Carmen Spark/History

## History

### Birth & Early Life

Carmen Eir Spark was born to Cynthia and James Spark, a then poor family living in a subpar house. Unfortunately, Carmen was already off to a bad start, as James had soon walked out on the two. Cynthia's declining financial status made it difficult to properly raise Carmen, often forgoing her own meals in order to feed Carmen. This led to her physical health declining over the following years, and Carmen growing up more and more independent due to having to help take care of her mother. Once Carmen had turned eleven, she was able to finally awaken her latent abilities of electrokinesis, inherited from her mother.

Once Carmen found out she had her mother's ability, she immediately started working on it, and soon became proficient enough to shoot small bolts of electricity at things. She met a few other kids her age, specifically Alex Jolton and Voku Kist. She was a little disheartened to learn how common of an ability her lightning manipulation was, but spun her thinking around to seeing everyone else as rivals to surpass. Voku was a towering kid, a foot taller than the two lightning users, and his immense strength always wow'd Carmen whenever it was displayed.

### Freshman Year

Her freshman year at Edensville High was fairly plain for the first two months, hell, her school didn't even have an entrance exam. Dawning a blue shirt and black jeans, Carmen at this point in time would lack proper footwear, mostly going either barefoot, in black socks, or semi-oversized sandals her mother would lend her. Despite her unenviable monetary situation, Carmen would still enjoy herself for the most part, training with Alex and Voku even allowing her to unlock a small 'super form', which she would name 'Mastery'. Aside from a few clashes with the local bullies here and there, the main duo of Reece Ashi and Liam Brenton giving her a bit of trouble, Alex and Voku were always right behind her to back her up. The main quarrel that made up the bulk of her year was her constant squabbling with the town's rich girl, Annabelle Revlin, and to a lesser extent, Annabelle's friend Krystal Snowfield.

While Carmen would often argue and taunt Annabelle, Reece and Liam, they would harder ever *actually* scrap, usually being kept apart by intervening students, teachers, or just Voku clearing his throat. Until one night, in which Reece & Liam, Carmen & Alex, and Annabelle & Krystal would all end up in a wide-scale brawl within the nearby Edensville Stadium. The fight began from a simple dispute, Carmen and Alex having intended to use the area to train their new transformation, Reece & Liam not wanting 'weakling pollution' in the area, and Annabelle having been sent to train with Krystal.

The fight would last for the entire night, spreading into the next morning, leaving no clear victor. Carmen would grow a small, begrudging respect for Reece and Krystal's power and Liam's skill, though would find herself too frustrated at Annabelle and would only further her personal grudge due to being unable to properly defeat her. Despite the increase in hostility towards Annabelle, the tension between Reece and Carmen would drastically reduce following the scuffle, leaving everyone aside from Annabelle to become friendly rivals as opposed to malicious obstacles.

As the year progressed, things would seem to continue as normal, a few impromptu sparring sessions here and there, training after hours with the teachers, until a mysterious