Veranna (Guardian)
Origin: Natural
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary: Martial Arts
Secondary: Willpower
Other Powers: Swift, Air Superiority
Global Handle: @k26dp
Supergroup: House of Emerald Strumpets
Other Associations: Ouroboros, Vanguard
Background
One of the more enigmatic of the heroes in Paragon City, Veranna's youthful features and attitude hide an old soul. Unknown to her and her friends, Veranna is actually 134 years old.
Veranna was born sometime in the year 2124, in Paragon City. As part and parcel with the education of her time, she was a black belt in several martial arts by the age of 12.
In 2142, she was part of a group of citizen heroes who attempted to stop a threat from an old Paragon City villain, Nemesis. Nemesis was attempting to open a time rift in the heart of downtown White Plains to re-open a new front in the long-resolved Rikti War. The heroes were successful in stopping Nemesis's time machines, but not before a wave of temporal energy washed over Veranna.
Veranna vanished without a trace, and the city mourned the loss of one of her best young heroes. However, Veranna, wasn't dead. Instead, she became unstuck from her own linear time-line, and traveled into the past slightly every day. Her body didn't age anymore, and for some time, she flited in and out of the time stream, like a fish trying to swim upriver. She would appear in a random place and time, and her brain, trying desparately to make sense of what her body was experiencing, would shut off memories of what would transpire in what was now the future.
Thus Veranna lived her life backwards in spurts and starts, experiencing everything as if in a constant state of déjà vu. When she fell back in time to 2124, past her own birthday, she made a long jump back into the past, emerging from out of the base Pillar of Ice and Fire belonging to the House of Emerald Strumpets in the year 2008.
Current Status
Since her last jump, Veranna has ceased her time-jumping, but she has no true memories of her past. She still has near-constant déjà vu, and will refer to things that haven't happened yet as if they are remininces.
This sense of living a little bit ahead of the rest of the world does have the practical application of making her one of the most potant martial artists in the city. Her opponents are often astounded that she always seems to anticapate their next move before the make it, but Veranna can still be overwhelmed by superior numbers.
Veranna has joined the House of Emerald Strumpets supergroup, but does not take part in the groups' fund raising activities. Even though she is the oldest member of the team (unknown to her and the rest of the group), she is seen as everyone's little sister. She is best friends with Crystal Quartz, Princess Sappho, A-Train, Gretel, and Dusty Heatsink.
She doesn't know why, but she has an ingrained distrust of Mender Silos and Ouroboros.
