Name: Orta "Carapace“ Merez

Species: Tiger Shark

Abilities: Biomechanical Armor that is capable of sprouting blades and/or shields/armor made from an extremely sharp and/or hard black chitin. Also of note is the fact that the suits armpits can sprout a soft and aerodynamic hide, allowing her to glide across the landscape or slow her falls to a gentle downward float.

Bio: Ortas parents (then fiancees) immigrated to the USA from Neo-Mexico circa 2037 with hopes of a better future in the land of new beginnings. And with a few years of hard work a better future they got, landing themselves a cozy house in the middle of Tremor Cities suburban area.

Not much of her childhood was of note other than the premature baldness she began to develop at age 8, leading to much hazing and comparisons to old people in school. Also an infatuation with "boy things" such as action VR sims, superhero e-comics and hoverskater clothing. This also led to quite a bit of hazing through-out middle and high school.

It wasnt until a field trip to a botanical garden that her true calling was revealed. While the rest of the group was examining some plants she noticed that one of the workers carelessly left a back room door open. Behind the door was an odd black and dark grey skin suit complete with full face helmet hanging from a rack. The trip was suddenly interrupted when a group of Gaias Ecoterrorists barged into the gardens and held the facility and the field trip at gun-point. Her repressed predatory nature surfaced and she bolted towards the back room, running past the rain of gun-fire with little to no fear and locking herself in, giving her enough time to put the suit on.

As she donned the black and dark grey armor she noticed that parts of it had a very fleshy feel to them and that it automatically altered itself to fit her curvy form, including forming a pair of embarassing breast protrusions in the chest plate. Regardless, anything that could help her save her classmates and teachers was worth the embarassment.

She wondered what weapons the suit had and as soon as the word "Sword“ crossed her mind a black wristblade made from a sharp and extremely hard shell grew from her left hand. Yet, despite her excitement and love of Action VRs…she wasnt willing to kill.

She tried focusing her mind, a hard task considering the terrorists that began trying to break the door down but she succeeded and the blade retracted. She desired something that would boost her protection and apparently thinking about "Armor“ led to her growing a set of actually modest armor pieces including a chest-plate, shoulderpads, arm guards and leggings; All were made from the same black shell-like material as the blade.

Loud bangs could be heard from the door and she immediatly dashed behind the ammo crates to her right. Why a botanical garden would be stocked for war is anybodies guess but it provided a good hiding spot. The iron door came down with a loud crash and two of the terrorists, both sporting dark green raincoats and pants, black armored vests, three-hole balaclavas and SMG's.

Using the element of surprise she lunged at the two attackers and proceeded to knock them down then promptly punch them in the teeth, instantly knocking them out. It appears that the suit had the typical traits of power armor aswell as the aforementioned black carapace armor/weapons.

What followed was a singlehanded rescue of her classmates and teachers along with several staff workers. Overall she did a bang-up job of giving the terrorists trouble until other, more experienced superhero/ines and SWAT teams arrived. The heroes who among the rescue team gave her an offer. Hand over the suit and return to civilian life or enter a training program for young heroes with a guaranteed registration.

She accepted and so, spent the days until her eighteenth birthday honing their bioarmor skills and academics, rejecting government assistance when it came to the latter.

And so her 18th birthday had come and gone and she was ready. Fueled with nothing but a desire to help people she became registered and set out into the neon-covered streets of Tremor City as the bio-mechanical heroine Carapace!