Name: Nicole (Nicki) Milinaire
Age: 20
Power:
Technopathy
Nikki can manipulate technology and technological constructs, computers, robots, hardware and other devices that can be termed as "technology". This allows her physical interaction with machines, or even a psychic ability that allows mental interface with computer data.
She can control the flow of intricate machinery and can allow them to assemble or disengage their programming at will. Can operate most technology just by touching or looking.
Restoration
Nikki can repair and return any broken or damaged machine to its optimal state no matter how long it has been broken or how damaged it was.
How long this takes is dependent on the size an complexity of the machine in question.
Technopathic Perception:
Nikki can read electronic signals, sort of like mind reading for machines. Can be used to "talk" to computers or interrogate them (Hack) for information
Sentience Inducement (Random)
Nikki's ability can accidently grant complex machinery the ability to feel, perceive, or be conscious, or to have subjective experiences.
These machines must have some form of electronics within them and can range from High tech military equipment to electronic appliances.
Appearance:
Bio: Nikki was born 20 years ago an only child to Frank an Joyce Milinaire.
Her parents were both in their late forties and Professors at the collage her father teaching programing and her mother robotics.
Nikki grew up in a house where it wasn't uncommon to have military officers or world renowned scientists drop by for anything from a Barbecue to a closed meeting while federal officers put the house under watch. She attended several launches of space vehicles before she was 12 and even watched her mom go into space once to repair a satellite she'd designed.
Then one day it happened that her father while working on a project to program nanites for use in some unknown was killed in an unexplained explosion in his lab, Nikki was only 14 years old.
Her mother was so distraught that she had a complete nervous breakdown and had to be committed to an institution. Because of her high security clearance Nikki's mother was kept in a special place reserved for others like herself.
Nikki became the ward of Doctor Horace Wittier a friend and colleague of her parents. She'd known the old professor since she was a baby and even called him uncle Blinky a name her father had called him.
When she turned 16 Uncle Blinky took Nikki to see a lawyer who said he was executing a living will written out by her mother. In the will Nikki found herself the owner of her family home, her father's
and a small vacation cottage she'd visited as a child but never knew they'd owned.
She and her Uncle Blinky went to visit the home and cottage which had been empty for over three years. She decided to clean the dust that had settled on everything and stay a couple of weeks. Her Uncle had left her at the cottage to do her work and while doing so she found an old toy she'd forgotten about.
It was a teddy bear that looked like any other bear except that this one was a simple robot constructed by her mom and programed by her father. Set on by fond memories of her time spent with her parents she hugged the teddy and curled up on the couch. She quickly fell to sleep and was awakened a few hours later by a thunderstorm and her teddy singing as it did when she was younger. Her dad had programed the singing into the teddy to calm her during storms just like the one she was experiencing.
So clutching the teddy Nikki found that the power was out. She saw that the lights of a house across the lake were still on as she looked out the windows and remembered that her dad had installed a generator just like the others in the area had for such occasions. She was puzzled by the fact that it hadn't already kicked in and decided to investigate.
This meant that she had to run down to the boat shed by the lake where the generator was. She ducked inside and began trying to figure out how to start the generator. She had to laugh when she realized she'd brought her teddy so she set it on top of the generator case as she looked over the uncooperative machine.
After a few minutes using her cell phone as a flash light Nikki discovered that the gas feed was turned off so she turned it on. The generator started immediately as the natural gas flow began.
Nikki stood up and was just retrieving her teddy when a heavy lighting strike hit the lake about 100 yards from the boat shed. The power of the lighting was attracted to the metal of the shed and spread over it's surface like a Faraday cage protecting Nikki from it. It created an unusual magnetic field that affected a small vial of Nanites hidden in her teddy activating them while altering their programing.
The nanites escaped their containment and sought a host and that host was Nikki who didn't notice the microscopic machines infiltrating her body. She went back inside the house and watched some TV before turning in and going to sleep.
When she woke it was as if someone had turned on a 1,000 TVs and radios while at the same time adding an equal number of phone conversations on speaker. Disoriented and angry Nikki screamed "Shut Up!" It was the first time her power manifested it's self as she shut down everything electronic within two miles of the cottage.
That was 4 years ago and Nikki has learned a great deal about what happened to her and has come to love it. She has even learned to love her chatty little Teddy which came to life that night.
She now attends the same university that her parents taught at her major in mechanical engineering. When she's not in school she uses her ability to repair machines to restore classic cars in the four car garage behind the house left to her by her parents then sales them at auction to support herself
