Marisa D. Blomgren

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Name	Marisa Diane Blomgren	Aliases
Status	Registered Expressive (Class A Biological) (LE)	Ability	Reactive Adaptation

Gender	Female
Birthdate	May 1, 1989	Age	30

Height	5'9"	Build	Thick
Eyes	Blue	Hair	Blonde

Residence
Employment	NYPD - SCOUT Detective

Parents

John Blomgren
Darla Blomgren

Siblings

Two Older Brothers

Marital Status

Single

Children

None

First Scene

Watch Yourself

Last Scene

Profile

A farm girl turned cop, Marisa was a rookie NYPD police officer before the civil war and helped those in need in the city during. She has recently accepted a position in the NYPD's SCOUT division.

portrayed by

Iskra Lawrence

Marisa Diane Blomgren was born in 1989 in West Milton, Ohio. Her parents were simple, hard-working people who ran a farm out in the rural districts of the city, growing corn and raising (mostly) goats and other animals. They raised their daughter and her two older brothers well, helping out on the farm with various duties, from tending to the crops to caring for the goats and other animals. She did fairly okay in school — her grades were rather average for the most part, not bad, but she was no grade A student by any means. She loved her life, loved her family, but the life of a farmer wasn't her.

When the bomb went off in New York, Marissa watched in horror on her television. She already had been enamored with the idea of getting into law enforcement, but seeing the chaos of the Bomb hardened her resolve. In 2007, Marissa packed her bags and enrolled at Pace University in Lower Manhattan, attending their Criminal Justice program. It was during this time that Marissa discovered that she, too, was Evolved. It wasn't even an exciting manifestation — a friend's cat attacked her, and only got one scratch in before its claws began bouncing off of her skin. Further experimentation revealed that after sustaining an injury, she would become temporarily invulnerable to that type of damage. She took the SLC test, found out that she was positive, and was listed as having Reactive Adaptation.

She graduated from Pace in early 2011, and immediately joined the NYPD. She was there when the bomb went off over Central Park. Her hair was burnt, her clothes mostly gone, and her body was almost completely covered in a first degree burn, but she survived the bomb, lived through something that nobody else had. The truth of her ability really hit home, and Marissa's determination to help others was strengthened. While many of her coworkers bailed, she joined up with Oliver Wood, aiding and rescuing those who needed it. This was how most of the war was spent — aiding and rescuing those less fortunate, protecting those who couldn't protect themselves while the war raged around them.

In 2014, after the war finally ended, Marisa returned home to Ohio, where her family had weathered the storm with little to no trouble. There she remained, taking a job as a small-town cop for a time, helping on the family farm and generally just taking a vacation of sorts from the insanity of the war.

When she heard of the Safe Zone bringing back the NYPD, Marisa immediately put in her application and made her way to New York once more, ready to return to the city that she loves and help to serve and protect its citizens once more, joining the NYPD SCOUT unit as a detective, where she looks forward to working with Oliver Wilson once again.

Marisa is difficult to kill.

Extremely difficult to kill.

Marisa's ability causes her body and cells to instantly adapt to any sort of damage she may take. This is a temporary effect, lasting around five minutes or so after she is injured before the process resets and she has to adapt again.

A few examples: Let's say Marisa gets shot in the arm. She has a gunshot wound, and man does it hurt and it's bleeding a lot…but for around five minutes after the fact, Marisa is quite literally bulletproof, her cells reacting to make bullets bounce off of her. However, if she's being shot at for more than five minutes, then once the effects wear off, she'll have to be shot again if she wants to continue being bulletproof. She can stand in a fire and come out with only mild first degree burns…but if she stays in longer than five minutes, those first degrees will become second-degree burns, and so on. She could begin to drown, then her body could adapt to being underwater with no air for five minutes…but if she was still underwater after, she’d start drowning again after those three minutes passes, and the cycle would continue. She can fall from a pretty awful height, and hold her arm out and shatter her wrist, but she will ultimately survive the fall when the rest of her bones suddenly become unbreakable. Freezing to death? Not Marisa, her body temperature rises as needed — and heat stroke won't happen either.

Drugs do not work on her at all, whether recreational or pharmaceutical, it doesn't matter. She may get an initial wave of comfort from a dose of morphine, but the effect disappears as her body becomes immune for five minutes. This is a bit more subtle and takes about a minute before her body 'realizes' what is happening and adapts. Not even regular medicines work; even antibiotics must be administered along with a dose of negation drugs. This also can make medical procedures difficult if not impossible without negation. Stitches without negation will take hours rather than minutes, and she's more likely to bleed out than benefit from surgery if she's not negated.

This isn't to say that Marisa can't be killed. It can be quite easy, in fact! One just has to pretty much instant kill her, or they have to be extremely tenacious and take the time to slowly hack away at her, all while dealing with her basically going Terminator on her aggressor. She can still bleed to death from that gunshot or stab wound if she doesn't receive proper medical attention. Her ability also holds fast with whatever damage type it protects against; as a result, if she is bulletproof and someone gets close enough to stab her to death, they won't have any trouble, nor would she be able to avoid drowning if she should try to escape a hail of gunfire by diving into some water.

Marisa can still be crippled by her initial injuries, as well. A broken leg will still be impossible to walk on and require normal healing time, a cut will still bleed, a blow to the head can still knock her out and cause a concussion. Pain still works for Marisa as it does for any other person…and even worse, she can’t even take medicine for her pain, unless she negates herself along with it. Wounds still leave scars and the lasting pain that come along with it. While Marisa has a high pain tolerance and can withstand a lot of stuff, she doesn't actually enjoy having her ability all that much, for obvious reasons.

Appendices

Facts

Known to Most

Marisa was a rookie cop in the NYPD prior to the war.
She is a Detective for the NYPD's SCOUT division.
She was in New York during the war, helping to rescue those in need.

Known to Some

Coming Soon…

Known to Few

Marisa survived the shockwave that destroyed Central Park on November 8, 2011. She was likely the sole survivor at ground zero.

Relationships

	An old family friend, Harrison was a good buddy of Marisa's father in high school — and is an ex boyfriend of her mom's. Later, they met up shortly after the second bomb hit, when Carver just so happened to doctor the wounds that Marisa obtained when surviving said bomb. Marisa is actually quite fond of the grumpy old fellow — he's her favorite grumpass.

Skills & Misc.

Skill	Description
Agriculture	Marisa grew up on a farm. She knows how to grow and tend crops properly, and how to account for any changes or variations that may threaten a crop.
Animal Husbandry	Marisa grew up caring for farm animals. Her family had a few cows, but mostly raised goats for their meat and milk. She knows how to care for, breed, and raise most domesticated animals
Athletics	While she isn't the skinniest person out there, that doesn't mean that Marisa isn't fit! She regularly exercises and has developed a fairly impressive stamina. This is helpful in her career.
Bureaucracy	Police work is a lot of paperwork and dealing with administrative issues. Marisa is fairly capable of navigating these hurdles; it was a large amount of her work in West Milton.
Charm	When all is said and done, a lot of what helps Marisa out with properly performing her duties is charm, which she has in droves. A well-placed smile or kind word and implementing proper listening techniques can go a long way.
Combat	Self-defense is important in law enforcement, and Marisa has taken her training seriously. She is more than capable in a fist fight, though most of her technique is designed to disarm, take down, and incapacitate rather than harm her opponents. Her ability helps with this a bit; if she gets punched once, she won't be hurt by another punch. She is also quite capable with a gun; she prefers pistols, but she can fire just about any gun with fairly good accuracy.
Cooking	Growing up, Marisa was taught how to cook. While she's certainly no sous chef, she has all but perfected what she can make and is always open to trying to create new things.
Driving	Marisa has participated in her fair share of high-speed chases, especially on the long empty stretches of her hometown. She is a strong defensive driver and knows how to pull off pit maneuvers when needed. Additionally, her brothers were heavily into motorcycles, and she can handle herself on one quite well.
Investigation	Marisa is trained in the ways of investigation. She's handled a wide range of investigations during her time as a police officer, both in New York and in West Milton; from crime scene investigation to fingerprinting to interrogation, Marisa is capable of holding her own in most any investigation thrown her way.
Mechanics	She's nowhere near proficient enough to be able to make a career of it, but Marisa knows her way around engines well enough to perform basic maintenance like oil changes and tire changes; with a manual, she can even fix an issue (though she would likely need someone to tell her what's wrong first).
Negotiation	While she is no expert, Marisa has studied into negotiation techniques and can talk her way through some tough situations.
Observant	While she's not the smartest person in the world, it's difficult to pull the wool over Marisa's eyes. She's quite observant, rather good at picking out small details that others might miss, whether it is in her environment or a person's behavior.
Survival	Marisa isn't much of a camper, and prefers the comforts of civilized society. However, she grew up in backwoods Ohio with two brothers; she knows how to build a fire, how to build a shelter, and how to hunt, and could reasonably handle herself if left to the elements.

Class of 2011	Marisa graduated from Pace University with a degree in Criminal Justice, after attending between 2007 and 2011.
Not a Rookie	Marisa was a rookie cop in the months leading up to the Central Park bomb. She might have arrested you or helped you, depending on your background.
Search & Rescue	Marisa helped out the citizens of New York alongside Oliver Wilson during the civil war. She might have helped you!
Small Town Cop	After 2014, Marisa was a prominent cop in the city of West Milton, OH, which managed to weather the war without too much strife.