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"I have this headache that comes and goes..."

(Pietro walks in) "Hey everyone."

"And there it is!"
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BASIC INFORMATION
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『 Real Name 』
Tatiana Benavidez
『 Nickname 』
Ana, Whirlwind (By Stark)
『 Alias 』
Tempest
『 Identity 』
Known
『 Date of Birth 』
07/18/1992
『 Place of Birth 』
New Mexico
『 Species 』
Human
『 Gender 』
Female
『 Sexuality 』
Pansexual

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AFFILIATIONS
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『 Crush 』
For Males: Either Bucky Barnes or Loki

For Females: Wanda Maximoff or Yelena Belova

『 Friends 』
- The Avengers
- Ned Leeds
- Happy Hogan

『 Best Friends 』
- Tony Stark
- Peter Parker
- Wanda Maximoff
- Pietro Maximoff
『 Teams or Organizations 』
- The Avengers
- S.H.I.E.L.D.

『 Occupation 』
Avenger, part-time tailor

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APPEARANCE
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『 General 』
Above

『 Height 』
5'9

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ORIGIN
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Born to two Hydra soldiers in New Mexico, Tatiana was raised to be a soldier like her mother and father before her...however, she had a rebellious and rowdy attitude. She was difficult when she was being taught, and when she was finally old enough to be taken on a mission...she jeopardized it by trying to help innocents escape, even though they knew of what transpired. They were executed, and Tatiana was considered to be traitor...she couldn't be trusted to be a part of Hydra...

And so despite having 18 years of training, she was instead taken to be used for experiments. A man on the inside of S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken possession of the Tesseract. It was obvious they would find out...so they ran experiments on human subjects. Each one died, time after time...that is, until it was Tatiana's turn.

She was taken into the testing chambers, the glowing cube pulsing across the room. Strange puddles of blackish blue goop was strewn about the floor...

"Miss Benavidez...please approach the Tessaract..." A voice with a heavy German accent spoke over the intercom, making her slowly approach as she practically heard it humming in her ears.

And the shock that wracked her body upon contact made everything seemed to turn white to her. Events seemed to play out before her...a soldier lost in a land of ice, a woman from one world given strength to save a race...and threats from beyond the stars. A whirlwind rippled throughout the room as the surrounding area tuned back in...before she promptly blacked out.

As soon as she awoke, she was used for tests, having been given new abilities from the Tesseract...she could control air currents as if they were extensions of herself...and Hydra was plotting to use this to their advantage...however, a year later in 2010, she found her strength to find a way to escape, Hydra having expected her to be conditioned into obeying them...unfortunately, they were severely underprepared to deal with an Enhanced individual...so she slaughtered the guards that stood in her way, and fled the compound.

She had been on the run for years, and had been held in a base in West Virgina...and she hiked her way North...she'd be safe in a populated place like New York.

Along the way, she had been attacked by soldiers of Hydra the whole time, which she managed to take care of easily. And eventually, she made it the New York City...

She had taken anything that the soldiers had on them before, so she had a decent amount of money for a simple apartment...should be easy to relax and blend in with people. And she was good for a year or two...

Until the attack of New York...

It was utter chaos. One moment, she heard an explosion...the next, her wall practically turned to rubble. A creature on a floating bike screeched before she swiftly sent a pair of scissors from her side table at it in an instant, its throat being slit as it fell back, leaving the bike. There had to be hundreds of those things out there...and there were the superpowered beings she'd heard about before fighting them. But they couldn't be everywhere. She tapped her foot nervously. She had to keep her powers hidden! She couldn't be discovered!

And then she heard a scream. A bus being attacked by a group of the aliens. "Oh fuck me." she murmured before she moved to get on the bike, trying to drive it before it flew forward, making her glide through the air. She grit her teeth, driving the bike down before she flipped back, landing on the top of the bus as the bike smashed into a couple Chitauri.

She breathed in slowly, keeping her hood up as she avoided fire, rubble lifting in a vortex as it swung around, slamming into the aliens before she made the bus fly towards a dark alleyway, out of sight as she left.

She quickly flew along the air currents to try and help out more innocents, when she ended up passing by a flying Iron Man, who faltered when he realized what just passed. "Alright, uh...everyone, just passed an airbender flying around. Rogers, you got another friend you bunked with in that iceberg for a couple decades?"

Steve bounced his shield off of the multiple aliens coming his way, sending them to the ground and catching his shield on return. "No, it was only me in there..." he said lightly. "That's someone new." he spoke up, letting out a breath. "This person with Loki?"

Tony glanced back, seeing Tatiana swiftly catch  a family falling from one of the buildings nearby and bring them down safely. "Nope. Avatar girl over here is keeping people out of the crossfire. Saves us a bit of trouble." he says, now flying off again to attack.

It felt like ages. Chitauri attack, protect the innocent...and then there went a nuclear warhead and Iron Man sending the massive thing through the portal in the sky before he fell back down. It was over...good...and now she had to get out of here. She flew off to get home, landing on the floor as she looked around. Dammit...lot of damage...

A day or two passed, trying to get her things together. Had to get somewhere else to stay...currently crashing in a hotel...She let out a sigh, walking out of the bathroom in her pjs as she wiped her face with a towel before she turned, seeing someone sitting there on the chair at the desk. A bald man wearing an eyepatch and a goatee. Huh. Looked sick.

"Tatiana Benavidez. Must say, you don't make it hard to try and find you." The man said, making her jolt.

"Cause I don't try to hide—sorry, who are you? Why are you in my room—?" she sputtered as the man stood up. "Nick Fury. Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Must say...you got some surprising powers." he spoke as Tatiana frowned.

"No idea what you're talking about." she says calmly. "Now if you'll excuse me, Mr...Fury, you said? I'm just trying to get some rest—" she started before she felt the air start to split near her, swiftly flicking her finger as she turned. There, just inches away from her face, was the pair of scissors left on the table. And she had stopped it midair. "Okay, okay, fine. Lemme guess...you saw me during the invasion, so you want to take me in. Arrest me." she says.

Fury shook his head. "Exact opposite, actually. I was hoping to recruit you to the Avengers Initiative." he spoke lightly.

That threw the girl for a loop. "Sorry, what?"

"You obviously have good control over your abilities. And while you are on the younger side...there isn't many with your capabilities." he says, walking to the sliding glass door to the balcony. "And I would have chosen to leave you unprovoked, considering you aren't exactly a threat. ("Ouch." Tatiana murmured.) But Stark mentioned you putting your life on the line to save people during the invasion."

Tatiana rolled her eyes lightly. "Oh come on. You think I would just sit by and let it all happen?" she asked.

"That is what most people would do in that situation...but not you. You went out of your way to do something worthwhile."

"Gee, thanks." she murmured under her breath.

"Of course...you wouldn't need to worry about living conditions. Stark offered you a place to stay after he realized your apartment looked like a tornado went through it."

Tatiana perked up. "A place to stay, eh?" she asked.

"As well as a paid internship...said he wanted to sweeten the deal—"

Tatiana grinned at that. "Dude. Should've started with that. I'm in." she said lightly. She /was/ pretty desperate for cash right now...so this was like miracle work.

Fury rolled his eye. "Why am I not surprised that worked." he said lightly before walking up to her, shaking her hand. "Welcome to the Avengers Initiative, Benavidez." he said.

This couldn't be so bad.

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EARTH-616 ORIGIN
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Born in 1992, Tatiana was born to two deserters of Hydra, being taken to New York soon after being born. Her parents wanted her to be raised in a city away from the violent life, to be normal.

However, this peace did not last long, as upon reaching the age of 7, their home was attacked by Hydra soldiers, and they kidnapped Tatiana from her parents, who were later killed for desertion.

From there, she was forced into training to become a soldier of Hydra, her young mind beginning to be molded to serve their ideals. For the next decade, she was taught how to kill, how to fight, how to declare HYDRA's ideals. However, upon the revelation that her parents had been killed instead of detained, she grew angry.

She snapped and ended up killing two of their soldiers before being detained, initially intended for execution. However, Arnim Zola instead used her for experiments. While it would be easier, he had a plan to create an artificial super soldier. And she was in the physical condition to do so.

So she was brought into the laboratory, strapped to a table, and forced into DNA testing. They injected blood that had been found from remnants of Inhuman DNA, under impression that it was of a mutant. And once injected, her body underwent changes. Without the genes of an Inhuman, it was painful, almost unbearable. Her body burned, felt like it was tearing from the inside when it wasn't. And she let out a yell of pain, being knocked unconscious from the agony.

Upon waking up, she was in a padded cell, being forced to try and use any abilities she may have obtained from the injection. She felt dizzy...floaty...she went over to the door, screaming, yelling at them to let her out. No one came. And a section of the wall opened up, test robots being sent off to test her.

She panicked, trying to outmaneuver it as she tried to climb up the walls, to no avail. Instead, it felt as thought she were walking up the air itself. It felt solid, yet malleable, like a trampoline surface.

She tried to punch at it, kick at the robot, anything, but nothing happened, and instead, she was hit with the tranq from the robot, being knocked out as she hit the ground.

She would wake up and be forced into tests day after day, lasting for what felt like months, maybe even a year. And yet, she grew tired. She discovered that, over the course of the tests, she had gained abilities that enabled her to manipulate the air around her. And she wanted to get out, have a normal life. And so, when the next test began, and the wall opened up to let in the test bot...she bolted, rushing through the opening to get into the room ahead. And the robots stashed inside quickly came to life as alarms buzzed.

Everything felt like a blur, tearing through and sending currents of wind through the bots' circuitry to make them malfunction, and she broke into the main room through the air duct, being fired at by multiple HYDRA soldiers. She panicked, now rushing to try and avoid the bullets as well as find the exit. She flew through the air, suddenly plowing through the door where more soldiers came from as she tried to escape.

The air felt like knives against her skin, but she ignored the pain, managing to smash through one of the ducts in the wall as she broke out, feeling the air grow hotter around her. The desert around her made it clear that she wasn't in New York. Maybe New Mexico or Arizona.

So before she could be abducted again, she flew off, landing on the ground at the first sight of civilization. She stole a car, which she felt awful about, but she needed some different way to get around instead of flying, and started to drive. Had to get back to New York, she'd be safer there.

And so her journey started, driving through multiple states, and even being attacked by undercover HYDRA agents who had been given the order to attack her and bring her back.

Eventually though, she managed to find her way back to New York, finding herself in a tough spot. She had no identification, no money and no way to get a place to live.

So she took her chances on the streets, managing to get herself an ID thanks to at the very least having her birth certificate and SSN. She had to settle with low paying jobs, barely scraping by to get food and a hotel at the least. And one day, things changed.

One day, when she was just leaving work, the gas station she was working for had been broken into, the cashier of that shift getting held up at gunpoint for money. And a dilemma was in front of her. She could go and help, potentially risking revealing herself, or leave her, potentially letting the cashier be killed.

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"Son of a bitch..."

She quickly went into a nearby alleyway, tossing her bag aside as she tried her best to use what was there to make a makeshift disguise...torn up hoodie, old beanie. Had to try.

And so she ran back, now having her face hidden, and when the robbers turned, she struck forward, a sudden gust of air hitting him straight in the chest to stun him. The second robber pulled the gun on her, but she managed to send a current into the barrel, stopping the bullet and making the gun backfire and burst into pieces. She floated over them and behind, sending one of the faulty shelfs off the screws and hitting the back of one's head, knocking him out before she slammed the other down on the ground, chopping at the neck to make them unconscious.

She glanced up at the cashier, who had already started dialing 911 before she rushed out of the store, flying to grab her bag and get back to the hotel, but not before a passerby snapped a picture.

A few days passed, seeming normal...before a newcast came onto the gas station's tv set, talking about a potential vigilante that thwarted a robbery last night. Of course she would have been found out, why wouldn't she? But it felt...somewhat good to be praised like that.

So when night fell, she went out in her makeshift disguise once more, trying to find any minor crimes in the areas...and soon, the story spread. 'Vigilante Appears Again' 'New Hero Halts Robbery' and of course her powers had been mentioned, causing all sorts of discussion.

She didn't want too much attention on her, that should be for the Avengers, or the X-Men, or Spider-Man even...but it couldn't hurt to embrace it a bit. Just had to get a new suit...

Maybe even come up with a name as well. Something air related...Storm was already taken, so that wouldn't do. Had to be fierce though.

She was pondering this before passing by a theater showing a play. Shakespeare.

"Huh...Tempest isn't all that bad."

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"Pros and cons of dating me. Pros: You'll be the cute one. Cons: Holy shit, where do I begin?"
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POWER GRID
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POWERS AND ABILITIES
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Aerokinesis - Ability to control the air around her as if it were a part of her body
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CHARACTER TRAITS
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• Personality Description •

Tatiana is someone who is more child-like than anything, always pulling pranks and such when she can. She is pretty much the jokester in the Avengers, often being the comic relief. In battle, she can be quippy, but if necessary, she can be very serious. She really cares about those she hangs out with. She wants to be able to keep the ones she cares for safe.

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FAVOURITES
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Rock
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Rush Hour
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Swimming
Writing
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