Romi Tate

Jessie Venus (Adoptive Sibling)

Mars Cancri (Adoptive Sibling)

Hayden Carter (Adoptive Sibling)

Augustine O'Hara (Adoptive Sibling)

Heppie (Adoptive Sibling)

Zorel Opia (Adoptive Sibling)

Nine (Nina Morello aka Nemo) (Adoptive Sibling)

Stormy Alcyone (Adoptive Sibling)

Electrical Travel

Digital Immersion

**Romi Tate** is a fan-made original character portrayed on Twitter under the handle @TechnoRomi. Neither the character nor the writer have any true affiliation with the Umbrella Academy franchise.

## Biography

Romi was born in Hotel Oblivion as part of an experiment ordered by Reginald Hargreeves. She was designated "Number Five" of the experimented children who were known first as the Terrific Ten and then as the Extraordinary Eleven. Each was was given the marigolds at a young age and developed super powers. Since Romi is mute she was never able to verbally communicate and grew up utilizing several different types of sign language. When she obtained her powers she discovered that they allowed her to psychically speak through technology. She then began carrying around a walkie talkie in case she needed to hold verbal conversations but still very much prefers to communicate through sign.

As a child Romi was energetic and had something of a rogue nature. She would use her ability to travel through electric fields (techno roaming) as a means of pranking her siblings, rebelling against Hotel staff or simply hiding when she wanted time alone. The one thing Romi never did was travel outside of her section of the Hotel as she was unaware other sections existed. As a result of this she never discovered that the Hotel was utilized as a prison. Instead she grew up believing that it was her home and everyone inside was her family.

### **Down to Earth**

At the age of eighteen Romi and several of her siblings were sent to Earth by the Hotel each with their own individual mission. Romi was tasked with locating her sibling, Nina Morello who had wandered down to Earth months previously. Additionally she was told to use her powers to collect the personal internet data of as many people as possible in order to locate potential threats and assets to the Hotel. While on Earth she was captivated by all the technology, particularly the internet as it was not available to her in the Hotel. She attempted to techno roam through the internet but wound up inadvertently causing the 2021 Facebook Outage

### **The Perseus Corporation**

While completing her mission Romi accidentally hacked into a classified database owned by the Perseus Corporation. Here she discovered the corporation had been stealing DNA samples of the Academy members and cloning them. After weeks of investigating she discovered that John Perseus had complete control over the clones and that he was sending them to the Academy to kill their original counterparts. Romi went to the Academy to warn them but was caught in the crossfire as a result. As she helped the Academy destroy their clones she inadvertently discovered she had the power to temporarily bring digital items into the real world. She did this by replicating a weapon from a movie that was left playing during the attack and using it against the clones.

## Powers and Abilities

**Technopathy-** Romi is able to mentally communicate with technological devices similar to how telepaths can communicate with minds.

**Electromagnetic Form**- Romi can transform herself into a being of pure electricity.

* **Electrical Travel**- In this form Romi can travel through electromagnetic fields and power lines. She can also reside inside of these areas for as long as she pleases. She refers to this ability as 'Techno Roaming'.

* **Digital Immersion**: Via techno roaming she can physically manifest herself onto device screens and operate the device from within. She can also manifest into online spaces although she cannot use the internet to travel between devices as it crashes the servers.