Character Sketch - Multiple Personality Disorder

Mara Winters - Team Captain

Mara is the current dominant personality. She initially manifested in Sarah's late teens, and easily becomes everything Sarah wishes she were, strong, confident, a leader, doing everything effortlessly. Mara is nothing less, and nothing more, than a leader of people. It doesn't matter that she herself has no powers. More than anything, such an assorted assemblage of madmen and madwomen must have someone that can control them.

Despite her current dominance, Mara's current fear is that she will drop away and either Sarah or James will manifest at exactly the wrong time. This seed of fear has started to take root, and it is forcing them into the limelight, especially James. One of the issues is that James is causing Mara self-doubt while they talk in their dreams.

Mara walks tall and proud, her head high, and able to see everything going on. She believes that any problem can be solved, given enough time and resources.

Sarah Parker - Junior Therapist

Sarah is the peacemaker, both within the team and within her head. She was the first, but has since "stepped aside" in deference to Mara. Raised by a mother that always found fault, and always demanded outward perfection (she was a trophy wife constantly fearing losing her looks, and thus, her husband), Sarah started vomiting to keep a thin frame at the age of eleven. This combined with having to be perfect everywhere caused her so much stress, Mara manifested initially in her late teens. She was able to keep Mara hidden for a few days, but eventually was discovered.

As time went on, and the stress of always having to excel grew, Sarah started to crack. She started to retreat within herself, exerting dominance only in her psychology classes, and to study. Everywhere else, strong, confident Mara asserted herself. After her father died in a car crash, James first manifested himself.

Despite all of this, Sarah remained high functioning, and was able to find a job as a psychiatrist, again only stepping up at work. She actually has heard the pitches from both the Group and the government, and is in favor of rejecting both. However, the power she ceded to Mara, as well as being outnumbered by the two of them, have only caused her main personality to recede even further into the background. She only shows during the group therapy sessions, and even then, will defer to [whoever the main therapist is....].

Sarah slouches, but pays attention. She will notice things that no one else can, or will, a tremendous aid to her counseling the group.

James Hannah - Team Rookie

James shows up the least, but is attempting to take over. The biggest reason Mara is participating is because James has been talking to her in her dreams, convincing her that this terrorist threat Jack and Delia were talking about is true. Otherwise, she would have gone to the government and joined them.

James, peculiarly, is the only one of the three personalities that manifests a power. He is able to generate static electricity and discharge it at point blank range. This leads to a lot of hit and run, as well as keeping him away from sensitive electronics. However, this also gives him a great deal of power when dealing with targeted electronics.

He is superficially quite friendly, and inwardly conniving. Given that he is trapped in a woman's body, this makes him something of a lesbian. He wants to be the dominant one, in sole control, and to be rid of the constant annoyances in his head. James walks with a male swagger, though the hips get in the way of him swinging his arms.