Ami Sawai

Character Information
Character Name: Ami Sawai Age: 24 Occupation: Computer programmer Known Relatives: -- Significant Other: None Current Location: New York City, New York Affiliation: Good Known Ability: Electronic communication Biography: Ami was born in Osaka, Japan, where she grew up with her parents, an only child. She rather liked this, because it meant that she had her parents' undivided attention. For the first few years of her life, anyway. When she was five, her mother gave birth to a boy, and suddenly Ami had a baby brother with which to share everything.

Her father, a programmer, got an offer at a company in America and with a new baby, the family couldn't refuse. So off it was to America to start school. Ami never fit in well, because the other kids would always make fun of her accent. So very early on Ami tried hard to show them up with her smarts. It didn't help with her popularity, as she became known as stuck-up and conceited, but it did help her feel better. She devoted her free time to study, deciding friends weren't necessary.

Ami and her brother were never too close, but she and her father were inseparable. He started teaching her about computers and soon Ami passed him, being able to build a system from scratch. As soon as she was out of college, Ami's father got her an internship at the company he helped manage, which now built and programmed computers. She was soon hired on as a full-time computer programmer. After that, she got her own place in New York City, closer to her job.

She quickly became bored with this, however, and dug deeper into computers and the internet, becoming a skilled hacker. This proved more on her level, though she never did any harm.

Then one day she woke up with a start to find that her vision was funny. Then she realized what she was seeing: emails, text messages, transmissions - all floating around her. She wanted to scream and ask why nobody else could see them, but she never said a word about it. Seeing what people wrote in cyberspace changed her, and she started caring more, trying to be a better person than the somewhat cold and insensitive one she had been.

Ami is slowly trying to figure out her power, testing the limits and exploring another world, while, for once, attempting to see how she can use this to help other people. Character Journal: technokinesis Played by: Kayla