Miranda Carlyle: Difference between revisions

The grandmother of [[Forbes Carlyle]] and the great-grandmother of [[Julia Carlyle]], Miranda lives in upstate New York, on an estate that is well away from the average person, and subsists entirely on the '''immense''' inherited wealth of the Carlyle Family. (The Carlyle family's wealth is estimated to be ''easily'' on a par with the wealth of [[Patrick Hackney VII|the Hackney family]].) It is mentioned that Julia is pursuing her Master's in criminology, with the intention to pursue a career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to Andrea, this choice will not be handled well by Miranda.

Miranda is the same woman in ''LLH'' as her ''FiC'' counterpart, but with certain obvious differences (to reflect the nature of the setting). In the ''LLH'' 'Mini' ''Today, Everyone Is Irish'', [[Julia Carlyle[[]] (in a conversation to [[Trent Lane]]) revealed that Miranda served with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI5 the British organization known as ''Box 500''], and participated in a number of highly successful operations against the Axis powers. During her time in service, she was awarded a field commission in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Royal_Naval_Service Women's Royal Naval Service] as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Royal_Naval_Service#Ranks_and_uniform Second Officer (the equivalent of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy).]

Miranda possesses superhuman powers (as do all members of the Clan Carlyle). She possesses the ability to control, project and redirect inertial forces (both actual and potential), but can only use this ability when in direct contact with either an active energy source or an object that can create said inertial forces (for example, she can literally stop a vehicle moving at full speed in its tracks without harming anyone aboard, and use its own force to crack it open or fling it backwardin another direction. She also cannot be harmed by ballistic or edged weapons (or secondary effects of thosesuch weapons, such as tasers or incendiary rounds), blunt force trauma, falls from even great heights, exotic concussion weapons (such as a [[PFT Weapon]]) or blows from even beings of vast superhuman strength. From her experiences, there is no known upper limit to Miranda's ability to absorb and redirect kinetic energies.

Miranda also possesses a limited ability to generate, project and control vibratory forces (as well as the ability to absorb such energies and disperse them without harm to herself or the surrounding environment). Her power works exactly as Julia's sonic/vibratory powers work in that while they are projected and operate on a psionic level, psionic dampening has a limited effect on them. It has been implied that Miranda can use this ability in order to eavesdrop on others from a distance, prevent others from listening in on conversations, and mute out the sounds/vibrations of even large vehicles or aircraft in order to provide a stealth capacity.