FROM THE FOLDER FRIDAY - HARRIER

Another character originally conceived of as a Champions character, I never finished her write-up which is why you see and incomplete stat block for her. This is demonstrated most by the fact that her powers inclure slashing claws on her wrists but there are no attacks in her powers section.

The drawing is a freehand drawing, done by me, likely in the 90s sometime and clearly during the time when I was learning and experimenting with severe reflective textures. I recall drawing her in a way that heavily stylized, perhaps inspired by the comics of the time, thus her very unnrealistic anatomy, despite being a human being. Her face is not intended to look natural as her costume includes a facemask, done in a sort of artistic representation of femininity. This was to protect her face as she was a model and actress.

HARRIER

Eveline Brightbird, hi-tech human

F    EX (20)

A    EX (20)

S    GD (10)

E    EX (20)

R    GD (20)

I     EX (20)

P    RM (30)

Health: 70

Karma: 70

Resources: RM (30)

Popularity: 25

Known Powers: 

Body Armor: Harrier wears a protective costume that provides her with Excellent (20) protection from physical and energy attacks.

Gliding: Retractable winglets on her suit allow her to glide with Excellent (20) speed. 

Talons: Harrier's costume includes a pair of retractable steel talons, one on each hand. These talons are made of Incredible (40) Material Strength steel and inflict Excellent (20) edged damage.

Infrared Vision: Good ability to see in darkness.

Protected Senses: Lenses in her face mask provide her with Remarkable (30) protection of flashes, bright light, and other visions-effecting attacks. 

Stealth Camouflage: The material of her costume is normally a reflective black with a transparent section that shows her fair skin as her bir icon. On command, the suit can shift to a solid, flat black texture that aid stealth by absorbing light. While in this configuration, she has a +2CS when attempting to sneak.

Talents: Criminology, Finance, Martial Arts A, B, and C, Security, Drive, French, German, Spanish, Chinese. 

Contacts: Brightbird Modelling, Interpol, FBI, Power Man, Iron Fist

Background: 

Eveline was born to an upstate New York family of means, The Brightbird Family. Her father, howard, and her mother, Delores, cochaired the Brightbird Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping to provide opportunities to children of underpivileged families and at risk youth. Affored the best education and opportunities, Eveline inherrited her parents' altruistic nature and put in much of her time with the foundation, when not pursuing her own academic and extracurricular acitivies.

Eveline manged to finish high school already having started a career as a model and continued with this even when she went off to college where she acquired a degree finances and business. As she rose to fame and status as a highly sougth after and paid model and part-time actress, she never lost sight of the morals she had learned as a child, spending time helping others when she could. She also maintained a strong personal cotnrol over her finances and invested heavily.

When her parents were killed in an accident, she inherrited the family fortune, the business and the responsibilities. She also inherrited a suspicion that her parents' deaths were not an accident. This was only increased when several of the foundations partners attempted a hostile takeover. Eveline was able to halt the takeover but she grew increasingly suspicious of those whom her parents had once trusted as coworkers, partners and even friends.

While on a shoot in France, an attempt was made on Eveline's life, puttng her in the hospital. While she recovered, another attempt was made at a takeover of the Brightbird Foundation. This time, she barely defended the company and decided that she would need to take more drastic measures. She spent her time recovering, planning her strategy and thus the customed hero of Harrier was born.

Utilizing her family's and her own personal fortune, she had a high-tech costume designed and built for her. While the suit was in development and under construction, she doubled down on her own physical training as well as studying in various fields that would aid her in detective and investigative work. Som of this study took her to New York where she worked with street-level heroes, even fighting alongside Power Man and Iron Fist. Her wealth and status also afforded her opportunities to gain contacts in both the FBI and Interpol.

Once she was fully equipped and felt her skills were up to the task, she was able to investigate the partners of the foundation only to discover that they had secretly bee utilizing the resources of Brightwood to collect, traffic and exploit the very children the Foundation had been set up to help. She learned that the partners had been using the children they kidnapped in experiments to create superpowered beings, though their experiments had yet to produce anything of real consequence. 

Eveline, as Harrier located their facility, attacked it and managed to bring stop the operation though she could not bring them to proper justice as doing so would ruin the foundation. Instead, she used her contacts with Interpol and the FBI to have the partners taken into custody and quietly put away. Much to Eveline's dismay, the children who had been subjected to the experiments, those that had survived at least, were not allowed to return to any families they still had and were, instead, taken into government custody and care.

This initial sortie as Harrier left Eveline with mixed feelings. While she had succeeded in the stopping the partners and saving Brightbird Foundation, she was left with an unsettling feeling over the final status of the abducted children. From then on, she committed herself to a stronger sense of justice and dedication to making wgong-doers pay, herself. She would not rely on the clumsy wheels of justice to do the right thing. Future operations would see her helping victims through Brightbird which over time expanded its aid to people in need of all ages and requirements. This afforded her a better way to make sure that those wronged by criminals would not be further victimized by the systems put in place to help them.