Riveting Rosie

Below is the character background for my new Mutants and Masterminds character Riveting Rosie:

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Roslyn always lived the quiet life. She was, after all, a Midwestern girl and lived a very simple life on a farm in Ohio. One hot summer day, she met Victor Trench selling his latest invention at the county fair. The two fell in love and were married before the following summer. Not too long after they were married, Victor started talking about fearing that he was being followed on the way to work. He didn't want to overly worry Roslyn, so he chuckled it off. Then one afternoon, Victor's lab was raided and Victor was killed. Roslyn was heartbroken. When the government came to question her, they asked her if she knew if he was being followed by anyone. She mentioned what he had said, but didn't understand why his technology would be hunted. The agency officials told her that he was developing top secret weaponry to have on hand in the event of another world war. They were jet packs. Something that some comic book artist dreamed up, but the government thought could be really effective for a new kind of soldier. He was getting funds from the governments new grant program based to stimulate the economy. They mentioned some missing notes, and she showed them up to his study. They searched the room. The notes were hidden in an old album.

"This is what they must have been looking for. My God. He made it work" One said to the other.

"Who is they? I have a right to know. " She snapped.

"These Germans. We call them the Fifth Column . We believe that they could be sending Germans over here to learn about our technology and someday invade our country using the knowledge of our weaponry to defeat us." He said and then snorted. "Why am I telling you this? You are just a woman. You have no understanding of this."

"Is that all gentlemen? I have to begin making arrangements and looking for work."

"Yes Miss. Thank you for your assistance. We will bring these men to justice."

When she shut the door, she locked it and went into the basement. Victor had set up a lab and she turned on the light. She saw it sitting in a cubby. It was the working prototype of the rocket pack. She quickly covered it and went upstairs. No one was going to get that Jet pack.

Lacking typing skills, she found work ship building. She became an able worker, and made enough to get by. She found that her favorite thing to do was use the rivet gun. Her accuracy earned her much praise. And for a while she was happy. One morning, while working in the ship yard with a group of other women, a series of explosions began going off on the opposite side of the yard and the explosions kept going getting closer and closer. Instinctively she dove under water just as the explosion went off above her and she stayed under until she absolutely had to come up for air. As she came up for air, she felt this surge flow through her body. Soon after, she came to realize that crime was not best left to the men in blue. She vowed to the women that she came to know at the ship yard as "her sisters" that she would fight crime in their name. She decided that would be the perfect job for her husband's jet pack. She began practicing with it under cover of darkness. Frustrated at her lack of progress, she said "With the power of my sisters, I will learn how to use this!" As she said this, her body felt stronger. She discovered she was stronger. She could easily lift things. She began tinkering in the basement lab and created a smaller more versatile rivet gun, belt holster, and pouch to hold extra rivets. She also redesigned her shipyard overalls into a sleeker more skintight version so that the pant legs wouldn't be singed. A mask to hide her identity and she was all set. Now for a name: She decided on Riveting Rosie, cause it sounded better than any other idea that she had. She has been fighting crime for a year or so and has now relocated to a new city: Rocket City.

Name: Roslyn Trench/ Riveting Rosie

Age: 30

Daytime Occupation: Shipbuilder

Hair/eye color: Brown

Catchphrase: "Uncle Sam doesn't want me in the kitchen, he wants me to kick evil's ass."

Power: Strength, a jet pack, a rivet gun, and lots of moxie

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I get a chance to play her tonight when I join up with a couple of friends for a game!

While researching this character, I read many stories about Rosie the Riveters, and every one of them were as facinating as the next.

Somehow I am inspired to post an old favorite: