Leda Calavicci

Leda Calavicci is a fictional character in the ongoing serial fanfiction Legion of Lawndale Heroes. A Cadet First Class (equal to a college senior) at the United States Academy of Extranormal Studies, Leda is a psionic of Class Five power levels, easily on the level of Daria Morgendorffer or Amorette Molyneux (her fellow cadet in Training Cadre 2999).

Powers
Leda possesses the following abilities:

Telepathy: Leda is an exceptionally powerful telepath, but with the limitation of distance to her power. While Leda can project her thoughts or read those of others, she can only do so out to twenty miles away. She is exceptionally gifted in cutting through mental barriers and jamming fields; even multiple layers of psi-resistant materials or unusually powerful psi-dampening devices (such as metaljammers) will only dampen Leda's power down to very low levels. Only the use of 'flush' or Mark 40 'suppression bands' can totally negate her powers. Like Jefferson Davers and Kaliq Murat, Leda's psi-speech is incredibly rapid in its execution; she can communicate at up to 1,500 times faster than normal speech.

Mental Bolts: Leda has the ability to project powerful mental bolts that can stun, knock out or temporarily incapacitate even the largest of animals (such as blue whales), lessen the intensity of mental screens wth each blast, as well as pass through solid materials. She can strike targets up to a half-mile away, and fire her bolts with rapid effect. Even though her power does not directly affect solid materials (machines, etc.), she can disrupt energy fields and circuits temporarily.

Empathy: While a very powerful telepath, Leda also possesses the power of empathy (of a power level equal or stronger than that of David Allen Farrington) She can sense and project empathic messages, discern the physical state and current environment of any individual she locates, as well as manipulate the emotional states of living beings (animal, human or even alien) out to one hundred and twenty miles away (before using psi-amplifiers).

Astral Projection: Leda can project her astral form out to 6,000 miles away.

Psychic Healing: Leda has the ability to heal any living being of any condition, disease, or imjury/trauma that does not result as a part of the aging process, as well as resurrect a person who has been dead for up to twelve hours. Her power is so profound that she can actually cause complete regeneration on the celluar level, effectively acting as a 'fountain of youth' and restoring the body to a stronger, youthful form. Due to the nature of her power, Leda has the potential to live a fantastically-long life span. Like Julia Carlyle, Leda's power is so strong that even if her body is destroyed, as long as even an atom remains, her power will resurrect her.

Emotional Control: Leda has the ability to alter the emotional states of any living beings within her area of effect, and subsequent actions, by forcing them to feel the effects of any specific emotion that she chooses. The range of her power is one mile, and she does not need to see her targets tin order to affect them. Leda can only make her targets feel the effects of any one emotion at a time, and her targets return to normal instantly after she stops using her power. The effects to her power are strikingly similiar to Daria's mind-control ability.

Mental Shields: Leda possesses extraordinarily powerful mental shields, which prevent any mental- or emotional-based attack of any source from affecting her or whomever she protects when her shields are active. She can expand the shields outwards to cover an area of up to 500 meters, or focus her shields around up to four other persons so tightly that even a Class Five psionic in physical contact with her or her targets could not penetrate her shields with their scans.

Linguistics: Leda's primary ability is the psionic ability to understand and communicate with ANYTHING (be it of capable of a differing Human language, or of alien, animal, plant, machine, spirit or a currently non-living nature) and translate/understand its language. She can do this with any form of language (spoken, written, symbol, sign, body movements, mental pulses, etc.).

Leda is 5'2, with a slender build, jade-green eyes and raven-black hair that she prefers to keep cut short. She is incredibly attractive and equally flirtatious, and enjoys unnerving people with her nature. She is also incredibly honest and open.

Skills and Talents
As a Cadet at the Academy, Leda is majoring in Political Sciences and minoring in Linguistics; even without her powers, she has a natural ability to pick up other languages easily. She speaks at least ten other languages (at present) besides English.

She is also a highly-skilled hand-to-hand combatant with a high ranking in the martial art of Aikido. Leda has also been trained for the Starseed Program.

Leda has taken taken several of the advanced Academy psionics-operations courses.


 * she received her Level One Healer qualifications (use and understanding of psi-healing skills)
 * she has recieved her Level One psionic search-and-rescue qualifications.
 * she has completed his training in psionic communications, and has been certified for secure psionic communications duties
 * she has completed her Level One Psionic Examination and Legal Transcription (PELT) certification (any testimony he gives in a court of law gathered with his psi-powers is admissable, and she has a high-level security clearance, allowing her to attend classified government meetings for the purposes of having her memory used as a downloadable record).
 * she has completed the 'Hellhound' advanced psionic defense and attack procedures certification process with perfect marks; she has recieved assistant instructor certification, and acts as a 'Red Rabbit' (a term for wanted telepaths actively being sought by the authorities) for training purposes.
 * been specifically trained to perform and resist long-term mental interrogation techniques.

As a result of her powers, Leda is planning a career in the U.S. State Department after her required service time has been completed (she has mentioned that she's going to be working in the National Security Agency).