Michelle_Scordato

You know.... everyone gets to grow up. The lucky ones get to grow up mentally, as well... and the REALLY lucky ones grow up mentally while still keeping a simple, childlike joy and happiness. The unlucky ones either stay stupid, or they learn entirely too much entirely too fast...

Meet Michelle. She's a superhero. Though, uh... with her power set, you'd expect a villain, honestly.

Up until a year ago she was utterly normal. She'd never had any strange occurrences in her life, never missed a day of school, never kissed a boy.... never done a lot of things. She'd had a simple, fairly happy life with her family, especially her little sister Mina. And then... there was an accident.

She had been walking home from school one day, and minding her own business, later in the afternoon. She was crossing an empty street when suddenly a car came screaming around a corner, out of NOWHERE, and took her out. Some punk kids had been waiting for someone, working up the nerve to do something big. They'd intended to shoot her on their way past, but their driver was a sadistic bastard, and he decided to take her out with the car. Her legs were both shattered, her ribs fractured, one lung punctured... she might have lived, if someone had called an ambulance. But what happened instead was the driver getting out of the car, and taking her wallet... then smirking, as he found her address. He told her he was going to go there, nice and late, sometime around dinner, and kill her family, just to see one last horrified expression on her face. The bastard DID mean to do it too... eventually.

And Michelle died, there. However.... that wasn't the end of things for her. Rather, as has been said, death was only the beginning. She woke up the next day in the morgue, in a freezer, shivering from the cold and aching abominably in her legs and chest... things were moving inside her. Her body was repairing itself... and as her bones set themselves, her muscles knitted themselves, and she generally pulled herself together, she couldn't help but scream in agony... which aroused the attention of an intern, who came to see what was going on and promptly freaked right the fuck out, shutting the door and running to get a doctor. But really, could you blame her? After all... Michelle had been DEAD! And yet, now she was alive and well and, apparently, perfectly unharmed! She didn't tell them her name, though... she figured it'd be best not to. Her ID and purse were both missing, along with all contents, but she was quick enough on the draw to realize that any sort of superpower could well mean she might be a target... and that the little prick who ran her over might have killed her family.

So, she took her clothes, battered and bloodied, and put them on, then thanked the doctor for not cutting her open or detaining her, and took her leave. And she WALKED about five miles to her house, showing up in that condition. Her family freaked out, but she just smiled... and collapsed, exhausted and relieved.

Her other abilities? Well, she's learned of them, sure enough... it's not been too hard, as you might imagine. She had plenty of anger, after all... and she knew that she only had to wait. The driver of the car that hit her? He came by the next day, with a TEC-9... but she was right there. And she spotted him... and she recognized him... and she smiled the most wicked, predatory smile, as he spotted her, and recognized HER. He freaked out, as she surged toward him, her hand glowing blue with fel fire, reaching for his face as he unloaded on her. She took 9 rounds to the torso, before she grabbed his head and slammed it through the nearest wall, leaving him stuck, bleeding to death, and whimpering as his nightmares wandered through his reality. As for the girl herself... well, she hurt like HELL, but she could keep going... even as the pain started up again, and she screamed. Her family was safe though, and that was what mattered to her.

Now? Now she calls herself Darksider. She's... changed, mentally and physically. Her body regenerates after about ten minutes, unless she dies, in which case it takes longer. if she's refrigerated, it'll take longer still, due to the cool temperature slowing her metabolic activity. And it ALWAYS hurts, when she regenerates. Her body recovers even from death, though, with enough time. Having her brains blown out will certainly slow her down, maybe leave her memory a bit spotty, but in the end she'll be fine. In addition, she's got moderately low superhuman strength. She can't bench a Buick or anything silly like that, but she can pick up someone and slam them through a weaker wall. Or smear them against concrete.

Ah... but that's not all, folks. You've already seen her Fel Fire... she's not sure how this one works. But basically, it's a means of inflicting the pain she has felt on others, but not damaging them as she has been damaged, and if she uses it on someone the right way they'll be given screaming terrors. Fun times! But... well, she has another few problems.

For one, as stated, her regeneration is a terribly painful process. Sure, she can endure far more than an average human, but pain is still PAIN. She's gotten more used to it, but at a price. Gentler emotions are.... perplexing to her, and love and affection really rattle her a bit, making her rather nervous. Of course, it probably doesn't help that she's developed a thirst for blood and a hunger for flesh... so far she's managed to suppress these, but there's been a few reports of gangsters escaping cops but never making it back to their buddies...

Overall? She's a fairly nice girl, or tries to be, but there's only so much she can do, as broken as she is now. Maybe someone will be able to help her...

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Also, no IC PMs, please.

Oh. And, as you might guess by looking at her eyes, she can see in the dark.