Megan Young

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Summary

Name Megan Young Aliases Status Unregistered Expressive Ability Flight Gender Female Birthdate 06/15/69 Age 51 Height 5'8 Build Wiry, slender Eyes Blue Hair White-streaked red Residence NYC Safe Zone Employment Elmhurst Hospital Parents William and Mary Young (deceased) Siblings 4 brothers (several deceased) Marital Status Single Children None First Scene Last Scene Profile Veteran of not only the US Military during Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts in the 1990s, she is also a veteran of the Second Civil War. She helped establish the Ferryman originally. She's an RN, a certified Nurse Midwife, and a combat medic with surgical experience. Nowadays she turns her nursing skills to places in the Safe Zone that need it. She is a well-known face, having testified at the war crimes trials, but she maintains a low profile. She is also known to help anyone who needs it without asking too many questions, even now.

portrayed by Rene Russo

Background

Megan Young was born in a small industrial town in Ohio in 1969. Her parents both worked for the local canning factory to bring in enough money to scrape by and feed Megan and her four siblings. Megan, the middle child, was easygoing and largely either bullied or ignored by the other kids, something of an odd man out — bright, inquisitive, always buried in her books. But those books made all the difference. At 15, she won a literature contest that earned her a small scholarship to a college of her choice. At just shy of 18 (1988), she graduated valedictorian of her high school class of thirty-four. With two small scholarships along with an AFROTC scholarship to pay her way, Megan went to UNC-Chapel Hill for their nursing program and graduated magna cum laude in 1991, just in time for Operation Desert Storm/Shield. Serving her military term entirely on German and Turkish soil, Megan got out of the service and proceeded to head to the New York area to serve in the Reserves (McGuire AFB, NJ) until her time was up.

Upon arrival in New York in 1999, Megan began working at St. Luke's hospital as an emergency room nurse. She has served the hospital in this capacity since then, seeing all kinds of tragedy from the World Trade Center bombs to the Evolved situation to the Washington Irving disaster. In 2005, shortly before the public acknowledgement of the existence of the Evolved happened, Megan was put in a position that now shapes her career. During a "routine" crazed Friday night in the ER, Megan was working on a patient who had been brought in by ambulance. The patient was little more than a child, perhaps 14, and had been caught in a drive-by shooting. Both lungs were hit, and he had massive internal injuries. When he flat-lined, it did not shock Megan a bit… what did shock her is that as she covered him up afterward, he reached up and pulled the sheet back down. Meeting her eyes, he looked at her with a desperate expression. 'Help me!' he mouthed. But… he wasn't breathing! Grabbing a stethoscope, Megan listened for a heartbeat and found a very very faint, shallow one. Calling for a doctor and more units of blood, she immediately pulled a team in to help the boy. Ultimately, they saved his life. As he recovered in the hospital, it became clear that the reason for that was that he had a healing ability — very low-level, just enough to keep himself from dying, but it was there. It helped him mend faster than expected, as well, though not so terribly much faster that he could just jump and run away. On his eighth day in the hospital, the Men in Black showed up and started asking questions. And Megan, listening to the kinds of questions asked, made a split-second decision. She was leaving shift anyway, and she slipped into the room to get the boy out.

In the stairwell, Megan and the boy — Chris Jones — ran into a young brunette woman. She seemed shocked to find Megan already helping Chris out, but not looking a gift horse in the mouth, she stepped up. The two women got Chris out, and Megan was introduced to the idea of the Underground Railroad of the twenty-first century. Stunned at the number of Evolved that appeared to actually exist, Megan took a couple of days to decide what to do. But she could see the writing on the wall, and she and began to work with a few people to get their smuggling operation up and running — God help all of them, she could see in the future the potential for needing this kind of operation. Her position at the hospital gives her a unique vantage point, and she calls in help whenever someone comes in alone and potentially in need. Things got progressively worse for Evos through those years, culminating in laws requiring Registration. In 2009, Meg could no longer in good conscience keep working in the environment and took a sabbatical from the hospital to work full time for Chicago Air and the Ferry, but her stint with Chicago Air was cut short when her significant other was killed. Although CA was supposedly working under the auspices of the US Government, there was never an explanation for what happened to August, and she walked. From that point forward, she simply worked for the Ferry. In mid-2011, circumstances in New York had gone so far downhill that the Ferry itself was under attack and Megan, while working with them, became a fugitive from the law herself. She holed up on Pollepel with the rest of the Ferry, supporting efforts to take down the Institute and stop the worst of the abuses against Evos, but they were driven off the island in December, following yet another insane explosion on yet another November 8.

Following survival of the Pollepel siege, Megan was at something of loose ends. The leadership of the Ferry was decimated by both betrayal and death, and she could not any longer put her faith in the group as it stood. The next couple of years were harder years than she could have ever imagined. She stuck with the small group of people who continued the Ferry's original mission, smuggling people — especially children — who needed to get under the radar and out of sight. Throughout the Second Civil War, she continued this work in the field and ultimately just doing the best she could to take care of the people in her orbit. When the war was finally over, and the Ferrymen eventually pardoned, she was willing to testify (if asked). From there, she resumed a role in the Lighthouse Initiative, taking a position in the Safe Zone where she could continue practicing medicine and taking care of those who need it most.

Psych Profile

Megan's childhood was spent pretty near the dirt-poor line, though she had no idea that was the case. Everyone in town was in the same boat, and no one ever seemed to lack for the necessities — there just weren't many luxuries. That was sort of the case with many people in the 1980s anyway, so she never really noticed. She is a dedicated nurse, professional to the core when it comes to patient care, and she is an extremely hard worker. She went to college with no help from her parents (they couldn't have anyway), and she's the only one in her family who got a college education. Everyone else stayed in Ohio and went into manufacturing jobs, just like most people in their blue-collar town. But Megan doesn't regret her youth — nor does she look down on her background. Her parents are good people, her siblings are good people, all salt-of-the-earth. And she respects them. She is generally a calm, apparently easygoing woman, rarely prone to outbursts or temper unless it's at a doctor who is royally screwing up — and she's been known to rip interns, residents, and even the chief of surgery a new ass when it comes to her patients. She doesn't look for confrontation, but if it comes her way, she faces it down.

She's also garnered quite the reputation among the young Ferry members, over the years. She's the first person to patch you up, give you a solid shoulder to vent on, and build you back up when you need it — but if you screw up? You better know she's going to kick your ass and take names.

Evolved Ability

Flight

Megan Young possesses the ability to fly at will.

Talents

Talents	Effort	Description	Learned From
Flight	Low	With the same amount of effort as walking, Megan is able to make herself weightless and float into the air. She is able to move herself in any direction at about 4 miles per hour (just over the average walking speed of a healthy adult). In addition to herself Megan can carry up to one third her body weight and fly without issue (but see Heavy Lifting below). Megan can fly indefinitely and the method of movement is physically less taxing than walking, allowing her to move for longer periods of time without getting tired.	Self Taught
Heavy Lifting	Varies	Normally Megan can carry a maximum of 1/3rd her body weight and still be able to fly. However, if she puts more effort and concentration into flying she can carry heavier weight. By increasing the Effort of Flight to Moderate, Megan is able to carry additional items up to her full body weight and still fly. By increasing the Effort of Flight to High she can carry twice her body weight, but her flight speed is reduced to 1 mph as she struggles to stay aloft. However, Megan can likely not carry such heavy weights for long due to her own physical limitations.	Self Taught
With the Wind	None	When flying, Megan is susceptible to the wind. If she chooses to fly with the wind, she can move up to the speed of the wind gusts at no additional effort, allowing her to traverse greater distances in shorter periods of time depending on the wind direction. Flying with the wind is less precise and if done at street level or where there are many obstructions (such as trees or buildings) Megan risks being battered into an obstruction and being hurt.	Self Taught

Vulnerabilities

Wind

Megan's flight is weightless and slow, like a leaf on the wind. As such she is susceptible to powerful gusts of wind, but is able to compensate by exerting more concentration. With wind speeds of 0 to 10 mph Megan can fly normally and unimpeded. When wind speeds increase to 11 to 20 mph Megan can fly against the wind by increasing the Effort of Flight by one step (this is cumulative with any effort increases from her Heavy Lifting talent). When wind speeds increase to 21–30 mph Megan can fly by increasing the Effort of Flight by two steps (from Low to High, under normal circumstances) but she can only move at half speed. In winds over 30 mph Megan is unable to fly against the wind.

Superhuman Speed

Megan Young has a highly-specialized form of superhuman speed, allowing her to synchronize to a point in spacetime in time and return herself to that location in the blink of an eye. However, the longer Megan waits to reset to this point in space the more physical toll it takes on her body.

Talents

Talents	Effort	Description	Learned From
Spatial Sync	Low	With a moment of conscious effort, Megan can close her eyes and center her mind, synchronizing herself with the exact point in space she is currently occupying. This location serves as a landing-point for her Recall ability. See vulnerabilities below.	Manifestation
Recall	None	As a reflex, Megan may recall herself and as much as she can physically carry to her Spatial Sync point. When Megan activates Recall, she retraces her steps from between the moment she activated Spatial Sync to the moment she activated Recall, moving at roughly 2,500 miles per hour between those two points. While Megan moves she and everything she is carrying are out of sync with the physical world and she moves through any new obstacles or barriers harmlessly, including people who may be in her path. During this movement Megan is visible as a sudden blur with no perceived physical or auditory cue. Megan likewise perceives the world moving by in an instantaneous blur. See vulnerabilities below for more details.	Self Taught/Character Name

Vulnerabilities
Spatio-Temporal Block	Megan's Recall ability can be blocked by any effect that blocks both phasing or teleportation. If Megan attempts to Recall and is blocked by one such effect and is unable to return to her Spatial Sync see A Wrinkle in Time below.
Temporal Entropy	The moment Megan activates Spatial Sync her molecules begin vibrating at an exponentially increasing rate. This manifests as a hive-like rash within 1 minute, sweating and shakes at 5 minutes, blurred vision and difficulty walking and talking after 10 minutes, and at 15 minutes and beyond severe physical injury and possibly death. Megan can immediately end these effects at any time by activating Recall and returning to her point of origin. Every 5 minutes of Temporal Entropy increases the effort to use her abilities by one step. Example: 15 minutes of Temporal Entropy means that Megan must exert High effort to be able to Recall.
Negation	If Megan is negated (in addition to the usual effects) she also loses any active Spatial Sync and also no longer suffers from Temporal Entropy if a Spatial Sync was active when she was negated.

Effort Key
None	Requires no effort and is a part of the character's autonomous functions.
Low	Requires minimal effort and concentration, like walking, holding a conversation, or reading.
Moderate	Requires dedicated concentration. Moderate-effort abilities cannot be used while actively fighting or using another talent with an effort of Moderate or higher.
High	Requires undivided concentration. Cannot do anything other than move slowly or talk in short sentences while using a High effort talent and cannot use other talents that have an effort level of Low or higher.

Clara Barton:

• "What could I do but go with them … soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
• "I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."
• "An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness."

Appendices

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Skills:

Medical Skills

Megan is a fully licensed RN with a specialty in emergency room medicine. She has a master's degree in nursing, and she even has a certificate as a licensed midwife/doula on the side. She has the knowledge to handle almost any kind of injury, though she can't write prescriptions or order procedures. She can put in IVs, give shots, put in stitches, set breaks, stop bleeding, etc and so forth. She's far more expert at some of the 'field medic' care than nurses in the ER who've never been in a combat zone due to her work in Turkey and on the ground in New York during the collapse of the World Trade Center. And her sole focus is always on the patient's care. She's also well-versed in the politics and bureaucracy of a hospital (and the military) and rapidly worked her way up to being one of the top ER nurses in the hospital. From 2011 through the Second Civil War, she became far more versed in battlefield surgery than any training she'd ever previously received.

Military Know-How

Although she's a nurse, Megan had to do all the same things all officers in the military had to do. She knows military protocols, she has some contacts still out there. She's good at following a chain of command, but also at knowing when to step out of the bounds of the chain as well. In addition, physical fitness and firearms skills were taught to her and are something she has kept up over the years due to the fact that her stint in the Reserves is over. She holds a retired military ID card (allowing her access to the military bases around the country if she wants it along with VA benefits), and a civilian passport.

Languages

One of the things that Megan did in her time in the service was learn several languages of the region she was stationed in. She has a smattering of German from working in Rhein Main AB at the beginning of the Iraq conflict, and she also knows Arabic and Turkish with a fair degree of fluency after six years in and out of theater, along with a good bit of Farsi. In addition, she made a point to learn Spanish so as to be able to deal with the Hispanic population of New York City, and expanded her smattering of Farsi and Pashtu to deal with the Muslim immigrants.

Covert and Guerrilla Tactics

Over several years of working with the Ferrymen, Megan has gotten pretty good at the covert operations mindset. She varies her routes, watches to see if she's been followed, etc. In addition, she learned from 2011 through the Second Civil War a number guerrilla warfare tactics that she put to good use helping the remnants of the Ferry continue its work smuggling people — most especially children — out of the line of fire whenever necessary. In truth, during those years, she was probably more of a soldier than she had ever been allowed to be during her years in the military.