Tesla Girl

Freyja Mercades’ parents were drawn together by shared careers: outré researchers for the high-tech weapons cartel known as the Ghostworks. They raised child-genius Freyja to follow in their footsteps, but tragically she would take those steps alone after a lab accident made her an orphan.
Left to her own devices, eight-year-old Freyja resolved to attain the greatness her parents intended. Armed with her admi­ration for Nikola Tesla and her rudimentary Victorian-era mad science training, she constructed an array of amazing retro-technological wonders, powered by steam, light­ning, and clockwork. Dubbing herself Tesla Girl in her hero’s honor, Freyja seeks to fulfill her parents’ ambition for her to become a preeminent mad scientist, as well as collect the money to fund her research and fabrication needs.
Though she appears adorably non-threatening, heroes underes­timate Tesla Girl’s nascent super-villainy at their peril. She’s not yet mature enough to comprehend the evilness of her larcenous deeds and vainglorious aims—and with proper guidance, may yet turn out good— but Tesla Girl is nonetheless a threat, particularly because she doesn’t know what she shouldn’t do.

Physical Description

Apparel & Accessories

Tesla Girl is a super-genius specializing in har­nessing Victorian-era technology (like clock­work mechanisms and electricity) to modern-day nefarious ends. Among her destructive but unpredictable “toys” are electric energy weapons of various sizes, the fabulous dirigible Albatross, and all manner of mechanical minions. She re­cently added the capability to generate mes­merizing energies, which she uses to control or subdue others.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Tesla Girl is a mad scientist’s mind and ambition fueled by an eight-year-old’s turbulent emotions. She’s normally gleeful over her latest inventions and schemes, but can be over­come by childish petulance and rage if her plans are thwarted. Beneath it all, she’s a lonely little girl who misses her parents and has no conception of what the normal human relationships she craves are actually like.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Tesla Girl clashes frequently with Kid Robot, whom she alternately wants to be­friend, disassemble and study, or both.