had not been completed and Katarzyna didn’t know how to use them in the first place. And, as expected, that kind of power was unleashed without anything holding it back. In the end, that thirteen-year-old rebellious girl did make that gang pay, but killed her mother as well.

Konrad fell into a distant state of psychological limbo from shock and grief, and Katarzyna ran away, afraid and along, despairing and regretful, but moreover: shattered. In the disaster she had created, her left arm was paralyzed and deemed useless; amputation was the option to continue on her father’s legacy––with a metal prosthetic arm to replace that lifeless hunk of flesh. And  that day, Katarzyna vowed to transform her failures into triumphs. Accordingly so, Kat invented another set of her father’s lightning whips, but this time, with the uttermost control, extremely advanced technology, and continuos training. Katarzyna literally built her life again from scratch, and soon took that accomplishment to the superhero city of Jump City, USA, where she was determined to make herself known and bring punishment down upon any scum who broke her moral codes and her new country’s laws.

It didn’t take long for that goal to become reality; almost instantly, Katarzyna could be seen on television news, in the papers, all over the internet, and wherever a criminal act was committed. She was given the name “Electrified,” and although the unoriginality bugged her, Kat took it on as her own identity.

She joined the Teen Titans after meeting one of its core members, JaK Sage, but left when her budding hatred for metahumans with “god-given powers” overpowered her desire to rid the world of crime. And in her prejudice, she turned against the Titans, becoming a stark opposition and a self-declared advocate for human rights, all while continuing her own side-activities of busting criminals and locking them away.

But Electrified had never told anyone exactly why she took those drastic steps which drove deeper than just prejudice. She had never even let a hint of the real reason why she had dropped herself lower than she thought she’d ever go, even lower than when she drank the night away in a grubby bar. It was yet another night to remember, one where Katarzyna found herself robbed and beaten when she finally came to from an alcoholic overdoes in an alleyway next to an even more disgusting pub and a string of meth addicts close by, undoubtedly her assailants. Katarzyna would have normally got right up and kicked the sh*t out of those punks; she would have even taken out her whips and electrocuted them to death; she would have gained revenge and let that red hell rage that she tried so hard to control. But no, it wasn’t possible. For when the teenage, hard-cracked girl managed to regain her conscious mind, Backlash realized the impossible: her arm was gone, and that also meant her power to control lightning was gone, to, not to mention the perfectly sliced-off stub of her shoulder and just a little bit of her bicep; a reminder of how uncontrollable Katarzyna’s powers had been first created. Now there was just the hyper-tronic metal plate keeping all her flesh, blood, and bones fused together so not to have any content spilling out the socket. The humming disc on her person was the main piece of circuitry, but without the bright blue glowing tube linked through the center of that metal prosthetic, it was practically useless. However, there could have been more of a chance for her to create some raw currents had she not been victim to such a bewildering shock, figuratively speaking. Electrified’s pride, dignity, and the most humanistic feeling of worth had been stripped clean from her ego.

That was when she sought restitution at none other than S.T.A.R. labs, the very place that had created the great Cyborg’s mechanical parts. But it wasn’t easy––no, it of course had a very expensive price tag, one of which Kat could have never afforded... if she had not sold six blueprints of her father, the inventor Pan Konrad Dolinski. They were the foundation of many, many, improvements and unheard of technological weapons, set out completely in the uttermost pristine detail, the perfect guide for a multi-billion and militarily drastic change. It was, in theory, a whole new universe of mechanics. The trade was mad and Katarzyna not only got a custom build, state of the art platinum prosthetic, but the awesome and frequently fathomed superpower of Magnetokinesis, the power of which could control or generate magnetism, literally readily available in the palm of her hand. Backlash made it clear that she would never approve nor tolerate the proposition of actually fusing her powers into her human self, and therefore, “setting her apart from the rest.” S.T.A.R. Labs agreed to respect her wishes. However, while fitting the prototype into Katarzyna’s arm, something disastrous occurred: her bloodstream––although concretely set apart my the placement disk at the base of her shoulder––began to attack her own flesh with chaotic white blood cells, toxically paired with the electric currents already coursing through the teen’s body. The situation was rapidly plummeting as Katarzyna seized uncontrollably, so convulsively, S.T.A.R. Labs acted in desperate panic and began to pump anti-electric anesthetic into their patient, causing her skin to blacken completely. A mighty collision of electricity, anesthesia, liquid magnetic compounds, blood, flesh, currents, brain, resistance and attraction, positive and negative atoms, south and north magnetic poles deviated the smoothly tanned, electric blue-eyed, blue haired girl with a stare to pierce through anyone’s reassurance into a metallically black, shiny, white haired, white eyed, and alien individual. The change was permanent, so was the deal. But what changed the most for Katarzyna Dolinski was this: the uttermost hatred toward everyone with God-given superpowers had now been joined by the most cruel, spiteful malice for every human as well. It was a war within a half-woman, half-machine, all powerful, singular person. It was Backlash.

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You have a habit of making some very peculiar yet interesting characters. I do wonder why someone like her would even bother with Twilight..

Yay. ^^

I try to stay clear of cliche/common/typical powers, or put my own spin. That's why Liev is a shapeshifter, but can only do so with a mask.

Twilight? Heehee. I wrote a short story about her stopping that one church from burning all those copies of the Qu'ran... it was a comedy, with her solving the problem by telling them to burn Twilight books and how it would be a lot more beneficial to the world as a whole.

She takes pleasure in pointing out the obvious and ending fandom.

Hey, Emblem. I added another power for Katarzyna (electriciity teleportation) and was wondering if you could check it out and approve it. Thanks! ^^

Teleportation powers. they're okay, but if you could, specify them a bit. How long does it take, how fast does she travel if travelling far? Can she do it all the time?

And as you know, don't even try to use them too much. Teleportation can be used as a huge godmod way..

UPDATED ON: 11 / 25 / 11

Only minor revisions have been made, but another look-through would be nice.