Morgan

# About

## Personality

Morgan tries far too hard to make a good first impression. She often ends up irritating people by coming on too strong, and then spends the rest of the day overthinking what she did wrong and promising to do better next time. When she gets used to a person she very quickly calms down; transforming from an extremely aggressive extrovert to a much darker, snarkier woman that laughs at her own jokes. While she tries her very best to appear unflappable, she reacts terribly to teasing despite doing it so often herself: meaning that she inevitably breaks demeanour if someone knows how to prod her.

Morgan gets immense validation from appearing superior in other people's eyes, stemming from her once-low self-esteem. Due to her slight paranoia and low expectations of people around her, she is quite a control freak: doing almost all the work herself in a team-project and then expecting most of the recognition. She's an extremely envious person, quick to complain when someone has an advantage that she doesn't, but is quick to lord it over others when the shoe is on the other foot. Despite her sadistic tendencies, the woman happily switches to submissive the moment someone stands up to her. Whenever anyone asks, she insists it's because she likes watching their confused reaction: and not because of any other ridiculous suspicion they might have.
Like most exorcists, Morgan fosters an undying hatred of daemonkind as a whole: though is surprisingly pragmatic about it, always taking measures to fight the greater evil. Underneath her snarky demeanour, however, Morgan is actually both extremely soft and cowardly. She doesn't enjoy fighting when it poses a genuine chance of her losing since her reputation will suffer a blow, but nor does she actually like pushing her victories or teasing too far. She isn't very good at assessing someone's breaking point and ends up feeling awful whenever she genuinely upsets (a human) someone- that is...unless it was deserved.

On a side-note, Morgan is a seasoned procrastinator that is incredibly vulnerable to cute things. Half of the time she forgets to eat, and frequently reads all night so that she forgets to sleep: resulting in her often binging to catch up on missed calories and napping at the oddest times during the day.

## Backstory

It's a tale told one too many times from recounts of the Great War. Demons would turn the tide of a battle, certainly- but it was the aftermath of such power that unleashed a new blight across the continent. Sackings of villages, and towns, and cities, from monsters whose officers could not control them. One could hardly tell the difference between man and devil in firelight: when great gouts of flame consumed rows of houses and crackled loud enough to muffle the screams of the locals.

No matter how severe the passage of time, the scene still remains burned in Morgan's memory. She rarely speaks of those nights; content to seclude herself from others, or dissuade conversation with snark and sarcasm, but there are few to have survived that would talk freely of such matters. When the Exorcists were formed some few months after the armistice, there was a clangour to sign up from those that had seen the true horrors of the war. Morgan was, naturally, among them: as a jaded woman with no family nor life prospects, there was little else she had to look forward to in her future. Unlike those around her, however, Morgan was not in training merely for the sake of revenge- although she could see her hatred echoed in the eyes of so many others like her. She had always been the idealistic sort: resorting to cunning and cruelty in order to compete with those around her, yet never losing sight of what she had once wanted. As a child, it had been to simply be praised- but now?

   Now, the earth was crawling with daemons. Foreign entities that preyed on mankind and revelled in its suffering; that brought sin and hatred into the world and laid waste to the works of humanity. War had its own rules, and she knew better than any that little should be off-limits when one is fighting to win, but there were now humans collaborating with beings that sought only to bring misery. Forging pacts to solve paltry problems. The world had changed to suit the will of demons and those that wielded them: the very beings which actively sought to corrupt humanity for their own gain.

Humanity will never be free while the demons have a grasp on the physical world. The world will never improve while those that wish to see it suffer continue to hold the reigns. Mankind cannot grow under the boot of some otherworldly being: benign or not.

The exorcists take in many members, but only those that truly click with their ideology ever make it beyond being a mere grunt. Needless to say, Morgan stormed through the ranks- committing atrocities in the name of vengeance and justice long before she was permitted an ability. During periods of unrest in Weimar Germany, she would take advantage of the distraction of uprisings in order to target weaker daemonologists while their summons were busy; more than once taking her time with her new friend before finishing the job. They were no less pained than the screams she had heard as a child, but Morgan took small comfort in the fact that this time they were ones of her own making. With time, the exorcist became infamous among German citizens as the 'Brocken Spectre': a glowing silhouette in the mist that would annihilate squadrons of soldiers and civilians caught up in the mess indiscriminately. She was not a woman to believe that the ends justified the means, by any sense: but when faced with a foe whose defeat will mean the survival of her race, then no sacrifice is too great.

Gradually, and mercifully, Morgan began to mellow as time went on and was graced with further successes. Fewer and fewer public incursions were occurring, and she suddenly found herself with more free time on her hands: granting her a chance to at last work on her atrocious social skills. Mournstead seems to be one of the few cities in Europe still brimming with daemon activity: making it the perfect assignment for a seasoned and (mostly) ruthless exorcist.

## Equipment/Resources

Considerable salary from her work, enough to rent automobiles + hotel rooms without difficulty. Her book is steel-plated, allowing for its use as an actual weapon without damaging the contents.

# Powers

## Physical Parameters

 Sprinting Speed
 Lifting Strength
 Grip Strength
 Punching Strength
 Punching Speed
 Kicking Strength
 Kicking Speed
 Human Durability

## Ability

### Mourning Mist

Creates a thick mist in a static sphere around Morgan of a 25m radius; dense enough that combatants other than Morgan may only see 15m ahead of them. This mist saps the opponents' strength continually, reducing their physical strength by 3kN for every 2 turns they have been in the mist. This ability may last for 6 turns and has a 3 turn cooldown regardless of when it is cancelled, and the weakening curse takes 3 turns to wear off.

### Birdhouse in Your Soul

Morgan wreaths herself in mist and hail, absorbing it into herself in order to strengthen her body. Her punching & kicking strength is increased by 6kN, and her jump height and jumping speed are doubled. Morgan gains armour at skin-level of 45kN, covering everything but her head. This ability has a maximum duration of 8 turns, and its cooldown is equal to half its uptime.

Whenever her armour takes damage, the cooldown on Morgan's lantern ability is reduced by 1 turn. If this causes the ability to go off cooldown, a lantern is created, and the full cooldown is restored. This effect may only trigger twice per use of her armour.

### Spectral Light Orchestra

Morgan compresses mist into a small sphere, trapping an enormous volume of air inside. These 'lanterns' glow softly and are visible through her mist if she desires them to be: floating behind her in a small fan-formation. Each lantern explodes on contact, knocking back anything below 150kg by 10 metres at 15m/s.

These lanterns may be fired out at 20m/s in a straight line, and cannot be reclaimed once released. It takes a full second to generate a lantern, with a maximum of 5 being under her control at a time. There is a two turn cooldown after creating one lantern. A maximum of two may be moved in a single turn.

## Pact or Catalyst

   It is extraordinarily rare for exorcists to make pacts with demons, and Morgan is no exception. She instead channels her power through a cursed tome that she keeps on her person at all times, chanting incantations that she insists are absolutely necessary for her power to work.