REAL NAME: Billie Marston
AGE: 30
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Motor City, MI
ASSOCIATES/ACCOMPLICES/MINIONS:
AFFILIATIONS: Optimum Inc., The
Valkyries
BACKGROUND: Billie Marston was a typical college
student going to U of M. Majoring in business, it was her goal to
become an executive at a Motor City based company like Optimum Inc.
She interned there for a while and made some good connections, and it seemed
as if when she graduated a job may be offered to her. Life was good.
But life did not turn out that way. Billie
was dating Jeff Joginder, a bio-chemist who believed he had come up with
a catalyst that would activate someone’s “power gene”. His work was
supposedly brilliant although most of it was over Billie’s head.
He was working with a series of students as his test subjects but was one
short, so he asked Billie to help him out. Billie did, more to humor
him than in the hopes of gaining powers, and took the injection.
To her surprise the catalyst worked on her! She developed the ability
to control kinetic force. Jeff was elated at first, but that elation
soon wore off. It seemed that the catalyst worked only on Billie
and no one else even though the study was expanded to include a thousand
test subjects from numerous walks of life. Billie broke up with Jeff
after a while when it became obvious he was more interested in her power
than in him. After graduating from U of M in the top ten percentile
of her class she took some time to learn how to use her power by going
to Pure Power’s Plant, a school that teaches paranormals how to use their
abilities. Afterwards she went to Optimum Inc. to get her promised
position. Only the person who had promised her the position had retired
and could not help her. Billie was more than a little desperate.
She had student loans to pay as well as PPP’s bill. Then she discovered
that Optimum Impact’s super hero, Optima, was being “let go” so she took
a chance.
And Optimum Impact was born.
Optimum Impact is currently
an active member of Motor City's Valkyries.
PERSONALITY: Billie is the perfect corporate representative;
she is bright, personable and very photogenic. In private she is
a little less like the corporate rep that she portrays in front of the
cameras but much of her enthusiasm is genuine. Billie does believe
in using her powers to help people, but she sees herself as a realist and
knows that she could not do her job without Optimum Inc.’s backing.
Billie desperately wants to be taken seriously.
She is an intelligent woman with a lot to offer a company like Optimum
Inc. Unfortunately due to the fact that her job consists primarily
of wearing the company logo on a flashy costume there are many in the company
that pay little attention to her suggestions.
POWERS: Optimum Impact is able to generate and control
kinetic force. She can use this ability to generate powerful bolts
of physical energy, create a force field to redirect or neutralize kinetic
force coming at her (like bullets, runaway cars, etc.) and she can employ
it to allow her to leap great distances. She wears a special costume
that helps to refract non-kinetic energy but she relies on her natural
agility to avoid such attacks. She also wears a pair of protective
goggles that automatically darken when exposed to bright light and are
made of a bullet resistant material.
Billie has a degree in Business with a minor in
Communications. She has also taken courses at the Motor City Police
Academy and is a graduate of Pure Power’s Plant.
APPEARANCE: Billie stands five foot nine, she has
an athletic frame but still has a nice feminine shape that she has carefully
worked to achieve. She has long blonde hair she wears in a pony tail
and hazel eyes. Her features lean closer to “pretty” rather than
“beautiful” but her bright smile is a definite asset.
As Optimum Impact she wears a dark green
costume with white trim, with the company logo on her upper left breast
and back.