Siryn for Champions
Real name: Theresa Rourke
Other known aliases: None
Occupation: Full time hero, former student and professional criminal.
Current group affiliation: None
Past group affiliations: X-Force, Fallen Angels. Former ally of Black Tom Cassady and the Juggernaut.
Major enemies: Juggernaut, Sentinels, Feral, Magneto.
First appearance: Spider-Woman #37
Origin:
Description: Theresa is an attractive woman in her mid 20s with red hair and blue eyes. She is 5'6'' tall and weighs 112 lbs.
Characteristics
6 STR -4
18 DEX 24
13 CON 6
9 BODY -2
13 INT 3
13 EGO 6
13 PRE 3
16 COM 3
5 PD 4
5 ED 2
4 SPD 12
4 REC 0
26 END 0
19 STUN 0
Characteristics Cost: 57
Powers, Skills and Equipment
12 Sonar,Powers don't work if gaged, in a vacuum or under
water.(-1/4)
24 EC (Sonics) (30),Powers don't work if gaged, in a vacuum or
under water.(-1/4)
21a) 2D6 Flash,Hearing Group,Linked(-1/2),"to 7d6 EB.",1/2 END
(+1/4),Area Effect(+1),radius 3
17b) 3D6 Flash,Hearing Group,Linked(-1/2),"to 11D6 EB.",0 END
(+1/2) 0
25c) 23" Flight (Sonics),x16 Non-Combat 5
5 5 Flash Defense,Hearing Group
9 5/5 Force Field (Sonics),Powers don't work if gaged, in a
vacuum or under water.(-1/4),Linked(-1/2),"to Flight.",0
END(+1/2) 0
47 MP (Sonics) (70),Incantation(-1/4),Powers don't work if
gaged, in a vacuum or under water.(-1/4)
5u 7D6 EB (Sonics),vs physical defense,Area Effect(+1),radius 7
5u 11D6 EB (Sonics),vs physical defense,1/2 END(+1/4) 2
3 Ultra Hearing (Sonics)
6 2 Levels: with sonics.,tight group
3 Navigation 11-
3 Tactics 12-
8 4/4 Armor,OIF(-1/2)
Powers Cost: 193
Disadvantages
Base Points: 100
5 Distinctive,"Wears colorful winged costume.",easily
concealable,minor
5 Distinctive,"Irish accent.",easily concealable,minor
10 Distinctive,"Mutant",easily concealable,major
20 Hunted,"By mutant hating groups.",as powerful,non-combat
influence,harsh,appear 11-
20 Normal Stats
10 Psych Lim,"Alcoholic",uncommon,strong
20 Psych Lim,"Code vs. killing.",common,total
5 Rep,"Mutant hero.",occur 8-
15 Secret ID,"Theresa Rourke"
10 Unluck,2D6
Disadvantages Total: 120
Experience Spent: 30
Total Points: 250
Explanation of the conversion:
History: Theresa Rourke is the mutant daughter of Sean Cassidy, the
mutant now known as the Banshee, and Maeve
Rourke. At the time of his marriage, Sean Cassidy worked as an Interpol
agent, and not long after was sent on an undercover anti-terrorist mission
which kept him out of touch with his family for about a year and a
half. Neither Sean nor Maeve knew at the time he left that she was
pregnant. Maeve remained at Cassidy Keep, the family castle, during
her pregnancy and the time immediately following Theresa's birth and
so relatively few people knew of Theresa's existence. Sometime later
Maeve was killed in an I.R.A. (Irish Republican Army) bombing along with
a number of other people. Those who knew of Theresa's existence
assumed that she too had been killed in the explosion, which had left
the corpses of its many victims unrecognizable, and decided not to
tell Sean Cassidy that Maeve had had a daughter in order to spare him
additional grief.
Unknown to Sean, the baby Theresa had been found after the explosion by his
cousin Black Tom Cassidy, who, suspecting that she might be a superhumanly
powerful mutant as he and her father were, decided to raise her secretly
himself. Theresa's sonic powers, inherited from her father, emerged at
puberty, and a few years afterwards Black Tom began enlisting her aid in
committing crimes. However, Theresa's heart was never in a life of crime,
and she pursued it only because the man who raised her, Black Tom, ordered
her to do so. Although Black Tom Cassidy is actually Theresa's cousin once
removed, she called him "uncle" as a mark of respect.
Eventually, Theresa accompanied Black Tom and his partner, the Juggernaut, to San Francisco to assist him in
crimes. Here, employing the name Siryn, she battled the original
Spider-Woman and several of the X-Men. This conflict ended in Black Tom's
temporary capture. While in custody, Black Tom exonerated Theresa of
responsibility for her crimes and wrote a letter to Sean explaining who she
was. The X-Men brought Theresa back to their headquarters, where she was
joyfully reunited with her father.
For a time Siryn joined the Fallen Angels, a band of young superhumans,
hoping to keep them out of trouble. Later, she lived for a while at Moira
MacTaggert's Mutant Research Centre at Muir Island. She eventually came to
join X-Force, the mutant strike team organized by Cable.
Siryn participated
in the assault on the home of the Gamesmaster in the Alps where she was
attacked by Sena Blaze. She was saved from her when Speedball II blocked her attack with his kinetic
field (New Warriors #46).
As a testament to her skills, Theresa was made
the deputy leader of X-Force after Cannonball
II left for the X-Men. Recently she has become romantically involved
with the masked mercenary Deadpool.
Powers: Siryn is a mutant who has the ability to create various sonic
effects through the combined action of her vocal cords and limited psionic
powers which can only be used in conjunction with the sounds she produces.
She inherited these powers from her father, who has the same abilities.
By focusing her sonic vibrations into an intense beam, Siryn
creates what she calls her sonic lance, which can shatter any known
solid substance except adamantium and vibranium. Siryn can use her
sonic lance at a lower intensity to stun people into
unconsciousness without doing them injury.
Siryn can use the sonic vibrations of her scream to propel herself
through the air. Although it might be expected that emitting sound
waves from her mouth would propel Siryn backwards, since for every
action there is an equal and opposite reaction, this is not the case.
Siryn's psionic abilities cause the acoustic energy to flow behind
her. Siryn's psionic abilities enable her while in mid-flight to
temporarily stop screaming to speak or to employ her scream to
perform other sonic feats. Siryn can also use her sonic powers as a form of
sonar (SOund Navigation And Ranging).
Siryn's vocal cords and the interiors of her throat and mouth are
superhumanly tough, so that the intense pressures and constrictions
that she produces do not cause her any injury. While using her sonic
powers Siryn also automatically and psionically creates a force field
which protects her body from the destructive effects of the sound she
creates. The force field only protects Siryn against her own sonic
vibrations and nothing else, and can only be activated when she is
using her sonic powers.
Links to other Siryn pages:
Character created by Marvel Comics.
Page setup by Mathew R. Ignash - mathewignash@comcast.net.
Last Updated - October, 2001
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