Empireo: 'Lioness' Lydia Prideby *gaybravado

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Name:
_{Lydia Pride}
Identity:
_Lioness
Sponsor:
_{Retired, self-sponsored}
Stats:
_{Strength: 12 / Talent: 20 / Vitality: 8 / Speed: 20 / Luck: 10}
Age:
₃₇
Gender:
_Female
Height/Weight:
_{5' 6" / 140 lbs.}
Superpower:
_{Retractable claws, superhuman reflexes and a minor healing factor}
Armor/Weapon:
_{A bodysuit made of a material that helps protect and cushion her body from the acrobatics she likes pulling off, even at her age. It's impervious to many chemicals, yet breathable (magical BS fiber etc.) While largely ornamental, her fur cloak is quite resilient as well.}
Registration Number:
_#312455
Occupation:
_{Hostess of Hero TV}
Place of Residence:
_{The Pride Manor in a secluded area on the rim of the Upper Plate, though she spends most of her time in her private quarters within the in-city Agency Tower and various hotels around the city, depending on Hero TV events.}

Personality:_{Lydia is an accomplished leader who knows how to guide and organize other people into helping her reach her goals. She is the heir of the Pride family fortune and, while she chose to go in a wildly different direction that her predecessors did with it, it's only grown under her shrewd eye and business sense. Even in her days as a naive Heroine, when out of her depth she gave off the impression that she knew what she was doing, regardless of whether or not it was true, and that confidence has only grown more steady with age.

As the main hostess of Hero TV, she now applies these skills to showbusiness. She likes most people and is certainly an extrovert - however, Lydia's eyes are good at recognizing when someone is useful or useless to her, sincere or full of hot air, and strong or weak, and can use her words and cunning to turn that around on them if necessary for a time. Anything for ratings of course.

As to be expected, she rarely gets close to people, however her hero complex is the major factor here, just as it is in the rest of her life. Lydia applies much of her own high standards to the rest of the world, and while manipulating the personalities and odds of Hero TV is fair game - because she's very aware that it is one - she simply cannot abide people voluntarily hurting others, even indirectly; "the ends justify the means" philosophies are utterly alien and repulsive to her. She has a soft spot for "kids", and her nigh-compulsive desire to help promising young 'powered people rise up in life is a way of trying to cope with and--though she understands deep inside that this is impossible--fix a world she is ill-suited to. With all her machinations, she still believes in that spirit of heroism, and tries to pass it on to those younger through the Hero TV program. Lydia is amazingly strong-willed to boot, and once she's set on something, she'll go through hell itself to see it through, and god help anyone who gets in her way.

This same passion and strength of will means that once she's set on a course of action, she cannot and will not be budged, even if it's for her own good. Attempts to do so are met with hostility at best.}

Bio: _...

Other:
- _{Has two "cubs", twin boys. Rumor has it they are the product of a tryst between Lioness and another Hero - rumors Lydia meets with a tight-lipped, protective stubbornness.}