Hanata

From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe

"She's mute, not deaf or dumb."
Hanata
Player:
Origin:	Natural
Archetype:	Brute
Threat Level:	'
Personal Data
Real Name:	Unknown
Known Aliases:	A, HNT
Species:	Unknown
Age:	19
Height:	9'8
Weight:	356 lbs
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	White
Biographical Data
Nationality:	Unknown
Occupation:	Surviving
Place of Birth:	Unknown
Base of Operations:	Unknown
Marital Status:	Single
Known Relatives:	Unknown
Known Powers
Super Strength, Willpower
Known Abilities
'
Equipment
'
Very much still a work in progress.

Brought into the world by unknown parents, the one called Hanata remembers little of her childhood save the constant fear of gangs and starvation. In fact, until very recently, she bore no resemblance to the imposing figure she has now become.

Apparently born mute, the girl was taken in by one of the groups of civilians on the street at a young age. Huddling around cans full of burning trash, the community was little more than a few ragtag people who had managed to learn to survive in a world of crime and villains. They came to call her A over time, in reference to the grades they expected she would always have if she had the chance to go to school. Despite lacking the ability to talk, she showed impressive intellect and wisdom, especially for her age.

By age 19 she was all of 5'2 and 100lbs, but surprisingly healthy for living a life as hard as she had. As fate would have it though, one night while returning to camp from a food raid that she herself had planned, A took an ill-fated shortcut through an alley she knew well. Just before reaching the other side, she heard a sound behind her and turned only to see the blunt of a rifle for just an instant before it hit her head.

When she awoke, she was laying nude on a metal slab in what seemed to be an underground lab. An intercom turned on and explained that she was lucky enough to be the very first test subject for a recently discovered alien nano-technology. As a wave of goo which contained the machines washed over her naked body, the voice also told her that as the substance was absorbed into her that it was believed the nano-machines would become permanent residents of her form. They had coined the term Hypertonic Nano Technology or HNT for their finding.

Almost the moment the faceless observer made this remark though, sirens and alarms began to sound as A was bathed in red warning lights. The voice fell silent as the young woman began to writhe on the table and then simply pound her hands against it as if in extreme pain. Her body spasmed and arched, and then began to expand and grow impossibly larger and larger. All at once, she opened her eyes and the pain was gone. A voice from inside her told her that it would keep her safe now, that she was it's mother, and secrets of things from her past. Her eyes flicked and twitched as knowledge of countless things flooded into her mind. When it stopped, she blacked out once more.

No one else knows just what alien technology she was subjected to in that lab, or how she came to return to her camp on the streets, but when she awoke the next day, she was forever changed in mind and body. She now stood almost twice the height she had before, and easily outweighed two of the men of her community. She also now possessed strength and an ability to heal unlike anything any normal human could have. Her body had also constructed a covering for her skin much like clothing which functioned as a light armor.

The voice which claimed it was the collective 'mind' of the HNT conversed with A through thought for some time. Having completely fused with the HNT, A decided she should be called HaNaTa, and the voice that now frequently commented upon her thoughts agreed with her. Now she steals and scavenges for her constantly growing camp of admirers and followers on a level she could never have dreamed of before, and her fist now fall heavily on any who try to stop her.