Esme Maddox

Age: Unknown, speculated to be 25 Personality: Quiet, Introverted, Attentive, Casual Job: Wandering Mercenary Residence: Changes fairly often, mostly hotels and motels Wealth: Varies from job to job, a surprising amount of cash Dreams: Settle down permanently, complete her collection Loves: Snacking, Television, Collecting minerals and metals Likes: Cuddling, People cooking for her Dislikes: People filming her, the PRT Hates: Dealing with Villains, Pushy Recruiting Attempts

Esme Maddox was found a few years ago by Lauren Maddox, an Independent cape mercenary who took the Case 53 in and attempted to get her adjusted to life after the loss of her memories. Eventually Lauren decided to turn Esme into her protégé of sorts and Esme learned the ins and outs of being a mercenary cape, as well as eventually developing a love of food and snacking. Of course, the odd fact that no matter how much she eats and never gains weight helps (some people have all the luck).

When a bodyguard job went wrong, the client lied about the sort of danger involved in order to lowball the pay, Lauren was sadly killed. Esme managed to recover her friend and mentor's body and took up her costume and cape name, Terra Firma, in regard to the fact that both of them had rock and earth related powers. Since then, she's been wandering around the country attempting to take jobs and survive. She primarily does bodyguard work, as well as occasionally acts as a hired hand to help authorities transport dangerous capes to prison and even once had a prison bird cage job.

Her power grants her the ability to create golems out of stone materials such as rock, concrete, and brick. The more material that she puts into a single golem, the longer it takes to make said golem as well as the tougher and larger it will be. Larger golems also move slower but hit really, really hard. She's capable of giving them basic orders like 'chase him down' 'guard this' and 'protect them' and the golems can understand and carry through until they're either destroyed or until 24 hours passes. Despite their inability to follow through with complex orders without direct oversight from Esme, they're fairly smart and will generally be broken before the failure. She can create about 10 of these golems at a time before she starts suffering migraines and body aches.

Her wandering eventually led her to Brockton Bay where she's currently moving from hotel to motel to hotel again. She's currently entered dialogue with Faultline's Crew about joining them, something she wants to do but is also rather nervous about, as she's been bitten before in that regard. Unless something really big happens, it's likely she's going to move on from Brockton in a week or two unless something or somebody gives her a reason to stay.