Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Villain: Evil Gecko

Name: Amara Marilyn Thompson
Alias: Evil Gecko
Age: 23
Appearance: 5'4" tall, with light brown hair and soft brown eyes, a slightly square face, and a broad-shouldered, muscular build.
Job: Thief

Amara grew up in a thoroughly middle-class family, graduated high school, went to college... and graduated into a recession. With no jobs and no prospects, she turned her powers -- strength, durability, quick-healing, extraordinary dexterity, and the ability to cling to any solid surface -- to robbing the bankers and insurance executives and other CEOs who (she felt) had collapsed they system for their own profits. She has a particular hatred for venture capitalists, and will cheerfully attempt to rob them of anything they might actually value. 

Recently, she's been working with a fixer named Spider, who has a particular talent for noticing opportunities and pulling together jobs, and has teamed up with Antaeus and the Witch of the Mists to pull off several recent heists, with some notable success. While she still considers herself a private contractor, she isn't blind to the fact that they pulled of some scores as a team that she wouldn't have managed on her own -- or to the fact that they're all relying on Spider to move the goods afterwards, and get them fair cuts of the profits. 

Amara isn't entirely non-violent, but she prefers the sort of jobs where she's in and out before anyone even notices. She's learned to pick locks, disable security systems, and infiltrate areas that she can't break into outright. She'll retreat to avoid combat, and counsel her team to do the same; better to leave the job incomplete than get hurt, or hurt anyone else. If pressed, she'll point out that it's not just squeamishness on her part; injured guards -- let alone civilians -- attract the sort of attention that no sensible enhanced criminal should want.


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