Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Sands

Email: on file

AIM (if you have one): on file

Character Name: Lena Jessen

Character LJ (if applicable): bio_nerd

Physical description (face, build, weight): 5'7, brown hair, blue eyes, fit

Age: 28

Birthday: May 25

PB: (If using one.): Claire Forlani

 

Abilities: Normal human, but upon entering SHIELD she agreed (and somewhat insisted) on basic combat and shooting training. She’s skilled enough to deal with most common muggers and thugs but not any more than that. An excellent shot but it doesn’t mean she’ll ever do real field work. She mostly views it as a necessary defense if one works in SHIELD. Other than that she has normal human abilities, excluding her odd ability to never get more than 7 hours of sleep (although 7 is very rare). Of course it’s not an ability so much as her feeling that sleep wastes time.

 

Weaknesses and flaws: Other than her odd circadian rhythms (she’s more likely to be available for anything at 2am than anytime between 7 and 10am, which are usually designated sleeping hours) and caffeine addiction, she has the usual weaknesses of most human females. She does have a somewhat science for science’s sake attitude and will continue studying something still knowing the consequences, but it doesn’t mean she will publish or reveal the results necessarily because it’s the personal satisfaction of gaining said knowledge that interests her. In fact, most of her work isn’t published (with the exception of her pre-SHIELD days) due to SHIELD regulations.

Character location/Home: Mobile

Team: SHIELD

Alignment (villain, hero etc): works for SHIELD so technically hero/anti-hero but wouldn’t consider herself either. Just someone doing science for a living. 

Relatives (living/dead?): Seb Jessen (father/alive), Kayla Jessen (mother/alive)

 

Backstory:

A relatively normal upbringing, Lena grew up as an only child with parents who loved to travel. They lived in Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh and even for a time in Toronto. With one engineer and one software developer as parents, everyone knew she’d end up in the sciences, just not the biological branch which she grew to love early on. Taking a major in biology she decided to pursue her studies further and earned a masters then PhD studying molecular biology then genetics. More specifically, she found a fascination in the molecular mechanisms behind “super powers”. Her work in metahuman power basis and her side projects about the mutant X gene made SHIELD take notice, and they hired her as soon as possible to get her research off the market and out of the journals and instead into only their hands. Of course, hiring her also meant that they didn’t need to rely on getting the results of this sort of research from scientists who were also heroes and wouldn’t be so unbiased or willing to hand it over.  She didn’t mind, they provided her a state of the art lab and, more importantly, plenty of samples and subjects for her research on powers, nowhere else would she have that kind of access.  Through this new access to samples, she developed very intensive knowledge on how exactly many of these villains, and superheroes, powers worked. Information which SHIELD has used on multiple occasions to take down supervillains, a fact they like to not be publically known.

Growing up, education was the priority and she was never a social butterfly or a partier, although nobody would say she was socially awkward either, and prefers small gatherings with friends that, very importantly because she has no love for this, do not require ‘dressing up’. In fact, she doesn’t like shopping, getting her hair done, or any other stereotypically feminine activities that most people assumed she should. Given some science to deal with, whether her own research or just for some fun reading, she’s happy. Or a good mystery book. She has an odd fondness for those.

 

How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: As an employee of SHIELD, working with them as their scientist when it comes to dealing with powered people.

What are you planning to do with this character? Will help the hero community as long as it is in SHIELD’s best interests, and perhaps discuss her research with the superhero scientists interested in similar things. Perhaps about her work on mutant genetics too.

What do you want to see happen with this character?: Get along with SHIELD colleagues, maybe learn to leave the lab more and see in a more big picture way what affect her research has.