[b]Name:[/b] Rachel McDowell

[b]Codename:[/b] Phantom

[b]Age:[/b] 29

[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[b]Place of Birth:[/b] Scotland (most recently Stirling, before emigrating)

[b]Affiliations:[/b] None

[b]Occupation:[/b] Fast Food Worker, former thief.

[b]Appearance:[/b] Well... here's the thing: Rachel [i]has[/i] no appearance. In the strictest sense, she's invisible; short of painting her entire body, you aren't going to get much in the way of an appearance out of it. The actually [i]important[/i] thing is that she's tall and rather lanky; Rachel is just over six feet tall and from the outline of her clothing is definitely rather thin. The other thing important to people is that, having had long hair before losing her visibility and being rather hard to give a haircut afterwards, Rachel has [i]extremely[/i] long hair. There isn't terribly much that can be done about it with her current appearance.

[b]Powers:[/b] The ability to be completely and perpetually invisible: if it is part of Rachel's body, it is something that cannot be seen. This is a rather flawed form of invisibility--whilst it extends throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum, it doesn't happen to affect such things as her clothing, or random sticky stuff thrown onto her. Or, in fact, any small items that she might want to carry upon her person for the purposes of getting into places.

Most key, really, is the fact that it [i]cannot be turned off[/i]. 

[b]Skills:[/b] [i]Excellent[/i] gymnast, and Rachel has a masterful knowledge of security systems--though more from the viewpoint of disabling or circumventing them than operating the things. On the side, she's an acceptable chef (making the indignity of her current employ even worse) and knows a smattering of martial arts--enough for basic self defence, but not all that good in a straight fight against someone who actually seriously practises this. 
Her ability to improve is seriously hampered right now. Hard to get better at fighting when you have an advantage such as invisibility.

[b]Equipment/Resources:[/b] Well, there's a thin band of lockpicks. That is literally the sum entirety of Rachel's equipment, and if it isn't infiltration-related, she'll drop even [i]that[/i], for the purposes of making the most of her ability. Aside from equipment, she owns a rather nice house from the proceeds of her previous employment--and has a nice fund of cash to supplement the income she gets from her current job.

[b]Weaknesses:[/b] No protection, she's at serious risk from friendly fire due to being an unintentional target--thus requiring that she try and keep an eye on everyone to not horribly suffer, and she's highly vulnerable to such mundane tactics as a bag of flour or splattering mud or paint around. Obviously, she has no protection against echolocation or the like.

Getting better equipment, unless it is equally undetectable, also makes her more vulnerable. Lose-lose situation!

[b]Psychological Profile:[/b] Rachel has always struggled with the chance to take 'the easy path', to relax and to just breeze through life on the minimum acceptable effort--whilst she was still a chemistry student, this was easy enough to resist simply by working hard to try and get the best possible result (and drinking and having fun on the side). When that fell through... crime was the easy option, and crime [i]does[/i] pay when you're as hard to catch as an invisible person is.

All-around, Rachel is gregarious and rather relaxed--overly burdened by guilt due to her previous career choice, perhaps, but she gets on with people for the most part, and doesn't get too worked up about [i]most[/i] things. Implications that people cannot reform, or that crime is utterly impossible to make reparations for, however, get quite a response.

And that's when she slips into her normal, rather strong, accent.

[b]Biography:[/b] Originally, Rachel was a chemistry student, with the aim to hopefully get a job in a major pharmaceutical company, or at least some industrial conglomerate. This all rather turned pear-shaped when a lab accident splashed her with a thus-unforeseen concoction. At first, this bafflingly did nothing to either her or the labcoat that she wore at the time.

As time went on, this caused occasional bouts of invisibility, though at first they happened whilst Rachel was in private. Once they started to happen in public, she began to be seriously concerned about what this could mean... before eventually becoming a permanent fixture of her life. For a while, she tried to remedy this through facepaint and the like, but the empty eyes and sheer fakeness of the result convinced her that trying to hide it through thick and heavy clothing whilst attempting to finish her degree was the best option.

Naturally, this plan fell through--with only a fake, ludicrous appearance, it was hard to convince the invigilators to accept her identity, and with a string of failures in her exams, there was little more that the invisible woman could do. She fell to the most obvious profession for one of her abilities: thievery. Even once she learned to get through locks, security cameras simply didn't have the resolution to track the small items she carried, or even the things that she stole; they were completely impotent and soon enough Rachel found her way around the more fancy stuff.

With nothing to trace but 'invisible person', Rachel didn't exactly have much to fear from the police--worst case scenario was that she ran away and left no trail that could easily be traced. Her conscience, however, was something that remained, and post-Awakening she seriously considered how she could make up for stealing enough to give her a comfortable life. All the heroes were congregating in the USA... and she promptly chose to emigrate, and try to help to make up for her previous crimes.

It remains to be seen whether this will work, or whether her past thievery will catch up with her.