Battle! | Jingles - Circus Catastrophe

Name: Monika "Jingles" Novak

Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA. The year is 2064.

Age: 38.

Personality: Active, Adaptable, Daring, Alert, Assertive, Brave, Clever, Capable, Confident, Decisive, Focused, Hardworking, Boisterous. A very aggressive trickster. Very deceptive, will pretend to surrender just to have a chance to punch you in the neck. Will only actually surrender if she truly sees no other way out of her battle. Laughs constantly and taunts often. Has a nervous tic where she twitches her hands. Very loud speaker, frequently shouting to emphasize emotions.

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Sexual Attraction: Bisexual

Hair: Blue in front, red in the back, multicolored.

Eyes: A dim gray color that flares into a bright blue when using powers

Features: Pale white skin, long limbs, a round but not large chest, Flat ass. Not muscular at all, but still powerful enough to throw the average human.

Outfit: A jester outfit, a white bodysuit with suspenders to hold up her pants. A black coat, with the inside covered in a white-black checkerboard pattern. Black gloves. Purple and black striped pants, with a pair of black laced boots. A frilled skirt, with frills at her ankles and wrists as well. A black and white jester hat, with 1 bell on each side. A white and gold-lined masquerade mask, with a small red clown nose.

Equipment: Boom Cards, a deck of playing cards that she can control remotely, sending flying at enemies and that explode with the force of a firework when they collide with a surface or person.

Occupation: Villain, Former Circus Clown.

Abilities: Master hand-to-hand combatant, Very High Durability, Extreme Speed, Very Fast Reflexes, Extreme Senses, Extreme Endurance, Large Magic Capacity, Master Strategist, deadly intelligence and cunning of a trickster. Her style, the result of her immense experience, combines frantic speed and seemingly uncoordinated, messy hits that are made to be as precise as possible yet trick the eyes into thinking they are less experienced than they are. As a result of Monika's powers, she possesses supernatural stamina, resulting in the ability to outlast most foes and fight for hours nonstop if needed. Will give up when she becomes too tired to fight.

Metal-Bending Powers: Monika can reach her hands out in the direction of metal items, bending them into items, improvised weapons, or extensions of her own body to combat opponents. Monika can pull metal around her own body, boosting her own strength and durability. Using these powers causes her eyes to glow a bright blue, and her hair to glow a swirling red and blue. While metal-bending around her body, she heals rapidly, able to heal deep wounds in as little as a full minute and lost limbs in as little as a full 5 minutes. Monika can also make metal float in mid-air, giving her the ability to walk into the air and move freely.

Clones of Chaos - Can summon up to 2 clones to fight alongside her for a short period using her powers. Both clones will break apart after taking enough damage, and cannot be resummoned quickly after.

Relationship: She's a supervillain, so she has a HEAVY disdain for anyone identifying as superheroes. It will take a very long time and a lot of convincing to believe anyone wants her to do better, and even then, it is unlikely. She hates the general public, convinced they ruined her life as a clown, all for the sake of having someone to make fun of.

Background: Monika had long been abandoned. At the young age of 8, she was dropped off in an alley and watched her parents speed off into the night. 3 full days later, someone found her, bringing her to the circus to take her mind off things. This awakened a lifelong enjoyment of entertainment in her that never quite faded, along with a reason to live. When she was finally old enough to work, staff members took little notice of her presence at first, but she gradually became involved in small, routine tasks—cleaning, organizing props, and assisting performers. This involvement marked the beginning of a long-term association that would define the course of her life. Over the next several years, she transitioned from support work into performance. Without formal instruction, she developed her skills by observation and repetition, demonstrating a strong aptitude for timing, balance, and stage presence. By her late teens and early twenties, she had taken on a jester role, which became her primary identity within the circus as Jingles. Her performances were characterized by controlled physicality and a distinct visual style, including the use of playing cards as a recurring prop. During this period, she began to show signs of adapting more fully to the environment—both in demeanor and appearance. Throughout her twenties, her role within the circus expanded significantly as the first instances of superhuman individuals appeared worldwide. When she got powers of her own, she discovered she could bend metal at a distance, letting her change the circus around her to her will to allow for bigger and more impossible performances. The circus itself also seemed to evolve during this time, growing in scale and complexity. Attempts to establish connections outside the circus diminished over time. Records suggest she made at least one effort to reintegrate into her previous community in her early twenties, but this was short-lived. Nobody remembered the name Monika, and her adopted family had long since vanished. Following that period, there is little evidence of sustained contact with her former life. By her thirties, Everyone in the city and carnival knew the name of Jingles, but not of Monika. Her demeanor during this period was described as less controlled and composed, with more emphasis on overt theatrics and less on deliberate, measured presentation. In the modern age 2068, as her age reaches 38, she had become almost completely detached from the carnival. She rarely removed her costume, seeming to take all the laughter and mockery that came with the job of carnival jester in stride, despite knowing deep down that is knaws at her soul. She no longer appears to discuss her life prior to joining, and no information besides the very little that is known has come to light. All the laughter and pain from the circus came rushing to the surface one day, causing her to attempt to burn down the entire place to the ground in a fit of rage.

Other: Has the ability to change for the better, but it will take a LOT of convincing to break through her shell. Very sensitive to people who use her real name, treating it like a sacred act, since so few people know it. Extreme phobia of being treated as a joke, and will attack anyone she thinks is doing so.