Φ PAYBACK Φ
Φ MYLA FINLEY Φ
"Maybe you should use a better fuckin’ lock next time."Φ MYLA FINLEY Φ
Age: 25
Appearance:
Background:
Appearance:
Standing at 5’4”, fairly lithe considering a lifetime of moving quickly, and a head of generally unkept red-gold hair, Myla wears a nearly perpetual scowl about her face as though the day is, nearly always, going bad. Not one to wear an outfit while on the job, she prefers patterned shirts, jeans, and sneakers to anything else, though will maybe add a plain jacket or sweater every now and again.
Role at SDN: Phoenix ProgramBackground:
Born in Northern California, Myla’s early life was pretty typical for any kid her age. She went to school, ran around afterwards, made friends, made enemies, and generally was out-and-about more often than not. She found herself in scrap yards, lumber yards, parking lots, found herself in a number of places she generally shouldn’t have been, and was never quite alone in any of these locations. There was something inherently fun about seeing if she could get into those places, to see if she could beat a system designed to work against her, and often times the little kids figured out a way here, an oversight there. They got into a good deal of trouble then, but with a dad as a lawyer there was never a serious enough instance where the young girl found herself in real trouble. No, instead she found herself doing family-mandated “community service”, working at whatever place Myla had broken into, and through that she found even newer ways to break-in next time.
Myla started experiencing changes earlier than other girls, some things that made her angry at them with the teasing, the attention, some things that no-one else really found out, like her powers. She broke the new electronic locks at school pretty easily, stealing from them on the way to the bathroom during class for instance, and the amount of camera malfunctions seemed to skyrocket during her time there. Myla would also start getting into fights, anger spilling out at the bullies, in one instance nearly ripping the earings out of a girls ears with her powers. The girl couldn’t say whether or not it’d been powers, though, considering how much she was crying, and Myla got expelled more than once from it.
In time, they started to leave her alone though, and she continued on with her escapades out in town. A lot of companies had switched to electronic locks, thinking they were the future, and a lot of the time Myla found them easy to break, to trip and open up, to reset to the default all-one password. She took a few joyrides in the cars, too, giving just enough power to open the door but not enough to absolutely scramble the computer, and was caught pretty easily from it. Juvy came from that, though it wasn’t proven that she had any powers, and when Myla got out from it after a year she just had more ideas on what exactly she could do.
After her time there, Myla started to work on her repertoire, using a few little connections to find better scores compared to anything else. There was something still inherently alluring about breaking that system, breaking those attempts at keeping her out, and Myla wanted to see exactly how far she could push things. She took on jobs over the course of a few years, growing to be a local notoriety as far as who the police wanted to find, finding that spike with the accidental pacemaker-deletion of a US Senator while she was trying to open his electronic safe from the room over. The man’s health monitor did survive, however, and Myla made her way out with only a portion the score, but at least was intact.
She would be contracted though to break into a data center, however, to steal a particularly valuable set of design documents for a new model of predictive AI, one that had been kept in physical form to prevent more remote sorts of thievery. This would go absolutely belly-up, though, as halfway in the woman tripped the alarm, panicked, and while trying to open a dead-bolted door absolutely fried $30 billion worth of data center. That landed her well and truly in prison, which also would land her in the Phoenix Program.
Now, Myla’s just here.
Powers:Myla started experiencing changes earlier than other girls, some things that made her angry at them with the teasing, the attention, some things that no-one else really found out, like her powers. She broke the new electronic locks at school pretty easily, stealing from them on the way to the bathroom during class for instance, and the amount of camera malfunctions seemed to skyrocket during her time there. Myla would also start getting into fights, anger spilling out at the bullies, in one instance nearly ripping the earings out of a girls ears with her powers. The girl couldn’t say whether or not it’d been powers, though, considering how much she was crying, and Myla got expelled more than once from it.
In time, they started to leave her alone though, and she continued on with her escapades out in town. A lot of companies had switched to electronic locks, thinking they were the future, and a lot of the time Myla found them easy to break, to trip and open up, to reset to the default all-one password. She took a few joyrides in the cars, too, giving just enough power to open the door but not enough to absolutely scramble the computer, and was caught pretty easily from it. Juvy came from that, though it wasn’t proven that she had any powers, and when Myla got out from it after a year she just had more ideas on what exactly she could do.
After her time there, Myla started to work on her repertoire, using a few little connections to find better scores compared to anything else. There was something still inherently alluring about breaking that system, breaking those attempts at keeping her out, and Myla wanted to see exactly how far she could push things. She took on jobs over the course of a few years, growing to be a local notoriety as far as who the police wanted to find, finding that spike with the accidental pacemaker-deletion of a US Senator while she was trying to open his electronic safe from the room over. The man’s health monitor did survive, however, and Myla made her way out with only a portion the score, but at least was intact.
She would be contracted though to break into a data center, however, to steal a particularly valuable set of design documents for a new model of predictive AI, one that had been kept in physical form to prevent more remote sorts of thievery. This would go absolutely belly-up, though, as halfway in the woman tripped the alarm, panicked, and while trying to open a dead-bolted door absolutely fried $30 billion worth of data center. That landed her well and truly in prison, which also would land her in the Phoenix Program.
Now, Myla’s just here.
Φ Magnetism Generation (Electricity Generation, Electronic Disruption), Superhuman Durability Φ
Myla’s more a physical fighter, as her powers are generally limited to producing a very strong magnetic field at close range, though she’s armed herself with some decidedly non-powered tools to even the playing field. One of these, a bag-mounted and concealed Vision Deleter, is slung over her shoulder most days, same as a collapsable, metal baton she charges up.
Crimes:Φ Corporate Sabotage, Grand Theft, Battery, Breaking and Entering, Drug Possession, Trespassing Φ
The Phoenix Program, thus far, has proven to solely be a job - nothing Myla’s seen has convinced her that it’s a reform program, nor has it pushed her to be a better person. It’s been a set of eyes over her shoulder, a voice in her ear, all while keeping her out of prison in exchange for the low price of removing a few small fries from the street. Myla isn’t against reform, but until it gives her a better job than the one she had before, or a better mindset, then reform isn’t in her mind.
Likes:Φ “Arts and Crafts”
Φ Cappuccino
Φ Cats
Dislikes:Φ Cappuccino
Φ Cats
Φ Stupid friggin “Hero Names” - Hers was chosen by Marketing
Φ NPC-Energy Heroes
Φ Lock-picking. She’s still working on that skill
Φ Black Coffee
Quirks:Φ NPC-Energy Heroes
Φ Lock-picking. She’s still working on that skill
Φ Black Coffee
Φ Kleptomaniac
Φ Never wears anything metal - Never
Φ Uses Timex Datalink 150 with VHF receiver modification / text-only transmitter. Newer technology gets weird sometimes
Φ Never wears anything metal - Never
Φ Uses Timex Datalink 150 with VHF receiver modification / text-only transmitter. Newer technology gets weird sometimes
