Nickname/s → Tabby, Mack

codename → Siren

age → Eighteen

gender → Female

sexuality → Heterosexual

lineage (if any) → Songbird and Angar the Screamer

hex → #BF0000


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Tabitha is a surprisingly cheerful character given her troubled history, she has somehow managed to retain her natural enthusiasm and optimism. She appears to others as if she never takes anything seriously, always joking around. She has a witty or sarcastic comment for everything and this only gets more pronounced the more stressful the situation. Even surrounded by enemies and likely to die she has a wisecrack ready. Contrary to what people believe this doesn't mean that she doesn't take things seriously but quite the opposite. She learned at an early age to hide her true feelings behind a defence mechanism of the class clown but also thinks that her joking helps ease tension especially in dangerous situations. Of course this does have a downside, her inability to keep her mouth shut has often gotten her into trouble as not everyone finds her sarcasm and dry sense of humour amusing. She seems either not to care if she riles others up even further with her jokes or to lack the tack needed to recognise when she has gone too far. It doesn't help that she is blunt spoken and generally prefers not to beat around the bush or mince her words. She is not deliberately cruel or unkind but just doesn't see the point in asking a question if you don't want an honest answer. To those who call her friend however this trait is countered somewhat by her general love of life and infectious enthusiasm. Tabitha is fun to be around, as she always appears cheerful and as though nothing really gets to her, and other people often get caught up in her fun loving attitude.

Like most people however Tabitha has layers to her personality and underneath the cheery persona is a young woman with very big trust issues. She keeps others at arms length never letting others too close. She is a master at deflecting personal questions or conversation with humour as well as redirecting the conversation to other things. She has a deep rooted fear of rejection, in large part due to who her parents were and what they were known for, and fears others would tar her with the same brush if she let them close. She worries privately that she is going to become like her mother and is frightened that one day she too might lose control of her powers and wreak havoc. Her mother lost herself in grief and Tabitha reasons that is she never gets close to someone then she will never be in the same situation. Tabitha originally joined the team in order to have a fresh start and make up for her former life and so doesn't really see herself as a superhero. She believes in doing good and helping others but deep down she doesn't believe that she is a good enough person to be called a hero. But she stays with the team in part because she doesn't really have anywhere else to go and doesn't want to end up back on the streets but also because she likes making a difference. She isn't in it for the fame or glory, though she privately admits it is a good feeling being liked by the public, and thinks that the glory hunters give the rest of them a bad name.
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Tabitha has the ability to create various sonic effects through the combined action of her vocal cords and limited psionic powers which can only be used in conjunction with the sounds she produces. She is able to consistently produce the followings effects:

Sonic Scream: Can cause her vocal cords to vibrate over a wide range of sonic frequencies and produce a volume of sound ranging up to at least 140 decibels which is strong enough to destroy solid objects.
Flight: Can use the sonic vibrations of her scream as a carrier wave which she then uses to fly (like a bird using thermals)
Sonar: Can use her sonic powers as a form of sonar. By sending out a precise, pure note and listening to the returning, altered wavefront of the note, she can evaluate her surroundings in total darkness with varying degrees of resolution.
Sonic Amplification: Can amplify sound carrier waves allowing her to hear conversations or noises from far off.
Sonic Shield: Can tighten sound waves around herself or others near her, making a barrier against outside attack.
Vocal Disorientation: Can cause intense dizziness, nausea, vertigo and unconsciousness with version of sonic scream.
Siren Song: Can lull a person or persons into an entranced state by singing. This allows her to calm or distract people.
Sound Immunity: Her hearing and equilibrium are unaffected by the effects of her scream and similar abilities.
Superhuman Vocal Stamina: Her vocal cords are tremendously strong, so that she can produce sonic effects through screaming constantly for hours at a time without noticeably tiring or injuring her vocal apparatus. Her vocal cords and the interiors of her throat and mouth are also superhumanly tough, so that the intense pressures and constrictions that she produces do not cause her any injury.

Weaknesses:
Tabitha's powers all centre on her voice and she is therefore rendered powerless if prevented from making sounds by being gagged or another silence inducing method.
Tabitha can only use one ability at a time as each one involves making a different sound (scream, single note, song etc) so if she was using her sonic shield for example she could not then also use her powers to attack etc.
Tabitha is always at risk of damaging her vocal chords if she over uses her power especially her sonic scream and has, in the past, temporarily damaged them for a time.
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Tabitha is the daughter of Melissa Gold (Screaming Mimi, Songbird) and Angar the Screamer both of which were villains and enemies of the Avengers. Tabitha was conceived shortly before Angar died and born after Melissa had burned out her powers. In no state to care for a child and having already agreed to join another group of villains, who would enable her to have powers again, Melissa abandoned her infant daughter. Tabitha was found on the steps of a church and, once it was clear no one was going to claim her, put into the foster care system. Her early life was happy and normal with her foster family loving her as one of their own. But everything changed when she reached the age of ten and her powers activated, frightened and unable to control them she damaged much of the family home and frightened most of her friends away. She had always known that her foster parents were prejudiced against those with abilities but it had never occurred to her that they would see her the way they saw them. So it was a complete surprise when her foster father took her out in his car and drove to a deserted road in the middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest town. He told her to get out and leave and not to try and come home and when she refused he dragged her out of the car physically.

So began Tabitha's time on the streets learning quickly how to survive, using her powers to protect herself and earn money for food. She moved around a lot the first few years afraid of being caught having powers. She lived off money earned from singing, she had a beautiful voice and most passers by couldn't resist giving her money, and avoided using her other powers unless threatened. She turned to crime as well to survive stealing whatever she could and ended up in Cross City running with a gang who looked after her in exchange for her stealing for them. When she was sixteen the gang started pressuring her to use her powers to help them with more serious crimes but she always refused. She knew stealing was wrong but justified it as survival, she saw no excuse for the other things that the gang did. At seventeen she accidentally came to the attention of a known villain who had once spent time with her parents and it was he claiming she looked like her mother that led to her discovering who her parents had been. She discovered that her father was dead but that her mother was believed to be still alive but she made no attempt to look for her feeling no love for the woman who had abandoned her.

At Eighteen she was caught by the authorities during a robbery for her gang and it was while she was awaiting trial that she was visited by a man who claimed to be putting together a team. He had extensive background on her and knew who her parents was as well as what she had been doing since being abandoned by her foster parents. He offered her a second chance, he said he saw her potential and believed that she was good girl stuck in a bad situation. He was right, Tabitha jumped at the chance to leave the gang and finally get off the streets. The man arranged for all charges to be dropped and set her up with a place to live and a membership on the team. For the last six months she has been working hard to forget her former life and be a useful member of the team and to make a difference.
Tabitha does her best to pretend her life on the streets never happened yet worries that her teammates will one day find out and judge her for it. She also worried that her ex gang will find her. Gangs were for life and people who left were always punished severely if found.