Elaine "Vesta" Varley

Elaine is a seasoned explorer and skilled mechanic, living out her life in the space between the factions to the north, east and west. Though she has the ability to burn things and manipulate pain, she cares little for her abilities, stubbornly using her firsts and physical strength in combat until her target is either fleeing or too injured to fight back.

 Abilities

Inflammation
Elaine has the ability to burn things on contact and inflict lesser burns over distances of up to ten meters, be it flesh, wood or metal. This ability’s major strength is how it meshes with her secondary ability and the fact it turns off instinctively should she need to sleep, be put to sleep or during sexual activities.

Pain Manipulation
Paroxysm can manipulate mental and physical pain, giving her the following subabilities;

Pain Empowerment - allows her to hit mid-high levels of strength. Pain Surpression Pain Construct creation - These can be mechanically complex, rather than static constructs. They take on a burnt orange colour. Pain Transfer - Allows her to move the feeling and symptons of pain between different targets. Elaine can make people feel incredible pain without causing physical damage, and can cause mental damage if the target is overly scared.

Strengths
Even without her abilities, Paroxysm is pretty strong for a normal human and she has a great imagination coupled with a reasonable intellect. She can just as easily cripple a human body as she can a car, being a rather talented mechanic. Her abilities, despite not being used much, are well refined and use up less energy than other similar abilities, giving her a passive resistance to fire and extreme changes in temperature as well as burning.

Weaknesses
Whilst she is somewhat powerful, she can’t hit many higher level supers, has average speed and can’t take too many hits. Her reliance on hand-to-hand combat and her hate of her own abilities means that, unless pushed to her limits, she won't be much of a threat in a fight involving superpowers.

Personality
TBA

Relationships
Elaine, to this day, remains in a realtionship with Mirela Crespelle. Though they won't admit it, Elaine seems to recall that they're engaged. The two of them tour the loner filled space between the three warring factions.

History
TBA