Strength 2x

Agility 3x

Intellect 4d

Willpower 5x

Hand Size: Edge:

2 (10) 0

Powers:

Dream Travel: Teddy has the ability to project her mind into the short-lived pocked dimensions created by the subconscious mind while it dreams. She can do this at intensity 5. While in said pocket dimension, Teddy can substitute this intensity for any other ability or power scores, allowing her to interact physically with the dream to significant effect.

Sensory Link: thanks to a unique psychic link, Teddy can share the dream walking experiences of her brother, Keith. This link works constantly, whether or not Keith or Teddy is conscious, which often leads to embarrassing situations when Keith or Teddy are having ... bizarre ... dreams. This telepathic power works at intensity 10.

An interesting side effect of this link is that Teddy can use this link to anchor Keith's consciousness to the real world. This comes in real handy in the event that Keith gets into too much trouble while dreamwalking. Teddy can make an easy sensory link action to pull Keith out of a dream, but if he resists for some reason, this action is opposed by his Willpower score.

Equipment:

Wheelchair: not special by any means, this device is nonetheless necessary for Teddy to get around in the world, since she can no longer walk.

Hindrances:

Physically Disability - Unable to Walk: after the bomb blast Horst Kleinmann set of to destroy the Remsen family, Teddy was rendered paralyzed from the waist down - for life. As such, Teddy is limited to ability scores of zero when fighting or moving about (unless she has her wheelchair, of course).

Skills:

Psychiatry: thanks to a lifetime of being surrounded by psychologists, Teddy has sort of picked this skill up by osmosis. She can tell if a body is being mind controlled, and has the ability to diagnose and, with time, to treat a person's mental problems.

Calling:

Peace of Mind: Teddy, though she had nothing to do with it, still feels bizarre grief and guilt about the death of her parents. She's trying to get over this to achieve a sort of inner peace, but hasn't quite succeeded yet.

Costume:

None. Teddy doesn't roam about fighting the forces of Evil or anything, as she's no longer built for such things. She simply wears regular clothing (or a lab coat) while working at the Institute. However, while using her own dream powers, she has manifested a version of Keith's Nightmask costume in the past…

Personality:

Teddy comes across as a spunky, enthusiastic young woman. She does her best to help others despite her situation, which often causes her bouts of doubt, depression, and anger. However, she's working to resolve these lasting mental effects of her physical state, and is coming along quite nicely, despite the effect the Pitt has had on her psyche.

Real Name: Theodore 'Teddy' Remsen
Occupation: psychological assistant
Legal Status: American citizen with no known criminal record.
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: none
Group Affiliation: the Ballad Dream Institute

Height: 5' 6"
Hair: dark brown
Eyes: blue
Weight: 98 lbs.
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: other than her wheelchair, none.

Story:

Other than the bizarre mental link she shared with her brother Keith, Teddy Remsen was a perfectly ordinary young girl. She grew up with two wonderful psychologist parents, and was thinking of becoming one herself, just like her brother, who was going to Switzerland to study with her parents' instructor, Doctor Horst Kleinmann. This never happened, however.

You see, Kleinmann believed that Keith was being sent by his parents to spy on his new dream therapy techniques, and being quite mad, he arranged for a flunky to plant a bomb on them at the airport. Sure enough, the thing detonated (if early), and wiped Teddy's parents off the face of the earth. In addition, Keith dropped into a coma, and Teddy's ability to walk was forever lost.

About two months later, Keith came out of his coma, doing so as the mysterious White Event occurred. It soon became apparent that Keith was changed by his ordeal (or alternately, because of the Event), as he was manifesting control over the dreams of other people. Teddy knew this because of her mental link with Keith, which allowed her to share his dreamwalking experiences.

In fact, she proved vital to Keith's work, as the link they shared allows her to pull Keith out of any trouble he encounters while in somebody's head. As such, she joined Keith, Doctor Ballad, and Lita Mercado in forming the Ballad Dream Institute, where the group could do their work in a professional capacity, and disguise the fact that Keith's paranormal powers were helping folks.

For the next year and a half, Teddy assisted Keith in his dream work, generally reigning him in and keeping him in control. During this time, she discovered that she, too, could enter the dreams of another, though she possessed this ability at a much lower level of power than Keith does. However, this proved that she, too, was a paranormal like her brother.

This didn't save her from feeling the backlash of the creation of the Pitt, however. You see, while Keith was treating an empath's terror-filled nightmares, Ken Connell accidentally destroyed Pittsburgh, and the resulting psychic backlash pretty much shredded up this empath's mind. Unfortunately, Keith was inside it at the time, and through their link, Teddy also experienced this trauma.

Too much to bear, this pain threw Teddy into a coma, a coma that nobody (even Keith himself) could manage to pull her out of. As such, when the Draft was instituted, Doctor Ballad took Teddy with him to the Bethesda Naval hospital in order to treat her while he studied paranormal powers for the U.S. government. Since she was a paranormal herself, he was able to get away with this.

After about another year and a half of therapy (both by Ballad and Keith himself), Teddy finally came to terms with all that pain, both created by the Pitt's creation and that which she's been carrying around with her since she was paralyzed years ago. Once he'd revived her, Keith promised to help her get everything back on track, even as she helped him to regain control of his Nightmask.

However, Keith himself soon fell victim to a psychotic episode once he'd managed to neutralize Harlan Mook, the army recruit he'd called sane when he, in fact, wasn't. This madman was conducting a global string of terrorism, blowing up people and places indiscriminately until Keith finally took care of him. Not able to deal with his guilt over the whole affair, Keith fell apart.

He wound up being institutionalized for over four years. As such, it is unknown exactly how well Teddy has done since she came out of her coma. However, being in the care of Doctor Ballad and Lita Mercado has likely helped her to deal with all of her inner (and external) demons, so she's probably recovered her mental balance by this time.