The Amazons

Hippolyta

Adoptive Muscle Memory

The Amazons faction serves as a protection faction for women from the men. Though it started allowing any woman or girl in, they later became selective with time. Nowadays, they only protect women who they believe will later benefit them.

As old as the prison

The Amazons was created by Hipp, a strong woman who had become quick friends with a sweet, beautiful eighteen year old girl named Lila. Lila had become a fast favorite of the ruthless men of the prison, subjected to horror and degradation. However, Lila could not do much about it since her power was used to heal others. Eventually, Lila had succumbed to the cruelty the men pushed onto her and killed herself. Hipp, angry at the injustice of it all, started the Amazons, recruiting every strong girl she could to protect other women from the same fate as Lila. This continued for a very long time, until it came to Maddie U. Sir or as she became known as, Snake. It was a silly, stupid name, but it had its reasons to exist. While Snake masqueraded as one for the women, she surreptitiously began weeding the weaker women out in order to create a more stronger faction. Her intentions were unknown - why would the Amazons needs to be stronger? There were rumors that it was due to wanting to take out all the other factions, but it is still unknown. Eventually, Snake was killed by her right-hand women who proceeded to take over the Amazons and continue the tradition of her predecessor of only accepting the strong women. They still intervened as much as they could when a woman was taken advantage of, there was still little to offer the women who were not accepted into the Amazons. Through time, their purpose became diluted and the Amazons started to become just as territorial as the rest. It at first started as a refuge, but now was just another faction fighting for dominance.

When Hippolyta was transported into the prison four years ago, she had refused to join any faction, even the Amazons. As such, she was often subject to many fights and wounds. The current leader of the Amazons was particularly cruel to her, afraid that Hippolyta, a stronger woman than her, could take over her position. Though, Hippolyta had no intention, the responsibility of leadership befell her when she killed the current leader. She was reluctant to take over, but when she did, it came natural to her and she started out to make new reforms. Though it angered some, she began to accept women considered weaker to others, willing to use them for other such things such as spying as well as to offer more women refuge. She did it in small doses, not wanting to stir the Amazons masses too much to cause a coup d'etat. She has been the leaders for two and a half years.

Hipp: the leader, named after the first leader, only used as the position, not as a title (unfortunately for Hippolyta, she is known as Hipp-Hipp to the more snarky members
General: the Hipp's right-hand woman, not used as a title, only a position
Scouts:gather intel as much as possible, are some of the most trusted, masquerade as factionless or member of another faction
Belts: strongest of the Amazons and favored by the Hipp
Suppliers: supply the Amazons with food, cigarettes, and other miscellaneous things
Watchers: look out for potential members, and keep records of others' abilities
Grunts: basic low-level members who do what are told

Only females with beneficial powers

Nothing specific. Hippolyta decides who she wants in the Amazons based on her own cleverness to decide what to do with them; she accepts most women who wish to join, however

Before Snake, The Amazons had a rather large population, being almost every female in the prison, but after, when it became more selective, it began to downsize. As such, it is medium-sized

Protection from men
Favors from guards

SOUL

Jackson Stone

Flux Coat

To provide a well working, safe group for metas to belong, as well as combining some of the rougher elements of Jackson's life. Arena fights between regulars as a way to reorganize the hierarchy, extorting and stealing from other prisoners to bribe guards, etc.

6 Months

After a month of being transferred into the centre, Jackson created the faction SOUL. He recruited members that considered themselves factionless or didn't want to join any other faction. They trained in the arena, defeating several well known inmates in battle. From here, the faction grew relationships with some of the guards, as well as gaining respect by doing jobs for different people and making sure guards weren't around. After a few months they recruited a guy named "Auction Master" who could change the appearance of his body using illusions. They started raiding auctions and killing the metas they would sell to the highest bidder. AM would disguise himself as other prisoners and the prisoner he disguised as would be killed or... Something else.

The King: Jackson Stone, and only Jackson Stone. If the king dies, the faction will be passed onto the Prince. Jackson is well renowned, and he is known as someone not to fuck with. Guards will most likely look the other way for crimes and murder, as well is sometimes bring extra food rations or let him off doing something like displaying his powers. This tends to only happen with bribes, so the extorting of other prisoners is common among the faction.
The Prince: A specially chosen member who is entirely trusted and is given full reign over the faction, with some limitations. They are generally well renowned and guards might just look the other way or do something they ask.
Sergeants: Those specially chosen by the King to command the lieutenants and the other peons.
Lieutenants: Those specially chosen by the Prince to serve as secondary commanding officers.
Legionaries: Those who have shown themselves more than capable in the line of combat, but also have more skills to show.
Soldiers: Those that have shown they are adept in combat and using their skills.
Regulars: Normal metas that have proven themselves worthy.

All people, from metas to normals, are allowed into the faction. They only requirement is that the person must be able to fight, and have at least some understanding of meta powers, even if they don't have one of their own. If they know about the powers, they are allowed into the faction. To increase in the hierarchy a person must be able to control their abilities well and also be able to fight, or at least be able to hold their own in combat. To progress further than a Legionary a person,just have other skills to bring. Like trapping, hunting, cooking, espionage, negotiation, computer science etc.

The people without abilities are put into the rank Regular, but are generally used only for fodder or espionage that doesn't require abilities (*NOTE: no person without an ability has been recruited, this is just a though for possible use.)

To be accepted into the faction, first a person must complete the test of SOUL. during this, a meta must fight a group of 3 metas of Soldier level in SOUL. The meta must last for 3 minutes (with full access to their abilities) for 3 minutes without being killed or incapacitated. If they are still standing after 3 minutes they will be promoted to regular.

The faction currently consists of 217 metas from the facility. The age restriction is from ages 14-54. The abilities can vary from anything - from the most useful to the least, all metas are allowed in. At least, as long as they can survive.

Bonuses consist of protection from other factions and metas, as well as respect from said metas due to their position in SOUL (even if it's just Regular). They also tend to receive slightly better quality meals (so the food is edible) and they can also get away with certain crimes like beating up another prisoner of stealing from another's cell. They also tend not to be challenged except by the foolish, which means they have basic protection from injury.

In compensation for this, metas are supposed to be a type of policing unit by breaking up fights that are not in the arena when the guards turn a blind eye. They must also comply to Jackson's command and do different types of missions for "His Majesty's Meta Army".

STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics)

Jason Reed

Data Manipulation

To bring technology based metas together, in doing so giving them a sense of power and right to rule that they had lacked before as tech based abilities are rarely useful in the arena and thus written off by other prisoners.

STEM has been part of the Center almost since the beginning.

While other metas such as MIR took to punching each others skulls in the tech users knew they had to be smarter. They banded together creating STEM in order to keep each other safe. Violence they were aware wasn't always the answer and while it was considered a necessary evil of the prison it was always a last resort. STEM prefers to invoke more subtle methods, which include blackmail, bribery and manipulation though everyone in the Center is aware that when the chips fall STEM is more than willing to back itself up with muscle.

Leadership is based solely on the functionality of the members abilities. The more useful the ability the higher they rise in the ranks. Passive tech users can only get so far. In order to truly become powerful in STEM you need to be able to manipulate at least one facade of technology.

STEM only accepts members with technology based powers, computer control, mechanical control, electrokinesis, and similar. If you don't have a power related to the sciences you aren't eligible.

No actual initiation is necessary. Just proof that you have the type of ability you claim. This Faction is dangerous enough that they don't require a show of loyalty. If you betray them your fate is sealed.

Just short of 200.

The higher ups in STEM have limited access to the Center's computer system. The Center is more than aware of this and is capable of shutting them out should it become a serious security risk but they let STEM have the illusion of control. This access extends to basic inmate records. One of the things that makes them so dangerous is that they can find out about you. Lab and personnel records are censored from them.

They are also powerful enough that the guards will look the other way as long as they are not taking out a hit. If death is the intended purpose of something they are doing the guards will only intervene if the target is considered a priority meta, meaning they have a valuable or rare skill that the Center needs.

MIR (Might Is Right

Julius Abir

Explosive Combat - Physical combat is enhanced with explosives. Every time he should punch, kick, headbutt, or any other harmful attack that involves something of his body causes an explosion. The harder the strike, the bigger the explosion.

To seek out the strong, and weed out the weak.

The MIR has almost been with the Center since the very beginning. The violent ones, the ones that no one would miss were captured in high numbers at the start. However, even with the damping field suppressing their powers, they managed to fight each other the old fashion way with their fist and shivs.

The fights had gotten suppressed several times, but this only made the violent even more agitated! These are one of the reasons why there is even an Arena inside of the Center in the first place. So, they exerted their anger, frustrations, and mainly killing instincts on others that were strong. Though, it got boring after awhile. Fighting the same people over and over again, it got tedious! It was only until one of the more psychopathic prisoners got an idea. Why not fight others instead? Fight these newly formed 'Factions'? Fight other people in mass quantities. Start wars instead of fighting with ourselves! It didn't take long until the MIR was born out of the most violent prisoners, and as time flew by, the MIR was only getting larger and slowly getting stronger.

The MIR have started a 'Faction Fight' with almost every other Faction inside of the Center! They are the mains sources of violence and abuse inside the prison, causing trouble for everyone that resided in the terrible place. The MIR don't exactly care for the tiny factions, sure they might be able to get a few good laugh for a few days, but it gets boring quite fast after they become broken.

So, the MIR love to fight the larger factions, they love to start battles with other people, and they especially love winning those battles. They have never been officially beaten, if they are ever on the ropes against another Faction which had happened a few times in the early stages of the MIR, they merely called it a tactical retreat to regroup and fight again! Though, nowadays, the MIR barely have any rivals anymore, only the biggest and strongest could challenge them, but no one has. However, they would be happy to start another Faction Fight, it will only be time until they break another one of their 'truces' just for the kicks... And punches.

Might is Right. Whoever is the strongest gets to be the leader. It doesn't matter how smart you are, and it doesn't even matter if you have any leadership qualities! All that matters is that you are strong, it is an ever evolving system that weeds out the weak, and praises the strong.

Currently, Julius is at the top, and the higher ups are the strongest, and the lower ranks are the weakest. There are no set ranks, everyone in the MIR know their place inside of the ever changing food web. Though, the weak can still challenge the strongest for leadership positions, but in most cases they will be beaten to an inch of their life or worse.

Basically, the only way to climb the ranks and be respected inside of the MIR is to battle your way to the very top, inch by inch, and beat the leader to gain dominance over the entire MIR and fear of the Center.

Anyone who is strong is allowed inside of the MIR, that is basically it. They don't care who you were or who you are, all they care about is if you are strong enough to be called MIR material.

You have to punch some stuff. Inside of the Arena, initiates have to usually punch a wall... That's it. You can use your power to make the punch, but your fist has to make a clear imprint or hole inside of the concrete wall. So, if your fist fits or goes through the wall, then you are accepted to test your mettle inside of the constantly evolving Faction. See if you get spat out in a few days, or embrace the saying to the fullest extent.

It's one of the largest factions in the Center. No one knows the exact measurement, but you can assume it is around 300-400 metas. Powers are all over the place, but they are mainly centered around physical enhancing powers or destructive powers, and as long as you can take several punches and kicks around the body without crying than you are old enough to be inside the MIR.

If a fight happens between an MIR and any other faction or random meta then they will join the fight. Not for protection, but for a proper fight. They also usually have the best times and places for activists, tables, food, and etc. The aggressive behavior of the MIR usually scare or deter anyone from interacting with them. Also, they take and do favors for the guards, usually they ask one of the higher ranks to teach someone a lesson, and that is how the MIR get most of their boons.

The Cross

Sam King

Gravity Manipulation

The Cross is to dish out punishment to those who have committed sins against the church and to punish those who threw Sam in prison. They also assist boys and men in trouble and try to help them with their issues in a non-controlling way. They are traditionalist and hate progressives viewing them as mind controlling devils. Their leader isn't as extreme, but he isn't against those going beyond what is necessary to hurt their enemies.

Three Years

Sam started this faction with a prison friend of his who was also a catholic metahuman and they agreed that by getting as many superhumans to embrace God's calling they could get out and change this sinful world for the better. It was difficult at first, but Sam was determined with his goals and very slowly they started to get more members. As it is now, they have a good number and if they got free of the prison then they will try to get normal people as well as metahumans to their call.

Saints: Saints are the top of the top in the order and are the generals of The Cross. They command the lower ranked members and make council with each other to decide what laws should be made and what missions to partake in.
Crusaders: They are the combat experts of the order and live to fight for the cause.
Monks: They are like the watchmen and protectors of the secrets of the order. They can be like caretakers and assassins ready to defend the hidden secrets of the Cross by any means necessary.
Priests: They as healers and moral boosters. They also learn scripture and give services.

If you're traditional, catholic as well as authoritarian then you'll be welcomed in this faction. They have made a couple of exceptions, but being catholic and against progressives are the main requirements to becoming a member of The Cross.

Swear loyalty to God and to the Cross and prove yourself on a mission for the order.

The Cross is almost fifty members strong.

Muscle, teamwork and a moral compass is what this faction offers most. They also are not greedy and will share in resources with others if they are fine with them. Healing is also a service that they give to others they find worthy of their gifts.

The Guardians

John Carmichael

Memory Manipulation

To protect those who can't fight for themselves.

Brand New

And John said: I'm going to start my own faction to stand up for those that are getting exploited and attacked for no reason.

For now, just John (Anarchy, to intimidate others). Eventually he'll have Lieutenants that will have their own troops, just like his rebels.

We only accept those who are willing to risk themselves to stand up for others. We can train them afterwords, but it's much harder to teach people to stand up for others than to teach them to fight.

We send you to take on someone who's been attacking weaklings. Win or lose doesn't matter (though you don't know that going in). All that matters is that you are willing to stand up for the person they were attacking. Usually we simply find someone who's being attacked and send you in to defend them. Sometime we might plan it, in which case, other members will be there to back you up, especially if we're taking on multiple people.

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He's done favors for some of the doctors and guards, helping them with their traumas, or in one case helping a guard remember her rapist's face so she could get revenge, which gets him access to drugs and can get the guards to look the other way occasionally.
When that doesn't work, he can always blackmail them with their own memories by threatening to tell the other employees about them. He tries not to use this, however, as it ruins his credibility with the other prison employees.

Gloria Lieth

Nineteen

Female

American

Factionless

Intangibility
Simply put Gloria has the ability to shift the quantum frequency at which her molecules vibrate. Every piece of matter in the universe vibrates at the same quantum frequency, by altering her just slightly she is able to phase though solid matter. The biggest exception to this is electricity, because electricity is capable of jumping quantum frequencies attempting to phase through anything that carries a heavy electric charge will cause her a great amount of pain. If the charge is towards the lower end but still present she may still be able to push through, this kind of stress of her powers will leave behind something akin to a severe friction burn on any exposed skin that went through the process, effects on clothing may vary by circumstance. If Gloria tries to reform inside a solid object her body will attempt to expel the foreign material with varied degrees of success. If it is a small portion of her body inside a comparatively less dense material then the material will warp and shift to accommodate that body part however if it is most of her body inside something like stone then she will experience excruciating pain, and her molecules will fuse with the stone in a permanent and fatal manor. Organic matter carries a discernible electric charge. This means that the same rules apply to Gloria moving through a person as they do moving through electricity. Compared to something like an electric fence the charge that humans or animals carry is relatively low so Gloria could move through someone however it would hurt quite a bit. Reforming inside something with an electric charge would be suicide, Gloria may succeed in reforming but the charge of the matter she is moving through would kill her. However Gloria has discovered that if she moves through something with a low level charge and alternates solid and not, very quickly she is able to fry circuitry, such as security systems or computers. Passing through vegetation is not a problem as the charge it carries is almost unnoticeable compared to other living things. The denser a substance is the more difficult for Gloria to move through it. Something like glass would be fairly easy while substances like lead or osmium would be much more difficult and possibly even dangerous depending on how much of it she is phasing through.

Gloria grew up in New York City. Her home was not exactly a stable one. Both her parents Peter and Rose, worked constantly, her mother was a lawyer and her father a doctor. This meant that both Gloria and her little sister Cassandra lived well but there’s more to life than that. Because of their occupations neither of Gloria’s parents were home consistently and when they were home Gloria was not there favorite person. They saw Gloria as a deviant, unwilling or worse unable to fulfil their vision of what a daughter should be. On the best days they ignored her but on many of the less pleasant ones Gloria and her parents would get into violently loud arguments. Because of this Gloria stayed out quite often when she knew her parents might be home. She spent most of her time at pool halls or twenty four hour coffee shops.

It wasn’t really a secret that Cassandra was Peter and Rose’s favorite but Gloria didn’t resent her sister for it. If you met Cassandra you’d know it was hard to resent her for anything. Cassie as Gloria called her was almost as unstable as Gloria’s home life. She had been diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age, her parents however couldn’t bear to have her institutionalized. Usually her delusions were pretty tame but every now and then she’d have a serious fit. Peter and Rose didn’t see many of these, they were too busy working. To them Cassandra was there perfect daughter, they weren’t capable of seeing how seriously she needed help. Gloria didn’t like spending time at home, it contained very few pleasant memories for her but at times when she knew her parents were working she would stay none the less to keep her little sister calm. When Gloria was out she gave Cassie a cellphone, if anything scared or frightened her, or anything happened that Cassie couldn’t explain she was to call right away.

The development of Gloria’s meta-gene when she was fourteen was the beginning of the end. At first her parents didn’t notice but Gloria’s control over her ability was spotty, she’d phase partway through things at the randomest times and soon enough it happened in public. Once a month Gloria, Rose Peter and Cassie all sat down for a family dinner. This family time once a month was hell for Gloria but Cassie five years younger than her sister seemed to love having everyone together, she didn’t see the tension between her parents and her older sister. For this reason when this time rolled around Gloria tried to be as pleasant as she could, to be the person that Peter and Rose wanted despite the fact that it was not who she was.

Gloria helped her mother with dinner that night trying so hard to make this special for her sister. When she was taking the plates to the dining room table Gloria tripped on a piece of loose carpet and went careening towards the table plates flying everywhere. Some sort of instinct activated in Gloria then, a primal sense of self protection cause her power to activate that moment. It save her head from smashing into the fine oak but it doomed her in her parent’s eyes. Gloria passed straight through the table top with her entire family there to witness.

At the best of time Peter and Rose were not tolerant people but finding out that there child was a mutant was the final straw for them. They removed her from school, couldn’t have that happening in public, what would the neighbors think? Then they forbid her to leave the house. Of course Gloria was happy to stay when both her parents were out if only to keep an eye on her little sister. At that point in her life the only reason that Gloria didn’t run away from home was because of Cassie. The little girl need Gloria now more than ever.

Cassie had always had an over active imagination which often enough fueled her delusions. Ever since she’d seen what Gloria could do her schizophrenia had incorporated it into her own personal reality. She’d become convinced that she also was a meta-human. That might have been okay if she thought she had telekinesis or pyrokinesis or energy manipulation or telepathy or anything else. Except Cassie didn’t dream up an ability like that. One that couldn’t hurt her. Cassie had started to believe that she could fly.

At the beginning it was almost funny, seeing the eleven year old jumping off tables and chairs and laughing when she hit the ground. Two years after Gloria first discovered her powers when she was sixteen things turned dangerous. Gloria came home one day to find Cassandra standing on the railing of the back deck, fifteen feet off the ground. “I’m gonna do it this time sis.” She shouted with a smile on her face, before Gloria could do anything Cassandra leapt from the railing. She broke both of her legs and fractured her collarbone.

Gloria called 911, when Peter and Rose got home they wouldn’t believe that there dear sweet innocent Cassie had actually jumped off a fifteen foot deck. The real answer seemed obvious, Gloria had pushed her sister off the deck out of jealously. No matter how many times Gloria told them what happened they refused to believe it. It was only Cassandra’s insistence that Gloria had gotten home after the fall that kept her from ending up in Juvy.

Three months later after Cassie’s bones had healed Gloria’s relationship with her parents had deteriorated further, to the point where Gloria couldn’t be in the same room with them without an argument starting. That fateful night Gloria stormed out of the house not wanted to be there when Peter and Rose returned.

She went down to the pool halls were she wasn’t too bad at hustling guys out of their cash. That night Gloria got a phone call in that special phone she’d reserved for her sister. She picked up with haste leaving a game mid play and forfeiting her bet. “Cassie what’s wrong?”

“There’s something in the attic with me sis. I’m scared, but one of the windows in the attic is open. I’m gonna fly away from it. I’m going to be alright.”

Gloria’s heart nearly stopped, she began to run for home as fast as her legs would carry her as she tried to talk her sister down. “Cassie don’t do this. Whatever’s in the attic with you isn’t scary enough to waste your powers on it, your powers are special. They should be used for special things.” Gloria had learned that directly opposing Cassie’s delusions was a mistake. Her little sister would get irritable and angry and Gloria couldn’t calm her down.

“Its big sis, it’s got horns.”

“Cassie I’m almost at the house, don’t do anything till I get there.”

“It’s coming for my Glory. I have to fly. I have too.”

Gloria rounded the corner to the street her house was on. She shoved open the gate with enough force to smash it into the fence beside. Gloria ran up the walk just in time to hear her sister’s scream and see her body hit the ground.

In shock Gloria gathered her little sister in her arms, she wasn’t even twelve yet and she seemed so small, her body broken. She tried to smile and Gloria could see blood coating her teeth. “It didn’t get me sis, I flew. Did you see?”

Gloria smiled tears streaming down her eyes. “I saw, my little angel, you flew. It was beautiful.”

The smile on Cassandra’s face was so innocent it broke Gloria’s heart. “I… I have to go somewhere else now don’t I?”

Gloria couldn’t answer. How did you respond to a dying girls last words?

Cassie reached up a hand and touched Gloria’s chest right below her collarbone. “Don’t worry sis, I’ll always be there for you. Right there.” She said poking Gloria’s chest, smearing blood on her tank top.

That was how Peter and Rose found the two of them three house later. Cassandra’s broken body being cradled by a despondent Gloria who was still crying and holding Cassie in her arms.

“My god Gloria, what did you do?” said Peter looking on the scene with horror.

This snapped Gloria out of whatever state she’d been existing in before. Her pain and anguish quickly turning to anger. “You can’t possibly think... I’m your daughter, her sister. I would never... but then what do you know about me? What do you know about either of us? Maybe if you’d bothered to come home every once in a while you might have been able to stop her from jumping.”

“Jumping?” said Rose in shock. “You can’t possibly think we’d believe this was self-inflicted? Our daughter would never commit suicide.”

“Mom! Your daughter was schizophrenic, she needed help. Help you weren’t willing to admit might be necessary. Her blood in on your hands.”

Peter’s eyes narrowed. “No actually I think it’s on your hands.” he said gesturing down Gloria’s hands which were indeed stained wither her sisters blood. “Rose call the police.”

Gloria watched in horror as her mother pulled out a cellphone. “Police, I’d like to report a murder. My daughter is dead, yes I know who did it. She’s still here. Get here as quick as possible I don’t think we can hold her for long.”

Gloria looked between her parents and realized two very important things, they’d never really loved her, and they were determined to see her jailed for Cassandra’s death. Gloria started to run.

“No you don’t.” shouted Peter moving to intercept. Gloria didn’t stop she just kept running and as she approached her father her molecules moved through his. Pain crackled through her limbs that Gloria didn’t fully understand but shock, horror, and grief dulled its edge so that she barely felt it.

Gloria didn’t stop running till she was ten blocks from her house. She used the little money she had on her to buy new, clean clothing and she cleaned the blood from her skin and the tears from her eyes in a bus station washroom. This began Gloria’s life on the streets. It took six months before the police gave up on finding her. Of course officially her file was still open and she was still wanted but after that amount of time no one expected her to be found. She stayed in New York, using her gift to steal what she needed. Gloria did what she had to, to survive. She couldn't live that way forever.

Gloria wasn't of course the only meta on the streets. It was a sad fact that many of them preferred it there. In less secure countries metas were shot dead on the streets or dissected in labs, here there was nothing technically illegal about being a meta human but the government had a required registration program and was well within there rights to arrest or detain anyone who didn't come forward with there power. Business owners and landlords all had the right to refuse service without a good reason. Most of them saw that as a way to remove metas from there world. Shops wouldn't let them in the door, casinos had them forcibly removed, landlords had them evicted.

So a lot of metas took to the streets. Some joined gangs offering there powers as a way in. Some banded together though that usually didn't last long. Some stuck on there own, and some... some got involved. But what happened to Gloria was what happened to a lot of them. They one day simply disappeared. Gloria had been bouncing from place to place. She'd received word from a trusted source that a rich couple was out of town for two entire weeks. It wasn't exactly uncommon for her. When she knew someone was out of town and there place empty she was use her abilities to slip, use a camera to photograph the place as she found it and camp out. Then near the end of her time, she replaced everything as it was and made sure not to leave through the front door. As long as she made sure not to eat noticeable amounts of the owners food she never got caught.

Evidently that wasn't entirely true. The Center had clearly been watching her movements. The apartment her source had been leaked information on was actually Center owned. The moment she stepped through the door a full electric grid running through the entire apartment went online. She burned off the fingerprints of her left hand trying to phase through it. Eventually the tag team came with tranquilizers and electrified nets. She wasn't a match for them. That was two years ago.

Gloria made a name for herself in the prison, as a girl that could take care of herself. She stubbornly refused to join one of the prison factions and as a result had to fend for herself. Since she was first brought in Gloria has had no one on her side and is always looking over her shoulder.

Gloria has a prominent wild streak to her and enjoys partying, and drinking. Often enough she’ll use a guy and dump him without forming any sort of emotional ties. She can also be careless and irresponsible, Gloria treats serious matters more lightly than she probably should. She is generally carefree and laid-back, causing her to view people who take matters serious as being wound too tight. Gloria doesn’t really want to be in any sort of leadership position because of a deep seated fear that her mistakes could cost them a lot just like with her sister. She explains this reluctance to take command of a situation by nonchalantly saying it’s too much of a hassle. When she wants to be Gloria can be both forceful and persuasive, she could be a decent leader given the chance.

Gloria frequently proves herself to be impulsive. She is known for her quick, easily irritated nature, something her father described as the "Lieth temper". Gloria has deep issues with parental figures, due to being raised by neglectful, absent parents while she was young. Nonetheless, she has a deep yearning for a family. She has many trust issues, always fearing that she will be betrayed or hurt if she lets someone in. Often enough she is incapable of understanding why someone would show kindness with nothing to gain for themselves. She is always suspicious of people who take an interest in her. Gloria shows hostility to those she doesn't trust or doesn't know but on the one hand, she would display extreme loyalty to those who were close to her and cared for her, yet that hasn’t happened since her sister died.

-When Gloria was younger she still didn't feel welcome at home. This led her to developing a number of habits that one normally associates with street kids and criminals. She was once very skilled at lock picking. Since the development of her meta genes she's mostly stopped using it and has becoming a little rusty but she keeps practicing every once in awhile. She's not the locksmith she once was but can still pick most basic locks, albeit with enough time.
-Gloria can run very quickly and knows how to spot a tail.
-Her pickpocketing skills like her lock picking is rusty because her power made shoplifting so much easier. She still remembers the principles behind it but is not brilliant in practice.
-When shoplifting Gloria often employed an innovative skill to avoid being caught. She could apply her ability solely to her stomach which she could then store shoplifted items in it for several minutes before she started to feel like she was choking.