Shade

* Bonded armor
* Outfit 1
* Outfit 2
* Different Outfit
* Chibi Shade Mask

### Powers

Superhuman Physique, Hacking, Super Durability and Strength, Fantastical Mobility

## Biographical information

### Relatives

* Found Family - Sledge and Temperance
* Adoptive Mother/Father - Anna and Lewis Kerrigan
* Bio-father - Lucian Quinn, aka Prometheus
* Adoptive Sibling - GAIA

## Meta

> "*Spegulo: I thought you were Hayeli's rebound.*
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> Hana: No, I was her slam dunk. *returns fist bump from Mel*"
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> ― Season 6, Episode 62 - The last reflection
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## Appearance

Hana is athletic, having fairly toned muscles. She's about five foot seven, white with slightly tanned skinned. She has a scar over her left eye and on the left side of her chin. She has darker blonde hair with pink tips, and dark blue eyes. Typically she wears some kind of jacket, t-shirt, jeans, and boots or sneakers, with some kind of neck accessory like a scarf or choker.

~~Her superhero outfit is exactly the same as whatever she's wearing, except having a minimal purple mask that covers her head, has black lines over two white spots for her eyes that move with her own eyes (like Spiderman comics)~~

 Since her playbook change, Hana's superhero outfit is now a suit of armor reminiscent of Iron Man or Black Panther, forming out of the nanobots and liquid metal that reside in a core within her body. The suit is colored the same purple as her mask, which is the same as before, just armored. The suit is lithe and tough, due to the material it is practical and comfortable, not at all bulky. It leads up into a sort of armor jacket similar to the ones she wears all the time, with a hood over her mask.

## Powers

Superhuman physique - Hana is very unsure where her powers came from, but she likes having them. She has super strength and agility, typically using it to fight good or break stuff.

Hacking - While not techy or too smart about other stuff, Hana is a prodigious hacker and got into some trouble with it before joining Big Team. Typically she carries a tiny BaspberryBi computer that serves as her little hacking machine and has the various scripts and programs to help do her hacking.

## Background

### Pre-Big Team

Hana has just her mother that she knows of in the city. She's lived in Halcyon her whole life. Her mother wasn't around a lot, telling Hana it was work stuff. She was used to being alone a lot, her mother made sure there was food and stuff at their place and neighbors at least made sure she got home okay. As she got a little older Hana found out she had super strength and other enhanced abilities. She also took to computers pretty early on, usually just taking apart the one at their home or getting on it to learn coding. She got attention when she broke stuff, so there was a degree of doing it to get her mom to actually talk to her.

She got into some crime stuff as a result of that, mostly to see what she could do and to tick her mom off. She hacked her office and some other businesses, broke up a bank parking lot and vandalized other places, and other random sorts of similar crimes.

One day when she was at the mall, some villains attacked it while Hana was "buying" stuff from some stores without actually paying for those things. She punched out some baddies when they tried messing with her, and caught the attention of Sledge. Hana thought she was in trouble, but Sledge really just wanted to bring her on the team for her powers, so Hana agreed.

Sledge saw how she was living when they went home to talk to her mom about it, and brought her back to the community center. Hana was very confused until she was shown the apartment/base/hideout under it. Sledge let her live there, and started training her to be on the Big Team. Hana had a hacker alias before this and carried it through to her name for her superhero activities, Shade.

### Post-Big Team

Shade has been on several missions with Big Team, notably stopping former Chief O'Reily from firing a massive emp, stopping some weird time bs at Bishop with their Rubicon Whites, and other missions.

As Shade continued with her missions, Sledge gave her some more gear, notably a suit of armor she salvaged from the League of Heroes base. Shade and Temperance worked on it to get it functional with some Rubicon parts. It's a last resort, as the armor takes its energy to function from the wearer, in return increasing their powers exponentially. It also has a rocket hammer.

On Father's Day of 2020, G.A.I.A asked her and some other Big Teamers to deliver some things for the holiday, to Cyclone and an address they didn't know, only getting the information that this was supposedly the person responsible for most of their programming. The second was a church with a large cemetery. When finding the person they were supposed to deliver to, found a gravestone in Halcyon with the name 'Dr. Lewis Kerrigan' on it. He'd died when she was three, and Hana believes this to be her father. When talking to GAIA about it back at the base, they said they couldn't reveal everything due to some programming restraints, but confirmed that the headstone's inscription was true, which read 'Beloved husband and father.' Since he was responsible for some of the core of GAIA's programming and they consider him a father, Hana has some confusion on if GAIA is now their sibling or what that means for them.

### Prometheus and Playbook Change

With the help of Gwen, Hana went into her mind to view her past. She ended up learning Lewis and Anna were simply her adoptive parents. Lewis was working on something called Project Gauss, and had saved Hana after the project died out. Apparently he brought her home and had gotten Anna to agree to adopting her, then was presumed dead. Anna kept her because it's what Lewis had wanted. The two searched more inside Hana's head and found something talking about quantum energy, though didn't understand it and called it a day.

On September 20, 2020, Hana, along with Mel and Tiago, discovered someone named Prometheus was selling advanced tech and weaponry to supervillains and Geoffrey Worthington II. They were tipped off by Smokescreen that a FutureSite was being created at a Bishop facility and they'd find him there. The three of them along with some AEGIS agents, including Hayeli, were joined by Sledge and Smoke to go there and confront him. The trio learned that Prometheus was actually Hana's biological father, Lucian Quinn, a scientist and the CEO of Visionics. He showed Hana the truth of her powers, a pocket of limitless quantum energy, caused by the experiments done when she was younger by G.R.E.Y. The group defeated Prometheus and stopped the FutureSite, though he left something behind in Hana's armor. It was revealed to be an AI named Athena, who also showed Hana the potential of her powers and her armor, and now lives within a core of condensed nanobots and liquidized metal within her.

## Relationships

### Family

Hana recently learned more about her family, mainly that Anna Kerrigan isn't truly her mother. Lewis Kerrigan, her husband, brought Hana home from some kind of science facility. He died shortly after, and Anna just sort of kept it up and raised Hana because of the circumstances. She doesn't know who her true parents are.

Sledge and Temperance

Sledge met Hana during an incident at the mall where some villains attacked and Hana managed to fend some of them off. The two got to talking, and in typical Hana fashion, she misunderstood the conversation. Sledge offered to teach her some stuff because she saw potential in her, Hana took this as 'I know about the crimes and things, this or I turn you in' Shade accepted, and Sledge took her as her Protege. She really looks up to Sledge after training with her and getting to know her, and thinks her relationship with Temperance is #goals. Hana's constantly worried about messing up and ruining what she has with Sledge.

Temperance helps Hana with the more technical of her abilities, being a wonderful hacking and computer science mentor. The two have a playful relationship, and care for each other a lot. She and Sledge also care for each other greatly, though it's more gruff in how they show it due to the two's stubbornness.

After all the mess with her biological father and the Kerrigans, Hana asked Sledge and Temperance if she could change her last name to Steel and join their family. They agreed, and Hana started the process to become Hana Steel. She stays with them, splitting her days between their place and her base under the community center.

### Friends

#### Within Big Team

EliZe

Hana met EliZe when she was 10, on her birthday when she was having a bad time. They hung out and stole some ice cream and talked a lot, but EliZe had to go for weird time reasons. She told Hana she'd be back, and Hana waited for her til now. EliZe came back recently and Hana is excited to be able to see her friend again.

Fearless

A few years ago, Hana met Maria when they both broke into the same place. The two fought, Maria won, and gave Hana a big scar across her eye. Hana's had a grudge against her since, and when she learned they were on Big Team now, it didn't go the best. The two(four?) were able to patch things up and have the start of a friendship.

Verve

Shade knows Verve's identity and thinks she's awesome, and loves her baking. She's very nervous she's going to mess up the whole knowing her secret identity thing, but is doing her best.

Friðr

Boon invited Shade to join the Flex Girls, which Shade really really appreciates and is doing her best to practice and be involved with. She doesn't quite get the new aesthetic but digs it and is glad it's a good thing and they're not in danger from a demon or whatever anymore.

The Jackal

Shade relates to Mel a lot, with them both being the proteges of some big cool superheroes and having super strength and being in a band. She admires her a lot, since she seems to have this whole thing under control while Shade is still a hot mess about all of it.

Whiz

Tiago and Shade did some hacky stuff together before joining Big Team, and she's pumped to have him here and being able to work with him. She respects him a lot, his smarts constantly impress her.

Whisper

Shade just thinks Whisper is awesome with how powerful she is, her "idgaf" attitude, and being a kickass trash possum girl.

Bolt

Once you've committed several B&E's with someone, you're automatically friends. Shade likes Bolt's tech powers and his robots and his attitude about stuff. He's a good friend and she likes when they're able to do missions together.

Cypher

Shade has been on a couple missions with Cypher and really respects her. She thinks her powers are amazing and appreciates how cool and in control she is. The whole 'losing control of the shield and causing a big fire' didn't mess with that, cause magic is weird and stuff.

### Significant Others

Hayeli - Girlfriend

Hayeli was their contact in the mission to break Smoke out of the AEGIS super jail. Shade was immediately impressed by her assets and how cool Hayeli was. She was a big help on the mission, and afterward Shade shot for the moon and asked her out, and she seemed to be interested. Shade is happy about this development.

They've been on a date and Hana learned Hayeli relies on acting and mirroring others because of her work, often needing to for survival. She trusts her and wants to go on more dates and keep getting the chance to learn more about the real Hayeli.

After Hayeli disappeared, Hana kept trying to find her, going to the lengths of interrogating Smokescreen. She knows Hayeli betrayed them in the helicarrier break out, and wants to get her side of the story. Once Hayeli returned as 'Hayeli Gorgon,' an agent of AEGIS, she met up with her to chat, and the two cleared things up. Since then the two have spent a lot of time together, deciding to date and are officially girlfriends once Hana finally managed to actually ask her.

## Journal Entries

* SHADE JOURNAL DO NOT READ

* Definitely Not Shade's S5 Journal

## Additional Scenes

* The Fist Bump of Friendship (5/26/2020-5/29/2020) - Wherein **Shade** asks Atlanta for dating advice, and they talk about friendship.
* What if... we kissed at the Rubicon arcade game... under the bisexual lighting?? And we were both girls?! haha jk... unless? (5/30/2020) - **Shade** asks Hayeli on a date, where they get tacos, play some games, and learn more about each other ~~and kiss O.O.~~
* The One Where Shade Calls Her Mom (6/8/2020) - **Shade** makes sure her mom is okay, but isn't quite okay herself.
* Dr. Shadelove, or How I Asked My Mentor To Help Interrogate A Supervillain (6/20/2020) - **Shade** asks her mentor, Sledge, to help question Smokescreen for more information on a certain cute mercenary.
* That's Rough, Buddy (7/4/2020) - **Hana** and Mel fix a robot and talk about everything going on in their lives.
* The Brain and The Brawn (7/31/2020) - **Shade** gets some help from Whiz in fighting a robot, then they hang out and talk about all the crap that's been going on.
* Little Crimes, Big Feels (4/21/2012, 8/28/2020) - A young **Hana** makes a friend in EliZe.
* The Scar, The Rebel, and The Hacker (9/1/2020) - **Hana** and Fearless bury the hatchet. Metaphorically. Bladed weapons are what started this whole thing.
* And I Said: What About Breakfast At Hayeli's? (9/10/2020) - **Hana** heads to see Hayeli at her new place of residence, and they talk about their summers while being gay.
* One Last Stop (9/13/2020) - After Prometheus attempted to create FutureSite+, **Hana** has one more important thing to do with a certain Agent Gorgon
* Shade and Verve in: The Super Duper Important Emergency! (11/26/2020) - **Shade** requests the help of her fellow super hero Verve to deal with a cataclysmic issue in this exclusive team up!

## Quotes

* "I'll be busy keeping myself busy" - S4.5 OVA: Super Father's Day
* "Nothing good ever comes from following a flowchart. Trust me." - Additional Scene: That's Rough, Buddy
* "Sometimes I talk a lot, and I can make it so that some of them are about how cool you are." - S5E20: Old School Cool
* "Don't punch babies that can't fight back" - Season 6 Orientation Hangout

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