Zero

'You can't buy happiness, but you can definitely steal a thrill.' -Monday Miles

A smart, assured, open minded police sketch artist with a just-right combination of willpower, coquettish charisma and empathic sensitivity. She makes friends easily, she loves to help, and wears her heart on her sleeve. Norah is also committed to fighting crime and protecting people. Monday enjoys the adrenaline rush and craves action /now/. She took on the identity of Zero to correct the wrongs the judicial system could or would not while tracing down her missing father.

Monday is known as being pacifistic but specializes in 'High Stakes Entry Work' (espionage, high & low-tech theft, etc) but her passion is her hero work.

Between her acrobatics, small size and superior speed, Zero excels at evading gunfire & is a redoubtable fighter, performing at a high cinematic level. She’s easily able to vanquish most street-level threats & is a proficient rooftop vigilante – clever, experienced and quick on her feet. These traits make her comfortable with weird and dangerous situations she knows nothing about, pragmatically making up solutions until she can understand what’s going on. She remains calm in a crisis, and takes most things in a stride.

Personal Data
Name: Monday 'Norah' Miles (Subject 9b-MF13-F/TP [Facility of Birth-DayDate of Birth-Sex/Expected Psion Category])

Hero Name: Zero

Aliases: Flying Fox, Chloe Jones, Amalie Mattaeus, Rachael Kohl, Eloise Sweiss, Arkadiy Arrada, Erin 'Stormi' Swift, Whispering Sparrow (Father's Nickname for her)

Identity: Not publicly known

Sex: Female

DOB: 05/13/2052 [Monday]

Age: 22

Height: 5'4"

Weight: 148lbs

Skin: Light Brown/Tan [naturally the color of coffee with two creams]

Hair: Light Brown/Dirty Blonde

Eyes: Hazel [Sharp hazel eyes with emerald green flecks which add an uncanny depth]

Race/Ethnicity: Mixed (African American and _______) *Exact Information Is Unknown to Monday

Legal status: Unregistered entity in the U.S. with no criminal record- No citizenship or governmental record of any kind.

Place of Birth: PsiBand Research Facility 9b (Nine-Bravo) Artificial Womb Cluster TP4 [Indian Head, Maryland (East Branch)]

Known relatives: None, Lyta Mills (Maternal Genetic Donor) & Alexander Lonan (Paternal Genetic Donor), both believed deceased (though in cryogenic suspension for future experimentation), Pierce Miles/Tungsten (Adoptive father, Currently MIA)

Group affiliations: The Furies

Base of operations: Loft in City Center/Downtown

Marital Status: Single

Education: Undocumented High School & College Equivalency Courses

Employer: Colonial Bay Police Department

Occupation: Police Composite Artist, Unregistered vigilante, former cat burglar

Appearance


Monday 'Norah' Miles has medium skin, long wavy blonde hair, slightly almond shaped hazel eyes with soft features & a curvy yet muscular build. Its clear from the way she moves that she is well aware of this and how to use this fact to her advantage. She has freckles on face & shoulders, with a lighter scattering over her backside.

As her alter-ego, Monday/Norah often wears very professional clothing to work and often wears long sleeve blouses and dress shirts to cover her arms and hide any bruises or injuries she may receive as Zero. She wears her long dirty blonde hair in a bun, often with a dressy or decorative hair piece and wears thin rimmed glasses. She prefers comfortable dressy shoes, but will also wear boots or heels if her outfit or the occasion calls for it. She normally prefers to wear tight fitting pants for the same reason, but will wear a skirt with nylons or tights in the warmer months. At home she’ll normally relax in sweats or athletic clothes.

Despite her obvious beauty the young woman often dresses 'down' or in much more bland clothing to avoid leaving a lasting memory in anyone's psyche (using common military Grey Man techniques)- though she is easily as beautiful as any model.

Her heroic persona is quite the opposite. She does everything to get your attention, from the way she moves to the way she dresses. She knows she is an extremely attractive woman with an athletic yet highly voluptuous figure. She wears a form fitting legless black catsuit with a bikini style cut the covers her entire body and zips up the middle. She uses her outfit to her advantage by constantly wearing the zipper down to her navel exposing a large amount of her cleavage. This suit has recessed details that draw the eyes to her curviest parts. Beneath that she has specialized stockings made out of a mono-molecular weave that is resistant to tearing, ripping and puncture while still remaining very sheer. Even out of her vigilante costume she prefers dressing provocatively preferring low cut tops and upper thigh length skirts or revealing cut offs. This is meant to draw the eyes of her (male) opponents to her assets and leave them vulnerable & distracted (which is a useful state for her to use her telepathic abilities).

Regardless of her attire, if in her Zero persona she will be seen wearing an advanced black domino mask that frames her face well.

Zero wears a pair of wrist length leather-kevlar composite tactical gloves that are incredibly durable, yet thin enough to allow her to use her hands for delicate tasks such as typing on a computer keyboard or using a firearm. The gloves have a reinforced durasteel flex-armor pad that goes across the knuckles for both protection and added damage if she finds herself in a close quarters combat situation. Her boots are the same leather-kevlar composite and are almost knee high with a hidden zipper that goes up the back and three clasps along the outside. She wears flat soles for practicality, and her boot heels as well as the toe feature the same durasteel flex-armor padding as her gloves. Her utility belt is worn like a bandoleer over her right shoulder, with a smaller drop leg holster that wraps around her thigh and clasps closed there. She keeps her linegun in this holster. While small in appearance, there are a few hidden compartments on the belt that house a GPS locator and distress beacon, as well as enough space to hide a small flash drive or two.

Her costume seems tight & restrictive, but it really is engineered to allow for maximum mobility & flexibility. Reinforced gloves & padding help, and because its made from very durable materials it is able protect the body from most scrapes and scratches.

Monday is poetry in motion. She does not move, she flows effortlessly. Her choice of clothing accents this illusion.

In either identity, she can carry a tune quite well. She sings with a dark, smokey alto (think Fiona Apple or Rachael Yamegata).

Personality
Intelligent, confident, strong willed, determined, loyal & compassionate are all terms that define Monday 'Norah/Zero' Miles. Of all those things, she is compassionate most of all. While she can be so strong willed she comes across as stubborn, she is willing to realize when she is wrong and will admit it. She is charismatic, she genuinely cares about her friends, and she will unhesitatingly help them even against bad odds. Furthermore she is open-minded and good at pretending to be fearless. Though good at acting, she is often open about her emotions and can act in a sensitive, kind manner when appropriate.

She is as free-spirited as they come, wild and untamed, with no desire to accept being held down by traditional boundaries or the laws set before her. For her, freedom is everything, the freedom to do as she pleases for whatever reason she chooses. As such, she only ever plays by her rules, and mocks the restrictions people try to give her. Her relentless thrill-seeking often results in stealing for amusement, or deliberately endangering herself for the adrenaline rush, regularly flirting with death. Her cleverness and natural affinity to adapt has seen her through every time, though she remains curious, unpredictable, and impulsive. Her friends and foes alike regard her as incredibly mischievous and often flirtatious, enjoying banter with people very different from herself or kindred spirits alike.

Privacy is something she was denied early on and so is something she finds indispensable to protect both her freedom and her safety.

Despite her wild & secretive natures she tends to be very objective oriented, and can be hard on herself when things don't go as she had planned. Of note is her sultry sensuality and strong taste for danger & excitement. What Zero considers “fun”, however, usually involves high velocities, hails of bullets, split-second planning, outrageous risk-taking and death-defying stunts. She is without a doubt an adrenaline junkie. If she does not see action for too long, she’ll gradually ramp up her training & sparring time as well as subconsciously look for trouble.

Zero follows a more neutral path and despite her origins she refuses to kill. In fact, she feels proudest when she helps the people in some way. She is far more comfortable socially in her role as heroine than Police Composite Artist, but she finds the work in the Police Department to be equally fulfilling.

Origins
'Father always said if I was a singer I'd rule the stage, a nun and I'd rule the temple because I lost myself in my passions & took them into myself.' -Monday Miles

Originally created by Mens Sanus, Inc rival PsiBand (a Modulus Initiative owned Corporation) as part of a less than ethical computer controlled eugenics program. The lesser known company was trying to get the edge on its competition & start cranking out T-rated soldiers under military contract (as part of Project Prologue). As a sample of their product, the subject was raised as a secret weapon in a world of superhumans.

Her mother was a T9-rated Telepath, her father a clairvoyant with advanced E.S.P. capabilities. These two telepathic outliers' genes were matched for high-compatibility & merged. She was grown to approximately 7 years old in an artificial womb to be ready for programming after they were confirmed field ready. The subject was raised in The Conservatory (though Subject 9b-MF13-F/TP referred to it as the 'Asylum'). While there, she was encouraged by her company handler to be creative when problem solving.

Growing up, she was told by Handlers that her parents died in plane crash. Assigned to Anjanae Monroe, a psychiatrist working for Psiband mentors subject through her earliest formative years and coaches her through complex simulations meant to exploit the subjects' intellect & psionic abilities for real life application. The Handler had a crisis of conscience once both she and the subject discover what their data is being used for, & helps facilitate subject's escape from the Conservatory. (Anjanae Monroe would be coerced into being part of the team assigned to hunt down the subject.)

Somehow along the line, she was 'adopted' by the gruff and irascible Pierce Miles (who secretly served as an elite gun for hire/mercenary/assassin outside of the US, but was known to act semi-heroically on his home turf & went by the name Tungsten). So most of her life was spent in his shadow- globe-hopping to chase down his targets, while learning what it meant to be Monday Miles. Using ingeniously discovered holes in the system he was able to raise her off-grid. After school lessons were completed (her father didn't trust the forced education his daughter went through in the Conservatory), the subject would join his specialized self defence classes.

Most of her training was done in isolation. He was successful in teaching her to defend herself but was unable to keep his night-time activities from his psychic daughter for too long. So after many months of begging he begrudgingly began teaching her the more extreme lessons of his calling. To his surprise, she took to the more advanced combat techniques easily- almost absently stumbling through his lessons yet able to dodge & strike like someone trained for decades. This skill was further honed by years of intensive world-class martial arts training facilitated by his contacts.

Her training expanded to include various roguish skills, like lockpicking, security systems, forging false documents & credit chips. Even a course on surviving in an urban environment for 90 days. These culminated in her own Laser-Assisted Grapnel-Gun which she trained in using while learning the dynamics of parkour. Once she was able to move unhindered through the city with rudimentary tools, Pierce Miles upgraded her grapnel-gun to a Line-Gun, which provided a greater reach as well as operated near silently.

That's when the real training began- years of stealth and evasion training. Scrapes on top of cuts on top of welts on top of bruises in a never repeating pattern of pain and learned lessons. Her foster father was a tough but fair teacher. He didn't give in too often- only when it was absolutely necessary. But soon enough (far sooner than P.Miles would have suspected possible) Monday was almost every bit the survivor, fighter & stealthy agent he was.

Despite being created as a weapon and then raised by a hired gun, he instilled a deep sense of right & wrong in the subject and encouraged her to find out what those things meant to her. He even praised her for deciding she would never take a life. He always suspected this as she had always admired and praised her father for his more heroic pursuits, and rarely for how he earned a living.

In the end she was essentially trained since childhood as a spy, actress, martial artist, athlete, acrobat, pilot, markswoman, assassin, special operations soldier, survival expert, etc.

Shortly after her 16th birthday, Pierce 'cut her loose' to chase after the man who killed his wife and son (something even Monday didn't know anything about). She remembers what he said to her that morning dropping a satchel off on her nightstand and walking out the door, "Finals week, kiddo." & adding mentally as he closed the front door behind him that he'd 'find her when he was through setting things right if he could.' That was over 6 years ago. While still constantly on the move, she now works on helping people, working her way to the truth of her birth & her missing father. Monday Miles is now in Colonial Bay, VA after the few clues she's found about her foster father have pointed her here.

Skills & Abilities
Her raw abilities allow her to excel at anything with but a few years of study and practice making her a superior special operative, manager, gunfighter, psychic combatant, data analyst and spy. Furthermore, she masters an unclear range of technical and other clandestine skills.

Taught from age 7 in the disciplines of the ninja, various warrior societies & modern military as well as the use of conventional and unconventional weaponry, Monday is a deadly opponent even without metahuman powers.


 * Enhanced Investigative Skills - Monday can uncover even the most elusive of secrets with enough effort. This is a change from her life before where most people's secrets were there ready to be presented if she just looked long enough. Now it definitely takes effort. For a mundane, her Father's words have certainly proven themselves prophetic. But he trained her in advanced interrogation, surveillance, & more CIA tricks than you can shake a car battery at.
 * Expert Thief/Infiltrator - Monday is a skilled thief and is an expert in stealth, lock picking, escapology, evading and detecting alarms and cracking open safes thanks to the training provided by her assassin foster father. Though she would not kill, she operated in this capacity on many of her father's operations.
 * Advanced Computer Operation - Monday has picked up a number of tricks in her time under her father's wing and as Mechanica's partner, oh and that college boy she 'dated' for a while. Subconsciously she has picked up immense knowledge of computers and everything connected to them, including hacking, coding, programming, fixing bugs/viruses, cracking passwords, etc.
 * Olympic Level Athlete - Monday possesses the reflexes, agility and stamina of a Olympic level athlete and is physically very strong and has incredible (though not superhuman) physical endurance. She also instructs fitness classes of all levels.
 * Olympic Level Acrobat - Monday is a prodigious natural athlete and a very skilled acrobat capable of completing many difficult stunts & feats that a normal person would not be able to do. She possesses a peak human level of agility/acrobatic skills.
 * Climbing - As part of her father's unorthodox training, Monday spent a lot of times climbing things. Sheer walls, buildings, and cliffsides. As a result she is able to climb and otherwise move effortlessly and smoothly on angled and/or vertical surfaces such as branches, rocks, walls, etc., as long as she can gain a hold of it and keep her balance.
 * Skilled Martial Artist - Monday has received training in many different martial artist and is most skilled in Filipino MA, Ba Gua, & Muay Thai Kickboxing. She is capable of taking on several armed guards at a time and incapacitating them without getting injured herself. Some of her feats include shattering brick and stone as well as a sword. She has used nerve strikes and pressure points. Her skills and technique in martial arts is shown to be even more advanced than that of an average ninja, most Special Ops specialists, and when combined with her telepathy surpasses that of a ninja master. As a psychic, Monday possess the ability to counter attack & dodge easily as she is able to read the thoughts of her opponents before they make a move. Trained by her father & PsiBand, Monday is formidable in hand-to-hand, weapons handling, and combat improvisation.
 * Stealth - Monday is capable of avoiding detection from all but the most astute observers as she possesses incredibly extensive knowledge & skill in many types and forms of stealth tactics, enabling her to easily slip in and out of areas undetected. Due to her excessive training she is truly a master of stealth. Previously, she could make her presence undetectable from biological minds, and was even able to hide herself from those with super senses and any form of telepathy or mind detection. Today she focuses on more 'real world' stealth skills until she figures out what happened to her telepathic powers. Once she regains them, she'll be able to once again move throughout even the most guarded of areas and act in true discretion.
 * Disguise - She is skilled enough in the art of disguise and impersonation to convincingly infiltrate criminal organizations and does so often as a means of gathering intelligence.
 * Drawing - She also loves drawing- which helps hone her attention to detail. This skill lends itself quite well to creating accurate & realistic forensic facial composites which she uses daily in her job as a Police Composite Artist and by night as a vigilante.
 * Yogi - Monday is an avid meditator & yogi who took to it as a child, but in repressed memories will find she was put through gruelling & unending 'virtual' meditative sessions to learn to control latent abilities. She finds this lets her be around people, but not their thoughts, or at least most of their bad ones. Her foster father was a master martial artist so also employed meditative techniques himself. She spends a great deal of time meditating & practising yoga.

Fighting Style
Though she prefers stealth, misdirection and hacking, Monday/Norah/Zero is a superior athlete and fighter. Her father's personal style was an eclectic mix of Boxing, Ninjutsu, Jujutsu, Krav Maga, a style of Pentjak Silat and MCMAP or some other combat system used by the US military. Her personal fighting style takes advantage of her speed, flexibility, & strength into a fast striking yet defensive system. She has instinctive fighting skills that flow from no known style. With her Psi-Positive heritage she can predict possible outcomes and use her above average physical capabilities to exploit gaps as predicted and anticipated. She is very fast, agile and lithe in combat. But the elegance is superficial, as her style is actually brutal and effective thanks to her precognitive abilities. She packs a lot of power into her moves & knows exactly when to strike.

She is *much* stronger than she looks (she could flip an eight-person dining table with extraordinary effort), extremely acrobatic, has excellent reflexes and can outfight the vast majority of criminals even if they have guns. Her fighting style includes a lot of leaping, pouncing, jump kicks, bouncing off walls, etc. She favors kicks & excels at improvisation while mixing while working different angles to bring opponents down.

Though she’s extremely strong for her size, she is still physically a normal human female and she needs momentum to best employ her strength. She uses her Meteor Hammer (Linegun/Rope Dart combination) to mitigate this & keep herself out of easy reach. And though her mass and strength aren’t superhuman, she regularly demonstrates a remarkable level of endurance and pain tolerance.

Between her acrobatics, small size and superior speed, Zero excels at evading gunfire & is a redoubtable fighter, performing at a high cinematic level. She’s easily able to vanquish most street-level threats & is a proficient rooftop vigilante – clever, experienced and quick on her feet.

Powers
Monday is the product of an advanced psionic breeding program, as such her genes were hand selected for a number of traits. Her creators were looking to create Telepathic or Telekinetic Super-Soldiers for sale to the highest bidder. As such many of Monday's abilities are the result of her 'perfected genome'. Her strength, health, psychic potential, deductive & inductive intelligence, reflexes, physique, endurance, coordination, pulchritude, life expectancy, fitness, etc. are all in the peak human range.


 * Attractive Woman - Monday's most apparent asset is her extraordinary beauty. She doesn’t just have a killer body and perfect features – she also has tremendous charm. She excels at social engineering and seduction, and it is common for people interested in women to be quite distracted by her presence. She possesses a level of grace, physical beauty, sense of style and social poise above that commonly found on earth. This is the level of beauty of a storybook princess, but is below the level found in goddesses of love and beauty, such as Aphrodite, or heavenly beings like angels and archangels. She possesses peak human beauty, on par with the most attractive human figures in history. As such, the user can easily influence others and receive special treatment or favors, especially from members of the opposite sex. She may also benefit from the so-called "Halo Effect," where the user will generally be viewed in the best light possible in any given situation. She is as beautiful as any model and curvy in all the right places and well-toned in all the others. She is well aware of this fact and regularly uses her assets to her advantage- often shamelessly.


 * Agility - Monday is a skilled acrobat and gymnast capable of many difficult feats. Thanks to her 'perfected' genetic makeup she is a natural athlete & years of training with her father she has given her Olympic level agility & proprioception. Her most valuable asset is her incredible speed and agility, being extremely quick and versatile. Her acrobatic skills combined with her agility makes her very hard to hit in a fight, and she combines these skills with her fighting skills to perform moves that few other humans on earth could perform.


 * Speed - She is naturally as fast as a human can be without being considered superhuman.


 * Strength - Monday possesses the pinnacle physical strength of a human woman of her particular age, height, and build that engages in intense regular exercise. She possesses the peak level of strength a human can reach without being considered superhuman. She is far stronger and faster than most humans of her relative age and size. By combining her natural gifts and her mastery of martial arts, she can man-handle most human opponents with ease. By adding the use of guile, deception and cunning Zero has proven that she can even battle small groups of superhumans or highly trained agents to a standstill.


 * Endurance - For a 145 lbs. person, Monday is remarkably tough. She has superior pain tolerance, and is very bad at staying down or dying. She has soundly beaten doses of drugs and hallucinogens that would have been fatal to persons twice her weight. She’s also genuinely determined, and has a very strong will to live and fighting spirit.


 * Indomitable Will - Brave to a fault, she rarely lets fear (or reason) stop her from a course of action she has set herself on. Her unstoppable determination and strength of will make her an extremely formidable opponent. This makes her able to function while tolerating massive amounts of physical pain, and also allows Monday to resist telepathy or mind control.


 * Telepathy - Mind-control, illusion projection, reading and projecting thoughts over long distances, controlling and suppressing others powers, projecting herself & others into the astral plane. As well as Psychic Scanning (psychically scan vast distances to learn the status, condition or intentions of others.) Her most amazing gift is the ability to use her telepathic abilities without being detected by other Psi-Positive Beings. Note: Since an incident dealing with a horror beyond human comprehension, Monday was traumatized and lost access to these abilities. Tests show that there is 'nothing wrong' with her. The leading theory is that this is a psychosomatic.


 * Telegnosis - Since loosing her connection to her telepathic abilities some of Monday's quieter powers have begun to shine through, namely an enhanced Extra Sensory Perception. Monday is able to acquire information by means independent of any known senses or previous experience. When she walks into a building, she can innately sense through some unknown psionic means things happening inside that she has no way of knowing. This ability functions as both a direct sensory ability (allowing her to 'remote view' objects in her vicinity) and as a sort of 'Danger Intuition' that is clearly precognitive to a very slight degree. Monday is capable of incorporating this additional sensory information into her fighting style, helping to anticipate attacks, fight illusions, & remember where an opponent is. She can interact with the surrounding environment without the aid of vision, as well as sense nearing danger (acute/potential/immediate) as well as unwanted or hectic threats to her well-being and evade it. With focus, she can turn this ability outward and sense danger in her immediate area and beyond- moving this power beyond simple Perceptive Combat Awareness. Combined with her ESP, she is capable of diverting assaults and sense others in danger and thus come to their aid.

Equipment

 * Ultra-Compact Linegun: The Grappling Gun was a line launching, handgun like device used by Zero, that fired a retractable and detachable cable or wire with a mechanized, magnetic or clawed end, the ending of the line being specifically meant to grab and pull a target. Despite its small size, the linegun contains a swingline 50m/164.042ft long.


 * Zero Mask: Originally created by a friend of Zero's father, her mask was capable of sensing in low-light conditions as well as provided telescopic enhancement. Though, Zero found that while she was in a coma-like state after her 'run in' with a cosmic being of unfathomable power and evil that Mechanica had made a number of upgrades. Now thanks to a next generation thermal detection layer made of an atom-thick graphene film built into lenses of the mask the data the mask is capable of much more than that. This thermal layer is so sensitive to infrared at all wavelengths that Zero is capable of differentiating objects based on their heat signatures and even using them to track them back to their source as well as still enhance low-light conditions & enhanced detail at long range.


 * Financial Resources – Monday keeps her wealth hidden, but she does have it to fall back on if she needs to acquire upgrades for her costume or gadgets, since she is physically a normal human she must sometimes rely on technology to give her an edge.

Weaknesses
Normal Human Female – When it comes down to it Monday is just a normal human woman. She has a slight tolerance for alcohol and a small resistance to chloroform, but she is otherwise vulnerable to any attack that would render a normal human unconscious or incapacitated. This includes but is not limited to, blows to the head, chloroform, ether, gas attacks, electrical shock, exhaustion, etc. While an athlete, Monday has above average strength for a woman but can still be restrained rather easily with simple rope or other devices.

Confidence – Monday's superb martial arts experience often causes herself to overestimate her capabilities and jump into a situation before properly assessing the best tactical approach.

Flirtatious to a Fault – Monday is cursed with an urge to be at the center of attention due to spending her whole life as a subject of a clandestine program or on the run from it.

Vanity – Monday often favors looking cool over a practical solution. That said, she usually has enough sense to recognize this as a problem and does not let it consume her entirely.

Reliance – Over stimulation of her powers can cause Monday to suffer debilitating migraines. Uses sensory deprivation tank once a month to help mitigate this to manageable levels.

Loved Ones – The women of the Furies are the closest to family that Monday has since her father’s disappearance- Elia/Mechanica especially is treated like an older sister. Monday would do anything to ensure their safety, even if it means walking into an obvious trap or directly disobeying an order from Elia. If they are put in jeopardy, Monday could be blackmailed or forced to surrender herself.

Distinctive Features: – Bewitching Beauty (Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) & Psi-Positive Genotype (Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable Only By Technology Or Major Effort; Not Distinctive In Some Cultures)

Prone to Getting Herself in Trouble – Due to all of these traits compounding, it goes without saying that Monday tends to often find herself put into dangerous situations and other sticky situations of her own making or choosing.