Liz Sherman

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Liz Sherman: 1977 - 1987

Liz was raised on a farm ran by an extended Irish-Catholic family. Liz was considered to be an average and unremarkable child. Liz has relatively normal childhood, other than growing up in Smallville — one of the world's most heavily saturated deposits of Kryptonite. All that changed with intrinsic explosions in 1987.

At the moment of the explosions, ten-year old Liz let out an intense scream before collapsing into a three-day coma. The massive levels of destruction and death had sent a psychic shockwave across the world, unseen and unfelt by most persons. However, Liz was not like ordinary people. Liz's metagene activated to give her brain the ability to resist the psychic agony of sensing the deaths of millions of people.

### Liz Sherman: 1987 - 1995

Liz's family thought little of their daughter's medical episode, focusing more on her miraculous recover than the cause for the coma and failed to connect it to the Manhattaning, other than coincidence. As her pyrokinesis began to manifest, Liz's Catholic upbringing caused her to rationalize that the fires resulted from her sins. For a time, Liz tried to pray the powers away.

A few years later, Liz's parents discovered their daughters' secret. While they suspected she was a "meteor freak," they also joined Liz in believing that these were a punishment from God. Gradually, Liz became sick of trying to purge her powers with prayer, and finally became convinced the divine punishment was not hers but her parents'. Rebelling against her parents, Liz began to stay out late, engage in underage drinking and smoking, and fell in with a rough crowd.

Liz's parents didn't appreciate this behavior and confronted their daughter. A lot of hurtful words were thrown about — by both parents and child. Angry, Liz slung a profane insult at her mother. Her father retaliated by striking Liz with the back of his hand. The blow sent Liz stumbling backward, where she hit her head on the dining room table. Unable to keep her emotions in check through the pain, Liz accidentally opened a rift to the Burn, an intrinsic field of heat. The rift belched out fire and heat so intense that the house was engulfed in flame, killing Liz's parents and younger brother.

The fire raged on as both the Sherman family and Smallville's firefighters looked on in horror, unable to stop it. Eventually, Liz's "do-gooder classmate" heard about the fire and ran into the burning house when no one was looking. Impervious to fire, this classmate found Liz and the rift and rescued her from the fire. Uncertain on what to do about the rift, he took her to a nearby pond to cool off. The cool water both relieved her pain and caused her to awaken with a jolt. Once Liz was conscious, the nearby rift closed.

As she realized she had unintentionally killed her family, Liz was comforted by her classmate. Decided it was better to help Liz control her powers than to turn her over to the authorities, Liz's new friend provided her with an alibi and a fresh pair of clothes. Liz was taken in by her aunt and uncle and the fire was chalked up to a gas leak.

Liz made new friends with her powered classmate and his own circle of friends, but the friendship was short-lived. Knowing she had played a part in her younger brother's death, Liz fell back into her self-destructive behaviors. At a family party, Liz's older cousin found her stealing from her uncle's whiskey cabinet. Planning to reveal her theft to others, he grabbed Liz by the hair and dragged her away. Liz screamed in pain, but her cousin did not stop. Quickly, the fire swelled inside her. Liz lost control.

The entire farm was instantly incinerated, killing thirty-two people. Again, Liz was uninjured. The event was ruled a propane tank explosion and Liz was taken into the custody of the US government. She eventually found herself a guest of the BPRD.

For six months, Liz lived in a sealed room in a state of shock. She was so heavily medicated that she was numb to sensation of any kind. Her fire was gone, but so was her personality and ambition. Liz spent most days staring blankly at the walls.

One day, Liz had a rather unusual visitor: An enormous red half-demon. As he introduced himself as Hellboy, Liz's religious upbringing gave her some pause. Still, she pushed that aside out of curiosity. The two became fast friends. As Liz began laughing and crying, her powers returned. Liz began to panic, but Hellboy placed a gentle hand on her shoulder and said "Don't sweat it, Little Liz. I'm fireproof."

### Liz Sherman: 1995 - 2010

Liz befriended Hellboy, bonding over their shared interest in grunge music and Liz's inability to immolate him. Liz also quickly made friends with Abe Sapien, often dipping her toes in his tank when she felt stressed (so if she had a literal meltdown, she could dip into the water tank to douse her flames). After two years of residency and training with the BPRD, Liz went on to join the BPRD as an operative.

Liz, Hellboy, and Abe became a close-knit three-person team. They were the BPRD's most successful combination of operatives and they knew it. Though Liz let herself have fun in the field with her friends, she secretly wished to be rid of her powers.

While investigating a hidden alchemical laboratory in a secret European lair, Liz discovered an inactive man-sized homunculus. As Liz drew closer to the created creature, she felt an intrinsic draw to the seal on his chest. When a curious Liz lightly traced her fingers over the engraved sigils, she felt her psychic energy siphoned. The sensation was a great relief to Liz, her nerves became less stimulated with every second that she allowed the transfer to continue.

When Hellboy and Abe dragged her away from the creature, Liz collapsed as the homunculus began to stir. Hellboy moved to get Liz's essence back by tearing it from the manufactured man, but he stopped short when a faint plea from Liz warned him not to hurt "Roger". With his target now given a name, Hellboy lowered his guard just as "Roger" awoke in a violent rage — shoving Hellboy and Abe out of the way before she disappeared into the night.

Abe Sapien rushed Liz back to the BPRD for medical treatment while Hellboy began hunting a homunculus. Liz slipped into a coma as Roger had not just taken her psychic energy, but also her *spiritus vitae* or 'breath of life'. This put extra stakes on the line for Hellboy's pursuit. However, the homunculus proved more elusive than imagined, evading Hellboy for weeks.

With Liz wasting away rapidly, Abe Sapien and Kate Corrigan began looking for a way to buy Hellboy and Liz more time. Jumpstarting Liz with a jolt of psychic energy provided by Johann Kraus, Abe Sapien was able to guide Liz into a state of astral projection. The plan was for her to beseech the immaterial spirits to give her life in exchange for BPRD resources. However, almost immediately after Liz disconnected from her body, her astral form was snatched by fire spirits and taken to the Burn.

Though her health recovered almost immediately after the astral projection began, Liz's body remained comatose. Even after Hellboy returned with the homunculus, no one seemed able to awaken Liz from her slumber. Even Johann Kraus could not venture into the Burn, but Roger the Homunculus was able to sense that Liz was not in pain and whatever was being done to her was keeping her alive. She remained comatose for over a year.

### Liz Sherman: 2010 - Present

While the BPRD were preparing Abe's old stasis tank to store Liz in suspended animation, Hellboy was losing hope of Liz ever recovering. Unable to stand losing her, Hellboy confessed his romantic feelings to the still-and-silent Liz as he gently stroked her cheek. As a tear fell off his cheek and landed on her arm, it turned to steam. A second later, Liz's vitals spiked. Before a stunned Hellboy could speak, Liz sat up and assured him that he was not alone in his feelings.

The two began to date after that. While exploring her new relationship dynamic with Hellboy, Liz also came to terms with her connection to her "son" Roger and an entity from the Burn that had bonded itself to Liz — increasing her pyrokinetic ability and essentially making her a fire goddess in the process.

During the events of Hell on Earth, Liz nearly lost her love to the demonic invaders that had transformed him into the Beast of Revelation. Fortunately for Hellboy and us mere mortals, Liz had a trick up her sleeve to shock Hellboy out of his daze. Liz got close enough to tell Hellboy he was going to be a father to twins.

After averting the Apocalypse and a shotgun wedding, Liz gave birth to two quarter-demon children, Brigette and TJ, both inheriting their father's rapid aging process, which meant Liz and Hellboy had to do some growing up of their own.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Psionic Metahuman Physiology:** Liz is a metahuman with psionic abilities connected to an intrinsic field.
	+ ***Pyrokinesis:*** Liz has a fantastic ability to mentally create, shape, control, generate and manipulate every form of fire including its accompanying heat, light, various reaction products — such as the flame and smoke. Liz can also control the temperature of the fire at will. By tapping into the Burn, Liz can mentally generate fire, projecting flames from her hands or having it surround her body.
	+ ***Immunity:*** Unsurprisingly, Liz is immune to fire, heat, and smoke. This includes the ability to breathe smoke without affecting her respiration. She is also extremely resistant to cold environments as her internal temperature needs little regulation.
	+ ***Psionic Resistance:*** Liz is highly resistant to psionic intrusion or manipulation.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Liz is able to see, hear, and interact with beings on the astral plane, unmanifested ephemeral entities, and invisible spirits such as ghosts. She is also sensitive to intrinsic and psychic phenomena.
* **Avatar of the Burn:** Liz has a symbiotic relationship with a mysterious entity of the Burn that has bound itself to her soul for mutual benefit. This primal being has a will of its own. but it is not sentient (at least as we understand sentience). It can communicate with Liz through telepathic impulses — but usually is in a state of quiet slumber in the depths of Liz's mind, possibly using Liz to incubate of recover its strength.
	+ ***Longevity:*** Since the binding with the entity from the Burn, Liz does not appear to age or suffer the effects of aging. She also does usually succumb to most common diseases or illness. It is possible she has a form of immortality, but time will tell.
* **BPRD Training:** Liz has trained with BPRD since she was seventeen years old, give her over two decades of experience dealing with the paranormal (other than herself). As a result of this, she is considered to be an expert in a number of related disciplines.
	+ ***Expert Markswoman:*** Though she usually only carries a pistol in the field, Liz is trained in the use of pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, and smaller automatic weaponry. She often uses her pistol as a primary means of combat against less dangerous foes to prevent the risk of losing control of her powers.
	+ ***Expert Martial Arts:*** Liz is an exceptional hand-to-hand combatant.
	+ ***Expert Parapsychologist:*** Liz is well versed in psychic phenomena - particular those matters concerning intrisic fields and psionics.
	+ ***Capable Cryptozoologist:*** Liz is quite knowledgeable concerning the ability and behavior of monsters — particularly those she has encountered before.

### Weaknesses

* **Emotions:** Liz's powers are extremely volatile and are capable of a significant and measure of destruction. If Liz fails to keep her emotions in check, she could accidentally cause massive amounts of death and destruction in an instant.
* **Life-Force Connection:** The entity which resides inside Liz is directly bound to her soul. As such, use of her powers in a exhaustive manner can cause her to become faint or ill. Similarly, release of the entity from her body, whether by choice or by force will cause Liz to succumb to a debilitating fatigue as she slowly wastes away.
* **Lure of Power:** Liz find the use of her powers to be cathartic to point of even being addictive. Constant use of her pyrokinetic ability can cause her to "lose herself in the flames", becoming more prone to irrational thought and dangerous behavior.
* **Migraines:** Liz like most psionics, suffers from intense chronic migraine headaches.
* **Vice — Gluttony:** Liz copes with the stress of past errors and the addictive allure of her dangerous powers through use of tobacco and alcohol. If unable to partake her in her favored vice, Liz will chew on things, engage in binge-eating of junk foods, or may engage in promiscuous or lascivious behavior.
* **Vice — Wrath:** Liz is also know to have volatile temper — particularly when she is unable to resolve a desperate situation, continually fails to perform what she deems to be a simple task, or is in pain without a reasonable means to stop her suffering.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 55
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

#### General

* Ruby is her rival due to her betrothal to Hellboy.
* She best friends with Kate Corrigan and friends with Abe Sapien, Johann Kraus and Clark Kent.
* Liz tried to give birth in Abe's water tank, as she was interested in the benefits of a water birth, but labor pains caused her to boil the water. Both her children came out of their mother with red skin, stubby little horns, and tails. However, once their mother got to swaddle them and soothe them, they opened their big yellow eyes, met their mother's gaze, and slowly took on a human appearance.
* Her children accompany her and Hellboy in the field for no-risk fact-finding missions.

#### Expanded Personal Details

* **Blood Type:** A+
* **Zodiac Sign:** Aquarius
* **Spiritual Paradigm:** Supernal
* **Religion:** Christian
* **Denomination:** Catholic
* **Ancestry:** ¾ Irish, ⅛ English, ⅛ Other

#### Personal Preferences

* **Alcoholic Drink:** Whisky — Neat
* **Dessert:** Brioche Bread Pudding with Whisky-Butterscotch Sauce
* **Color:** Red
* **Scent:** Vanilla
* **Book:** "Under a Yellow Sun"
* **Music:** Grunge
* **Song:** "Interstate Love Song"
* **Band:** Stone Temple Pilots
* **Hobby:** Collecting [Boxes of Matches]
* **Pastime:** Bubble Baths
* **Holiday:** St. Patrick's Day
* **Vacation Locale:** Luxury Spa

#### Personal Quirks

* Liz does not like people who vape. "Smoke or don't", she will often remark.
* Liz will insist on face-to-face conversations. She will settle for a phone call or other voices exchanges if she must, but she refuses to engage in text messaging or e-mails. Don't get her started on social media. She's convinced it is a 'digital plague'.

### Notes

* Liz Sherman is a character from the *Hellboy* series and its related media.
* Her relationship with Hellboy is from the Guillermo Del Toro duology films.
* Her children Brigette and TJ are nods to Hellboy and Liz Sherman's unborn twin children revealed at the end of the 2008 film *Hellboy II: The Golden Army*.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Liz Sherman

1. ↑ Network Files: Liz Sherman 1
2. ↑ Network Files: Liz Sherman 2
3. ↑ Network Files: The Bruttenholm Twins