BLACK ORCHID (aka Orchid)
Role: Secret Agent, The Chick
Games: Killer Instinct I-II, KI (2013)
PL 9 (155)
STRENGTH 3 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 6
FIGHTING 13 DEXTERITY 6
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 4 PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Acrobatics 8 (+14)
Athletics 9 (+12)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+15)
Expertise (Survival) 4 (+8)
Expertise (Secret Agent/Spy) 8 (+11)
Intimidation 2 (+5)
Perception 4 (+8)
Stealth 3 (+9)
Advantages:
Equipment 2 (Taser Tonfa Rods +1), Great Endurance, Improved Critical 2 (Special Moves), Improved Critical (Unarmed) 2, Improved Initiative 2, Ranged Attack 6
Killer Instinct Fighting Style:
Accurate Attack, All-Out Attack, Chokehold, Extraordinary Effort, Fast Grab, Power Attack, Withstand Damage
Powers:
"Special Moves" Strength-Damage +2 (Inaccurate -1) [1]
"No Mercy!" Features 1: May Use a Unique Move as a Finishing Move [1]
"Fire Cat" Morph 1 (Fire Cat Form) [5]
"Laser Boomerang/Fire Cat" Blast 4 (Feats: Variable- Fire or Laser Damage) (Diminished Range -1) (8) -- [9]
- AE: "ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAA COMBO!!!!!" Strength-Damage +3 (Extras: Multiattack 6) (Inaccurate -2) (7)
Unarmed +15 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Tonfa Rods +13 (+4 Damage, DC 19)
Special Moves +13 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Ultra Combo +11 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +14
Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +15 (DC 25), Toughness +3, Fortitude +6, Will +8
Complications:
Motivation (Stopping UltraTech)- Orchid's mission is to investigate UltraTech- her organization works towards the betterment of society.
Secret (Brother, Jago)- Orchid and Jago are unaware of their link to each other. If she slays him in the tournament, Gargos will taunt her with what she's done, and she will regret it for the rest of her life.
Total: Abilities: 82 / Skills: 38--19 / Advantages: 15 + 7 / Powers: 16 / Defenses: 16 (155)
-If there's one aspect of Fighting Games I'll never understand, it's how absolutely EVERY FREAKING ONE OF THEM needs some kind of Spy/Special Agent character in it, and that character always has to be a female. You've got Chun-Li (and Cammy, sorta) in Street Fighter, Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat, Blue Mary in Fatal Fury, Leona Heidern in King of Fighters, Sarah Bryant in Virtua Fighter, Nina Williams (a Sarah knock-off) in Tekken, and Sophitia in Toshinden. I mean, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? Is everyone just ripping off their ideas from SF II and can't come up with other reasons why a chick would enter a martial arts tournament?
-A lot of Fighting Games from the '90s would actually explain what had happened in the prior tournaments- Ryu had won the World Warrior Tournament, Liu Kang beat Shang Tsung, Terry Bogard beat Geese Howard, Ryo Sakazaki defeated Mr. Big, and Kage-maru defeated Dural. Capcom kind of wimped out by never revealing the results of the second World Warrior Tournament, however, and other games stopped doing it. However, Black Orchid is the canonical victor of the UltraTech Killer Instinct Tournament, having slain Eyedol and therefore causing the time warp that sent all of the fighters into the past. Where they must apparently fight in ANOTHER Tournament.
-Orchid is a special agent investigating Ultratech, which immediately begins smearing her reputation, and she is targetted for death. Greatly endangered, she manages to find her long-lost half-brother, Jago, and the two support each other against their enemies, with her ultimately killing Eyedol, the Final Boss. She had one of the weirder designs in the first game, being Miss Fanservice, but sporting those early kind of hideous "Pointy Polygonal Boobs"- it's all like "HEYYYYYYYYYY LOOK AT THIS HOT, SEXY CHICK WITH ALL THESE CHARACTER ANGLES!" but she looks like she's hiding coat-hangers in her bra.
-Orchid's sprite was kind of screwy in the first game- as the only girl, you'd think they'd want to make her look as good as possible, but they gave her these HILARIOUSLY over-the-top pointy breasts that came to a dagger's edge, making them look more like weapons than boobs. They sort of fixed it with the second game (though everyone looked sorta weird in that one). Her moves were pretty Chun-Li-ish, with lots of acrobatic jump-y moves and split-kicks, though her "No Mercy" move that flashed her opponent was pretty funny (especially because if you fought another Orchid, the enemy would just stomp her foot in a big pouty way). She turns into a cat for some of them, but this doesn't really have a lot of noticeable battlefield effects beyond looking cool. She also has Tonfa Rods with a "Taser" setting she apparently only uses for a Fatality/No-Mercy.