Difference between revisions of "Ember (Darkstar24)"

Keira Vale was born in Chicago, Illinois to Alan and Margaret Vale. Keira was a curious and rambunctious which often gave her parents much joy. Her childhood was a pretty normal one despite having been diagnosed with ADHD from a young age. By the age of thirteen, Keira had to be placed on a new experimental medication to help manage the symptoms of her hyperactivity. Unbeknownst to the doctors Keira was not only born with hyperactivity, but she was also born with the mutant gene. After sometime, this new drug mixed with her mutant genes activated her dormant mutant abilities. She soon learned that she could by concentrating create and hold small fires in the palm of her hand. She quickly became obsessed with testing her newfound abilities, with practice she eventually found out that she could not only create fire out of her hands but that she could manipulate already existing fires as well. She soon developed an obsession for setting small fires in the woods behind her house and would often get agitated after going long periods of time without setting fires.

About one year after receiving her abilities, Keira had already developed a considerable aptitude for her pyrokinesis. Her parents after searching for hours for the young girl, had finally found her and were shocked to find their teenage daughter starting small fires by projecting small streams of fire from her hands. Afraid for their daughters physical and mental well-being they contacted PRIMUS. The Paranormal Research and Investigation Mission of the United States organization. PRIMUS agents quickly came out to assess the young girl and quickly decided to take her to their facility so they could not only teach her to better control her abilities, but to help her already declining mental health as well. Keira felt not only betrayed, but also abandoned by her parents.

VIPER having heard of the young girls abilities and potential quickly dispatched agents to kidnap her. The job was easier than they thought, the young girls mental state already being in disarray made it all too easy to manipulate the young girl into going with them. Unbeknownst to her, they wanted her (or more precisely her powers) for something called Project Ember. Project Ember was designed to create the perfect living weapon utilizing an already powerful pyrokinetics abilities. Keira ended up enduring years of painful experimentation and testing. These tests were designed to not only enhance her already powerful pyrokinesis, but also to enhance her body to an equal level of power. These tests gave her enhanced strength, speed, as well as a superhuman healing factor. While having her body enhanced, her mind was equally altered her memories of her childhood, her family, her compassion were all stripped away, all of who she once was gone. Keira was then given the codename "Ember" and was then ready for the final step in her "weaponizing". As a final measure Ember was sterilized, as to avoid any distractions so she could focus solely on her missions.

After almost 6 years of testing, Ember was finally ready to be sent on her first assignment. Her first mission was to assassinate a married couple in Pennsylvania. Ember without fail burned the couple and their home into an unrecognizable pile of bones, char, and ash and with that the couple became her first two kills. Unbeknownst to her, this couple was none other than Alan and Margaret Vale. VIPER leaders needed proof that not only were their physical enhancements successful, but that the memory alterations had taken hold as well. After Ember had successfully killed her own parents, VIPER officially named Project Ember a success. Ember spent several years carrying out missions given to her by the head of VIPER. After realizing she enjoyed the pleasure of killing with her powers more than using them to complete missions for VIPER. She quickly got tired of following orders and defected from VIPER's ranks. Ember has since taken up contracting killing as her main occupation, and is wanted in number of different countries for her heinous crimes. However, Law Enforcement and Heroes alike have yet to be able to successfully subdue this pissed off pyrokinetic killing machine.