Eva Isko

[Atlas Personnel Records]

> *"Justice is never a guarantee. It's up to us to do everything in our power to protect what we hold dear."*
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## Personality

Quite, yet driven. Kind, but unforgiving. Charitable, if a little cautious.

Eva's difficult upbringing has instilled within her a powerful moral compass, always guiding her to do what is right, and good, and honest. She has seen the best and worst of what people are capable of, and it is specifically because of her experience with the darkest parts of life that guide her.

To her "Evil" is inexcusable. She has walked through a living hell and seen people's best, most gentle traits emerge. Any who walk the path of selfishness and cruelty didn't become that way because of their past or trauma, but their choices and delusions.

Those who have earned her trust will find a friendly girl and a stalwart companion, someone who will always listen to their problems and be there for them when in need. Her faith in her friends is absolute, placing her very life in their hands whenever the call to action is needed.

She laughs quietly, but from her heart.

Those who have betrayed her, or shown the depths of their sins will find horrors unimaginable from her ire. Evil seeks out the darkness, and it is that darkness she will bring down on them. Colder than the depths of space, power unrestrained and wild, with fury dredged from hell itself.

## Appearance

In a word, *furtive.* Always trying to stay unnoticed, as if because of some feeling of guilt or a belief that being discovered would lead to trouble. Thanks to her active lifestyle, her strong slender build moves with gentleness, careful to not disrupt her environment out of fear of admonishment.

She's still not use to her hair or eyes, both bleached by the strange powers laying dormant inside her. Her once toasted, golden hair is now shocked as white as death, and her mother's beautiful eyes of blue with speckles of green and yellow are now cold pearls with an eerie iridescence.

Because of this she prefers to not sit beside windows or other reflective surfaces, and only uses a mirror for as long as she has to. This new look for her is her "new normal", but time will have to help her mourn her old face.

When her powers manifest, light is sucked away from her body and face, rooms grow darker and colder, and at the height of her power's manifestation a slimy black fluid bleeds from her eyes.

As an attempt to cope with her abrupt upheaval of her normal life, she has a commemorative tattoo placed under her right eye of a black tear drop crying down her cheek. She also wears more black in her makeup and outfits; all in an attempt to claim ownership of her new life.

## Powers

#### Origin:

She grew up as a normal human girl, as far as medical records show. No reported psionic powers or mystical abilities, with as much knowledge of the arcane as a few curious searches on the exonet. She was the least likely to develop any unusual capabilities.

That all changed on stardate 2.6.542, on the small planet of █████. CPL Eva Isko was given the assignment to join Stardiver team Blitz on their orbital drop. There her team was wiped out, and she encountered the █████████, a powerful ███████ ██████████████ █████ with the power to warp, and even tear, the delicate fabric of reality. Using high energy █████████-█ waves it was capable of harvesting ███ ███████ of the nearby populous.

Eva was one of the ██████ of people to be affected by the █████████-█. It is still unknown how the ███████ managed to ███ with her ███████, however after the █████████ was destroyed, lingering remnants of its power remained within Eva.

Now she has the power to rend and mend the very makeup of reality; crashing disparate parallel universes into our own, and bringing the runaway effects of reshaping existence under her control.

#### Cause:

Under direction of ██, Miss Isko is to be carefully monitored and studied. When she is not on mission she is to report to Dr. ██████ and team ████ for regular tests and data collection. As of this recording, all data relating to Miss Isko's condition is under Section-Black's jurisdiction. Clearance Level **Ξ** is required for authorization.

#### Side Effects and Morphological Adaptation:

Miss Isko secretes a opaque, slippery liquid from the orifices of her face when at peek resonance with her ███████. This fluid does not seem to hinder Miss Isko's sensory awareness of the organs effected, and may be evidence of a Level-Ψ convergence event.

When she sustains heavy damage beyond her manifested protective aura, the wounds created will bleed this same fluid in place of her human blood.

The melanin in her eyes and hair have been replaced with an iridescent isomer of █████████████████, as well as turned the lenses of her eyes into █████. Her vision remains 20-18 in spite of this opaque white obstruction to her pupils, the reason for which is unknown at this time. Insistently, Miss Isko's retinal data should not be relied upon for the purposes of bio-metric verification.

Legal Notice: All data gathered regarding Miss Isko's condition is copyrighted by Atlas Co.

## Background

#### A World In Darkness:

The dirty lower streets of Arkanen were her crucible, forging an impoverished, scared little girl into someone willing to stand up for justice. From a young age she formed a strong sense of right and wrong, and learned her way through experience.

Hacker gangs, chem slaves, cyber thugs; these were the living models she opposed. Shop owners, couriers, prostitutes; they were the ones who needed protection the most.

With fire in her young eyes she sought out a life in Law Enforcement, with the ideals to defend those who could not defend themselves, and bring righteous sunlight to the darkest corners of her little Moon-World. However, reality has earned a reputation in its treatment of dreams.

#### Hard-Light Ceilings:

Arkanen's Laws, Regulations, and even those who are sworn to uphold and enforce them, are All purpose built by the Cartel-State to be as corrupt and biased as possible; all in their favor of course. Every Police Academy she joined were blatant and honest in their motivations, laying self-service and protection of the upper class before anything else.

The struggle was long and difficult, but eventually Eva realized her beliefs were not in line with the people who were suppose to share them... and so she rebelled.

#### We Filthy Few:

Eva joined a gang that operated close to her home district, who were formed to protect and defend the little people of their streets. They called themselves "The Dirt" or "Dirties" as other people called them. Their mission was to make sure shops and homes wouldn't get robbed, and if they did find the ones who pulled it off; to protect the salt of the moon from those who would exploit them. They also had a strong Anti-Cop policy, and would attempt to muscle out any Corporate Police that showed up in their lower levels.

But running with a gang had some occupational hazards that came along with the job. Their behavior was illegal after all, "vigilante justice is damned near the only justice Arkanen sees" as some say. Eva was arrested on multiple occasions: Assault, Defacing Cartel Property, Trespassing in Municipal Maintenance areas, ect. She was a hoodlum with a heart of gold, but one's rap-sheet doesn't bother to cover one's motivations. And with all this hardship and difficulty she endured, Eva still didn't feel like she was making a difference in people's lives. She had to get out, to escape her homeworld before the life she was leading would come to an abrupt end.

#### "Atlas: Expand Your Potential!":

The best way off world was through a Corporation or Starcore, and unlike Starcore... The Atlas corporation's private military wasn't known for its strict background checks. All Atlas cared about was if you could shoot a gun, look mean, and were willing to bust your butt for a better life, and Eva had that in spades!

She joined into Atlas's *Tactical Evacuation And Rescue Service (TEARS)* and started traveling the Pact Systems giving humanitarian aid and working on reconstruction projects! From building homes and churches in the Outer Colonies, to helping people's lives get back to normal after the Gorn System's Subspace Eddy incident; Eva spent her first three years in Atlas finally doing some good!

### THE BLITZ:

Eva earned a promotion for her work in TEARS, and was given an opportunity to become part of an elite team of Special Ops; Altas were offering her a chance to join the Stardiver Program, and was given a sizable raise in pay as well as state-of-the-art training for her new assignment. She has admired the Stardivers from a far, watching them burn down in drop pods in the blink of an eye to defend TEARS while they did their humanitarian work in hostile territories. She saw them as the shield protecting her work, and jumped at the chance to be counted as one of the best that Atlas has to offer! She joined Team Blitz, and after intensive Stardiver training and simulations, she was off on her first assignment.

### Rookie's Luck:

Her first mission was to the small pre-drift planet of Zimeria: The Vesk and The Azlanti were plotting something big, and it was up to The Stardivers to make a mess of their efforts! Eva strapped on her helmet, hugged her Sub-Machine Gun to her chest, and boarded her drop pod for her first Non-Simulated drop!

And that's when things when horribly wrong. The Ship was jolted like it had slammed into rock, the lights went red as blood, and all she could hear were her new team mates screaming in their pods! The ship jettisoned her and her team, and her tiny capsule tumbled down to the planet's surface. When she landed... she would crawl out into a waking nightmare... one that she would never forget... and hopefully live to regret...

## Equipment

* Custom ODF Seeker Sub-Machine Gun, designed to interface with her powers.
* Custom T8s 8mm+P, two of them, designed to interface with her powers.
* ODF Combat gear with full face shield.
* PTSD fueled spooky powers.

## Quotes

"I don't know what they did... but I doubt I'll ever be the same..." ~Getting use to her new powers.

"YOU DID THIS TO ME!!! I hope you survive these bombs... so I can find you myself... and watch YOU ALL DIE SCREAMING!!!" ~To the Azlanti Scientists, on board their super weapon.

## Gallery

Eva Isko (borrowed art)Combat GearOfficial Atlas IDPowerTEARS patchEva's Clubwear