Psycwave

Franklin Pritzker (Son)

Valerie Pritzker (Daughter)

## **History**

### **Susan Amelia Devereaux: 1972 - 1989**

Susan was born in Georgia, to a wealthy old money southern family. She was the second child after her older sister, and had one younger brother. Susan grew up next to a peach plantation in a beautiful mansion and was sent to an elite private school when she came of age. In short, she never really wanted for anything and grew up someway spoiled, if not sophisticated and ladylike. However, Susan’s powers strengthened as she came of age, and she used her abilities for personal reasons, such as persuading her friends’ boyfriends to date her instead. However, this practice isolated her and by the time she graduated, all her friends had cut her off and she was left lonely. Susan went on to go to a girls college to pursue psychology. Her mental state worsened in college; her heightened mental senses sharpened her paranoia and gave her intense anxiety. She barely socialized for fear of isolating people away from her. She was in a poor state when her advisor, an intuitive professor who’d noticed Susan’s anxiety, recommended reading a book titled “Shut up! Quieting your inner voice”, written by Craig Everett— Everseer. Susan read the book and it brought her such relief to go through the practices recommended by Dr. Everett that she realized that he must also have mental powers. When she graduated with her degree, she sought him out in Municiberg, California. Finally, she met Craig at his practice. He wasn’t surprised— he’d foreseen her arrival. He invited her to join his practice and she agreed and they began a close friendship. Soon afterwards, Susan discovered that Craig was also leading a double life as a superhero, the telepath Everseer with his sidekick Macroburst. After some thought, Susan decided she also wanted to be a superhero, and Everseer introduced her case to the NSA. She commisioned a supersuit by Edna Mode and teamed up with Everseer and Macroburst.

### **Psycwave: 1989 - 1999**

Everseer had been planning a super team for some time, and when Georgia Cho Downs— Plasmabolt— came along, he formed the Phantasmics. The team got their own base and means of transportationa nd very soon they were very close knit. Craig often referred to Susan for advice, to her flattery. They were all good friends, and the close bond between them helped them overcome many obstacles, from fighting villains to dealing with frustrating team dynamics, such as the arrival of Gazerbeam. He and Everseer were locked in a struggle for power from his first arrival, such that eventually Everseer was asked to by NSA to join another team The Thrilling Three, for their team leader retired. Psycwave still kept in touch with Everseer after that. She didn't get close with Gazerbeam even though he became the leader. Also she never did get a high superhero status among her peers, for her limited physical abilities, but she loved her team and that was enough. Susan also discovered her bisexuality during this time, having flirtations and affairs with several fellow supers including Universal Man, Fironic, Demote, and an ongoing will-they won’t-they dynamic with teammate Plasmabolt. With Macroburst she shared an endearing motherly/younger sibling relationship, and although many rumors flew about them, her relationship with Everseer never developed into anything beyond platonic friendship.

### **Susan Amelia Devereaux- Pritzker 1999 - 2014**

The tensions that developed when the lawsuits began to pile on caused Psycwave’s paranoia to worsen, until by the time the ban came around she was very anxious and almost relieved when it became illegal to do hero work. She was sorrowful when Plasmabolt left to go back home and become a park ranger, and when Macroburst left home to become an actor, but she kept her psychologist practice with Everseer. She remained there for years, marrying Richard Pritzker and having twins, but she still felt empty until she got the envelope from Mirage. She supposedly died shortly after, killed by the Omnidroid on Nomanisan, although Mirage had filed her case as "terminated" despite Syndrome never actually having proof of her body being found (as briefly implied by the frame in the official movie).

## **Appearance**

Psycwave is a charming woman with facial features reminescent of Marilyn Monroe. She is very thin yet very well proportionately built. Her wrists are especially very thin. Her physique is similar to Mirage's, so much that a few fan theorize she might have been trapped in Mirage's body, using her possession ability, as a last chance in order to spare herself from death by the Omnidroid, which would explain why Mirage assigned such a low threat rating to her in the Operation Kronos database and filed her case as "terminated" instead of "eliminated". It is unknown whether she is also the same superhero called Vectress, which was briefly shown in the official movie with the same design of Psycwave's outfit.

Unlike Mirage, which is characterized by being calm, subdued, intellectual and decisive, Psycwave is described by the NSA as insecure, occasionally selfish and anxious. Both share a taste for expensive lifestyles and femme fatale tendencies, which seems to be the only thing they have in common. In the LEGO movie Vectress is briefly described as very different though: physically strong, resistent, prone to screaming outbursts and not that much interested in men or social power. It is unclear how these three individuals might represent the three different personalities trapped within the same body.

## **Personality**

Psycwave was noted for occasional paranoid tendencies and a propensity for psychology. It is implied that she frequently used her powers for selfish gain, primarily by manipulating men into breaking up with their girlfriends so she could date them, or manipulating complex situations in order to make them more suited to her comfortabilities.

## **Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Superhuman Physiology (Superhero):** Susan is a human who inherited from her parents something known as the S-Gene, which in turn micromutates her to allow her to have superpowers.

* **Telepathy:** Susan has limited to moderate telepathic and empathic capabilities which were never truly touched upon by Surge. She's received some training with Everseer in that regard but her psychic prowess was nowhere near that of Craig's. Like most telepaths, Susan can read an individual's thoughts and feelings, sift through memories, generates a psychic shield that disrupts incoming psi-signatures protecting her from all manner of psychic assaults, or discharge mental blasts to overwhelm opponents.
	+ **Possession:** Psycwave can psionically reach out to other sentient beings and possess their minds. Once she has taken possession of a person, she can control their body, and therefore force that possessed being to do or say anything. She can coax them to perform simple tasks such as standing still, or other tasks that require fine motor control of the body. Although a possessed person's movement would be more rigid than usual, Karma is capable of reproducing any kind of complex or acrobatic movement. For instance, Spider-Man was still able to perform back-flips and swing between buildings, and later she used Cannonball's body to write a message in shaving foam on his bathroom mirror. When Mr Fantastic examined Spider-Man's mind after Karma had possessed him, he declared that it was as if Spider-Man had been 'switched off' for the duration of the possession. The consciousness and mind of the possessed victim is temporarily disconnected with their own body. However, when she relinquishes her control, that person is aware that something has happened. They are aware that they are in a different area, or in a different pose. Most of her targets would shrugs it off to being lost in a daydream, but the majority of super heroes (or villains) would be aware that something was not right and that there had been some sort of interference. Her talents are not limited to just human beings. She has been able to take control over a variety of sentient beings, raging from Asgardian sand monsters, lizards, and even aliens. Even though it was with the help of Professor Xavier, Karma was even able to take control of Magus' mind for a limited time. Karma has been seen to exert control over beings in a different area to herself. Since controlling a body in another location requires her to see through her victims eyes, she needs greater focus to control them and has sometimes appeared to be in a meditative state. While remaining in her own body, Karma also appears to have transferred her own consciousness through to her possessed target. Previously Spider-Man communicated in Vietnamese to Leong & Nga, while Karma was stood on a window ledge across town. She has even forced her possessed victims to give forced confessions of their crimes, while sat in the back of a car at a safe distance from the crime scene. Karma even managed to assemble the New Mutants together by possessing them one a time while they were in their own bedrooms. Taking control of their bodies, she then used them to write a message inviting them to meet her & Psyche in the boathouse.