Abrams, Marley - Clockwork

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MARLEY ABRAMS

FULL NAME: Marley Elizabeth Abrams
CODENAME: Clockwork
FACE CLAIM: Cassie Ventura
AGE: 26
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Unaffiliated
ALIGNMENT: Civilian

Personal

SEXUALITY: Pansexual
GENDER: Woman
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ETHNICITY: Here

Double Life

ABILITIES: Electrokinesis/Technopathy
Marley has an odd combination between electrokinesis and technopathy.  She can manipulate electrical currents in her immediate atmosphere, and even create them herself if she needs to.  She can also manipulate technopathy.  Her best guess is that her electrokinesis somehow allows her to manipulate electrical currents in a piece of technology to elicit a certain response.  There's a fair bit of potential for it, but the honest truth is that she has terrible control of both abilities.  She'd be more likely to fry whatever tech she was trying to control, or give herself an electrical shock.

Electrical Resistance - She has resistance to electrical shocks.  If she gets hit by a form of electricity, her body can store it like a battery for up to a month afterwards to use.  The amount of electricity stored up in the battery lessens the longest it's been though.  If she got hit by a bolt of lightning, her battery would fill up and then after that, she would feel whatever was left.  Not pleasant.  However, her electrical resistance also means she's resistant to the things electricity does to the body.  For example, her heart doesn't skip beats when she's struck.  A defibrillator still works on her but it would have to filter through her battery first and then the battery would attempt to restart her heart.  Whether it is successful depends on how long it's been, and if the battery's been damaged.  And how much electricity the battery's received.

Hardy Heart - Marley won't ever need a pacemaker.  Her heart stays on track no matter what.  Well as far as electricity goes.  If something else stops her heart, the heart can't do anything.  But electricity won't make her heart stop.

Technopathy - If Marley had perfect, impeccable control of it, she'd be able to change traffic lights, speed up clocks, be able to envision and control any electronic within a 50 foot radius.  Currently, it isn't anywhere close to that.  Her technopathy might activate if she's touching something with electronics.  Worth noting it only works on actual electronics.  For example, if the clock has a battery then she'd be able to control it, but if it was a mechanical watch then no.  An older vehicle wouldn't be controllable, a brand new Tesla out of the shop would give her more options.

SKILLS: Professional Level Dancer  - Marley was a professional back-up dancer on musician tours, as well as a dance troupe at one point briefly.  She's been dancing since she was four years old, and is also skilled at choreography.  To say nothing about her education on the subject and the places she's used her dancing along with her singing and acting, although those were on much smaller stages.

Professional Level Actor and Singer - Marley's undertaken schooling in professional acting and singing, and been part of a few productions involving both talents.

Archer - Classically trained archer.  Can hit targets, and also hunt animals with a bow.  She prefers a recurve, although she can make do with a crossbow in a pinch.  She's been practicing since she was ten years old.  It's something she's used to vent her stress levels.

Skilled with mechanical clocks and watches - can take apart watches and clocks and replace gears and whatnot if needed.  Can't do it with technological ones with watch batteries at the moment, it's very likely she'll just drain the battery.

Polyglot - Knows English, Korean, French, Italian, Irish, Russian

WEAKNESSES:

PTSD - She has some kind of PTSD from events she's experienced in the last two years. 

Electrical Resistance - Marley is not immune to electricity.  Once her battery is filled, roughly seven thousand volts, she will feel the effects of the rest. She will feel the pain.  If she was hit by something like a bolt of lightning, she'd take in her battery's amount and she'd feel the rest and possibly die from that.

Electrical Effects - Her heart may not be affected, but other parts of the body will be understandably quite affected if she's struck by it.  If she's struck by a bolt of lightning and by some miracle survives, she will have the trademark scarring like anyone else.

Defibrillator Resistance - A defibrillator, a potentially life saving device, might not work on her.  It would depend on the day.  Firstly, her internal battery would absorb how much more electricity from it to fill it up first.  And then it would circle through the battery to try restarting her heart as an automatic process.  But that takes longer.  In addition, she has technopathy.  If her body uses her powers during the process, she could short circuit or break the tech in the defibrillator and essentially sentence herself.

Control - Her control of her electrokinesis and technopathy at the moment are extremely terrible.  She ends up draining batteries, killing watches and electronics, and accidentally short circuiting a lot of things.  In a tech filled world, this is pretty harsh.

Limit - She can't stop more than three electronics at once, even with perfect impeccable control.  It takes a lot more focus and energy because electronics have so many moving parts.  Also if the item itself is moving it will be harder to lock onto to control.  So if she was wanting to stop a car, for example, she'd only be able to stop one electronic aspect. 

Appearance

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Personality

-can seem casual

-is also very very intense at times

-has a real roadrage problem

- has a contemporary rp accent with cockney traits

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History

Marley was born in London on the first of June, 1996.  Her parents were upper class, her mother the third child of a very affluent and influential family.  They were known for making jewellery, electronics, and watches.  The business started a few generations ago with watches and rings.  The company Crofton Imports and Manufacturing is managed by Marley's uncle Stephan Crofton.  Her family was not quite as affluent as her uncle.  However, that didn't matter as Marley was still quite beloved by her uncle.  She was beloved by the entire family as the eldest of the children and the only child of her parents.  Her family wasn't lacking in wealth of course, but it had no contest with her uncle's.  That said, he didn't let it go to his head either.  He had no children, and so enjoyed spoiling his nieces and nephews.  He also made sure their family did well and were well known, in part by making a particular line of watches called 'The Abrams', specifically named to make them a household name somehow.  Quite the nod.

They lived in eastern London, and Marley grew up going to private schools catered to the rich.  Her family, not wanting for money in particular, pushed her to discover her true passions.  It led her to the performing arts.  Music and acting.  Dancing, singing, acting, she took them all up and in her private schools was in a few minor plays, one with musical components to it.  And yes, that is private schools plural.  See the problem was that unless there was something extra to occupy Marley's attention, she often did the bare minimum in her courses.  One way her parents found to keep her occupied was to get her learning new languages.  And so as a result, Marley started off in a private school in London.  It was there they all learned the trick, because she could focus if she was learning Irish.  But that only took her a couple of years.  Then they sent her to Italy.  She learned Italian in a couple of years.  They sent her to France, and they really should have planned better.  She'd learned French in less than a year because Italian had the same roots as a romance language.  While they planned where to send her next, Marley learned Spanish.  They sent her to a school in Russia.  That occupied her for three years, and they were so hopeful.  At the time, she'd managed to make a couple of friends even, something that was uncommon with her.  But it didn't stop her from being bored and wanting to learn more.  So they sent her to South Korea.  She was so taken by all of it that when she graduated at seventeen, she

Accent says London, a bit more eastern, but not working class rather middle to upper class. 

had a rich uncle on her mum's side.  Leonard Crofton, of Crofton Imports and Manufacturing Conglomerates.

went to Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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