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Huntress

Name:Helena Brooks
Aliases: Huntress
Age: 27
Physical Description:
Helena is about five and a half feet tall. She keeps her long hair styled and her eye makeup heavy even if she's just working on something in her hideout, perhaps a holdover from her time as the spokesperson for her father's 'charity work'.

When out hunting, Helena wears a black textured Kevlar bodysuit with a band down the side in a grey cube pattern underneath a hooded black belted overcoat with trim matching the bodysuit. A series of graphene plates in her jacket do a decent job of protecting the more vulnerable areas from most bullets.
In addition to lending her an inch of height, her black combat boots protect her feet and give her kick a bit more of an impact. Likewise, her gloves are armored around the knuckles to give her punches more power. Helen is fully aware that she's at a disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat, so if someone ends up in her face she has to take whatever advantage she can get. A dark purple domino mask completes her hunting outfit.
She carries a full-sized crossbow on her back and two hand crossbows on leg holsters. Both types are of a slim compound design and are cocked using a lever mechanism of her own design which greatly increases her firing rate. The larger crossbow shoots a variety of arrows from her back quiver, including explosive, 'sparklers' designed to short out electrical systems, climbing ropes, and flash-bangs in addition to the standard armor-piercing. The smaller crossbows generally only fit the armor-piercing arrows in six-pack magazines which are stored on her belt.

Biography:
Prior to being a vigilante, Helena worked the spokesperson for her father's charities while studying engineering. After a disagreement with her father five years ago, she was secretly replaced by an AI using her image. It seems she's dead to him and as far as she's concerned, the feeling is mutual. That doesn't stop her from vandalizing anything she comes across with 'her' face on it. Usually with a crossbow arrow between the eyes.
As for the real Helena, she's spent the intervening years working as a vigilante out of her hideout, ironically located in the forgotten basement of one of her father's warehouses. Her weapons of choice have earned her the nickname Huntress after the hero of legend from the days before Apokolips came. If she finds something that she can't strip for parts to repair or replace her equipment, she'll usually try to exchange it for supplies that she'll give to the the needy.
Over the past few years, she's gotten more vicious in her fights. Partly out of necessity and partly out of frustration with the lack of any real progress. But she's learned the hard way that if she's up against a meta, cyborg, she needs to go all out at the start and use whatever advantage she can get to end the fight as soon as possible. It doesn't matter how good of a martial artist she is or how much she trains if she's up against someone who's stronger and faster than she'll ever be. If she has to take someone out with a crossbow shot from a hundred yards away, no questions asked, then it's just a squeeze of the trigger.
Others have pointed out that she's been talking less and less, and barely looks people in the eye anymore unless she's angry about something. A sharp contrast to her old extroverted self.

Crunchy bits
Food: Sufficient (provided by her brother - maybe deficient in that case?)
Water: Sufficient (hideout has functional bathroom)
Shelter: Sufficient (hideout in warehouse)
Power: Deficient
Weapons: Abundant (whatever she can manufacturer)
Raw Materials: Deficient
Workforce: Sufficient (herself)
Manufacturing: Sufficient (dependent on raw materials)
Transportation: Sufficient (Motorcycle - dependent on power)

Stats:
Strength: 2
Durability: 3 (maybe 2 without her armor?)
Agility: 4
Speed: 3
Intelligence: 3 (not sure about 2 or 3 - she has an engineering degree but she's not crazy smart or anything)
Wits: 3