From Handbook of the Union Universe

Mad or bad?
Anathema
Player: @Dante
Origin:	Science
Archetype:	Blaster
Level:	14
Primary Set:	Assault Rifle
Secondary Set:	Energy Manipulation
Epic Set:	N/A
Personal Data
Real Name:	Dr. Rebecca Rhodes
Identity:	Commonly known
Aliases:	none
Species:	Human/Cyborg
Date of Birth:	23 September 1974
Age:	32
Height:	5'4"
Weight:	113llbs
Build:	Thin
Eye Colour:	Blue
Hair Colour:	Green (dyed)
Skin Complexion:	Pale/Jaundiced
Distinguishment:	Robotic right arm, missing right eye. Skin is crossed with numerous scars.
Medical Status:	Very poor health, clearly suffers mental health problems
Financial Status:	Adequate – lives off of life insurance payments
Religion:	Catholic (lapsed)
Sexuality:	Heterosexual
Marital Status:	Single
Known Relatives:	None living
Biographical Data
Nationality:	American
Ethnicity:	Caucasian
Legal Status:	Legal US Resident with no criminal record
Place of Birth:	Pittsburgh, Pensylvania
Education:	Steel Canyon University, Paragon City – Doctorate in Medical Sciences and Surgical Procedures.
Occupation:	Unemployed, previously surgeon at Riviera Medical Centre
Group Affiliations:	Member of Red Cell, previously member of the Militia
Base of Operations:	Steel Canyon
Residency:	Steel Canyon
Known Powers
Augmented strength in artificial right arm, superior running speed from enhanced cybernetic muscles in legs.
Known Abilities
Capable marksman, superior surgical skills particularly relating to cybernetics.
Equipment
SR-70 Assault Rifle, modified to synchronise with instruments in her right arm. Various medical equipment worn at waist as well as a variety of drugs for both herself and her subjects.
Awards and Collections
Valedictorian of her med school class
Licenses and Certificates
Temporary Hero License (under review). Certificate of Medical Practice.
IC Accessibility of Article
Can be contacted through most agencies.

Contents 1 Affiliations 2 Personality 3 Motivation 4 Powers 4.1 Primary Powers 4.1.1 Assault Rifle 4.2 Secondary Powers 4.2.1 Energy Manipulation 4.3 Additional Powers 4.3.1 Travel 4.3.2 Power Pool 5 Abilities 6 Vulnerabilities 7 Equipment 8 Character Origin 9 Additional Information 10 Trivia

[edit] Affiliations

• Ex-member of The Militia
• Ward of Dante Carver

[edit] Personality

Due to the torture that she has endured, Anathema’s personality is severely fractured. She is reasonably approachable but is sometimes withdrawn and secretive. Should any of her other personalities surface, she can be aggressive, irrational, paranoid or even childlike. It could be argued that each of these personas is part of her, but unable to function as part of a whole. Anathema should be treated cautiously but firmly.

She has an innate fear of zombies and other animated corpses due to her experiences. Sight of any Vahzilok operatives can send her into a murderous rage.

[edit] Motivation

Anathema is spurred on only by the thought of revenge on the man who made her the way she is. When her aggressive personality is in control, she can be exceptionally bloodthirsty, choosing to use sometimes questionable methods when apprehending criminals. She takes some delight in arresting people but knows that changing her rounds from rubber to steel is only a flick of a switch away.

[edit] Powers

Attributes
	Statistic	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
	Fortitude
	Stamina
	Speed
	Melee
	Blasts
	Support
	Control

[edit] Primary Powers

[edit] Assault Rifle

Burst, Slug, Buckshot, Beanbag

[edit] Secondary Powers

[edit] Energy Manipulation

Power Thrust, Build Up

[edit] Additional Powers

[edit] Travel

Superspeed

[edit] Power Pool

Fitness

Swift

[edit] Abilities

Anathema is a cybernetic construct, as in certain parts of her natural physiology have been replaced or augmented with mechanical or machine based parts. Many of these are grafted directly into her nervous system, allowing her full control of them as one would a natural organ or limb.

The most obvious of these is her right arm, which attaches to her body at her shoulder. It is made from a strong plas-steel material which can withstand most damage however, it is rarely employed as a weapon as Anathema lacks the strength to wield it. Rather, it is designed to stabilise and support her AR-70 rifle and provide co-ordination with her left eye which compensates for the lack of her right. The arm also contains a series of instruments for measuring temperature, radiation and atmospheric changes. The arm is designed to integrate with her AR-70 combat rifle once it is drawn, allowing her to operate it reflexively.

Having lost most of the muscle mass from her legs, Rebecca has replaced these with a silicon substitute that reconfigures itself when an electric current is placed through it. These effectively mimic the functions of her missing muscles but she is capable of passing a larger current through them and therefore increasing both her vertical and horizontal movement speeds significantly.

As well as her offensive capacity, Anathema retains her medical training although she is often too busy in combat to attend to those in need.

[edit] Vulnerabilities

Having been subjected to much medical experimentation, Anathema is perceptibly weak, her physical form barely held together by the cybernetic devices which sustain her. She actively avoids physical contact so as to limit damage to her person. Due to lacking several important organs, she often suffers from sicknesses that other, more healthy people would be able to resist.

However it is her mental stability which often proves her major weakness. Paranoid and irrational, it does not take much to unbalance her mental state. However, while fighting, she often proves to be more focused than people would expect but this does not mean that one can rule out the possibility of a psychotic or paranoid episode.

[edit] Equipment

Aside from her cybernetic parts, Anathema carries a modified AR-70 Assault Rifle which is normally slung over her back. It has been adapted to integrate with her right arm and carries a variety of rounds within its arsenal. Its dual magazines carry both rubber and live rounds for dealing with various targets.

She also carries various medical devices and drugs used for both medicating her patients and herself.

[edit] Character Origin

Rebecca Rhodes used to be a talented surgeon, a pioneer in the field of prosthetics and cybernetics working in Chiron Medical Centre. She was quiet, slightly shy but pleasant person who believed intensely in what she was doing. It was therefore unfortunate that she was abducted one night by a gang of Dr Vahzilok’s minions as part of his ‘organ harvest’. Rebecca was listed as missing for five months during which time she was used as a source of spare parts for he doctor’s projects. It is known that she was kept conscious during these procedures. When Rebecca was finally rescued, she was barely alive, wired up to various life-support machines. She was transferred to hospital where her recovery began.

After several months recuperation, Rebecca began work on restoring herself. Using her knowledge of advanced prosthetics, she was able to fashion working replicas of most of her missing organs and limbs. In doing so, she was also able to augment her abilities, a fact that went unnoticed by the doctor’s attending her. It was during this time that her mental instability manifested itself.

[edit] Additional Information

Anathema’s body is always in constant danger of rejecting the various attachments that she has affixed to herself. She has to keep herself constantly dosed with immuno-suppressing drugs to prevent complete organ failure.

[edit] Trivia

The drugs used to suppress her immune system have the unfortunate side effect of turning her hair grey. She counteracts this by dying it various lurid colours.