Cornelia Vroom

Character Information
Character Name: Cornelia Vroom Age: 27 Occupation: Former saleswoman Known Relatives: Unknown Significant Other: None Current Location: New York City, New York Affiliation: Villian Known Ability: Probability manipulation Biography: Cornelia Anneliese Vroom, or Cokie as she is better known, was the only child born to a banker and a nurse in 1980. The small family lived a comfortable enough lifestyle and seemed perfectly normal and content for many years-- at least in young Cokie's eyes. She didn't really understand why her father left at age twelve and it wasn't until she was fourteen that she learned the truth. Her mother had at some point contracted HIV as the pandemic began its all-encompassing spread across South Africa and perhaps passed the virus on to her husband when she was unaware, resulting in the dissolution of the marriage. Unfortunately, it became abundantly clear that Cokie's mother had definitely inadvertently infected her with the virus. Cokie has been consciously struggling with HIV for nearly half of her life-- a struggle that became infinitely harder when her mother died, leaving the then twenty-year-old Cokie to manage her health and crippling medical bills on her own. Cokie was barely getting by with a job as a jewelry store saleswoman when one day last year her condition suddenly took an inexplicably dramatic turn for the worse and a flu sent her back to the hospital on what appeared to be her death bed. But then, every bit as quickly and mysteriously, her luck changed, and Cokie recovered. The day the baffled doctors discharged her, Cokie had another stroke of good fortune-- her father reappeared in her life for the first time in years, significantly richer and feeling guilty now that he faced his own mortality. He spent a fortune clearing Cokie's bills, not really having enough funds to indulge or spoil her for her forgiveness until he finally died and left his daughter a hefty life insurance policy.

It wasn't until a series of major coincidences lead her to win five major cash prizes in the lottery, that Cokie began to suspect something was profoundly strange about her recent good luck. Though initially unaware of her ability, its genetic origins, or the growing trend of extraordinary talents popping up all over the world, Cokie has found that money can be a powerful tool in loosening the tongues of those kinds of secrets. She is now aware of what she can do, that there are others like her (or even better off) and that there are those in the traditional governments of the world as well as clandestine private organization that would love nothing better than to see them all stopped or in some way controlled-- something Cokie naturally instinctively rebels against. With the thought of her own mortality always simmering somewhere in her thoughts, even if only in the back of her mind, Cokie refuses to live by anyone else's standards. She's had enough of her pathetic, powerless existence as a sick young woman and is ready to take whatever reward she can from the world. And with her power to manipulate the odds, there's no risk she isn't willing to take. Character Journal: sterkte Played by: Beth