Look who it is! If you take a look at our database, you’ll find that THALIA TORRES is a THIRTY year old LEGAL SECRETARY/VIGILANTE that’s been in Chicago for FOUR YEARS. According to the file, they’re a mutant on LEVEL 3 with the power of BONE MANIPULATION. That must be why they’re AMBITIOUS and DIFFICULT. If you ask me, they remind me of sweaty hand wraps, blood stained louis vuittons, fire escapes on a cold night. They are affiliated with NOBODY.
BASICS
Name: Thalia Torres
Nickname(s): Thali, Lia, Algea (Alias)
DOB: August 20th, 1992
Age: 30
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Sexuality: Pansexual
Traits: (+) Intelligent, self-sufficient, cunning (-) Single-minded, bulldozer, overly confident
Occupation: Legal Secretary/Vigilante
Family: Mateo Torres (Father), Faith Torres ; née Vargas (Mother — deceased)
APPEARANCE
Height: 5′6
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican and Guatemalan
Nationality: American
Aesthetic:
Tattoos: None
Piercings: Double Lobes, Septum, Industrial on Left
BACKGROUND
triggers: death
Thalia was born in New York City, just as any good socialite story beings. Mateo, her father— human —had married her Mother, a mutant. She held the power of Puppet Mastery, a skill that sounds far more benevolent than it truly is. She could manipulate any person to function at her whim, though she wielded such great power with great responsibility. It was only two years later that Thalia’s Mother, Faith, was killed in a botched robbery.
Mateo took being a single parent in stride, a hot shot Lawyer with a resume as long as his arm. Between himself, and countless babysitters and nannies, Thalia found her way up in the world. Right up to being filthy rich and wanting for nothing. The perks of criminal law, one could say. Her Father very rarely turning down a case, though his Hubris never seemed to trip him the way it should.
The hardest part was the fact that Thalia was so adamantly against falling in the lines he had set. She was a wild child who loved to walk outside the lines that had been drawn for her for no more than a reaction. It wasn’t until she was old enough to decide she didn’t respect her Father’s job that she realized how far she wanted to be from the world of law.
Thalia, though, was being groomed to take over in her Father’s stead regardless, but she never held the passion he did. And, God forbid she admit she’d be happier as a prosecutor then a defense lawyer, but she was not in the game of defending the guilty and evil.
She was Fourteen when the full scheme of her powers started to show themselves, a man grabbing her by the hand ended up with a handful full of bone spike. If she’s honest, she doesn’t remember it much herself, the pain of bone tearing through skin the way it did far too great to let her hold the memory.
It was clear from that point that Thalia was much more powerful than anticipated. She had some of the skills of control her Mother did through her mutation, but her power centered around bone, and skeletal control beyond a general control.
It was only a week later, when her hand had healed, that she was put into self defense classes so she wouldn’t need to rely on her power to protect herself. She took to fighting like a duck to water, and found herself falling into political movements to provide mutants with the same respect and right as any other person on top of all of that. It was like she had dipped her toe into the real world for the first time. And, Mateo hated it.
As soon as Thalia began to get a reputation for her part in the movement, the family was pulled from New York to Chicago in hopes of deterring her behavior. But in the four years since that move happened,Thalia managed to find herself falling in to the same behavior— she had just learned to cover her tracks better.
Thalia found herself wrapped up in more of the Mutant world, even tangling herself with Ezra, before realizing that there was just as much moral corruption in that world as there was from the humans. She knew there was no sense in trying to make herself fit in either. Instead, she refocused her sights on righting any and all wrongs.
Using her connections with both the legal world and her knowledge of the underground mutant world, Thalia spends any free moment she can scrape together attempting to correct the wrongs of others, at any cost. She’s a Vigilante, though she doesn’t willingly wear the label. It just seems as if Chicago has decided to call her as much.