Sleepwalker

Ida Merrid

Ida Merrid, named for her maternal grandmother, loved books from the time she learned to read. She devoured whatever literature she could find, from the classics to trashy novels (her secret vice). No surprise that the bookish Ida pursued a degree in Library Science and became a junior librarian at the Emerald City Public Library. She was content, even if she secretly fantasized about a life of adventure and romance like the characters in her beloved books.
Ida was taking an opportunity to enjoy lunch (and read, of course) out near Yellow Brick Row on the fateful day of the Silver Storm. Although she apparently escaped without ill effects and soon returned to work, she began recalling unusual dreams of having different sorts of amazing powers. What was worse was when she found the secret cache in the unused attic of her condo: trinkets, cash, and goods apparently stolen from different places in the city! Now she’s worried her dreams are somehow coming true! Or worse, that she’s losing her mind!

Physical Description

Special abilities

As Ida Merrid, mild-mannered librarian, Sleepwalker has no extraordinary abilities save for a photographic memory, particularly for anything she reads.
When she sleeps, however, she displays a most unusual super-power: her body and mind transform into a new superhuman identity, complete with a costume and seemingly independent personality. Sleepwalker’s somnolent superhuman forms display no awareness of their origin or waking identity (though they do know where “home” is) and do not even know they are not real and independent beings!

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Ida Merrid is a kind-hearted dreamer bound up in convention, afraid of what might be happening to her and uncertain where to turn. Her superhuman selves vary as much in personality as they do powers, but tend to represent repressed parts of Ida, seeking adventure, excitement, flouting the rules, and taking whatever they want. They tend to be fairly harmless, or at the very least not malicious, but there are no doubt darker parts of Sleepwalker’s psyche buried even deeper.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Sleepwalker’s various personae tend to be solo acts, although some may be willing to pair-up or work with others, as needed.
Similarly, while most of Sleepwalker’s alternate personalities are criminals, and therefore wanted by the authorities, few of them are around long enough to make any enemies.