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Main characters - Suppressors
Technically they sell suppressors - chemical compounds that suppress superpowers, but that's details.
Angeline/Big woman
Indeed big (approx 192 cm height), indeed woman. Born in 2000, in Dolgoprudny (town in Moscow suburbs). Grew up with grandmother that was invested in her childhood a lot. Attended all kinds of classes and had over 50 hobbies in her 20s, so she's better than average person in most things, but didn't master anything. Currently is invested in business management, kickboxing and developing her superpower - pocket dimension. Dyes her hair in all colors she finds nice, collects stuff in pocket dimension, survives apple-apocalypsis every summer.
Michael(Misha) / Andrey Tikhanovsky (alias) damn do I have a single good pic of him...
Metalhead dude with hyperactivity in one pocket and hyperempathy in another. Born in 2002 in Altufyevo (Moscow district) in police family (father, aunt, grandfather and two older brothers are in police). Hates police, went to nurse school (medical college), worked in hospitals very little. Has no superpowers, but out of compassion to people started helping troubled superpowered people and others. Has undiagnosed, untreated and violently denied ADHD. Climbs on anything he reaches, prefers gothic/doom metal, sprints books at overwhelming speed
Maxim (Max) Chernikov / Coolant
Ice dude, born in 2005 in Kotelniki (Moscow suburb town). Lacking exceptional talents and passions in life, besides extremely strong triad of ice powers: thermokinesis, low temperature water telekinesis and low temperature resistance. Attentive to details (not in perfectionist way, but notices thing people usually brush off). For lack of passion in life before superpowers now invests a lot in power development and suppression skills. Wears clothes inappropriate to weather, his superpowers made him photosensitive and gave him migraines, can't stop lying even if there is no reason to do that
Diana
Young grumpy accountant. Born in 2002. Reserved and closed to most people around her. Suppressive firm was her first real accounting job and she took it very seriously. Later her work goes from accounting to supply management. Most of time avoids superpowered shenanigans, but when faced with superpowered threat can, surprisingly for herself, protect herself with very violent methods. Doesn't like men, loves bread and hates crying, probably most sane/grounded character here
That's Angeline/Valerie relationships btw
most of pics old canon where Angeline is 198 cm tall, I think I should shrink her a little
They both pretend their relationships are purely transactional/sexual with no romance at all.
From Angeline's side it's: I don't think about Valerie constantly, it's her messing with my attention
And Valerie being as: of course I think about Angeline a lot, she's my business partner and you can't deny the bandit appearance of her. She might be dangerous!
Reality is that attention power doesn't work like that and that Angeline despite her menacing look and upbringing holds no bandit morals. Her friends from Dolgoprudny were mostly [kids of] nerds from MIPT
Ah yes, my favourite lesbian dynamic "toad fucked snake" (Ебала жаба гадюку)
How Angeline and Michael met
Tw stalking
One day, at time when Michael altruistically worked alone, he got a request from very scared man about his trouble with possibly superpowered person.
As Michael reached out to this man, he clearly saw incredible signs of stress and sleep deprivation. Man was shaking and mumbering about disappearing woman. Turns out, past 2 months this man was followed by some disappearing woman. It was hard to tell how she got in some places or how she got out, he never saw her actually disappearing, but more like coming from places people won't normally come out (think of coming from obviously blocked from inside balcony or closed corridor). He's on edge of mental breakdown and he claims that police and private security services think he's hallucinating. But he is sure that woman that follows him is real. She doesn't hurt him, she barely talks with him. Just follows, smiles, sometimes nods. But doesn't tell anything meaningful, who is she or what she wants.
Michael is close to dismissing this case, as man struggles to tell anything specific about the case, untill he notices someone shifting in reflections. Man desperately asks disappearing woman to explain herself or leave him alone, but she stays silent.
Michael got stupid advice when he was child: if something big and scary is coming, you can win time by confusing that thing. Do something weird: scream, sing song, declare poetry, etc. And that's exactly what he did.
With loud scream "baidarka" he turns around and grabs Angeline. She throws them both in pocket dimension and within seconds Michael is in completely different place with big woman looming over him.
— you're damn crazy guy. I love that! — Angeline said
And she pulled out Michael to the street. Leaving him with many questions and no answers what was that.
I might develop this writing further, but not now probably. That's just their first encounter.
Angeline got that strategy of exhausting people with stalking. It is conscious act of aggression, that she knows won't be restrained. Unfortunately she knows that from first hand as she was stalked for a while in her life. Later she also hires girl that can walk through the walls so she could be her professional stalker for intimidating people when she personally can't do that
Pocket dimension
I didn't think in lore terms if there are other kinds of pocket dimensions, but there is at least one of them and it's in possession of two characters: Angeline and Lisa (which is rarely mentioned and I discarded her out of story, so I won't talk about her, but she has similar set of abilities, just developed differently from Angeline)
Angeline's pocket dimension is sort of parallel world to main world, which is fully controlled by her. It's mostly empty, there are some objects that she brought from common world to pocket dimension. It takes a lot of spacial memory and processing for maintaining pocket dimension.
Full control means exactly that. She can change colour, temperature, gravity forces, shape, local geometry, creating surfaces, compressing and stretching it on her will. Thihgs are limited by her imagination, time, spatial processing capacity and personal preferences.
She didn't shape pocket dimension in sort of fantasy world. She uses pocket dimension mostly for teleportation trick, which requires a lot of free space. That's why her pocket dimension is void, with no "up" or "down". Her stuff is arranged in gigantic one sheet hyperboloid, which she stretches for her needs.
The scale of pocket dimension to real world is 1 to 1, unless owner reshaped it differently. That's why Angeline can use teleportation trick.
At basic level she can come in pocket dimension, move around obstacle in pocket dimension, come out of pocket dimension. This process is slow, but precise.
Other way is using compression. She goes to pocket dimension, moves point of desired destination to herself, takes a stel, warps pocket dimension to previous state, so she is in desired position instead of previous, and then she comes out of pocker dimension
pocket dimension's functions
I realised that writing whole mechanics is problematic, so I just write what happens on surface level .
Angeline can:
Pull in and pull out objects in/out of pocket dimension, including people
Teleport
Preserve momentum when moving across pocket dimension
Find shelter for prolonged period of time in pocket dimension
Win time by putting people in pocket dimension, as it slows down physiological processes and it's practically impossible to die inside pocket dimension
Confuse people that are not aware of time perception distortions in pockef dimension (minutes feel like days, days might feel like an hour. Without anchoring to real clock it's impossible to judge time inside pocket dimension)
Her weaknesses regarding pocket dimension:
Spatial blindness. If you're inside pocket dimension you can't tell how exactly it's space corresponds to main world, unless you memorise it or derive that understanding from your own cues
Disorientation. Anything that might cause spatial disorientation will cause troubles with pocket dimension. From alcohol and psychic attacks to those weird vestibular illusions (quite a rabbit hole I should say)
Momentum preservation. Both strength and curse. Pocket dimension has no friction, so preserving momentum might give strategic difficulties
time blindess
No collision protection. No actual experiment on human collision was done, so it's unknown what might happen with person, including Angeline. Objects that are stuck inside other objects due to pocket dimension teleportation tend to be torn in pieces that are flying pff with high speed (think of source engine object collision, but on atomic level)
Angeline can't leave or enter pocket dimension if she's unconscious
Lack of connection. No internet, cellular communications, radio waves or other means of communication can reach pocket dimension or out of it.
Characters that can oppose Angeline (in terms of superpower, not actual combat):
Michael, as someone who knows how pocket dimension works and Angeline's personal limits
Valerie. Attention control allows her to determine where Angeline is about to go within moments. Also attention control might predict possible object that would be brought in this world.
Sonya. Her radar sense and agility go toe-to-toe with Angeline's speedof teleportation, allowing her to catch her before Angeline can strike.
Angeline uses little squishy foam ball as her anchor in pocket dimension and as her fidget toy. It's often seen how she juggles this ball through pocket dimension.
And Michael for long time thinks that this particular ball has some special meaning for Angeline or her superpower and is very worried when she loses it first time. He tried studying that ball, thinking that some secrets of Angeline's power are hidden in it.
But there's nothing. It's just a foam ball with smiling face. Actually Angeline has like 3 of them and loses them once a day at least
the silliest idea I have for character is that Angeline's personality is shaped a lot by russian anime culture. She had long and raging Black butler phase, probably doing mediocre cosplays with her friends.
And other thing I think of is that she had long crush for Dante from DMC and in part her eh "personal iconic look" with white hair and scarlet jacket is a nod to her fangirling over Dante.
The hard part here is that I didn't watch Black butler and didn't play dmc. And I can't tell exactly how it rewires your brain chemistry when you're teen