Digita

Sylvia, aka Digita was a Ukrainian-American neohuman, trade mediator, industrial espionage expert and enemy of Clay and Claymore Industries. She worked for Theo on the payroll of Argent Scientific as a mediator to other companies.

#### **History**

Born in Chernihiv in the Ukraine in 1979 as Symona Yahontov, Sylvia came to America when she was 3 to escape a local independence uprising that had escalated in the region. Quickly her name was changed to Sylvia when her kindergarten mates pronounced her name incorrectly, Nevertheless the name stuck and over the years started calling herself the name, though her parents always called her 'Symona'.

In 1990 her parents were killed in a car accident that caused her neohuman powers to activate, although until she was around technology she wasn't entirely sure what she was capable of.

With no relatives in the Ukraine she was orphaned with the overlying threat of deportation, until she was adopted by the Burns family who sent the girl to business school when she realised how intelligent she was.

Eventually she became a successful and respected mediator for businesses, but when Theo caught her stealing information from him, he was impressed with her power and skills and recruited her for considerable pay. She used the codename 'Digita' whilst on covert missions.

Whilst on a mission to mediate a business deal between Argent Scientific and Claymore Industries Theo used her powers to steal information from Claymore's computer systems regarding the location of potential kinzium deposits and hand it to Theo, but was killed by the Nighstalkers before she could leave Miami.

#### **Personality**

Shy and introverted until the death of her parents, her time with the Burns family opened her confidence, but along the way she became power-hungry and cold, believing that businesses only thrive through regular acts of clandestine industrial espionage and was known for her ruthless tactics and business ideas. Though they raised her, she eventually saw the Burns family as weak and kept her surname Yahontov as a symbol of her pride.

#### **Appearance**

Sylvia was a slim, naturally blonde woman with thin, white glasses who often further highlighted her hair with silvery streaks so that it appeared almost white, she had a young-looking face and blue eyes that she highlighted with black eyeliner and wore prominent red lipstick often. She usually wore light grey business clothes, and was comfortable in either a skirt or trousers.

### **Powers and abilities**

Sylvia was a neohuman and possessed a series of neones or "n-genes" that granted her superhuman abilities.

**Powers:**

**Digital Information Absorption**: After her manifestation she discovered that she had the ability to absorb digital information into her brain from various storage formats by touch or by a limited distance of around half a foot away from the target machine. Theo theorised that if she had still been alive today her power would have worked easily over modern Wi-Fi systems as this was tested within Argent facilities successfully; This, however also secretly concerned Theo that she may have herself been a threat. While her death meant that he failed to retrain Clay's information from Claymore Industries, she was no longer a potential threat.

* ***Mental Digital Storage:*** She was able to store information in her mind like a living data drive, likley for as long as her memory functions, and had the potential to house over 50 terabytes of excess information. While the information was in her head she could 'remember' every byte of data she absorbed like a memory, enabling her to see what she downloaded into her brain in her mind's eye; this let her absorb passwords from secure areas, both in terms of digital software and of physical doors with electronic locks that require a password to be entered.

* ***Digital Transfer:*** Not only could she 'download' any stored information she absorbed into another computer or drive, but could act as a real-time transfer conduit from one system to another.
* **Digital Copying:** She could retain a copy of information in her mind whilst downloading a copy into another system or device, allowing her to have multiple copies of information.

* ***Stored Data Manipulation:*** She later learned that she had the ability to mentally manipulate the information in her mind, creating false data or corrupting information utterly.
	+ **Bio-Digital Virus Creation:** She discovered that uploading heavily corrupted information back into a system created an unusual virus-like domino-effect, destroying the internal framework and software of computer systems.

**Abilities:**

* ***Skilled Businesswoman:*** She was highly skilled in business and the mediation of business meetings between firms, she was highly savvy in finding means of team cohesion and ideas for business proposals and deals.
* ***Highly Skilled Industrial Espionage Agent:*** She was a clandestine agent for Theo and his business to find trade secrets and information. Her powers made her a highly advantageous asset for him which he profited from greatly and with her took over several smaller businesses to ensure the growth of Argent quickly.
* ***Skilled Unarmed Combatant:*** She was a practitioner of various forms of self-defence and the snake-style of kung-fu, though she rarely had to fight physically, could do so quite proficiently.
* ***High Intelligence:*** While she was no savant, her natural cognition and awareness was highly astute, this worked in sorting the information stored in her head with an strict efficiency.

**Weapons and Equipment:**

* **Digital Storage Drives:** She possessed multiple smaller drives she used to download or create copies of stolen information into so that she could hand it directly to clients such as Theo in a physical format without the need to interface directly with a target computer or in case she herself is compromised.
* **Kimber Micro:** A small hand gun she uses for self-defence, and the weapon she took her own life with.

### **Limitations and weaknesses**

Sylvia had a tendency to be two-faced and cold and Theo never fully trusted her.

She was short-sighted and wore glasses to enhance her long-range vision, if these were destroyed in combat she was essentially blind long-range, though she did carry spares.

She admitted that her mind can sometimes get crowded and had to learn to regiment her mind like a computer to sift through information neatly, although it helped that her power seemed to include a somewhat enhanced, almost computer-like mind's eye compared to the regular human, had to still arrange the information in her head herself, which could get mentally exhausting after several hours of arranging.