Scarlett
| F Rm 30 |
A Rm 30 |
S Ty 6 |
E Rm 30 |
R Gd 10 |
I Ex 20 |
P In 40 |
Res In 40 |
Pop Fe +2 |
| Health: Karma: |
96 70 |
Origin:
Like the vast majority of the GiJoe forces, Shana is simply a normal human, albeit one extremely skilled in the martial arts, as well as the execution of covert ops and assassination techniques, and legal matters on both a state and federal level. As normal humans go, she's quite dangerous.
Known Powers:
(none)
Equipment:
Fragmentary Grenades: Shana always has at least one of these handy, should she find herself needing to blow something up while 'on the job'. These powerful explosives can detonate to inflict Remarkable (30) Edged Attack damage to everybody within the area they explode in.
Knife: throughout her career as a Joe, Shana has always carried at least one blade on her person, often of the throwing variety. In combat, she use these weapons to inflict Typical (6) damage, Edged Attack if in melee, or Edged Throwing if she flings them at a foeman.
Pistols: Shana often has several pistols on her person while on the job. These semi-auto weapons can be fired to inflict Typical (6) Shooting damage per blast, +1 CS in a semi-auto burst. She also carries a two shot pistol (not semi-auto) hidden in her right glove, which inflicts like damage.
Shuriken: Shana's left glove often has several shuriken strapped onto them, to be used when stealth is vital - or ammunition is totally depleted. She can fling these weapons at an opponent to inflict Typical (6) Edged Throwing damage per attack, and must recover each throwing star before she can use it again.
XK-1 Crossbow: her trademark weapon as a GiJoe operative, Shana has menaced untold numbers of Cobra operatives with this bolt-thrower. Shana can fire this weapon to inflict Good (10) Shooting damage per attack, and can do so one or two handed - the former inflicts a -2 CS penalty to hit, however.
Quirks:
(none)
Talents:
Detective / Espionage: a large portion of Shana's military training involved her attending Covert Ops school, giving her an edge on the shady missions she tends to be involved with. In matters of investigation, surveillance, or information gathering, Shana makes related FEATs at +1 CS.
Guns: another portion of Shana's military training saw her attending the Marine Sniper School, giving her an advanced understanding of projectile weapon use (on top of her Basic training, mind you). When wielding a regular, semi-automatic, or fully automatic rifle or handgun, Shana does so at +1 CS to her Agility score.
Law: before joining the military proper, Shana went to college to become a lawyer - and managed to pass the bar easily. At the time finding comfort in a rigid interpretation of the law, Shana can easily demonstrate her prowess in legal matters, gaining a +1 CS to applicable Reason FEATs.
Law Enforcement: after being chosen as a potential candidate for the Gi Joe team, General Austin arranged for Shana to get expert training in a variety of places, one of which was the F.B.I. A fully trained and authorized federal law enforcement agent, Shana can wield such authority when necessary.
Martial Arts types A, B, and C: a martial arts prodigy since she was a child, Shana is adept at unarmed melee combat. She gains a +1 CS on hand to melee attacks, grapple, dodge, and escape maneuvers, and she can slam or stun a body regardless of his comparative strength or endurance score.
Military / United States: having spent most of her working years in the Army, Shana can be considered adept in the ways of the American military. She understands military protocols and procedures like the back of her hand, and can lead a body of fighting men (or women) if necessary.
Oriental Weapons: Shana's martial arts training has given her an understanding of the use of a large array of deadly, yet obscure weaponry. When wielding shuriken, crossbows, katanas, kris, sais, or even nunchaku, Shana may do so at the applicable ability score +1 CS.
Sharp Weapons: in addition to the above, Shana's years of training in the martial arts (and in combat in general) have given her a mastery of just about any weapon with a sharp edge. When utilizing knives (from stilettos to machetes), swords, and spears, Shana does so at a +1 CS.
Survival: no matter where she is, or how difficult the conditions surrounding her are, Shana has been trained to scrounge up the food, water, and shelter necessary to keep her alive. Neither the deepest arctic reaches, steamiest jungles, or nastiest urban jungles can bring Shana down!
Thrown Weapons: Shana is quite good at wielding melee weapons in battle. However, should she need to, she can also use most of them at a respectable range, flinging them at opponents with deadly skill. In other words, Shana adds +1 CS to any attack she makes with thrown weapons (shuriken, knives, etc...).
Weapon Specialist / Crossbow: though she's already competent in the use of a large array of weaponry, Shana is truly a master of the crossbow. She can wield one in battle (or when simply showboating) at her Agility score +2 CS (or, alternately, can wield a crossbow one handed with no penalty).
Contacts:
Naturally, as one of the original Joes, Shana can depend on the entire GiJoe team should she find herself in need - whether she gets in trouble on an official mission or not. Of course, as she's the one true love of Snake-Eyes, the man would do anything - anything - in order to help her.
In addition to her Joe pals, however, Shana has numerous contacts in the military in general, in espionage circles, and the global martial arts community. Furthermore, her father, three brothers, and sister would do just about anything required to help her out in a pinch.
Costume:
Shana originally wore a gray stretch fabric uniform, partially covered with a yellow leather torso piece, gloves, and boots. Scattered across her suit are various accessories: her gloves each have two shuriken attached (and a mini-pistol underneath), and a grenade is pinned to her left shoulder strap.
Personality:
Shana is one of the single most self-confident and durable people you'll ever meet. Her years as a martial arts instructor and a GiJoe member may suggest this, of course, but it shows in every aspect of her personality. Despite this, however, she does have quite a good sense of humor.
Able to take a joke better than most, Shana is also quite a caring individual, and will do anything she has to in order to protect her friends, family, and other loved ones. However, those who've crossed her know this already; some villainous sorts endangering her friends have lived to regret it...
Real Name: Shana Mae O'Hara, Grade E-5 (later E-6 for a time)
Occupation: GiJoe intelligence operative
Legal Status: American citizen with no known criminal record
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: many, many assumed names
Group Affiliation: GiJoe
Height: 5' 7"
Hair: red
Eyes: blue or green (depictions vary)
Weight: 130 lbs.
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: none
Story:
Shana has been trained in the martial arts since she was nine years old, an idea put forth by her father to train all of his children in such a fashion, to give them the inner strength his own martial education did as a child. Shana took to her training with ease, and became very, very good at it - she won many martial arts competitions, and attained her first black belt at the age of 15.
The source of friction between Shana and her father, despite her amazing achievements, was her inherent need to control every aspect of her life; he was trying to teach Shana to roll with the punches the world threw at her - a lesson that didn't take. This was only made worse when a tragic car accident crippled Shana's father, a fate he was able to accept but Shana refused to deal with.
As such, Shana caved in to her mother's wish that she would engage in more 'lady like' behavior after graduating high school, and went to law school. Graduating at the top of her class in pre-law, Shana then went on to easily pass the bar with her rigid, literal interpretation of the law. However, legal loopholes and a plethora of gray areas in the law rankled Shana's need to make the changes she felt she should.
Leaving her new life as a lawyer, Shana instead enlisted in the Army - and quickly thrived in the regimented environment. She excelled in every possible fashion, leading the pack in her Basic training at Ft. Jackson, her Advanced Individual Training at Ft. Huachuca, and her Airborne school at Ft. Benning. She truly began to shine when put into the field in a Tactical Human Intelligence team, however.
When things went sour in a supposedly friendly desert nation, Shana was faced with her worst fear - logic told her to do what she was told, but her gut feeling, her instincts, were telling her to disobey what her commanding officer was telling her, and to save the lives of two of her wounded fellows. Finally letting go, Shana simply rolled with her feelings and handily rescued her fellow soldiers.
This incident gained Shana the personal attention of one General Flagg, who was then assembling a team of the Army's absolute best-of-the-best to serve as an elite, covert unit: Special Counter-Terrorist Unit Delta, otherwise to be known as the Gi Joe team. After describing her profile to his own superior, General Austin, Flagg was given the go ahead to get Shana all the additional training she'd need.
Pulling some strings, Austin got Shana into the F.B.I. academy in Quantico, and soon enough Shana would find herself a fully authorized F.B.I. agent. Additional training she received while in Quantico was in the Marine Sniper School, not to mention some additional training with the British Special Air Service, and while working with the F.B.I. Shana picked up - and became an expert with - her trademark crossbow.
Once she was ready, Shana was sent on a covert mission to 'prove' her mettle in Ireland, where she was to root out the source of a mysterious, highly advanced weapon shipment that was uncovered in San Diego alongside Connor Murphy, a former I.R.A. informant. Though this mission went badly, Shana had discovered the existence of the corrupt arms dealer, Destro - but her fellow agent was killed in the field.
After this, Shana was formally offered a position on the Gi Joe team, which she accepted after a bit of soul searching; her father was hoping she'd found a martial arts school, but fate had pulled her a different direction. She quickly proved to be one of the most dangerous members of the Gi Joe team, right behind the enigmatic Snake-Eyes himself - who Shana first met shortly after joining the team proper.
Intrigued by his cool mystique, she simply had to get to know the man after he threw a fight with her during a training bout for all the first Joes. Getting to know each other, the two began a serious relationship that has endured through the years, through thick and thin. In fact, it was on one of the Joes' first missions that Snake-Eyes got himself all burnt up - he was trying to save Shana's life!
While she has gotten on rather well with the man, the two having shared secrets they've revealed to no one else during their relationship, Shana has had a few problems with other Joes in the past. For a good long time, she was involved in a sort of hate-hate work relationship with the one and only Clutch, and had exceptional difficulties in relating to Lady Jaye for the longest time.
However, these differences were eventually resolved, one way or the other, and Shana has served during the vast majority of the Joes' major operations, including the battle of Springfield and the battle of Millville, the latter having seen her directly confront the diabolical robotic menace known as Megatron; of course, it was a rather short fight, and Shana narrowly avoided being stomped into a paste.
In fact, Shana has become rather good friends with Lady Jaye, often having gone on 'double date' vacations with their respective boyfriends (Snake-Eyes and Flint). However, the seemingly eternal battle that the GiJoe team has waged with the terrorist organization / state known as Cobra eventually ended for a time, and when the Joe team was disbanded, Shana retired from the military.
She moved on with Snake-Eyes after this, the couple spending years healing their strained relationship; when Snake-Eyes abandoned their would-be wedding at the last minute, though, Shana became a martial arts / self defense instructor in seminars nationwide. However, when Hawk finally got the okay to restore the Joe team to full operational status, Shana was one of the first of the Joes to sign back up.
Shana has been a Joe ever since, working with the team throughout its second incarnation, and then again in its third, again more covert phase. This lasted until Cobra instigated World War III, during which the entire team was brought on again in a much more public role, and persisted after Cobra's final defeat. Shana stayed on in order to help the team hold the world together while it rebuilds.
What she'll do after this point is anyone's guess.
Extra Goodies:
Gi Joe directories featuring a version of Scarlett:
| 1982 | 1993 | 1997 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2008 |
* Note: 2002 saw two versions of Scarlett (Versions 4 and 5), while 2004 saw four versions of Scarlett (Versions 7, 8, 9 and 10).