Your OTHER skills

[jpub]

More of these as I think of them:
Paradoxe has no skills other than his magically-granted martial ones. However, his host personality, Heinrich, is an assistant curator of Paragon City's WW2 museum. This makes some Council missions with Paradoxe a somewhat sureal experience, as in inopportune moments he is known to slip out of his Germanic accent into a New England accent and wax poetic about the historical significance of some random feature of a base.
Entropic Avatar has advanced degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy, which unfortunately for his teammates he'll often employ to argue some entropy-related claim of his. He also plays some mean pinball.
Unseeing Eye, is an extraordinarily proficient artist and sculptor, his trinary vision allowing him to create works of significant impact and eloquence.
--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

[Acyl]

One more, for the Mastermind I've been playing lately. I've had the name reserved for a long, long time - I dreamt up the concept soon as I heard MMs were gonna be a CoV class. But I only now have I gotten him in a way I REALLY like. =)
The Coordinator used to be a contact in Paragon City. He gave 'em missions, pointed them at thefts, drug deals...except...he was actually sending the heroes against his competition. Or otherwise using 'em for his dirty work. Unfortunately, the authorities got suspicious after too many newbie heroes went 'missing'. Turns out he had a deal with Dr. Vahzilok: premium parts at low, low prices. With free delivery - the merchandise literally moved itself.
He was thrown in the Zig...and gave the wardens headaches. They knew he was running a black market operation from his cell...somehow smuggling drugs, liquor, cigarettes...into prison. But they couldn't prove it.
"Cord" now operates out of the Rogue Isles. He prefers to deal in goods and information, but will assist with...manpower issues...if a client requires. He is a social chameleon, and apparently multilingual. He has no superpowers, no magical or technical expertise...but he employs specialists for that. His associates aren't mere thugs - each one is an expert in some area, be it safecracking, network security, supertech, or even magical theory (one of his 'Arsonists' is a former Hellion).
If you need something bought (or sold), Cord's your man. Except time machines. Lord Recluse has banned time travel in the Rogue Isles, everyone knows that. On the other hand, if you're looking for a pre-owned sports car, he's got a nice De Lorean DMC-12...

Thugs/Traps MM. Member of the Infamous, though he prefers to think of it as a joint venture, of sorts. He does offer his colleagues very attractive discounts, however...and occasionally will work pro-bono. After all, good relationships are part of business.
-- Acyl

[firvulag]

Hexane: Outside of her combat skills Hexane has had body guard and kunoichi training. She's let many of her softer skills lapse somewhat since she broke from her family. She's a good liar, and handles the Infamous' finances with a minimum of embezzlement. There has to be some, it's expected, and the others would get paranoid if she didn't.
One of the genin working for her, Weldwood, appears to have some skill with electronics, mostly used to defeat the more mundane security systems that they encounter.
Her minions are:
Exxsol, Aktol, Weldwood (genin)
Toluol, Xylol (jounin)
Isopropanol (oni)
Third Shadow: As a shadow of the King, he has a fair amount of arcane knowledge, but it isn't much compared to the other shadows and the King. Mostly it's demonology and practical stuff like how to avoid and escape from mystical traps and the like. He's also the closest thing the King has to a logistics officer.
Wasureru: Hexane's little sister. She's had the same training as Hexane, although she's better at close combat (Dark/Dark Stalker). She is better at the softer, social side of things than Hexane but lacks Hex's leadership abilities. She's also somewhat lazy, and has a rather short temper. Her disposition hasn't been helped by the fact she's carrying around a lot of resentment over Hexane 'destroying' her life.
Her big plan was to get married to some rich, well connected guy and never have to lift a finger again, except to call the servants. Hexane screwed this up when she refused to be the heir.
Both Hexane and Wasu' are Nisei.
--
Things have never been the same since my arch enemy, due to a slight
clerical error, put a price on my shed.

[Bob Schroeck]

Sergeant Pepper: A Victorian gentleman no matter what the Beatles' song implies about his heyday. He is the model of a late 19th-century military man: strategy, tactics, logistics, and leadership all based on foot-based infantry, actual horseback cavalry, and gunpowder artillery. He is also well-versed in etiquette and the social graces.
Mongo of Rock Ridge: Mongo have many skills. Mongo lift things. Mongo hit things. Mongo break things. Mongo have Ph.D. in Existential Philosophy. Mongo not have good language skills, though. Mongo only pawn in game of life.
-- Bob
---------
...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[Terrenceknight]

Yo, After an extended absences due to computer issues I have returned. So i figure i should drop in and add my perverbial 2 bits.
Terrence Knight- Given his background, some of which i have on his discription. He's all too familiar with Dimensional travel or reality shifts, So something like this he'd take in stride with a 'meh' kind of attitude. His skills, if you can call them that would Include nearly impossible to surprise with something new or radical. Can and will follow orders precisely no matter the cost.
Not really book smart but has alot of commen sence and an open mind. Now if he could only get over his shyness around females he'd be set ^_^''

[Valles]

Virtue

Seelepanzer doesn't, for the most part, know much more than you'd expect of a sixteen year old high-school girl. The parts that don't fit are due to her mother's lifestyle as an extremely busy homicide detective, which meant that the single mother's usual 'babysitter' was the local cop hangout - Maria essentially grew up as their mascot, and picked up a working knowledge of many aspects of the field, including the equivalent of a police firearms qualification course. Before she suffered The Incident At The Museum, her unconcious kinesthetics also smelled strongly enough of 'cop' to repel drug dealers and minor scum at ten paces. She also has an encyclopediac knowledge of Paragon and New York Cities' leading chinese take-out places.
Infinity

Susan Schwartzschild was, in civilian life, an ABD particle physicist before all of her notes and research were destroyed in the accident that created her powers. She also likes her food almost thermonuclearly hot; she treats Tabasco sauce like water, keeps Habanero peppers as midnight snacks, and once swallowed three ccs of pure capsaicin on a bet - twice in the same night.
Lori Khan knows a bit about motorcycles, rather more about fighting, and a lot about trouble. She cooks but doesn't clean, and is dreadfully embarassed about both facts. She is also far more familiar than she would like to be with age of consent laws.
Servant Rider doesn't talk much and gets out even less, but is a major bibliophile. She refuses to admit that she's completely tone-deaf, but fortunately doesn't like to sing.
Ja, -n

===============================================
"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

[Logan Darklighter]

---

Mongo of Rock Ridge: Mongo have many skills. Mongo lift things. Mongo hit things. Mongo break things. Mongo have Ph.D. in Existential Philosophy. Mongo not have good language skills, though. Mongo only pawn in game of life.

---

[SNARF]
Damn it, Bob!
I swear I lose more keyboards this way...-Logan
-----------------
"This kind of thing tends invariably to devolve into the kind of "No, Nakajima, THIS is true power!!" argument that only really works if you're yelling it from the cockpit of a giant robot . . ."
-----------------

[Foxboy]

---

Lori Khan knows a bit about motorcycles, rather more about fighting, and a lot about trouble. She cooks but doesn't clean, and is dreadfully embarassed about both facts. She is also far more familiar than she would like to be with age of consent laws.

---

Didja roll that toon before or after my little story idea was posted? Kinda curious 'cause that would make a little difference if I actually write the thing.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Valles]

---

Didja roll that toon before or after my little story idea was posted? Kinda curious 'cause that would make a little difference if I actually write the thing.

---

After. It was just too delicious a pun to pass up.
Ja, -n

===============================================
"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

[Bob Schroeck]

---

Damn it, Bob!
I swear I lose more keyboards this way...

---

-- Bob
---------
...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[Gaean Conspiracy]

Pretty Witty Kitty was trained in her youth as a ballet dancer. Later, she turned her dancing skill toward the exotic, becoming a dancer in a sleazy bar in Kings Row. There she learned some additional dancing skills such as the pole dance, the lap dance, and the backroom bedroom bounce.
Gaean Conspiracy - @Gaean Conspiracy
---------------------------------
Time to take the grime out of crime
- Pretty Witty Kitty
Gaean Conspiracy - @Gaean Conspiracy
---------------------------------
Time to take the grime out of crime
- Pretty Witty Kitty

[Electroeagle]

ElectroEagle: When she isn't engrosed in her lab work, Susan likes to play the saxophone in an early Jazz band. She hangs out in a small Jazz club in King's Row joining whatever band is playing that night for a few songs.
TechHead: He tends to spend most of his time upgrading his robot army, upgrading the base, and trying to examin Obsolete. He is convinced that hidden somewhere in Obsolete is the tech that allows her to continue functioning. He tries to talk to her, but not knowing about the trivia she talks about he has a hard time understanding her.
Starshot Dove: She is a nice Irish girl from Boston. She moved to Paragon to attend college as a pre-med freshman after her mutation developed. She does most of the things a collage girl does when away from home. Attends parties, dates, classes, parties, homework, dates, and added in is her hero duties.

[Mekadave]

Tempestador, aka Antonio 'Nico' Garcia Suarez, spent his childhood in communist Cuba, where he had to work in the Cohiba factory rolling cigars to help feed his family. As a result, he is quite good at making cigars. He also has reasonable skill at working on a commercial fishing boat, as that was his father's occupation, and he had to frequently help out. Due to the indoctrination in Cuba's government-run school system, he has extensive knowledge of Marxist communism. The indoctrination had the opposite effect, however, and there isn't a stronger anti-communist in the area of Rhode Island than Tempestador.
His power (Storm/Electric Def) manifested during his family's nighttime boat escape to America, which coincided with Hurricane Francisco's rampage through the Florida Keys. The storm would have killed his entire family if Nico hadn't protected them with a second hurricane 'eye' of his own instinctual creation."Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will RogersGlobal: @Jimmy Amp

"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

[RMH999]

Protector/Virtue
Skrymir: A fragment of the Norse giant of myth, Skrymir has few skills suited to modern day. He's an excellent Viking warrior, can hunt, brew, and generally survival in a wide range of northern climes. He's fairly good at squad level tactics, but he's no good at anything past that (and knows it). He's been slowly learning about the modern world as he's ended up living off and on with the Paragon University's chapter of the SCA.

[Mekadave]

BTW, do we have a section for character bios? Maybe a sticky one would be a good idea? I know I'm kinda lost when it comes to all the longtime characters.
Shining Binary knows quite a bit about other solar systems due to the other half of his Kheldian personality. He used to occasionally wax eloquent about how something reminded him of other intergalactic locations, but the weird looks he got from strangers and the mental groans from his human half cured him of that tendency. His human half wasn't a hero before their joining: he was a network administrator, so he knows a lot about computers and their uses.
Global: @Jimmy Amp
"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

[jpub]

VLSI, with his roots as a medical system, is actually quite the encylopedia of medical knowledge. He works in various hospitals part-time as a diagnostician.
Dustball paints. Houses. At night. He makes quite a bit of money on overnight paint jobs.
Juke Box Hero is a music critic. He's actually quite popular on the Paragon City reality show circuit, with biting commentary mixed in with his rampant quoting of music lyrics.
Detective Dean Shade's a cop. Do I need to say more? When he's not heroing, he policing.
Bull Nettle's really got no skills. I mean, he's a little mean green fighting machine. No one wants to hang around with him, let alone work with him.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

[mephron]

...one of these millenia I really need to catch up with some Legendary members for a team-up.Brazil has decided you're cute.Brazil has decided you're cute.

[Drenivian]

Just tell us who you are and we'll come flocking... eh, maybe just one or two at a time, things happen. And if that character isn't in the Legendary, then by Paradox we'll ask you to join.
*********************
In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

[mephron]

I'm very happy in my current supergroup - which I was in before the Legendary existed - but if you look for Ta'Mar (lvl 33 Peacebringer), MegaShock (lvl 50 artillery piece - er, energy/energy blaster), Void Justice (lvl 8 katana/invulnerability scrapper), they might be around. Global name is MegaShock.Brazil has decided you're cute.Brazil has decided you're cute.

[ECSNorway]

Kagetsuki Misao. She's a ninja. A kunoichi, specifically.
She's good at: Hitting things. Breaking people. Sneaking into places she isn't supposed to be. Sabotage. That sort of thing.
She does have a talent with electronics, although it isn't enough to make any significant gadgets to help on missions. More of the "doesn't need to take a VCR to the shop to get it fixed" sort of thing.
She's a decent campfire cook.
And, when she's not in mission garb, she does know something about fashion.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Bob Schroeck]

Bumping this for the convenience of folks writing up entries on the Virtue Wiki.
ETA: Rebumping.

-- Bob
---------
The Internet Is For Norns.

[Valles]

Samantha "Brightsky" Corby is a garage-band-level rock drummer, but can't sing a note. She has a fairly good sense of pitch, but her speaking voice is a little harsh and gets orders of magnitude worse when she tries to raise it.
She hates bean sprouts, adores guacamole, and is allergic to tomatoes.
Except for one driving instructor and one license examiner, every single person who has spent time in a vehicle she was in control of has raised the unanimous opinion that Brightsky Is Not Allowed To Drive. Why is left as an exercise for the reader.
Ja, -n

===============================================
"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."

[Sofaspud]

(It occurs to me I've never added to this for my characters. Oops. Let's fix that.)

Emerald Blast: she was a fully qualified and experienced Army medic, what used to be called a combat medic before they went all PC with it, so
in addition to her array of healing abilities she can handle most any trauma situation that might come up. She's pretty much incapable of panic at this
point, though how much of that is due to training and how much is due to her blithe confidence that Mr. Whiskers will protect her no matter what is
questionable. She's an excellent shot with a handgun (marksman level), did a stint as a short-order cook for a while but isn't a chef, can operate
power tools without losing fingers, and has a *killer* black thumb. Don't let her near your garden. She has an intense desire to help people and will
throw herself into danger without hesitation if it means keeping someone else from getting hurt. Ever since she met the stuffed cat, she's been what could
best be described as rather pleasantly batty in a cheerful way. Medical specialists suspect psychosis or possible brain damage; she just responds with a
cheerful grin and ignores the detractors. (One could say she's much like Kasumi from Ranma 1/2, without quite so much Obliviousness.)

Alex Fury: Alex or AJ has, at 40, been around a while and seen it all. She began her career as a support staffer -- Logistics -- in merry old
England, and had a reputation for being almost precognitive in what would be needed most. She's not -- it's all keenly-developed instinct -- but her
uncanny knack for predicting things helped her rise to the top. She's a top-notch driver, and has won several amateur rally and street race competitions.
Her preferred everyday ride is a Alfa Romeo 156, but for special occasions she brings out Teddy, her
decidedly non-stock Lotus Europa. She's an unrepentant gearhead and performs all her own
maintenance, cheerfully puncuated with rude monosyllables in her upper-English accent. If it's part of a car, she can probably fix it. She has amazing
shorthand, notation, and filing skills, and could qualify as a notary public in the U.S. (though she has not bothered to actually do it yet).

William Bishop III: an unrepentant old coot who figures, hey, someone's got to show these kids a trick or two. He's a survivalist,
able to live off the land in pretty much any environment, and an excellent hunter with his bow. He used to be a master carpenter before retiring, and can
whittle some amazing things in his spare time. He isn't too interested in modern technology, preferring instead to rely on the tried-and-true methods he
grew up with -- he's probably one of relatively few in Paragon City who remembers what a slide rule is, much less how to use one. He's also not too
fond of magic, especially bright flashy displays thereof, and is somewhat uneasy around the plethora of short-skirted underage girls -- or of-age girls, for
that matter -- that traipse around town. "It ain't fitten'", as he would say. He's an accomplished juggler and can play the harmonica,
fiddle, and acoustic guitar. And recently, he's managed to acquire an Internet link and exchanges emails at the blazing speed of about 5 hunt-and-peck
words per minute.

Katy Kaboom: her tech-fu is best... and she's not afraid to use it! Katy is simply amazing, when it comes to technology. MacGyver would
stare at her in awe. She's a student at Atlas Park High, has not (yet?) twigged to the fact that she attends school with several of her Legendary
teammates, and is a *mean* volleyball player. She'd love to be on the school team, but takes her hero work too seriously and just can't commit to it.
She cannot cook, unless one counts zapping a microwave burrito or dialing City of Gyros as cooking. She's a proficient technical piano player, having
taken lessons since she was six, but prefers the flute, which she's much more emotional with, even though her technical skill is not as great. As befits a
technogeek, she's proficient with computers, video equipment, and so on. She's a skilled rollerblade enthusiast and often spends free time grinding
the rails at the high school or Atlas Park Plaza. Her family is wealthy, and, much as she hates it, her mother has forced her to learn the finer points of
etiquette, protocol, and social graces. She can dine with VIPs, dance with celebrities, and chat pleasantly with business leaders, but would prefer to be
chowing down on a greasy burger while cheering at the TV during an episode of Scrapheap
Challenge, given the choice.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

[Wiregeek]

Pooky: Has not picked up many non-heroing skills since his questionable redemption, but he has, over the eons, learned nearly every variation and version of solitaire. Currently, he is (slowly, he's a busy Imp) acquiring a working knowledge of tailoring and clothesmaking, one material at a time (leather! how do I work with leather? hrm. Need some leather. how do I _make_ leather? Oh, I need a cow! *flapflapflap*).

This has led to him picking up several somewhat-related skills as a consequence, and he can currently knit, operate machinery capable of manufacturing some types of fabrics (tends towards sheer, lingerie-weight cloth or tough, durable kevlar/denims, with quite a few types missing in between), tan and process leather for various grades, and has a rough working knowledge of structural engineering on a small scale, as well as 'conventional' brasierre design. One of Pooky's long-term projects is to make the Perfect Bra, and he avoids talking about the shortcomings of existing designs only because he doesn't have better, yet.

Mag: Mag would rather not talk about his non-job-related skills. Even though he trusts and admires The Legendary, he is hyper paranoid about protecting his secret identity. Does appear to enjoy a good game of pool (a wonderful geometry simulation) or poker (the only method of gambling that doesn't involve odds).
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Bob Schroeck]

She's a student at Atlas Park High, has not (yet?) twigged to the fact that she attends school with several of her Legendary teammates

Evangelia probably thinks she's just being admirably discreet and dedicated to keeping her hero and civilian IDs separate; Raye can certainly understand and empathize with that desire.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.