Five years ago, a large meteor crashed in central New York. No one knows how the government didn't know. They didn't see how they couldn't. The thing took up a whole city block. Dust and debris everywhere, people screaming, crying, looking for loved ones. A lot of people had died...others suffered severe injuries. Some even got extremely sick, though no one knew how or why.
A year after, people began getting extremely sick. No one knew what the cause of this illness was. Doctors and nurses worked tirelessly to figure it out. Many stayed in the hospital for months, others it was less. And some...never made it out. Those that did began to experience anomalies around themselves. Though that was always true. Even some that got sick never experienced anything at all.
Now, children and adult alike are being hunted for their abilities. G.A.M.A is searching for a "cure-all" to "save" those unfortunate to suffer from this change to their DNA. The meteor is contained under a dome of re-enforced frosted glass.
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11/12/19
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10/25/19
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08/13/19
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Tamara is a study in contrasts; on the outside, she's like your average early middle-age person - still optimistic about life, exuding an outwardly friendly, optimistic view of the world around her....on the inside, though, she constantly struggles with the balancing act of keeping her mutant powers in check, something she still has trouble doing (especially in large crowds and certain situations). During the week, she can be found at Manhattan's prestigious New School, teaching advanced mathematics, subjects which help to tamp down her uncontrolled powers.
On the weekends, she continues her mathematics studies under the tutelage of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician (and fellow scanner mutant) John Forbes Nash, II.
NAME OF POWER
Telepathic scanner
DESCRIPTION OF POWER
Strengths: Telepathic scanners are capable of scanning peoples' minds for all thoughts, ideas, emotions, feelings, etc., and information. In addition, scanners can almost focus their telepathic powers through telephonic/fiber optic lines through physical and mental telepathy.
Weaknesses: Extended use of her powers can cause Tamara to grow physically weak and suffer from outward effects (usually psychic nosebleeds). In addition, scanners cannot turn off their powers; they are on 24 hours a day, every day...
EYE COLOR
Chocolate brown
HAIR COLOR
Black
SKIN TONE
Light
BODY TYPE
Tamara has a slim yet wiry build - muscles like nylon cords; strength concealed by economy of size
PLAYBY'S NAME
Tegan Quin
HISTORY
Growing up in the Canadian Rockies, Tamara Lyell (along with her twin sister Sarah) had what people called "a sixth sense", the ability to read the thoughts (and feel the emotions) of other individuals, often times not knowing why...this mutant power, known as Scanning, is the result of a mutant gene activated in utero by the delivery of the anti-depressant Ephemerol, a medication which does nothing to non-mutant humans other than treat the underlying condition for which the medication is given) but when given to pregnant women possessing the specific mutant gene for scanners, sets off the genetic chain which activates the mutant gene in question has been passed from parent to child...in the case of the sisters Lyell, this gave both Tamara and Sarah Lyell the ability to scan other people's minds (and other things over time) through telepathy (and eventually, manifest those powers into telekinetic instead of telepathic means.
Unfortunately, Ephemerol has a nasty side-effect; once the mutant gene was activated, it couldn't be shut off...for Scanners, this effect had the unfortunate result of manifesting itself as schizophrenia in that, as those with this power began manifesting it most were locked away in mental asylums (or worse) which almost happened to her while in junior high school in Calgary following an incident in which she nearly caused the death of another student by using her scanning powers to give the other student a near-fatal cardiac episode...
However, the same fates which nearly brought ruin to her life (by the age of 15, her twin sister Sarah had left, her whereabouts unknown) also brought her salvation when representatives of the NYC-based New School (a prestigious private school on the Upper West Side) took young Tamara under their provenance and care, where her powers could be harnessed for good instead of for evil. Arriving there years before the Great Manifestation (Tamara's words for the explosion of mutantism), Tamara soon excelled in her academic studies, taking a keen interest in mathematics, soon breezing through high-school and then college-level mathematics as she began to learn, under the tutelage of New School instructors, how to control her scanning powers.
At present, Tamara Lyell is a mathematics instructor at the New School, where she continues to learn how to harness her mutant scanning powers, yet there are times when, at night, she'll look up at the stars and wonder (a) where her twin sister is and whether she'll ever see her again and (b) whether she will ever get a complete handle on her mutant powers or will those powers drive her over-the-edge as they may've her sister Sarah Lyell. No one knows the answer to either question, but deep inside her Tamara knows that both questions will have to eventually dealt with; whether for good or bad, no one knows....