Rosa Martinez

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Age: 28
Height: 5'4
Weight: 155lbs
Ethnicity: Hispanic

Powers:

Barrier
Singularity
Telekinetics (Throw/Pull/Lift/Slam etc)
Warp
Annihilation Field
Flare
Biotic Charge

Equipment: Rosa wears a set of Hahne-Kedar Shadows Works Light Janissary armour, which has been modified to sport no forearm armour and wields no weapons, claiming that they serve only to weigh her down. They also feature no shielding systems, as Rosa's incredible biotic power allows her to create her own barriers.  

Born in a Cerberus facility to parents whom were both field agents for the pro-human organization, Rosa spent the early years of her life being trained in the theoretical use of biotics, with the Illusive Man making plans to turn her into the pinnacle of Human biotics; Project Morrigan. This of course, much like many of his plans, did not start out, or end as well as well as he'd hoped. With Rosa being a more than difficult child, she would often misbehave and make a general nuisance of herself, which was a trait that persisted into adolescence during her extensive physical and mental training. At age thirteen, she was told the lie that she was born through a cloning procedure and was implanted with a highly experimental version of the old L2 implant, giving her the potential to output almost unmatched raw biotic power. Though the drawbacks were plentiful, in a way, the Illusive Man had gotten exactly what he wanted; A Human as capable as the Asari.

And so her training continued, with her growing more unruly by the day until eventually, she killed her instructor four years later whilst having a fit brought on by the L2 she had received. The replacement was given orders to be far more lenient in his punishments and far less rigorous in her training regimen so as to reduce overall stress and to prevent similar occurrences in the future. At age eighteen, she underwent a highly dangerous procedure to modify her genetic structure, splicing it with the newly discovered Minagen X3, a chemical known to be fatal to most sentient beings. However after years of studying the compound, Cerberus had found a way for them to engineer cells that would mimic a white blood cell, but on steroids; and attack the harmful cells. Thus theoretically resulting in Rosa being able to essentially send herself into biotic overdrive. Theoretically.

Instead, what occurred was a permanent boost to her raw power, and another fit. Though this time, midway through it she regained consciousness and began to use her new-found power against those she had attempted to rebel against for most of her life, warping reality itself as she tore the facility apart piece by piece in search of her 'creator'.

When she recalls the story, she speaks of the calm that she felt the first time she intentionally killed a man. She speaks of the numbness and feeling of helplessness she had, even though she was not out of control for even a moment. Her search turned up no grand creator as she had hoped, but the weak and helpless geneticist whom had conducted these experiments on her. It didn't take long for her to force the truth of her origin from his lips, him 'spilling the beans' almost in an instant in a pathetic attempt to save his own life. He was not met with mercy though, with Rosa slamming him into a nearby computer desk and shattering his spine. There, she used the knowledge she had gained to gain entry to the facility's extranet connection and activated the facility's distress beacon in order to alert nearby Cerberus forces of an attack. They arrived on the scene within the hour, and by posing in one of the guards' assault armour, Rosa was able to board the ship with no resistance and become a stowaway hidden in plain sight. 

Fortunately for her, the vessel was then sent on a recruitment mission in the Terminus Systems. There, she made her escape and vanished into the underworld of Omega. 

Fast-forward two years and you find a changed woman. One making her living producing knock-off paintings of classical artwork in incredible detail, keeping herself to herself and staying as far under the radar as she possibly can, paying various information brokers off both in an attempt to keep herself hidden, and to find her parents. The ones responsible for allowing her to endure what she did. She continued this life until one day, the Reapers attacked the Galaxy. Then, everything changed. Cerberus started openly flying around the galaxy with not a care, and when the Adjutant outbreak occurred, Oleg Petrovsky and his forces landed on Omega, and took it over. Not much is known about how she survived the incident, only that she emerged as a member of an Eclipse Commando unit, which was part of the band of mercenaries pledged to aid Commander Shepard in the assault on Earth. 

She fought side by side with her squad-mates on the ground against Reaper forces, and was fortunate enough to earn the outspoken praise of Admiral Anderson in rallying the Alliance soldiers stationed in Brixton to push towards the conduit and aid Hammer Team in their assault. Eventually though, she put such strain on herself by overusing her powers that she passed out, waking up with her face covered in blood and her body buried in rubble to the sight of what could only be described as a monumental red ball of energy leaking from the crucible, causing the gargantuan Reapers in the sky and on the ground to simply keel over and become inactive, some crushing entire portions of London as they fell. After the war, she used the massive paycheck given to her by the Alliance for her individual valour to wander from system to system, trying to find inspiration for her first original art piece.

It was during this time that she met Captain Declan Calaway. On her travels, what she'd often do in order to save credits and avoid the loneliness that enveloped her after losing the only friends she'd ever known during the battle of Earth, was pay her way aboard vessels transporting goods from system to system. On one particular occasion, the vessel was raided by the Dashers. Taken completely by surprise and comparatively unarmed, the Dashers cut their way through the defenders in minutes, until they encountered Rosa. She put up such a fight that the pirates began to retreat, though in pursuing them Rosa met her match, a Krogan charging straight through one of the bulkheads and knocking her clean out of consciousness. When she awoke, she found herself aboard the Dashers' ship, where Declan and a Salarian named Zik offered her a position on their assault team. Seeing a potential opportunity to fit in with a group once more, Rosa obliged.

Although many see her as cold externally, upon getting to know her even the slightest bit makes them realise just why that is. Rosa is naive about how the galaxy works and ignorant to the good in people, a trait she gained from a life of fighting, though her lack of real maturity and addictive personality takes her standing from an unlikeable outcast, to a loyal friend within but a few sentences.