In her youth, Tymea was a sickly child raised by her scientist parents on Earth. Rather than having a certain disease plague her, somehow, she always ended up with a new illness after another. Her doctors weren’t all too sure how it happened either. As such, she never really got a chance to go to school and had to be taught at home. She learned her material rather quickly and found she had time to read many things while sick in bed. The most prominent among those happened to be things on illnesses and medicine.

A few years later, she seemed to make a miraculous recovery and had not seemed to have been infected by anything else. While she was not permanently bed-ridden for the few years she had been constantly ill, it was suggested that she go through a sort of pseudo physical therapy, to make sure her legs were able to handle standing and walking again. At her return home, she had an encounter with her father. All of a sudden he seemed to attack her with an item she couldn’t make out in the darkness.

As it turned out, she wasn’t his child, but the child of a man her mother was with before her “father”. Going slowly crazy, he attempted to infect her with various diseases over the course of her childhood after learning of her heritage, of course with the intentions of her dying. He mentally broke though, unable to take the strain with whatever mental issues he had, and attempted to physically assault her. With what strength she could muster, Tymea ran with him on her tail. He quickly caught up with her and delivered a powerful blow to her right arm, rendering it completely useless over the course of the chase. Luckily, he was stopped by some bystanders and restrained until authorities arrived.

The incident left her both mentally and physically scarred. Her arm was paralyzed. Her mother mentioning that money was no object, the doctor suggested a type of synthetic arm. With one of the plans for the arm, she could get it replaced as many times as needed between then and the end of her life. Very expensive, but her mother wasn’t worried and with a small nod of acceptance from Tymea the doctor set up a schedule to amputate her paralyzed arm and replace it with the synthetic one.

It was a painful experience, but eventually she made it through the surgery. The “Syn-Arm” as it was called, seemed to have a variety of uses to it. First of all, it had a layer of Synthetic skin, making it look like it was an actual arm. The second was that it seemed to be able to be augmented slightly with a few different functions, though it costs more. The last, though possibly most odd, is that it has a connection to her nervous system so she can artificially feel everything she touches though not pain.

Over the next few years, she returned to schooling, making it to the top of her class every time and went to college at a young age, simultaneously majoring in both “Medicine” and “Robotics and Engineering”. She finished school, but never really got around to getting a job. Nothing clicked with her. . . That is, until she ran into Lin Chang.