Mindfire

Emma Jeffries

Emma Jeffries is the daughter of Michael Jeffries, wealthy philanthropist and mob lawyer. The senior Jeffries was responsible for keeping numerous organized crime figures out of jail, but to his great frustration, was never admitted further into the families. Behind closed doors, he took his frustration out on his wife and child. At nine years old, Emma was shipped off to the first of the high-priced boarding schools that were her home from then on. A year after she left, Emma’s mother committed suicide. After that, she felt little connection to her father and knew him mainly as the man who controlled the purse strings and who beat her at his whim. She learned early on how to manipulate the dangerous men around her and became hyper-aware of her surroundings, so nothing would surprise her—successful survival strategies for someone in her situation. 
When Daddy learned about her role in the disappearance of her many “pets” and the violent beatings she inflicted on friends who’d angered her, she was moved from the boarding schools to secure, discreet mental hospitals. She was being moved from one such facility to another in the back of a limo when the route came a little too close to ground zero of the Silver Storm.
Her psionic abilities literally exploded into being. They shredded the limo and the men around her. After recovering enough self-control to work through what had happened and what she could do, Emma made her way home and showed Daddy just how unhappy she was with him. Her explanation took some time and he didn’t survive it.
Freed from her previous life, Mindfire immediately put knowledge of her father’s former associates to use in order to hire herself out as super-powered muscle. She’s expanded her client list since then, but not her goals—money and fun and plenty of people to inflict pain upon are all she really wants and she indulges those whims as she likes.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Mindfire is a psionic, and not a subtle one. She is both telepathic and telekinetic, but the manifestations of power are always accompanied by a ghostly fire-like effect. This distinctive psionic signature is a reflection of her sadistic personality. Her telepathy is blunt and brutal, so when she enters others’ minds, it’s a painful process unless she really concentrates. She would love to master mind control, but despite her best efforts all she’s managed to develop is the ability to create illusions of the target’s worst fears.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Mindfire’s personality is a dangerous mix of frustrated entitlement, a lifetime of rage, and complete indifference to the value of human life. She projects a flirtatious exterior and maintains enough self-control to operate in everyday life, but her temper is always there, just below the surface. The only real enjoyment she derives from life since her transformation is using her powers to cause pain and suffering, or to flaunt them to prove she’s superior to whomever she’s dealing with; in short, she’s a classic sociopath.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Mindfire isn’t really stable enough to accumulate many allies. She has worked with a number of other stormers when the occasion called for it, but her sociopathic nature restricts her choice in “friends” to those she can’t easily hurt in a fit of pique (such as Anvil) or those that pay her handsomely, such as F.O.E. or SHADOW. Many of Daddy’s former associates funnel work her way along with doing favors for her if she needs something, whether they do it out of respect for her father’s service to them or fear of Mindfire’s powers isn’t clear.
After hospitalizing numerous agents and torturing a few just for kicks, Mindfire is high on AEGIS’ list of targets in Emerald City—for numerous AEGIS agents, it’s personal with her. Mindfire also killed a number of street soldiers belonging to The Takazumi-gumi(not that she knew who they were at the time this has resulted in Three Banner Shogun putting a price on her head.