Biograde

Biograde (real name Thelma Emmett) is the 43rd member of the S-men.

Biography
Thelma was born to a kind of successful banker and his wife in Nevada. Her abilities came as little surprise to the couple, as Thelma ’s mother, formerly Alice Smith was a superhero herself, but retired to due a serious injury. She grew up caring for her younger siblings and taking whatever odd jobs she could in order to support her family, despite her dads best efforts. Growing up, Thelma always struggled with he relationship with her father, who was in and out of the family’s life, having a strained relationship with Thelma’s mother and often just being unable to stand up to the task of being a father to his six children. As a result of this, Thelma’s education had many gaps. She learned to write her name for paperwork, but she was illiterate for the most part. Thelma became a super very young, at age 17, and she is now 34. She’s attending Harvard as a biology teacher. Thelma doesn’t work in Municiberg but in Boston, though she’s still supported by the NSA program. When she was 24 she had an affair with a coworker in her department that resulted in a pregnancy, and she and her coworker got married and made a home together to raise their daughter, Cassidy. However, the couple were not suited for each other, and they divorced shortly after the birth of Thelma’s son, Timmy and her daughter Lily. Thelma got main custody of the two children and she had a hard time for a while supporting them as a single mother, even with the child support checks from her ex husband She found herself intensely missing her old friends from Municiberg. She tried to contact a few of them, but there was a suspicious radio silence. Her suspicions that something had happened to them continued, and drove her to travel to Nomanisan when Mirage reached out to her, thinking perhaps this was what was happening. When she fought the Omnidroid she easily defeated and, like Patriot, she was put on the no return list. She became a member of the S-men when the ban was lifted.

Personality
Thelma has a bit of a nervous disposition, and isn’t physically much of a fighter. However, she’s determined and learning fast.

Powers
Her super abilities include a heightened intellect, biokinesis and the ability to speed up growth of organics material through touch.

Weakness
Her biokinesis can be very painful at times and it cannot work on those with immortality..