APPROVED: BACKGROUND_1 Early Years
Youngest in a family of five, Myka's father was a programmer in Silicon Valley, her mother an accountant. She had an older brother and an older sister as well. Things were fairly normal in their household and they lived well given their tax bracket. That all changed when they went out for a sail on the family boat one day. A freak storm came up that destroyed the boat, lightening strikes splintering it to bits. The only survivor that was recovered was Myka. She was only ten at the time. The year was 2003.
Myka was sent to live with her father's business partner, his best friend, her godfather. She had a hard time adjusting at first and the bachelor had no clue how to raise a kid. He gave her a computer to tinker around with while he worked. It wasn't long before she was taking things apart and putting them back together, upgrading things on it and making it run even better than before. The kid had a genius level IQ already. The other gifts laying latent inside her would only boost those abilities.
APPROVED: BACKGROUND_2 Hacking Away
She excelled at school and graduated high school early, breezing past the SATs and entering college at the age of sixteen. It was here that she first ran afoul with SHIELD. In the many hours she spent in the computer labs she hacked various places, always trying for bigger and better things. The more of a challenge it was the better. She had no ulterior motives or malice in her actions, she just liked the challenge. She managed to hack several government organizations including SHEILD.
Needless to say it wasn't long before representatives from SHIELD showed up at the school and tracing her back to where she lived wasn't hard. She was interviewed, tested, blood samples given that revealed a latent extra gene similar to others that had been seen. She was brought in to a SHIELD facility with the intent of her becoming an agent. However given her status as a minor the recruitment wasn't exactly normal. Voluntary, yes, in the sense that if she joined them no charges would be pressed on her criminal activities, but still unusual and kept quiet.
APPROVED: BACKGROUND_3 Government Guest
She lived in a SHIELD complex for the next two years, being tested, trained, but other than her genius mind no other abnormal traits came about. She wrote programs for SHIELD, learned how to handle herself in hand to hand combat, learned rudimentary weapons usage, and other things. One of her recreational activities was always her favorite though, rock climbing and rappelling from the rock wall they had set up inside the complex. She had no interaction with the outside world other than TV and internet. There was no getting out or hanging out with others her age. It got old fast.
After about a year in there she worked out a way to escape, using the duct work inside the complex and the skills she'd learned to get outside and stealing a SHIELD SUV. She was the typical teen and went to a movie, hung out in some hot spots, basically enjoyed her freedom. But when she went home to her Godfather's house she found it in disarray and a pool of blood on the floor of his office. It wasn't long before her handlers showed up, able to track the SUV's GPS. They took her back to the complex with not a word spoken, having to lift her up from the floor and carry her out. She was in shock and eventually blamed SHIELD for her Godfather's assumed death.
APPROVED: BACKGROUND_4 The Great Escape
She spent the next year complying meekly. It earned some worried glances and a few talks from some of the handlers seeing how the normally sassy gal went into such a tail spin. But she remained the same. In her mind she blamed them. She was sure her last living family, such as it was, was dead and it was their fault. She concluded that they had done it because she had escaped and he couldn't tell them where she was.
When she turned nineteen everything changed. Something changed inside her. It was like her mind went into overdrive and she could 'see' into computers. She could communicate with them with her mind. The world turned into binary and her thought process was blindingly fast, like a super computer. It was overwhelming the first time it happened. She woke up in the infirmary and was told she was found with a bloody nose and had been out for a few days.
APPROVED: BACKGROUND_5 Don't Look Back
She kept mum about what happened to her that caused this. She experiemented with it for the next six months, testing her limits and skills. She learned that she goes blind when she used her power full force, her pupils seeming to expand all the way open. Lesser extensions of power simply made them shift and contract. She planned her next escape. This time she never planned on coming back. This time she could manipulate the systems. She set up a trickle worm that tapped in multiple large bank accounts of corporations and persons that had enough zeros in their account they wouldn't notices pennies a day missing as they filtered into another account for her elsewhere. She set up an alias as well. Once all her ducks were in a row she went for it, breaking out of the SHIELD facility and heading north to Canada.
She lived there a year under the alias she had created and hooked up with some people in a theft ring, earning more money and experience. She left Canada and moved to New York buy an old warehouse that she had converted into a top loft apartment decked out with all the things a cyber nerd might love. The building is owned under the name of an elderly Greek woman that she met when she was a child.
APPROVED: BACKGROUND_6 Life as We Know It
She lives in NYC now and supports herself with earnings from cyber theft. With her powers it is too easy for her to get in a close proximity of a wealthy person or stock broker and tap into their smartphones and get access to their bank accounts. She's not greedy though, she uses what she gets to live comfortably and anonymously contributes a lot to various charities. She's heard of others like her. Others with abilities or deformities that make them different but aside from passing them on the street she hasn't really made any connections with anyone. She's something of a loner in her day to day life but online she's very active from message boards to xbox live tournaments.
APPROVED: PSY1 Surface
On the surface she seems like a fun loving, fearless smart ass. She's the Queen of Sass and isn't afraid to use it. She's the superficial life of the party wherever she goes but never seems to make any deep connections to anyone, only so much as knowing them on a friendly or passing basis.
APPROVED: PSY2 FLIRT
Myka is an incurable flirt. She really can't help it. It's just who she is. She will flirt with no intentions of it going anywhere. Sometimes she will flirt merely to make a person uncomfortable and make them squirm. Sometimes she uses her flirting to disarm and distract a target she is going after.
APPROVED: PSY3 LONER
While she might seem like the last person one might think of as being lonely or a loner she never makes lasting connections. She's afraid to. She's afraid of getting close to anyone. She tells herself that it's to protect anyone that might get close to her from SHIELD, assuming they are still looking for the asset that got away and it's a decent assumption but it's not the only reason. The deeper reason is the fear of loss. She's lost everyone in her life so far and is afraid of having to lose again.
APPROVED: PSY4 DAREDEVIL
She loves a challenge both mentally and physically. She can't resist one, in fact. She gets bored easily and is always seeking out something new to challenge herself. It might not always be the smartest move and being a genius she should know that but she can't resist it.
APPROVED: PSY5 NERD
She loves all things nerdalicious. She's a fangirl of things like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Doctor WHO, etc. Her apartment is decked out in these things. She even has a life sized TARDIS in her living room. (But no it's not bigger on the inside) She plays Xbox and World of Warcraft and enjoys first person shooters. She has books stacked up everywhere.
APPROVED: PSY6 ROCKER GRRL
Don't look for her to wear thick glasses and pocket protectors. She's more likely to be seen in chains and leather.. well leather anyway. She isn't someone you might look at and see as a super brain. She listens to classic rock and punk music and is a fan of records over digital music. She can be found frequenting dive bars and music venues.
APPROVED: PSY7 OMNIVORE
She had high metabolism to begin with but when her powers kicked in it was like she processed everything even faster, even food or rather the energy that food provides. She tends to keep high calorie food on hand at all times and eats like she has a hollow leg. She has to keep high calorie snacks to keep from passing out when she uses her powers.
APPROVED: PSY8 Motivation
Freedom. The single biggest motivator of her life at this point is to remain free. She is fearful to ever be public because of her past involvement with SHIELD. She's hacked into and seen enough of thier databases to know that those who cross SHIELD tend to be sent away where they never see freedom again. She's terrified from her past experiences with them that the same might happen to her. Rational or irrational it's her deepest fear.
APPROVED: PSY9 INSOMNIAC
With a mind as busy as her own and the increase of wifi signals that abound it's hard for Myka to sleep. It's not as bad as it was when her powers first developed but it still happens from time to time. It's easy for her sleeping mind to tap into a signal and follow it. It makes sleeping a challenge.
APPROVED: PSY10 GOALS
Aside from winning the next Call of Duty Tournament or actually building her very own working TARDIS Myka doesn't have many true goals at the moment. Well outside of staying off SHIELD's radar and avoiding imprisonment or death, she doesn't have a lot of goals. At least not at this point in her life. She doesn't see herself as the kind of person that can ever have a normal life with the house and pickett fence, loving husband, and 2.5 kids. Sure, while she might never admit it she'd love to find true love like in the books she reads or movies she watches but it's not a goal she's seeking. Again, not something she thinks is in the cards for her. Staying well stocked with munchies, finding adventures, staying free, and waiting for the next season of Sherlock is the limit of her goals currently.
APPROVED: POW1 Cyberpathy
In short her brain is like a giant super computer. She can 'talk' to other computers like a normal person might talk to their best friend. Her consciousness moves through a device or through pathways like wifi signals or phone lines much in the way a telepath might read a mind or enter the astral plane. She 'sees' in binary and processes things faster than normal minds, like a super computer.
APPROVED: POW2 Technopathy
Much like cyberpathy this translates more to the material objects than it does the signal. It's more hands on an requires a close proximity of at least five to ten feet of an object to be manipulated. This applies to things that have some form of chip or computer component in them. For example she couldn't manipulate a toaster but she could manipulate a microwave that has a chip in it for programming. Same applies for vehicles. This is not a gift she uses much and is not as skilled with it as she is the Cyberpathy. It's mostly been used for locks on doors and security systems.
APPROVED: POW3 PHYSICAL DRAWBACK1
Using her powers takes a lot out of her. The extent of which varies depending on how much she has to put into it. Running basic things like a series of conversations over the internet with her mind is not as complicated as putting her full focus into hacking into a complicated lock or computer system. Physical drawback can manifest as migraines, nose bleeds, all the way up to and including, short term comas.
APPROVED: POW4 PHYSICAL DRAWBACK2
Her body runs off a very high metabolism, accelerated beyond her normal high metabolism now that her powers have developed. It has it's perks in that she can outdrink a crowd of sailors with her body metabolizing the booze into sugars so quickly. But it also means that she must eat high calorie foods to survive let alone function. Using her powers consumes a lot of energy and she has to replenish it as she goes to keep from losing consciousness.
APPROVED: POW5 WEAKNESS
Aside from having absolutely no special protections physically or invulnerability she can be hurt like anyone else. But uniquely to her powers she is also suspectable to EMPs like any computer or electronic. She can be knocked out with one and shut down until she has time to reboot just like a computer. It remains to be seen if there are any long lasting effects of this since it has not happened yet.
APPROVED: POW6 PHYSICAL DRAWBACK6
When she uses her powers her pupils contract and expand like a camera lens. When using full powers her eyes go entirely pitch black. She uses dark sunglasses to disguise this.
APPROVED: ADV1 BANK ACCOUNTS
While she's no Tony Stark or Lex Luthor when it comes to wealth she does have enough money in various bank accounts to live comfortably.
APPROVED: ADV2 WAREHOUSE LOFT
She owns a building under an assumed name and has outfitted it to suit her, leaving no paper trail in her name. She lives on the top floor with only an elevator up visible. She has a staircase hidden that she can escape out from if need be and the loft is wired up for all her electronics and gear.
APPROVED: ADV3 TOYS
Xbox, computers, monitors, and other fun stuff are in her loft apartment.
APPROVED: ADV4 PEEPS
She has a vast network of contacts over the internet. People that know people and can get her access to things from collector's edition movie props to rappelling gear.
APPROVED: SKILL1 TRAINING
With her time spent with SHIELD she received combat training both hand to hand and weapons. While she might not really stand a chance against a highly trained operative or metahuman she is able to hold her own against the normal human attacker or mugger.
APPROVED: SKILL2 CLIMBER
She's very skilled at climbing and rappelling. It was her stress outlet whiel with SHIELD
APPROVED: SKILL3 CHAMELEON
She has adapted the skill to blend in and fit in with the group of persons she's with. Sometimes dressing in high end clothes and using a wig to attend high class social functions to pluck targets for theft.
APPROVED: SKILL4 HACKER
Even without her powers Myka is a hacker to be reckoned with. From her innate understanding of computers to the training she's received over the years she is way cooler than Zero Cool (points to those that get that reference).
APPROVED: FLAW1 COOKING
Don't let her do more than use a microwave to cook. Just don't. She terrible at it and tends to set fire to things when she tries.
APPROVED: FLAW2 ISOLATION
She keeps herself isolated from others for the most part. She's had one night stands and is passing friendly with people around town she sees regularly but ask them anything more than the superficial about her and they will be at a loss.
APPROVED: FLAW3 EMP
She's susceptible to EMP pulses like electronics and it will knock her out clean, shutting her down. This has yet to have happened and the results of it have not yet been discovered.
APPROVED: FLAW4 PARANOID
She blames SHIELD for the death of her godfather. It might be true. It might not be. It remains to be proven but in her mind she sees them as the bad guys and will do anything to stay out of their grasp. She's fears them finding her and locking her up.
APPROVED: FLAW5 CHALLENGES
She can't resist a challenge be it a dare or a risky heist or target. She needs them to satisfy her ever active mind.
