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Whisper
(Alexis Devin)

Comics (http://www.writeups.org/category/comics/) Other Universes (http://www.writeups.org/category/comics/other-universes/) First Comics material

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Power Level: Street-level (http://www.writeups.org/power_level/street-level/)

Game system: DC Heroes Role-Playing Game

Role: Character (Heroic) (http://www.writeups.org/role/character-heroic/)

Context
First Comics was a major indie comics publisher during the 1980.It had an interesting output, with many memorable creator-owned books such as Nexus
(http://www.writeups.org/nexus-first-comics-mike-baron/), Grimjack (http://www.writeups.org/grimjack-first-comics-early/), American Flagg! (http://www.writeups.org/reuben-
flagg-american-chaykin-first-comics/), etc.

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Whisper isnt usually listed among these headliners, but it and Grimjack were my favs back then.It was a gritty action espionage thriller with an unusual anarchistic and
zen slant.
The following are super-old notes, done as a much younger fan during the early 1990s.Ill fully revisit them when I can, but these are what we got for now.

Powers and Abilities

At first, Whisper was just a smart girl well trained at aikido and some ninjutsu techniques.But she learned a lot as Whisper.

Near the end of the series was able to impersonate an international hitwoman with little trouble, mastering many weapons and assassination techniques.

While shes not the Question (http://www.writeups.org/question-comics-versions/), she became pretty good for a realistic character.Her aikido very quickly
became aikijutsu and steadily evolved toward taide/jujitsu forms.

History
Gee, thats horrendously complicatedWhisper is Diane Young, but this is a forged set of ID.She was born Alexis Devin.Alex was raised in Japan, where
Hatsumi Jiro, her grandfather, trained her in aikido and infiltration.Jiro was Yakuza, and had some long-term projects for Alex.
As a gaijin with poor social skills the girl was ostracised, and tried to defend herself against hostile Japanese schoolgirls.She later was sent back to America,
where she didnt fit in much better.She managed to get a little life, but still felt hollow inside.
She then got dragged into her father and her grandfathers criminal activities, and became Whisper.

Whispers in the dark

She thought that putting on a costume would make her a superhero, but what it really made her was a target.Her grandfather died.Her father was rendered a
vegetable, and later died.Kirk, her boyfriend and the only person she ever loved, was killed by the CIA due to his anarchist activities (hacking, nuclear research
and so on).
Alex faked her death and became Diane Young, fleeing to L.A..The only person from her past whos still alive is a friend from her college days, Lesa, who also
got a new identity.
Due to her skills, activities in the underworld, politics and proximity to Kirk, Whisper has had numerous problems with government agencies.These have
attempted to use her, to assassinate her, and managed to get her to conduct a few jobs.One right-wing CIA agent, Bain, even started developing a sexual
fixation on Whisper.He ran a sadistic game of death with her for a few years.
After having spent years fighting, escaping death and moving among spooks, killers, criminals and corrupt civil servants, Diane became quite efficient at
crimefighting.While shes not a superhero, she has a cause and fights on.

Description
Whisper is in her late 20s, with long brown hair and green eyes.Shes underweight, and moves in a nervous way.
Her fighting suit is a black ninja suit, leaving parts of her biceps and ribs bare, with a deep violet sash.

Personality
Diane Young (Whispers name for most of the series) is an angry, very intelligent young woman.Here non-conformism sometimes verges on what many people
would term insanity.She did not want to fight the government and the underworld, but ended up dragged in it anyway.
Diane, whom some might call an anarchist and a terrorist, hates TPTB, and knows they are corrupt.She has a very good political, historical and philosophical
culture behind those beliefs, and her anarchism is an intelligent, motivated one.
She hates everyone who preys on the life of people and manipulate them, and sees the underworld and the authorities as being one and the same.She wants to
protect the common people, even if they do not share her level of political awareness.

Misit
Diane has always been a hollow misfit, lacking people to relate to and not fitting in any crowd.Theres a transparent veil between her and the rest of the world.
Shes somewhat lost, and never truly knows what shes doing.Exceptions occur when shes reacting against some aggression, in which case shes very
effective, or acting on an impulse.

She loves silence and solitude.Diane once went on a vision quest in the middle of the desert because it felt like it.She lives in nearly empty apartments and
leave the door open, because its not important.If her (few) belongings are stolen, shell buy others.And if shes in the apartment when the thief come in she
can handle that.
She never had a social life, and sometimes has troubles relating with people.She has been known to pick confidants at random.Her lack of meaningful human
relations (as she put it : never love anyone) make her cat Sasha extremely important to her.
She also enjoys being able to disappear into darkness, be anonymous, not being in any file and generally being a ghost, the only way to be free.She sometimes
fly into rages, which somebody not knowing her will find incomprehensible.

DC Universe History
Whisper is a low-key character, and does not fit very well in a world full of highly public costumed characters.

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Game Stats DC Heroes RPG

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Whisper
Dex: 06 Str: 03 Bod: 04 Motivation: Seeking Justice

Int: 06 Wil: 04 Min: 05 Occupation: Vigilante

Inf: 03 Aur: 03 Spi: 03 Resources {or Wealth}: 007

Init: 017 HP: 020

Skills:
Acrobatics*: 06, Artist (actress): 04, Martial artist*: 06, Military science (camouflage, demolition): 04, Scientist (computers): 04, Thief: 07, Vehicles (land): 03,
Weaponry (firearms, melee, missile)*: 06
Advantages:
Buddy (Lesa), Intensive Training, Language (Japanese), Scholar (architecture).
Drawbacks:
Arch Enemy (Bain and the CIA ; Carcinero), Mistrust, Minor PI, Minor Rage, Secret ID.
Equipment:

Shortsword [BODY 08, EV 04 (07 w/Martial Artist)].

Shuriken (x4) [BODY 04, EV 02, Grenade Drawback].

By Sbastien Andrivet

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