Laura Wilkinson

"I can't afford to stay down." ~ Laura to Yellow Diamond.Laura Wilkinson is a major character appearing in Dominance: New York City. She is a police woman and member of the NNYPD. 
== Appearance ==
Laura is a caucasian, blonde haired young woman of above average height. She is very attractive and toned, with a voluptuous figure. She is mostly seen wearing her hair in a ponytail, although has been seen to let it down occasionally. 
She is seen wearing a standard-issue NNYPD police uniform when doing her job, and when she is out of her job, she can be seen wearing either a white T-shirt depicting a baseball, or a Led Zeppelin-themed T-shirt, along blue jeans or sports shorts.
== Personality ==
Laura is mostly outgoing, kind, and incredibly headstrong. She often acts with emotion rather than logic, often stating that her "gut" is leading her when making a tough or important decision. She is shown to act motherly to those in a vulnerable position, especially so with Iva Saskia. 
Though oftentimes she may come off as clueless, Laura is actually quite intelligent, and has shown proficient deductive skills and has been shown formulating complex battle strategies, outsmarting her opponents on numerous occasions. 
Throughout the struggle against the Four Kings, Laura slowly becomes less merciful towards her enemies, until eventually she has no qualms with killing those who stand in her way and threaten her comrades. Laura still retains her ideals and her stubborn nature, but due to the events that take place within the Kings arc, she has become more grounded as a result.
== Story ==
=== Pre-Spellplague ===
Laura Anne Wilkinson was born on February 13th, 2038. She was born into a
middle class family as an only child, and her life was relatively normal for
the first 18 years. She was known to be into baseball and was very athletic.
Her father, Anthony Wilkinson, worked as an Anti-Super Crime (ASC) operative for the NNYPD, and was well
known throughout the city for assisting in taking down high-level threats
(including numerous Supers) with
his colleague Volker Stahlwulff. 
Coming from a family whose lineage is closely tied to the police force of New York, it was Laura's destiny to uphold her family heritage and join the ranks of the NNYPD. Though she protested at first, her father eventually convinced her to work for the force when she was 19. After spending two years of studying law enforcement, she entered the police force. 
wip she sees some shit 
=== Spellplague ===
Laura has not yet revealed as to what she did, nor what happened to her, during the Spellplague.
=== Dominance: NYC ===
Only six months after acquiring her job, Laura overheard reports of two assailants, Rasmus Clypeus
and Incendiary,
assaulting Vivienne Heart.
She was specifically asked not to intervene by her superior officers, but she
refused, having met Vivienne and befriending her before the event. Equipping
the Jäger, she arrived
at the scene before other police could and incapacitated Incendiary before engaging
in a heated battle with Rasmus on the rooftops of the city. She started at a
disadvantage, Rasmus' superior fighting skills besting her. However, she
managed to gain the upper hand after learning to attack Rasmus from the back, landing
numerous hits on him. However, Rasmus activated his speed-drain ability and
regained the upper hand. He stabbed a dagger into the lower abdomen of Laura's
suit, injuring her. Incendiary, having recovered, then used an explosion to
force Laura off the roof. Rasmus and Incendiary, noticing that authorities were
now making their way down the street, made their escape.
Laura was sent into
questioning and was released, being placed into a secure location. There, she
met Volker Stahlwulff, the man who had previously worked to her father, though this
was unbeknownst to her. She told Volker of the two men she fought, and Volker
told her of the man who stole his weapon, Panzer. They
theorized if the two were connected, only to have their thoughts interrupted by
gunshots emanating from the hall. Suddenly, a man busted
through the door, holding a shotgun and firing at Laura. Fortunately, Dexter Mallaworthy, who had been spying on Laura and Volker, attempting to investigate who had killed his former boss Donovan Vale, entered through a
window and fended off the attacker. Dexter engaged in a battle with Severo, who
revealed himself to be a super. However, Rasmus appeared and orders Severo to
fall back. Both of them retreat and escape. 
Laura was sent to an uncompromised location, only to meet K.S. Ghaston, who had been sent by Volker to join her on her mission to take down the Kings. Later, Dexter arrived to her apartment. The group was notified by Volker of a gang that had worked with the NNYPD before, the Homem Morto Caminhando (a "nicer" gang, as described by Kid). They made their way to the main residence of the Homem Morto's leader, a pub somewhere in downtown Manhattan. They were granted special access due to Laura's NNYPD status, and made their way to Domingos' room, but not before noticing a strange figure eyeing them. They however ignore this and move on to meeting Domingos. In the middle of their negotiations, Rasmus Clypeus, who was the man who was watching them before, busted into the room. After a heated battle, Domingos manages to overwhelm Rasmus with the help of Laura, Dexter and Kid. 
To this day, her past
events serve to both drive and torment her. 
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Phoenixfire ===
Laura's ability is a variation of pyrokinesis that allows her to control bright gold flames that she can emit from her body at will. These flames are immensely hot, capable of flash-melting straight through reinforced steel and instantly incinerating human flesh with ease. Laura first awakened this ability after Roland Masseau used his Stars and Stripes Forever to empower her.
* Enhanced Strength: After awakening her ability, Laura gained a massive boost to her physical strength, allowing her to trade blows with some of the heaviest hitters in the city. She can lift and toss vehicles, bend rebar, and smash down reinforced concrete walls with little effort.
* Enhanced Durability: Laura's body after awakening her abilities is now extremely tough, her steel-like muscles able to absorb copious amounts of impact from sources such as melee weapons, firearms, and other physically enhanced Supers.
* Enhanced Speed: Thanks to her enhanced physiology, Laura is able to move with a frightening amount of speed, able to catch up to a speeding car on the highway. In combat, she is able to operate in short, explosive bursts of immense speed thanks to a ludicrous amount of fast-twitch muscle fibers in her body that have developed after her ability's awakening.
==== Techniques ====
* Phoenix Stream: Laura projects a wide stream of phoenixfire from the palm of her hand, melting large swathes of terrain along with whatever is caught within it.
* Phoenix Blast: Laura projects a concentrated blast of phoenixfire, resulting in a beam-like attack capable of boring holes clean through buildings. 
* Phoenix Strike: Laura shrouds her arms and legs in Phoenixfire, granting her greatly increased potency in close combat.
* Phoenix Spiral: Laura's ultimate technique. Phoenixfire coalesces around Laura's fist in a swirling vortex, before massive jets of flame from her feet propel her towards her opponent. She proceeds to deliver a fatal strike towards her foe, causing an aurora of gold-colored light to illuminate the surrounding area. This attack had sufficient power to punch straight through a weakened Yellow Diamond's chest and send him flying hundreds of meters towards the Atlantic ocean.
=== Skills ===
NNYPD Training: Laura has recieved a profficient amount of training from the NNYPD force. This includes firearms training and self-defense. In terms of CQC, Laura specializes in a variety of martial arts, mainly focusing on kickboxing and other striking martial arts, but has shown herself to be proficient in grappling, takedowns and counters and can hold her own against physically more powerful opponents such as Rasmus Clypeus in hand-to-hand combat, even outsmarting the latter in a few instances.
== Equipment ==
NNYPD Anti-Super (A.S.) Jäger Suit: More commonly referred to as simply "The Jäger", The NNYPD A.S. Jäger Suit is an incredibly advanced, full-body exosuit modelled after Alliance Headhunter technology and suited to maneuvering the streets of Neo New York. The armor is made out of an incredibly strong type of metal, most likely graphene, and is reinforced with a special coating of Danium that helps spread out the force of an impact over an even area to minimize damage done to the suit. It is equipped with:These shotguns automatically "pump" themselves after a round is fired, ejecting the shell from the side of the vambaces. As its name would suggest, these shotguns have an extremely short range and are meant for dealing copious amounts of harm in close range combat, especially when combined with Laura's CQC skills.
* HUD: A Heads-Up Display in the helmet that allows her to view both her own and other's vitals and predict the trajectory of moving objects, allowing her to predict and dodge or block attacks. It also grants her the option of thermal vision and night vision, and will tell her the current status of the suit (such as internal and external temperature, oxygen levels and suit integrity).
* Motorized Limbs: Additionally, the suit has a built-in hydraulic motors in the limbs that gives Laura a large boost in strength and dexterity when equipped, as she was effortlessly able to lift up K.S. Ghaston, an adult male, and lob him several meters, as well as physically restrain Kong despite his own strength. She is capable of denting steel and breaking concrete and thick drywall with her strikes. She was also able to effortlessly leap large gaps between rooftops. Despite this strength boost, she is still less physically capable than brawlers such as Roger Natholm and Louis Barrister. 
=== Fire Mode ===
After her initial fight with Lennard Malloy, her suit was taken in by Carlos and heavily modified. Now, the danium carbide in her suit has been programmed to drastically increase the thermal energy of the suit, allowing her to control white-hot flames capable of melting metals such as steel and evaporating water instantly. She is able to infuse her punches with these flames to create powerful strikes that burn her foes, summon a wall of flame for protection, and spray cones of fire from her palms. Whilst supercharged by Roland Masseau's Stars and Stripes Forever, Fire Mode's flames appear bright-gold in color and fluctuate much more violently, and Laura's strength and speed is increased drastically, allowing her to evenly match a worn-down Yellow Diamond in combat.
Laura first awakened this ability during her battle with a revived Elijah Dunlap. 
* Wyvern Vortex: Laura compounds flames into her fist, causing it to glow white-hot, before striking her target with all her might, causing a massive, fiery explosion powerful enough to vaporize whatever she hits and send Laura flying back. This attack leaves a spiraling trail of flames in its wake, hence its name. As a trade-off for this move's massive destructive capacity, it typically drains all of fire mode's power. 
Glock 21: A 13-round .45 ACP pistol. Standard NNYPD firearm that Laura carries with her at all times. 
== Trivia ==
* Laura has a fondness for dogs, specifically Shiba Inus, and even owns one named Walter.
** Likewise, she has a deep distaste for cats.
* Laura is into hard rock and metal, and her favorite band is Led Zeppelin.
* Laura's father served for the U.S. during the annexation of Alaska.
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