Dee Dee Diablo
From Handbook of the Union Universe
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| The Last Word publicity shot of Dee Dee Diablo | |
| Dee Dee Diablo | |
| Player: Romanov | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Blaster |
| Level: | Rising |
| Primary Set: | Fire Blast |
| Secondary Set: | Electric Melee |
| Epic Set: | N/A |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Secret (Even her mom has called her Dee Dee since birth, the Diablo was added when she joined the pop punk girl band Toxic Shock Syndrome at the age of 17). |
| Identity: | Until September 2007, it was not widely known that Dee Dee Diablo of The Last Word is a hero. Now, anyone who read that month's issue of the New Paragon Inquirer will know that she is a hero, a member of Silent Tempest and have a somewhat biased knowledge of her history and character. |
| Aliases: | Her friends call her Dee. The music press often refer to her as the Devil, for example in recent articles Symphony for the Devil, Giving The Devil Her Due and Hell Hath No Fury. |
| Species: | Nephilim |
| Date of Birth: | June 6 |
| Age: | 22 |
| Height: | 5'5" |
| Weight: | 106lbs |
| Build: | Heroin chic slim |
| Eye Colour: | Violet |
| Hair Colour: | Purple (natural colour black) |
| Skin Complexion: | Pale and interesting |
| Distinguishment: | Several tattoos: including burning, chained angel on her back; demonic horns on pelvis; barbed wire on upper arms; Hellion goat's head tattoo high on left shoulder; black sheep on ankle; "IX" in the centre of tribal wings in the small of her back; and an intimate tattoo only known to her current partner Nene McAllister on the inside of her left thigh. She also has scars from being shot twice; one in her left buttcheek, the other passing through the left side of her midriff. |
| Medical Status: | Despite years of drug use, excessive smoking and drinking, as well as several injuries, Dee is a fit and healthy young woman |
| Financial Status: | Hand to mouth, although The Last Word is bankrolled by Jay Reynolds |
| Religion: | Second generation lapsed Catholic |
| Sexuality: | Bisexual |
| Marital Status: | Currently in an exclusive relationship with Nene MacAllister |
| Known Relatives: | Margaret Dublin (Mother), Samyaza (Father), Annabel Bright (Half-sister), Diana Bright (Diana is a descendent of Dee's father, but Dee refers to her as her sister.) |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian |
| Legal Status: | Criminal record apparantly wiped on behalf Hero Corps, is publically known to have been arrested several times while with the band Dead Birthday Clown for drug offences, drunken behaviour and desecration of a national monument |
| Place of Birth: | Ladies restroom, CBGB Club, New York |
| Education: | High School drop out |
| Occupation: | Musician, practical music teaching assistant at Paragon University |
| Group Affiliations: | Silent Tempest, The Last Word, The Hellions |
| Base of Operations: | Paragon City, Silent Tempest base |
| Residency: | Shared apartment in SwallowTail House, Talos Island |
| Known Powers | |
| Fire and electricity manipulation | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Tortured genius songwriter and accomplished bass player, moderate dirty fighter using such techniques as the King's Row Kiss and the Galaxy Cock Punch. | |
| Equipment | |
| Bass guitar, switchblade, cellphone, lightweight armour, pack of smokes | |
| Awards and Collections | |
| Was featured in the top ten future rock gods feature Hotter Than Hell in Ax Idol Magazine. Has featured three times in the Stigma Magazine regular feature Rate My Rock Chick, the last time being joint first with her bandmate Lady Cacophony | |
| Licenses and Certificates | |
| Granted Hero Licence by special arrangement with Hero Corps. | |
| IC Accessibility of Article | |
| Some of the marterial here is available in New Paragon Inquirer, Stigma Magazine, Ax Idol and other magazine articles. | |
Dee Dee Diablo was created in response to Gorbaz's concept of a supergroup that was a rock band. Initially, a brash, foul-mouthed gutterpunk she has developed into a much more sympathetic character who is trying to prove herself and understand what it is to be a hero. She started to blossom when introduced to Silent Tempest through Coile. There is plently of Dee IC material on the forums of The Militia, Silent Tempest and Hyperion Watchmen.
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[edit] Affiliations
- Girlfriend of Nene MacAllister
- Friend/bandmate of Lady Cacophony
- Friend/bandmate of Alice Springs
- Student of Shadowplay
- Friend of Diana Bright
- Friend/roommate of Chiaroscuro
- Band managed by Jay Reynolds/Crimson Archer
- Former lover of Ethan Ink
- Daughter of Samyaza
- Member of Silent Tempest, The Last Word and Fourth Wall.
[edit] Personality and Motivation
Dee Dee Diablo is a dichotomy. To many she can seem a foul-mouthed gutterpunk but beneath the service is a young woman going through turmoil as she tries to abandon her former life of easy thrills and become a good person. And more than that, a hero.
Most will know her as the bass player and songwriter of up and coming punk band The Last Word. Others will know her as a member of the supergroup Silent Tempest The ideals of what it is to be a hero are something she is discovering and striving for every day. Her sometimes black and white take on what is right can often lead her into confrontation with others such as The Militia and even her own super group leader Andre Kraft. It is him, perhaps, she is trying to prove herself to most of all. Three people in particular have recognised the honest ambition of Dee to change her life, and Diana Bright, Nene McAllister and Shadowplay have become great sources of inspiration and comfort to her.
A constant source of fear and doubt in Dee’s mind is the source of her power. She worries that perhaps her father, who her mother claims she cannot remember, was a demon or some other evil entity. She often has attacks of doubt when she believes she is destined to be evil. However, her friends and the mage Powerstone have done much to convince her that it is she who chooses her actions and destiny.
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[edit] Powers
Dee has inhereted her powers from her father, the fallen angel Samyaza. They seem to be connected to her mood, becoming stronger when she is afraid or in danger, and even uncontrollable when she is angry.
[edit] Primary Powers
Dee can summon and wield infernal flames. The fire she produces behaves in much the same way as normal fire, but it seems to cause more pain before it damages flesh. She can often overcome an opponent yet only cause superficial burns. Her powers have other uses too, and Dee's favourite party trick is to light a cigarette by blowing a kiss at the person holding it. Her powers also seem to have given her an inherent resistance to fire and heat.
[edit] Secondary Powers
Dee is able to create the power of lightning, focused through her fists and sometimes in her surrounding area. She has far less control over this ability than her fire powers, and tends to only use these powers if she is overwhelmed at close quarters.
[edit] Additional Powers and Power Pool
Dee's training with the experienced hero Shadowplay have resulted in increased physical prowess and combat skills. Dee is becoming stronger and faster by the day and can handle herself in combat against moderate foes even without her powers. Shadowplay is also teaching her the art of stealth and concealment, which she is picking up slowly.
[edit] Travel
Dee is able to superheat the air beneath her feet to travel at great speeds. She doesn't understand how; it just happens.
[edit] Abilities
As a lyricist she is possibly destined to be remembered as one of the most insightful voices of her age. Although explicit, her lyrics have a haunting beauty and honesty, which one critic describing her lyrics as “the poetry of the gutter”.
Due to her training by Shadowplay, Dee has moderate athletic and unarmed combat skills.
She also has skills associated with a petty criminal, such as picking locks and hotwiring cars.
Dee also has a tremendous capacity for alcohol. She's not one of these metahumans who drinks and doesn't get drunk (what's the point?). Oh no, she gets drunk. Very drunk. But she'll be standing, drinking and being drunk long after most people have passed out, gone home or been hospitalised.
[edit] Vulnerabilities
Dee’s powers being connected to her emotions sometimes causes problems. She has set fire to the kitchen of her apartment and one of the sofas in the Tempest base when her powers have manifested in the heat of the moment.
Her self-doubt is her main vulnerability. Sometimes she thinks she is not worthy of being a hero or that she is destined to do evil rather than good.
She has experienced massive changes in her personality, causing her friends to fear for her and their safety, when she has been close to things connected with her father Samyaza.
Dee is a very bad driver. You might die.
[edit] Equipment
[edit] Musician
- Recently purchased 1973 vintage Guild M85 II black bass guitar
- Trademark Alembic Rogue 5-string bass guitar with skull and crossbones motif
- 1980s Marshall JCM 800 1x12 combo amplifier
- Battered acoustic guitar
- Black notebook in which she writes all her lyrics and ideas
- At least one pack of cigarettes
[edit] Hero
- Lightweight body armour; including protective chest plate, spine protector and ceramic insert plates
- Silent Tempest comm link
- Cellphone with camera
- Concealed switchblade she affectionately calls Mr Stabby
- Small gavel/hammer she users when acting as chairgirl for Monday night Silent Tempest meetings
[edit] Character History
[edit] New York City Years
But it didn’t quite turn out like that. After years of being cared for by bar staff and cloakroom attendants while her mom, Margaret Dublin, checked out the latest bands, her emersion in music came to an end at the age of six. Her mom, suffering from depression, stopped hitting the clubs and the rest of Dee’s childhood was spent in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn, often with whatever loser boyfriend her mom had hooked up with.
Dee wasn’t an exceptional student not a particularly bad one. She was just unremarkable. One of her teachers noticed an aptitude for music, but her mom could never afford to pay for lessons to nurture her gift. At the age of 14, things changed. A drunken Riley Hoyt, her mom’s current man, came into Dee’s room in the middle of the night and forced himself on her. He left the next day for good, and Dee’s mom didn’t believe her. Rather she blamed her for breaking up the family and trying to steal her man. It was on that day that the persona of Dee Dee Diablo was born, although she would not adopt the name for another three years.
Dee became a tortured wild child and between the ages of 14 and 17 racked up a string of arrests and warnings for arson, vandalism, theft and drug offences. She dropped out of school, choosing instead to follow her own education path in rock music. She hung around with the various bands on the underground music scene, scoring drugs or performing sexual favours in return for hanging out with the bands and being taught how to play.
[edit] Toxic Shock Syndrome
At the age of 17, Dee joined up with two other girls to form her first band. It was at this time she took the name Dee Dee Diablo. Toxic Shock Syndrome, with Dee Dee on bass, Daisy Cutter on guitar and Janie Gunn on drums, became known far more for their hellraising antics than their music. They mainly performed covers when they were lucky enough to get a gig, and vocal duties would fall on the girl sober enough to remember enough lyrics to get by. Daisy was Dee’s first real partner, although they were by no means exclusive and had an unwritten agreement that it was fine to sleep with other men but not women as that would be cheating.
Dee and Daisy co-wrote one original song I Kill Cheerleaders, which achieved recognition many years later when it was used by a TV network during coverage of the trial of serial killer Duane Lee Miller. Toxic Shock Syndrome lasted only eight months. The cracks were already starting to show as Dee Dee wanted to focus more on the music and wanted to be taken more seriously. It came to a sudden end when Janie Gunn died from a heroin overdose at a party at Dee and Daisy’s apartment. Both girls were arrested and questioned about the death and the drugs. It turned out that Daisy came from a rich family, her real name was Jennifer Clayton, and her lawyer convinced her to say that it was Dee who bought the drugs. The charges were eventually dropped, but the affair signalled the end of the band and Dee’s relationship with Daisy. They have not spoken since.
[edit] Dead Birthday Clown
A chance meeting in a corridor, which led to a chance fuck in the restroom, with Ethan Ink led to her being given an audition when bass player Ross Fay left the band Dead Birthday Clown.
She was a member of Dead Birthday Clown (often referred to as DBC) for more than a year, which included extensive touring of America, supporting Green Day on a European tour and recording the band’s first album Paranoia Infested Waters. The band were perpetually on the verge of breaking through to the big time, with singles Kill Your Parents, Touched by Teacher and Better Living Through Chemicals just failing to chart. The band achieved fame beyond their musical success, as Ethan Ink became the tattooed, black-haired poster boy of the burgeoning emo rock scene. Ethan and Dee were regular fodder for the music press.
During this time, Ethan and Dee were lovers. Dee thought it was true love but she eventually found out that Ethan was using his celebrity status to sleep with the majority of their fanbase, both male and female. She hung around in a blind attempt to make things work both in her relationship and the band. During these emotionally wrought times, she wrote the song Intravenous, about a person addicted to another person who is damaging their life. Ethan made a few minor changes and the band recorded the track.
Eventually she couldn’t take the pain of Ethan’s casual infidelity anymore and left the band. Rather than fight for the rights to the song Intravenous she made a clean break. Four months later, Intravenous was the number one song in the chart and Dead Birthday Clown became one of the biggest bands in the country. Dee was not credited as the writer of the song and didn’t earn a single cent.
Ross Fay rejoined the band. The line up of Ethan Ink (vocals), Ross Fay (bass), Alice Beacher (violin and keyboards), James McCreedy (guitar) and Robbie McCreedy (drums) has since remained unchanged.
It was almost three years until Dee saw Ethan again. Dead Birthday Clown were due to play the Paragon 49ers Stadium and he asked her to meet him. Although the second Rikti war saw the concert cancelled, Ethan still made the meet. He told her that he had changed his wild, substance-abusing, selfish ways and wanted to atone for the way he had treated her. He showed her the new issue of Ax Idol magazine. In an article called Giving the Devil Her Due, he confessed that she had written the song. He said that giving her the royalties before she got her own shit sorted would be a mistake and that the money will be held in trust for her until she is 30.
[edit] Hex Addiction
After leaving Ethan Ink and Dead Birthday Clown, took a break from music for several months. Her only concession was starting a book of thoughts which she would often put together as complete songs or just a verse or a few lines that she liked.
She worked in bars and music stores, which made her split from music harder to bare and she was soon looking for another band. She always saw Hex Addiction as a temporary gig, not really feeling the relatively small wiccan/goth rock scene. She knew they wouldn’t be into her hard-edged confessional lyrics, and left song writing duties to the band’s lead singer, Selena Hex.
The played a few gigs and festivals, but after a few weeks Selena became increasingly absent only showing up for the last minute for performances. Her excuse that the record company, Domination Records, had put her in touch with a major rock star who was helping her write some songs. She had been sworn to secrecy about his identity.
When she presented the band with the new song, Open the Gate, Dee wasn’t overly impressed. She was, however, excited that the band were part of the line-up for the Domination Records-sponsored rock festival in Baltimore, Dominational.
The premiered Open the Gate at Dominational, and that was when the shit hit the fan.
Dee cannot remember much of what happened. She remembers the crowd screaming. A circle of swirling flames appearing above the stage. People from the crowd rising into the air and being sucked into the flaming sphere. And her own hands erupting into flames. But she didn’t burn. The fire was part of her. All she could think was to unleash the fire at the sphere. Then she blacked out.
When she awoke, the stage and surrounding field were dead. Dozens were missing, more were dead including all of the band members save for her and Selena. But Selena just stared at where the sphere had been with dead eyes, her mind broken.
[edit] From Hell into the Tempest
She fell in with a bad crowd, namely a Hellion crew led by an ambitious Damned called Flashfire. Dee and Flashfire became an item and she became an accomplice to many of their illegal activities. But once again her love of music led her to find another band. She answered an ad placed by Alice Springs in Stigma magazine which led to her becoming a member of The Last Word. As her involvement with the band grew she started to drift from the Hellions and formed a strong friendship with benefits with bandmate Desiree Bell.
Things changed suddenly when she was arrested with several members of Flashfire’s gang. She was visited by HeroCorps representative Dave Caffrey who offered her a deal. He told her that she was still a suspect in the Baltimore inquiry, but he could make that and her latest charges disappear if she agreed to work for them. He told her that several record companies had hired HeroCorps to investigate someone in the music scene who is planning something. He would not give her details but told her to continue playing with The Last Word and be ready for further instructions. He also supplied her with a Hero Licence. (NB Freedom Corps were actually behind this deal but through the rebellious Dee would be more inclined to take the offer from a private company).
This became a turning point in Dee’s life. After walking out of the police station, she wanted to change her life for the better. She couldn’t explain it, but felt that all the bad was out of her system and it was time to help other people. She started using her powers, along with her The Last Word bandmates who unsurprisingly for Paragon also had powers, to fight crime.
A chance meeting with Andre Kraft in Pocket D made her think that perhaps she had found someone who could be her guide in her attempts to become a better person. A hero. Although things haven’t quite turned out that way, Andre’s super group Silent Tempest has become a big part of her life.
She has accepted the responsibility of chairing Tempest meetings and has even led her own mission teams, usually favouring Love Angel and Nene MacAllister when putting together Team Dee (see picture).
[edit] The Rapture
This part of Dee's life is the subject of an ongoing Tempest/Community roleplay plot and will be updated soon.
[edit] Another View
The Devil in Miss Dee Dee story by Anna Sharma
THE LATEST addition to the rogues gallery in the loosely and indeed offensively termed “super group” Silent Tempest is a gang member, junky and sexual deviant, The New Inquirer can exclusively reveal today.
Not only is Dee Dee Diablo, 22, a known associate of an incarcerated Hellion leader, she has left a string of damaged lives in a wake during a life of repeatedly sticking one finger up to decent, law-abiding citizens like our readers.
Sordid sex Svengali Andre Kraft has earned a well-deserved reputation for recruiting misfits, malcontents and barely legal teenage girls to his crackpot cult.
But this time even the man who proudly refers to himself as Coitus Kraft has gone too far in recruiting a member of the diabolical street gang who has a string of crimes and misdemeanours to her frankly satanic sounding name, including numerous arrests for drug offences, drunk and disorderly behaviour and, most sickening of all, desecration of a National Monument.
Even her mother has nothing good to say about this wayward street punk, who is tainting the minds of your children as the leader of a popular “punk rock” band.
Margaret Dublin, 53, of New York, said she was horrified when her intelligent, obedient daughter turned into a promiscuous and violent devil.
Ms Dublin is a woman broken by her daughter’s behaviour scraping money together each day to buy alcohol to numb the pain and shame.
Our reporter found her in some rundown gin joint where she said: “She betrayed me, there is no other word for is. We were a happy family and I had found myself a good man. But I found out that she had seduced my boyfriend into her bed. Although she was only 14, she always seemed to be older than her years and I can’t blame him for being tempted. I mean, what kind of girl steal’s her mother’s man?
“It was all downhill from there. Almost overnight she turned from a good daughter who was doing well at school to a teenage delinquent. Every other night, the cops would be at my door with Dee Dee saying she’d set fire to this, stolen that or was out of her mind on drink. I don’t know where she learnt that kind of behaviour.”
Diablo has an arrest sheet that would fill an edition of the Paragon City’s best and brightest daily newspaper by itself.
She has been arrested and cautioned by law enforcement officers across the country for drug use and possession, violence and drunken behaviour.
She was even charged with the desecration of a National Monument when she was caught on the Tomb of the Unknown Hero in an act, that we as a family newspaper can only call “sexual activity”, with emo pin-up Ethan Ink of the band Dead Birthday Clown.
And it was out of the frying pan into the fire of Hell when Diablo hit Paragon and hooked up with one of the city’s most troublesome gangs.
One Hellion member spoke out, we have called him Jark Mones, to protect his identity.
He said: “It is true that Dee Dee Diablo was one of our gang. In fact, come to think of it, it was her who gave me the idea to do the crimes what I have been accused of.”
And there are those in the music industry who believe that Diablo and her band The Last Word are a destructive influence on the tender minds of our youth.
For example, Marion Goodwill, of Christian radio station WWJD, said: “There are those that think this girl is some sort of genius, urban street poet. But those people are wrong. Disgusting songs like Slip of the Tongue and Chemical Burn should be banned. When our forefathers defended every American’s right to free speech, I am darn sure they would not have meant this dirty bird. Won‘t somebody think of the children?”
Won’t somebody think of the children indeed. What society is this when perverted individuals like Andre Kraft and Dee Dee Diablo can pull on a pair of tights and say they want to protect us? Well, we at the Inquirer say “not in our name” and today call for tougher legislation on hero licensing.
[edit] Dee & Nene
Dee is in an exclusive relationship with the gynoid Nene MacAllister. Their relationship has developed through in game roleplay, msn sessions and forum roleplay. The forum pieces make quite entertaining reads, and you are welcome to take a look by clicking the following links:
House of A - The Visitor This takes place the morning after the first time Dee and Nene slept together. It shows how Nene is different from Dee’s normal casual partners and gives an early indication of how their relationship will develop.
Rescues and Revelations As well as being quite an exciting adventure in the midst of the Rikti invasion, this thread ends with Nene revealing that she is an artificial intelligence. It sees a new honesty in their relationship; a theme that keeps coming back particularly regarding Dee.
Dee’s Dinner Date with Destiny Here we have Dee and Nene exploring the non-sexual side of their relationship. It starts out as being one of the happiest nights of Dee’s life until her old life comes crashing in to spoil it. Although it’s a rough ride it ends with them closer than ever.
Weekends at the House of A This one as it all; karaoke, sake bombs and a menacing phone call from the past that kicks of the community/Silent Tempest Rapture roleplay plot.
The Pits Over 18s only for this one please.
[edit] Images and Inspiration
[edit] Musical Influences
When we first started up The Last Word as a concept we discussed which possible bands they could be compared to. Although The Last Word are harder and more explicit, Damone were an early inspiration. Later, User:Blackdove pointed me in the direction of Die So Fluid and Bif Naked. I'd never heard of the former, and the superficial similarities between Lady G and Dee are spooky, right down to the skull and crossbones on the five string bass. Later additions include Paramore and Queen Adreena; but basically The Last Word have always been described as genre blurring, and hopefully people hear their own sound in their heads when they read about their gigs etc.
[edit] Artwork
Like many Silent Tempest characters, Dee Dee has been imortilised by User:Blackdove
[edit] House of A
Dee Dee is one of the characters in the comic House of A by the talented User:Blackdove. It is a fictionalised work loosly based on in game happenings.
[edit] Publications
As a hero and a musician, Dee has appeared in magazine and newspaper articles.
New Inquirer: The Devil in Miss Dee Dee
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