Although no official, general term has been coined yet for those able to access any unusual power, much of the population have taken to calling them either "the gifted", "Homo sapiens arcanus", "New Age Humans", "supernaturals", "the empowered" "Praedons", "Merveilles", and many others, depending on one's location. The last three are most commonly used terminologies within Mundin. Regardless of any term used, it can be agreed upon that they have a higher place in most societies, and that being the lowly, powerless human typically earns stigma, a stark contrast from the situation years ago.

Powers span a massive spectrum of abilities; some typical, some strange. They range from espers that typically arm themselves with any -kinesis and -pathy, magicians that use some sort of poorly-understood energy to do anything within their capability including summoning any creature within one's imagination and limits and crafting mystical items, shapeshifters that are capable of altering their forms to any creature known or unknown, and much more.

The nature of magic/ESP/whatever in this RP is very much still a mystery, but very much for the sake of keeping players free to be creative with their powers as much as they can. Of course, powers of a ridiculous extent would be still questionable for use in the roleplay. The upper boundary for abilities in a sheet is also comparatively greater than most roleplays, but standards are still to be followed in order to prevent godmodding festivals.

There are only two things for certain here: if one started off with weaker powers, training themselves to acquire more power would be easier than those that started off quite strong. Of course, having no powers at all to start with means you can't really do much. Secondly, abilities are hereditary and may follow either the typical dominant-recessive process or incomplete dominance (i.e. mixture).

A unitary, multiparty, parliamentary republic not unlike Singapore, Mundin is a self-governing city-state that sits on an artificial island located on the mouth of the English Channel's Strait of Dover. It was originally founded thirty-five years ago as a joint land reclamation project between France and England, then becoming autonomous territories split between the two due to tensions that followed shortly afterward, before finally attaining independence as itself due to even further differences and conflicts. Mundin was one of the first to pass legislations and employ empowered people as a means of enforcing regulation since that unfortunate year, thanks to a delay in chaos to allow the laws to take place.

Mundin is mainly European in culture, and its native inhabitants speak a blend of French and English, which had somehow led it to being called a Little Canada. This term has negative connotations, however, since Canada had then become a territory of an empire of oppressive magicians, psychics and other villains originating from the United States. Further immigration, tracing from even before the power uprising, led to large Asian communities settling within its districts, and today it's not unusual to see plenty of Japanese, Koreans, Chinese and such roaming around.

Residents are subject to strict disciplinary training during their education, which especially focuses on the right conduct on use of one's powers. Mundin bans public and/or destructive display of powers with the exceptions of self defense or as obliged by their work, slapping heavy sanctions on those that dare do so. In the case of outsiders coming in, they are heavily scrutinized and assessed psychologically, and if they are intend to become residents, they must attend orientations lasting up to a week, along with other legal processes to become an official citizen of Mundin.

Mundin is geographically closer to France and mainland Europe. That side tends to have massive walls intended to deter invaders and prevent easy access, while the England-facing side is fortified with artillery towers of both conventional and magical in nature intended to drive away sea threats. Mundin's southern areas are mainly composed of highly urbanized districts, while everywhere else are suburban and park areas. The most notable locations are the Parliament Building in downtown south, the St. Jeanne Plaza just beside it, the Elizabeth Park a few blocks nearby, the walls far south, the artillery emplacements up north, the Dover Market District with its famous towers nearby, the main Mundin Defense Unit and Mundin Police Unit academies within, and many prestigious academies and universities, also within the district and nearby.

It's not surprising that the world has developed some significant technological advancements, obviously stemming from the story's future setting. From this, it can be concluded that holographic interfaces, advanced transportation, advanced habitation, improved communication and other commonly perceptions of the future are commonplace. There had also been lunar colonies developed since, but communications were mysteriously lost some time after the uprising.

But it's also interesting to note that people were also able to integrate their newfound powers into these developments. The resulting technologies then seem from years or even a few centuries ahead. Versatile magicians and espers are often found constructing and powering massive vessels, structures and other contraptions. Telepathics often play positions as communication workers, with the assistance of special tools designed by enchanted crafters.

And more often than not, most of these also find use as devastating instruments of war. Flying, magic-powered, and occasionally massive craft are often found ravaging ranks of opponents in wars.

Since summoners have come and gone, some of their creatures managed to have the will to persist beyond their death and live their own lives. Some of them are docile (or have become so) and simply roam around as additions to the ecosystem, with many even becoming domesticated and serving as household pets, although raising them for personal consumption is still widely regarded as taboo.

Some creatures, however, have become nasty plagues upon mankind. Monsters lurk within the wilderness, among abandoned urban landscapes, and beneath the ocean. Those that dare wander and stumble within their territories face great dangers. Occasionally, monsters will even attack cities and other human settlements, with poorly-defended towns often becoming simply just another breeding ground. Dragons, death worms, and other creatures of human imagination roam these parts.

More powerful mages, however, have managed to even create intelligent life in the likeness of their kind. These summons are as capable of emotion, rational thought and the like as their creators. They rarely reproduce, making them rather few in number as of the moment, but it has been noted that some of them are able to even bear children with a regular human, and even pass down their special traits as well. Humanoid summons are just as ostracized as bestial summons in many cultures, but not for Mundin where they are free to blend in with society.

Within Mundin, including interactions
-Mundin is celebrating its 35th founding anniversary.

Elsewhere
-Much of northern mainland Europe is anarchic.

-Southwestern and far western European nations struggle against the forces of the Novodean Union to the east.

-Great Britain still struggles to keep itself stable as maniacs and rebels wreak havoc. This has caused enough difficulty to temporarily cease trade with Mundin for the moment.

-Japan also struggles as it faces attacks from rampaging creatures, but still manages to do well.

-Northern North America, which includes northern United States and nearly all of Canada, is controlled by the oppressive Great Arcane Union.

-GAU is also threatening to attack Great Britain.

-South of GAU, all of Australia, and parts of Africa and China are anarchic and creature-infested.

-Beijing still is in control of a small portion of its former territories, struggling against threats all around.

-The rest of the nations still survive, but are faring poorly against threats.

BASIC NATION INFO
-Both the GAU (Great Arcane Union) and the NU (Novodean Union) are nations seeking to conquer and bring under their rule anyone in their way. They are both often seen as oppressive and tyrannical, being ruthless in their efforts of conquest and expansion.

-The GAU is ruled by their Grand Council, a council of 10 powerful mages that reign with an iron fist over their subjects. As said earlier, they span much of the north of North America, which includes most of the United States and Canada.

-The NU, on the other hand, is a one-man dictatorship led by a mysterious, powerful man whose name, face and extent of power we do not know. The only widely accepted descriptions of him are that he speaks with a faint Russian accent and that he has been known to "possess control of a wide variety of energies". The NU spans most of eastern Europe, including Poland, parts of Russia, east Germany, Greece, Romania, parts of Turkey, and countless other small countries between.

1. Standard Guild rules, yadda yadda.

2. Basic RP common sense, blah blah. (I will slap you in the face if you still don't know these, unless you are actually new to RPing, in which case, I will still slap you in the face to emphasize my point while I sermonize to you about the dangers of godmodding, powergaming and metagaming.) (I still give further attention to the fact that the power limits are elevated here, but if you're just being absurd, then I'll bitch-slap you in the face.) (Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.)

3. Basic SPaG. Regardless of wherever you come from, if your text is a jumbled, unreadable mess then I'll ask you pay more attention to your English class. (If your curriculum doesn't teach English, complain to your superintendent.) I don't really demand any specific length, as long as it fits Casual standards.

4. Devotion is needed here. Consider if you'll last before you join. If matters force you to withdraw, however, do announce. Please.

5. Expect somewhat unusual, if not outright weird shit. If you have some similarly interesting ideas, feel free to suggest.

6. If the story is halted to a standstill due to inactivity, I'll be taking actions to keep it moving forward. This will occasionally include some undesirable events, which also includes killing off characters.

7. In matters of dispute, I, and any co-GM I appoint, shall have the final say. I could allow further disputes to that, but being whiny about it will not help you.

8. Characters may range from age 15 to 50, given that this is neither a school RP (well, not primarily) nor a retirement home RP. Additionally, one can have two characters at a time, though this is subject to change depending on how desperate are we to keep the story going.

9. Honor the Lᴏʀᴅ your God. Love your wife and your family. Stay strong.

Feel free to deviate in format, as long as all vital elements included within are kept.

Name: self explanatory.
Age: self explanatory.
Gender: self explanatory.
Race/Nationality: Should a nationality be absent, as in the case of humanoid summons, simply input as "Summon" and, if you wish, add a specific name for their species they are based on (e.g. demonlike summons are labeled as "demons").
Appearance: Pictures work well, but descriptions (or both) work just fine, too.
Personality: Straight to the point.
Abilities: self explanatory.
Biography: Be as creative as you want with this. You could chronicle everything, or leave things vague.
Specialties: Any other talent besides being able to bend a spoon with your own mind belongs here.
Equipment: Optional. If your character carries around stuff, special or not, all the time, you might want to add this.
Other: Anything else that doesn't fit above.

INSPIRATIONS
There's not much to say, actually, other than this being kind of based off a non-Guild RP back in my early roleplaying days. There are also quite some derivations here that I can't really bother to remember, but this is mostly an original conception. For the most part, however, any resemblances to any Guild RP, living or dead, or any other work, are simply coincidental.

Some people have also found hints of Shinsekai Yori vibes within, namely its backstory. I don't know what the hell it is, but it sure looks neat.

TO DO LIST
-make fancy schmancy header images

-outline more distant plot points

-implement more details i've overlooked

-etc.

Intuition would very likely make itself Gilbert Halloran's closest ally - or his greatest adversary. As impressions have it, the average stranger falls into either of two trappings with Mr. Halloran: either that he is an unassuming, reserved introvert, or that he is an unabashed, outgoing spirit. From birth until now, Gilbert has entertained the joy of overcoming challenge, with each problem a welcome obstacle — an opportunity, if you will, for growth — and he has taken pliancy as his tool for change. Whether a battle of wit, a clash of opinion, or a scuffle of friends, Gilbert is ready for whatever life will set before him. His mind is a flowing sea of information, and it breathes in shallow gasps of new knowledge, new thoughts, new feelings, and new experiences. He is highly resistant against the influential tide of the establishment, of the authorities that be, and of the majority and thus will not be weakly swayed, but he is also somewhat skeptical of those who nonsensically criticize the government or who denigrate it for all the wrong reasons.

Without mistake, although Gilbert might present the brains of a strong academic and flaunt an unyielding but mutable character, deep inside the boy is compassionate and sensitive to even the most subtle of social ticks. Some would say that Gilbert simply understands the deepest feelings. He is very good at communicating his feelings, and with the proper crowd, he can hold a large influence on the thinking of the group. No doubt a born leader, his adaptability and skills with people may make him an unrivaled power in any sort of social court. Gilbert's vibrant energy radiates a furnace's warmth, but like the winter, it can turn bitterly cold if it is not tended to. His last strength is his ability to unflinchingly let go of people and of feelings, a leaf to the wind.

Mr. Halloran is not without fault, however much he might seem an innocuous creature. He is caught by petty thoughts almost regularly, and in his darkest hours, he can barely control his temper or his depressive moods. Gilbert is no stranger to time alone from whomever he enthralls himself with at any moment, and with those he loves, he may struggle by expressing his feelings too strongly or too early, especially if he misjudges another person's interest. Although Gilbert eventually notices every tick of his friends and family, he may take far too long to recognize the pain in another person, and he cannot reasonably be expected to see the harm he does to others before it is inflicted. When confronted with a different worldview, he is typically open, but if he feels even the slightest bit offended by some tinge of disrespect, he will quickly evade the reproach of his opponent. This leaves Gilbert with constant insecurities: that he is not wise or intelligent enough, that he is not as kind or as thoughtful as he would like to be, and that he is not as charming or as good-looking as he wishes to be.


Gilbert has always presented a subtle aptitude for something which could be akin to magic. It is unclear what extent this ability is capable of; however, it can be inferred that it may be trained or tempered to do many new things, as is the case with other potential magicians. Of course, these abilities do not yet rival that of the greatest so-called 'sorcerers' of the day. For now, he can lower the temperature of and move any fluid, gas or liquid, but lighter fluids are much easier. He can also create a spark or a small light, both by snapping his fingers deliberately, and he can also telekinetically pull his clothes to himself from the closet, which is a very fun way to get ready for the day. Currently, extreme emotions of anger or sadness can trigger disturbances in his environment, similar to poltergeists.


A burning home. The sound of sirens. These were the images of Gilbert's lost past. He remembered little of that day and that age, and he had no recollection of any other family besides his parents. He knew he had grandparents, and he had pictures of them, but what became of them was a mystery. What he did remember was that his parents fled the United States for the safety of Mundin, perhaps out of nativist pressures against his mother, perhaps for other reasons, and it was in Mundin where he made his life since he was two-years-old. He had a relatively uninteresting youth, and he was put through the same strict disciplinary education that all the others had gone through. He had an ugly early education; his promising mind was subject to much pressure from the students for his difference, from his parents for his procrastination, and from the teachers for his insubordination. Nonetheless, he came to perform relatively well in his schooling, enough to land him in a good university in Mundin where he could further his pursuits.

Name: William Reeves
Age: 18
Gender:Male
Race/Nationality: British
Appearance:
Personality: William has always been a quiet kid, obeying
Abilities:
William can transform at will into a demonic creature with 8 shields in the shape of coffins appearing on his back. The transformation gives a boost on his strength, speed and durability; making him capable of leaping tall buildings with ease, his shields are durable enough that anything short of hunting rifles and more powerful weapons will only scratch them and his speed goes up to a limit of 100 mph but he can barely recognize his surroundings at that point which makes it difficult for him to move.

The shields he has are all connected by one chain that is bolted on his two shoulders, which William can use to control his shields with the disadvantage that the shields can be cumbersome and difficult to control at times. The shields have a range of 4 meters before the chain meets its limit.

Biography: Born in rural England William's life didn't change much on the first months after the event happened but as time passed living became harder on his village. The influx of refugees from the main cities of England to rural places had attracted powered individuals to the area, some of which left their cursed monsters to roam the land, changing the local environment drastically. With the whole world in chaos the citizens over the region realized that no army was going to save them and that they would have to fight back with their own powers. In William's village gifted people with offensive powers would be the ones who would deal with summons and hostile gifted in their area with some non offensive gifted as backup. The ones that had more defensive or support powers were either supporting the offensive gifted or put to work in the fields with other normal people. Each gifted was drilled on his head three things: To never use his powers for personal benefit, to protect the defenseless and to obey their superiors. The end result would be a group of highly obedient powered individuals ready to serve the people. William would join them at 13 years old once his powers awakened and was placed on the offensive types where his job consisted on patrolling the village in search of hostile summons and the occasional gifted that wanted to burn it all to the ground. After sometime once Britain had reached a sense of stability

Specialties: Any other talent besides being able to bend a spoon with your own mind belongs here.
Equipment: Blade:
Other: Anything else that doesn't fit above.

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Name:
Mathias Anderson

Alias/Surname:
'Matthew' Anderson

Age:
34

Gender:
Male

Race/Nationality:
Half Swedish and British, American Citizen

Appearance:
Matthew has a mesomorphic build that is healthy in shape from physical activities that keep him like this. With a light tan on his skin, that's solidly all on him, which isn't too uncommon in America from all the sun that they get. Sporting a rather muscular and athletic frame, that is mostly associated with the younger generation. Having a warm and modest brown eyes that give his smile a certain charm to them that gives a certain expectation of who he seems to be like. Having a usually casual style of fashion for the most part unless a certain event calls for it, he is certainly a fashionable person who seems to have a nice outfit each day for the week.

Personality:
Matthew can be described as a talkative person with his own brand of charm to go along with it, being the kind of person that kinda just incites conversation or talking whenever he's around. He is an adventurous and sociable person who likes doing a variety of things that seems fun or interesting to him, with an insatiable appetite for enjoying time with people no matter what they do. Possessing a slight procrastination streak around him, but there is never a time that he doesn't pull through even if it is a bit last minute. People usually don't mind him as he's really great company for all the other times that he isn't rushing to complete something that's due the next day. It also may be his personality and having a habit of being a flirt to everyone around him, as a part of his outgoing nature. He is easily a likable guy that you wouldn't mind talking to on a daily basis or even meeting him casually on the street from the kind of personality that he seems to bubble out.

This all hides a slicker and oily side to Matthew that many people don't see often as he never seems to have a reason to start thinking like this again. It was a mindset that helped Matthew survived the chaotic world back then in California where things were much worse. Living in fear of your life at times, you tend to lose some of your emotions and prepare to survive at all cost. Not to mention the kind of things that he was caught in that would scar a person more or less from doing it themselves. This is the side that he has been letting rust away ever since living in Mundin but hopefully, he never has to put it on again.

Abilities:
Telepathy is an ability that Matthew possess which allows him to various feats with his mind that others like him are able to do. With his skills as a Telepath, being surprisingly advance that is compared to most who do not develop their powers further than simple thought reading and communication. While, he is able to do the simple feats of skimming the thoughts of people and communicate mentally to others, he is versed in things beyond that. However, he is limited to communicating to other people mentally so long as they are in a mile radius.

At the current status of his abilities, he is able to control his own mind and influence the unprotected minds of others who are around him. With a variety of effects that he can perform on those that he is targeting, he prefers to cunningly use his abilities in ways that are not so obvious. Influencing things that are subtle enough to not stand out, it prevents the victim from noticing anything that could be wrong. His mental abilities can be indeed used with more brute force, but a contest of willpower against him and his target is something that he would prefer not to enter. The skill that Matthew has at this level while may allow him to mind control a target, it is tedious for him to suppress the subconscious of his victim into a coma-like state constantly should they fight which will deduct from his concentration.

Outside of influencing other people mind's, he is perfectly able to control his own as he seems fit which for the most part seems to be unique to himself from what he can tell. Being hypercognitive from what he can tell as his mind simply allows him to learn quite quickly from what he has experienced before. Occasionally, brief moments of clarity seems to pierce through his stick skull that he remarks about jokingly. However, whatever this ability is, it seems to stem outside of his abilities of a telepath. Other than these abilities, it seems that Matthew is unable to use anything else such as telekinesis which is a common extension of those who have psychic abilities.

Biography:
Matthew lived in California where the sun shined and the heat never died; it was a bustling place where many people ran around both when during the day and at night. It also was the place where his father and mother met before marrying to settle down together several years later and buying a nice home in the suburbs to live that was close to each other's workplace. Here his father and mother provided for him while he lived the normal life of a teenager like everyone else and was a very popular kid around the school. Tension, however, began to grow as the spark of powers in California's population began to explode left and right. People began to get hurt and disappear as powers began to spark through California which spread like a wildfire, with rebellious teenagers causing trouble at school and shady gangs on the street. Everything was starting to feel less safe except for home and their neighborhood, where the conflict hadn't reach them yet.

Things would deteriorate as the stability of their area quickly went down the drain as fighting broke out everywhere. Nowhere was safe from the initial conflict between the powered individuals and many people stayed inside. Matthew while knowing the risk went on to graduate from High School despite the various problems that occurred there. Many people he knew and the staff that taught there had developed their own unique array of powers; Matthew himself was no exception as he developed the ability to read the minds of others at first. It would go on for many years living in dreadful California where crime seemingly soared due to the use of crimes with powers that aided them. With the gangs who rose and fell off the weekly, people getting hurt from other abilities, and many other problems, it was not a good time to live in California.

His Dad and Mom too developed their own powers but moved due to their jobs relocated all essential personnel to different locations. His mother luckily was transferred to another division that worked out with his father. Matthew himself was pressured to stay in California to finish his education that he received multiple scholarships to pay for his tuition for school and inevitably stayed there. It would be a terrible decision that he would make as, while the university itself was protected, there were those who infiltrated in and dragged people out into the conflict. Matthew himself was one those victim who was picked out for his abilities as a mind reader. There he was slowly plunged into the criminal world where he grew accustomed to the things he saw there. Growing his powers to survive the threats that were shoved into his face, eventually, he managed to fend for himself against the demands of the gangs who 'hired' him. Eventually, after several refusals, it was clearly told to Matthew that he had garnered the bad will of the gang.

It would be a few long and hard years but he would eventually get his masters degree in chemistry and move away from all this mess. He first left to his parent's place where they openly accepted him into their house as they haven't seen their child in forever. With a ton of catching up to do, it was only a week before he could sense that someone or something was watching him and needed to take care of it before it went out of hand. Dedicating some time to finding the source, he eventually found his stalker from California and erased his memories before quickly packing up again. Moving from place to place, as he would get a job for a few months until leaving because of the complications that followed him. Taking care of each one that was tasked to follow him, it wasn't until eventually that he cross the ocean that the attempts for revenge stopped. Landing in Europe where he was new to the country and had little to go off on, he called his friend who originally told him to come over.

There now for several years, Matthew has been living in Mundin where he found a suitable job as a chemist for a lab to test samples brought to them. While not a glamorous job, it paid very generously and it was enough for Matthew as on the occasion he received the rare chance to jump up on the hierarchy ladder. His life in Mundin so far has been uneventful beyond what he began to normalize as the daily for himself.

Specialties:

• General Science Knowledge

• Chemical Knowldge

• Cooking, even as a College Student he learned to fend for himself...
• Charisma, was something Matthew had and was evident as the outgoing and popular kid.
• Fluent speaker of English, Spanish, and Swedish, however, prefers to speak with the more commonly used one depending on the scenario.
• Silver Tounge, something he gained himself with his friends and a darker period of his life.
• Perceptive, about his surrounding and small detail even with people which makes him a great listener.

Equipment:

• Cellphone
• Wallet (Identification, Money, and miscellaneous items)
• Key + Laser Keychain to apartment
• Laptop Backpack for when he decides to sit down at a Cafe with Wifi
• A random pen in his pocket
• An apartment, which he shares with his roommate

Other:
Nothing

Name: Janice Ward

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Race/Nationality: Caucasion, Previously GAU

Appearance:
(I mean she usually wears something a *bit* more practical, but y'know)

Personality: Before the world went all high fantasy? She was relatively normal, if a bit of a loner. Preferring to tinker with bits of technology and figure out how they worked, and build useless but interesting gizmos or upgrade her computer or whatever. But then, when she started hearing the whispers in the back of her subconscious, when she started to shape metals into circuits with her bare hands, when she started to make bluescreen'd computers "rewind" prior to the crash and continue functioning as normal...She changed, somewhat. It's said that Insanity and Genius are two sides of the same coin, and the fact that power corrupts is very clearly evident with the events that have occurred all across the world these past twenty years. Really, she's lucky she ended up a bit of a manic shut in with voices in the back of head than a outright psychopath.
As it is, she's...Functional, in society, although she definitely displays the telltale mental signs of being Empowered-slight megalomania, manic personality traits, the aforementioned just-barely-inaudible whispers in the back of her head, and compulsions to build new technological whatzits. That all said, she does still have a full range of emotions(even if she most commonly exhibits the more upbeat aspects), and she tries to be personable and friendly when she does directly interact with other people(aside from probably ignoring them to check the internet for a bit). She has the common sense to realize she's a circuits short of a computer, but she does consider the less-sane parts of her to, well, be part of her. Aside from trying to manage the more misanthropic impulses(with a few different inventions she's made), she makes no particular effort to hide her nature or apologize for it.

Abilities: Technomancy-That is, Magic(or whatever you wanna call it) that directly interacts with, creates, analyzes, and/or manipulates technology. With a thought she can take raw materials and work them into shape, combine metals into alloys, make engines float around her or input data to a computer from across a room.
Raw technological creativity burns behind her eyes, whispering designs and murmuring secrets she can all but consciously understand, urging her to put components together and create new inventions, both wondrous and terrible. She can draw upon this...Inspiration, to create things useful to her or on commission, but just as often it projects ideas, brilliant ideas into her mind that she herself had no hand in the creation of. Sometimes these designs have no useful or practical function(a computer that interprets input data to 3D-print paradoxic structures, a monolith that seems to do nothing but draw power into itself and hum ominously, a metal three times as heavy as lead and more fragile than glass, ect), some are useful only as components for greater wonders, and some are impossible for her to build with the materials on hand. A few have a useful purpose and can be produced with what possessions she has, and with these she renders down anything at hand into base components to build whatever she currently is obsessing over in a semi-deranged glee. But regardless of how practical these designs are, she still receives them, and the urge to make them real.
Should be noted that while she can reshape materials with her powers, she isn't an alchemist or transmutationist, which means that for some of her more...esoteric...creations, she does have to be able to actually procure materials. She can't just, say, make a nuclear weapon without access to uranium or plutonium or something; likewise, unless she first builds a reactor capable of creating some(which would be slightly difficult in and of itself), she couldn't make anything relating to antimatter. The closest she can get to transmutation or the like is taking two materials and chemically bonding them to make a new material, or taking a compound material and separating it into base components. So she can make steel without a forge if she has iron and carbon, or take a lump of iron ore and shape the iron out from the rock. She cannot take lead into her hands and make it into gold. Additionally, there is a certain level of...advancement, lets say, that must occur in the object for her to be able to manipulate it, and more technologically advanced things are easier for her to control, create, manipulate, and understand. Metals tend to be extremely easy, as are non- or rarely-naturally occurring materials like glass. But while she can levitate a wild western-style revolver or make it jam, she cannot manipulate a wooden spear with her powers, nor can she operate an abacus without being taught how they are meant to function.

Biography: Janice is one of those who remembers a time before being empowered. She was once a normal child, if one gifted with machines, born in a small city in the northeastern US. Nothing groundbreaking, she didn't build a cold fusion reactor or anything, just...She always had a knack with them. She was quick to understand how clockwork made the hands tick-tock, how to make a small light out of a simply circuit and a battery, that sort of thing. She ended up in machinery clubs in school, and her hobby growing up was always to tinker away in a makeshift workshop at her home. But one day, when she was around fourteen...she started to grow a bit more reclusive about her tinkering. She wasn't sure where the idea came from, it just...it just was there, and she, she couldn't understand it, but something about it was...beautiful, in its way. She cannibalized parts from her other little gizmos and gadgets, skipped school, even baricaded the door to her workshop to stop her parents from dragging her out. It took her a full week, and she had to sneak out when she was sure her parents were asleep to get more materials, more parts.
She'd been so focused, so obsessed with her creation, that she never even noticed the news reports about a young boy in Russia.
It took her a full two weeks of work, of stealing components(to be perfectly frank, while she was making her Thing, people had a lot more to worry about than some crazy fourteen year old stealing someone's computer or breaking into the local factory to snatch its tools), but eventually the idea seemed...complete. Unpolished, certainly, it was a twelve-foot-tall tower made of twisted metal, random cabling, and exposed circuitry, but the idea in her head wasn't...everypresent, anymore, it wasn't overpowering her mind or dominating her thoughts. The first thing she realized was that she'd barely eaten in two weeks and was absolutely starving; she'd only had a couple meals every few days while working on it because food was a distraction from her work. The second thing she realized was that, holy shit, she barricaded herself in her workshop to keep her parents from interfering. She should probably tell them she was sorry, she just, just had to finish her thing, she couldn't wait to show it to them and explain what it...what...
...What did it do?
As you might guess, things were...tense...the next few days, as she tried in vain to explain everything that'd been running through her head, words failing to properly communicate the force of idea and inspiration running wild through her mind the previous couple of weeks. But...unlike her, her parents knew well what'd been happening all over the world. They actually kept up with the news...and they were ery scared that whatever happened had overtaken their daughter. After a few days, they initially started thinking, hoping, that it was just a fluke...a brief flash of hormone imbalance or...something...that coincidentally happened to occur alongside everything else, and that everything would go back to normal. Then Janice casually walked out of her room with her powered-on computer(newly bought, since she cannibalized the previous one; she kinda needed it for school), unplugged, floating behind her with the monitor flashing through website after website and programs flying on one by one. She hadn't even realized it was behind her until her father screamed and she turned around.
Yeah, things...weren't going to go back to normal. But it turns out having a mad genius as your loving daughter is kinda a godsend during a magical apocalypse-there were more than a few superpowered people going crazy in her hometown(and a couple mundane maniacs who wanted to get in on the action while the gettin's good, too), and if it weren't for her and the things she kept inventing, they'd almost certainly have been killed in the ensuing bloodbath. Once, a aspiring serial killer tried bursting into her house with a tommygun of all things, only to find it jam when he tried shooting her family and all of the bullets spontaneously detonate with the gun in his hand. Another time, a pyrokinetic tried holding up the grocery store while she and her folks were out shopping-and ended up tangled and choking in a mess of wires as the power cables ripped through the walls themselves to ensnare him. She never went complete batshit like some other empowered individuals, but her friends and parents noticed her very clearly growing more and more...enthusiastic...about her powers as time went on. She never quite intentionally killed anyone, per say, but she grew more than a little sadistic towards the crazies when it came time to protect herself and her loved ones, and after the third time she stopped being even a little scared, reveling in the thrill of it all.
Sadly, one girl with a mastery of machines can only do so much.
She was powerless to stop the ascendancy of the Great Arcane Union, of course. And likewise, when their soldiers started rolling in to take over her city, she wasn't going to even try to stop them. Twisted monsters under thrall of summoners, superhumans with the backing of a state...these weren't things she was anywhere near equipped to deal with. Her family was smart enough to leave the city itself when they started rolling in, and for two years they stayed on the run. It wasn't as though the GAU was going to let a powerful technomancer slip through their fingers after all, and while Janice knew she was falling down on the slippery slope of mania, she didn't want to even think of what kind of person she'd become under their tutelage and encouragement.
It wasn't until she turned nineteen that her family found someone able to help. A smuggler, specializing in getting Empowered people-and their families-out of the country, out to somewhere...safer. There was a city-state, he said, somewhere over in Europe, one that'd managed to retain some semblance of sanity in a world gone mad. Sure, they had Empowered, but they regulated it, they kept the rule of law, and it wasn't run by a bunch've wannabe demigods with eyes set on world conquest. Of course, he wasn't in the business purely for charity, and his price was steep, but...Well, the honesty that he was making a quick buck off the state of the world helped her and her family to trust him before being willing to get on board his plane, with the last of their worldly possessions, and make a new life elsewhere.
The trip was long and a bit uncomfortable; it was obvious the plane had seen some better days. They started to panic when they saw a GAU Airship right in their path, wondering if their guide had sold them out...only to be perplexed when the airship went right past them as though they weren't there. The smuggler explained with a shit-eating grin that he discovered he had what he called the power of Obfuscation-as he willed it, people stopped noticing him. Their eyes glazed over him, and just stopped...noticing he was there. After a couple years? He'd learned to project the power over a larger area. It was pretty obvious to him what kinda job he'd end up in with that particular skillset. Also terribly useful for getting into places unnoticed, but he warned his guests not to try to stay in the city undocumented; better to explain to the officials that they're a group of refugees and spend the time in processing to get an official pass than to be taken for a bunch of spies.
Since then, it's been a fairly quiet decade. She stayed with her parents at first as everyone got settled in to their new life, but moved out when she was around 23 into her Secret Lair(really just a duplex apartment, but she insists it's a Secret Lair. Even if everyone who knows her is aware of where it is), and supports herself by building useful gizmos and gadgets for people willing to buy them, with special priority and discount given to the government of Mundin-after all, they're the ones keeping her and her family safe and allowing them a sense of relative normalcy. It's only fitting that she should pitch in and help them out...Upgraded computers here for the social sector here, better weapons for the PD there. With the world going to hell, everyone's gotta pitch in to keep the last few havens standing.

Specialties: Blurs a bit with her more preternatural abilities, but she is mundanely skilled with operating technology and understanding how it functions. This mundane knowledge, for the most part, only serves to feed into and support her powers however, and she has decidedly focused herself within learning how to control her powers and building her inventions, to the detriment of other skills. After all, she reasons, technology is by definition meant to make our lives easier; so if something comes up, she can just build a new tool to help her handle the situation at hand.

Equipment:
Kept On Person Regularly-
-Super Duper Secret Lair Entrance Device(that is, her apartment key)
-Manic Converter: Small device she can channel Magic/Superpower through to generate an electric charge; not enough to drain someone entirely of their powers or anything though, just enough to have a(rather strong) source of power. For her in particular, it also helps her to keep her more...unstable impulses under check when actively being used, as these impulses are directly tied to her powers. Device itself is a pair of small plates that fits over the back of her hands and are worn as part of a pair of gloves, and have a port on the side closest to her forearm to connect to other devices as a power source. On the side next to her knuckles, has two prongs that allow them to be used as impromptu punch-tasers, which only activate if she actively feeds her power into the converters while intending that part to activate(using her powers, that is; nobody else can activate that part unless they too are technomancers). Self defense is important, after all.
-Uplink Glasses: Sadly, she hasn't quite been able to figure out how to miniaturize computer circuits enough to have a fully functional computer system integrated into her glasses. She was able to make them into a transceiver, though, and they're linked to her home computer, acting as a monitor for it that can display web windows or whatever program she needs right that moment and with headphones built into the earpieces. Normally, she'd think the entire concept is a horrible cybersecurity flaw, but they're almost useless to anyone else aside from being prescription glasses; she uses her powers as a direct input device to manipulate them instead of a haptic interface or keyboard or whatever, and the glasses themselves don't have ports(nor are they big enough besides) to allow someone else to connect one to them. To be perfectly honest, they essentially function as a hands-free smartphone for her with all the advantages of a home computer processing.
-Wallet, pocket money, ID, yadda yadda.

Kept In Secret Lair(aka apartment)-
-Jetwings: See the appearance image? It's basically a jetpack. It's big and clunky though, and the police generally frown upon you using a personal flying device reliant on jet propulsion in a populated area, so she doesn't generally take it with her unless she needs to. Can be mostly powered by her Manic Converter, but does still require some fuel source nevertheless.
-Monolith:A replica of the...thing...she built when she initially discovered her powers. A 12-foot tall technological tower, with a black-plastic shell covering the outside(one of the few parts she intentionally added). One of the very few bits of technology she can't actually figure out the true purpose of, which infuriates her to no end and is why she built the replica of the original(was a biiiit too big to get out of the door of her original house). As far as she can tell, all it does is suck power and hum, but it's packed with electronics and circuitboards placed haphazardly but with...Some underlying purpose. Also what really proves to her in her mind that not all of her inventions are created based on her own thoughts and ideas, but instead the result of some force manifesting as her power acting through her. And whatever this force is, it isn't keen on letting her know just what this particular device is for, not yet. For safe's sake? She chooses to keep it unpowered when she isn't trying to analyze it and figure out just what it's for...But, there is still another out there.
-Computer: A very powerful computer, custom-built by Janice using her powers and operates on principles far ahead of modern science(and very probably doesn't actually follow conventional physics); for example, its central processor is a crystal that refracts small beams of light to serve as memory storage, with three-dimensional circuitry embedded throughout the entirety of the crystal. Has a long-range transceiver connected to her glasses to allow those to serve as a monitor for it while she's out of her Secret Lair(tm).

Otherwise Owned-
-Bank Account, money
-Stuff-to-be-added-later-during-RP

Other:
-Didn't wanna put this directly in the explanation of her powers because not everyone's played WoD games, but if you have, you can think of her powerset and personality as somewhere between a OWoD Mage Technocrat and a NWoD mid-high Obligation Genius without the Paradox/Havoc. She can build and manipulate almost anything technological, and some of it doesn't actually even fully conform to conventional physics, but her "magic" as it were is very limited outside of dealing with matters of technology and she doesn't have full control over the force of Inspiration her powers give her to build her gizmos-most of what she does end up building is because she feels compelled to do so, not (necessarily) because she intentionally thought the idea for it up.
-Under watch by Mundin for less-than-stable tendencies. Willingness to work with Mundin governmental body is noted, of course, but also noted is her immigration from the GAU. I'd imagine it's at least a little likely that they're keeping tabs on her in case she turns out to be a mole-she won't, but they obviously don't know that, and in this kinda world they'll no-doubt need to keep a healthy amount of paranoia.