| Paula Star | |
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| Portrayed By | Gillian Anderson |
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| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | January 1st, 1973 |
| Age | 35 |
| Zodiac Sign | ??? |
| Aliases | None |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Current Location | New York City, NY, USA |
| Occupation | FBI Agent |
| Known Relatives | None |
| Significant Other | None |
| Known Abilities | Osteokinesis |
| First Appearance | Phase One |
Paula is an FBI agent who previously was assigned to work covertly for Pinehearst, due to suspicions about their motives and activities. She thought what she was doing was for the greater good, but she eventually determined that hurting people for the betterment of mankind was not justified, and that she could not continue to be a part of it. Thus she informed her superiors at the FBI of what Pinehearst was up to, and they launched a strike against the Deveaux Building to capture some Pinehearst agents, and also took down a number of other assets of Pinehearst.
Paula has spent the last year working on more mundane cases, but recently the "Sylar case" has seen renewed interest from one of the higher ups in the FBI, and Paula has been assigned to investigate.
History
Paula was born in Los Angeles, CA. Her father was a police detective who was killed by gangwarfare, when he was caught in the cross-fire. Though the police department tried to find the perpetrators, they just were stretched too thin trying to deal with all the various gangs, and homicides, among other things. No justice was ever served. She decided at a young age she would become an FBI agent in order to investigate where the police couldn't. It might seem obvious that she would join the police force instead, but the way she saw it, if there was so much else that the police needed to have done that they couldn't investigate the murder of one of their own, then if she were to join them she would be sent on one of those other investigations and would never get to look into what she wanted to. In her mind, the FBI afforded more freedom to look into things on her own time. This was not exactly the case in reality, but she didn't know that until she was well into her education and enrollment.
After several years of working with the FBI, Paula actually DID get the chance to investigate her father's murder on her own, eventually. She found out that the real reason that her father had been killed, and nothing had been done about it, was that some members of the L.A. police department had been taking bribes from the same gang that killed Paula's dad! Further, those corrupt cops had been found out by Mister Starr, and the gang had been informed of the investigation. That was why they gunned down Paula's father when he was responding to a call for backup from other officers supposedly under fire.
And when Paula found out about all this, she was targetted for elimination too. Unfortunately for her would-be killers, while they attempted to kill her with a drive-by shooting, her Evolved ability activated on its own to preserve her life, shielding her organs and densifying her skeleton. Thus, while she had to go to the hospital, she was not killed. Her own bones stopped the bullets that would have shredded her innards and destroyed her brain otherwise.
To Paula, this was a wake-up call. She submitted her report and all her evidence, causing a huge scandal when eight officers were charged with criminal activities, and the gang that was responsible was arrested almost entirely, with the confessed information on the gang's hideouts from the corrupt cops. But though she had solved her father's murder, and put those responsible behind bars, as well as solving various other crimes, and helping other people during her time in the FBI, she wasn't satisfied.
It seemed that all that had happened to her father had happened because of money… She had almost been killed as well, and all because of money… If all the corrupt people in the world wanted money… Then she hated money. Money was a tool of the wicked. But still, it was a tool she could use. The more money she had, the more likely she could influence the greedy, and defeat them with that which they desired.
Paula wanted to know more about what saved her life. She had experimented with her ability, learning to fight with it, both as a defense and for offense. She became quite skilled with melee weapons — mostly her bone blades she could create. Paula then went back to learning. She had read some files the FBI had in the archives, of supposed supernatural activity, or strange phenomenon, and similar. She was skeptical of the alien abductions and so forth, but began to investigate some of the cases, and learned that there were others like herself out there. Others with an ability. Further, the government SUSPECTED they existed, but had kept all evidence hushed up for quite some time (since after the end of World War II at LEAST).
Paula tried to find out exactly how much the government knew, but despite all her digging and investigating, she only succeeded in making her superiors suspicious, and some of her colleagues view her as a joke for taking any of the weird stuff seriously. Paula was told to back off of her investigations eventually, both subtly, and more openly when she persisted. She eventually decided to heed the advice of others, and did so. In recent years, she decided to accept a deep-cover job where she was to infiltrate a company called Pinehearst that was being viewed with suspicion. She was to find out all she could about it, and report it back to her superiors.
But she has not reported anything in months, as she has decided that Pinehearst's owner knows best how to fix the world. He needs to give everyone abilities, so that they cannot be persecuted anymore. And he needs money to do it. It all comes back to money, for Paula. But this time, she thinks that money may be able to do good for once, rather than evil. In the course of becoming attached to and loyal to Pinehearst, she has also fallen into a morally gray area, where she is sometimes asked to do things by Arthur Petrelli and those under him that she finds disturbing. Disturbing because a few years ago, she would have been horrified. Still, she justifies it to herself as 'necessary' for the greater good.
Paula eventually turned on Pinehearst, realizing that there was no good coming from the company that could justify abducting people for experiments, or hurting or killing innocent civilians. A year later, she has been assigned to look into Sylar, thanks to Novak tipping off the FBI about Gabriel being involved in a murder last year, at the Deveaux Building. She has been investigating Sylar but seems to be having no leads. Further, all the reports and evidence she had been relying on have vanished, or been quietly closed off. A lot of things aren't adding up, and she's starting to suspect that someone wants to keep Sylar from being captured.
On top of that, someone named "Rebel" has secretly contacted her with information about people with abilities being abducted. Fearing a new Pinehearst is in the works, she is intent on uncovering both plots — the one to keep Sylar safe, and this new one to lock up everyone with an ability.
Timeline
- July 12th, 2008 - Paula is in Pinehearst Research's main building, when suddenly the lights go out! She encounters Niki, and D.L., and accidentally shoots Novak! Sucks. Relevant Log: Phase One
- July 13th, 2008 - Paula helps Pinehearst in securing the Deveaux Building, with a temporary partner. Her partner turns out to be a psycho, and Paula turns out to not be working for Pinehearst. Funny how that works. Relevant Log: Locked In
- October 4th, 2009 - Paula asks the NYC police department for help tracking down Sylar. Felix agrees to help, while Sydney observes. Relevant Log: The Hunt For Sylar
Ability
OSTEOKINESIS
- Paula can use Osteokinesis — control of bones — to cause her own skeleton to grow spikes or blades which are hyper-dense (harder than steel) and sharp, capable of being used as weapons with little to no fear of injury. She can retract the skeletal protrusions at will, with no damage caused to her flesh either before or after the bones emerge. Her skin just sort of shifts aside to make way for the bones, somehow, and then moves back when the blades recede. If it's just super-fast healing, then it only applies to the repairing of damage caused by the bones themselves, and does NOT grant her any other benefits of healing. So if she is shot or stabbed, she won't miraculously heal from it.
- Paula's Osteokinesis is extremely limited compared to what some others might be capable of. She can densify and alter her own skeleton with her mind or by instinct, but she cannot in any way affect someone else's bones. So someone like Amelia who can eventually learn to break or mend someone else's bones with thought or touch is superior to Paula in the variety department.
- However, Paula's specialization in using her bones for attacking and defending has made her extremely adept at combat. Armed with her bone blades, or using just densified bone to punch/kick things really fscking hard, she is dangerous in close quarters. She can even densify her skeleton sufficiently to survive a point-blank gunshot to the head. It would still hurt really bad though, and she'd need to get the bullet removed (if it doesn't just deflect off her skull). Shooting or stabbing through her eyesockets would be more effective, as would attacking other points in her body, such as her throat. She can grow internal bone armor to cover her vital organs temporarily, but she can't cover everything.
Quotes
- "I'm special agent Paula Star with the Federal Bureau of Investigations."
Trivia
- None yet.