Post by Nancy Adams on Jun 1, 2017 19:31:24 GMT
Character Name: Nancy Janice Adams
Fandom/ Original Character: OC [The Arcade Experience; An original comic]
Nickname(s)/ Alias: Nance, Lady Coleco
Birthday: August 23, 1962
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Canonical Job: Arcade Attendant, Pianist/singer, Superhero/Police Officer
Personality: Having been psychologically attacked by her mother when she was younger, Nancy has some pretty bad confidence problems. These tend to be hidden under her large ego. Her confidence problems, coupled with things various people kept telling her, tend to make her think that she will never amount to anything and that she will never be able to do anything to actually help people. It was because of this that Nancy decided, not too long after she was given her powers, that she wanted to become a hero and help others.
Unless Nancy doesn’t like the person in question, she’ll risk life and limb in order to keep a person safe. Even though her job as a Video Soldier only applies in the Video World, she feels that it is her job to keep people safe.
Personality: Having been psychologically attacked by her mother when she was younger, Nancy has some pretty bad confidence problems. These tend to be hidden under her large ego. Her confidence problems, coupled with things various people kept telling her, tend to make her think that she will never amount to anything and that she will never be able to do anything to actually help people. It was because of this that Nancy decided, not too long after she was given her powers, that she wanted to become a hero and help others.
Unless Nancy doesn’t like the person in question, she’ll risk life and limb in order to keep a person safe. Even though her job as a Video Soldier only applies in the Video World, she feels that it is her job to keep people safe.
Being left alone is something that Nancy absolutely hates. She has an irrational fear that she is going to be completely isolated from the world around her and that even the people she considers to be friends will abandon her.
One of Nancy’s more annoying traits is that she constantly wants to know what is happening around her. It doesn’t matter if it is any of her business or not, she’ll want to know about it. Keeping information from her will, without a doubt, annoy her. If the information that was kept from her was something that is important to her, such as a friend being in the hospital or Coleco coming out with a new game, then she will become very angry and can end up being a bit cross with whoever kept the information from her.
If Nancy decides that she doesn’t like someone, she’ll be incredibly leery around them. There will be times when she can be a complete asshole to them, even when they don’t necessarily deserve it. She can be like an angry hornet and not quit attacking people that she doesn’t like, either verbally, through threats, or physically. The more unfortunate part of being on her “shit list”, so to speak, is the fact that it is incredibly hard to get off of. Even if she doesn't hate someone, she is incredibly easy to get mad.
In order to get back on Nancy’s good side one would have to do plenty of things that would make her life or the lives of the people she cares about better and they would have to do them in front of her.
Another one of her more annoying traits is her sheer stubbornness. Once she decides that she wants to do something it can be rather difficult to get her to stop. Just telling her to not do something will not work unless a few people she likes gang up on her and that doesn’t always work. The best way to get her to not do something is to make her physically unable to do the action [ie. Tie her up, among things].
As for getting her to see that she’s wrong about something, either get other people she likes to agree with you and have them tell her as well or just let her figure out she was wrong on her own.
Nancy constantly hungers for attention. Getting ignored or having her spotlight be taken from her are things that she doesn’t like. Attention is something that she’ll do practically anything in order to receive, as long as it wouldn’t go against her moral code to get. Being ignored tends to make her very upset and usually leads to her doing something that will get her or others in trouble.
Powers: All of Nancy's powers come from technology. Without her tools, she's just a regular person from 1985.
Her lightest weapon, power wise, to use would be her modified Coleco Telstar Arcade light revolver. While it originally was just a realistic looking toy gun, but it was modified to shoot bullets made of energy.
Her better weapon would be her specially modified ColecoVision controller, which allows her to teleport and change any object into any other object.
The biggest downfall of both of these weapons is that they use her own energy in order to operate. If she uses her weapons, especially the controller, too much it can result in her becoming very ill or even dead. For instance, while she can make anything with her controller, if she made a whole building with it, she would get I'll. Also, if she used her powers to do something drastic, like create a living being or change a living being, she would get deathly ill.
Another issue with her controller is how it works. It uses a series of codes for the different things that it can do and Nancy does not have many of the codes memorized or written down, so it is easy for her to mess up when making something new.
Her lightest weapon, power wise, to use would be her modified Coleco Telstar Arcade light revolver. While it originally was just a realistic looking toy gun, but it was modified to shoot bullets made of energy.
Her better weapon would be her specially modified ColecoVision controller, which allows her to teleport and change any object into any other object.
The biggest downfall of both of these weapons is that they use her own energy in order to operate. If she uses her weapons, especially the controller, too much it can result in her becoming very ill or even dead. For instance, while she can make anything with her controller, if she made a whole building with it, she would get I'll. Also, if she used her powers to do something drastic, like create a living being or change a living being, she would get deathly ill.
Another issue with her controller is how it works. It uses a series of codes for the different things that it can do and Nancy does not have many of the codes memorized or written down, so it is easy for her to mess up when making something new.
Weaknesses:
- Her impulsivity tends to get the better of her. A lot.
- There is very little filter on what she says. If it pops into her mind, she will probably say it unless it's pertaining to her painful past.
- She has an addiction to video games and a bad allergy to cats.
- Her moodiness and restlessness can cause her problems.
- People can find her egotistical nature to be grating.
- She'd give her own life in order to save the lives of others.
Strengths:
- She will protect anyone who she feels needs it.
- Fighting is something that she is pretty good at. She's had a lot of experience.
- While she doesn't have all of the codes for her controller memorized, the ones that she does help her quite a bit. She tends to fight with an iron or steel rod.
- Usually, she's actually pretty nice to her friends.
- She's a pretty brave and usually isn't afraid to enter a dangerous situation.
- Singing, gaming, and playing piano are things that she excels at.
History: Nancy was born in 1962 as Nancy Baehr. She would often tell her that she was a terrible child, that no one wanted her around and they never would, and that she’d never amount to anything. There also were plenty of times where she would either hurt Nancy or straight up neglect her. The thing with Gwen is that she doesn’t show this side of herself in public. To everyone on the outside, she’s a great mother and a nice, yet average, person.
When Nancy was twelve years-old, her father disappeared from his workplace and was presumed to be dead. In Nancy’s mind this had to have been caused by her mother, since Gwen and Magnus had a falling out not too long before his disappearance. It wasn’t long before she approached her mother and asked about her missing father. This only resulted in her getting beaten until she managed to get away from her mother.
She was found in an alley and taken to the hospital by a good Samaritan. While she had some bad cuts and bruises, she was alright and was sent back home once she was better.
When she was 16, she dropped out of school and her step father, who she began to love, helped her run away by quietly getting her an apartment in the slums, known as Sunset View. Here, she made friends, got a job as an arcade attendant, and started a band.
At age 22, she beat the high score in a game called 'Video Soldier', which turned out to be a secret recruiting tool for a group of people known as the Video Army, who defend a place that they call the Video World [Natives actually call the planet Arcadia.]. This is where Lady Coleco was born. It was Nancy's alias for both protecting the Video World and Hartford. She quickly became a beloved superhero for Sunset View.
Items in Pocket: Wallet, Coleco Electronic Quarterback, Her special Colecovision controller
Item Taken From Home: Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 with its amp.
