Priscilla Henry

Priscilla Henry is a fictional character created by Brother Grimace who appears in his fanfiction.

Biography

Introduced in the fic Tapped Potentials, Priscilla Henry is a former resident of Highland, Texas, who is seven years older than Daria Morgendorffer, and who gained metahuman powers after exposure to meteoroid fragments from a meteor which struck during a outdoors event that occured when Daria was eleven. Very soon after that, Priscilla was approached by high-ranking members of the U.S. Air Force (in which she had already enlisted) as well as other members of the military (including Kyle Armalin, representing the Marine Corps). Priscilla was immediately called to active duty by the Air Force, and she came to the attention of DELPHI officials - particularly Paula Trainor, who authorized her for selection to Project Nightbreed. (Priscilla is the only Omega Nightbreed she has signed off on.)

Priscilla was recently given a field commission to the rank of Major by Trainor, and acts as one of several personal 'troubleshooters' for specific internal problems. Among the situations that she has handled for Trainor was the 'disposal' of General Robert Bakeson. As a Special Assignment Officer, Priscilla has been assigned the code-name of 'Valkyrie'.

Powers

Priscilla has the same powers as any Beta member of Project Nightbreed who was sired by Kyle Armalin (although she was given her powers by a transfusion of his blood and secreted solution stored at the Project: Fast Forward facility at Niagara Falls, New York).

As an 'Omega Nightbreed' (a metahuman who was given Nightbreed abilities), Priscilla's original ability was altered by the 'Nightbreed Solution'. See 'Glamours' for more information.

As a result of recieving a Defender Ring, Priscilla's elemental affinity - that of Earth - has been activated. Like Alyssa Milano (another of the Ringbearers who also possesses an Earth affinity, Priscilla can control and manipulate anything which is plant- or Earth-related, as well as creating or control earthquakes, landslides or avalanches. If injured or killed, simply physical contact with the Earth will heal or revive Priscilla (even beyons the ten-minute limitation that the Defender Ring's resurrection ability possesses).

'Glamours'

After being altered by the Project, her power to create impenetrable forcefields was modified by the solution, and developed into the ability to create 'Glamours' - illusions so accurate and precise that can fool even electronic and visual detection devices, hyper-senses, low-level psionic scans, and powers/devices that can scan for metahuman abilities. While cloaked in a 'Glamour', Priscilla can effectively mimic anything or anyone, to the point that she could engage in physical intimacies and be impossible to differentiate from the real person. (A secondary effect of this power enables Priscilla to manipulate her 'Glamour' fields - formerly her forcefields - to create accurate tactile sensations across the fields, allowing her to give her 'Glamours' a sense of realism - mass, temperature, skin imperfections, scent and so forth.)

Her 'Glamour' ability cloaks her so effectively that, when active, she does not leave footprints or register on pressure-sensitive devices, motion detectors, thermal detectors, or devices that detect gases (and thus detect respiration); her power is so effective that even samples of Priscilla's DNA (as retrievable by blood, tissue and hair samples) cannot detect any trace of metahuman ability from her. One practical use for this ability is to simply 'blank' herself from other's perceptions and appear 'invisible'; in addition, she can control her power so precisely that she can make herself invisible only to specific scans as she chooses.

Priscilla also has the ability to expand her power outwards to affect other persons or objects. The effective range of her power, used in this fashion, is roughly 100 yards (or the size of a football field.); also, the effective duration of her power is 36 hours, at which time she must use her power again to continue the effect. If using her power this way, rendering her unconscious will not discontinue the 'Glamour'; otherwise, with normal uses, knocking her out will discontinue the effect. (This does not work on her personal 'Glamours', however. Only killing Priscilla will reverse her personal field and show her true self.) This application of her power will not work on extremely powerful telepaths (upper-level Class Four and above), or telepaths who are in their astral forms (as they cannot be fooled by the sensory-alteration aspect of her power).

Another secondary effect of her powers is that she has the same form of 'True Sight' that Maryann Lyter of The Alliance has, in that she can automatically see through any form of illusion or attempt to camouflage a person's identity, or an item, device or location hidden by anything other than natural or passive means.

Elemental-affinity powers

As a result of her Defender Ring, Priscilla's innate elemental affinity of Earth* has been activated.

Like the Guardian Cornelia Hale, Priscilla can do the following with her elemental affinity powers:

• Control plants, trees, grass and their growth and structure. When doing so, the material in question has superhuman strength and resistance to damage.
• Manipulate the earth and all related materials such as paper, wood, silt, minerals, crystal, gems, sand, mud, etc., as well as create very limited amounts of those materials
• Create earthquakes or reduce the intensity of earthquakes already in progress.
• Create trenches, pits, caves, etc.
• Form, control or divert the direction of avalanches and mudslides
• Levitate and throw rocks
• The ability to sense the location of vegetation or minerals within the Earth
• Manipulate metal to a limited extent
• create small volcanoes/geothermal vents, as well as generate and project magma, and generate volcanic gases
• communicate with sentient earth-based cratures, Earth elementals and creatured/entities based on the element of Earth.

* - earlier entries had incorrectly mistaken Priscilla's affinity to be that of Water.

Former Powers

Priscilla formerly possessed the metahuman ability to create an forcefield around her entire body. This forcefield was absolutely impervious to any form of penetration, even by psionic or mystical means, or through interdimensional extraction. As a side-effect of her power, Priscilla had the powers of self-sustenance while her field was active (meaning that she had no need to consume food, water or breathe). Also, Priscilla's field allowed her to warp gravitational forces around it, as well as become invulnerable to the effects of inertia and friction; this meant that Priscilla was able to run and fly at trans-light speeds.

Priscilla also formerly possessed a low-level form of clairsentience, which allowed her to fly to other worlds and return safely. The meteor which gave her her original powers altered her DNA in doing so; because of this and the nature of the 'Nightbreed Solution', it is possible that any children Priscilla has could have her original powers. Also, if Priscilla's body was destroyed and somehow reformed, or if she went through an exotic effect that affects the human form down to the genetic level, she would lose her Nightbreed powers but regain her original ones.

Before the restrictions imposed through the Nova Valdris Accords, Priscilla possessed enhanced abilities as a result of her elemental affinity of water.

Priscilla formerly possessed greatly enhanced resistance to telepathic scans and any forms of mental domination; in addition, she also possessed the power of mind control, and could force up to twenty persons at a time to do anything she wants them to do, regardless of if it is something that they consider morally reprehensible or if it would place them in mortal danger. For some reason, her power was especially potent against anyone with any form or level of mental ability; only persons with mental abilities who have been intensively trained in resisting mental control could effectively resist her power. Her power, however, could not work through forcefields (although persons inside the field who had already been exposed to her power would have still remained under her control).

Priscilla also possessed the ability of 'scrying' - the ability to see the current activities of anyone/anything she wishes to see. She could see only up to twenty-four hours into the future, and her power to see the current doings could be blocked by myustic or psionic screens.

As a result of the events of the Tales of the Ringbearers fic 'Spirit Stick', Priscilla's Nightbreed powers have been sealed off and she is unable to use them. It is unknown if her powers will ever return.

Special Equipment

As part of her new status and to expedite her duties, Priscilla has been issued an American Express Centurion Card, more commonly known as 'the Black Card'. This card is funded by a special non-disclosed discretionary fund created by disposal of items confiscated by DELPHI during operations (which has not been revealed even to the S.A.O.C.) and allows Priscilla to operate independently of all DELPHI support under Trainor's direct control. When not working directly for Trainor as a member of the Special Assignment Division, Priscilla is an operative for 'Project Uatu', as her powers allow her to operate effectively in any possible area.

Priscilla has also been given a Defender Ring by Trainor.

Trivia

Priscilla is very fond of horses and is exceptionally fluent in American Sign Language.