Margaret Ross

Margaret Ross is a metahuman who is a very nasty government stooge.

Early Life
Margaret was born the youngest of 5 siblings within San Francisco, California, during the first year of World War 2, with an American father and a Russian mother that had immigrated into the U.S. Her family was not poor, nor were they rich. They had enough income from their grandfather's small clothes making business, Margaret's father was drafted into the Second World War. Her childhood was rather mundane as one may describe, having a fairly typical childhood. Going to school and learning how to help her mother and older siblings. When World War 2 finally ended, her father never returned home alive. Because of his fate and the fate of many other men, Margaret grew up becoming determined to serve within the U.S military, seeking to fight against the enemies of her country. At age 18, she did just that. Choosing to serve within the U.S military rather than seeking to pursue getting into a college that accepted women, despite having great academic success.

Intelligence Agent
Margaret worked hard with fierce determination, her skill and intelligence, even earning herself a few promotions through many years of service. Her talents and plus a mixture of her experience of the Russian language thanks to her mother, and patriotism became a target of interest, especially since it was the middle of the Cold War. The time came and she was recruited as a spy for the United States against the Soviet Union. Tasked with gathering information, spotting both potential recruits, potential double agents, and other tasks they may find suited for her talents. Margaret went to the Soviet Union under the guise of a woman named Czarina Morozov, fitting in almost flawlessly as she had improved her Russian before leaving the U.S, even imitating the accent perfectly. Admittedly, it was immensely difficult for Margaret, whilst she never failed in her tasks, it took a toll on her emotional health being practically alone in an enemy, foreign country. Using her beauty to seduce Russian men of significance to achieve her missions.

Unexpected Motherhood
After a few years within the Soviet Union, in early 1974, she was called back to the United States after succeeding in killing a high ranking officer in his sleep and stealing important documents. Whilst she was very much determined to continue her service to the government, it was postponed for a short time when a few months later, she learned she was pregnant. Choosing to give birth instead of aborting it, though in the end, Margaret simply had her mother raise it as she had no interest of doing so herself and sacrificing her work life.

Project Thanatos
Margaret was then chosen for a new line of work that she had not expected. Project Thanatos. She knew of metahumans and the thought of becoming one was surreal, yet excited her. Margaret wholeheartedly agreed to the process and was given the l-3 variant of ichor, which was an utterly miserable and painful process for her. It was only after the process was finished she learned the dosage given to her was fatal to most others. An IV bag full compared to the usual thumb sized dosage. Nonetheless, the process was considered an immense success and Margaret gained powers she never thought she'd gain. For a few years, she'd train under Carter just like every other metahuman, ever determined to control her own abilities. Earning and adapting the alias of 'Backlash' for her abilities, or more playfully as 'Agent Sunflower' by her peers.

Once she was ready, Margaret was sent on missions to assassinate targated superhumans that had gone rogue or simply needed to be gotten rid in the eyes of her bosses. Whilst she is used to using art of stealth, her assassinations had very little stealth behind them. They died loudly and destructively, only thing keeping her anonymous was her costume, hood and mask, going as far to never even speak to her victims unless required, if she did then she'll simply adopt her Russian accent in the process.

Recent Years
Outside of missions, when she had free time. Margaret had as normal of a life possible, with the added bonus of enjoying her constant youth and vitality as the years past with the world changing. Which, resulted in her becoming pregnant again. She kept the child, mainly seeing the possibilities and opportunities it might have from having metahuman parents. Unlike her child before, she raised and loved it as any mother should when her schedule permitted, practically forgetting her first child ever existed.

Margaret continued her job of being a anti Meta metahuman assassin. Almost always successful in her missions barring 2 instances where a target hand escaped, one died at the hands of other metas whilst other Margaret managed to catch up to. She had minimal involvement within the Vietnam war, remaining within the U.S for the duration of it.

As her identify, even alias, is a secret to many, thus she has a handful of street names, differing between locations but most notable one being 'Annihilator', much to Margaret's great amusement.

Since then, it has become Margaret's long term profession, something she had grown to even enjoy at times. On some days, she finds herself questioning if she's really doing the right thing, but is very quick to dismiss that thought.

Physical Appearance
Margaret is a very fit, fair skinned woman, who often dresses in what is now considered a 'vintage' style, as she heavily prefers it over most modern day fashion trends. When she's on a mission, she wears a costume that also obscures her face and hair.

Personality
Margaret is intelligent, cunning, humorous, and industrious, but the years have made her quite arrogant and jaded. She is indulgent and has very selective empathy, only feeling bad for those she deems as loyal to the United States as a country (not just the government), or the rare close friend and has no qualms in murdering or seeing them suffer otherwise.

She is still fully capable of genuine love and friendships, it is simply difficult for her due to her near century of war and bloodshed. Any despair, grief, or regret she feels are simply bottled up and often only released in private when they've become too much. Regardless, when she's in her civilian persona, Margaret acts just like any other happy and polite lady. She also still holds open minded views and is not stuck in the past.

Powers
Metahuman Physiology: Having survived a potent dose of I-3 ichor, Margaret was endowed with potent superhuman abilities.


 * Energy Absorption: Margaret is capable of absorbing various types of energy through her skin. Kinetic energy is the easiest energy to absorb, be it from blunt punches, bullets, or the stabs and cuts of a blade. She is also able to absorb energy from other sources, such as fire, explosives, and electricity, though the efficiency of absorption compared to kinetic energy is decreased. When subjected to some form of energy based damage, Margaret's body reflexively absorbs it, but she is also able to consciously draw on an external energy source, usually by pressing her hands to it and drawing in nearby energy from there. This allows her to absorb a fire, or draw energy from an absorbed power cable.
 * Energy Expulsion:
 * Superhuman Strength:
 * Energy Storage:
 * Regeneration:
 * Superhuman Durability:

Skills
Fluent in Russian, German, Chinese, and Japanese. Long military experience which includes combat, expert in hand to hand combat and martial arts, acting (voice acting too), sewing, hunting.