Some people are late bloomers, Mariah Walker is exhibit 'A'. Growing up she was always the brainy girl. She hung out with the other nerds and started gaming when she was 12. She graduated Highschool as the valedictorian and kissed Virgina goodbye. Attending school on the other side of the country appealed to her. She wanted a fresh start. During college she went through a "goth" phase, piercings, dyed her hair black, a nice celtic tattoo on the small of her back and just below her belly button. She joined the Nerds of the Round Table her junior year, having avoided gaming for two years in an effort to be the "New" Mariah. But once she started playing it all came back. She dated Chris Parker for a year and when they went their separate ways after graduation it was a friendly split. She went to grad school at Stanford and met Tim Bruce. Tim was a business major and every bit the genius in his chosen field that she was at hers. After getting her Phd in Physics, she and Tim married. Mariah went to work for Orion Technologies, a different division and city than her former boyfriend Chris, but they kept in touch and he served as one of the groomsmen at her wedding. Finally comfortable in her own skin, Mariah shed the last vestiges of her "Goth" days, grew her hair out, lost the lip and tongue piercing that Tim had found rather distasteful, but only after he promised to quit smoking. Mariah was working on a plasma conversion matrix for Orion's Aerospace division when she came across a lens like container that could store and later release the massive energies involved. Realising that her work could be used to create plasma based weaponry, she struggled with the idea of destroying it or patening it. It was during this time that Chris called and told her the news about his gravitic suit. It took three nights for Mariah to devise her prototype plasma guantlet. She and Tim discussed the possibilities of funding a team of superheroes with patents and technological advancements. The discussions grew more serious when she developed the plasma based propulsion belt. By this time Chris had more of their friends on board. The project was a go and Tim began to develop a business plan. With the help of Chris, Lisa, Dave, and Jason, Mariah developed the skintight, Plasmaiden suit. The suit uses a sophisticated forcefield to keep her from suffering the effects of her "Powers", while allowing her to appear to have natural plasma based abilties. As Plasmaiden, Mariah has been able to play the superheroine and has enjoyed it tremendously. It's been two years since they began and she and Tim are expecting thier first child so she is on leave from the team. Mariah took a while to come into her own, originally very insecure and shy, then purposfully outgoing and "edgy", fianlly settling in to a healthy, well balanced person. She has enjoyed her time as Plasmaiden but is considering giving up the spandex for good once the baby is born. The rest of the team doesn't know of this. "Fried Fiend coming up!" A relatively typical energy projector. Plasmaiden's power is stored in the "plasma lenses" that adorn her costume (five to be exact). She lacks area blasts, but her firewall and plasmafire cage can trap multiple opponents. She prefers to fight from a distance. Water has "unfriendly" effects on her battlesuit and she tends to avoid water using villains if at all possible. Plasmaiden is on the powerful side (90 active pt multipower) but her MP could easily be scaled to 75 or even 60 pts. Consider dropping her defenses to 12 or less too. If you want to beef her abilities up, raise the MP to 105-125 pts, increase her defense to 25. A trim, well muscled woman with a golden tan and honey blonde hair. She wears comfortable clothes in a slightly racy style, she has a nice bod and likes to show it off. Her costume is a red body suit with five golden silicone discs one on each shoulder, one on each hip and one in the center of her chest, red contacts, red hair (an unforseen side effect of the forcefield that protects her from her powers. She wears golden gloves and boots, each are folded over and rather short. Her hair is long (to the small of her back). The plasma is golden light with flickering red flames at the edges.