Metaspace

Backstory
Miriam Mendel was always brilliant - in college by 15, with three degrees by 18, through medical school by 21, through her residency by 25 and with an impressive collection of degrees collected along the way. MS in Physics, BS in Engineering, BS in Biology, PhD in dimensional mechanics, MD with a focus in abnormal biology...

That wasn't all there was to her, however. Since she was 20, she had also been the superheroine Metaspace, a force for good in Pittsburgh alongside her steadfast partner, Redline.

[Content Warning: Sexual Assault, Kidnapping, Non-Graphic Description of Mutilation] ...at least, for a few years. Two years ago, Metaspace vanished for several weeks before reemerging in a highly-publicized battle with Redline, in which she alleged that he had kidnapped and used her during those weeks. Her claims were backed up by the damage to her arms during her captivity, bad enough to require double amputation.

Metaspace defeated Redline, who was convicted and sent to a maximum security prison, where he's remained ever since. However, his influence over her remains - having worked together for three years, she found reminders of him all throughout Pittsburgh, and found it difficult to recover from her trauma.

She spent a year recovering from her trauma and, during that time, created cybernetic arms not just to replace her own but also integrated the devices she used as Metaspace into them, rebuilt her HUD goggles into cybernetic eyes, implanted devices previously part of her costume into her back, and has plans for more... all to prevent herself from ever being helpless again.

Fortunately, she may have escaped him once and for all - after finishing her residency, Dr. Mendel received a job offer from Vanderburg University, in Starlight City. States away from her home and Redline, can she find a place to finally heal from his betrayal?

Present
Miriam has found a steadfast friend in her colleague Nimue le Fay, with whom she is spotted often enough that students speculate constantly about their relationship. As a hero, she was invited to join the New Champions alongside Nyx, an artificer with whom she has a growing respect for.

She sees a therapist employed by the DMO to serve heroes and qualified to know classified information - such as her identity - on a weekly and sometimes bi-weekly basis.

Nadya Romanova recently commissioned her to design and install several cybernetic implants, promising to pay obscene amounts of money for her to do so, and she has begun looking for a nicer place to live than her current cozy apartment in anticipation of this.

Trivia
Prior to giving herself cybernetic implants, Miriam's eyes were brown. However, she created her eyes in blue, which is her favorite color.