Quaked

In the city of highways in the sky, Peter and Luciana Meijer welcomed their baby girl into the world on March 26th, 1993. They named her Sydney, though she would regularly insist to be called Syd from the moment she could form a coherent sentence. Life went on as normal. Syd grew and was seemingly an entirely ordinary child. It was the eve of her fifteenth birthday that the family would come to learn that there was nothing ordinary about the young girl.

To think, a stressful soccer game for her school's team is what set it all off. Syd had been more aggravated about the match than she could even begin to explain to her parents. Parents who had insisted she talk and vent her anger when all she had wanted to do was crash on her bed and blast some music to forget about the game entirely. Bottled frustration would seem to be the caused of triggering a latent mutant ability that would trigger a minor earthquake and a small fissure to appear in their yard. All three of the Meijers were shocked.

The sudden development of superpowers was no unusual thing in the City of Heroes. And the family had spent their entire lives in Paragon. So, it wasn't the fact that Syd was found to be a mutant that raised alarm, but rather the specific type of powers that came with it. Her father, Peter, was originally from Overbrook, now known as Faultline, which had been thoroughly devastated by an earthquake caused by one with similar powers to the one his daughter now seemed to have. He found his concern for both her safety and those around her more than justified when he had lost many of his own family and friends to the disaster in Faultline. He would take it upon himself to ensure that she gained control of her newfound abilities. In a secluded area of Perez Park, Syd would practice for hours near daily under the watchful eye of her father. Years of this would eventually drive a bit of a wedge between the once close father-daughter duo. That rift remains to this day, Syd still feeling the pressures of her father's paranoia over her abilities despite the fact that she now has control over them and has even fashioned herself into the superhero known as Quaked.

• GEOKINESIS: The ability to mentally and physically manipulate earth and other earthen elements. This includes all minerals and their compositions. Quaked can use earth to both attack others and defend herself from oncoming onslaughts. She is unable to create earth on her own and must manipulate from existing sources around her. She is also unable to manipulate extraterrestrial earthen elements.

• SEISMIC ENERGY EMISSION: Quaked can generate vibration waves through the earth, from simply shaking the ground to dislodging underground tectonic plates, in order to cause earthquakes. The great downside of this power is that once the earthquake begins it can potentially be impossible for her to stop.

• HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT: Quaked has always been an athlete. She played soccer growing up and eventually got into more martial activities as she got older. She is heavily trained in kickboxing and often spends time at her local MMA gym to keep in shape. She has also learned how to craft her own hammer from the earth to aid her in combat and has gotten pretty good at wielding it.

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