Mask or Menace Application

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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Lisa Snart
CHARACTER AGE: 29ish
SERIES: The Flash (DCTV)
CHRONOLOGY: Immediately post episode 2x03 "Family of Rogues"
CLASS: Criminal. (She'd prefer survivor.)

BACKGROUND: (cw: child abuse, alcoholism, domestic violence)

"The first time my father came after me I was seven. The second time I was eight. That's when I learned a bottle hurts more than a fist. He used to say he was teaching us lessons. I must have been a slow learner because the lessons never stopped."

Lisa Snart was born to former-cop turned thief Louis Snart and spent a childhood learning some hard lessons. Her brother Leonard was her protector, according to Lisa he "practically raised" her, in between his own stints incarcerated. Her childhood was rough, to say the least, colored by physical and emotional abuse from her father, and in time she followed in his and her brother's footsteps into the criminal world as a career.

Her official educational background is unclear, but she's clearly not without resource, having an active class A CDL, proficiency in marksmanship, and various other motoring skills, to boot. She knows how to do her research on a mark, how to fall into character, how to manipulate in order to get exactly what she wants, and these are not skills learned over night.

She first appears offscreen, having successfully waylaid the prison transport vehicle moving her brother Leonard and his partner Mick Rory to Iron Heights Prison and assisting them in their escape. She next appears in a blonde wig, complete with cover identity as a structural engineer, all too successfully seducing Cisco Ramon, all part of the plan to coerce him into replicating the heat and cold guns he'd destroyed previously, as well as her own special weapon, something pretty and toxic and gold. After a violent attack on the casino along with her brother, and a deadly test-run of their new weapons, the trio attack the money en route to a supposedly safer location, only to be thwarted by the Flash. Lisa escapes, only to turn up again when the superhero requests her brother's help.

The Good Guys(tm) needed some assistance relocating a handful of ne'er-do-wells, and someone to drive the truck, and Lisa just so happened to have the requisite license, and not freshly acquired. Once at the drop-off site, it becomes clear that something is malfunctioning with the truck, and Lisa's knowing smile proves she most definitely had something to do with it. It's proven, soon enough, when she and her brother effectively hold up what remains of the previously imprisoned metas until they agree to play along, and she rides off with Leonard after successfully acquiring a few favors and causing a lot of chaos along the way.

It's many months before Lisa turns up again, in full Damsel in Distress mode and the Good Guys, however suspiciously, agree to investigate the disappearance of her brother. All Lisa knew was someone busted up a job they were doing, a typical ATM bust by the sound of it, and when she woke up alone after seeing her brother dragged off, she called in Len's favor for him with the Flash.

When it comes to light that Leonard appears to be working with their father Louis, Lisa explains exactly how unlikely that is, and she's got the scar to prove it. She remains at STAR Labs with team Flash, as more and more terrible information comes to light, and it turns out that dear old dad implanted a sadistic explosive in her neck. One he held the remote to, and subsequently, how he was getting Len to do his bidding.

Of course, the heroes prevail, the bomb is removed, and Leonard is her protector once again, as he kills the man who broke her heart, so many times over: their father. And doesn't fight the prison sentence that earns him.

The last we see of Lisa she seems to have a genuinely open moment with Cisco, before she seals it with a kiss and glides off on her golden motorbike.



PERSONALITY: Lisa Snart is a consummate actor, in many ways. She's learned to be what people expect her to be and use it to her advantage. She's selfish, possessive, a little volatile, a natural flirt, and a whole lot of loyal, but to very few. To just two: herself and her brother Leonard.

Lisa is the kind of woman you notice when she wants you to and you'll never see her if she doesn't. She commands attention, pulls it, draws it, and you can't really look away. She knows how to make you feel like you're the only other person in the room, to draw you into a kiss after three sentences of conversation, and how to turn you on your head five minutes later when the metaphorical mask comes off and she makes her demands.

She's a thief and a liar, just as likely to swipe a wallet as a car, and all the for the fun. She does her research, does her watching, and she's not above getting her hands dirty, not above getting a little blood under her nails. She's killed before and she'd do it again, if the situation called for it.

Lisa also knows how to appear small and vulnerable, and it's not altogether a lie. She's never really helpless, but if it means she'll get what she wants, she can be vulnerable. The difference between the act and the reality is easily apparent: when convincing Cisco to call the Flash to help her find her brother, her Damsel routine is clearly overacted, all doe eyes and pouty lips and glances over her shoulder. But when presented with evidence that her father is to blame for her predicament, her fear is real: her movements stiff, expression shielded, not making eye contact with anyone else as she shows her scar. Her permanent score of a lesson she could never really learn.

She's charming and flirtatious, in spite of it all, and not entirely for show. She enjoys the game, overly obvious advances peppered with genuine compliments. She doesn't seem to form attachments easily, but when someone catches her eye, she doesn't let them go, as is evidenced by her continued appealing to Cisco, even after her continued dishonesty with him, even going so far as to pull a classically possessive move in playfully insulting Caitlin and following it with blatant advances to Cisco, who she genuinely seems to respect and have an attraction toward.

Lisa is more than a little broken, a childhood of abuse and a life of crime having left their marks, physical and emotional. Her brother is the one person she truly cares about, other than herself, and she's willing to risk herself for him, even when he'd rather she stayed far away from it all. They don't have the healthiest relationship, neither of them really any good at expressing affection or the weakness it presents, but it's undeniable.

She's a bit of a mess, but she's a tough kid. A survivor. She adapts and learns and keeps fighting.


POWER: Lisa has no powers in DCTV canon, her "gold" moniker present only in the gun made for her by Cisco, which, while she'll be bringing that with her, she'll also be a little touchy about it:

1. Midas Touch
-- She can turn things, living and inanimate, to gold with a touch, but there's a few catches: 1) it requires prolonged contact with both her ring and pinky fingers of either hand. Just a touch will leave only a small dot, the longer she touches, the more it spreads, and the more of her own energy it uses. Turning something large to solid gold would probably knock her out.
--2) She can reverse it with a kiss, but the same rules apply: she has to keep contact until it is completely reversed, or as reversed as she desires, and this will also sap considerable energy.
--when reversed, the object or being will be returned to whichever state it was in prior to being gilded, there is no additional healing power.
--3) Initially she will have very limited control over this, but eventually she'll be able to have full control over it to avoid accidental incidents.

2. Gold Gun
--What it says on the tin: custom-made weapon that shoots a stream of liquid gold, solidifying the target in it. Result has not been tested for karat designation.