Wonder Woman

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Physical Appearance:

Diana stands 6'0" even, with medium-length black hair and blue eyes. She weighs 167lbs.



Diana strikes the rare balance between elite athlete and feminine curves. She has plenty of muscle and keeps a very lean figure, yet also manages to remain feminine in her appearance and bearing. She is very attractive, having accrued many admirers, both within the Justice League and in thousands of teenage boys around the world.



She is most often seen in her formal Amazon gear. This comprises of a red singlet with red, blue and gold with an open bodice. It is sleeveless and sports a stylized, golden eagle across the hemline. She wears a golden tiara that comes down to a point above her brow, and is fixed with red star. Slim, knee-high boots with a white striped down the front finish her costume.



Her regalia includes a magic sword, a shield, and her famous golden Lasso of Truth.



When in civilian clothing, she dresses normally for the occasion and weather, but always very fashionably, with modest tastes. When she is appearing for a formal occasion, such as summits or acting as an ambassador, she wears ceremonial armor and costume similar to her Wonder Woman garb, including a cape edged with stars along the hem.



Personality:

Diana is a fierce warrior who fights with all her heart and doesn't back down. She has supreme courage and the utmost confidence in herself, if not more in her comrades and fellow heroes. She is supportive and understanding of her friends to a fault, demurring any preferential treatment due to her royal or famous status.



It has been said that when you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman. This is because rather uniquely, Diana fights with compassion. She will always seek a peaceful resolution, preferring to extend her hand in friendship -- even to enemies that have wounded her -- before resorting to the sword. She will kill if pushed, but will exhaust every other option first.



Overall, Diana is calm, composed, and generally friendly to everyone. She speaks her mind plainly and unapologetically. She does not hesitate to call out inappropriate conduct in others, and firmly believes it is best to be honest and open in order to solve any problems. While most know her serious and gentle side, she does possess a sly streak of humor that is always understated and surprises when employed.



Above all, Diana conducts herself honorably and is loyal to the Amazons of Themyscira and the cause of justice and peace. She always sees the good in everyone and will attempt to help them find that potential within themselves.



Powers:



Divine Empowerment: Wonder Woman has been gifted many powers by the Greek gods, as follows.



Superhuman Strength: Granted by Demeter, Wonder Woman is as strong as the earth itself, making her the most powerful native of Earth, and considered near-evenly matched to Superman.



Superhuman Durability: Also granted by Demeter, Diana is highly resistant to injury, though not quite on par as Kryptonians. She can ably engage Superman in hand to hand combat and hold her own. Even if wounded, she has a healing factor that mitigates the damage quickly. She has an incredibly high pain threshold, able to endure agonies that have flattened lesser warriors. Bullets can inflict minor to moderate injury, but never lethal.



Enhanced Healing Factor: Also granted by Demeter, Diana heals at an incredible rate, capable of closing wounds within seconds or minutes. This also grants her immunity to poisons, toxins, and disease.



Superhuman Speed and Reflexes: Granted by Hermes, she is able to think, move, and react at superhuman speeds; fast enough to see bullets coming at her and deflect them with her bracelets.



Superhuman Agility: Also granted by Hermes, Diana is incredibly acrobatic and posses peerless balance and coordination.



Superhuman Stamina: When it comes to staying power in a fight, few can match Diana. Her body does not produce lactic acid, meaning she can fight for as long as it takes.



Flight: Also granted by Hermes.



Empathy: Granted by Athena, this gives Diana incredible insight to other's feelings. She knows what they are feeling so well, she feels an empathic connection with them. She quite literally knows what it's like to 'be in your shoes'.



Animal Empathy: Granted by Artemis, Diana can communicate with all animals and instantly calm them by her presence alone. She can also command them at will.



Superhuman Enhanced Senses: Also granted by Artemis, Diana has enhanced vision, hearing, and smell. Notably, this grants her the 'Hunter's Eye' which allows her to always hit her mark.



Abilities:



Peerless Combatant: Diana is extremely proficient in melee and ranged weapons, particularly the sword, bow, and javelin, as well as hand-to-hand. There is no greater fighter than Wonder Woman.



Wisdom of Athena: Granted by Athena, Diana is highly intelligent and insightful, also making her a deadly tactician and strategist. She can lead a war from a chair as easily as she can by leading the first charge.



Multilingual: Possessing a natural gift for languages, she speaks: her native Themysciran, Ancient and Modern Greek, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Hindi.



Diplomacy: Make no mistake, Diana of Themyscira is a diplomat and ambassador first and foremost. Her devout belief in justice and the good in everyone, combined with her sense of empathy and desire to help others, make her incredibly persuasive. She is a gifted leader.



Indomitable Will: Diana never gives up. Never.



Aviation: Diana is a skilled pilot and can operate most jet aircraft, no matter the size. (Helicopters are another story.)



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Bracelets of Submission: A pair of indestructible steel bracelets that all Amazons wear. They serve as a reminder of when they were subjugated by the traitorous Heracles, and they are now worn as a symbol of their freedom. Wonder Woman can deflect all manner of gunfire, projectile weapons and even energy attacks with these, including Kryptonian heat vision.



Lasso of Truth: Forged by Hephaestus from the Golden Girdle of Gaia, the lasso is completely unbreakable, immutable, and indestructible. It can alter its length indefinitely depending on the user's needs. It can restore lost memories, hypnotize, dispell illusions, and people who are in its circumference will be protected from magical attacks. Empowered by the Fires of Hestia, the Lasso forces anyone held by it to tell and understand the absolute truth. It can be exceedingly dangerous to use, as most people cannot live with the truth when their rationalizations have been stripped from them.



Magical Sword and Shield: Diana possess a standard sword and shield which have been imbued with magical energies. This makes them deadly to any beings weak to magic. (i.e. Kryptonians)



Invisible Jet: Exactly what it sounds like, the Invisible Jet is actually a Lansinarian Morphing Disk which is capable of transforming into transparent items. It briefly lost sentience and was locked into a non-functioning jet shape. However, it recently regained its sentience and is once again working. The Jet also renders everyone inside it invisible as well.



History:

In 1,200 BC, the Greek Goddesses drew all the souls of women murdered by men and created the Amazons, save for one -- the soul of the unborn child of the first woman murdered by a man. This soul would be Diana. In the 20th century, Hippolyta was instructed mold the form of a baby girl using clay from the shores of Paradise Island. Six gods of the Pantheon gave the clay life. Each of the six also granted Diana a gift: Demeter, great strength; Athena, wisdom and courage; Artemis, a hunter's heart and a communion with animals; Aphrodite, beauty and a loving heart; Hestia, sisterhood with fire; Hermes, speed and the power of flight.



When Diana was young and the gods decreed an emissary must be sent into Man's World, a contest was held to select the ambassador. Though Diana was forbidden, she disguised herself and participated anyway, handily winning the competition. She became the Amazon's champion and ambassador to the world. Before she left, she was given the Lasso of Truth and Sandals of Hermes.



Diana arrived in Boston, not knowing the language. Her mission was one of peace, but also thwart a plot by Ares, the god of war. After a fight spilled out into the street, she came into the public eye and was given the name Wonder Woman, though she never kept her identity secret.



Shortly thereafter, as her popularity and reknown grew, Wonder Woman was invited to join the JLA. Her sister and pupil, Amazon Donna Troy, -- Wonder Girl -- joined the Teen Titans, which drew support from the older heroes.



Diana had many strange and wonderful adventures both in the world at large and Themyscira itself. Gradually, Themyscira opened up and grew more welcoming to the larger world; this often led to it being put into jeopardy more than once. Eventually the island was destroyed but another rebuilt elsewhere.



As an attempt to make a new start and understand outside life better, Diana eventually took a job a a museum in Gateway City. it is here she met Cassandra Sandsmark, daughter of Helena Sandsmark and Zeus. This girl would eventually become the second Wonder Girl.



During the Infinite Crisis, Superman was being mind controlled by Maxwell Lord. Diana not only grounded Superman once, but twice, and quickly realized that Superman was not in control himself. She raced to Lord, lasso'd him and learned the only way to free Superman would be to kill Maxwell Lord. Diana snapped his neck, proving she'll kill when forced too, but even then did it quickly and painlessly as possible.



However, this action led many to distrust her -- the world at large and Superman and Batman as well. The Amazons became estranged from the world. Brother Eye, as revenge for Lord's death, sought to eliminate the Amazons, launching a full-scale invasion on Themyscira. After fighting off several OMACs alone, Wonder Woman joins the battle for her homeland. A superweapon is used to devastate the invasion force and Diana convinces them to shut it down. Calling upon Athena for help, the goddess moved Themyscira to another dimension. Diana did not join them, instead staying behind, facing the remaining OMACs alone.



After these events, Wonder Woman disappeared from the public eye for a year, searching for Themyscira and reflecting on her life. During this time, the World Court dropped murder charges against her for the death of Maxwell Lord.



Weaknesses:



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Vulnerability to Projectile Weapons: Though she can block even lightning with her bracelets, she can still be shot, impaled, and stabbed, albeit not easily.



Anti-Magic Zones: Diana's powers are, by and large, divinely magical in nature. Any areas where magic does not function will effectively render her mortal.



Personality:



Hot-Tempered: Now and then, her anger gets the best of her. Considering what she is capable of, this is really bad.



Loyalty: While most often a virtue, it has it's drawbacks. Diana has unwavering loyalty to the Amazons. This has led to many a conflict between her and some governments and other superheroes.



Fear:



She greatly fears for the safety of her Amazon sisters and should anything threaten them, she'll dash off immediately to protect them. Any Amazon that dies is a personal burden to her.



Other Information:



She seriously considers horoscopes to be omens of importance. Fortune cookies, however, are not of any concern.



Really hates Plastic Man because he's a pervert.



Has a weakness for Chinese food.



Due to her isolated upbringing, Diana is still learning about things like pop culture. She also operates on a code of honor that can, at times, clash with modern modes of communication. These clashes have gotten fewer as she spends more time in the outside world, but now and then a misunderstanding is bound to happen.



RP Sample:



Diana would be the first to admit she worked more than might be strictly healthy. If only her job were as easy as punching down the occasional super-powered madman. No, Diana was, first and foremost, a diplomat and ambassador and that meant paperwork -- and lots of it. Normally, she didn't mind it; it was her job, after all. Much as the world loved to immortalize her actions in the field of battle, her true purpose lay in answering letters, making speeches, and winning over hearts and minds without her fists.



There were days, however, where the endless stream of papers and words and faces gave her a pounding headache. Days like those made her wish for an escape, a distraction, even in the form of some super-powered madman.



That is why she accepted Kara's invitation to go clothes shopping together.



The two heroines stepped inside an enormous mall, dressed simply and discretely in Diana's case, and bright and flirty in Kara's. The enormous scale of such buildings always left Diana a bit in awe. Not even the greatest temples of Themyscira could match the sheer size and weight of the huge shopping mall. It still galled her that such grandeur was spent on commercial interests. The vaulted inner courtyard should be immortalizing some noble virtue or great battle, not discounted footwear.



Still, Kara seemed excited -- she'd been chattering non-stop since they'd left HQ. Diana trailed along behind her eager young friend, passing the perfume counter.



One stern look from the warrior princess of Themyscira made the perfume peddlers stop dead in their tracks.



Then a rather gauzy blouse was thrust into Diana's hands. It was almost sheer, clearly not suitable for hiding the color of her undergarments, much less withstand battle.



"It's... nice," Diana said slowly. "But it would draw too much attention. What about this?"



Selecting a slim black turtleneck, she held it up for consideration. As Kara extolled the pros and cons of the top, Diana noticed from the corner of her eye that a crowd had started to gather. She had been recognized.



"Excuse me, Kara," Diana said, politely. Refolding and restoring the shirt to the shelf, Diana strode over to a group of women that had been gawking at her from the aisle. They stared, wide-eyed, as she approached.



"Good afternoon, ladies," Diana said, smiling comfortingly. "Would you like to take a picture?" She noticed several of them had their phones out, which often doubled as cameras these days.



There was a second of hesitation -- then they were all clamoring with thanks and requests of someone to hold the camera while they stood with Wonder Woman. Apologies for disturbing her were tumbled in among questions about how she cared for her hair and what skin lotion she used.



Laughing slightly, Diana suggested they all take a group picture. Motioning Kara over -- and gently whispering an apology for the inconvenience to their day off -- the young Kryptonian was given the task of taking a picture on every single phone. The ladies, ages ranging from 21 to the mid fifties, were delighted, their grins wide and their thrill infectious.



"To victory," Diana said as Kara held up the first phone. The women laughed, unaware that Diana spoke with complete seriousness. There were no victories on a battlefield -- merely survivors. To be here, in this palace of commerce, taking pictures with those she strove to protect and inspire -- this is what Diana fought for.



No battle could ever deliver the true prize of peace.

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