[PhoenixFlame]

Name: Karen Taylor
Alias: "Vixen" Though she didn't approve at first when the title was applied to her, it has since stuck and been grudgingly accepted.
Age: 26
Gender: Female

Appearance: As the incident empowering her has subliminally modified her appearance, Karen is a tall, athletically trim woman with long orange hair, blue eyes, fox ears and tail. She commonly wears a white crop-top with a blue jacket and jean shorts for freedom of movement while superheroing around. She hasn't gotten an actual costume, since she's still relatively new at this whole thing. Regardless, she's relatively certain that, even with her aberrant biology, she looks less ridiculous than most superheroes. If this is for better or worse has yet to be determined.

Equipment: A pair of gauntlets created from a superscientifically durable material.

Abilities: Kinetic negation/impaction. Directional shield creation and kinetically empowered punches (and improvised weapons) make the the majority of her capabilities. Due to the I/K nexuses interspersed at varying points along her body, this also results in some mild degree of super strength and toughness. Shield projection need not be disclike, and can be used to sheathe weapons much as she does her fists. Though this has little to do with the damage inflicted, as the weapon is merely serving as a shaping device. Furthermore, since Karen is a nexus of nigh-unlimited I-space energy, she is capable of shielding her body to negate equally powerful attacks. Granted, there is a limit to transfer rate, which may require breathers between soaking artillery shells.

Biography: Karen, a Nalacany city native, is your average girl genius and MIT graduate. Her devotion to her studies and life as a run-of-the-mill geek girl had gone rather uneventfully. Until recently, she was a theoretical physicist working for the NexGen corporation, whom produces cutting edge energy manipulation technology for the highest bidder. Karen and her colleagues had been given the task to create an energy shield projection system that utilized power from 4th dimension "imaginary" space rather than clumsy atomic reactor systems that were prohibitively large and expensive. While the daunting task of 'creating' energy by stealing from other dimensions was no doubt the cause of many sleepless nights for the entire team, within six months they believed they had a working prototype.

Then things got interesting. While pulling overtime in the lab unassisted after having an epiphany as to where one would look for alternate dimensions, Karen managed to successfully activate the prototype system... On accident. Caught between the converter reciever and collector emitter, she was struck by a beam of I-space energy that, could any of the collective team's theoretical calculations be believed, should have instantly vaporized her.

Only later did Karen find out that she was possessed of a uncommon, latent and generally benign human chromosomal mutation. However, upon being exposed to the transdimensional energy stream, the 'metagene' in question was activated and purged the errant energy back to its extradimensional source location, inadvertantly sparing her from a grisly (if instantaneous) death. The result of the gene's activation has altered her biology in a rather amusing manner, gradually reshaping her into her 'ideal' body form. Karen's ideal body form however given her entertainment preferences, is slightly embarassing, if attractive. This apparrently tangental shift is not without cause however, as Karen's ears and tail function as 'nexus points' at which I and K space intersect, allowing her to draw the unbelievable amounts of energy required to project and deform her directional 'forcefields'.

She no longer works for NexGen. After the incident, it became apparrent to the otherwise naive-to-corporate-posturing scientist what the corporation's true aims were. Laid off for being 'biohazardous', and discovering that the company's research division had been designing purpose-built pseudomilitary hardware for a single wealthy businessman (who's name had not been disclosed in the documentation), Karen leaves her previous field to join the foundation. Unable to secure funding or a job that requires her talents in the current economic climate, she decides her new and improbable powers would be better served fighting crime and injustice.

Notes: Yes, copypasta from last game, but altogether similar. We'll take 'Theoretical Physics' and 'Lucky Accident' for 500, Trebek.