Hero Datafile: Photon

Monica Rambeau is one of the most powerful heroes to ever carry the name Captain Marvel, and as Photon she’s become something even bigger: a living expression of the electromagnetic spectrum. A former harbor patrol lieutenant, longtime Avenger, and cosmic-level powerhouse, Monica can become light, radio waves, gamma rays, lasers, and nearly any other form of energy she can imagine.

Monica previously appeared in 50 State Initiative (FS106), but that was her when she was part of NextWave, not at the height of her power.

Photon

Monica Rambeau

Affiliations

Solo d10
Buddy d8
Team d6

Distinctions

Former Captain Marvel
Living Electromagnetic Spectrum
Avenger Who Knows Better

Power Set: Electromagnetic Transmutation

Cosmic Energy Control d12, Energy Blast d10, Flight d12, Superhuman Reflexes d10, Intangibility d10, Invisibility d10, Superhuman Senses d10

SFX: Command Presence. When creating an asset for allies through leadership, tactics, or battlefield direction, add a d6 and step up the effect die.

SFX: Living Light. When using Flight, or Intangibility, to avoid physical harm, spend 1 PP to ignore physical stress or trauma unless the attack can affect energy, radiation, magic, or phased targets.

SFX: Full Spectrum Assault. Add a d6 and keep an additional effect die for each additional target when using Energy Blast against multiple targets.

SFX: Wavelength Shift. Step up or double one Electromagnetic Transmutation power for one action. If the action fails, add a die equal to the normal rating of that power to the doom pool.

SFX: Coherent Lightform. Against attacks based on lasers, radiation, electricity, heat, light, radio waves, microwaves, or similar energy, convert the attacker’s effect die into a Spectrum Absorption asset instead of taking stress. Spend 1 PP to step up that asset.

SFX: Faster Than Thought. When using Flight or Superhuman Reflexes in a reaction, spend 1 PP to reroll all dice showing 1s and 2s.

SFX: Radiant Multipower. Use two or more Electromagnetic Transmutation powers in a single dice pool at -1 step for each additional power.

Limit: Human Anchor. Monica must maintain some sense of self while dispersed across the spectrum. Change Cosmic Energy Control, Intangibility, or Flight into a complication and gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity or remove the complication to recover the power.

Limit: Overload. Shutdown any Electromagnetic Transmutation power to gain 1 PP. Recover during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.

Limit: Wavelength Vulnerability. Earn 1 PP when attacks, traps, or complications specifically tuned to disrupt Monica’s current energy form step up stress or complications against her.

Specialties

Combat Master d10, Cosmic Master d10, Crime Expert d8, Menace Expert d8, Psych Expert d8, Vehicle Expert d8

Milestones

A Light No One Owns

1 XP when you assert your identity, authority, or chosen codename in the face of someone trying to define you by an old role.
3 XP when you reject an order, request, or expectation because it would make you less than who you’ve become.
10 XP when you either claim leadership of a major mission on your own terms or walk away from a title because the work matters more than the name.

Too Powerful to Stand Still

1 XP when you solve a problem with a creative use of Monica’s energy form rather than a direct attack.
3 XP when your power frightens, overwhelms, or alienates someone you were trying to help.
10 XP when you either unleash your full spectrum power to end a cosmic-scale threat at great personal cost or deliberately limit yourself so someone else can save the day.