dossier

Personality

PHYSICALITY

EYE COLOR.	cerulean ; but are gold when using her abilities.
HAIR COLOR.	fire-red, wolf-cut, curly.
SKIN TONE.	pallid, dusted with freckles and moles.
MARKINGS && SCARS.	old burn scars up her left arm, a 6cm scar on her midriff. scar across the bridge of her nose, bullet-wound scar in the middle of her lower back. scar across her lip.
BODY MODS.	pierced ears, pierced tongue. ‘semper fi’ tattooed on her left bicep. pierced navel.
BODY TYPE.	tall, slender - muscular thighs and shoulders.
BUST SIZE.	34D
HEIGHT.	5ft 9in / 1.8m.
WEIGHT.	10st 11lbs / 68.5kgs.
MANNERISMS.	plays with her hair a lot, drums her nails on surfaces, cracks her knuckles often, taps her feet against the ground.
LATERALITY.	right-handed.
VOICE.	a slightly deep voice, spunky, excited
MAKEUP.	white eyeshadow, thin line of liquid eyeliner, lower eyelids lined with faint black kohl, black mascara, rouge blush and redwood lips.
SCENT.	burning paper, metal, expensive chemical solutions (inherent) // strawberries, roses, cinnamon and musk (perfume)
AILMENT.	near-sighted, but wears contact lenses.
STATURE.	hunched shoulders from spending so long in her lab.

history & more

born to a working class family, ember was given a stressful life from birth. her father was a chronic cheater, leading em to grow up believing that social connections were a give-and-take struggle. at six, she was given a younger brother, named thomas - who became a point of dependency for her blossoming mind. she didn’t want him, in any way, to ever believe that love was what their mother and father had. so, in turn, she shielded him, cared for him closely - covering his ears when they argued, taking him out as she grew older; if anything to avoid the unstable home life.that home life only grew more tense, where, at sixteen, the underwood family received another child. anna, a girl - who had down syndrome. this caused ember to drift just a little from thomas, if only to care for her younger sister - taking on waitressing jobs for under-the-table cash. despite this, she was still an a-grade student, and even left high school with a 3.9 gpa.it was then that she was given an ultimatum. care for her struggling family, or put a brief hiatus on it - and go to university.with a heavy heart, and hopes to one day provide for her family, she took the offered scholarship to a prestigious university to study microbiology.all the while, the family continued to struggle - now paying (albeit lesser) student loans alongside countless medical bills for anna.soon thereafter, ember found herself in a tricky situation. she was broke, and with little to offer in terms of work - applied to the military to accumulate funds while she kept working. here, she studied as a combat medic - touring for a year and a half in syria and ending it as a sergeant first class medic.ember, half-broken and traumatized - but still hopeful, used that money to pursue her goals of, in short, defeating death - and from it created a small organization with the study of thanatology, defying death and creating immortality. a.d.a.m, meaning assigning death as modicum - and also after the first man.it was here, after working long hours as ceo and director of operations, that ember came into contact with the cells of a fire storm. she analyzed them closely - and as her lack of sleep clouded her better judgment, injected herself with them. a rapid mutation took place, turning her into a being with pyrokinetic instability.fleeing her workplace, she took to the more secluded parts of the city in her cheap pontiac and began to try and focus her powers. every morning, as the sun rose, she would awaken to a swathe of brutal heat - and realized that the sun intensified her powers. so, she would return to those places each morning; focusing herself and steadying the powers. it took strain and tenfold composure - burnt beakers and smelted pens - but after weeks of stress, she figured it out.one day, when her father wrote a book detailing his experiences with other women; the family began to tear itself apart. he offered 10% of his royalties to the family each - and while the rest of the family refused - deeming it ‘blood money’ and ‘unforgivable’, ember was gifted with a tough ultimatum. betray her family, or forsake the money. with a heavy heart, she took the money, and invested it into two things.a phd in microbiology, and a new pet project of hers.prometheus gel- a gel that could, through electronic stimulus, repair wounds. it worked via micro-nanum cells which patch dying cells together by replicating a human’s ac+gt genetic coding. originally, it worked with flesh and over time she even worked on ways to spread to computers and cyborg-creations via electromagnetic pulsations in each specific cell to stir cell movement through defibrillation.although its components of aligned graphene and polyunsaturated matrix were expensive - so she used the rest of her money for that; living off 99 cent packets of ramen noodles and leftovers from company lunches.however, two days before receiving her phd, ember received a call. thomas had been shot dead in a bank-robbery gone wrong - and everything seemed to crumble. she was overwrought with guilt, stress and anger - how could she let this happen? what if she had been there? what if she had been stronger?after much deliberation, though, she came to a realization. she had just the thing to bring him back. it was experimental, but she would try.after starting a fire to distract the workers in the morgue, ember stole thomas’ body and took him back to her apartment.there, she hooked him up to multiple machines - which began to pump prometheus gel into his body. it repaired the body, but… not the mind. he woke, confused, angry, smashing things around the room until she calmed him with a sedative and tied him down.for days, she kept him there while he struggled and groaned; and after realizing that there was no way to bring him back - the tommy she knew - she let him die again. the body was placed outside the morgue with a flash of fire - and ember let him go.doctor didn’t feel right as a name anymore. not anymore. so, for one night, she stripped herself to the title - and sought out the man who killed him. high and low, with own-sought intelligence by her side, she tore crime syndicates apart until she found him.when his eyes met hers, she burnt him alive.but why didn’t it feel good? she got revenge, but she felt sick. killing someone wasn’t in her blood - it wasn’t who she was, it wasn’t what thomas would have wanted for her.so, after a depressive slump, she picked her title of saving lives back up, if only to keep the flame of her brother running on.since then, her company has blossomed; her stocks have spiked, and she has broadened it into a company pushing the boundaries of science.a.d.a.m, to pursue the boundaries of life and death.

SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOURS

 4589 REGENERATION GEL (NICKNAMED ‘PROMETHEUS GEL’)  — assisting item
a ‘healing gel’ of ember’s creation that can fix wounds in seconds after applying. it works via micro-nanum cells which patch dying cells together by replicating a human’s ac+gt genetic coding. works with flesh and she’s currently working on ways to spread to computers and cyborg-creates via electromagnetic pulsations in each specific cell to stir cell movement through defibrillation. it’s a mixture of aligned graphene and polyunsaturated matrix. she can only make this gel by having dna samples, so a surplus of blood, plasma and/or bone marrow will be required. it is also incredibly expensive to make - a luxury that ember spends a surplus of her money on. it can bring back the dead - but with little to no brain function. THE ENERGY BLADE  — weapon
a weapon ember forged during her early years. it uses the heat from her fire to store and send out shockwaves, blasts and beams. it is also stocked with an ai named adam, who can search police databases and sample substances through its ‘eye’. ADAM (ARTIFICIAL DEFENSE & DETECTIVE ANALYSIS MATRIX)  — ai
this semi-sentient ai is named adam due to its full name, and is often referred to as ‘addy’ by ember. it is capable of searching police databases and accessing information not often found by the common citizen. it can also sample substances through its ‘eye’ - and can trace fingerprints to police databases in seconds. if ember is wearing her contact lenses (referenced below), adam can use facial recognition and add notes to an ever-expanding series of data collected by her. it also tells jokes and limericks. CAMERA CONTACTS  — media device
a pair of worn-in contact lenses connected directly to adam. by blinking three times rapidly, the camera within will begin to record - and can hold up to seven hours of video before its storage is full. this data will have to be manually sent to the cloud via direct user input. SPATIAL TELEPORTATION TRANSMITTER  — mobility device
a small handheld transmitter capable of warping medium range distances. in the current timeline, the furthest it can warp without damaging the teleported individual is 360 feet (the average length of a football field). in the future, it can cover from new york to cali (on average 3000 miles). NON-LETHAL RAIL-GUN  — weapon
a non-lethal rail gun of ember’s creation. it takes the normally narrow point-of-force from a rail gun and expands it to a wide surface area, which will give the target a sensation of ‘hitting a brick wall’. this can work on multiple targets, but requires a lot of electricity to power. NAUSEA DEVICE  — weapon
a small handheld device capable of causing nausea to those it is thrown at. it emits sound waves at a specific frequency, which forces the target to suffer medium to severe nausea (depending on the target’s size). PROJECT ETERNITIS  — specialist
an undercover, top-secret operation down at the deepest underground bases of a.d.a.m corp. project eternitis is a strange, almost esoteric operation that has confronted the concept of ‘eternal life’ via taking one’s consciousness / mental identity and implanting it into a robot. the current main prototype is 80 meters tall, but ember is working on reducing its size by using lightweight alloys and more flexible steel.