Zinda Blake
 Lady Blackhawk |
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| Name: | Zinda Blake | ||
| Superalias: | Lady Blackhawk | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Species: | Human | ||
| Occupation: | CEO/Pilot/moonshiner | ||
| Citizenship: | American | ||
| Residence: | Metropolis | ||
| Education: | highschool drop out, on the job training. | ||
| Theme: | DC (FC) | ||
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| Details | |||
| Apparent Age: | 35 | Actual Age: | 102 |
| Date of Birth | 7 nov 1917 | Played By | Ali Larter |
| Height: | 5'11" | Weight: | 165 lbs |
| Hair Color: | blonde | Eye Color: | Blue |
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| Theme Song: | https://youtu.be/yK0P1Bk8Cx4 (obviously) | ||
Contents
Character Info
Profile
A legendary world war 2 aviator recently returned to the modern world. As famous for her skill in the air as she is for her capacity for drink.
Timeline
Timeline:
1915:Reginald "Boozer" Blake becomes a flying ace with the French air force.
1916:Reginald is shot down, and loses his left leg. He is further awarded for his bravery, before being discharged to return to the US.
1917:Reginald meets Banu Fikri on the boat back to the US, they marry and have their only child within the year. Zinda Blake is born.
1920:The Blake family business immediately buckles under the weight of prohibition, the family takes things underground and become Alabama's most prolific moonshining operation.
1923:Reggie Blake buys a number of small aircraft companies, and begins flying his booze across the country. Zinda and Banu are frequent passengers.
1930:At just 13 years old, Zinda solos for the first time.
1933:Zinda drops out of highschool to work for Blake Aviation full time, helping in the shop by day and running booze by moonlight.
1935:Zinda steals a plane from her father, hires a forger to prepare her papers and enters in that year's Bendix air race as "Blake Zinder". She wins outright in the sportsman's category, and finishes third overall.
1936:With her father's approval this time, "Blake Zinder" returns to compete in the unlimited category. She wins the 1936 Air race, but her identity is revealed. A front page photo of her kissing the trophy girl causes an uproar.
Timeline2:
1937:Another win in the Bendix and four smaller air races, Zinda has become the winningest Air racer in competition. Women are officially banned from competing in the unlimited category.
1938:Zinda returns with the "Blake Special", to compete in the "Light" category. The plane passes inspection under protest. She wins the overall by six minutes, but is later disqualified for "Unladylike conduct"
1939:Zinda flies to North Africa, and gets in contact with the Blackhawks. She's accepted as a provisional member, as they don't have enough machinery to equip her in the short term. Her North African Campaign with the Blackhawks is flown in a captured ME-109.
1940:Zinda scores twelve confirmed aerial victories, eighteen uncomfirmed and eight assists. Hendrickson becomes her wingman, and adoptive grandfather.
1941:The Blackhawks relocate under contract to the Pacific, and for the first time get modern hardware. They meet their first Zeroes over the pacific.
1942:Zinda finishes the year with a total of sixty five confirmed kills, making her briefly the deadliest living ace in the world. She's shot down for the second time, and again escapes capture after a four day running gun battle in the jungle.
1943:Zinda is shot down for the third time, and sent stateside for confirmation on her head injury. She poses for photographs, gives interviews and is soon emblazoned on navy recruiting posters.
1944:Zinda has her most active year, she flies an unbelievable four hundred fifty five sorties and shoots down one hundred three aircraft. This record for single year performance will remain unbroken.
1945: August 13nth Zinda undertakes a solo recon flight, She downs two fighters and damages a Japanese bomber. Her own plane is damaged, and fails to return to base.
1950:After exhaustive searches for Zinda or her plane, She is officially declared KIA.
1957:The Blackhawks formally retire from combat service, decide to award Zinda or her descendants equal share in the company if she is ever discovered.
Timeline3:
2016:A damaged aircraft is spotted trailing smoke off the coast of Japan, JSDF scramble a rescue plane which confirms the presence of an F7F flying blackhawk colors. She attempts to enguage JSDF aircraft, Marines are scrambled to escort her down. Zinda Blake's return makes national headlines.
2017:A comprehensive series of tests confirms Zinda Blake's identity, She is awarded controlling shares in Blackhawk Transport, and settles near their corporate headquarters in Metropolis.
2018:Zinda Blake is ejected from the Blackhawk Transport's board meeting for not meeting dress reguluations, She restarts the Blackhawk's combat air division and has Blackhawk Island refurbished.
2019:Zinda Blake finally gets her new pilot's license, with full endorsements. She spends the rest of the year flying as much as she's able, and testing various aircraft.
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Personality
Confidence:
She isn't just Confident mind you, She's fighter pilot confident. That confidence is anything but fragile to boot, even when she fails hard she doesn't hesitate to pick herself back up and get back after it. It's where the short skirts come from, and some of the drinking, and most of her flying all comes out of. In Zinda's world her losses all come from bad luck, and cheating. No matter what the odds, she'll give it her best without hesitation.
Haunted:
The War ended quite suddenly for Zinda, and then her entire emotional support network vanished. She misses her comrades, she misses her family but most of all she's come to realize she misses the war. Now she's somewhat aimless, without a unit to fit into or a war to define herself with. Zinda struggles for some way to contextualize what she did in the war, and the world she finds herself in now.
Character Sheet
Powers
Drinker:
Yeah no jokes. Maybe it's the genetics, god only knows really. Zinda is rightly famous for her ability to hold her liqour, and she's more than capable of drinking -way- more than a woman her size should be able to. She can drink most folks under the table without much worry, and generally remains fairly high functioning even once she's consumed a downright heroic amount of booze.
Genetics:
Zinda (and probably her father), exhibit a unique genetic abnormality. Zinda's cardiovascular system is substantially more robust than normal. Whilst this means she's a fairly good runner, she doesn't have the training to run marathons. More importantly for Zinda she can sustain dramatically more G's in the cockpit than a baseline human, and do this for dramatically longer before she begins to suffer for it. Zinda can -sustain- up to ten Gs in the cockpit for more than five minutes, and peak surges of up to fifteen for durations of about a minute. Outside of the cockpit, it's not doing an awful lot for her though.
Skills
Brawler:
Zinda has never been formally trained, but she's got a fairly impressive amount of real world experience. She doesn't have any fancy moves really, but she's got a fighter pilot's sense of timing and a tolerance for pain usually bouyed by booze. Her right hook is rightly legendary all the same, and whilst it's hardly polished it's a pretty damned consistant "off button" all things considered. As she's used to bar brawling out numbered, she's particularly talented at making use of a pair of brass knuckles. Oh and she can zing a beer bottle with admirable accuracy.
Cooking:
Yeah no joke Zinda can cook like something else, like scary good. Whilst she specializes in southern staples, she can cook the hell out of just about anything if she's got a recipe. This does of course include her capacity as a brewer and a distiller, and theres really never been a point in her life when she wasn't brewing or distilling something or other.
Languages:
Zinda can order a beer in thirty languages! She's fluent in English and Farsi however, and speaks a little German and Japanese to boot.
Legendary Pilot:
She's the deadliest female ace to ever live. She's an expert in aerial warfare, helped write the book on classical dogfighting and her gunnery skills are still sharp as a tack. She has an all but telepathic ability to read what her own aircraft is doing, and enough mechanical and aeronautical experience to understand why. She can navigate across vast swaths of ocean by sextant alone, or use a map and compass to navigate across vast deserts. She can plot a flight plan to the ounce of fuel burned, and read the weather with spooky accuracy. In short she's a full command of all the classical aeronautical skills, and she's finally been brought up to date on everything she missed out on. If it flies, she can fly the hell out of it.
Mechanic:
She grew up wrenching on unreliable moonshiner hotrods, building aircraft and modifying her own racing planes. During the war she ended up splitting her time between being a mechanic and a pilot,and she's gotten pretty good. She can make use of a machine shop, she can rebuild an engine, she can bend, cut and rivet sheet metal, or make modifications without too much trouble. She's hardly an electrical engineer however, nor is she an engineer. If it's broke though, she can probably fix it.
Shooter:
She grew up playing with guns in the backyard with dad, and well like all great pilots Zinda is just something else with a proper shotgun. Zinda's capacity for eyeballing how much lead a shot needs, as well as a target's trajectory are rightly outstanding. With a suitably classic pistol, she's also quite the gunfighter when necessary. She's quick on the draw and accurate, but has a notable preference for "old school" platforms. With a rifle she's fine, and she has been making an effort to get more familiar with modern assault rifles.
Resources
Aircraft:
She's bought herself a brand new PC-24, which she's stealthily outfitted with some removable hardpoints, flare and chaff dispensers, and even plummed the fuselage for a minigun should it be required. She's also begun collecting last generation fighter aircraft, filling her personal Hangars with everything from P-51s and F7Fs to F-4 Phantoms, MiG-29s and whatever else has caught her eye. She can rely on Blackhawk maintainers to keep these birds all in tip top shape to boot.
Blackhawk Island:
There are infact -2- Blackhawk Islands, one in the Pacific and another in the Atlantic. Both of these Islands have basic repair facilities, basic amenaties and a functioning air strip. They're well hidden and have plenty of storage. It wouldn't take much effort to bring either of them back into operation, but Zinda can't do that alone.
Blackhawks:
Blackhawk Transport's Board of Directors, hates the hell out of Zinda. Everyone else in the company tends to adore Zinda however, especially it's pilots and mechanics. She can rely on the rank and file to score her a ride, or transport something for her. She has free use of their facilities the board be damned.
Cashola:
Zinda had a pretty incredible amount of backpay coming her way, and then wrote a popular book, and now gets a few million every year from Blackhawk just to stay out of their way. She's flush with cash, and doesn't own much beyond a hangar full of aircraft, a bunch of guns and a tiny little house outside of Metropolis.
Famous:
Amongst Pilots Zinda might as well be royalty. She doesn't need to barge into commercial pilot lounges, snag a seat on a commercial flight or get onto a military base. Aircraft manufacturers are eager to get her flying their product, and there isn't a mechanic around who wouldn't drop what they're doing to get her back into the air again.
Weaknesses
Distinctive:
Everyone knows Zinda, and she's not exactly easy to mistake for anyone else. People are particularly likely to remember seeing her, and they're gonna know exactly who she was most of the time. Even in the air her voice is distinctive over the radio, and her planes tend to have particularly notable liveries.
Old School:
She's never been able to score a ride in an F-22 or comparable, and modern stealth/network oriented planes are just totally alien to her. Sure she can fly them, but the moment it gets to managing EM signatures she's right out. That means she's likely not entirely clear on what the most bleeding edge radar/aircraft are even -truly- capable of. The whole BVR game is pretty new to her, and her "comfortable" tech level hasn't gotten past the 90s yet.
Pride:
Yeah no Zinda's not too terribly difficult to provoke if you know where to prod. Call her piloting or her brewing trash, and she's going to start throwing fists. Boozed up she gets particularly easy to provoke, and she's -frequently- boozed up when not in the cockpit.
Role-Play
Logs
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58 finished logs.
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| War Machines | February 19th, 2025 | The unveiling of GI Robot who is a little behind the times. |
| Flapjacks and Pulp Heroes | February 3rd, 2025 | Breakfast is delayed. Mimosas are up, and angst. |
| The Zen of Flying the Bug | January 21st, 2025 | Zinda flies the Bug and finds it full of surprises! |
| Blackhawk Found | January 14th, 2025 | A Blackhawk aircraft is found on Dinosaur Island. This is a prelude. |
| Stray Bird | January 6th, 2025 | Zinda flies Genie out to the Blimp and catches up with Babs. |
| Gotham Clocktower New Years Party | December 29th, 2024 | It is New Years 2024 at the Gotham City Historic Clocktower. The champagne is flowing, the tunes are tuning, and the blimp is offering free rides. Would you like to know more? |
| The Ride of a Lifetime | December 16th, 2024 | Ted meets his heroine, Zinda and makes a friend! |
| Cats and Hawks | October 27th, 2023 | The Zen of aircraft maintenance is learned, not taught. |
| Too Many Blondes | October 9th, 2023 | Dinah and Zinda meet in a bar, significantly raising the blonde quotient. |
| Strange Things Are Afoot at the Circle-K | September 17th, 2023 | SHIELD has to get in to a hostile area and secure it for the recovery teams to make it in. It gets pretty nasty with some really pesky creatures slinging plasma around! Ya'll gotta be careful when strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. |
| Disguises and Dolls | September 7th, 2023 | Thomas and Zinda get closer to the men slandering her good name. |
| Just a Training Exercise | September 5th, 2023 | A SHIELD training exercise becomes a surprise live-fire drill. |
| Fly High, Crash Low | August 13th, 2023 | Natasha and Zinda watch an exploding ejector seat. |
| Message From a Bottle | July 23rd, 2023 | Plans are laid over breakfast. |
| Intergang Interrupted | July 19th, 2023 | SHIELD raids the Intergang facility that's producing their weapons and shuts it down. |
| Another Bar, Another Round | July 12th, 2023 | Zinda and Thomas go on a bar crawl and discover a bootlegger problem, along with a mystery. |
| Meanwhile, on the other side of the tracks... | June 17th, 2023 | Zinda and Sunrise cross paths in a bar. |
| Resonants: Epilogue | June 16th, 2023 | Finally that bastard Higgins retires! |
| Biscuits and Bad Guys | June 7th, 2023 | Blake and Blake together again! |
| Riding the Hudson | May 19th, 2023 | Zinda takes Mary Jane flying on an old WW2 light bomber. Of course, a dogfight happens. |
| Tech Support for Lady Blackhawk | May 2nd, 2023 | Geeze, that's a lot of dead people. |
| Polishing the Eagles | April 6th, 2023 | Zinda gets Carol suited up for a flight in a real plane |
| A Little R&R | March 18th, 2023 | Zinda abducts Cain, but not in a bad way! |
| Try Not To Hit The Ground | March 13th, 2023 | SHIELD tests a method for shooting troops onto the battlefield by railgun. Test Subjects Jessica Drew and Ariah Olivie declare 'it needs some work'. |
| Tearing Off the Tail: Hydra Edition | February 21st, 2023 | A SHIELD Strike to steal a new experimental Hydra craft goes well. With many, many explosions along the way. |
| Hanging on High | February 15th, 2023 | SHIELD starts brainstorming for a strike on new Hydra assault transports. |
| Bats Birds and a Birthday On a Blimp | February 14th, 2023 | The Birds new Blimp headquarters is the sight of Stephanie Brown's 21st birthday party. |
| Birdshot | January 24th, 2023 | Zinda gives Harper shooting lessons. Bonding occurs. |
| Just Another Job | January 23rd, 2023 | Zinda and Cecily meet to discuss a job |
| Operation WATCHFUL: Biohazard | January 11th, 2023 | The biolab is raided, with simultaneous infiltration and a gun battle at the loading docks, with Toni Ho, Carin Taylor, and Zinda Blake facing off against heavily-armed mercs. Shi'ar involvement, in supply of hi-tech weaponry - and Agent Romanoff's encounter with a rival agent - seems undeniable. Fortunately, Richard Stadler is able to secure a sample from the facility's clean lab before a self-destruct is triggered, offering a chance to analyze whatever was being developed there. |
| Bird Calls | December 28th, 2022 | Two Birds converge on Dinah's flower shop, ending in chatting with just a touch of alcohol. |
| Wrong Turn | December 6th, 2022 | Zinda gets lost in the Triskelion and stumbles into Toni's lab. |
| The Hawk and the Lion | November 6th, 2022 | Zinda tries to help Thomas through a dark period on a sunny day. |
| Fly Yes, Land No | November 2nd, 2022 | Zinda Blake takes Mary Jane flying for the first time and the two talk about history, life experience, and joy. |
| Pilot in the Kitchen | October 25th, 2022 | Mary Jane, Sonja, and Zinda go for a girl's night out and chat about war, alcohol, perspectives, personal history, and stories. |
| Seems Like Old Tymes | October 19th, 2022 | The First Blake Convention ends on a high note. |
| Delivering A Package | October 15th, 2022 | During World War II, Zinda Blake flies Steve Rogers behind enemy lines for a parachute drop, while the Howling Commandos make it appear Captain America is with them. |
| Just Another Charter Job | October 13th, 2022 | Zinda and Cecily meet on a charter flight |
| Air Mail or: A Little Bird Told Me | October 5th, 2022 | Huntress, Batwoman and Flamebird visit Blackhawk Transport to speak with a world renowned pilot about working with the Birds of Prey. After an unexpected audition, the conversation seems to go rather well. |
| Flying Lessons | October 2nd, 2022 | Zinda finds a Bug in Ted's designs, and Loves it! |
| Blondes Booze Better | September 28th, 2022 | Mary Jane, Red Sonja, and Zinda Blake spend a few hours swapping stories in a bar. |
| Quinjet Through The Air | September 22nd, 2022 | Zinda teaches flyboys how to handle the Quinjet. |
| Another Pool Party | September 5th, 2022 | Poolside fun and some soul baring. |
| Eye of the Tiger | September 4th, 2022 | A sparring match devolves into flying lessons. |
| The Mosh Pit | August 30th, 2022 | No description |
| Darts | August 22nd, 2022 | Darts, dating apps and mosh pits with Jessica Drew and Zinda Blake. |
| Baby it's cold outside | August 9th, 2022 | No description |
| Meet the Family! | August 7th, 2022 | Zinda comes to meet Thomas' pride bearing fooooood! |
| Going in the Hard Way | August 2nd, 2022 | SHIELD Agents fly through a dangerous Hydra kill zone to take out a volcano base where Hydra is manufacturing alien weapons and things get very metal. |
| Living Red with Regrets | July 27th, 2022 | Some Red Room veterans and boozehounds meet in the Swordfish and get to reminiscing in the russian way. |
| Of Blackhawks and Boozehounds | July 20th, 2022 | Two veterans of a war of the past reminisce over drinks and bond and are joined by a fashionists that can match them both shot for shot. |
| Family Meeting | July 20th, 2022 | Zinda and Thomas talk family history and catch up. |
| Strange Relations | July 17th, 2022 | What do you do with a drunken Catman is answered. |
| Gotta See a Dame About a Job | July 14th, 2022 | Unfinished scene with Kate and Zinda. Closing the log. |
| Theme of the Crime: Party on!...responsibly | July 13th, 2022 | Costumes are worn, money is exchanged, and a hat is shredded |
| The Bombshell Bird Returns | April 19th, 2020 | Zatanna welcomes Zinda back to the Birds, and they have a short heart to heart. |
| BoP - Flying High with Lady Blackhawk | March 7th, 2020 | Zinda provides a kindness for a magician in need and gets benefits in turn. |
| A meeting of Birds. | February 27th, 2020 | Meeting between Zinda, Bobbi and Daisy. |
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