Octavia Piers

Age: 19 Personality: Shy, Wallflower, Easily Pressured, Gentle Job: College Student Residence: Suburban Home w/ mother Wealth: Not much, part time college wealth Dreams: Gain confidence, start a happy family Loves: Cats, quiet relaxing days Likes: Cooking, and small groups Dislikes: her inability to say what she wants, crowds Hates: Alcohol, her parents, Bullies

Octavia is a shy, easily pressured wallflower who generally wants to either be left alone to do her own thing or wants everybody to get along. This behavior generally stems from the fact that her parents were constantly fighting during her childhood. Her father was abusive, and her mother was an alcoholic, which led to a rather stressful childhood. It wasn't until she was in high school when it reached its peak.

Her father and mother had really amped up their fighting as she'd grown older, although for some reason refused to split up. Octavia's trigger event was the result of her father being essentially black out drunk and attempting to assault her thinking that she was her mother.

And when her mother eventually got back home, didn't help Octavia and instead also started to beat her thinking she was a woman her father was cheating on her with. It was a pretty bad mess and Octavia triggered. Her powers include minor brute abilities, namely in that she's much tougher than she actually looks. But her major power is that she's striker. On touch she's capable of 'digitizing' matter and storing it inside of her head. She's not Manton limited which means she's perfectly capable digitizing people and their parts. She's also not limited by things that she technically shouldn't be able to touch... like sound. She's then capable of rematerializing this information into the world in whatever way that she wants. Like storing up a lot of sound and blasting it out in a big shockwave.

She managed to escape her parents for a few days, living on the streets and in a homeless shelter that had space for her. Until she was dragged back to her mother by the police, her father having been arrested and her mother on probation. Octavia doesn't interact with her mother anymore and gets creative with avoiding her when she can.

Outside of her homelife she's a college student living on scholarships and a part time job. But tends to get pushed around by her co-workers and doesn't really enjoy it. She's been attempting to get her own place but can't get the hours that she wants or manage her class schedule at the same time. She spends a lot of time avoiding people from the PRT who are attempting to coerce her into joining the Protectorate as they're pretty confident her in status as a parahuman.

What she really wants is a bit of backbone but can seem to find the confidence to say what she wants. As well as get some friends that don't bully her. But one thing that she really wants more than anything else is her own little happy family. Although she's terrified to jump into a relationship with anybody.