Tormenta

Tormenta is a superhero written by Zahhak in the canon Supers, Inc.

Early Life
Tormenta was the sixth child of a pair of Bolivian immigrants living in Sheffield, PA, and was born with the name Raquel Aritza a year before the family moved to America. Her parents were highly qualified by spoke little to no English, and so were stuck with low-end jobs and struggled to support their family.

At the age of six, Tormenta was clipped by a truck thrown by a supervillain which crushed both of her legs. The surgeons managed to save her life, but were unable to save her legs. When she woke up, her legs ended halfway down her thighs.

However, Tormenta's parents were very intelligent but Tormenta herself was a prodigy. By the age of ten she'd built herself a pair of simple prosthetic legs out of scrap metal and wood, having gotten sick of using a wheelchair. By the age of sixteen she'd built a pair of robotic legs that she could control manually. By the age of eighteen she'd built a pair of legs that used electrodes placed on her scalp to control them. She soon earned a scholarship for the Sheffield University to study robotics, and began working full-time on improving her legs and building other pairs for different purposes.

Career As A Super
Tormenta took the name Storm in her own language when she first became known in the super community, as her legs allow her to move with the speed, strength, and fury of a storm. She uses her powerful legs in conjunction with her knowledge of electronics to break into the factories of robotics businesses and steal specialised parts. She chooses her targets based on how ethical their business practices are.

However, at the same time, she has a tendency to fight alongside the same heroes who chase her when real villains come to town. She may have a vague grasp of personal property, but she has strong morals and believes in fighting for justice.

Appearance
Tormenta is 21. She is beefy and tough, with wide hips and broad shoulders, and would probably be about 5'3" tall, if it wasn't for... you'll see. She's surprisingly tough and has noticeable muscles in her biceps, and is generally quite physically fit. She has shoulder-blade-length brown hair and deep brown olive eyes. Her skin is light brown. She has full lips and quite thick, dark eyebrows, and in general looks Hispanic.

Her legs... well, she has a pair of enormous, cantilevered, digitigrade robotic legs that attach to an armoured cradle that comes up to about her hips. There's no space inside it for normal human legs.

She's wearing a grubby, off-white tank-top stained with machine oil and singed in places, and a pair of khaki cargo pants cut off at mid-thigh and re-designed to open and close at the sides. These shorts cover her waist to the tops of her legs. They'd be almost scandalously short if her legs weren't made of weapons-grade titanium. With her legs counted as well, she's 6'3" tall.