Black Alice

Black Alice (Scenesys ID: 7913)
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"Well, excuse the &*@! out of me for not wanting to be a zombie-slave. "
Profile
Full Name:	Lori Zechlin
Gender:	Female
Species:	Magician
Theme:	DC (FC)
Occupation:	Vigilante
Citizenship:	United States of America
Residence:	Gotham City
Education:	Mystic Arts and High School
Status:	Dropped
Groups:	Mystic Arts-OOC
Other Information
Apparent Age:	18	Actual Age:	18
Date of Birth	12 February 2009	Actor:
Height:	165 cm	Weight:	50 kg
Hair Color:	Black	Eye Color:	Blue
Theme Song:	"Season of the Witch" by Donovan

Profile

Lori Zechlin aka Black Alice is a teenage vigilante and magic-user. While her powers are potent she does not have the greatest level of control.

She was raised in Ohio and she became a vigilante when her parents died in a car crash. She has associated with several groups such as Shadowpact, The Secret Six, and the Sisterhood of the Sleight Hand. While she is generally considered a social outcast among her peers she is capable of working well with others when she has to.

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Description

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This teenager is absolutely all attitude and despite only being 165 cm in height she strikes an imposing figure. In a word, Goth, and not a poseur Goth either. Her black hair is up in untamed pigtail. Her ears are pierced, almost always sporting gothic cross earrings and often an assortment of hoops or studs. Her makeup befits her goth styling, featuring black eyeliner and black lipstick.

Her outfit is stereotypical goth. A mesh and leather black top with a broken black leather heart across the top and black leather keeping her street legal. A lot of bare midriff is showing below that top and above the black miniskirt, held up with a black belt. She has a pair of black arm wraps that extend up past her elbows and can not be called gloves. Her leggings are much like her top, a combination of black leather and mesh. Finishing it all off are black stompy boots.

History

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Lori Zechlin aka Black Alice is a teenage vigilante and magic-user. While her powers are potent she does not have the greatest level of control.

She was raised in Dayton Ohio and was a bit of a misfit and outsider from a very young age. She never really seemed like the other kids, seeing the world a bit more askew than all of them. She did have some friend, such as her best friend Dawn who went to elementary school with her.

Not that Dawn was an excellent influence, they both ended up going Goth together when they got into their Tweens and formed a 'coven' together. That was one of the first (and only) places that Lori really felt like she belonged. She also discovered she had the beginnings of actual magical talent, much to Dawn's dismay. Lori didn't know she was really just borrowing others abilities.

When her parents died in a car wreck on her thirteenth birthday things really went to hell, literally. Lori cried out for help, pleading to all the powers both light and dark and one of them answered her. She has no idea that anything actually intervened, and still doesn't know that it wasn't just luck and seatbelts that saved her life.

She emerged even more dysfunctional. Now she was in a foster home and the little orphan girl back in her school where she was already an outsider. Unsurprisingly because kids are cruel more bullying than ever before started to haunt her. Also her budding magical abilities really started to blossom, if uncontrolled, and her 'coven' kicked her out because of her 'dark' energy. When you break it down though Dawn was quite jealous.

The foster relationship didn't really turn out great either, her fellow foster kids were just a money source for the couple who took them in and they didn't really like Lori's goth inclinations. Which led to Lori deciding she didn't need any of that crap and running away when she was fourteen.

She has spent the first three years and change being morally ambiguous and a vigilante. Trying to learn her powers and cycling in and out of several very fringe groups. Shadowpact. The Secret Six. The Sisterhood of the Sleight of Hand. None of them really lasted very long but they each taught her something and helped her hone her abilities to borrow and hold magic. The time in The Secret Six was probably her favorite if she had to pick one, it was the closest to a family she had since her parents died.

She didn't make a lot of friends in the mystic community during those first years, no one likes their tricks borrowed even if it is passing and quite temporary. Her rough attitude and insulting tone didn't help at all either.

Very recently she fell in with the Mystic Arts and took an offer from Doctor Strange to learn more formally from him and part of that group. She knows she needs more control of her powers, though she won't admit that.

Personality

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Maladjusted: Lori was a death worshipping Goth misanthrope just coming into her powers before her life even started to get really messed up. When she was barely a teenager and her family had a tragic automobile accident leaving her hurt and her family dead. She never ended up in a situation one would call normal from there on out. Vigilante groups. Mystic groups. An outsider in most communities. Her normal is just not other people's normal.

Bitter: It may be her parents death in that car crash. It may be how messed up the world is with the rich and poor, have and have nots, and mystic masters and petty larcenists. She is the larcenist in that equation, though she prefers to think of herself as the Robin Hood of the mystic arts. At the end of the day though she is bitter and angry a lot of the time, which blends nicely with her Gothness.

Opportunistic: Life has never handed her anything on a silver platter. This means she learned that you have to take what you want when it presents itself. This also means her morals are flexible and occasionally grey. She isn't one of those justice dorks. That said she is a good person at her core, she won't go robbing people randomly. She will also just take moments of happiness when they come.

Abilities

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HARD TO KILL
The entity that saved her from her car wreck that killed her parents has an investment. It either saved her from death or brought her back to life during that car wreck. It has absolutely shown itself willing to bring her back to life or spare her from death other times. Alice is also not at all aware of any of this. Until the entity gets what it wants Alice won't stay dead.

MAGICAL USURPATION
Black Alice is magical but with a very interesting twist.

She has the ability to as one might say borrow (others very much might say steal) other magical powers. Honestly though it is borrow because those powers always snap back to the owner. While she is borrowing those powers she gains all of it's skills and the powers themselves. This of course means the owner of those abilities is temporarily without them.

This does not make her very popular in magical circles.

To date there is no known limit to the distance at which she can temporarily borrow others abilities.

To make matters even more annoying to the magical community she has even been known to borrow the abilities of more than one magical being at once.

This ability is consciously controlled by Black Alice not an automatic theft (or borrowing if you prefer, Alice does).

(OOC: Consent based use only).

Skills

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OCCULTISM

Lori has significant hours devoted at this point to understanding mystic and magical arts. She has been exposed to an extremely wide variety of other people's magic through the use of her ability and has had to train herself in how to use each of them most effectively. She still has an endless amount of mysticism to learn of course, but that is the nature of magic right.

Resources

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HOME BASE
She has a home base in The Secret Six house in the suburbs of Gotham still and while the team has pretty much retired from Vigilantism and is laying low these days it is still somewhere she can go where she has a room to store her stuff.

INCOME
When someone can borrow the powers of the world's greatest mystics one doesn't really need to work a 9-5 job to 'acquire' some money.

MYSTIC ARTS

Her current alignment with Dr. Strange's organization provides a level of resources and support for her studies.

Weaknesses

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DARK DEBT
Lori isn't aware of what or who saved her from death in the car accident that claimed her parents. They are not a force of light or good though and eventual the devil will get their due.

DISTRUST
It is really hard to trust someone who is borrowing your powers. Lori gets major distrust and side eye in the magical communities. This has persisted despite her being accepted as a student of the Sorcerer Supreme.

ODD EDUCATION
Is it something someone learned in High School or College? Is it not related to the mystic arts? Is it something you can't pick up on the streets or in a pseudo-paramilitary organization?

Then Black Alice doesn't know it. She doesn't have a high school education. She doesn't have a college degree. She has no GED. She probably has a degree in magic, but put her in real world scenarios and there are severe gaps.

POWER LIMITS
Black Alice's signature ability is not without limitations (much to everyone's relief).

Once she borrows someone else's power the clock starts ticking on how long she can hold onto the power she has temporarily borrowed before it slips back out of her grasp.

The more powerful the magical ability she has borrowed is, or if she tries to get super creative and borrow more than one at once, the shorter she will be able to hold onto it or them.

The upper limit on how many she can pull at once has been demonstrated to be four at this time.

To make matters more difficult to her, which honestly she deserves some difficulty for how rude this power can be to other magical people, how long she can hold on varies even when used on the same magical entity. Which means it is liable to leave Alice when dramatically appropriate, or at least the fates seem to believe so.

In general she can hold someone like Doctor Strange for about 30-60 seconds. Someone like Tracy-13 for an easier minute or even more. Doctor Fate or someone of his caliber for ten to twenty seconds. None of these are terribly long periods of time, but in a pinch every moment counts.

She can't keep going borrowing power after power either. Each theft takes a toll. The more powerful the energy she takes and holds the more tiring it is. This is subjective and left to dramatic appropriateness. But she is not an energizer bunny. She needs breaks and recovery time.

Which leads to the problems when she tries to pull in the abilities and skill to use it of a magical being greatly beyond her ability to comprehend it can have grave consequences. Alien Gods and Demon Lords of Hell caliber practitioners whose skills are so foreign and powerful can render Black Alice catatonic for a dramatically appropriate amount of time.

TRUST ISSUES
The trust street goes two ways really.

She isn't trusted. She doesn't trust easy.

This goes beyond her powers though and the black sheep status they have granted her.

She was a bit of a social outcast in school. Her friends turned out to be jealous and not trustworthy. She lost her parents at a young age. She was forced to grow up too fast and too soon with very untrustworthy organizations trying to use her.

None of this led to her trusting easy or fast. She needs consistent proof and even then she may be looking for the catch.

Which means she doesn't make friends easy.

Which means people don't trust her.

Dangerous cycle.

Logs

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Autograph by a Star	November 5th, 2019	Signatures and rays of sunshine at Rain Day Books
Age of Darkness: Celebration of Life	October 12th, 2019	It was the Memorial Celebration for Superman, and it was a sombre event for everyone to be a part of.
Non-Revolving Doors	September 27th, 2019	Morrigan can finally get back into Sanctum Santorum and she meets Hogarth. Plus Alice towards the end!
So Maybe A Little Heads Up, Eh Fella	September 26th, 2019	Rogue and Kitty check on the events at the Sanctum, and ask about Jeremy Larkin, then warn Xaviers he is a threat and rush back
Rush Hour at the Magic Box	September 7th, 2019	Business is booming at the Magic Box as Black Alice, Hogarth, Zachary Zatara and Rupert Giles discuss the weighty problems of the wizarding world, and Colette buys a book.
Sanctum Delivery	August 24th, 2019	Black Alice orders an arcane artifact with ASAP Delivery. Gets a visit from Kally.
Party crashing	August 1st, 2019	Magic folks talk at a party
Alice, Who The **** Is Alice	July 25th, 2019	Alice needs a drink. Unfortunately, Hela doesn't serve alcohol to minors, but she does lend a listening ear.
Oh, it's You	July 18th, 2019	Wolfsbane and Black Alice encounter each other for the second time, this time in a place that still holds mutants, but not the same one as before (meant to be 7/18/19)
All Is Not Lost	July 9th, 2019	Summary needed
Tag. You're It.	June 19th, 2019	Black Alice manages to chase down an artifact she lost to a demon without being smote by the X-Men who mostly seemed confused.
Mage, Mage, CAT!	May 28th, 2019	Summary needed
While Strange Is Away...	May 25th, 2019	Lara stops by the Sanctum Santorum to talk about spheres, and finds Kitty Pryde and Black Alice.
A Smash and Stab Interrupts a Stash and Grab	May 12th, 2019	Summary needed
Bump in the Night	May 1st, 2019	Summary needed
What A Random Encounter!	April 21st, 2019	Summary needed
Magical Beginnings	April 19th, 2019	Summary needed

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