Prestige

Prestige is the current Director of SARS, after having emerged from a long period spent in amber. She is the first pilot of Polaris II and Asterprime's former second-in-command. At the time of her amberization, she was 40 years old. She is the last subject of Project Cyan and one of the only subjects to do a Terrigenesis. Her weapon is a second-generation lunablade called Purple Crisis. Thane of Titan is her son.

## Biography

### Birth

As a Project Cyan test subject, Prestige was forced into a very controlled lifestyle for optimal Z-chromosome retention. She came to have a strong aversion to the color white because it was the color of the lab she was raised in. When SNAP occurred, she was abandoned by the scientists and adopted by Cyan.

### Adoption

Prestige had the enhanced growth genes given to all Project Cyan subjects. Her accelerated rate of growth destroyed her mental health, causing extreme body dysmorphia especially at the onset of puberty at 5 months. Cyan began to see her as more of a sister than a daughter. Prestige objected to this, especially because she did not feel as old as she looked. Cyan struggled to control her because she had the maturity of a baby but the body and abilities of a much older child. Prestige repeatedly stole his lunablade to play with it and he was constantly trying to rein her in before she caused problems.

### SARS and War with Thanos

Prestige admits that she does not remember much of her time in SARS, because most of it was spent trying to find a way to stop growing. While there, she assisted Cyan in his medic duties and was present during all of his I.S. tests and strategy meetings. However, she never participated in a confrontation with an enemy even though she volunteered multiple times. By the time Thanos was amberized, Prestige had reached the physical age of twenty and had mostly stopped aging. She never received an official position.

### Rebuilding of Krakoa

Prestige assisted Cyan in clearing the wreckage of Krakoa and rebuilding the campus. When Cyan became Asterprime, Prestige became his second in command and began to go on missions. She was the tenth person to recieve surgery to pilot an I.S. Prestige was an exceptional pilot especially when paired with Polaris II. Asterprime eventually decided that Prestige was mature enough to start going on missions. Her desire to make up for what she had missed out on during her time in SARS led her to become addicted to her work, once spending 3 days straight riding Polaris II. At some point during that time, she completed her Terrigenesis. Her crystal was bright purple and very symmetrical. Prestige opted to build her own second-generation lunablade, Purple Crisis, even though Apple had released the first third-generation iBlade a week prior to her Terrigenesis.

### Becoming a Parent

Though Prestige was extremely devoted to her work, she also had a desire to become a parent. Because she was infertile as a result of her Project Cyan genes, she could not conceive a child naturally. After returning from a mission, she came across a peculiar child who had recently been brought to Krakoa. The child, Thane, was discovered to share genes with Thanos, making him Thanos's grandson. Asterprime opted to throw him out before he became a danger to Krakoa. Prestige refused because she believed that the child should be given a chance, so she became his sponsor and adopted parent. Prestige took a two-month break to rehabilitate Thane. He quickly developed an attachment to her, and she reciprocated it wholeheartedly. Even after she returned to work, she continued to care for Thane. During her off days, she brought him his favorite foods. She used her influence to add harder classes to his schedule, but she never intervened to save him from punishment even though she had enough power to do so. When Thane turned 11, she was already teaching him how to pilot Polaris II after allowing him to have the surgery. She was determined to make Thane into a child prodigy so that he would have a good life, and had high standards and expectations for him for his entire childhood.

### Amberization

Prestige eventually fought the Cancer Dog, tempering her crystal and killing it to prevent it from destroying a campsite full of innocent people. Asterprime amberized her for the crime of murder.

### Joining SARS

Prestige was carried to Starhammer Base after SARS salvaged items from Krakoa. She was sawed out of the amber during the events of the Decimation of Earth. Once outside, Prestige paired with Polaris II in an effort to pull Earth out of the sun. Though she managed to destroy the God Engine with her Injecto-Spear and tow it back to its original place, the sun had already burnt all living beings on the planet's surface. Shortly after, she was hit by a shot from an unfamiliar I.S. She engaged it in battle out of self-defense, attempting to size it up and find information about its stats while doing so. In an attempt to find the identity of the pilot, she tried to engage it in conversation. The other pilot replied that they were told she was dead. They also referred to her as Mom. The battle ended in a draw, with Prestige retreating as the other I.S. lost interest after trying to persue her. Prestige was initially reluctant to fight her son, but after looking through SARS archives and learning about his Terrigenesis, she promptly disowned him and started preparations to strengthen SARS against attacks. When a third party source detected an I.S. underneath a distant civilization, Prestige organized a mission to claim it knowing that a second I.S. would give SARS an advantage. She took part in the mission, directing personnel while piloting Polaris II to guard the dig site. Once the new I.S. was unearthed, Prestige detected leviathans, Outrider capsules, and the Endless Resurgence representative pilot in Sterilizer I approaching to take it by force. She engaged Sterilizer, ordering the others to protect the new I.S. and retreat.

## Personality

Prestige is incredibly duty-bound, holding her job as an Aster above all other interests. She is capable of hiding her personal emotions and problems to an extreme degree, as she doesn't believe they are worth sharing when there are larger concerns to worry about. She tends to blame herself for everything that goes wrong, even for things that happened outside of her control. School grades and test scores are very important to her, and she has very little patience for people who perform lower than A level. She is competitive, even using heels to increase her height when she found that her son had grown taller than her. However, she has a maternal side to her- especially around Thane. Prestige has an unusual fascination with children and enjoys spending time with them because she felt that she missed her own childhood. She feels obligated to protect them as part of her job. Though she is willing to take her own son down to protect others from dying to bombings and missile tests, she misses him and blames herself for what went wrong with him. This conflict of interest has led her to have hallucinations in which her son begs for her to save him while his biological mother reminds her of her responsibilities as an Aster and director of SARS. Prestige, like many pilots, genuinely enjoys riding an I.S. and finds that fighting distracts her from her problems.

## Abilities

### External Adjustment

Prestige, like many people with Z-chromosomes, has the ability to manipulate the Ether outside the bounds of her body. She has demonstrated the ability to perform Terrigenesis, manipulate probability, and do Terrigen crystal attacks.

### Internal Adjustment

Prestige can alter the state of her body and has exhibited a high level of control over her movements.

### Lunablade Skill

Prestige can fight anything and everything with a lunablade, including a jacked up dog and her son. The blade of Purple Crisis is wider than average so that she can block ranged attacks, which is an area that she is particularly skilled at.

### I.S. Pilot

Prestige has years of experience riding an I.S. and can handle the Injecto-Spear with ease, performing an injection-detonation maneuver at a moment's notice while fighting another reasonably good pilot. She is accustomed to Polaris II's Hand-Mounted Light Repulsor and Missile Spin. She is particularly adept at dodging attacks.

### Leadership Skills

Prestige does not hesitate to give orders to even complete strangers. She can multitask, leading while piloting her I.S.

### Parenting

Prestige is a good parent to her son, Thane. She gave him food and made sure that he had a good education. She even took time from work to add new classes to his schedule that she thought would help him in later life.

### Drugless Hallucination

Prestige can engage in accidental Internal Adjustment and hallucinate, especially after a long period of suppressing her emotions.

## Lunablade Statistics

Prestige uses a second generation custom built lunablade called Purple Crisis. Her Terrigen crystal, before she tempered it, was purple.

## Appearance

Prestige is widely known as the most beautiful person in Storytime. She has shoulder-length lilac hair in her signature hairstyle, a braid across her forehead. Her eyes are either blue or purple depending on the lighting in the background. She normally wears a black uniform with gold accents, or an unusual shieldsuit that is black and gold with high heels. She is six feet tall.