Buttercup (All Shook Up; Elvis Presley)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Buttercup
Song/Album	"All Shook Up"/ (single)
Act	Elvis Presley
Writer	Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley
Release Date	1957
ABILITIES
Powers	-Induce itchiness "I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree" -Induce mania "I'm acting wild as a bug" -Induce a sense of discombobulation "I'm all shook up" "I'm a little mixed up" -Induce weakness in muscles, joints, ligaments, and tendons "My hands are shaky and my knees are weak/ I can't... stand on my... feet" -Cause tachycardia and tremors "My heart beats so, it scares me to death" "My insides shake like a leaf" -Emanate extreme cold and heat  "She touched my hand and what a chill I got/ Her lips are like a volcano that's hot." -Induce aphasia/mutism "My tongue gets tied when I try to speak"
Skills	N/A
Attributes	N/A
Vulnerabilities	N/A
Formidability	Mild, but seems to focus on one victim at a time. Also, does not seem interested in killing, although she could, and may have done so unintentionally.
Attractiveness	Hard to tell. She thinks of herself as unattractive, otherwise she would not have to resort to making men ill in order to cure them by having sex with her.
Source	N/A
Goals	"Cure" her victims with sex "There's only one cure for this body of mine/ That's to have that girl that I love so fine"
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A
Objects	N/A
Clothing	N/A
Vehicles	N/A
Dwelling	N/A
Milieu	medical facilities (speculative)
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	Female
Age	Adult
Physique	N/A
Ethnicity	N/A
Origin	N/A
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	Medical, possibly a nurse
Education	Nursing school
SES	Moderate
Relationships	Few. Has to resort to trickery to get men.
Pets	N/A
PERSONALITY
Morality	Immoral
Intro/extrovert	Introvert by nature; forces herself to be extroverted
Intelligence	Above average
Emotions	Intense loneliness
Sanity	Calculating, but not "well"
Enemies	Men
Narrative Function	Antagonist
Other Notes	Buttercup (whose parents may have named her for the title character in The Princess Bride?) has what is known as "Munchausen by proxy." This is a mental disorder in which someone, wanting desperately to be needed, makes someone else sick, in order to be the only source of the cure (without the "by proxy" part, they make themselves sick to get attention; Munchausen is a fictional character given to exaggeration). And that's what Buttercup does. She meets men in various situations and makes them sick-- see the above list-- so that they go to the doctor. She may have the powers to induce these symptoms, or augment her powers with pharmaceuticals she steals from work and poisons her victims with. In any case, she gets these poor afflicted souls to the hospital and cures them secretively, perhaps again my dosing their food. But she also seduces them while they are sick and vulnerable. The men, not having seen her administer any medicine, believe that it was this "love" that itself was the cure! If there is any doubt, she poisons them on the way out so that their symptoms return. When they come back and "have" her again-- poof! Cured again. Soon enough, they come to believe that she is some sort of miracle worker and mistake their relief at their lack of symptoms with love. Someone who feels the need to stoop to such measures just for some affection must be terribly lonely, but we can have only so much sympathy, given her... methods.