Johnny Frostbite & Ice Princess

Johnny Frostbite never really hit the big time when his career began during the 1990s. A young tough in Miami, he tried to make a name for himself working as a minion for various supervillains taking in the posh atmosphere and lu­crative drug trade of South Beach. After being doused in ex­perimental refrigerants when Madame Zero fought FORCE Ops, Johnny finally thought he had it made, but somehow even with his new-found durability and the power to suck the warmth from others, he always found himself playing second-rate muscle to other villains, or serving part-time as a rotating cast member on various villain teams.
Everything changed when he met her. Johnny never mentions his ex by name—not since the divorce turned ugly—but what they had was enough to cool Johnny’s young alpha-male bravado and have him try to make something better of himself. For the sake of love, Johnny gave up the criminal life and relocated to Freedom City to start a new life. After a few years, Neve was born and Johnny finally understood the kind of man he was sup­posed to be: a father.
But his cherished daughter was plagued with health prob­lems throughout her childhood, and again and again Johnny found himself slipping back into supervillainy to help cover the costs of her cancer treatments, then her braces, then a broken leg from skating practice. Every time he started to get out, his family’s finances took another hit. All the while Johnny justified it to himself that it was to give his daughter a better life. After years of deceit, Johnny’s wife eventually found out and the marriage began to fall apart.
Johnny returned to his criminal lifestyle full-time, now based in Freedom City in hopes of staying in contact with Neve. When Neve began to manifest her own cold-controlling powers, Johnny was there to help her cope, much to his wife’s annoyance. But as the girl grew more powerful, her mother decided she needed more assistance than they could provide and enrolled her in the Claremont Academy. Neve’s brash demeanour didn’t help ingratiate her with the other students, but she did show incredible skill using her powers and the faculty considered adding her to the line-up of Next-Gen.
After several training accidents— stemming from Neve’s recklessness and enthusiasm—the Claremont faculty rescinded Neve’s recruitment to the Next-Gen and the hot-headed teen took the rejection badly, starting a fight with several classmates that quickly drew the attention of the Freedom League—and her father. Johnny arrived on the scene to protect his little girl, and the pair quickly dis­covered their ability to amplify each other’s powers, employing their new-found abili­ties long enough to escape. Now Johnny and Neve have too many problems to count: wanted status across America, their sweltering temperaments feeding into each other, a taste for a better life than they can afford, and an ex-wife/ angry mother gunning for their return. All Johnny knows for sure is that no one understand his little girl but him, and he’ll never let anyone hurt her

Physical Description

Special abilities

Johnny Frostbite developed an immunity to cold and the ability to drain all heat with a touch after being doused with experimental chemicals. He can wield this to inflict his namesake frostbite on others or freeze solid objects until they shatter, and over the years he learned to coat himself in a protective layer of ice and frost. Spending more time around Neve seems to be further mutating his powers, allowing him to transform completely into ice and snow, letting him slither through small openings are extend his icy reach.
Ice Princess inherited her father’s basic warmth-draining powers and immunity to cold, but has developed them along a very different line. A champion ice skater, she rides ice slides around the battlefield more like a speedster than her father’s blunt approach, hurling ice projectiles or bolts of paralyzing cold. Neve’s powers come more naturally to her, and she can project her “freeze ray” at range, unlike Johnny’s need to touch his targets.
Daddy and daughter have also discovered they can combine their powers, greatly enhancing their range. When in physical contact, Ice Princess can project ice and frost across a wide area. Johnny Frostbite can siphon the heat from everything blanketed in his daughter’s ice and snow, allowing him to quickly freeze large swathes to death, if need be.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Johnny Frostbite used to live exclusively for the moment. He was boisterous and entirely self-indulgent. Father­hood has softened him, though, and his devotion to Neve means that he will endanger himself in order to save her. He has become every stereotype of an over­protective father, and while not wholly wrapped around Neve’s little finger, he wants a good life for and often spoils her. He wants a better future for Neve than he ever saw for himself, but he’s torn as to whether that means helping her reform into a better person, or honing her skills to be a better villain.
Neve is every bit her father’s daughter: arrogant, brash, and competitive, and her attitude is backed by incred­ible powers that she wields with style and grace. The only people she really cares about in the world are her mom and dad, and it tears her apart to know they are fighting almost entirely because of her—not that she’d ever tell anyone and ruin her badass image.
Neither father nor daughter are stone-cold killers, but neither has much respect for a world that failed them.

Gender

Male & Female