Thea Hartwell.

A paper-drawn sketch of Thea, showcasing something while irritated. Made by AnimaDump. Full name: Thea Hartwell.
Epithets: "Machine Girl." "Twenty-Nine."
Age: 19 years old.
Magic Style: Overclock.

THEA HARTWELL.

Thea Hartwell is one of the canon characters of MagiMercs, and one of the protagonists inside the story. Thea is a cybernetic engineer, creating mechanical enhancements and replacements for body parts as a way to study the human limit.


APPEARANCE.

Thea is a human cyborg standing at around 1,72 meters tall, typically having a yellow tint. She has short hair cut around all sides except the top, and is usually seen with a big, puffy hoodie and some track pants, or with a sleeveless shirt with a typically blank or small logo on it and some shorts. One consistent characteristic of Thea's design is her right arm, which is always a cybernetic, armor-like arm.

PERSONALITY.

Quiet, serious, but somewhat ironic at times, Thea is a quiet, brooding person, only doing small talk most of the time. She appreciates not having to reveal too much about herself, and is typically unconfortable at people who ask too much about her.

Despite her typically quiet nature, Thea is known to have rare moments of outbursts, still being quiet, but keeping a more intimidating posture against those who oppose her ideas.

STYLE AND SPELLS.

Thea's magic style is known as Overclock, and it allows her to inbue a mix of electricity and magic into non-organisms, including her own cybernetics, making them physically stronger, but more prone to breaking. Thea can also produce hardlight at will, which is light and energy manifested into a physical object. Thea's main spells are:

  • Barrier: Firewall - Thea creates a small barrier infront of her, blocking her upper body. This barrier breaks within three moves, but does not need the user to mantain a certain stance to continue activated, so Thea typically uses this as a failsafe.
  • Projectile: Grenade - Thea manifests a small ball of hardlight, no bigger than a tennis ball, and launches it at a target, causing a small explosion on impact.
  • Static - Thea inbues an object with both magic and electric charges, making that object temporarily more powerful, but also easier to break. The more energy used, the stronger it gets, the easier it is to break.
  • Awaken: Haywire - Thea's awakening, in which she inbues her whole body with the use of Static, making her much stronger, faster, and capable of handling more magic. Lasts for 5 minutes, and knocks out Thea right after the end of it's activation.

    • BACKSTORY.

    Thea has always been a savant at creating things of mechanic nature, creating a simple robotic finger at the age of 8. This was a problem for her family, ones who followed the Teachings of Old, and saw cybernetic enhancements as a blasphemy to life. At the age of 12, Thea was kicked out of her house, accused of going against the god's wills with her many cybernetic projects.

    After wandering through the streets for a couple of days, Thea saw a strange event in the roads of Rocket Falls, a massive attack on civilians by an inhumanely fast cyborg, which caused her to become obsessed with a simple idea: How much can the human body handle? How far can we go?

    Today, Thea finds herself with a semi-successful indie cybernetics shop, and still continues on her studies, experimenting on volunteers and herself to discover the "human limit".

    EQUIPMENT.

    While Thea's main source of equipment is normally her cybernetics, she does possess some weaponry, most specifically, she always carries a simple, hand-made lightsword she calls the "Blade of Bug."

    TRIVIA.

    Thea is heavily inspired by the tabletop role-playing game Cyberpunk: RED, and some parts of her backstory are directly influenced by the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.