Violet Narcissus (Prestige I)

Name: Violet Taylor Narcissus
Nickname(s): Violet, Vi
Age: 16
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 112lbs (Rude...)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Undecided
Eye Color: Purple
Hair: Lilac (genetically dyed, originally black)



Dislikes: History, current generation technology, people who complain about challenges when they haven’t even tried to put in 100% effort yet




Other: Violet’s negative psyche often manifests itself as a visual hallucination with hazy memories and emotions, however she has mostly grown to live with it with a lot of support from a young age. Generally she is strong enough to not let it get to her at all, but they can be particularly tough to wave away in low times.



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Backstory:
It starts in the future, tens of years past the current state of Telluride City…

Violet was the unlikely child of two metahuman parents—both of which with powers that could only be described as bipolar in nature. Her mother's Qi manifested itself as a healing aura, yet it fed off of her past mental trauma and was known to split her personality at times; while her father's powers were tied to visualizing and manipulating the flow of Qi itself, however it had to be carefully maintained with conscious effort to prevent bodily damage.

Violet's parents, Luke and Caitlyn Narcissus, both had unfortunate pasts that could only been described as having a cruel existence; being among the first publicly acknowledged generation to have lived with the usage of powers, as well as to both have experienced the extreme amount of mental pressure of regular meta-related terrorism and constant location changes in their lifetimes... Yet despite the disturbing events that plagued their past, the two of them had grown confident in themselves enough to tie the knot many years later and produce a child; finally settling down and beginning a new life for themselves, leaving their sordid pasts behind them...

The decision to have a child did not come lightly as the odds of a child being born with hereditary powers were seemingly quite high. Her mother Caitlyn had inherited her powers from her own birth mother too (despite Metahumans not being commonly acknowledged that far back), and the responsibility to rear a child with a supportive family was of utmost importance to them. They both wanted to give the child the best chance they could at having a successful future despite the challenges they know would appear in her life.

Unfortunately, as anticipated, Violet slowly began to develop her powers throughout her childhood which reflected those of her parents. It seemed Luke's ability to visualize Qi had an unexpected side effect when combined with the psychotic aspect of Caitlyn's Qi—in which perpetual hallucinations of her negative psyche would appear and try to influence violence, rage and depression in her. This other self also made many attempts to influence her by bringing up trauma that wasn’t just hers, but also the mental trauma and feelings inherited from her parents at various points in their lives.

As if it were any consolation, her physical health was largely unaffected, and her body had a much higher resistance to fatigue due to the early effects of Qi.

One time when asked by a psychiatrist at the age of ten, Violet explained "The other me is real—when she is around. The scars she carries are as real as if I had experienced them myself... But mom and dad said not to worry—those scars are always there, but they will never get in the way of my life. That other me is still a part of me after all. Living with her is tough, but mom and dad have helped me learn to reason with her instead of trying to shut her out."

While Violet was generally confident and happy, there was quite a few times over the years where it seemed as though she had shut herself off from the world. Whenever she opened up and spoke about these times, she described it as "Those times when I can feel myself tearing apart from the inside... That other me is still holding onto desperate hopes and dreams." When asked what sort of hopes and dreams these were, she gave a cryptic answer: "Hopes that could never come true... Dreams that can never be redeemed. The other me just doesn't want to let them go no matter how painful it is to carry them or how angry it makes me feel."

Despite these struggles, she largely managed to hold out and keep herself together with the help of her parents and their network of skilled friends and psychiatrists, even through the challenges of growing up in a society that still had yet to fully adapt to metahumans' rights.

Throughout her early teenage years, Violet's confidence unexpectedly blossomed once again, and up until the age of fifteen, she was living a relatively peaceful life as a B-average student in a quiet metahuman-safe school in New San Francisco, making friends with the popular and artsy crowds alike—though she is was still preoccupied with many sessions with her psychiatrist to manage her Qi, sometimes to the chagrin of her studies. She had also trained extensively with her father to manage the physical impacts of consciously directed Qi, as well as with her mother to adapt to the more volatile healing yet mentally damaging aura-based Qi that she had inherited.

Perhaps due to worry and uncertainty, Violet was also trained extensively in self defense in a large array of disciplines. While she is no expert in any single type of combat, her variety of defensive techniques will cover a large array of situations—and in many cases, scenarios where meta abilities are involved too.

Shortly after Violet’s sixteenth birthday, the Narcissus family was approached by the Astreous Institute (with whom her father had previously worked for during his late teenage years, following a partial collapse in meta society).

Their Engineering & Technology department had been developing a device that utilised Qi to "safely" break a fundamental rule of science—to create a consistent means of backwards time travel.

Violet's father expressed an extremely negative reaction to the news, despite his brief employment within the A.I.. He had never explained anything about that time of his life to Violet in fear of triggering something within her psyche, but he always simply described it as a "a welcomed distraction, despite everything going on around me."

Luke was offered to test the device due to his supposed Qi compatibility with the device, yet his refusal was absolute, even with a payment that stood to make them a fortune that would last generations.

Violet was ushered away by her mother given the violent outbreak of her father, yet even without seeing the whole event play out, that scene played in her mind again and again in a loop during the following months. She shut herself in her room as she had done before, but now not even responding to pleas or knocks.

Her father would apologise and her mother would try her hardest with comforting words...

But that wasn't it.

It wasn’t about that.

Violet's Qi was similar to her father's, right?

She could go back in time with that device they mentioned, right?

What if she could change the course of history?

What if the city her parents met in was never destroyed?

Could they have lived a more peaceful life together?

…Could mom have spent every day with dad instead of exiling herself in fear of hurting him..?

...Just like she said they used to do...

Thoughts plagued her head, as if everything inside of her screamed only one response. Those hazy memories—those broken hopes and dreams—she knew now more than ever that they really were inherited, however vague and foggy they were. They were determined to be a truth through the lense of Violet's life.

She had inherited those memories for a reason. She knew it. That was how it always was with her. Everything tied back to her parents in some way, somehow.

And it hurt.

It hurt more than anything.

Violet broke down crying with a mixture of sadness and frustration, clutching her pillow as if it were the only thing keeping her alive.

Eventually, she built up her resolve. She set off on her own to the Astreous Institute. She never let go of the charms she had inherited from her parents—a jade bracelet that was originally passed down to her father from his own mentor—and the star shaped necklace that her mother had received from her father on the same day their home city was taken from them.

Even if it was to change the past forever—to remove her own existence for the sake of her parents—she wanted at least a remnant of the people who raised her.

Violet stepped through those mirrored glass doors, and resolved herself to be a guinea pig for the company that her father previously worked for.

Her task was simple. Go back to the first ten years of when new Metahumans and portals were commonplace, and make her way back to the Institute with a particular storage device as confirmation—however Violet had her own agenda.

Without knowing anything other than the foggy desires of her parents and the stories they told her, she had resolved to change the course of history for her parents happiness.

As far as the A.I. knew, this particular time travel experiment was a failure.

...

The day Violet had arrived through a portal in Telluride City, she was taken in by a government care unit; treated as an otherworlder with no association to their own world, let alone with the Astreous Institute.

It went against her nature to falsify things about herself, but the only misinformation she gave was that she hailed from a similar world with a completely different air quality given her minor physical inconsistencies; Of course, she offered no other reasonings or explanations to her situation.

In this time and year, Violet’s parents would probably be around her age... Perhaps they were meeting for the very first time in San Francisco at The White Rabbit cafe at this very moment…

Violet was sent to an academy for metahumans, where she was given a dorm room to herself, and she could have counseling sessions on request.

However despite her surprisingly quick integration into this past world, her own agenda was very much her priority... To understand the events that lead up to San Francisco's fall, and try to help her parents live a happier life through a butterfly effect of careful decisions.