Dr Stranglewire

Doctor Jannette "Jane" Wix, was an American experimental cyberneticist and pioneer of prosthetics who founded the Melior Corporation along with Adam Hawthorne Jr and Koji Nakamura, however she was known to a few by her codename under the mysterious identity of "Dr Stranglewire", where she would use her abilities to take more physical ways of achieving her goals, especially when legality issues arose.

### **History**

Jane was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1983, very little is known of her childhood other than she attended Ohio university and possessed multiple technology and biology degrees; she spent a lot of her teenage years networking, acquiring contacts and working is small-time labs as an assistant, until she met Koji Nakamura in 2008; Koji had the idea of a business developing prosthetics, but it wasn't until they met Adam Hawthorne Jr until they got the finances to create Melior.

As Melior started operation, Jane began experimenting with nano-cybernetics, using Hawthorn's funds and Koji's knowledge of physics, chemistry and robotics, Jane herself already a gifted student of engineering and cellular biology, and frustrated at the limitations and slow development of the mainstream scientific community, met with Theodore Lind in 2014, and he suggested that "experimentation starts at home".

Taking Theo's suggestion quite literally Jane's frustration at multiple denials of technology and monetary grants, and almost seeing Melior collapse in 2003 led her to Wix to take some desperate measures to save her company and dreams of technology; Jane used herself as an experimentation into human-technology interfaces.

After the operations, done somewhat reluctantly by Koji and Adam, Jane discovered she was more than she was before, but it enabled her to allow Melior to grow and overtake several smaller industries, and allowed Koji to develop his Photonic project.

At some point in 2008 rumours of Wix co-owning or at least sharing the Corporation with a mysterious biogenic technology benefactor named Lady Araneae, who further funded the Hawthorn estate to invest in Melior so long as she could use Melior's labs for her own.

In 2010 she acquired Artom Biogenics in Israel, while trying to buy the company, she was denied by the Israeli Government, but under her Stranglewire alias killed the investigation team and acquired most of it's assets.

She also acquired Kahloon Industries in India in 2015 using similar tactics.

### **Appearance**

Jane is a tall, brown-eyed woman described as looking "scholarly", wearing black-rimmed glasses that she requires for long-distance, her hair is often tied into a ponytail, and is brown, sometimes dies with redder, more chestnut highlights. She tends to not wear make up unless under her Stranglewire alias, where her hair is wilder and dabbed with bolder highlights, often with hair over one side of her face while she wears lens-correcting goggles that enhance her vision further.

### **Personality**

She is described by Koji Nakamura as being "wildly tenacious", fascinated with the limits of technology and biology. Like Theo, she claims herself to be a 'transhumanist', believing in the evolution of humanity through technological augmentation. This, however has led her to some rather unconventional and illegal routes to fund her continuing growth of her company; this passion grew to the point where she let nothing stand in her way at acquiring strange and controversial biotech companies.

### **Powers and abilities**

**Powers:**

**Cybervein Augmentation:** Jane underwent several experimental operations to test her own technology, using her own body as a sandbox to give her several abilities. The main focus of this was her 'cybervein' systems that inserted ten, extending and retracting millimetre-wide wire-like metal tendrils composed of tightly-segmented zinc-manganese-calcium nano-rods infused with kinzium, up the inside of her arms. Attached directly to her central nervous system, she could mentally manipulate these wires at will, though they took some control at first.

* ***Wire Projection:*** She could extend and control these metal wires from her fingertips at high speed, which were capable of growing to a maximum length of 20 meters. She was able to segment these wires at will, forming them into deadly piercing weapons, creating shapes such as loops or bends or use them in more subtle ways such as picking locks; Jane could "feel" through the cyberveins as they transmitted vibration directly to her nerves, although shd could't feel pain in them directly, could use them as whisker-like receptors. Each were also strong enough to lift almost a tonne with insane tensile strength. She could use them to lift her body off the ground and crawl up the side of buildings with no issue, or leap great distances by pushing away from a surface. They were highly resistant to changes in temperature, reflect kinetic energy and were immune to rust, however being metal they could be susceptible to electric shock.

* ***Augmented Strength:*** The cyberveins in her arms are connected to her collar bone and spine, they improve her lift to almost two tonnes by acting like additional tendons and possessing incredible tensile strength.

* ***Augmented Healing Rate:*** Chemical enhancements designed to accept and balance her cybervein components' bone-anchor and nerve-interfaces enabled her to rapidly recover from damage, in particular heal the puncture wounds left by the extension of her wires from her fingertips.

**Abilities:**

* **Genius Intellect:** Though her exact IQ is unknown, she possessed a vast array of knowledge concerning the development of mathematics, chemistry, physics, cybernetics, biology and business, possessing a doctorate in many of these fields.
* **Skilled Hacker:** She was a natural and highly adept computer worker, understanding both the software and hardware of computer systems.
* **Skilled Tracker:** It was shown that she learned to track people to a very skilled degree.
* **Expert Combatant:** Jane was able to fight to an outstandingly skilful degree, using various forms of martial arts and using her cyberveins as a weapon.

**Equipment:**

**Stranglewire Suit:** She and Koji developed a specialised suit made from sound-dampening materials, which could withstand massive changes in temperature and physical damage. These included specialised rubber-silicone gloves with buffer-holes in their tips, so that any potential electric charge is safely regulated, or at least dialled down to a manageable level.

**Augment Goggles:** She used a pair of bespoke electronic goggles whilst in her Stranglewire alias that not only gave her the lens-enhancing capabilities as her regular glasses, but further augmented her vision with a targeting and analysing system.

### **Limitations and weaknesses**

Without her gloves her cybervein wires are weak against electrical currents, channelling electricity into her nerves directly and causing her massive pain or causing her to pass out, perhaps worse.

Jane has succumb to power and getting her own way, her tenacity at securing assets for her company may one day be her downfall.

She is short-sighted and requires glasses to see clearly beyond a meter.