Phoebe Banks

## Sigil

**Phoebe Banks/Blink Courier** is a member of Team Courier, working alongside Helen Solovyova. She was also best friends with Maddie.

## Powers

Phoebe's power is to create an illusion of herself, which stays in her place and hides her actual presence, while also increasing her physical abilities while it's present.

Specifically, Phoebe's power works as such: She can create an illusory image of herself, which is visible to all who had her in their field of view at the time she used her power. This image is static, and lasts for, at best, a few seconds. While that image is active, everyone who can see is also unable to see Phoebe's real position. The triggering of the illusion also increases Phoebe's strength and speed, on a factor of x2 for every individual being affected by her illusion. The boost ceases it's effects alongside the illusion.

## Physical Appearance

Phoebe is of African-American descent. She's rather short, standing at 155cm / 5'0. She's somewhat pudgy. Before having the Dream, Phoebe had black hair and light brown eyes. Currently, she has golden curly hair and yellow eyes.

Her Magical Girl outfit is rather traditional, consisting of a white and gold dress, a shawl with a small cravat, and white boots and gloves.

When not transformed or at school, Phoebe prefers frilly clothes.

## Personality

Phoebe is a kindhearted person, frequently looking out for friends and making sure they're feeling and doing well. She's the heart of the team, being the one to offer advice and comfort others when they need it.

Privately, Phoebe is a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy novels.

## History

Phoebe was born in C.S.Y. -15.

Soon after they were both enrolled in Future's Promise, Phoebe met Maddie, with whom she made fast friends. The two would then later join Team Courier together.

On the night of Celina's death, Phoebe and Helen were the first people to arrive on the scene, soon followed by Logan, with whom they investigated the building and found an unconscious Dawn, as well as what remained of Celina.

### Team Courier (Work)

On the day after Ellie joined Team Courier, Phoebe, alongside Maddie and Chris, took to training Ellie for her work in Team Courier. She also helped Ellie devise ways to use her powers for locomotion, something that would later come in handy for her. Phoebe also offered advice when Ellie was having issues with Dawn regarding the situation with Celina.

During Ellie's investigation of Team Courier, Phoebe informed her that Maddie has been behaving oddly. She also revealed, although unintentionally, that she had a crush on Ryder, leading to Ellie creating a situation where the two could have a date a few days later. Said date went mostly well, although it wound up being hampered by Ryder's paranoia over the recent attempts on her life.

After half of Team Courier was hospitalized, Phoebe helped Logan confirm Celina's death a month earlier, and then comforted Maddie over her relapse into depression. On that same night, Phoebe and the remaining Team Courier members went to investigate what they believed to be their assailant's base. On arrival, however, they were attacked by a monster and pushed into a nightclub, where, after managing to evacuate the place, Phoebe was revealed to have been controlled as she tried attacking Ryder. This attack didn't last long, however, as Ellie tackled Phoebe out of the way.

## OOC Notes

* While their thematic is unknown in-universe, as with Helen, Phoebe'spowers are based on a genre of videogame. In her case, Phoebe is based on Horror games.

## Appears in

* *Team Courier*
* *Team Courier Interstitials*
* *Magical Girl Interview Network* #4

## Trivia

* Phoebe, alongside Maddie, is a frequent customer at Mama Maho's, even before Team Courier HQ is opened near the diner.
* According to the CDD, Phoebe is in fact thematic with Helen, her partner at Team Courier, despite neither having ever met the other and their powers and outfits being very different.