Imaginary Girl's Continuing Story

History
Prior to her awakening late in 2058, Imaginary Girl is completely lacking in a history of her own. She doesn't even have any memories of before the moment she opened her eyes while floating in the sky over the city in the rain on the day she was willed into being. Even all the people in the world who'll recognize her as a superhero, thanks to that knowledge being planted in their heads by her creator's power, won't be able to call to mind any heroic act on her part - and anyone who pays attention to such things will be able to easily see that there's nothing recorded about her in the past, not in the newspapers or reported via television. A few people, namely the villains of Next Generation, have had some specific knowledge of her imprinted into their minds.

Below are records of those things she's done and experienced after her awakening late in 2058.

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Late 2058
Imaginary Girl, almost immediately after her awakening, met other super-powered persons, some of whom began to question their ability to recognize her without actually remembering anything about her. Some even suggested that they could and would attempt to help her regain her lost memories. Some even attempted research to learn more about her, only to find that there was absolutely no record of her in any form, prior to her awakening. Since her awakening, however, she's performed notable deeds, most of which are summarized here and some of which are recounted among the Logs of Imaginary Girl's Favorite RP Scenes.

A villain in powered-armor, Ruger, was stealing safe deposit boxes from a bank when confronted by Imaginary Girl and other heroes. Attempting to create havoc to cover his escape, Ruger targetted a nearby city bus with a powerful, high-velocity, ballistic shell. Being the hero that she was created to be, Imaginary Girl threw herself into the line of fire - and discovered that she's not truly invulnerable, after all, as the shell cut through her and sent blood flying, leaving her barely conscious. The battle progressed and Ruger's powered-armor took damage - which triggered a self-destruct countdown. Imaginary Girl snatched up the armor and, leaving behind a sonic boom that cracked windows in the area, carried it up into orbit in the space of a few seconds, where it exploded. Imaginary Girl, of course, survived the explosion and at least a portion of her true flight speed became known to others as a result of this action - as well as her willingness to put herself in harm's way to protect others.

In another incident, a 2058 Christmas fair became the scene of disappearances. Imaginary Girl and other heroes followed a trail to a gingerbread house. When they entered and the door closed, they were transported to a different place, where a witch was turning the kidnapped people into gingerbread men in a magical oven. After initially making an attempt to attack the witch, she noticed children in the magical gingerbread oven... and focused her attention, after that, on freeing the kids. She all but ignored the witch, fighting off only the gingerbread men close enough to threaten the children as she shielded them with her own body. Only once the children were out of the oven and the battle turning in favor of the assembled heroes, Imaginary Girl set to making sure the adults were also freed. The heroes dispatched of the witch and rescued the kidnapped people. Later, the witch would be likened to Baba Yaga. Imaginary Girl's actions in the rescuing the children immediately while leaving the adults are clear evidence of her strong desire to protect children to the exclusion of almost all else.

In another incident, this one a day or two before Christmas, she and other heroic metahumans happened to be in the area when a 'demon' attacked a wealthy man whose bodyguard was trying to protect despite being so clearly out-classed by the attacker. The heroes managed to rescue the man. In the process, Imaginary Girl's toughness and strength were put to the test. Her first attack on the 'demon' barely fazed it, although she'd landed a solid blow. The demon then sent her sailing up into the sky with a counter attack, but she came sailing back down to flatten it into a small crater caused by the impact as she drove the 'demon' into the ground. The 'demon' went up in smoke, literally, bursting into flame and leaving behind only a few smudges of ash in the bottom of the crater into which he'd been planted. Here, with her insistence that the man's bodyguard drop his gun before going on to start dealing with the 'demon, Imaginary Girl showed a little bit of her childish stubbornness - she /insisted/ that he do what she told him to do before going on. Still, she also praised the bodyguard at the end, for having had the courage to stand up to the 'demon' - an obviously metahuman foe - in defense of his boss.

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January 2059
Shortly after the start of the New Year of 2059, Imaginary Girl went to China with other heroes, hoping to get information on Chinese metahumans immigrating, many illegally, to the United States - some of them showing up, in recent days, in Colonial Bay itself. There, they spoke with several Chinese officials and helped to rescue civilians who would otherwise have been killed in the bombing of a government building while they were present. Imaginary Girl's inexperience as a superhero showed itself, but her world-wide renown also helped to get the heroes' voices heard.

Also not long after the start of the New Year of 2059, Imaginary Girl took part in a trip through a rift-gate to an alternate Earth (this trip, as with others, was NOT made public knowledge), where she and other heroes saved that world from the effects of 'the da Vinci machine', which made the humans of that world effectively immortal - but also all but mindless. In the process, Imaginary Girl's reckless neature led to the cessation of the food-source (the electricity powering the da Vinci machine) for an energy being of innumerable age. The knowledge that her hasty actions may have doomed the being to a slow death by starvation had her in tears, but Imaginary Girl was eventually calmed by the others there, when it was suggested that the technology of Earth-1 could be used to sustain it. Imaginary Girl's recklessness and childish nature both came to light in this incident.

About a week after the New Year, Imaginary Girl showed up in the Past Times Coffee Shop, with a kitten in her arms. She'd rescued it from a tree in which it'd gotten trapped, and asked people in the immediate area if it belonged to them. With no one claiming the kitten, she'd taken it with herself, hoping to find, among the cafe's usual patrons, someone better able to care for it and find it a home than she herself is. Joseph (aka Lightray, although Imaginary Girl didn't know at the time) ended up taking the kitten off her hands, at her request. This minor incident displayed Imaginary Girl's heroism and compassion yet again, and her willingness to do all manner of good things, even as 'minor' as the rescuing of a kitten from a tree.

Sometime later, as he got to know the kind of person Imaginary Girl is, Lightray called her by the name "Asima", which he said means 'protector' or 'guardian', claiming he used the name because it was "less than a mouthful" than 'Imaginary Girl'. She liked the name, and decided to claim it for herself, though it took her a while to get around to start actually using it to identify herself to other people. By this time, she'd also discovered Lightray's Secret Identity as Joseph, although she also proved herself able to keep that particular secret, as any real superhero would do for another superhero - of course! (The naming happened during the Imaginary Friends Plot as given in Logs of Imaginary Girl's Favorite RP Scenes.)

In the third week of January, Imaginary Girl accompanied others on another trip through the riftgate to an alternate Earth. The group had been sent to track down a school-building that'd been sent by a villain to that reality (thankfully, without any people going with it). The world in which they found themselves was a swampy world, quite different than the world of Earth-1. There, the dominant and intelligent life-form is a squid-like being, as opposed to humans, and the team befriended some of them by rescuing them from predation by giant crabs. At one point, as a crab attacked Jade Ashcroft, Imaginary Girl placed herself between the giant claw and the heroine. Jade went on to blind the crab... and proceeded to continue to attack it - at which point Imaginary Girl put herself in the way again, to keep Jade from harming what Imaginary Girl perceived as a beaten and helpless target, allowing the crab to flee back to deeper water wtih the others of its kind. This showed Imaginary Girl's willingness to protect any living thing, even from others who really only mean to do good. Also, she identified herself as 'Asima' for the first time to people other than Lightray.

At the tail end of January, not long after that final battle with Wumbles(read "Imaginary Friends", found among the Logs of Imaginary Girl's Favorite RP Scenes), a villain named Brute sought to fight a hero as a part of Mister Impossible's challenges and threatened an elementary school to force a hero to come out to fight. Imaginary Girl was patrolling in the area, and stepped up to protect the school and the students within. She tried to get the villain to change locales, to a place where it'd be less likely that civilians might be hurt, but he ended up storming through a wall to a nearby mansion... and Imaginary Girl grabbed him and flew him, at tremendous super-sonic speeds, to over the Atlantic Ocean - where the villain summarily surrendered. She flew back to Colonial Bay and dropped him into a landfill... then flew back over and saw the damage caused by the tremendous sonic boom left in her wake when she'd accelerated so suddenly to such high speed. She flew away in tears, leaving other heroes (who'd gathered to try and help with all the damage) puzzled and wondering at her leaving in such manner. Realizing she was at fault and feeling horribly guilty, she also decided to NOT turn herself in to the police, this time around. Showing how her innocence has been stained by the happenings with Wumbles, her choice to not simply turn herself in was an indication that she's 'grown up' a bit, in the sense that she's able to turn away from her previously held blind devotion to 'law and justice', in order to continue playing the hero. She also, finally, realized that such high-speed flying is something to NOT do anywhere in the city, and from that point forward strove to control her impulses to make full use of her powers in the future battles against villainy. The police issued a warrant for her arrest for the damage she caused, with the city wanting to actually take her to court for the damage caused to the city by her choice of action on that day.

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February to April 2059
Imaginary Girl met her friend, mentor, and father-figure, Lightray, in his guise as Joseph shortly after the start of the new month, and discussed with him her guilt over the damage she caused to the city with her high-speed flight of a few days prior. He suggested to her training in the "ethics of the use of [her] powers", mentioning "Lord Markham's", a school for young people with powers, located in England. He also suggested Steel's Gym (owned by Sable as Regan Kirby) as a place where Imaginary Girl would further refine the use of her powers.

Through the rest of February and through the end of March, Imaginary Girl performed a variety of minor heroic deeds in the Colonial Bay area, and in various other parts of the world. These are all "little things" - nothing of great note or import.

In the early part of April, Imaginary Girl heard something coming over the New Blood communicator she'd been given, months ago -a hostage situation in London, involving children, was of the sort with which the government needed metahuman assistance. She responded and ended up in London facing off, with almost a half-dozen other heroes, against a powerful cold-summoning meta by the name of Coldfront. Despite having his minions there, Coldfront was badly outnumbered and outgunned by the heroes and was taken down in short order, with the children rescued, unharmed. In this situation, Imaginary Girl showed the loss of innocence brought about by her encounter with Mister Wumbles (read about it in Logs of Imaginary Girl's Favorite RP Scenes), threatening to "space" Coldfront if any of the children came to harm. Her devotion to the well-being of children was shown, too, when she refused (as the government officials wanted) to prioritize the hostaged children of public officials over other hostaged children.

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May to December 2059
The rest of the year went by pretty quietly for Imaginary Girl, as she did her part to keep Colonial Bay and other places safe from 'small time' criminals.

There was one incident, in November, when a group of villains were bringing a colossal hydrofoil ship towards the city from out in the Atlantic, intent on loosing the ship's cargo of contaminants into the city. Imaginary Girl came at the boat's engines at just below the speed of sound... and the impact pretty well tore the boat in half, clearly demonstrating just how much damage the heroine could really dish out if pressed.

Later, in December, a visitor from another reality came through the Riftgate, to warn Jade about an impending attack on the Transmat facility itself. Together with Jade Ashcroft, Marcus Bard, Riot, and Sable, Imaginary Girl went to prepare a defense for the Riftgate. The villain arrived, armed with a suit of high-tech powered armor... and a small nuclear weapon! Taking the nuke from the villain, Imaginary Girl flew off up into the sky with it, getting it out of the city and intent on getting it into space, to throw it at the Sun before it went off. However, the other heroes disabled the villain's powered armor, which caused the nuke to go off before Imaginary Girl'd gotten it out of the atmosphere; it went off in her arms as she carried it. Imaginary Girl survived the blast, relatively unscathed, having only been knocked out and thrown out over the Atlantic by the blast. She actually regained consciousness before she even fell back to the ocean's surface, and flew back to Colonial Bay to rejoin the other heroes. Having never before taken an impact such as the one delivered to her, point blank, by the nuke, Imaginary Girl collapsed, unconscious, once she realized the villain was beaten. Still, it wasn't long before she was up on her feet again, and ready to go on fighting the good fight.

In the incident with the hydrofoil ship, Imaginary Girl's immense power was clearly shown - and she learned just how strong she really is, hopefully tempering her rashness in 'going all out' for the future. The incident at the Transmat facility gave clear and concrete evidence as to just how tough Imaginary Girl truly is - she survived being point-blank to the detonation of a nuclear bomb! (Okay, so it was a micro-nuke, but it was a big boom!) Late in December, too, and just before the incident at the Transmat facility, Imaginary Girl began a romantic involvement with Marcus Bard with a date (he took her to see a zombie movie!). Imaginary Girl was plain as day that she'd never had a boyfriend before and that she'd never even had a family before, so she really didn't know what she was supposed to be feeling, if anything, or how to recognize what she was feeling if she was feeling anything at all. During their conversations about the relationship that started with their movie-date, she also realized that it'd been a year since she'd first 'come to life' in Colonial Bay - this set Bard to some soul-searching. Imaginary Girl looks like a woman in her early 20's, but if you counted the day she was created as her birthdate, he was dating one-year old girl! In the end, however, he decided that, despite some occassional childlike innocence, she was mature enough in mind and spirit to go with her adult body, and pursued her. Still, all of this just showed just how innocent and naive Imaginary Girl still really is about a lot of things in life.

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2060
Imaginary Girl, for unknown reasons, became less and less of an iconic part of the backdrop of life in Colonial Bay, spending more time playing the hero in various other parts of the world. Still, she was sighted most often in that city, such that it is still called her "home town". It was during this time that she also, more and more often, began to use a modified version of her usual costume (seen to the left).

One thing that has become noticeable during this time, to those paying attention, is that Imaginary Girl is no longer seen on the arm of Marcus Bard, as she was in the previous year.

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