Nomi Marks

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

Michael Lawrence Marks (Birth/Dead Name)
Miss (Title)
All-Access, Get2Nomi (Aliases)

### Relatives

Lawrence Sterling Marks (Father)
Janet Marks (Mother)
Teagan Marks (Sister)
Angelica Turing (Sensate Mother)
Will Gorski, Riley Blue, Bak Sun-hee, Kala Dandekar, Capheus Onyango, Wolfgang Bogdanow, and Lito Rodriguez (Clustermates)

## Biographical Information

### Education

Some College
(Seaview University)

## Physical Description

### Nomi Marks: 1988 - 2006

Nomi was born via Caesarean section as male and named Michael. She and her sister, Teagan, were raised in a luxurious neighborhood in the Oak Forest community just outside of Star City. Early on, Nomi was afflicted with gender dysphoria. When she told her parents that she was not comfortable in her own skin, she was forced by her father to join the swim club, reasoning that is what made him the man he was and it would do the same for Nomi. However, insecure about her body due to her dysphoria and general teenager insecurity, Nomi would shower clothed after swim meets — which drew the attention of some of the boys who gradually became increasingly hostile toward Nomi. One day, these same boys and confronted Nomi and dragged her into the showers where they stripped her and forced her to endure a scalding hot shower — leaving her with second-degree burns on her torso.

Following that experience, Nomi quit swim club. While in recovery, she took an interest in the internet and computers. Though her parents were not thrilled with Nomi's new hobby, they felt it was not a 'girl-thing' and so generally allowed Nomi to pursue it. However, her parents did not provide her the sort of rig she would need to further her studies into coding, Nomi began to build one of her own. To this end, she sought out the aid of skilled hackers on online forums.

Through such channels, Nomi befriended other hackers, including a highly-skilled hacktivist calling himself Bug. Becoming an apprentice to "Bug", Nomi learned to become a full-fledged hacker and aided Bug in his crusade against the government. Hacking several military networks and leaking classified documents, the pair bit off more than they could chew. Rather than allow her friend Bug serve a lengthy prison sentence, Nomi took the blame for the offense. As a minor with rich parents, including a lawyer father, Nomi would be sentenced to community service.

While serving out her community service, Nomi was contacted by Bug, who told Nomi that he would be laying low and skipping town for a while. Though her legal troubles were resolved, Nomi's troubles at home escalated. One day, Nomi ran out after an argument with her mother and did not come home. Nomi took up residence in Bug's abandoned apartment. Nomi continue to attend school and therapy sessions with her mother, but refused to go home. She did not tell her parents that she was living alone, leaving them to assume she was staying with friend.

While crashing at his apartment, Nomi also began to use Bug's equipment and credentials to sell her services as a white hat hacker to various Fortune 500 companies, testing their security measures for profit. It was during this time that Nomi would cease answering to the name Michael and instead took on the identity of "Nomi" — inspired by the Ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself" that she had found among the philosophical books on Bug's bookshelf.

Following graduation and the creation of a website and MeVids channel that explored her struggle to discover who she was, Nomi saved up enough money to afford gender reassignment surgery. Right before the surgery, Nomi's sister Teagan stopped by to see her sibling. Teagan noticed that Nomi had forged their mother's signature on the paperwork for the surgery — giving her the power to stop Nomi from going forward with the medical procedure. Nomi said some cruel things to Teagan, causing her to leave in tears, and leaving Nomi's plans in danger.

As Nomi awoke from anesthesia, following her surgery, Teagan was in her hospital room with a bright pink cupcake and a lit candle, wishing Nomi a happy birthday.

### Nomi Marks: 2006 - 2013

Following her surgery, Nomi put most of her attention toward her work as a vlogger and independent journalist. She continued to work as an IT consultant only when needed to pay the bills. Following the rise of Star City's famous Ghostbusters and some paranormal sightings of her own, Nomi began to research the occult. This brought her to a book store. Nomi found the rare book she was looking for in the hand of a young and beautiful clerk who was about to stock the book. As it turned out, this clerk, Amanita Caplan, just so happened to also be what Nomi was looking for — only she did not realize until the two began talking.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Psionic Metahuman Physiology:** Nomi belongs to a sub-class of psychic known as a sensate.
	+ ***Astral Visitation:*** Nomi can project a portion of her consciousness in the vicinity of another sensate (whether one belonging to her cluster or one with which she had has physical contact previously). This projection is turned to the senses of sensates.
	+ ***Sensory Empathy:*** Nomi can share her senses, emotions, thoughts, and memories with other sensates — particularly those that belong to her sensate cluster.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Nomi is able to see hear, and interact with beings on the astral plane — particularly sensates, but also ephemeral entities, and invisible spirits such as ghosts. She is also sensitive to intrinsic and psychic phenomena.
	+ ***Technopathy:*** Nomi has the instinctive knowledge needed to create, shape, and manipulate technology and technological constructs, computers, robots, hardware and other devices that can be termed as "technology". Nomi can also interface with computer data or intercept various signals without the use of a technological device. Essentially, her brain works like a wireless computer.
	+ ***Telepathic Sharing:*** Nomi can share her knowledge, languages, skills, talents, and even her psychic abilities with sensates from her cluster (see Riley Blue, Lito Rodriguez, Will Gorski, Wolfgang Bogdanow, Capheus Onyango, Kala Dandekar, and Bak Sun-hee for a list of skills accessible to Nomi) For the transfer of skills, talents, and psychic abilities, Nomi must possess the receiving sensate or allow herself to be possessed by the projecting sensate while they are visiting.
* **World-Class Hacker:** Nomi is an incredibly skilled hacker. Though her new psionic abilities have dropped her into a whole new playing field, she was exceptional enough hacker on her own that she could had considerable commercial success marketing her skills. She is also a highly programmer and computer engineer.
* **Journalism:** As a independent journalist for her vlog, Nomi is a skilled investigator. This includes both digital and analog research techniques, as well as exceptional interview skills.
* **Politics:** As the daughter of a rather successful lawyer, Nomi grew up in a environment where she became familiar to varying degrees with many important figures from local, state, and national politics. She used this knowledge to help inform her insight and shape her political views. Nomi's vlog does not shy around from political topics. Nomi's background and knowledge of the political arena is part of the reason for the success of her vlog.
* **WWNDD?:** Nomi and her girlfriend Amanita are avid fans of the literary sleuth Nancy Drew. The two's curiosity has led them more than once into fashioning themselves into intrepid investigators in the vein of Nancy Drew. Their success has been hit-and-miss but they still are convinced that the tenet 'What Would Nancy Drew Do?' will always see them through safely and will always see justice served.

### Weaknesses

* **Burden Bearing:** When a clustermate is overwhelmed with intense pain, the excess pain may flood over the rest of the cluster, resulting in excruciating phantom pain.
* **Clumsy:** Nomi is not the most graceful person, she cannot wear high-heels without risking serious bodily injury (to herself or others).
* **Inability — Driving:** Nomi never learned to drive
* **Fugitive:** Following a escape from a hospital and her suspected connection to a number of crimes, including the murder of her neurological surgeon, Nomi is wanted by a number of agencies and is living on the lam.
* **Migraines:** Nomi, like most psionics, suffers from severe migraines.
* **Vulnerability — Electricity:** Nomi reacts poorly to electrical stimulation. Electric shock overstimulates the psycellium nervous system of most sensates and induces severe pain and seizures — often with violent coughing of blood and bloody noses.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 38
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Nomi ended up in a hospital and was diagnosed with a UFLS (Undifferentiated Frontal Lobe Syndrome). She received a warning from Jonas Maliki that Dr. Metzger was actually planning to lobotomize her. Thanks to her cluster and Amanita she managed to escape.
* She called Bug to help her after escaping. Though initially shocked, Bug quickly embraced Nomi, congratulating her on becoming her own woman.

### Notes

* Nomi Marks is a character from the Netflix series *Sense8*.
* Her appearance is based on the actress Jamie Clayton, who portrayed her in the show.
* In the show, the city she lived was in San Francisco.

## Gallery

Nomi Marks.jpgNomi MarksSponsorship Needed - Female.pngNomi Marks (Variant)
## Network Files

Network Files Nomi Marks 1.jpgNetwork Files: Nomi Marks 1

## Links and References

* Appearances of Nomi Marks

1. ↑ Network Files: Nomi Marks 1
2. ↑ VOX Box: Behind the 8 Ball - Nomi 2
3. ↑ Network Files: Amanita Caplan
4. ↑ Network Files: Bug