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Justice RIDES AGAIN!!!
Stingray
Name: Manami Hamasaki
Gender: Female/INDENT]
Age: Approximately 28 Birthdate unknown
Power: Aquatic bioform modified as a weapon
Rank: B2 Rank
Limiter: Damaged class 4 tracking chip
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Ethnic Heritage
Japanese
Hair
None
Eyes
Black
Height
5' 4" or 8' 3" depending on mood
Figure
Lithe and lean (125 pounds) OR: Massive and Muscular (450 pounds)
Notes
Blue scaly skin, flattened nose, nictitating membrane over eyes, gill slits below ears, webbed digits, needle like teeth, brow ridge and other fins. When her weapon programming is engaged she increases over 50% in height and nearly quadruples her muscle mass.
Personality
Self Sacrificing
This may flow partly from her conditioning leaving her with few intrinsic goals other than to obey, but irrespective of the genesis of her disposition, Manami could hardly be more selfless. It is not that she will go out of her way to help a friend in need. She will drop everything to help anyone of good will with anything at all.
Disciplined
Her tendency to subsume her aims for others would almost be crippling except for her single mindedness of purpose once she has set about to complete a task. If you could get her distracted, you could probably redirect her to a different task just by asking, but distracting her once she is engaged is no mean feat.
Hard Boiled
There was a time when Manami would put up with almost anything other than a physical threat to her friends, and then would completely lose her cool. Nowadays she is far colder and more calculating. It has been years since she has had a high stress incident, but if anything she is more deadly than ever before
Darkened Soul
While still fiercely loyal to her friends, and deeply believing in the fundamental goodness of humanity, Manami's formerly sunny disposition is gone now. Where once she feared her inner demon, now she embraces this part of her that was designed to be a weapon. She is a weapon now. But she is no longer anyone's tool. She serves her own aims.
Biography
History
Over a decade ago, Manami escaped from a black site research lab, just off shore from one of the tiny islands in the Ryukyu chain, somewhere between Kyushu and Okinawa. It remains unclear who was behind the experiments, but there have been rumors in the intelligence community of a secret society of unreformed imperialists dating all the way back to World War II. If they are real, they would certainly fit the bill. Whoever they are, tinkering with low level supers to turn them into weapons seems to be their speciality. Manami remembers at least a dozen other prisoners at the site, most of whom died horribly when put through the 'processing' program.
While she was not the only super they modified, she was by far the most successful for their purposes. At the beginning of their experiments, she had been a much more typical D rank: a little stronger than human, with wrist stingers, and a slightly alien appearance along with the ability to breathe under water. Once they were through, her mutations had become far more obvious as well as significantly more deadly. Best of all, she responded quite well to behavioral conditioning, up until the incident that led to her escape. During the battle, her limiter chip was damaged and its tracking function is offline. The limiting function was also damaged, but works well enough as long as she stays dry and remains calm.
After her escape she was discovered by a fisherman and his wife who informally adopted her. They fled to America to try to get away from the agents chasing them, but were forced to continue their flight southward, skirting the western coast of the Americas. Eventually they arrived in Baltimore and signed her up at the infamous facility 108 for training. On the day of her graduation anti super terrorists attacked the facility injuring hundreds and killing dozens, including Manami's adopted parents.
For the last five years, she has been putting her life back together piece by piece, working for commonwealth to thoroughly destroy what remains of the knights of raguel and to ensure no other terrorist organizations ever gain a foothold in her adopted city every again.
Relationships
- Scarlett Chernov: Former director of commonwealth who gave Manami her first job five years ago.
- Aaron Mallory: Friend and mentor from 108
- Allen McNabb: Kindly old man who taught emotional composure at 108 in his own inimitable way.
- Red Ward: 108's Personal combat instructor, a man who did more to help Manami regain her emotional balance than he realizes. He also set her up with a place to stay after her family's boat burned and sank. He is as close to a parental figure as she will allow herself to have anymore
- Kendi-kun: A fellow graduate of AEGIS class of 2040 and her first friend in America. They shared many adventures together, both canonically and... less so.
- Chris Kravitz: Another fellow graduate
- Sam Casan: Another student in Manami's graduating class, also part of the alleged "snowglobe" incident.
- Miia Makela: A dropout from facility 107 who seems to thing Manami is her best friend
- Gavin: A friend who designs suits and equipment for supers
Superpowers
Codename: Stingray!
Manami can breathe underwater and swim faster than a torpedo. She has eight inch retractable stingers in the backs of her wrists with barbed ends and razor sharp edges. They can shoot out about 8 feet on muscular whiplike appendages.
Bioweapon Mode: When angered or threatened, especially while underwater, Manami has flashbacks to her early conditioning, causing her body mass and strength to increase dramatically, but never reach full potential except underwater. These episodes can last for as little as a few seconds, or up to several hours depending on stress levels during the incident.
Limitations
- Animal Savage fury:
When she shifts fully to bioweapon mode, Manami's intelligence and will are both reduced to subhuman levels, and she acts on pure instinct. - Limiter kicks in hard:
When reverting to docile mode after an incident, the shock knocks her unconscious for anything from 2 minutes up to 24 hours depending on how long she was in her savage state, and how much effort she made. Regardless of those factors, she is always ravenously hungry when she wakes up.
- Worst of both worlds:
She gets sick if she does not spend at least an hour exercising in the water each day; eventually she would dry out and die. Contrariwise, the longer she spends in the water, the less connection she feels to her life above the waves. The balance is easier to maintain with Gavin's aqualung design than it once was, but she still struggles with her place in the world.
- Monstrous appearance:
Even when her programming is not actively twisting her into a monster, by normal human standards, she still looks like one, and is often treated as such.
Other Abilities
Skills
Bilingual: Manami is fluent in both English and Japanese
Martial Arts: Trained by her parents, Red Ward, and Chris Kravitz, Manami is a formidable fighter
Loadout
Aqualung: A sleek new gill moistener designed by her friend Gavin keeps her head in the game while on land without getting in her way.
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She controls metal through physical touch, she cannot alter the weight of the metal and she is still affected by the weight of the metal. The metal atoms in her body are touching her by way of being inside her, therefore she can use them.
