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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: July
AGE: 25
JOURNAL:julyflame
IM / EMAIL: JulyFlame@gmail.com
PLURK: JulyFlame
RETURNING: New!
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Bianca Reyes
CHARACTER AGE: Adults don't get definite ages in comics land. She's definitely in her late thirties, early 40s, though. I'm going with 38, just to have something to do math off.
SERIES: Blue Beetle, preboot DC
CHRONOLOGY: Immediately after issue #31.
CLASS: Hero!
HOUSING: Anywhere is fine, with her husband preferably.
BACKGROUND:
Additional context: The third Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes
Bianca Reyes
Bianca's life was fairly normal- she grew up as part of a large extended Hispanic family, went to school for nursing, married, had two kids, and was raising them with her husband in El Paso, Texas. Normal life: the kids picking on each other as siblings are wont to do, her teenaged son beginning to exert himself in pushing his own boundaries, and juggling the responsibilities of work and parenthood with Alberto.
Then, her son disappeared, and normal life stopped. No one knew where he went, or what happened.
It marked the start of a year from hell.
The police questioning and investigation led to one of her son's closest friends ending seriously hospitalized due to the girl's father, and the other- without either Jaime or Brenda around- slipping into one of the local gangs.
At the garage Alberto owned and ran, one one of the employees-Luis- had serious problems with addiction, and the only reason her husband hadn't fired the man yet was because of his family. When people showed up at the garage to get to Luis, Alberto stepped in, and, for his trouble, he ended up getting shot and seriously injured.
Even after surgery and physical rehabilitation, the garage had to be shut down and sold off, leaving the Reyes family reliant on Bianca's sole income as a nurse.
Then, one night, she woke up to Milagro screaming. When she and Alberto entered the room, her son was standing there, wearing dirty raggedy clothing thinking he had been gone for only a night, and Jaime wasn't aware until they told him that it was one year later.
Her and her family's life had been changed with Jaime's disappearance, and his return ended up marking just how much normal life had ended for them all. He told them about suddenly having something fused to his spine, which gave him armor and superpowers, being dragged through a portal from his bedroom at night by a superhero to help other superheroes save the world on a mission into space and, after helping, ending up fighting a Green Lantern when he found himself back on Earth again.
She thought it was a completely crazy story; while superheroes exist, why their son? How could he be gone for a whole year? El Paso was hundreds of miles away from the nearest city with any superheroes, and superheroes were something only on TV or in the news. Nothing that really had anything to do with her, her family, or even her city.
And then, to prove it, her son vanished underneath black and blue armor, which immediately terrified her daughter into running out of the house to get away from him. It proved his crazy, unbelievable story, but it also created a temporary rift in the family; they had already gone through so much with him disappearing. Instead of just getting Jaime back, or even closure regarding his vanishing, they got something alien that returned with him that only led to more questions, worries, and fears.
After doctor’s visits (which showed nothing, to her aggravation), resettling her son back into normal life, and eventually getting the full story out of Jaime in the desert (which brought Milagro around to no longer being afraid of her brother and knocked the sense back into Bianca) life settled into being almost normal. That is, besides the fact that her son was El Paso’s newest and first superhero.
And then the Reach showed up. The originators of the Scarab which gave Jaime all these powers and the armor, they were a race of aliens- the first to appear to play by the rules, instead of instigating another invasion of Earth set to conquer or destroy it. The key word there, of course, is ‘appear’. Her son slowly uncovered that,in actuality, the scarab was a device intended to help them take over Earth and make it part of their empire, and completely subsume the human (and non-human) population present.
For the most part, Bianca and the rest of the Reyes family support Jaime throughout his series. When a battle against a supervillain reveals to Jaime’s friend Brenda that her aunt and guardian Amparo Cardenas was the local powerful cartel boss La Dama, Bianca is the one who approaches her to console her and offer her a place to stay with the Reyes. Her husband talks Amparo out of it when the woman comes to try and force Brenda to talk to her. Between the two of them they help prevent further damage from happening to the only familial relationship that one of their son's best friends has.
Jaime comes up with a plan to stop the Reach’s slow but still oncoming invasion of Earth; however, Bianca and her husband tried to convince him against doing it, in fear that they’d lose him- this time for good. Unfortunately, they had raised him too well, and he managed to convince them despite their worries, using words about choice and the importance of being able to choose to convince them— words he had learned from his father.
The Reach blew up the Reyes home with the Reyeses, Brenda and Paco still inside in an attempt to stop Jaime, but fortunately the well timed arrival of Traci 13 (Jaime’s girlfriend, who Bianca didn’t know he was dating) to introduce herself to the family prevented it from being a fatal one. The Reach sent fighters to Earth to take care of them for good, which resulted in a firefight against Alberto, Bianca, La Posse (the gang Jaime’s friend Paco belonged to), Amparo and her people for the lives of the Reyes family. That cemented exactly how deadly being a superhero could be to those around them.
The arrival of former Justice League International members (superheroes who had been friends and colleagues of the previous Blue Beetle) stopped the attack before the Reach were able to overpower them and resulted in Jaime being saved (at the very last second) from a very explosive death in space.
Once it was all over, the Reyes family had fully accepted Jaime's role as a superhero, and so had El Paso, putting the family
PERSONALITY: Bianca Reyes is a loving, generous mother, who greatly cares for her family and friends, and isn't afraid of supporting them even when things are hard, much like much of the rest of her family.
She is compassionate and filled with inner strength- this isn’t evident just because of her connection with her family, but because of the work she does. As an ER nurse, Bianca frequently deals with people who have all sorts of injuries and illnesses, but maintains professional composure and cares for the patients she helps with, despite the hecticness and mental fatigue that can come with such a job on a day-to-day basis.
That said, between her and her husband, Bianca is the firebrand of the pair, where Alberto is much calmer in temperament. Inasmuch as they take the roles, Bianca usually plays the ‘bad cop’ to her husband’s ‘good cop’, the one in charge of shouting at their children, laying down the law, and generally setting the limits for what they can and can’t do, though they share in it.
While more than willing to be friendly, Bianca isn’t afraid of confronting and chewing out others; for example, when Guy Gardner shows up at the Reyes house, she welcomes him in since he wants to talk to Jaime-- who immediately attacks him. Bianca immediately begins to lecture Jaime on the misuse of superpowers, and then proceeds to cow Guy after catching him preparing to punch her son with a giant green fist constructed with his ring. She also wasn’t afraid of dealing with Peacemaker when he regained consciousness in the hospital she works at. He was confused, violent, and unwell, but still able to cause harm. Admittedly, that's partially because she injected him with enough sedatives to knock him out in seconds, and partially because that’s just the sort of person she is. When some men entered the hospital and created a hostage situation in order to kidnap a few patients there, she proceeded to try and chew them out for endangering lives, despite the fact that they were armed, which resulted in her being knocked down. She does what she needs to do do her job, which is caring for others.
Her temper— which definitely exists- usually manifests in short and brief bursts. For all the shouting and yelling, she loves her family and cares about them deeply, but when she becomes seriously angry, she is a forced to be reckoned with. Once she decides on something, that’s it. It takes a lot of work to change her mind.
Like her son, Bianca has a very concrete sense of what is right and wrong, and is willing to stand up for what is right against those who are doing right, and is capable of adding in twists of ingenuity along the way. There aren’t very many 'normal' people out there willing to take up the fight against an alien invasion or call out bad guys for kidnapping ill and dying men from their care; even after being slapped to the ground for calling them out, she still fought back and even used an MRI machine as a weapon— something that is absolutely not a normal use for those machines.
Despite being a nurse, she has no problem with at least attempting to use deadly force. During the Reach's minor invasion of El Paso in an attempt to wipe her family out, her husband- a former soldier- wasn't the only one in the family who was wielding an assault rifle. Bianca joined in too, trying her best to make sure that Milagro, Paco, and Brenda stayed safe.
Of course, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have her vulnerabilities: she’s still a very normal human woman. Thanks to luck and circumstances, Bianca has been forced into events and things that until very recently were completely out of her realm of experience, and often tried to deal with it with stubbornness and refusal. When her son first disappeared, she didn’t want to believe it was to do with him, his friends, or their family. Instead, she elevated her son- already a good kid- placing him on a pedestal, which made his return- and the circumstances around it- that much harder to take. It wasn't until later (but fortunately not much later) that she realized that as hard as it had been for her, that it had been even harder for him, especially with her initial reaction to his return. After that, she used her stubbornness to help her son and family not get completely sucked into being dragged into the world of superheroes, while her husband kept everything even-keeled. If Jaime was going to be a superhero, it wasn't going to be at his or their family's expense.
POWER: Chancla summoning. So a thing in Latino households is the threat of la chancla getting used on you by the mother or even grandmother. Chanclas are basically sandals or flats used inside the house, essentially. This power will give Bianca the ability to summon from nowhere a variety of sandals, usually ready to grab in hand. Anger or severe distraction will also be able to cause them to appear and hit the person she's angry at or thinking about.
The chanclas themselves are completely normal and random in form, style, and size, though may pop out the second in a pair if the chancla summoning is done again immediately.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ A Hispanic woman— olive-brown skin, glossy black hair pulled back into a pony tail—is visible, and looking very clearly unhappy— on the verge of anger, really.]
I would love to know what makes people think it's fine to go around kidnapping people and force them into helping with their own goals, especially when it involves giving them crazy powers and dragging them out of their normal lives.[Especially now that this seems to be a recurring thing for her family.]
I know they say they still have the Cold War going on here, but this? This is absurd. Throwing superpowers at people isn't going to do anything.
[She takes a moment to compose herself. She already got angry with a soldier when she arrived in the first place. Other people in the same position probably don't need it too.]
I'm Bianca Reyes, by the way. Normally, I'm just a nurse.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Bianca is used to emergencies. She works in the ER, after all, where her shifts can vary between helping get vitals on a man on a rolling gurney as he's coming in from the ambulance because he got into a knife fight in a bar in Central El Paso to calming down a worried mother whose firstborn has a high fever to helping deal with the fallout from a three-vehicle crash.
She is also getting used to her son, Jaime, getting involved with some crazy things, for better or worse, and her family getting involved in the periphery, now. He's a superhero and he's even stopped an alien invasion. Her family was targeted and she ended up fighting against actual aliens to make sure her daughter and her son's friends were able to escape. She's dealt with a hostage situation in her hospital after he's fought people.
What she is absolutely not used to getting dragged into the front and center of this sort of thing on her own. Getting kidnapped is not okay, not even to 'help' some alternate Earth's United States.
Bianca is just warming up to full levels of being indignant and approaching the point where she's about to yell when the soldier not-quite-forcibly escorting her and giving her vague answers gets smacked from above by a sudden flip-flop coming out of nowhere.
FINAL NOTES:
NAME: July
AGE: 25
JOURNAL:
julyflameIM / EMAIL: JulyFlame@gmail.com
PLURK: JulyFlame
RETURNING: New!
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Bianca Reyes
CHARACTER AGE: Adults don't get definite ages in comics land. She's definitely in her late thirties, early 40s, though. I'm going with 38, just to have something to do math off.
SERIES: Blue Beetle, preboot DC
CHRONOLOGY: Immediately after issue #31.
CLASS: Hero!
HOUSING: Anywhere is fine, with her husband preferably.
BACKGROUND:
Additional context: The third Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes
Bianca Reyes
Bianca's life was fairly normal- she grew up as part of a large extended Hispanic family, went to school for nursing, married, had two kids, and was raising them with her husband in El Paso, Texas. Normal life: the kids picking on each other as siblings are wont to do, her teenaged son beginning to exert himself in pushing his own boundaries, and juggling the responsibilities of work and parenthood with Alberto.
Then, her son disappeared, and normal life stopped. No one knew where he went, or what happened.
It marked the start of a year from hell.
The police questioning and investigation led to one of her son's closest friends ending seriously hospitalized due to the girl's father, and the other- without either Jaime or Brenda around- slipping into one of the local gangs.
At the garage Alberto owned and ran, one one of the employees-Luis- had serious problems with addiction, and the only reason her husband hadn't fired the man yet was because of his family. When people showed up at the garage to get to Luis, Alberto stepped in, and, for his trouble, he ended up getting shot and seriously injured.
Even after surgery and physical rehabilitation, the garage had to be shut down and sold off, leaving the Reyes family reliant on Bianca's sole income as a nurse.
Then, one night, she woke up to Milagro screaming. When she and Alberto entered the room, her son was standing there, wearing dirty raggedy clothing thinking he had been gone for only a night, and Jaime wasn't aware until they told him that it was one year later.
Her and her family's life had been changed with Jaime's disappearance, and his return ended up marking just how much normal life had ended for them all. He told them about suddenly having something fused to his spine, which gave him armor and superpowers, being dragged through a portal from his bedroom at night by a superhero to help other superheroes save the world on a mission into space and, after helping, ending up fighting a Green Lantern when he found himself back on Earth again.
She thought it was a completely crazy story; while superheroes exist, why their son? How could he be gone for a whole year? El Paso was hundreds of miles away from the nearest city with any superheroes, and superheroes were something only on TV or in the news. Nothing that really had anything to do with her, her family, or even her city.
And then, to prove it, her son vanished underneath black and blue armor, which immediately terrified her daughter into running out of the house to get away from him. It proved his crazy, unbelievable story, but it also created a temporary rift in the family; they had already gone through so much with him disappearing. Instead of just getting Jaime back, or even closure regarding his vanishing, they got something alien that returned with him that only led to more questions, worries, and fears.
After doctor’s visits (which showed nothing, to her aggravation), resettling her son back into normal life, and eventually getting the full story out of Jaime in the desert (which brought Milagro around to no longer being afraid of her brother and knocked the sense back into Bianca) life settled into being almost normal. That is, besides the fact that her son was El Paso’s newest and first superhero.
And then the Reach showed up. The originators of the Scarab which gave Jaime all these powers and the armor, they were a race of aliens- the first to appear to play by the rules, instead of instigating another invasion of Earth set to conquer or destroy it. The key word there, of course, is ‘appear’. Her son slowly uncovered that,in actuality, the scarab was a device intended to help them take over Earth and make it part of their empire, and completely subsume the human (and non-human) population present.
For the most part, Bianca and the rest of the Reyes family support Jaime throughout his series. When a battle against a supervillain reveals to Jaime’s friend Brenda that her aunt and guardian Amparo Cardenas was the local powerful cartel boss La Dama, Bianca is the one who approaches her to console her and offer her a place to stay with the Reyes. Her husband talks Amparo out of it when the woman comes to try and force Brenda to talk to her. Between the two of them they help prevent further damage from happening to the only familial relationship that one of their son's best friends has.
Jaime comes up with a plan to stop the Reach’s slow but still oncoming invasion of Earth; however, Bianca and her husband tried to convince him against doing it, in fear that they’d lose him- this time for good. Unfortunately, they had raised him too well, and he managed to convince them despite their worries, using words about choice and the importance of being able to choose to convince them— words he had learned from his father.
The Reach blew up the Reyes home with the Reyeses, Brenda and Paco still inside in an attempt to stop Jaime, but fortunately the well timed arrival of Traci 13 (Jaime’s girlfriend, who Bianca didn’t know he was dating) to introduce herself to the family prevented it from being a fatal one. The Reach sent fighters to Earth to take care of them for good, which resulted in a firefight against Alberto, Bianca, La Posse (the gang Jaime’s friend Paco belonged to), Amparo and her people for the lives of the Reyes family. That cemented exactly how deadly being a superhero could be to those around them.
The arrival of former Justice League International members (superheroes who had been friends and colleagues of the previous Blue Beetle) stopped the attack before the Reach were able to overpower them and resulted in Jaime being saved (at the very last second) from a very explosive death in space.
Once it was all over, the Reyes family had fully accepted Jaime's role as a superhero, and so had El Paso, putting the family
PERSONALITY: Bianca Reyes is a loving, generous mother, who greatly cares for her family and friends, and isn't afraid of supporting them even when things are hard, much like much of the rest of her family.
She is compassionate and filled with inner strength- this isn’t evident just because of her connection with her family, but because of the work she does. As an ER nurse, Bianca frequently deals with people who have all sorts of injuries and illnesses, but maintains professional composure and cares for the patients she helps with, despite the hecticness and mental fatigue that can come with such a job on a day-to-day basis.
That said, between her and her husband, Bianca is the firebrand of the pair, where Alberto is much calmer in temperament. Inasmuch as they take the roles, Bianca usually plays the ‘bad cop’ to her husband’s ‘good cop’, the one in charge of shouting at their children, laying down the law, and generally setting the limits for what they can and can’t do, though they share in it.
While more than willing to be friendly, Bianca isn’t afraid of confronting and chewing out others; for example, when Guy Gardner shows up at the Reyes house, she welcomes him in since he wants to talk to Jaime-- who immediately attacks him. Bianca immediately begins to lecture Jaime on the misuse of superpowers, and then proceeds to cow Guy after catching him preparing to punch her son with a giant green fist constructed with his ring. She also wasn’t afraid of dealing with Peacemaker when he regained consciousness in the hospital she works at. He was confused, violent, and unwell, but still able to cause harm. Admittedly, that's partially because she injected him with enough sedatives to knock him out in seconds, and partially because that’s just the sort of person she is. When some men entered the hospital and created a hostage situation in order to kidnap a few patients there, she proceeded to try and chew them out for endangering lives, despite the fact that they were armed, which resulted in her being knocked down. She does what she needs to do do her job, which is caring for others.
Her temper— which definitely exists- usually manifests in short and brief bursts. For all the shouting and yelling, she loves her family and cares about them deeply, but when she becomes seriously angry, she is a forced to be reckoned with. Once she decides on something, that’s it. It takes a lot of work to change her mind.
Like her son, Bianca has a very concrete sense of what is right and wrong, and is willing to stand up for what is right against those who are doing right, and is capable of adding in twists of ingenuity along the way. There aren’t very many 'normal' people out there willing to take up the fight against an alien invasion or call out bad guys for kidnapping ill and dying men from their care; even after being slapped to the ground for calling them out, she still fought back and even used an MRI machine as a weapon— something that is absolutely not a normal use for those machines.
Despite being a nurse, she has no problem with at least attempting to use deadly force. During the Reach's minor invasion of El Paso in an attempt to wipe her family out, her husband- a former soldier- wasn't the only one in the family who was wielding an assault rifle. Bianca joined in too, trying her best to make sure that Milagro, Paco, and Brenda stayed safe.
Of course, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have her vulnerabilities: she’s still a very normal human woman. Thanks to luck and circumstances, Bianca has been forced into events and things that until very recently were completely out of her realm of experience, and often tried to deal with it with stubbornness and refusal. When her son first disappeared, she didn’t want to believe it was to do with him, his friends, or their family. Instead, she elevated her son- already a good kid- placing him on a pedestal, which made his return- and the circumstances around it- that much harder to take. It wasn't until later (but fortunately not much later) that she realized that as hard as it had been for her, that it had been even harder for him, especially with her initial reaction to his return. After that, she used her stubbornness to help her son and family not get completely sucked into being dragged into the world of superheroes, while her husband kept everything even-keeled. If Jaime was going to be a superhero, it wasn't going to be at his or their family's expense.
POWER: Chancla summoning. So a thing in Latino households is the threat of la chancla getting used on you by the mother or even grandmother. Chanclas are basically sandals or flats used inside the house, essentially. This power will give Bianca the ability to summon from nowhere a variety of sandals, usually ready to grab in hand. Anger or severe distraction will also be able to cause them to appear and hit the person she's angry at or thinking about.
The chanclas themselves are completely normal and random in form, style, and size, though may pop out the second in a pair if the chancla summoning is done again immediately.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ A Hispanic woman— olive-brown skin, glossy black hair pulled back into a pony tail—is visible, and looking very clearly unhappy— on the verge of anger, really.]
I would love to know what makes people think it's fine to go around kidnapping people and force them into helping with their own goals, especially when it involves giving them crazy powers and dragging them out of their normal lives.[Especially now that this seems to be a recurring thing for her family.]
I know they say they still have the Cold War going on here, but this? This is absurd. Throwing superpowers at people isn't going to do anything.
[She takes a moment to compose herself. She already got angry with a soldier when she arrived in the first place. Other people in the same position probably don't need it too.]
I'm Bianca Reyes, by the way. Normally, I'm just a nurse.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Bianca is used to emergencies. She works in the ER, after all, where her shifts can vary between helping get vitals on a man on a rolling gurney as he's coming in from the ambulance because he got into a knife fight in a bar in Central El Paso to calming down a worried mother whose firstborn has a high fever to helping deal with the fallout from a three-vehicle crash.
She is also getting used to her son, Jaime, getting involved with some crazy things, for better or worse, and her family getting involved in the periphery, now. He's a superhero and he's even stopped an alien invasion. Her family was targeted and she ended up fighting against actual aliens to make sure her daughter and her son's friends were able to escape. She's dealt with a hostage situation in her hospital after he's fought people.
What she is absolutely not used to getting dragged into the front and center of this sort of thing on her own. Getting kidnapped is not okay, not even to 'help' some alternate Earth's United States.
Bianca is just warming up to full levels of being indignant and approaching the point where she's about to yell when the soldier not-quite-forcibly escorting her and giving her vague answers gets smacked from above by a sudden flip-flop coming out of nowhere.
FINAL NOTES: