Vida

Cole Stewart †

Charles (Chubs) Meriwether

Children's League

Catherine "Cate" Connor

PSFs

 *"This kid has more mood swings than a toddler's birthday party."*
Vida Bautista is a blue woman and a former member of the Children's League who would become an instrumental part of the rebuilding of the United States after the IAAN pandemic and the closure of the rehabilitation camps.

## Biography

### Early On

Vida had a somewhat rough childhood since Catherine Connor was assigned to keep an eye on her. Her older sister, Nadia Bautista, turned Vida into the PSF's. Vida is able to contact Cate and she is able to pick up Vida, and four other psi children. They became known as the Wyoming Five. She gets assigned to Cate's team and becomes extremely protective of the woman.

Whenever anything bad happens to Cate, Vida is the first to react and the first to blame someone else for putting Cate in harms way.

### Never Fade

Vida is sent to rescue Cole Stewart from a Pennsylvania facility. She would defy one of Ruby's command and would almost die when Rob Meadows sets off a grenade. She and Ruby have a tiff after she gets back to base. Eventually the pair calm down, and Jude and Ruby are sent on an op, which surprises Vida since Jude is not allowed to go on ops because of his age. Eventually the pair crash and they are able to escape, and the go dark. Before they go dark though, Ruby tells over comms that Rob had murdered two psi children while he was supposed to be rescuing them from the camp they had been in.

Vida is horrified, but not entirely surprised, by the news. When rumors started going around the LA base about a coup, Cate sends Vida to track down Jude and Ruby. Vida is able to track the pair down and joins them. They get on a bus, and their carried away. Luckily for the trio, the bus driver is willing to help them out since he wanted information about his grandson was being treated in the camp system.

Eventually the trio get off the bus, and track down Chubs, who had become a skip tracer in an attempt to not only track down his former friends, but keep them safe. Chubs joins the group, and they track Liam Stewart to Knox's tribe. After fighting with Mason, in which Mason loses the fight, Knox kills Mason. Ruby attacks Knox and sends him away from the tribe. They then explain that East River was in fact in Virgina, and the message that was still being relayed, and convince the tribe to move elsewhere. They take Liam and leave. "Cate" tells them to meet her at a Dairy Queen, but they know it isn't Cate when they get the message. When they arrive, it turns out to be Clancy Gray, and he nearly makes Vida shoot herself. Luckily, Ruby manages to overpower him and they take him hostage.

When Clancy tells them about how the League is being overthrown and Cate is in danger, Vida freaks out and demands they go to help them. When they do they find out Los Angeles Base is bombed.

### In the Afterlight

Vida is devastated when Jude is killed in the bombing and is beyond mad that Clancy had survived the bombing and is even more mad when he tells the survivors that the information collected in Project Snowfall had been destroyed by the EMP that had taken out the LA Base. Vida, as well as what remained of the Children's League, regrouped. When Ruby discovered that the non psi agents were planning to sell the psi agents to the PSF's, she sends the non psi agents to the Kansas Base. The psi agents head to The Ranch. While they are driving Ruby finds several spray painted messages that she remembers being connected to Clancy's old tribe system.

Ruby is able to use the messages to find Suzume, Hina, Kylie, Lucy, and about a dozen other psi who had been traveling as a tribe together. Vida is extremely jealous of Zu at first, but after a fight with Ruby, she confesses what she was feeling to the other girl. Ruby reassures her that she would not abandon her for Zu and Vida is extremely happy by the fact. She eventually dyes part of Zu's hair. When Alice starts interviewing kids to start sharing with the world, she cheers Zu on when she speaks for the first time.

Vida and Chubs track down Lillian Gray to Georgia and they bring her back to the Ranch. Everyone was pretty sad when it was revealed how bad Lilian's memories were. Vida listens to Lilian's explanation about Agent Ambrosia and her cure. When Ruby gets captured by PSF's, she is pretty mad with Ruby, but she does eventually go to Thurmond to get Ruby back. When Ruby is sent to the hospital for her injuries, she visits occasionally. Ruby is released before the first interviews conducted by Lilian Gray and Senator Cruz and they go to the conference. Vida is disappointed with what the pair is offering for the psi people's future. The group leaves the hotel before any of them could get mad.

### The Darkest Legacy

Vida would become a high ranking official and would constantly keep an eye on the rest of her former team. She would stop dyeing her hair.Vida becomes part of the tactical team set out to find Zu when she is framed as a fugitive, although she is innocent. She tracks down Ruby's car to a parking lot, and is unaware that Zu, Roman Volkov and Priyanka Acharya were watching her.But when Vida finds Zu, she helps them search for Ruby.

## Personality and Looks

### Personality

Vida is cold to people she first meets, like Chubs and Ruby, but will warm up to them and be a very protective and loyal friend. She can mouth off sometimes and seriously get on people's nerves, and often voiced her annoyance and irritation at the drama between Ruby and her friends. When Jude died and Ruby reunited with Zu, Vida and Ruby had an emotional moment and Vida showed that she also had a vunerable and sad side to her, the side that she kept covered up. When her friends get hurt, she shows compassion and worry about them. All in all, Vida has a hot temper, but is a great friend deep down.

### Looks

Vida has perfectly tanned skin and brown eyes that match it. Her hair was dyed electric blue and is said to be very visible at night, but during a fight with a Red, her blue hair is burned off, and she uses a knife to cut it short and not so choppy. She is described as well built and beautiful, and also very graceful with long limbs and muscle from her training at the League.

## Relationships

### Suzume

Vida is extremely cold to Zu when she first meets her, and takes an instant disliking towards her due to the fact that she believed that Ruby was replacing Jude with Zu after Jude died. It even go to the point where Vida ripped the paper out of Zu's hand and just yelled at her to talk. After her and Ruby talked, Vida realized that it wasn't the case, and began to get nicer to Zu. Eventually, they grew such a fast and great relationship that Zu started talking out loud to Vida in private. Vida encouraged her to speak out loud in front of everyone, and finally during an interview Zu spoke out loud to the camera, leaving everyone in surprise.

### Ruby Daly

Vida was rude to Ruby when they first met, since Ruby was elected team Leader as soon as she joined, while Vida had been working with them since the beginning. But Vida helps Ruby on her search for Liam, and they grow closer together on the mission. Her and Ruby become strong allies into the third book, and they always have each other's backs. Ruby and Vida shared an emotional moment, and Vida told Ruby that she was always there if Ruby ever wanted to talk to her again.

### Chubs

Vida disliked Chubs when they first met him, but they quickly to be friends and allies, and often shared good natured insults and teasing. In the third and final book, Vida gives Chubs some glasses after his break, showing their growing relationship. During a mission to find Lillian Gray, they seem to have grown a romantic relationship, and are busted by Liam and Ruby when walking down the hallway, flustered.

### Cate Connor

Cate was Vida's social worker before IAAN hit, and Cate was also the one to rescue Vida from being turned into a rehab camp. This resulted in Vida and Cate's close relationship, and Vida is shown to be fiercely protective of Cate. Whenever Cate is harmed or put in harm's way, Vida gets super worried and begins blaming anyone and everyone. When Cate was taken prisoner by some corrupted agents, Vida grew very worried and furious at Ruby for just letting Cate leave. When they got Cate back, Vida was overjoyed.

### Jude

Vida was kind and protective of Jude, who was noisy and somewhat annoying, yet very positive and an optomist. Vida protected him like a little brother, and never wanted him in harm's way. After Jude died after HQ was bombed, Vida grew incredibly sad and her and Ruby had an emotional conversation about him.

## Abilities

Vida is a Blue, meaning she can move things with her mind. She is said to have amazing control of her power, far better than the rest of the kids at the League.