Freestyle

Aaliyah Travers was born into privilege with the nicest home, the highest-quality luxuries, and the best educa­tion money could buy. As the daughter of Miles Travers, CEO and owner of Bastion Technologies, she could have anything she desired—but sometimes money couldn’t buy the thrills she was after. During her high school years, she gained a reputation as a daredevil, perform­ing crazy stunts like climbing on the school roof or racing her sports car around town at dangerous speeds. When Bastion Technologies came up with its micro-gravity unit, its stock price increased significantly, but poor investments and some embezzling executives soon left the company nearly bankrupt. In order to maintain the lifestyle to which they had grown accus­tomed, Aaliyah suggested to her father that they could make good money by providing technological support to villains who needed it, developing their tech and pro­viding repairs in exchange for cash the pair could use to save the failing company. With the mi­cro-gravity unit being Bastion’s biggest asset, Aaliyah suggested that it was time to put it to work, so they developed the Gravity Skates— which Aaliyah was more than happy to test. Even though Miles objected to Aaliyah putting herself in danger, es­pecially because their plan had already borne fruit and they had fairly steady revenue coming in from some of their super-villainous clients, Aaliyah insisted she wanted to test the new skates and was certain she’d master them quickly. And as usual, Miles couldn’t deny his daughter.
After a few months of practice Aaliyah took the name Freestyle and set about stealing secrets from other tech companies either to work them into Bastion Technologies’ designs or to sell them to their vil­lainous contacts. So far everything has worked out well, but a few companies are already no­ticing that Bastion’s newest tech releases look “suspiciously similar” to projects of their own.

Physical Description

Apparel & Accessories

In the guise of Freestyle, Aaliyah uses a pair of powered boots, similar to inline skates and ice skates, that are able to propel her at around 60 miles per hour. The micro-gravity unit in the skates allows her to travel along walls and even ceilings as she moves. She carries a toolkit to aid with her break-ins and a series of small, disk-like bombs that can be attached to walls or victims and detonated remotely. A second type of bomb creates an area of darkness that she uses to cover her escapes. She has to be careful with her blackout bombs, however, because she can’t see through them. She prefers to use them to create areas of darkness behind her, so pursuers can’t see which direction she flees. Freestyle is also trained in the art of computer hacking and carries a set of tools that allows her access to vaults and safes when her missions require a subtle touch.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Freestyle is the consummate thrill-seeker. Sneaking into a research facility or hijacking a truck carrying prototype technology is what keeps her going during those times when she has to act like a normal, boring person. She con­stantly bombards opponents with witty putdowns and comments, which accurately reflect her waspish, prom queen nature.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Freestyle has been brought into conflict with The Power Corps several times in her career after she raided one of their technology caches.