Harpy

Zero ​is a champion of the underdog, despises bullies, and is a huge fan of spy movies. Though the foes she deals with are more often street-level crooks or costumed criminals than international Bond-Style villains, she goes about her business with flair and zeal. She's known to go easy on the thieves & bandits that are in this life for lack of better choices. She is even able to understand some villains' issues. To sum up, she can walk on others' shoes and reflect on her own actions.

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

Hero Name: Zero, Harpy

Unknown Aliases: Whispering Sparrow (Father's Nickname for her), Chloe Jones, Amalie Mattaeus, Rachael Kohl, Eloise Sweiss, Arkadiy Arrada

Known Aliases: None

Identity: Not publicly known

Sex: Female

DOB: 02/13/45 Monday

Age: 22

Height: 5'4"

Weight: 148lbs

Skin: Light Brown/Tan

Hair: Light Brown/Dirty Blonde

Eyes: Hazel

Citizenship: Has fabricated papers proving US Citizenship for 'Norah Miles'

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 TP1

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Former cat burglar, Police Composite Artist, Unregistered superhero/vigilante

Education: Undocumented High School & College Equivalency Courses

Known relatives: None, Lyta Mills (Maternal Genetic Donor) & Alexander Lonan (Paternal Genetic Donor), both deceased (though really kept on ice for future experimentation), Pierce Miles/Ghostwolf (Adoptive father, Currently MIA)

Group affiliations: None

Base of operations: Loft in City Center

Appearance


Monday 'Norah' Miles has medium skin, long wavy blonde hair, green 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.

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 you 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, assets she uses to her advantage by constantly wearing the zipper of her skin tight leather one piece costume down exposing a large amount of her cleavage. 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).

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

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

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 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 a sample of their product, the subject was raised as a 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 Ghostwolf). 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 defense classes.

Most of her training was done in isolation. He was successful in teaching her to defend herself but was unable to keep his nighttime 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.

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

 * Expert Thief - 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.
 * Olympic Level Athlete - Monday possesses the reflexes, agility and stamina of a Olympic level athlete and is physically very strong and has enhanced physical endurance. She also instructs fitness classes of all levels.
 * Olympic Acrobat - Monday is a very skilled acrobat and is capable of completing many difficult stunts and feats that a normal person would not be able to do.
 * 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 in numerous weapons, Monday is capable of utilizing almost any hand to hand weapon and many ranged ones.
 * Stealth - She can also make her presence undetectable from biological minds, and is even able to hide herself from those with super senses and any form of telepathy or mind detection. Even without this skill, Zero is capable of avoiding detection from all but the most astute observers.
 * 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.
 * Yogi - Monday is an avid meditator & yogi who took to it as a child, but in repressed memories will find she was put through grueling & 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 & practicing yoga.

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'.


 * Attractive Woman - Monday is as beautiful as any model and curvy in all the right places and 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 he combines these skills with his 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.


 * 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 T-Positive Beings.