| NAME: |
Emma Heleen Naaktgeboren
| ALIAS(ES): |
Em
| PLACE OF BIRTH: |
Ikazia Ziekenhuis, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL
| SPECIES: |
Hyperhuman
| D.O.B.: |
Nov/17/1995
| AGE: |
19
| SEX: |
Female
| SEXUALITY: |
Demisexual
| APPEARANCE: |
Emma has a slim build, standing at 175cm and weighs 56kg. Her blonde hair reaches to roughly her chest which is relative in size.
For the past two years Emma has been accustomed to wearing a standard uniform of PRCU. Now that she is in a school in the USA she has been able to wear what she likes again. It's just simple standard fashion, nothing fancy, though she has a tendency to wearing high heels nowadays. Her eyes are light blue in color.
| CLASSIFICATION: |
Saturn
| ABILITIES: |
Space-Time Continuum Distorting Summoning.
Or in layman's terms, a Borrower capable of borrowing anything from any time or location by creating a rift through time and space itself.
Ever wondered where your phone suddenly went even though you swore it was 'right there' a minute ago, or how you can't find that one favorite CD even though you're quite certain you brought it home after that party? Only to find it right in that spot where you looked ten times a short while later? Or better yet, searching for that eraser, and after ten minutes of looking you find it right in your own hand? Then it's probably Emma's fault.
When Emma concentrates on retrieving a certain item from a time or location, the item vanishes temporarily from that spot and appears in Emma's hands. She can then use it as she wishes till she sends it back or it fades after a while.
| SKILLS: |
*Emma is a skilled marksman. She has a steady hand and not a lot of problem with clearing her mind to concentrate on the task in front of her.
*She has a great artistic ability and dearly loves painting, which is why she was sent over to Conquisator University.
*Allthough she's terrible at concentrating on things, she's great at emptying her mind and not thinking about anything. Though essentially most people don't see the difference between concentrating and an empty mind while doing a job, to Emma it is a clear difference. Concentrating requires actively focussing on something, like remembering an object and bringing it to her. Emptying her mind is shutting out all thoughts and let (trained) instincts take control.
*Hand to hand combat has been trained to her in her first years of school, so she can use it, though she prefers summoning weaponry.
*Gag skill: Emma's cooking is so terrible it could be used as poison.
| LIMITATIONS: |
Duration
Everything she borrows from a different time or space will fade and disappear after a certain amount of time has passed. How quickly depends on the size of the object. Larger objects range between five to fifty minutes, while simple small items can range up to being in her possession for a few hours or a full day. That however is very rare.
Timeline
Items from the past or future are more difficult to summon. Objects brought in from a different time period do not fade faster than similar objects from the current flow of time.
Size
Larger items are more difficult to borrow. Not only do they fade faster, they also cost more energy to collect.
Location
In order to collect something from a location or time, she has to (roughly) know where the item was put. For small stuff like desk items it's enough to focus on a desk and collect from there. More complex and larger items and past/future items need a more specific focus point. If she were to want to borrow Hitler's gun she would have to know exactly where it was, when it was.
Also, if an item is in the same room as where she is, she can not summon it to her hands. For that she will have to get up, and walk.
Space-Time Continuum
The same object can never exist in the same room at the same time. If she was borrowing someone's phone from the past, and the person walks in with their phone, the phone she is holding will disappear instantly.
This also means she can not borrow an item that someone is holding right then and there in the same room.
| WEAKNESSES: |
Due to the amount of borrowing she does and can do, she constantly forgets to bring her own items, forgets where she puts them, or what really is hers to begin with.
Physically it's quite straining to reach into a different location or time in order to take something. If she over exerts herself the item will not only not appear, but she could pass out as well. Chances are she could die from it, just as over exertion on sports could kill a person given the right circumstances.
She can't send items to a different time or location, unless she is releasing an item back to where it came from.
The effects of the borrowed item do stay when the item has faded/sent back. (e.g.: bullet hole (and bullet if that wasn't borrowed too), cleaned wounds, etc)
| APPLICATIONS: |
In a fighting situation Emma will be able to collect whatever she things will be of use. Guns, knives, bandages. She does have to keep in mind that things will eventually disappear again, so in the case of bandages, that it will only be considered a temporary fix till actual bandages are brought in.
In class she's the go-to person for forgotten equipment. Need a pen? A new shirt till at least the end of class? A deck of cards to play poker that can disappear the moment a teacher walks in? Just ask Emma.
Even though she doesn't cheat, in theory she could borrow the answers for a test, if she knew where they were kept. That however is a rule of ethics she will not break.
Another application of her power she will not use is borrowing money, buying something, and letting the money fade after leaving. A strong moral code makes for her not doing things like that.
Due to her powers' nature, she tends to be more support than offense in a team. Providing backup and materials whenever needed.
Also, as she can repeatedly summon the same item if it fades (unless she is too tired) Emma makes for an excellent flow of (temporary!) supplies.
(If for example Emma borrows a bandaid from the first aid kit, and the bandaid disappears after a time, the bandaid will appear back in its place as it was when she borrowed it. This is due to her not being able to send anything into a different location or time.)
| WEAPONS: |
Having the ability to summon anything she needs, Emma doesn't really have a weapon on her. To be more exact, for the sake of anonymity she doesn't own any weapons.
Any weapon she owns and uses can be traced back to her, so she has a list of weapons she can use that won't lead back to her.
| TOOLS: |
Emma doesn't carry tools with her as she can summon anything she needs. She has a book (seriously that thing is bigger than Tolstoy's War and Peace combined) that she summons at times if her memory fails her. In it there is a giant list of every item she has seen, where it is/was kept, and when she saw it.
Her memory for where everything is is quite extensive, but even she forgets stuff. Back when she first discovered her powers she started writing where and when things were in a small notebook. Quickly outgrowing the booklet she expanded it, and expanded it, till it became the size it is today.
Her book is always kept in one and the same place. Though she is thinking about digitalizing it at some point. It's just that she knows it will take a very very long time before everything is copied.
For certain things like weapons, or handy tools she has a separate smaller notebook that she can borrow. Having to search through the biggest encyclopedia around isn't all that handy in a pinch after all.
| ATTIRE: |
While Emma does wear her normal clothes most of the time, if she ever chooses to go out and play vigilante she will sport a special outfit primarily in various blue shades.
Due to Emma's power she can place her hand on her own body and summon her outfit that she always keeps in the same place.
Under normal daily circumstances Emma wears her normal clothesm summons her alternative outfit, and then hides her normal clothes in some location.
If she's heading into battle directly from her current home she'll wear the actual vigilante outfit and borrow her normal clothes so she can send her regular clothes back when the fighting is about to start.
She doesn't use this method standard because she is afraid her power might wear thin and everything is sent back prematurely, thus revealing her powers to others.
Her outfit is always the same, except for her mask. It's different every time, and she has a ton of them. It's filigree masks, often in black or blue colors.
Outfit, Masks.
| BACKSTORY: |
Born in the fall, Emma was the only child Rick and Anne Naaktgeboren had. They were a moderate, average family living in the southern part of Rotterdam for a few years, then moving to the northern part.
She was raised as a Christian, but in a community that didn't go all 'Hypes are the spawn of evil' like most other congregations did. Sure, there weren't many Hypes in that church, but she could name two that had been a part for as long as Emma could remember. She herself however didn't directly have contact with them.
Most of the rest of Emma's childhood was calm, uneventful. Both parents had a job, her mother worked part-time so she wouldn't come home to an empty house after school, went through school like everyone else following the 'basic-VMBO-MBO' route. Or well, she would have gone that way.
Emma had been a bit of a late bloomer in terms of appearance, but once she did, she was a full bloomer. With that however, her powers awakened and she discovered she was part of the Hype people as well.
Despite the openness that the church and their parents had about the new species, Emma was afraid that if she became one, the people around her would treat her differently. So she hid her powers, and avoided using them for as long as she could. It didn't really last long.
Roughly three years ago she was caught using her ability, an item she had summoned fading out of her hands right in the presence of her parents.
Of course they were shocked, but the damage was far less bad than Emma had initially thought. They didn't kick her out, disown her, call her a spawn of evil, or go announce it to all kinds of people. Instead they simply said that keeping her powers hidden would only increase her chances of getting caught by others, and it wouldn't be good for her to hide who she really was.
So together they found the contact details of a school that offered protection and training to Hyperhumans, and told her friends she was going to study abroad instead of learning to become a secretary at the MBO level.
As far as she is aware, her friends still don't know she has the ability to 'borrow' items.
Emma went to that school for two years, this would be her third, but this year was going to be different for her. With all the activity going on in and around Crescent City they needed people to go and infiltrate in the city. Emma volunteered as her abilities are easy to hide and can't accidentally go off.
With her being good at art, they sent her to Conquistador University with the instructions to patrol, keep an eye out, not to engage any hyper (or other) activity (which is a rule she'd definitely break), and report back whatever hyper activity she sees so actual SHIFT teams can take care of it. And should she encounter other Hypes that she hasn't been made aware of to report them. Maybe find out if there are Hypes in the school as well.
She has been in Crescent City for a few weeks now, settling in and pretending to be just another average arts student.
HELP provided a home for her to stay in for the time being. A moderate apartment in the Los Paraíso district. From here she'll be able to more freely do her job without people wondering why she'd be entering the district while the school was closed. Plus it saved a lot on travel times between home and school.
In the meantime she misses her team mates back in PRCU and wonders what they're up to now, not being allowed to have contact with them. For safety reasons.
| SAMPLE POST: |
As the sun was at its peak in the sky, Emma walked out of the building, sporting a brown leather coat, knee highs, and a skirt, the habit reminiscent of her days in P.R.C.U.. She held a round tube in one hand that held a few of her drawings, while her other hand held on to a clearly fading book.
Feeling how the weight in her other hand was getting lighter and lighter, Emma looked down. Oh right! The book would go back to the library any moment now. Where had that book come from again? She still had to read the last few chapters, so she had to remember. Darn it, she couldn't even remember which row it had been in, let alone the shelf and where in that row it was. Great, that's what you get for having a strainer of a memory, or whatever the English equivalent of that saying was. Writing down the title of the book on the back of her hand with a pen she borrowed from the teacher's desk, she sent the book back to where it belonged. She'd just have to go and find it in the library now.
Turning on her heels Emma waded her way through the mass of people to head to the general direction of the library.
"Hey Em!" a voice behind her called. Stopping in her tracks Emma looked to see who was coming her way. One of the guys of her class came walking up to her. For the life of her she couldn't remember his name, how embarressing.
"Yes?" She asked, figuring that saying the wrong name would be worse than saying no name.
"So there's going to be a party this weekend, and I heard you're going."
"I'm going?"
"Really? That's great! Hey want to go together, I'll pick you up at eight!" He said and already walked backwards intending to leave.
"Wait, but I-" He was so fast that Emma barely had time to think anything through what was happening.
"Is eight thirty better?"
"I-"
"Great! See you then!" He turned around and darted off to his friends.
Had Emma just agreed to a date to a party she had no idea she was invited to?
Stumped Emma stood there for a little while. Right, library.
*Emma hasn't told anyone the translation of her last name. In the Netherlands Naaktgeboren is a fairly common name, but it literally means 'Naked born'. Not really something you'd share with people unless you're drunk.
*Due to having lived in the Netherlands, and only having had the basic minimum of English that was taught in middle/high school, she speaks with a Dutch accent, and often forgets the correct translation of the word.
Example of how Emma talks, and the sound of voice she has.
*It has happened at times that she accidentally spoke Dutch to someone, instead of English.
*Kind of a scatter brain, and has a difficulty in figuring out what she wants to say at times. This isn't just because of the constant translation issues though.
*Is a bit of a girly girl.
*Hates mornings. Definitely a night owl.
*A disaster in the kitchen. She's more likely to kill herself with her cooking than fill her stomach.