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xxxxxBut long story short, Tatters was born Jillian Francis; she and her twin sister Lily were finally born after their mother resorted to participating in a trial of an experimental fertility treatment performed by the monolithic Daedalus Group. And they had a nice, happy childhood in the suburbs until they both hit puberty and turned out to be mutants. Lily had it relatively easy with a odd teleporting thing, but Jill -- well, she hit the point in her life when her body was going through some changes, and then kept going through radical and grotesque changes in response to barely controlled subconscious signals.
Eventually, her parents complained to the Daedalus Group, threatening to take the whole mess public. In return they received a nice big payout and Jill was taken in for treatment. Typically, her “treatment” was more along the lines of imprisonment and experimentation, which persisted until Lily launched a daring rescue and busted them both out. Unfortunately, a number of hideous monstrous experiments also got out (I’m not saying who’s fault it was, I’m just saying it happened), and anyways that’s why there’s monsters in the sewers.
After an argument with the parents the twins decided to stick around in NYC, and until Jill can learn to morph a convincing face (faces are hard!) she’ll have to stay underground and out of sight. Conveniently, that’s also where the monsters are, so Jill might as well get to cleaning up her own mess before someone gets eaten. And apparently she’s not the only mutant down there after all...
In the meantime, so long as she’s a lonesome subterranean ranger she needs a cool name, and there just so happens to be a fairy tale hero who’s an ugly daughter spawned from a dodgy magical fertility treatment with a habit of picking fights with monsters...but “Tatterhood” feels a bit formal.
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Friends
Lily Francis: Tatters’ devoted sister, a feeling that runs both ways. Presently living topside, trying to juggle being helpful to Tatters with taking care of her own business.
Enemies
The Daedalus Group: Sinister multinational pharmaceutical and bioengineering corporation. Well, probably not everyone who works there is evil. Likely only a very small fraction of their employees are evil. But it’s enough. They and the Francis twins are mutually on each other’s shit list. Sometimes they send teams down to try and deal with the monsters, which goes as well as one might expect.
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