Ilma's Backstory
Who is she and where do her powers come from? Well, here ya go!
Ilma was born in Michigan to an American Father and a German Mother. When Ilma was growing up, she saw them as a loving family who had an affinity for the occult and mysterious that they loved to share seemingly innocently to their single daughter, they were over-protective though, controlling her social life and cutting off relations and friends before it could start to grow and develop, leading to Ilma becoming frequently annoyed with her surroundings and what little control she had.
This was, until Ilma's 16th birthday, her parents took her on a 'Surprise Birthday Trip', blindfolding her and taking her to a privately owned land and a large barn. Keeping her blindfolded, Ilma could only hear and smell what was happening around her, the quiet whispers of a dozen or so people, the dripping of liquid, and the smell... God, that smell was awful like something had died and was left to rot in the heat. Ilma was clearly panicking, wanting to take the blindfold off and run away, but her parents held her tightly and forced her forwards and onto a cold and wet-feeling stone slab, the smell reaching it's peak and those whispers got louder, her father began to talk loudest though, like a priest to a concession, she still remembers the chanting to this day: 'OUR LORD, THE KING OF LIFE, DEATH, AND THAT IN-BETWEEN. BESTOW THY POWER TO ME THROUGH MY CONDUIT. MY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD BECOME THE WELL OF WHICH MY LIFE IS IMBUED WITH YOUR BLESSING, LIKE THOSE OF YOUR OLD DISCIPLES...'
She cried like crazy as she listened to this continue, unable to move or escape as strange forces grew, trying to take control of her before explosions surrounded and echoed around them, whispers turned to gunfire, her father's preaching turned to orders of people she never heard of before, all shouting towards her, something about a knife before cold, sharp steel found it's way into her throat... She bled out quickly, the last thing she heard before she died was the gunfire riddling her father...
...But then, Something happened...
A light started to shine, blinding her, she had died... Was this heaven? It... It had to be... Right?
Well, it... wasn't? A figure came from the light and gently held onto her, confused in tone as it pushed her along from the side of the light, it's source was a spotlight, attached to a large military car just outside of a barn? Ilma looked confused, where was she? She didn't know... But what she did know was what some of these armed men carried out of it...
It was her... Like, ACTUALLY her, a knife stuck into this doppelganger's neck, like what she felt... It... Ilma didn't know how to react or respond, shaking in confusion and fear before a needle went into her neck and she fell asleep...
...Annnnd that's where we are now, Ilma became subject of research as scientists learned everything they could about her abilities in a special facility for 'Paedo-Anonymous Occurrences' (Or, as Ilma describes it, 'Children's home for the extra-extraordinary'). After this, Ilma voluntarily became a test subject for hire, since she came with a technically 0% casualty rate and not much of a need for extra test subjects for a series of tests.