Stella Lawson Myers (Stardom569)

World-class technomancer, and one of OMO's premier villains.

## Overview

Top-class technomancer, despite her young age, is a very dangerous and ambitious individual. She has an anarchistic and chaotic streak, causing chaos and death in much of where she goes. She is also very stubborn and prideful as well. She once a deep personal history with fellow technomancer and Goblin Princess, Glory.

## Appearance

Stella is young Caucasian girl, appearing to be in her mid-teens, though is likely older than she looks. She has long, somewhat-curled blonde hair, held down by feathered hairband, and a simple black choker around her neck. She can commonly identified by her signature red heart-shaped sunglasses she almost always wears covering her piercing green eyes.

Despite being American, Stella regularly wears a black-and-white British schoolgirl uniform, with a striped black-and-white tie and short black skirt and stockings. She frequently prefer her clothes to have a black-and-white aesthetic, rarely seen in wearing anything that is not predominantly those colors.

## Powers & Practice

### Implement

Stella's main weapon and tool is her Implement, a clean-white computer keyboard she carries around with her. Its principles works similar to that of Ogre Magic: by rapidly typing a variety of sequences and codes into the keyboard, she can invoke a staggering variety of different effects. A vast majority of the spells and rituals she casts are performed through her Implement.

#### Screen Conversion

Her main means of travel, Stella has mastered travelling across the digital space. As long she is in an area where Wi-Fi could reasonably reach her, she can converted any reflective surface within her vicinity into a computer screen. This makes her very rarely defenseless or unable to do something as long she has her Implement and reflective surface near her.

#### Cyberspace Entry

Stella can enter into the screen of any technological device (provided that it is big enough for her) and travel across cyberspace through it. This, combined with her ability to convert reflective surfaces, allows to quickly escape from situations and travel to other places rapidly. When she had her Demesne, she used to this much faster by entering into it, but with its loss, she must be more careful when navigating cyberspace.

Should also be noted that the sequences for converting a reflective surface into a screen and entering into cyberspace are different from one another, and are particularly longs ones to enter into the keyboard. As such, often to save time, Stella prefers to just find a nearby technological device to enter into with this sequence, rather than convert a reflective surface and then into that.

#### Cyberdaemonia

Stella can summon a number of semi-autonomous humanoid entities that appear to be made out of static to perform simple tasks for her. They are not much stronger or faster than the average person physically, can only perform simple actions that are within her within her own capabilities, and mostly lack initiative without specific direction through Stella saying or typing in commands for them.

However, she is capable of quickly summoning a dozen of them at once, and if they are defeated or destroyed, Stella can quickly re-summon them again by her side. Cyberdaemonia are more advanced version of Computer Sprites that certain technomancers can summon.

Reality Hack

Like many other technomancer's, Stella can hack into the fabric of reality and change it how she wishes. Feats she is capable of, with some time and set-up are:

* **Type-Conversion:** Changing one object from one thing to another of similar function and form. The smaller the target Stella is reprogramming, the more quiickly and easier she can do this. The same goes for the more similar the target state is to the original object. Does not work on humans or Others.
* **Swap-Variables:** Stella can swap the locations of two targets. Similar to Type-Conversion, the more similar that her two targets are in mass, size and appearance, the faster and more easily she can do perform this action. Also, the bigger the targets are, the more difficult that it is for Stella to do this.
* **Cut & Paste:** Stella can cut shunt certain objects and similar targets into her "clipboard" and paste them somewhere else. A slightly more complicated example of this is editing the doors off of walls, and pasting them onto another to go through them.

#### Glitches

Stella's main offensive technique against foes. With a quick clatter of her keyboard, Stella can apply a "glitch" to people that get within her near-vicinity disabling them from continuing to fight. Most of these glitches are actually non-lethal, but are difficult to undo without the help of a technomancer who is familiar with such glitches, or a Glamour-specialist. Example glitches that have been seen are:

* **Phasing:** Stella's most common offensive glitch, she makes a person momentarily lose tangibility, making them phase into object. This phasing only usually lasts for about a second, but that is enough to make a person fall into the ground or a wall, and get stuck in there once the tangibility ends.
* **Ground Rejection:** A more complicated sequence, Stella makes a person reject the ground, making it so that whenever they touch the ground, their body is instantly transported a few feet back up in the air. No momentum is loss in this transportation, so the longer a person stays in this state, the faster they will be repeatedly be falling.

Stella has also been observe to be able to apply theses glitches to herself as well. In her fight with Skitter when she tried to take over her body, Stella inputted a sequence that rapidly stretched and squashed her body and Self, painfully forcing Skitter out of her body.

### Familiar

Stella's main right-hand man is Kenny, a Nex Machina that consumed an Incarnation (or vice-versa), now holding the properties of both. The Incarnation in question was an Incarnation of Doom, specifically the Doom of failed plans and protections, systemic failings, and the crumbling of orders and organizations. The Doom is likely associated with the events of the near-catastrophic Y2K bug that also came to pass.

Kenny physical form appears as a tall, slender being adorned in a black suit and hat, which ominously often steeps his entire face in shadow. Like his grayscale wardrobe, his bleak, wrinkled skin is similarly colorless, calling to mind black-and-white films of the 1940s-50s. His stature is crooked and misaligned, with cheekbones and closed eyes that appear sunken and emaciated, giving him a corpse-like appearance. Occasionally, his form digitally-flickers, hinting at his Nex Machina nature. His Familiar form is as a small white mouse that often sits at Stella's shoulder.

Glory speculates that the Nex Machina that makes up Kenny was originally based around fears of government takeovers and conspiracy, of the "men in black" that'll take people who know too much, who aren't careful enough to hide their activities.

Though Kenny has both combined properties of both a Nex Machina and an Incarnation, he has them to a secretly weakened effect. These powers include:

* **Doom-Inevitability:** As an Incarnation of Doom, (even if as a weakened one) the more times Kenny is defeated by something continuously, the stronger he'll get. Stella doesn't often use this aspect of is, as he is often separated from her for long stretches of time when he leans to heavily in his Incarnate side like that.
* **Plan-Sensing:** Kenny can sense and deduce the plans and ideas of others, in order to know how to best take them apart. He can also use it as a sort of pseudo-danger sense, able to sense people's and Other's intentions in the heat of battle, making him a very proficient fighter. However, this is more suited-toward large-scale plans and organizations, so his predictions aren't always perfect. He can also but duped by instinctive and on-the-fly maneuvers that are done with no greater plan or idea in mind.
* **Environmental Manipulation:** Kenny can spread and permeate his essence into the environment around him, controlling the area as a sort of pseudo-Demesne. However, when he does so, he is leaning more toward his Nex Machina side, weakening his Incarnate powers. AS he exercises more control over the environment around him, the weaker and more vulnerable his physical body really is to attacks.

His and Stella's partnership was arranged by a yet still-unknown third-party, who Stella presumably may still work for.

### Demesne

Stella's Demesne was an website known as *FreakParade.* FreakParade is a discussion-based forum website, founded, owned, administrated and moderated by Stella. It has its origins on 4chan, but progressively grew bigger and more popular overtime, becoming its own independent website with a dedicated subscriber base. There, people will post urban legends, internet myths, and creepypastas, often debating on how real something posted there really is. And of course, a good number of what's posted there are other Nex Machina's. Not as powerful or as formidable as Kenny is, but strong and numerous enough that they were a very force. Stella helps them, uses her FreakParade and her moderation authority to help disseminate and empower them, and in exchange they assist and give her power. Often, to keep user losses low, she would link them to other websites, including to OMO itself. We believe that this is the core source of her power.

This was all until a few month's ago, Stella lost her Demesne in the Battle of Greenesville to the Tiny Alliance. During the battle, all the allied forces worked against Stella and her army to cut FreakParade's Connections to the greater internet, pushing it to fall into a digital area of the Abyss know as "The Server," where it currently remains to this very day. User SummerStroll, a Resident of the Fae Realm, was hired by Lord Grey to go into the Abyss as slay Nex Machina's residing in ther before they are claimed by the Abyss, as well as desecrated FreakParade so that it may never arise in the Human World again.

## History

### Pre-OMO

#### Childhood

Stella was born in Silicon Valley, California. She had a relatively quiet and peaceful childhood. Both of her parents are currently still alive, though are living outside of North America.

Stella Lawson Myers is not her birth name, but it was the name she chose to be Awakened by. Her true birth name is currently unknown.

#### The MerryMakers

Sometime after her Awakening, Stella joined the MerryMakers, a group of online-based Practitioners. She eventually met and invited Aubrey to join with them as well. She mentored Aubrey into the basic of the Practice, though left out certain important aspect, such as what the karmic impact of being Forsworn does. It was around this time where she had her Implement.

After the MerryMakers collapsed, Stella had met an unknown third-party, who arranged for her Familiarship with Kenny. She then began to build up FreakParade as a website, and eventually her Demesne, allowing it to be a place where Nex Machina can freely prowl upon Innocent users.

### Battle of Greenesville

#### The Bounty

After Glory posts the bounty for Stella on OMO, she began to attack the site and fellow users on it. This, compounded by the already accumulation of bad karma on the site due to the presence of Diabolists, eventually led the collapse of OMO, until it eventually rebuilt a few weeks later, reworked and remodeled to be better and improved from the original.

#### The Hunt

While lying down on a lone beach in California, Stella suddenly pursued by Lord Grey and his Hunt. She fled into cyberspace, and utilizing her Implement and Demesne, travelled across all over the world and multiple Realms, with Lord Grey constantly hot on her heels. She littered each area with traps, Practitioners, and Others in his way, but he was always on her trail, no matter what was in front of him. During the pursuit, Stella noticed Lord Grey was leaving seeds in all the locations they travelled to, and so kept notes and archives of this, one copy on herself, and another in stored in FreakParade.

In the meantime that she was being chased, the allied forces against Stella were working on attack FreakParade, damaging it's infrastructure, userbase, and reputation in order to push it closer to falling into the Abyss. As she was being chased by Lord Grey, Stella sent Nex Machina's out to try and stop the forces, but they were successfully countered by the team.

#### The War

Eventually, the FreakParade was pushed near enough to the edge that Stella decided to confront the team herself in Greenesville. With her, she brought a group of other technomancers and Nex Machina to help and fight against all the assembled forces that were waiting for her. As the battled roared on, eventually, Stella was pushed to the point where she had to flee, entering back into her Demesne - or, at least what she thought was her Demesne. In actuality, during the battle, Landis and the team had temporarily took FreakParade off the web, and in its placed scattered dozens of dummy sites designed specifically to trap anyone who physically enters into them. Once Stella entered into one of these dummy sites, she was trapped in the team's servers.

As soon as they had her trapped, the team immediately began working on demolishing her Demesne, trying to push it even further into the Abyss, until it falls completely. But, over time, more of Stella's reinforcement have arrived, making thing more difficult. Eventually, the servers that were keeping Stella contained were broken, and she was able to successfully escape and start countering their efforts to push FreakParade into the Abyss.

As things were starting to look hopeless, Glory proposed for one last-ditch push to beat Stella: enter into her Demesne through a backdoor that was installed while she was imprisoned, and keep her occupied long enough for the outside team defeat push FreakParade over the edge. A small team agree, and they go in. Silver confront Stella, disguised as Glory, and drawing on their personal history in order to keep her occupied long enough for FreakParade to fall.

Stella and Kenny were able to escape FreakParade before it fell, but a number of Stella's Nex Machina's fell in along with her Demesne, which she took rather personally and painfully. She wasted no time as she immediately began to plan her vengeance against the Tiny Alliance.

### Stella's Counterattack

Due to having just lost her Demesne, Stella didn't have much to throw at her enemies as she usually did, so she had to be conservative. Most of her remaining forces were sent to focusing on the other allied forces separate of the Tiny Alliance, whom she decided to go after personally.

#### First Wave

First, Stella sent over an upper-tier gremlin and his horde over to Tecumseh, Seamus Doughtery's hometown. The gremlin had a grudge against Seamus's Familiar Alornerk, due to killing his Practitioner during the Battle of Greenesville. But, this was just a distraction, as her real attack was the Trojan Worm, which slowly drain Seamus of all his Connections, until he would be completely faded into nothing.

She also used this same strategy against Landis, though in a slightly different manner. She sent it not after him, but his son, Justin Landis. She sent low-level Others to attack Landis's sites, to keep him busy and occupied from his son's slowly worsening condition.

#### Brian Hunt

Stella noticed Glory's attack on the Fox News building through the news, and deduces that she must be staying at Josh's place. She places surveillance on them, watching them until they go to the storage unit to pick out personal items of hers for the trip into the Abyss. While they are there, she learns that Brian is actually Silver's brother. She confronts them, stealing a note that Brian left that was meant for Glory.

There, she offers Glory and Silver a deal: A ceasefire from any further conflicts between them, and she'll assist them in trying to stop Lord Grey's seed plan. She also says if they refuse, she'll take her revenge out on Brian, because he's Silver's brother. Glory and Silver refuse, and she tries to attack them, but Silver pulls she and Glory into Dark Fall, successfully escaping from her. After they are gone, Stella sets fire to the storage units they were in, and calls the police to frame them. She also calls in a Practitioner who works for the New York Police to go after Glory and Silver, to which he does.

She then uses Brian's note he left for Glory to track him back down to Naarden, in the Netherlands. She also brings along Ted, the Practitioner officer she set upon Glory and Silver in New York with her as well. She knocks on his door, and him, never having the chance to realize her true nature, invites her in as an old friend. Soon after, Glory, Silver, and Skitter arrive as well. They all sit down for some nice coffee and cookies. As they sit down, Stella provokes an argument between Silver and Brian. But, as she basks in Silver's and Brian's confrontation, Glory's van bursts through the wall, knocking Stella back.

The fight begins. Stella summons dozens of mechanical spiders into the house to attack them. As Silver and Glory tried to bring Brian into the van, Stella was confronted by Skitter. She sent Kenny at her, but Skitter's body collapsed onto the ground at contact, and Stella's began to twitch. As Skitter was trying to take Stella's body over and damage her Self, Stella frantically tapped into her keyboard and applied a glitch to herself, stretching's and squishing her body. Skitter was painfully forced out of her body.

She set Kenny on Skitter to try and fight her, but Silver and Glory had already escaped by then. She tells Ted to stop them from leaving the city alive before she leaves

#### Second Wave

After returning to the US, Stella then prepared to her counterattack against the other members of the Tiny Alliance. For Chaska's hometown of Attlewell, she provoked a war in it, giving her support and resources to a group Alchemist-Cultists who wanted to take over. She also sent over a number of Others, a War Mage, and Witch Hunter's there to fight and attack Chaska. A lot happened, but the end result was that Chaska became an Other, and the Familiar of another Practitioner.

As for Skitter, she prepared and sent the *Speakers Ritual*, otherwise known as *Simon's Game*, after Skitter. She worked together with another technomancer to try and cheat and game the Ritual, with some mixed and bloody results.

#### Worm Hunt

In Indianapolis, Landis recruits Glory to get rid of the Trojan Worm on his son. Stella counter s her efforts, and contacts them to propose a challenge: whoever can find and bind the Worm when it physically manifests first, wins. If they win, Stella will admit defeat, and leave Landis's family and Indianapolis alone from now on. If Stella wins, Justin will fade, and she'll be going after the rest of his family too. They accept her challenge (not like they have any choice anyway).

A couple of hours later, the Worm manifests at a big birthday party, held and hosted by a Goblin King in a huge mansion. Stella and Landis confronted each other in a night club in the mansion's basement, where she set a number of party-based Others onto him. He summoned a Star-Bear, but the Party Other eventually just lifted the bear up and crowd-surfed him away. Landis brought down a lightning bolt to kill the electricity and shut down the party, but Stella turned it back on with her own resources. Finally, Landis was able to pull himself into the Spirit Realm, where he was able to safely search for the Worm without interruption.

Stella summoned more Other to go after Landis, but it was already too late. Landis had won. Stella called him, saying only "You win" before hanging up and retreating her forces back from Indianapolis.