<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/f5/Fixxer.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Neutral</strong></span><br/><strong>Name</strong>: Tanya O'Shea<br/><strong>Alias</strong>: Fixxer<br/><strong>Aspect</strong>: Mutant<br/><strong>Heritage</strong>: Caucasian<br/><strong>Age</strong>: 19<br/><strong>Sexual Orientation</strong>: Straight-ish<br/><strong>Abilities</strong><br/><span class="bbc_u">Primary</span>: Technopathy - If it's technological in origin, Tanya can talk to it in its own language and make it do things it might otherwise not do.  Engines turn over without their keys, alarm systems disarm themselves, and computers purr like kittens under her touch.  There's nothing she can't get them to do, and nothing she can't build out of the right parts.<br/><span class="bbc_u">Secondary</span>: Genius-Level Intellect - Every IQ test ever given to Tanya has returned with results that were off the scale, testing her somewhere in the 200+ range.  MRIs and other medical exams showed that her brain has a higher than average activity rate, processing and storing information far more efficiently than "normal" people.  This leads to increased memory function, processing and calculation speeds, and heightened (though limited) intuition.<br/><span class="bbc_u">Tertiary</span>:  Eidetic Memory - Whether its own quirk of her genetics or just a branch of her genius-level intellect, Tanya has perfect recall of anything she's ever even glanced at or heard, even years after the fact.<br/><span class="bbc_u">Other</span>: Any other abilities she displays (teleportation primarily) are not her own powers, but those granted to her by the devices she builds and utilizes, usually incorporated into her visor, but occasionally from gadgets discretely attached to other parts of her body and clothing as well.<br/><br/><strong>History</strong>:<br/><br/>Most mutations make themselves known during puberty, but Tanya was scarily intelligent from the moment she was born.  Her first words were at four months, her first steps at six.  She was walking by seven months, and running at eight.  By the time she was a year old, she had already learned to read basic primers.  Her parents, a middle-management type at Lostros Computers and a homemaking soccer mom, didn't know what to do with her.  Neither of their other children, her two older brothers, had displayed anything near the accelerated development Tanya did, and they were at their wits end trying to keep her interested and developing.<br/><br/>She graduated high school at nine and had her first PhD in Electronic Engineering at fifteen.  The stress of being a college student while going through puberty triggered her primary ability, that of being able to talk to machines and computers, and getting them to do what she wanted them to do with only a touch and a few moment's concentration.  This inspired her to apply herself to another PhD, in Mechanical Engineering, which she finished halfway through her sixteenth year.<br/><br/>For the last three years, she has been designing and patenting technological upgrades and innovations to current technology as a freelance agent.  While she normally likes to play on the side of the angels, her family's mounting debt, her own student loans and the economic crisis have forced her to expand her clientele to those who have more dubious goals in mind, since villians often pay more than heroes do.<br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>:<br/>Gregarious and outgoing, Tanya rarely displays any overt sign of her immense intelligence while in the company of others.  She learned at a fairly young age that most people tend to shy away from her, so she altered her behaviour over time to be outwardly no different than any other girl her age.  While she's in the persona of Fixxer, however, she is free to express her intelligence, creativity and technological know-how any way she sees fit.  She tends to keep this side of herself very secret, and as such, isn't quite as outgoing and gregarious as she normally is.