Dez

Maricela 'Dez' Hernandez is a bounty hunter currently on retainer with H.E.L.I.X., though she has also been seen serving as a bodyguard and/or security detail for other high-profile organizations around Halcyon City. She claims to specialize in 'asset recovery', and one of her ongoing missions is to recapture the members of DNase.
Due to her sterling reputation for confidentiality and getting results, Dez has been able to secure lucrative work in recent years. She is practical and professional, and carries herself with bravado and well-earned confidence.
In her professional life, Dez employs years of training and tactics to guard, track, pursue, and/or capture her targets. She is an extremely capable combatant with a powerful body to back up refined close-quarters combat skills, though Dez usually prefers to use the latest tech that she's been able to buy, borrow, or steal.
Dez holds The Weatherman, Eclipse, and The Atlantean in high regard and recognizes their capability after several encounters with them.
== History ==
Not much is known about Dez's childhood or personal life (this appears to be purposeful on her part), but it is well-known that Dez joined the private military company Falcon & Fox as a young adult and quickly impressed her superiors. After a series of promotions and work for increasingly more powerful organizations in her role as a security contractor for F&F, Dez decided to strike out on her own and leverage her professional connections to find the jobs and clients that paid best. At some point in the last couple years, she came to regularly work for HELIX.
When the Big Team originally encountered Dez, she was pursuing Holly alongside other HELIX operatives. At the time, she used a power suit that included Bishop Technology's chameleon camouflage tech as well as a backpack battery charged with lightning from The Weatherman, which the suit could discharge in lightning blasts. The battery's lightning was extracted by The Weatherman in a few combat encounters, and the battery itself was later destroyed when he eliminated all of Bishop's Weatherman batteries.
At some point, Dez was able to re-capture one of the escaped Gestalt and bring them back to the others at a secure inter-dimensional HELIX facility. When she encountered the Big Team and DNase during their rescue mission to stop Gestalt and their use of Zodiac sap, Dez was frozen in place by The Weatherman long enough for the team to retrieve Gestalt and escape.
== Powers ==
Currently equipped with a Bishop Rubicon Mk. III Custom armor designed by Terrick, chief engineer of the Bishop Rubicon Mk. II line. The suit was custom-designed as a result of previous Bishop encounters with the Big Team, along with Dez's input. It includes a powerful plasma cannon, as well as an energy absorption/redirection system meant to provide a tactical advantage against highly powered aggressors. Like all suits of hers, this armor is painted in her signature white and bronze color scheme.
Category:Characters
Category:NPC
Category:B-Verse