Set

The child of two government officials, Set was raised with the expectation of excellence. Both of her parents wanted her to eventually take on some kind of leadership role in a government agency, having her intern regularly in their offices while forcing her to spend the rest of her time either studying, doing classwork, or playing on her school's baseball team. Set's primary way to let off steam consisted of going to the gym and either sparring with others or using the punching bag for as long as she physically could -- never wanting to feel like she was "wasting time" and not improving herself in one way or another.

Even though she was incredibly skilled in her computer science and programming classes during high school, Set was made to apply as a political science major when she entered college. While she ultimately managed to convince her parents to let her minor in computer science, she was always discouraged from taking what her parents saw as a "common programming" or "common IT tech" job, given the road that she'd been set up to follow in her future. She was largely isolated during her college years, thinking mostly about what she could apply to that would allow her to divert her parents' attention for just long enough to worm her way out of taking a job in the field of political science -- with four years being more than enough to convince her that she'd hate doing the same work that her parents did for the rest of her life.

Set was nevertheless forced into a civil land development agency for close to five years, wanting to please her parents and "pay them back" for the costs she'd incurred during college, at the very least. Near the end of her fifth year there, three things happened, in very short succession:

Firstly, Set applied -- and was accepted -- to the Virion Project, a government-like organization that her parents begrudgingly accepted as a substitute for the bureaucratic work that she'd been doing ever since she'd graduated. Still incredibly skilled at fighting (again, having used martial arts and weapons training as her primary coping mechanism after work for five years straight), she'd expectedly been taken in as part of the Containment Division.

Secondly, her parents were convicted and imprisoned for having committed treason, having leaked government documents about EQE and viscerosis online using Set's own laptop and the programs that she'd coded herself. Set was extensively questioned about the incident, almost losing the Virion Project job that she'd just managed to land, before she managed to convince the detectives of her innocence.

Thirdly, shortly afterwards, Set -- in an act of treason on her own -- hacked through the security systems surrounding her hospital and her registration in Atriven City's logs, expunging her own last name from the records and changing her first name entirely in order to cut off whatever connection she had with her former family. She was perfectly satisfied just being called "Set," after all. It was a name short enough that it wouldn't waste her time to write down, all the time.

Even though Set was relatively new to the Virion Project, her obvious skill at fighting and the structured, regimented approach that she took to her training led her to become the head of the Containment Division, with Lucius as her co-head and Nikolai working under her command. The physical work of the Containment Division was a much better fit for her than the government work she'd previously done, forcing her to stay engaged with every fight she got into.

While Set initially planned on leaving as soon as her first employment term was over, she ended up staying -- initially by choice, and later out of a sense of responsibility for the Division that she was suddenly forced to take over. After the Outbreak Incident, which permanently damaged Set's right eye, Lucius was invited to move to the Investigation Division, taking Nikolai with him. Set, left as the sole head of the Containment Division, had several slots on his team to fill -- and a new generation of Containment members to train.

It's clear that Jaime, Celeuxe, and Yumeno, her new interns, have potential. It's clear, also, that the three of them are very much college-aged and act very much like they're college-aged, which infuriates Set to no end. While she's obliged to protect the three of them, keeping them away from any real danger (and even attending their concerts once in a while), she can't help but see that the Vessels they're fighting are far more dangerous than any of the ones that she's dealt with in the past. It makes her almost nervous to go on missions, now -- even though Set's not the type of person to ever feel any real anxiety. The idea of any of the interns suffering an injury like the kind that she did during the Outbreak is almost unimaginable.

Set is very strong, having either been playing sports or training ever since she was in high school. While she doesn't know any official martial arts styles, she can still hold his own, playing "dirty" like she's in a rough street fight rather than in a formal setting -- which is why she tends to avoid sparring with the other interns, not wanting to actually hurt any of them. In reality, she can make anything she picks up off the ground into a weapon of some kind; she prefers bludgeoning weapons like her mace, above all else. Embedded with EQE technology, it acts as an "extension" of Set's own essence use, the end of it capable of being set alight by Set's Pyro essence.

She keeps her essence use under strict lock-and-key, not wanting to risk worsening or reactivating the infection that'd been contained to her right eye. Set primarily uses her Pyro essence to intimidate opponents, making the temperatures in her immediate area nearly-intolerable whenever she's fighting somebody in order to distract them and guarantee her a quicker victory. While she can use fire, she finds it to be somewhat too destructive -- given how imprecise she tends to be whenever she does, not being able to easily control whether or not her opponents actually live or die whenever she burns them. At least the heat from her mace automatically cauterizes whatever wound it comes into contact with (ignoring the fact that most of the injuries she inflicts consist of broken or shattered bones, of course).