Telly Vega

> "*Gooood evening, L'manburg! This is Telly Vega reporting live for our very first episode of The 411 on 404, the series filled with sillies, scandals, and anything else you need to know requiring our superpowered playmates. Alright, up first....*"
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> -Telly Vega, *411 on 404* *- Episode One*
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## Relationships

### Friends

WinkAlexa Thorne, Rita Samsson, Rosa Gireau (former)

### Enemies

Adrian Agence-Lynn (stalker/former captor)

Telly Vega is the city's most famous news reporter. She runs the Ace Race News Channel, and due to her fame, she is often the victim of kidnappings and hostage efforts by some of L'Manburg's top villains.

### Biography/Backstory

#### Background

Telly Vega was born Ruby Mae Halstead in Snowchester, England, with a genetic disorder resulting in severe facial deformities. She was also born with a port-wine stain birthmark on her face. Her parents, as loving as they were, tried their best to hide these deformities. On days where she couldn't be hidden by a mask and sunglasses, her mother attempted to use concealer to disguise the birthmark. Because of her face, she was often bullied in school and made fun of for her looks. As a result, she didn't participate in any extracurricular activities. Ruby stayed inside often, which is where she discovered her passion for film. Her father watched the news every day, and she greatly admired the pretty female reporters on the air.

#### The TV Project

The hazing and bullying continued until college, where Ruby began her robotics classes. She was a natural engineer, and the elaborate nature and quality of her projects soon turned the background whispers from gossip to awe. This and some Internet research gave Ruby the idea to build her most important project yet: the TV Project. She enlisted the help of her friend Rosa Gireau, who began an internship at S.A.N.T.I. Facilities that year, and Adrian-Agence Lynn, who was extremely smart and had a big crush on Ruby. Over the course of two years, the project was finished. Ruby had invented a lightweight yet functional TV set, with the inside hollowed out and padded to wear comfortably. Emotional sensors on the inside read her mind and displayed her current emotions on the screen that faced the world. At this point, Ruby legally changed her name to Telly Vega, started working at Ace Race News Channel, and dropped all contact with Adrian. During the development of the TV Project, she met her now-fiance Theo Ikeda, who proposed soon after she finished the project. She unintentionally lost contact with Rosa soon after.

#### Career

After four years of working at Ace Race News Channel, Telly bought the company with her hard-earned money and the help of her father's inheritance, becoming the company's owner along with her current position as head reporter. Her unique energy and unbridled spirit made her extremely popular in the business. A year later, she began her mini-series on the channel titled *The 411 on 404*, a weekly segment about comedic news related to superheroes and villains alike.

#### The Disappearance of Telly Vega

Five episodes into her mini-series, she was abducted by an unknown figure commonly referred to as Record. Record, later revealed to be former stalker and partner Adrian Agence-Lynn, kidnapped her in the hopes of erasing her memories and rewiring the famous TV head to control her, eventually forcing her to fall in love with him. She remained with him for a little over two months before being saved by Theo with the help of Adrian's father, Adrian Agence Sr., Rosa's younger sister, Adora Gireau, police detective Canary Jackson, Rita Samsson, and his boss, Alexa Thorne. Theo rescued Telly and she stayed with Alexa temporarily while Theo went back to kill Adrian permanently. While in her house with Alexa, Telly rediscovered her engagement ring and restored most of her memories. When she went to the hospital to see Theo, she discovered that Adrian was dead and reunited with Theo officially. She has yet to return to the news station and is currently on hiatus from both her work and her public face.

### Powers

Telly has no powers. Her skill in engineering and inventing specialized high-tech creations is unmatched, however.

### Relationships

#### Theo Ikeda

Theo and Telly met in college, and she developed romantic feelings for him early on. They met before she started wearing the TV head full-time, and he is one of extremely few people to ever see her face uncovered. Theo took Telly home to meet his aunt Meiko for the first time in their senior year, and they graduated soon after. Telly then moved in with Theo, and they have been together since then. He proposed to her several years later, but she was abducted a couple of months after.

#### Wink

Wink is a flying robot invented by Telly at the beginning of her college years and is one of her best friends. Programmed to simulate human emotions along with record both video and audio, it is a helpful personal camera during work.

#### Alexa Thorne

Alexa is Theo's boss from Whole Foods, and she is a good friend of his. She helps restore Telly's memories after being rescued.

#### Rita Samsson

Rita is a friend of Theo's who helped him rescue Telly.

#### Adrian Agence-Lynn

Adrian followed Telly around in college often, essentially devoting himself to her attention. When she dropped contact with him after the completion of the TV Project, he was infuriated and felt that she had used him. He used manipulation of Rosa and his job at S.A.N.T.I. to plot his revenge for six years before finally enacting it and kidnapping Telly. It's confirmed that he was jealous of Theo. After successfully abducting her, he used his research from the S.A.N.T.I. project Technological Consciousness to upload himself into a computer and build a robotic body for himself as a defense. The location of his organic body is unknown. When Theo destroyed the robot and his base device, he used a failsafe mechanism to trap Theo in the house and insert his brain into Theo's body, taking him over. This plan was foiled when Adrian Sr. found Theo and pulled him out of the house.

#### Rosa Gireau

Rosa was a friend of Telly's in college, and she helped with the TV Project. After Adrian recruited her, she disappeared without a trace. Nobody in her personal life knows what happened to her.

#### Meiko Ikeda

Meiko is Theo's aunt and mother figure, who quickly took a liking to Telly despite the TV Project. She treats Telly as her own daughter and inspired her to buy ARNC and pursue her dreams.

#### Telly's Mother

Telly's mother was not neglectful or ashamed of Ruby, but she was scared of how others would respond to her features. Telly hasn't spoken to her mother since high school.

#### Telly's Father

Not much is known about Telly's father except that he died and left her large amounts of money, which she then used to buy ARNC.