Static Shark
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
Electromagnetism
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Background
Life was normal for Jaden Osiris. She grew up in a relatively stable household in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from high school with honors and was accepted into a great college with Paragon City University--where she had always dreamed of being closer to the home of heroes. She was an adept student, pursuing electrical engineering with a minor in electrical engineering. She was in the middle of pursuing her post-graduate degree when the Rikti invaded and attacked the city. There are no official records of what happened with Jaden, but she was found buried beneath the rubble of one of the workshops where it was known electromagnetism experiments were being conducted. She infers that this was what caused her to develop her powers--her electric-conductivity and super speed. She woke up from a coma months later and discovered she was able to heal her own injuries using super-conducted and directed electrical energies.
The name "Static Shark" was more of an afterthought due to her own interests. A member of the furry fandom, with her original character being that of a shark, she felt it was a no-brainer to combine the two into her superhero persona. So Static Shark became a common fixture in Paragon City's superhero community.
Personality
Jaden is a simple person with simple needs. She considers herself outgoing, easy to speak with - and exudes a warming and charming personality with people she interacts with. She translates this well into her superhero work, being easy to approach and disarming even to some of the most hardened criminals. Through this she feels herself better suited in a "support" role for her allies, staying in the back making sure they're kept on their feet through the electromagnetic fields generated from her energy transference abilities. Very rarely does she get cold with a person, and even when she does, she warms up really quickly after the fact. She's usually not one to start a fight unless the person absolutely deserves it.
Powers
As Static Shark, Jaden can manipulate the electromagnetic energy present around her, and through the experiment having gone rampant is able to generate a constant field of this energy to fuel her abilities. Through manipulation of particles, she can transfer these energies from one target to a selective group of people around her - mainly, her allies and comrades. Through her manipulation of the electricity around her she's also capable of directing those currents as kinetic blasts condensed into generation fields on her gauntlets, to help concentrate them properly.
Probably because of the experiment dousing her in particles, she is also able to run at super-speed and jump great distances and height with enough momentum.
