Dolores Menzendorf Carvallo

Dolores Menzendorf Carvallo is an Australian-born South American Resistance citizen from the South Alps Military Governorate and daughter of Military governor José Alejandro Menzendorf and María Isabel Carvallo. Since the fall of Mount Buller, Dolores has taken a false identity along with his younger sister Estefanía, and was later adopted by Matthius Kelvin in Nashville.

## Biography

Dolores was born somewhere in Australia during the Early Blitz. Like her brothers, Dolores had to deal with an early childhood littered with destruction and fear. However it was soon better by the time she turned seven, his father quickly making a safe place for her at Mount Buller. Despite this, the memories of those years linger somewhere in her mind.

She was soon described as "sneaky", able to avoid any uncomfortable situation or unwwanted chore with lies, excuses or simply distance and concealment. She was, however, not particularly ill-behaved

She became rather hopeless about her future and by her teenage years said she wouldn't date ever. Quite paradoxically to her skill at sneaking away, she had said many times that humans are not coming out of Australia. This caused some fights with his father.

She has dreams of becoming a pilot, though she doesn’t really believe in them and rarely expresses them.

## Recent developments

After the fall of Melbourne, Dolores, already listed for eventual drafting, had to endure seeing her two elder brothers taking arms. Federico vanished in a counteroffensive, while Santiago snuk out of Mount Buller during the nuclear fire unleashed by Red Star. She herself had seen the fire from the mountain side, finding a passage to a precipice from which she whitnessed the fires climbing on the southern side of the range.

During the battle of Mount Buller he became ever more aware of her unusual ability to remain undetected. She used it to explore the mountain and locate a way to evacuate in case it was needed. Her oportunity arose almost immediately, and she was able to avoid Kurt Harman's genocide attempt, leading her sister and some other civilians through a tunnel to the northern side of the mountain and into the wilderness.

Short after, she was captured, along with the other civilians, by Reich Expeditionary forces, and quickly handed over to N.A.U. care under a false name of Gloria Ibañez. The two girls ended up in a refugee camp in Mount Scott, near Adelaide, and after some weeks were taken, along with hundreds of civilians and orphans, to the North American Union, where they were granted citizenship.

It was during the hasted flight from Adelaide that upon passing through a nullfield Dolores became aware of the effect it had on her, mitigated by years of growing up under the shadow of those devices, but unuccostumed since their flight from Mount Buller. Her power was given to the investigation of Benjamin Godwin, who reported newly-found resistance metahuman children to Gabriel Kelvin. Godwin was unable to fully determine the nature of Dolores's power, but suspected her false identity and made sure both sisters remained together.

Days later, the two were adopted by Matthius Kelvin, the patriarch of the family. Their false identity was dropped at their insistance, although in public they keep it, out of fear of Reich attempts to capture her or her sister.

Since June 2020 Dolores has been under the wing of Celia Brownlowe, who had helped Dolores understand her power and harness it.

## Metahuman Ability

Dolores's powers are unclassified. They gives her the ability to know the location a space upon which a potential observer sees, hears, smells and touch. She is also able to become aware of her solid surroundings upon contact, quickly detecting the layout of rooms and hallways or of relatively open spaces. The more open the space, however, the perception becomes more diluded, and if fully isolated (as in an aircraft) it can trigger a panic attack or a sensory overload. This perception can be mitigated to near absolutes when suspended in water and presumably air. She can choose to expand or retract her area of perception, which also seems to help her find a balance. The reach of this perception is unknown so far, but as far as half a mile in open ground it becomes impractical as it dilutes too much.

These two, perception of solids and perception of senses, seem to be clearly different metahuman abilities, a rarity in itself, and Dolores is, at least unknowingly, able to coordinate them.

This leads to a more difficult-to-grasp aspect of her Metahuman alteration, which may be just personal adaptation than an actual power. Dolores seems able to know, or at least to accurately predict, when a person is either hiding information from her or when the intended objective of a conversation is to cause harm to her. This seems to include cold-guessing specific information like names and numbers. It appears to be an intuition more than actual mind-reading, though this possibility is being studied. It could imply a limited mind-reading.

In recent experimentation, Celia Brownlowe determined Dolores's brain emits an incredibly weak radiation when exposed to informatic inconsistencies, like lies or contradicting statements. This signals to an actual limited mind-reading, but it could be a neural adaptation to her already incredible perception.