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Breakpoint

Name: Lucinda 'Cyn' Caparros
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 150 pounds
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Ethnicity: Hispanic

Appearance:

    ·         Lucinda Caparros is a stocky woman of slightly greater than average height.  She has wide hips and a not inconsiderable bust.  She wears her dark brown hair in an extremely long braid that hangs down past her butt.  Her skin is deeply tanned, with a bit of an olive complexion to it from her Mexican heritage.  Cyn is young, but her face has laugh and worry lines faintly etched in around the corners of her mouth and eyes.  Despite her weight, Cyn maintains a fairly lean physique; most of her weight is distributed between bone and muscle mass, and her shoulders, glutes, and thighs, in particular, are somewhat larger than average, although not really out of proportion to the rest of her body.  Cyn usually dresses nicely, in clean, inexpensive blouses and neatly pressed skirts or slacks.  Although her clothes are not expensive, it is clear that she takes pride in maintaining them and looking her best.

    ·         Breakpoint’s uniform consists of a red leotard that covers her arms, legs, and body.  She wears sturdily-heeled biker books and leather vambraces on her forearms.  She wears a utility belt in which she keeps a variety of small, useful items.  She wears no mask.

Personal Quote: "Everything falls apart.  What makes you think you're an exception?"

Theme Song: Last One Standing by Simple Plan

Background:   Lucinda Caparros was born to illegal migrant workers in Mohave, Arizona, the first of two children born six years apart.  Born six years later, her brother, Eduardo (Yayo), was born with severe birth defects caused by congenital varicella syndrome.  Lucinda lived with her parents, raised mostly by her mother, who was very much the traditional matriarch, until she was twelve.  When she was twelve, she returned from school with her younger brother in tow only to discover that INS had arrested her parents.  Before they were separated, Lucinda's mother made her promise to take care of her brother.  Lucinda and her brother were made wards of the state and lived together in an orphanage in Phoenix for a year.  Shortly thereafter, both Lucinda and Eduardo were entered into the foster system; primarily through Lucinda's efforts, she managed to travel from home to home with Eduardo with only brief separations (very few foster parents were equipped to deal with the severe crippling and mental retardation caused by Eduardo's birth defects).

Upon turning 16, Lucinda applied for and was granted emancipated minor status.  On her own for the first time, Lucinda immediately applied for custody of her brother, but was denied.  Unable to attain custody legally, Lucinda broke into Eduardo's foster home and kidnapped him.  In the process, she ran afoul of the foster father and hurt him badly (cracked sternum, broken femur, and lacerated internal organs), making her a fugitive in Arizona.  With her brother in tow, she managed to elude law enforcement and escape to Angel Falls, where she and her brother were first caught by the Freedom City Mob to be sold as slaves, then captured in an FBI sting operation.  Fearing that she would be recognized and separated from her brother again, Lucinda blasted her way free of holding and, in the process, also orchestrated a jailbreak.

Now wanted by the FBI, local police, and state police, Lucinda has been living in Angel Falls as, essentially, a non-entity, committing petty crimes for cash and paying for her needs without establishing any sort of line of credit.  She is very much lost in the woods, not entirely sure how to proceed.  She has a deep mistrust of authority, though, and so has been trying to find ways to capitalize on her powers to find an in with the super-powered criminal element in Angel Falls.

Scene From the Edge Outraged because of the release of Sharc Turko, Cyn ambushes the mob boss and kills him.  She manages to duck questioning by John Grady, but is shaken enough that she throws in, however temporarily, with the bokor known as Prince Amadi.  When the bokor betrays her, she joins forces with John in order to overpower and kill him.

When Angels Stoop: Cyn is given her first independent assignment by Papa Joe, which she initially botches.  Captured by the man she was supposed to strong-arm, she is beaten, then deposited on the streets where she is picked up by Angelo Troisi.  Angelo gets her to Tyche’s clinic and Alessia treats her.  Cyn does not wait to fully heal before insisting on going back to attempt to finish her assignment.  She is joined by Tyche and the two of them succeed, defeating Papa Joe’s hired hitman in the process.  Cyn returns to work for Papa Joe, but she nurses some resentment over her boss’s betrayal of her.

Nothing Up My Sleeve: Cyn breaks into The Losing Hand’s headquarters and is instrumental in rescuing Lisa Rand, the daughter of a wealthy magnate with shady, underworld connections.

Personality:   Lucinda is a mix of volatile emotions.  Fiercely loyal to her brother and determined to take care of him against a world that seems, to her, to be out to get them and determined to break them apart, Lucinda will do anything in her power, up to and including murder, in order to keep them together.  Lucinda likes to have things- having been raised in nearly perpetual poverty, yet surrounded by the benefits of wealth, Lucinda quickly learned that people with property and possessions were able to make themselves exempt from the rules that seemed to exist solely to bedevil her.  Finally, Lucinda is pretty insecure, and this is most evident in her violent and vengeful reactions to people that she feels have slighted her in any way.

Powers/Abilities:  Lucinda has several abilities that work in close conjunction to each other to make her a singularly dangerous foe.  First is her ability to intuit the physical weaknesses of anything she can see or hear; although the ability requires her to be able to perceive her target, she does not understand the information as visual or auditory data.

Her second power is moderate superhuman strength and speed, making her approximately three times faster than normal human maximum and capable of benching about a ton under optimum conditions. 

Her physical powers coupled with her ability to determine physical weaknesses alone could make her a particularly deadly foe, even to opponents much stronger or tougher than her, but all of that fails to take into account her most dangerous power: sonic projection.  Lucinda can generate waves of sonic force.  These can be tightly controlled and can vary in amplitude from as little as 5 dB to as loud as 180 dB.  For comparison, a whisper in a library is approximately 30 dB, while a gun blast is rated at 140 dB.  The death of exposed tissue occurs at 180 dB, while the loudest noise possible is posited to be 194 dB.  Used in conjunction with her ability to find weaknesses, Lucinda can instinctively determine resonant frequencies to truly devastating effects, including the shattering of bones, explosions of brittle objects, and the collapse of hardened structures.

Lucinda is smart and capable, approaching genius level in some, limited circumstances.  She is fluent in conversational Spanish and English, but her written English is poor and her written Spanish is nearly nonexistent.  Similarly, her practical knowledge of math and science is reasonably well-developed, but she has failed to go much beyond that, and her knowledge of theoretical science and math is grossly inadequate.

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Yet another bio revision!  This time, I played with Breakpoint and created an entirely new G3 model for her, gave her better boots, a belt, and altered her gloves some.  I think she's improved...

Breakpoint is my own creation, sole property of , and is currently active in and .

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Comments: 22

tclance96 [2024-03-25 05:37:14 +0000 UTC]

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WhisakedJak In reply to tclance96 [2024-03-25 05:43:06 +0000 UTC]

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tclance96 In reply to WhisakedJak [2024-03-25 05:43:52 +0000 UTC]

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kenfusion45 [2016-03-22 01:14:40 +0000 UTC]

Serennia would be very sympathetic to her situation. And she would be in a bit of trouble if she had to face Breakpoint in battle, since she takes 2x stun from sonic attacks

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WhisakedJak In reply to kenfusion45 [2016-03-23 00:18:39 +0000 UTC]

That would be awkward- especially since Cyn isn't the type to just use a sonic blast; she's the type to use a sonic blast at precisely the correct frequency aimed at the most usefully vulnerable spot she can find...

Let's try and arrange for them not to be in any blood-feuds for a little while, at least, okay?

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kenfusion45 In reply to WhisakedJak [2016-03-23 13:09:50 +0000 UTC]

I was wondering if the vulnerability detection worked with just physical attacks, or if it also helped with the sonic ones. Now I need wonder no more.

Dark Siren I don't go looking for trouble, but if a villain must be stopped, then a villain must be stopped.

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WhisakedJak In reply to kenfusion45 [2016-03-29 23:03:14 +0000 UTC]

It's one of the odd things about the way energy and matter interact.  And, I suppose, the fact that sonics is really manipulation of a physical force in any case...

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kenfusion45 In reply to WhisakedJak [2016-03-30 02:11:01 +0000 UTC]

Makes sense. Serennia would, if she knew Cyn's story, only fight her as a last resort in any case. She'd want to help in any way she could.

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WhisakedJak In reply to kenfusion45 [2016-03-31 05:34:23 +0000 UTC]

Another thing she and Tyche have in common... Tyche has something of an oddball relationship with Breakpoint, as well, as detailed in When Angels Stoop .

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The-Highlander [2016-03-21 12:17:46 +0000 UTC]

Cool updated profile, but I'm not sure if I'd call breakpoint a villain. She strikes me a bit more as a wildcard, someone who is doing bad things for a good reason, but with her own limits and morals. I wonder how she would react if someone like Angus offered her a job, particularly if he was able to sort out the problems with her brother.

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WhisakedJak In reply to The-Highlander [2016-03-21 14:58:46 +0000 UTC]

To be certain, she's on something of a journey of redemption, but I don't think she's quite made it far enough to be considered a wild card, yet.  She won't hesitate to hurt innocent people if Papa Joe tells her to; she might feel bad about it, but tears are pretty cheap currency when you get down to it.  The fact that she strongly distrusts legal authority- they were the ones that took her parents away when she was still just a little girl, and they tried to take Yayo away from her, too- makes her pretty ill-suited for any sort of regimented, government-sponsored team, although it might be interesting to have them keeping tabs on her and trying to keep her away from the worst of the trouble she could get into on her own...

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The-Highlander In reply to WhisakedJak [2016-03-23 18:19:34 +0000 UTC]

Fair enough although I would still hesitate to class her as a full villain. I hope she eventually manages to achieve redemption and find some security for herself and her brother. And if you need anyone to offer advice, a possible way out or alternatively put the fear of god into her then I might know a few people .

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WhisakedJak In reply to The-Highlander [2016-03-29 23:01:29 +0000 UTC]

It's the problem with the three-category system of classification.  If this were a role-playing game, I would be more inclined to have something like this placed on a sliding scale.  Better yet, I probably wouldn't include a stat for it at all, and just let the character's story define the character...

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Levia-the-Dragon [2016-03-21 07:03:02 +0000 UTC]

Mm, it does seem like she has been given a raw deal in life, but also approaches things with a rather simplistic and naïve mindset which really only seems to make things worse for her...

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WhisakedJak In reply to Levia-the-Dragon [2016-03-21 14:53:52 +0000 UTC]

Yup.  Her biggest failing, if you want to call it that, is that she makes bad choices.  Of course, in all fairness, she was separated from her parents when she was still very young.  Since she didn't have much in the way of guidance as a child, she never really developed healthy decision-making skills, and it's that weakness coupled with a pretty basic (and, yes, childish) disregard for anyone and anything that isn't in her immediate circle that causes her most of her trouble.

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Knight3000 [2016-03-21 03:01:53 +0000 UTC]

Good bio and piece Jak

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WhisakedJak In reply to Knight3000 [2016-03-21 14:48:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Knight!

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Knight3000 In reply to WhisakedJak [2016-03-21 16:26:39 +0000 UTC]

Np Jak

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Kmon13 [2016-03-20 19:49:05 +0000 UTC]

Good bio revamp and update.   

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WhisakedJak In reply to Kmon13 [2016-03-21 14:48:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Kmon- I see you've been following the links to read more about her, too- I appreciate that!

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Kmon13 In reply to WhisakedJak [2016-03-21 17:01:26 +0000 UTC]

Hey I added you to my watch and while I'm usually busy preparing my own stuff I make certain to read it and later give my comment ((while sometimes it usually late. )) to show I'm not just hitting the add to favorites buttion on a whim.   

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WhisakedJak In reply to Kmon13 [2016-03-23 00:20:56 +0000 UTC]

I appreciate it- I'm an attention-whore, so I love when people read my stuff!

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