LSH Campaign Profile: Phantom Girl
Phantom Girl was the second new legionnaire to join the young organization, around the same time as Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel. She had found her way to the Legion entirely by accident, and her motive at that time wasn't particularly noble: she was a runaway looking for a place to stay, possibly the weirdest runaway in the universe.
You see, Phantom Girl (Tinya Wazzo of Bgtzl) wasn't a regular runaway. She was a runaway from another dimension. Her homeworld isn't a planet, its the dimension known as Bgtzl, a place located one-half of a dimensional vibration from our own universe, the 3rd-and-one-half Dimension!
Tinya was always a rebellious young extradimensional entity, who chased under her mother-entity's upbringing. Her mother, Winema, was the ruler of Bgtzl who's role was not altogether different from that of a Chancellor, except for being slightly more incomprehensible to human intellect. Anyways, what matters is that her family-cluster was a very important cluster on Bgtzl, and like in any dimension that meant Tinya was raised in a sheltered and stuffy way. Her rebelliousness became infamous throughout her half-dimension, until she was eventually put into a pocket of incomprehensible space not altogether unlike a Girls' Reform School.
It was there, imprisoned and miserable, that Tinya discovered she had a strange power... her daydreams about three-dimensional beings, daydreams that she used to distract her from the miserableness of her unfathomable existence, were more than just daydreams. They were a real place, a dimension she could see and feel. And after a little work, she found a way to slip out of the 3.5th Dimension, and into the third dimension! She was free!
Once there, she found herself on Earth, a runaway from her mother and her home dimension. Existing in only 3 dimensions instead of 3 and a half, Tinya realized that, with no explanation she could think of, she had transformed from her original appearance into a humanlike appearance. Tinya is not capable of shapeshifting, it appears that in our universe, she's stuck looking the way she does, which is not unpleasant to her. Its impossible for human beings to be able to even imagine what Tinya looks like on Bgtzl, we wouldn't be able to see it without our brains exploding, but its vaguely similar to this:
In any case, her mother went through enormous efforts to find Tinya, to the point of figuring out how to travel to Earth, establish formal diplomatic relations between Bgtzl and the U.P., and try to legally force Tinya back to Bgtzl. Desperate, Tinya had heard of the Legion of Superheros, and realized that the strange characteristic of her 3 dimensional existence, her ability to become intangible and phase through any solid object, might qualify her for membership in the Legion. Under the name of Phantom Girl she applied, was granted membership, and managed to get R.J. Brande to give her legal protection from being sent home and back to her Reform School.
In her first year in the Legion Tinya was irresponsible and highly hedonistic. In particular, she was promiscuous, finding herself fascinated with the strange practices of human reproduction and in no way hampered by the normal insecurities of human adolescence or the taboos of social conditionings.
But one day, everything changed for her, on the day that Ultra Boy joined the Legion. With Tinya and Ultra Boy, it was love at first sight. From that moment on, the two have become inseparable, and while both are still rebels and mischief-makers within the legion, they have both become a settling influence on one another.
In game terms: Tinya has now figured out she loves the Legion, she believes in its righteousness. She's still fairly immature, I try to think of Tinya's experience in the 3-dimensional world as being sort of like if a schoolgirl from our dimension were to somehow be able to enter a 2-dimensional cartoon world, with utterly different society and phsyical laws. The fact that Phantom Girl has adapted almost immediately is proof of just how greatly intelligent she is.
She rarely if ever talks about her home, and when she does she always talks about it in 3-dimensional terran contexts. If everything you knew about Bgtzl came from Tinya's mouth, you would imagine its something like living in normal earth society; in reality, its nothing like that at all. Its a Lovecraftian "dimension beyond the known"; Tinya is just very very good at making very general comparisons between things that she couldn't even describe in regular human language and their equivalents in human society.
Tinya's phasing power is something that is perfectly natural for her, she tends to use it all the time.
Tinya's earliest experiences of how to act like an adolescent female human seemed to come from holovid programs like "Metropolis Hills 40000800block" or "Dawson's Planetoid". As such, she tends to act a bit like a valley girl. Alternately, it may be that since her first experiences of the 3rd dimension in general were through her daydreams (and the equivalent of her doodling on a notepad on her home dimension), she tends to put a huge emphasis on aesthetic pleasantry in her judgements. In any case, appearances matter a lot to Phantom Girl. She wants superheros to LOOK and ACT "Cool", not just be heroic. She has on more than one occasion voted against a potential candidate for membership because they were too "lame". She tends to have biases against Bouncing Boy on this basis, that he's too "geeky" to be in the Legion.
Originally, she didn't like Dream Girl because she was worried Ultra Boy would be too drawn to her, but when she realized this wasn't happening, Dream Girl has now quickly become one of Phantom Girl's closest female friends in the Legion.
She also looks at Shrinking Violet, whom she's spent a lot of time with in the Legion Espionage Squad, as a "sidekick" and keeps trying to get Violet to be more outgoing. She sees Violet as a project for her to work on, to make her cool.
Ultraboy is Tinya's ideal man: tough, rebellious, handsome, and cool. She will always support Ultra Boy in any situation, will always think the best of him, even if she might in private nag him about his imperfections. As much as she sincerely has fallen in love with Ultra Boy, she is in no hurry to marry him; she loves being in the Legion far too much, and married legionnaires are forced by the Legion constitution to quit active membership.
In this last year, Phantom Girl has gotten the idea that Ultra Boy should run for leadership next year. She is trying to convince him, even though she would actually be a much better candidate herself. Its just that to her, the "image" or the "story" of the Legion would be cooler with him in charge instead of her, she doesn't want to be a mary-sue, but if Ultra-boy isn't convinced, she might decide to run herself anyways.
In many ways, Phantom Girl is like a teenager living out her own adventure fanfic. For her, this is all a daydream come true.
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