Rez
Mallory Brooks
Mallory Brooks was born with drastic deformities. Her physical abnormalities included a deteriorating nervous system and seriously hindered her organs’ abilities to support her life long-term. Her parents abandoned her within days of her birth, leaving her to be institutionalized by the state. She was shuttled between medical programs that treated her more like a test subject than a human being. By the time she hit adolescence, she’d spent most of her waking life immersed in fantasies… extended daydreams where she was beautiful and loved and surrounded by friends. Medical treatments failed to improve her condition and robbed her of what little mobility she had been born with. She contemplated suicide, but was unable to act on it.
When Motherboard abducted her form the lab where she was being studied, Mallory was barely conscious of it. However, once she was plugged into her “womb” she adapted to her new body quicker than of any of the Tribe.
Since then, she’s spent her free time indulging her fantasies; living lives that weren’t anything like her own. She’s rarely at the team’s base, instead living under different identities and waiting for her “family” to call on her.
Physical Description
Special abilities
Mallory’s consciousness is projected into one of Motherboard’s “Hard Light Isomorphic Construct.” Rez is capable of changing her HLIC’s appearance completely. Not only is the cohesion of the energy form highly malleable, but she can adjust details down to the color, shape, and size of individual hairs. When forced to fight, she warps and bends her body to absorb the force of blows, but she’ll take any opportunity to flee since she’s not a very good combatant.
Mental characteristics
Intellectual Characteristics
Growing up with debilitating deformities have left Rez incredibly insecure regarding her appearance. She is completely enamored with fashion trends and whatever the media says is the “in” look at the moment. As a result, she shuffles through different appearances and identities the way some people change their clothes. She isn’t shallow; she’s damaged. Rez has a tendency to lose herself in roles she assumes long-term—she’s happy being anyone but herself. At times, Motherboard and the others worry that Rez might lose herself to one of her other identities entirely.
Social
Contacts & Relations
The only real allies Rez has are the rest of the Cybertribe. She doesn’t allow herself to get to close to other people, at least not without it being part of a role. While she has dozens of friends in dozens of cities, all of them know her by different names and different faces.
As with the rest of her adopted family, Arwin Kessler wants Rez dead.
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