Tundri
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Tundri | |
| Player: @Asylum Song | |
| Origin: | Science |
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| Archetype: | Dominator |
| Threat Level: | 20 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Tara Harrison |
| Known Aliases: | None |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 15 |
| Height: | 5' 1" |
| Weight: | 97 lbs |
| Eye Color: | Green |
| Hair Color: | Blonde |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Occupation: | None |
| Place of Birth: | Saskatchewan |
| Base of Operations: | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Living mother |
| Known Powers | |
| Sympathetic control over ice and earth | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Confidential | |
| Equipment | |
| None | |
| No additional information available. | |
Contents |
Origin
Tara's father was born to great wealth. He lived a life of frivolity and excess. It was then no surprise when one of his seventeen year old girlfriends became pregnant. At only sixteen himself, he was engaged and eventually married, and his family helped to raise the child. What nobody realized was the entire thing had been orchestrated by Tara's mother, Madeline, to entangle herself with the family fortune. Madeline was brilliant, ruthless, cunning, even at a young age, and knew what it took to fulfill her dreams.
Jack, Tara's father, passed away at only 21 years of age, under mysterious circumstances.
Raised largely by her grandparents, and later by nannies and servants, Tara was doted on her whole life. Never close with her mother, she nonetheless craved the attention and approval of the woman who gave her life. Meanwhile, Madeline Harrison was spinning her late husband's fortune into an even larger one. Investments preceeded business ventures which became an empire. By the time Tara was 13, Madeline no longer needed her in-laws to support her lifestyle of excess. She cut them out of her life, and Tara saw them less and less.
Everything had gone perfectly for Madeline, as she was now wealthy and powerful. She was also, however, a mother - something she had never truly wanted. Tara's birth was a tool, to leverage herself into the life of splendour she'd always sought. But her daughter had served her purpose, and like her in-laws, no longer had a place in her life.
Just before Tara's 14th birthday, Madeline took her on a business trip into the Canadian north. There, an energy device had been developed to send pulses into the earth that would break down materials into component parts, to draw precious oil through the earth, separating it from soil and stone, creating ideal pockets beneath the frozen tundra to mine from. A research camp had been set up, and Tara and her mother spent the night there.
However, that evening, Tara's life changed forever. Her mother asked Tara outside, under the guise of explaining the device to her. Elated, Tara rushed to the test site. Then, Madeline attacked her unwitting daughter, who longed so badly for her mother's affection. She drugged her, beat her, quietly cursed in her ears about how she'd never been wanted, never been loved, had been born only to steal her father's money. Tears in her eyes, help only meters away, sleeping in their tents, Tara was buried in the frozen earth beneath the device. The next day, nobody thought to check for her, to see where she was, before the test began. Only feet beneath the surface, paralyzed by the cold, the drugs, the brutality and the hateful words, she took the full front of the blast.
Madeline had planned on the prototype breaking Tara down into a mere handful of component parts, to leech away into the soil beneath her new oil rig. A poetic end, she had decided. She did not count on what occured. Her daughter's molecules were mixed with that of the very tundra, frozen earth blending into her as much as she blended into it, her mother's strange toxins reacting inside her, metabolizing away.
The device was destroyed in an instant, suddenly, as pain overwhelmed Tara. As she reached out, wanting to destroy it, the earth and ice struck out on her behalf.
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