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The Ottawa Awesomes
Janice LaTulippe
Janice LaTulippe
Narcissistic Pathokineticist
Appearance: Thirty-something (actually forty-something...) OK, OK... fiftysomething... woman of indeterminate European heritage. Her mother always said she’d have her looks to fall back on. She ain’t pretty, she just looks that way.
Personality: Flamboyant and fabulous. Not the smartest person, but she has a certain animal cunning. She is a social predator accustomed to getting what she wants. She’s trying to do better.
Background: Janice LaTulippe came out of prison sooner than she would have if she had remained Jo-Jo Valentine. Her shrink really helped her to understand that what she had done was wrong and that doing good was its own reward. Having believed that she really learned her lesson, she saw no need to stay any longer after that. Besides, she wanted to try some of that “goodness is it’s own reward” thing. Now the official record says that Jo-Jo died in prison and that someone named Janice was released and ultimately exonerated. The actual paperwork and change in hair colour followed the “touchy-feely” work (that’s what Janice/Jo-Jo calls using her powers), but it all worked out in the end.
She’s not so great. Take away her suit and she’s just a little girl playing with engines. I should be the leader of the Awesomes. Bide your time, Janice, and you will be.
She’s not so great. I should be on the National Superhero team. Bide your time, Janice, and you will be.
She’s not so great. Scratch that. She's actually kind of scary. Does she look familiar? I can’t quite place it. Why does she stare at me like that? Oh, of course, she’s a lesbian. Well, looking at me, what girl wouldn’t I turn gay?
She’s actually OK. She’s quiet and unobtrusive, kind of dim, and she knows her place. She has a potty mouth, but who doesn’t love a good fart joke? I think she likes me.
She’s not so great. Look at her there pretending to be so unobtrusive. Judging me. It’s always the quiet ones you have to watch for. She probably wants to lead the Awesomes. Good luck with that, sister. You’ll have to start with a push up braw…
Joanne “Jo-Jo” Valentine had as normal a childhood as you could imagine a person having when that person was born with the ability to make nearly anyone feel the way she wanted them to. Janice/Jo-Jo is a patho-kinetecist. That means she can see and physically manifest people’s emotions or just straight out manipulate them. It’s not mind control but, applied to most people, it might as well be.
Jo-Jo getting what Jo-Jo wanted was always part of the natural order of things.
At least it was until she decided it wasn’t. Before prison, she had cut a swath from Toronto to Vancouver and New York to Montreal, with a brief stopover in Lloydminster. Her multi-level marketing empire of psychic hotlines, pseudo-science remedies, and cult leadership came crashing down around her because of a Montreal police detective whose name she can never remember. Somehow, that investigator was immune to Jo-Jo’s touchy-feelies. Probably best to stay out of Montreal for a while, actually. And any other place where she had once made a name for herself.
If the city isn’t much fun, it’s probably safe. So… Ottawa it is.
Every now and then Janice bumps into someone from Jo-Jo’s bad old days and needs to remind them that they no longer hold a grudge. After all, she’s turned a new leaf!
Janice is now making amends her way, mostly by presenting herself as “Tulip Festival” – a superhero with the power to make people feel good, and always for the right reasons. She got wind of the Ottawa Awesomes being established while she was working at City Hall and considering a run for Mayor. Instead, she crashed and (of course) completely aced the auditions. She didn’t even have to touchy-feely the judges!
Much.
She has found that going legit is a lot like being shady. The biggest difference has been not having to worry as much about how to do your taxes. She likes being able to tell herself that people appreciate her doing her touchy-feely thing for the right reasons, and she doesn’t want to go back to the way things were.
Well, most days…
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