Name: Flow Nature: Caregiver (Formerly somewhere between Bureaucrat and Traditionalist) Concept: Nobody Real Name: Ah Suyin (Sue Yin) Allegiance: Independent Eruption: Accident

Physical Mental Social Strength 3   Mega-Strength     Might 1         Dexterity 5 Graceful  Mega-Dexterity 1 Physical Prodigy Athletics 1   Legerdemain 1   Martial Arts 2   Stealth 1         Stamina 5 Enduring Mega-Stamina     Endurance 3   Resistance 3   Perception 5 Intuitive Mega-Perception     Awareness 1         Intelligence 4 Bright Mega-Intelligence 1 Fast Learner Academics 1   Computer 1   Intrusion 1   Linguistics 2 Native: Chinese, English, Spanish       Wits 5 Level-Headed Mega-Wits 1 Enhanced Initiative x 1 Arts 2 Sewing Biz 1   Rapport 1   Appearance 3   Mega-Appearance     Style   1    Manipulation 3   Mega-Manipulation     Streetwise 1   Subterfuge 1   Charisma 3   Mega-Charisma     Command 1   Etiquette 1   Perform 2 Traditional Chinese Dance Attributes: 4 Nova Abilities: 2 Exp Mega-Attributes: 9 Nova Quantum Powers: 10 Nova   Quantum Powers Power Lvl Extras/Techniques/Weaknesses Teleport 1 3 Safe Blind Teleport Temporal Manipulation 1 3 Internal Clock, Stop Time

Willpower (4 Bonus) 5 Taint 3 Aberrations   Quantum (14 Bonus, 6 T. Nova) 5 Quantum Pool 30   Backgrounds (1 Bonus, 1 Nova, 2 Exp) Attunement 5 Cipher 2 Contacts (Havana, Miami) 2 Followers (Rosario) 1 Node 1 Resources 3 Merits & Flaws Dependent – 4 (Daughter)

 

HISTORY

 

The first conscious memory Ah Suyin possesses is the chaos of the massacre in Tiananmen Square and the veiled satisfaction of her fervently Communist parents Ah Bai and Zhuang Biyu at seeing the protesting students being punished for “disrupting the state and supporting the decadent West”, as her uncle Ah Xiao, a colonel in the Red Army, said over dinner shortly afterwards. Even at four, she understood that misbehaviour had painful consequences, and so she vowed never to give the state any reason to punish her with bullets and tanks, which she imagined hurt much more than a slap. Like her mother and father, uncle and aunt and cousin, she submerged herself into the great flow of Communist ideology and dedicated herself to serving China as best she could. An early promise of talent in traditional dancing faded into the cold ashes of reality and a job in a clothing manufactory working under Soh Yusheng, a man with ties to the counterfeiting market. When she was twenty, he made an offer for her hand, and her parents granted it to him. By twenty-one, she was the mother of a girl named Soh Meili, and when she was twenty-two her husband was arrested for counterfeiting as a scapegoat. Her uncle aided her in making a divorce because of the disgrace, and she took Yusheng’s job as foreperson. At the age of twenty-four, she was considered the model of a good Chinese citizen and promised to (possibly) go onto greater things.

 

Eruption in December, 2008, changed all of that. A gas pipe in her apartment building exploded, and she stopped time around it long enough to get out of the way. Like a good citizen, she cooperated with the officials from the government until they discussed running tests on Meili to see if she was a nova too. Only four years old, the little girl was too young for such tests, and she pointed it out respectfully. She had been four when she saw images of the Tiananmen Square massacre. But the government officials disagreed with her and accused her of being a rightist and a traitor. Angry, she argued with them, and when they threatened her with arrest, she grabbed Meili and teleported from Shanghai to Taipei. Frightened and confused at her actions, she briefly appeared in a government office in Hong Kong, intent on turning herself in, before she panicked again and teleported to Mumbai half a continent away. It took an hour for her to run out of quantum as she went from place to place, finally ending up in New York City’s Chinatown for about eight hours. Her final teleport was to Havana, where the Cuban government was all too happy to give her asylum and citizenship.

                                                                              

Under the name of Sue ‘Flow’ Yin, she has started to make a living by couriering things (and people) between Havana and Miami. She has not yet revealed her temporal powers, allowing everyone to think she is ‘just’ a teleporter, and has still evidenced wariness of the capitalist way of life she is now immersed in. The PRC issued a statement declaring her to be a traitor but has taken no further actions due to scrutiny from Project Utopia.

 

Personality

 

Ah Suyin is not a rebellious person by nature; she much prefers calm, routine, tradition and order. This new change in personality is as surprising to her as anyone who knew her, and it is entirely possible that eruption played some part in it. Regardless of cause, it is clear that she has been cut adrift from everything and everyone she knows for the sake of her daughter, and Meili is now her main reason for continuing in a new and foreign world. She is intensely uncomfortable amongst the rampant capitalism of Havana and clings to the city’s Chinatown (or any other Chinatown in the places she travels in) like a lifeline, trying to maintain a link to her native culture and virtues.

 

Appearance

 

Ah Suyin is pretty by baseline standards, her black hair cut into a no-nonsense bob and her brown eyes frequently downcast. She is tall for a Chinese woman and has a nova’s lithe figure, but otherwise makes little to no effort with her appearance beyond remaining clean and neat. Her clothing tends to be drab and simple, conforming to an idealised version of a Western labourer’s outfit.