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| - Dr.Strife arrived in Step City at age 23 finishing her degree in medicine and chemistry. She was entered into school early as a child out of the island and was granted school money by a local science laboritory who also offered her a work-study program which was helping with the STEP project. A very intelligent woman indeed who has a knack for science. Her role at the beginning was to find any chemical factors in the project and to seek any other alternatives of dance amplification. Young and eagar to work, Maria spent most of her time in the labs not really exploring the city at all. Sometimes she was booted from the labs to go rest at home,but then the streets weren't so friendly to scientists either. A few years into the project, she started to take her free time into self defense at various locations to where she can afford. The doctor was interested in the project because of the musical interests it offered her, a chance to improve in artistic skill looked very promising as for a good cause for her violin skills. When the frequencies occured, Maria was one out of many near the broadcast source that didn't feel much change at first. Others around had signifigant change while others didn't feel a thing. It took time to notice her body change and performance. She felt weak somedays, she felt energized whilelistening to certain music and she was more moody than usual. When she was helping take blood samples for the biochemistry team, the blood started to circle around her hand to it's own will. That first sign was ignored as co-workers started to feel more energized around her when she was in a certain mood. There were no more racoon circles on her eyes anymore, no worn down skin or blemishes actually. Plenty of signs were ignored untill she had an outburst in her office when a fellow worker tried to prove her last night's work was wrong. Maria's vibe caused the person to have an immediate stroke despite them not having any health issues. This did not go unoticed for Dr.Strife was then moved to the biology division to experiment with her vibe while being studied at the same time. Awkward yes, but more results and research was done for vibe power. As time passed by and the project began to slide down, the Funk Mafia took over the research facility leaving the scientists alone...for now. Maria was asked plentiful times to join the Mafia for saftey by friends and gang members. She always politely declines. Though the building is destoryed, the project still lives on...or so they say. Maria opens her at-home clinic treating those from both sides of the city openly. The Mafia let's her expand her home for all the care she has done for their members but sometimes gets bad mouthed by the UG for helping despite her trying to live, vice versa. With more time at home and to herself, she continues her violin practices and self defense classes. There is the occasional harasment of faction allignment of her clinic but Maria still manages to get by safely. Then the Battle of 99 came. Maria had no position to be in that war, but something in her said to help. During that battle, she aided all factions as a street medic (wearing all black) by taking the wounded out of battle and treating them as fast as she can while convincing them to stay put for a few minutes. She couldn't save everyone of course, there were deaths infront of her face that couldn't be stopped. This was the day she pushed her body to it's fullest to jump, carry, scale, and run across the battle field. Before healing one more person, someone knocked her out. The last thing she saw was the feet someone running towards her to pick her up. When she woke up, she was patched up by someone in her home with a thank you note on her desk. She saved about 11 UG members, 10 Mafia members, 8 Squares, and 4 Banditios, a total of 31 people that whole day with her vibe and her bags of medical tools. She slept in for 2 weeks straight with a closed clinic recovering her vibe and regulating her blood flow. Currently Maria still runs the clinic getting contant invites to factions working as a doctor in the day and emergency street medic by night. It makes her feel like a super hero in a way which was enough for her to settle for.
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