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 In the summer of the year 570 GD, Addie attended a graduation party held by one of her friends. She borrowed her father's stage glasses (a pair of lenseless pince-nez with some ornamentation on the outside of the frames), and a digital camera which she keeps on her person at all times. She went to the party at 3 PM, enjoyed herself, stayed until 9 PM, and then walked home. In the summer of the year 570 GD, Addie attended a graduation party held by one of her friends. She borrowed her father's stage glasses (a pair of lenseless pince-nez with some ornamentation on the outside of the frames), and a digital camera which she keeps on her person at all times. She went to the party at 3 PM, enjoyed herself, stayed until 9 PM, and then walked home.
  
-While walking, as she passed a gas station, she noticed a little girl running away from a fast food restaurant with a man in pursuit. Addie put herself between the little girl and the approaching man, as the little girl screamed about how she just wanted to go home. The man reached out to push Addie out of the way, but Addie wouldn't move. He tried to go around Addie, but she lunged to stay in front of him. Finally, he yelled something about how his daughter was just throwing a tantrum, but she didn't buy that. Finally, a van rolled up, and another man jumped out with a gun, opening fire at Addie. Addie charged at the gunman, managing to tackle and disarm him, but she was losing blood rapidly and the pain was so intense she could barely see or breathe. A deep, piercing cold enveloped her. The little girl escaped, managing to get away from her pursuers in the confusion. +While walking, she noticed a little girl running away from a fast food restaurant with a man in pursuit. Addie put herself between the little girl and the approaching man, as the little girl screamed about how she just wanted to go home. The man reached out to push Addie out of the way, but Addie wouldn't move. He tried to go around Addie, but she lunged to stay in front of him. Finally, he yelled something about how his daughter was just throwing a tantrum, but she didn't buy that. Finally, a van rolled up, and another man jumped out with a gun, opening fire at Addie. Addie charged at the gunman, managing to tackle and disarm him, but she was losing blood rapidly and the pain was so intense she could barely see or breathe. A deep, piercing cold enveloped her. The little girl escaped, managing to get away from her pursuers in the confusion. 
  
 But Addie was losing too much blood, too quickly. The pursuers pushed her weakening body away, got back into the van, and drove off. The little girl came out of hiding, trying to help Addie to her feet again, but Addie could no longer stand. But Addie was losing too much blood, too quickly. The pursuers pushed her weakening body away, got back into the van, and drove off. The little girl came out of hiding, trying to help Addie to her feet again, but Addie could no longer stand.
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 Her father abandoned his career as a musician to become a public speaker, advocating for stricter laws against human trafficking and firearms, and using the death of his daughter as an example. Her father abandoned his career as a musician to become a public speaker, advocating for stricter laws against human trafficking and firearms, and using the death of his daughter as an example.
  
-But for all the media coverage, for all the people who insisted she must have survived, her body was never found. Eventually, the world moved on. Eventually, even her father had to go back a normal life eventually.+But for all the media coverage, for all the people who insisted she must have survived, her body was never found. Eventually, the world moved on. Eventually, even her father had to go back a normal life.
  
-==== Space Bounty Hunter ====+But he never truly accepted that his daughter was dead. 
 + 
 +==== Reconstruction ====
  
 Addie opened her eyes to find everything uncomfortably bright. Gone was the grass of the roadside and the unforgiving concrete of the sidewalk. Addie opened her eyes to find everything uncomfortably bright. Gone was the grass of the roadside and the unforgiving concrete of the sidewalk.
  
 She was asked whether she would like to be healed. She said //yes//. She was asked whether she would like to be healed. She said //yes//.
 +
 She was asked if she was willing to transcend the limits of her species. She said //yes//. She was asked if she was willing to transcend the limits of her species. She said //yes//.
 +
 She was asked if she was willing to abandon the body she once knew. She said //yes//. She was asked if she was willing to abandon the body she once knew. She said //yes//.
 +
 She was asked if she could accept never seeing anyone she knew again. She said //no//. She was asked if she could accept never seeing anyone she knew again. She said //no//.
 +
 She was reminded that this was the **only** way she could be guaranteed survival. She was reminded that this was the **only** way she could be guaranteed survival.
 +
 She thought about it for a moment, and then she said //yes//. She thought about it for a moment, and then she said //yes//.
  
-Her body was reconstructed using magics unknown to Mersia, inventions of a [[The Mage|mad genius]] who had been away from home for too long, and been alone for too long, and who had forgotten right and wrong, preoccupied only by "is" and "could be".+ 
 +Her body was reconstructed using magics previously unknown to Mersia, inventions of a [[The Mage|mad genius]] who had been away from home for too long, and been alone for too long, and who had forgotten right and wrong, preoccupied only by "is" and "could be". As though the gunshots had been a dream, Addie woke, dressed in unfamiliar clothes, with her digital camera and glasses on a small table beside her bed. But that was where her familiarity ended. She got up and looked for a mirror. Upon finding one, she was surprised to find that she looked exactly the same. She lifted her shirt, and looked in the mirror. Where she knew she had been shot countless times, there were not even scars. 
 + 
 +The Mage entered and explained that no wound Addie ever received would be fatal ever again. As long as her body had enough fat reserves to draw upon, it could heal from any wound.  
 + 
 +==== Training ==== 
 + 
 +Addie entered the tutelage of The Mage, who taught her the way of the sword. Her training regimen was unbelievably strict, in essence being a 24-hour ordeal, with even her sleep scheduled. She was forced to train for twelve hours a day, with four thirty-minute breaks between mealtimes. She ate five meals throughout the day. One before training, and then one after every three hours of training. She maintained a calorie intake of around 4,000 per day. 
 + 
 +The Mage always wore a cloak which covered his head, and only his hands were ever visible. The Mage told Addie that if she could ever remove his hood, she would be allowed to see his real face. Despite trying for over ten years, Addie never succeeded.  
 + 
 +Addie developed physical abilities which are beyond those normally possessed by [[sape|sapes]]. But The Mage was on another level entirely, and remained so.   
 + 
 +==== Space Bounty Hunter ==== 
 + 
 +After two years of training, Addie began to receive mission assignments from The Mage. 
 + 
 +She would typically complete about three assignments per month, and over the course of this period of her life, she completed around five-hundred assignments, about half of which were "capture alive" assignments. 
 + 
 +Typically her assignments would include petty criminals who had broken the law in areas with rich governments who could afford her services, wealthy criminals who were getting revenge on government officials who had crossed them, and rich people who were eliminating their competition. Addie had no illusions of being a hero at this point in her life, selling her services to the highest bidder, but always following through even if a larger offer was pushed toward her by the victim. 
 + 
 +Addie rapidly became wealthy, soon adorning herself with all manner of golden jewelry. But, always, she maintained her training regimen, and never ate anything that was not given to her by Mage, even though the contents of the plate always looked like dog food. 
 + 
 +The Mage, a master of tempumancy (or time travel) sent Addie far into the past and the future to collect bounties from different eras. Of these, the civilizations which were members of intergalactic councils (of which there were few, but enough to matter) would corroborate their stories and realize the same figure had been periodically appearing throughout their histories, with appearances hundreds of years apart.  
 + 
 +She was known to them as "Platinum Gale". This was a name Addie would keep in mind as a potential alias. 
 + 
 +==== Visiting Earth, AD 2019 ==== 
 + 
 +After eight years of work, The Mage offered to bring Addie on extended vacation to a planet which was unlike any other planet he had ever seen, which had no posted bounties, but which Addie might nevertheless find comfortingly familiar. 
 + 
 +The Mage brought Addie to [[Earth]]. They spent two years there, during which time Addie was still expected to keep up her diet and training regimen, but apart from that she was given free reign to explore the planet as she pleased. She typically only visited conventions and other locations where she could pass off her appearance as being a costume.  
 + 
 +She explored Earth's internet and pirated thousands of terabytes of media which she intended to read or watch or listen to later. This archive is still aboard her ship. 
 + 
 +==== Reading Crosslink ==== 
 + 
 +Addie found a copy of [[crosslink|The Crosslink Saga]] owned by The Mage during one of her scheduled breaks. She skimmed through it, and soon noticed a picture of herself with five others she did not recognize. She read their names: [[Rimas Nolie]], [[Marcel Tano]], [[Jutse Aldwyn]], [[Cae Lawrence]], and [[Frost Lawrence]]. These were apparently close friends of hers. However, she had no memory of meeting them. 
 + 
 +She then realized that this photo was from her own future, and that she had to go back to Mersia to meet them. She then asked Mage to send her back to this planet under the guise of having read about Marcel from a different source, and wanting to test her mettle against a supposed "strongest man in the world", and one of her own species. 
 + 
 +The Mage obliged her request, sending her and her ship to 540 GD. 
 + 
 +==== Arrival in Tolikra ==== 
 + 
 +Addie landed her ship in a junkyard belonging to [[Baron Potter]], who convinced Addie to tell him the whole unfiltered truth before he would tell her where to find Marcel. Satisfied with her answer, he directed her to the bus stop near his house, and told her which bus to take. 
 + 
 +On the bus, she sat next to [[Frank Lawrence]], and had [[http://crosslink.flaminglog.net/1/020|this conversation]] with him. 
 + 
 +After that, Addie reached Goldenrod Avenue, where she ran into [[Bryph Glare]], Jutse Aldwyn, and [[Arcturus Ansel]].
  
 ===== Personality ===== ===== Personality =====
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 Addie has unparalleled endurance. Her body is essentially at peak physical fitness. Additionally, she can regenerate from wounds thousands of times faster than normal, and she can also recover from wounds that would usually be permanent (for example, a lost limb or eye).  Addie has unparalleled endurance. Her body is essentially at peak physical fitness. Additionally, she can regenerate from wounds thousands of times faster than normal, and she can also recover from wounds that would usually be permanent (for example, a lost limb or eye). 
  
-However, her accelerated regeneration uses her body's fat (of which there is little) as fuel, and if there is not enough on her body to regenerate the wound fully, regeneration stops until she is able to eat something with a high fat content.+However, her accelerated regeneration uses her body's fat as fuel, and if there is not enough on her body to regenerate the wound fully, regeneration stops until she is able to eat something with a high fat content.
  
 Her heart is capable of reaching 20,000 bpm in order to rapidly metabolize food and heal her body at these accelerated rates. Her heart is capable of reaching 20,000 bpm in order to rapidly metabolize food and heal her body at these accelerated rates.
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 ==== Sword-fighting Techniques ==== ==== Sword-fighting Techniques ====
  
-Addie knows a style of sword-fighting called "non-euclidean swordplay". This allows her to place the actual effect of her slice somewhere other than where she is actually swinging her sword and also rotate the direction of the attack around an axis parallel to the line between the attack and the axis of rotation, provided the distance of the slice from the axis of rotation is the same, and that the distance of the slash is the same. For example, she can slice downward directly at her right side, and have the slash appear in front of her from left to right. If something is in the way of the sword's "real" path, the sword will pass through it as though it is not real. If something is in the way of the sword's "altered" path, it will be cut if it can be cut. +Addie knows a style of sword-fighting called "[[non-spatial swordplay]]". This allows her to place the actual effect of her slice somewhere other than where she is actually swinging her sword and also rotate the direction of the attack around an axis parallel to the line between the attack and the axis of rotation, provided the distance of the slice from the axis of rotation is the same, and that the distance of the slash is the same. For example, she can slice downward directly at her right side, and have the slash appear in front of her from left to right. If something is in the way of the sword's "real" path, the sword will pass through it as though it is not real. If something is in the way of the sword's "altered" path, it will be cut if it can be cut. 
  
 This ability allows Addie to ignore obstacles between her and a place she is trying to cut. For example, if there is a rope on the other side of a wall, and Addie slashes at her side with the altered path being in front of her, the slice will appear on the other side of the wall even though Addie cannot directly reach it. This ability allows Addie to ignore obstacles between her and a place she is trying to cut. For example, if there is a rope on the other side of a wall, and Addie slashes at her side with the altered path being in front of her, the slice will appear on the other side of the wall even though Addie cannot directly reach it.
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 Addie has the ability to take multiple courses of action simultaneously. Up to nine simultaneous courses of action can be taken, and these courses of action can last up to thirty seconds total. Addie has the ability to take multiple courses of action simultaneously. Up to nine simultaneous courses of action can be taken, and these courses of action can last up to thirty seconds total.
  
-For example, if she is swinging her sword, she can split the path of the sword along nine similar yet separate trajectories in order to make up to nine cuts with one swing. She cannot use this ability at the same time as her non-euclidean swordplay.+For example, if she is swinging her sword, she can split the path of the sword along nine similar yet separate trajectories in order to make up to nine cuts with one swing. She cannot use this ability at the same time as her non-spatial swordplay, or NSS.
  
 Another possible use is to split her entire body in order to do two things at the same time. Though the total duration of all actions may be up to thirty seconds, in practice the actual duration of the ability can only be up to fifteen, since the least amount of simultaneous courses is two.  Another possible use is to split her entire body in order to do two things at the same time. Though the total duration of all actions may be up to thirty seconds, in practice the actual duration of the ability can only be up to fifteen, since the least amount of simultaneous courses is two. 
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