Viviane Spollini

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File #02 Oct 2009 19:31

Summary

Name Viviane Leigh Spollini Aliases Status Unregistered Evolved Ability Illusions Gender Female Race/Eth. Italian American Birthdate December 18th Age 32 Height 5'8 Build Curvy Eyes Brown Hair Brown Residence Manhattan Employment New York City Council Parents Carmen and Marie Spollini Siblings 4, unnamed Marital Status Single Children None First Seen Last Seen Profile Viviane is a very simple person who acts in a very complicated way. Anything that can get her more power and more control, she'll do anything to gain it. She has no issue with lying, cheating, stealing. If she could take over the world, she would and is fine with stepping on people to get there. She thinks a lot bigger than her mafia connections, wanting to establish some legitimacy to herself in the political field by speaking out against Evolved and buying up property in NYC. She currently works as a councilmember representing the 46th district in Brooklyn. She's a Republican.

portrayed by Caterina Murino

Background

Viviane Spollini was the fourth of five children born to the Spollini family. A well-known mafia family with connections in Vegas, that's where her parents had 'retired' to by the time she was born. They'd helped found the city, having shares and partial ownerships in a quite a few of the casinos in Sin City.

Perhaps growing up in Las Vegas had it's influence on Viviane, but she was always attracted to bright lights and stages. From a young age, she was known to attempt to subtly influence attention on to her, always wanting to be the center of it.

In school, she excelled academically and in physical competitions, having found out that you can recieve praise from those around you for it. It wasn't long until she found out her talents for making someone believe what she was saying was true, though it was natural ability rather than any evolution on her part. She made a great liar, and it showed in all of the school plays she participated in.

The emergence of Viviane's powers came gradually rather than in one big breathtaking reveal. Little by little, she'd notice things would change, if she didn't like the look of them. The shirt that was an awful shade of green would turn to a sapphire blue, the stain on the rug would be gone. It took her even longer to figure out she was doing it, and that whatever she was doing wasn't permanent. It would take her years to figure out that she was casting temporary imprints, illusions, real enough to fool all five senses if the person believed in them.

Graduating class president and salutatorian from her private school in Las Vegas, not many people expected Viviane to do much beyond become one of the city's own private socialites, hopping from club to club and being seen. As much as she loves being seen, she knew she didn't want it for nothing, and she wasn't in line to have any control over the family business.

Viviane did what normal girls do, and went to college. She got accepted early admission to Stanford, mostly through family ties and influence despite her good grades and extracurricular activites. There, she applied herself to getting a degree in political science, the only thing she could see herself really enjoying. She joined a sorority more for the connections than looking for sisterhood, eventually becoming President and retiring in good standing.

Of the nine years spent in college, Viviane came out with a PhD in political science and very valuable connections to people who could someday influence the country or even play on a global stage. Now 27, she had ideas of what she wanted out of life but didn't have a plan yet to grab it. So, she returned home to Las Vegas to participate somewhat in the family business.

It wasn't until the bomb in November of 2006 that Viviane really figured out how she was going to make her mark on the world. She pushed to liquidate what stocks she could to support a move to New York City, settling in quietly and buying up properties that were selling close to the bomb site. This was a city now where she could gain some influence, if a long way off.

While doing this, Viviane attempted to slowly make her presence known as a stable community voice, trying to gain the trust of those people who still wanted NYC the way it had been. At the announcement of the presence of "Evolved people", she felt another door open for her and lunged for it happily. She'd started to speak against them, quietly at first, to open her way into politics.

Now, she's started to make some big moves, perhaps come up on more radars. Her business purchases are getting riskier, her voice against Evolved louder and stronger with more people backing her.

Viviane has gained enough notice to be recently elected as a councilmember for New York City's city council, a particularly key spot to be in with the upcoming mayoral elections. Since getting her foot in into the council, she's started a campaign to appear in media and at social events to get her name out there.

Financially, she's made indications to Linderman Group that she'd be interested in being an investor in his new casino. There's interest there in what she can get out of the deal, knowing how far and deep Linderman's fingers reach in the apple pie that is NYC.

Interesting to note, Viviane doesn't have much at all going on in her personal life, currently or usually. She has had boyfriends, the rich and powerful, but none seem to last longer than their use to her does. It would be hard to find someone who considers her a "friend", and even scarcer for a close friend. Despite the parties she attends and working closely with other members of the city government, no one seems to know all that much about what she does in her free time.

Psych Profile

Viviane is a very controlling person, always wanting things to go her way and trying her best to make that happen through any means necessary. When it doesn't go her way, she finds herself getting frustrated and annoy, sometimes holding grudges against people for interfering. She has very few friends, if she considers anyone at all a friend. Most people are there to be manipulated, in her opinion.

Surprisingly, however, she's not very egotistical. It comes from having to practically view someone's assets and weaknesses when dealing with them and attempting to move things her own way. She knows people are better than her, she just tries to use that against them. Plus, people don't get along very well with an egotistical person, and she outwardly tries to get along with everyone if there's an advantage there.

She's a very secretive person, never revealing too much of anything to anyone. If it comes down to it, she'd rather not tell anyone anything but half-truths, but she understands that sometimes situations dictate truth. However, she very rarely shares truths about /herself/.

Evolved Ability

Viviane's powers consist of conjuring illusions that can affect all five senses within approximately 250 square feet (the average size of a living room). She can do different illusions for people around her, but she can only maintain three different at a time otherwise it stresses her mind out too much, causing a headache that's too painful to do anything. The more people that are affected, the harder it becomes to maintain these illusions and the weaker they appear to the people seeing them. i.e. The bodyguard she was making suddenly had his ear disappear because a truck full of strangers passed into her range.

The reason these illusions are very real is because they have to be based on something she's seen before. People will wear faces she's seen, and there is not going to be flying dragons. If someone suspects that it's an illusion, it weakens them in relation to how much they question it.

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