Name: Rose
Age: 24
Gender: female
Equipment:
Home-made night-vision goggles.
A tablet with lots of little useful functions. (nothing major like hacking)
A battery-less taser only she can power.
Ability: Energy absorption (Elemental)
Abilities Strengths:
Rose has the ability to absorb energy (limited to electricity at first), store it in her body, and convert it. She can then shoot it from her hands. Being about 2000 degrees, the blue beams can blast clean through walls and turn steel into butter.
Rose can also use the energy to power machinery, though mostly small devices and lamps.
Her third option, with the energy she stores in her body, is to create forcefields for protection; for herself or friends. These are energy bubbles that only stop fast-moving things like bullets, but not slow moving/walking targets. It takes energy to sustain, how much depends on the time Rose has to sustain it and the amount of force hitting the protection.
Abilities Weaknesses:
As the human body itself is energy, Rose can actually kill herself by spending all of her energy. Exhausting her power can also weaken her greatly, and make her unable to fight or escape. Once exhausted, Rose will not be okay right away even if she is able to recharge.
Her powers are not very subtle either; the beams light up and make a certain sound.
Personal Skills: An experienced tech-genius, resourceful and a skilled thief/scavenger. She’s also a skilled parkour free-runner; having escaped danger on several occasions down in the junk containers. Her physical fighting skills however don’t exceed the occasional kick-and-run strategy, not against trained soldiers.
Personal Weaknesses: Short tempered, reckless and inexperienced in fighting military guys.
History:
Rose had a hard time even before she discovered her powers; growing up at the edge of the outer wall was no easy life. Rumor had it she had been left in the poor district as an infant in some pretty expensive baby clothing. Whoever had done so was long gone, and as soon as she was able to walk she was expected to pull her weight. No one around did anything for free, not even the act of taking care of a child. Like so many others Rose was taught to mine and steal, yet somehow Rose never got caught.
While many poor kids spend their free time playing ball and such, Rose spend her time with the Educations synthetics. These results of charity were outdated, slow-thinking robots bolted to the floor. But they were working, and if you had years of patience, they could teach you to read free of charge.
Finally at the age of 12 Rose found comfort - comfort I books. Their cover might have been old and worn, but the words were still strong. Rose fended for herself now and educated herself further in the hopes of one day escaping the life of a simple miner and thief.
Early morning she got up to chop stone for The Coalition Mining Group, and late evenings she snuck down and stole. Not jewelry or money. Rose stole scraps, garbage and abandoned machinery from the great junk containers of Aire. One had to be quick in mind and body to avoid the sweltering recycle-fluid and the U.S.F surveillance. Luckily Rose had trained both. The things she uncovered down there she traded for food and supplies, or disassembled them to create new useful contraptions.
Then one month ago, at the age of 24, the unthinkable happened. Rose discovered she could do things others couldn’t. With the seemingly random bursts of energy, her body projected, having a job was no longer safe. Not for others and not for her. She had heard what they did to “freaks”. So she simply stopped showing up for work. No one knew or cared where she lived anyway.
There have been "little" accidents, but for now Rose has been able to keep her explosive gifts to a minimum. Time will tell Whether or not the U.S.F is on her trail.
Now without a job, stealing is suddenly more important than ever. It’s important for her in order to feed herself, and it’s important in order to learn what is going on. Books are still a part of Rose’s life, but now many of them revolve around the same subject: Energy. Rose seek knowledge about the force that drives her. However volumes about physics are not easy to come by for someone in society's lowest class, but where there is a will, there is a way.