Her civ "job" is as an actor - she doesn't have much in the way of basic needs, just electricity really, so the take from an amateur theatre troupe's one-weekend-a-month productions (with a few other days for rehearsals) and her minor shape-shifting secondary power that lets them save on costumes and so on for any number of characters as long as they're not on stage at the same time is enough to cover the cost of letting her stay in one of the others' loft while leaving lots of time open for heroing. Dr. Whatever is a semi-retired local gadgeteer type, who could still suit up and step in if she went villain but is mostly around as a contact and possible source for supergadgets for her and the rest of the (theoretical, don't actually have a group to play Champs) party. He built the energy batons she uses, for example - high-normal strength and superspeed make even pulled punches on the iffy side against normals, so she uses the stun-only weapons until a fight gets serious.
Back to names, Spiegel isn't bad either - it doesn't have to be in German, for that matter, it's just where the search engine landed when I looked for Jewish surnames to go with the nickname turning out to be a valid Hebrew name-word. With Sabaton singing about the Warsaw Uprising on my jukebox program, I'm strongly considering looking up something Polish and inserting some background hooks to lead any time-travel shenanigans she may get involved in that way, for instance.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Back to names, Spiegel isn't bad either - it doesn't have to be in German, for that matter, it's just where the search engine landed when I looked for Jewish surnames to go with the nickname turning out to be a valid Hebrew name-word. With Sabaton singing about the Warsaw Uprising on my jukebox program, I'm strongly considering looking up something Polish and inserting some background hooks to lead any time-travel shenanigans she may get involved in that way, for instance.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows