Roulette
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<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Roulette</default></title>
<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>
<label>Status</label><format><label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Desdemona "Dez" Shelley is a member of the Anchorage Wards.
Personality
Has a lot of self love and has a good relationship with her parents. She is highly artistic though this is not appreciated by her supervisors given that this often means the advertising budget is appropriated to satisfy her creativity.<ref name="PRTF 3">Personality:
A touch rebellious and reckless, Roulette is nonetheless respectful to authority, and a dutiful student. She enjoys patrolling and gets along well with individuals who aren’t too serious. She has an artistic bent and is liable to overuse the Branding budget to continually redesign her costume if left unchecked. Her parents are cooperative and friendly, if eccentric. - PRT Files document 18</ref>
Can be petulant and liked to change things up, injecting chaos into things.<ref name="PRT29 e2" />
Feint
As she tended to take problems in stride she was able to deal with Feint better the Auroch.<ref name="PRT29 e1"> - Department Sixty Four, PRT Quest thread i p29</ref>
Appearance
Dez is a short, dark-skinned girl, having Aboriginal and African heritage.<ref name="PRTF 1">◈ ROULETTE; Desdemona Shelley (“Dez”)
Classification: Thinker 4
False Precognition, “Shotgun precognition”.
Disposition: Wards
Location: DEPT 64 (Anchorage) as of 1-1, 2012, prev. DEPT 21 (BOSTON)
Age: 16 Status: Part-time, grade 11 student.
Height: 4’9” Weight: 100 lbs.
Appearance: Mixed Black-Aboriginal ancestry, petite, styled hair. - PRT Files document 18</ref>
As Roulette, she wears a black and red mask and costume. She wore one half of her hair braided, the other loose.<ref>She's inches shorter than him, and he's short for a boy in his mid teens. Her skin is dark, where you can see it around her red and black mask and costume, the hair along one side is meticulously braided, the rest thick, wild, and barely combed, let alone styled. - PRT Quest</ref>
Abilities and Powers
Dez is, in her words, a 'shotgun precog'.<ref name="PRTF 1" /> She views a spread of futures in a matter of moments with the number of events and the length of the viewing periods depending on the time since her last 'shotgun', her emotional state, and her degree of rest. The number of futures viewed and the duration of each viewing vary from six to two and hours to seconds, respectively.<ref name="PRTF 4">Powers:
Roulette can, in her words, ‘shotgun precog’. She views a spread of futures in a matter of moments, with the number of events and the length of the viewing periods varying depending on the time since the last ‘shotgun’, her emotional state and her degree of rest. The number of futures viewed and the duration of each viewing vary from six to two and hours to seconds, respectively. The ability hits a ceiling at the point where she is incapacitated for longer than the visions last.
Capabilities and priorities Roulette observes are reasonably accurate, but events can diverge wildly, and should not be a reason for deployment on their own. The ability is primarily a learning and experimental tool, with more research and investigation required. - PRT Files document 18</ref> The ability hits a ceiling at the point where she is incapacitated for longer than the visions last.<ref name="PRT21">
- Department Sixty Four, PRT Quest thread ii p21</ref><ref name="FAQ PRTQ ">● Roulette – Ward. A ‘shotgun precog’ – she could see multiple theoretical futures which had a low probability of coming to pass, but which nonetheless provided some information gathering ability. - FAQ Parahuman Response Team Quest</ref>
Capabilities and priorities Roulette observes are reasonably accurate, but events can diverge wildly, and shouldn't be taken as a reason for action on their own. Testing conducted proved she had her best return when she was in direct combat.<ref name="PRT21"> - Department Sixty Four, PRT Quest thread ii p21</ref><ref name="PRT Quest">PRT Quest document 18</ref><ref name="PRT29 e2"> - Department Sixty Four, PRT Quest thread i p29</ref>
History
Background
Had a natural Thinker Trigger.
Post-Echidna
Was transferred to anchorage.<ref name="PRTF 2">General:
Roulette reached out to the PRT in the aftermath of her powers’ initial manifestation. In her confusion, she revealed her powers to friends and classmates. She was moved to another city and given a new identity as she wished, to preserve the safety of herself and her family.
Following a minor incident where she was overprescribed sleeping pills in an attempt to to facilitate the use of her power, Roulette has been relocated, with permission given by her parents, school, psychiatrist and all related parties.
Roulette has a very small field presence and poor ratings, but remains significantly better than the typical precog-type Thinker. She is licensed with most nonlethal weaponry, but her stature limits what she can carry. - PRT Files document 18</ref>
PRT Quest
During Director Seneca's meeting, Roulette asks Feint about himself when he mentions that he thinks that he thought some people were subhuman. She was taken back by Feint's response before, after Aurouch sent Feint out, she apologized.
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