Lady Luck
From Champions MUSH
| Lady Luck |
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| Alignment |
| Heroes |
| Secret Identity |
| Amy McLaughlin |
| Affiliation |
| Black Sheep Samaritans |
Lady Luck is a superhero who has lived with a very public identity, ever since she foiled a bank robbery at the age of 5, though she is less well know in the USA than in her native Canada. She is equally happy with that name and her legal one, Amy McLaughlin, whether in or out of costume, though she dislike another one the tabloids have unkindly dubbed her with: Dumb Luck.
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Description
As Lady Luck: Standing only 5'1" tall, this young woman is seldom without a smile on her cherubic face, and her the twinkle in eyes is echoed in the the dancing light motes which always surround her, shifting colours with her mood. She wears her chestnut hair swept back behind her ears, but she is always pushing it back again as it falls forward.
She's wearing a bodysuit which is deep purple on her arms and legs as if wearing long gloves and boots, but the torso is silvered and reflects the lights dancing about her. The right "glove" extends onto the chest where it makes a half-star motif with the silver. She has no mask.
As Amy: Standing only 5'1" tall, this young woman is seldom without a smile on her cherubic face, and her the twinkle in eyes is echoed in the the dancing light motes which always surround her, shifting colours with her mood. She wears her chestnut hair swept back behind her ears, but she is always pushing it back again as it falls forward.
She usually dresses casually: one typical outfit is a T-shirt with the caption "Feeling lucky, punk?" tucked into jeans; both are tight over her distinctly feminine curves. On her feet are well-worn sneakers.
Origin
Amy was born on June 2nd, 2035, in a suburb of Montreal, Canada. She has always been a lucky girl, as long as she can remember, ever since when, as a child, she was caught in the middle of a bank robbery. Quite unaware of what was going on (the poor child was not the sharpest knife in the drawer) she bent down to pick up a old coin that rolled out from where the safety deposit boxes were being looted. When she stood back up, her head accidentally bumped the hand of the second robber, causing his gun to discharge, the bullet of which ricocheted off the teller's nameplate, careened off the security camera (turning it to catch the robber's face after he tore off his mask to tend to the tongue he had just bitten), and glanced off the manager pocket watch, squarely striking a light fixture which promptly dropped, knocking the miscreant loopy! The first robber slipped on the fragments of the fixture as he tried to escape, knocking himself out. The girl was hailed as a hero in the papers, and has never parted with her "lucky penny" since!
Since then her life has been a happy one: her father's failing business turned around, and she has had an almost idealized childhood (despite her sparkling aura marking her out), not counting her superheroic exploits: she keeps happening upon "misunderstandings" which she tries to help resolve. The media, unsurprisingly, took a particular interest in the photogenic child hero. In 2055 she moved to Colonial Bay, following her boyfriend, who was starting university here. Though that relationship ended (amicably), she trusts that the universe had some point in bringing her here, and so is happy to remain.
Powers
Amy is quite simply immensely lucky. She can to some extent concentrate luck, good or bad, and apply it with a certain intent in mind, but ultimately she never has exact control of the outcome, nor is the luck functioning ever a certainty.
The light motes which surround Amy are clearly connected to her power in some way - when she concetrates her luck they swarm at the target and sometimes change color - but they're nature is unknown. It's been suggested that they are the effect of some very unlikely things happening at subatomic level, and thus a side effect of her power not a manifestation of a luck-control power or the like.
Personality
Amy is cheerful, friendly, outgoing, and eternally optimistic, quite childlike both in her trusting nature and in her typically short attention span. She is honestly puzzled why people don't get along, and tries to fix that problem. Her faith that everything will work out can help her see things through despite her flightiness.
Amy wants to have a good time, and to make sure other people have a good time: not necessarily in a hedonistic way though; she sees crime-fighting as another way to make the world a nicer place to be. She trusts to Fate, and so hardly plans ahead at all, taking each day as it comes; indeed, she's optimistic to the point of overconfidence: the universe has long been good to her, and she's come to expect it. She's also a scatterbrained ditz, and her good fortune has given her little cause to overcome this flaw. She lives in a world which is nice to her, and she's nice back.
Relations
Amy has an elder brother in Toronto, and a younger brother and sister still living Montreal with her parents. Though her siblings are rather jealous of her fame and good luck, the family gets on with her improbably well.
She is still close with les Champions du Québec, a superhero group she was associated with when she lived in Montreal, though they haven't kept in touch as much as she'd like.
She is friendly with most heroes in Colonial Bay - indeed with most people generally! - but is closest to Eleven, with whom she is having a romantic relationship, to general puzzlement. Yutaka has also shown an interest in her, and it was all over the Canadian papers that she and Flambeau were a thing a couple of years back. The boyfriend who brought her to Colonial Bay, however, seems to have faded out of the picture.
History
Over the summer of 2055 Amy set up an antiques store, Lucky Finds, in Pennyroyal Lane. Since then she has divided her time between running her increasingly prosperous business and helping fight crime (she never goes on patrol or such though - she just trusts she'll be where she's needed when she's needed). Other than her relationship with Eleven the past year has changed Amy very little - but then she's so happy-go-lucky she's not easily changed.
In the summer of 2057 Chalk and Cheese stole the coin that gave Amy her powers, and a few weeks later her powers (and her distinctive lights) vanished. It remains to be seen if the two incidents are connected.
