Character Bio 2: Lily Adams

Lily Adams is 22 years old and currently attending University, finishing up her credits for a Mad Science undergrad. She's not quite sure if she wants to get the doctorate for her, even though her most trusted professor and senior project advisor, Professor Monroe, is constantly stressing how easy it would be.

If Lily had a choice, she'd be a full-time superhero; that's always what she's wanted to be. As a child she had a tendency to seek out radioactive waste dumps and play near them, hoping they would give her superpowers. Unfortunately, the only mutation she experienced made her eyes and hair turn pink. She spent the rest of her years growing up reporting these waste dumps to Nightmare City's legislative bodies and fighting crime with the law.

She initially took Mad Science to try to unlock her superpowers once again, but found the major quite to her dislike. She liked dressing up and going places to get attention, and she found that practicing science took too much time and energy for her to do anything else. She stayed with it, though, in small part to professor Monroe and in no small part to a dashing young scientist by the name of Roland von Trapp.

In her last year of college, however, something strange happened one morning. Lily was stopped on her way to class by a black market dealer. This wasn't that strange, as this particular dealer stopped her every morning; what was strange was that he asked Lily to sell him a super-serum she and a team of aspiring mad scientists had been developing as their senior project. He also tipped her off that someone else had already approached them to sell the substance on the black market. This was rather dangerous, so Lily set forth to stop it.

She first told Professor Monroe about the incident, and he responded rather suspiciously, going so far as to tell Lily not to tell anyone else on the team (which only the villain does). For a day she shadowed him but finds nothing suspicious until she caught him and boyfriend Roland having a heated argument. Hearing the words "black market," she assumed that Roland learned of the Professor's treachery and was confronting him about it. She joined the conversation, and it quickly became a game of "He did it!" "No, HE did it!" Lily stood faithfully by Roland's side until Monroe pushed her into a vat conveniently located near the conversation. She blacked out.

When she awoke, Roland was gone and the Professor was unconscious. Fortunately, A.S.L.E. robot Hammer-Wheel (who will be formally introduced later) was there to explain the situation. Professor Monroe was THE Professor of A.S.L.E. fame, and definitely wasn't selling super serum on the black market. It was Roland all along; he was a supervillainous mastermind who had planned to switch out the super serum with an extreme mutagenic formula that would turn ordinary people into his monstrous servants. The Professor wanted to confront him quietly, but Lily messed everything up and she should feel bad about herself because Roland got away, and no one in A.S.L.E. wanted to chase him right now, and though they wanted Hammer-Wheel to do it he felt obligated to take care of his creator, Hal, while he was still unconscious.

Oh, and Lily got no superpowers from falling into the vat. It turned out to be a ball pit Professor Monroe had installed in the lab for no real reason.

But Lily suddenly saw everything clearly: superpowers or not, she could still be a hero. And she needed to be right then.

So she went back to the black market dealer, remembering how he once tried to sell her a gun, and explained the situation. Turned out he's got a strong sense of justice for a criminal, and he quickly handed over everything Lily needed to assume a new super-identity. She tracked down Roland and the two fought. Eventually Lily forced him to flee the city, but when he promised to return, she also promised to keep fighting for the good of the city.

And so Wonder Lily was born.

That was a little longer and more complicated than probably what most of these bios are going to be, but I imagine her origin story actually being a story arc plot rather than background information like most everyone else. Hope you enjoyed that; I don't have a ton of free drawing time for the holidays, but I'd like to get back on track soon.