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Meara O’Connor was born in July of 20XX in Belfast Northern Ireland 8 minutes and 52 seconds before her twin brother Dylan to her parents Saoirse and Drew O’Connor. Meara and her brother had a pretty basic childhood for the most part. The two siblings spent most of the time on the family farm and helped their father with the sheep they raised and spent their free time running around the rolling hills and small groves. When Meara turned 6 her quirk manifested when she and Dylan were messing around in the barn when a poor fox jumped out of a stack of feed and she fired an energy blast from a metal cannon that materialized on her right arm and punched a fist sized hole in the wall. This was quite the shock as to her and her parents' knowledge, no other member of her immediate family had a quirk. Dylan’s quirk manifested not too long after. After that Meara became fascinated in becoming a hero and using her quirk.

The next ten years were full of Meara getting herself and Dylan in trouble from using her quirk to shoot random pieces of rubbish and trees. For the most part she only got them in trouble with their parents and only had minor problems with the local police. Dylan was always hesitant about Meara’s open use of her quirk but her abilities were always stronger than his and she always got him to go along with her plans, that was until one fateful fall day. Meara was trying to get Dylan to go along with a plan to do some vigilante work to get revenge against a group of hooligans that had accidentally burned one of their families fields during a drunken night of partying. Dylan was firmly against the plan because they had already been warned that they could get in serious trouble if they used their quirks in public, but Meara wasn’t having any of his “wussy” attitude. She continued to egg him on and call him various terrible names and push his buttons. She activated her quirk in an attempt to intimidate him into going along with the plan like she had done many times before. This time however, something happened that would change their relationship forever. Meara slapped Dylan and insulted him one too many times and Dylan snapped, she never saw it coming. Dylan unknowingly manifested a shadowy sword and swung out in a blind rage and sliced through what Meara always thought was her impenetrable armor like it was wet paper. Both siblings were in shock as they saw the blood pouring out of a large gash in Meara’s abdomen. The next thing she knew, Meara was waking up in the hospital two days later. After she was discharged two weeks later, Meara had to deal with the fallout of the incident. It took Meara only 2 months to almost fully recover from the incident thanks to her quirk, but the damage caused to her relationship with Dylan was far from being healed. It took Dylan another 6 months to finally talk to her about what happened in a serious manner. Meara apologized to him for the thousandth time and they finally started to mend their relationship fully. Unfortunately the two of them were about to be forced into an even worse situation.

Shortly after they graduated from primary school the twins were in downtown Belfast when a group of villains attacked. The group had just robbed a bank and were in the process of escaping when Meara and Dylan crossed their path along with a handful of civilians. Meara and Dylan were initially keeping their heads down and not getting involved but it wasn’t to last. The group of villains were beginning to use the other civilians as shields against the local police force. Dylan kept telling her to wait for a government sanctioned hero to show up and Meara initially agreed, that was until one of the villains grabbed a mother and her baby. The twins silently agreed and they jumped into the fray. Meara caused a distraction by shooting one of the villains in the back as Dylan ran in and tackled the one that took the mother and baby hostage and sped them away using his enhanced speed. The two of them tried to escape with the other civilians but then one of the villains caught up to them. It was the one that Meara had shot and he was out for blood. The twins defended themselves and managed to hold off the villain until help finally arrived. But by the time they arrived, a lot of collateral damage was done to the nearby area, and unfortunately, several civilians were severely injured by the fiting and they both were brought to the jail.

Meara and Dylan were convicted of using their quirks without licenses and because it was impossible to say who caused the damages and injuries, they were held accountable for that as well. The judge was merciful as they did save the mother and her child and it was argued that they were in imminent danger of being taken by the villains anyways so the results were inevitable and possibly could have been worse. So instead of being sent to prison, they were instead inscripted into the army at the behest of a SAS Captain who spoke their behalf during the sentencing. Captain McMalley was in charge of a special operation unit that was made up of individuals that had quirks and were used in operations where the enemies were quirk users. And thus the twins became soldiers for the United Kingdom.

They worked underneath Cpt McMalley in his task force and went on several missions, taking out several inserection and terrorist groups across the globe. During this time they were trained relentlessly in how to fight and use their quirks in the most effective and efficient manner, and they both became extremely effective soldiers. While the twins were almost as close as prior to their incident, Meara couldn’t help but feel as if Dylan was beginning to grow more cold and distant each time they were deployed. While Meara was worried about her twin, she couldn’t help but feel like she was doing what she was put on earth to do, and she felt more and more comfortable with that life each time she went on a mission. They continued on this journey together for three years, successfully completing dozens of missions. Then one day, everything went to shite.

They were on what was meant to be a routine mission where they had to infiltrate an insurrection compound and take the leader into custody. Everything was going smoothly and they had their target in site. Meara and Dylan cornered him on the third floor of a building and were about to take him when he pulled out a detonator while using his wife and small child as a shield. The bastard had rigged the building to blow and was threatening to take them with him as he became a martyr. The mission was to take him alive as the local government was wanting to avoid him becoming a beacon of rebellion. But they also knew that they had to keep themselves alive. In that briefest of moments Meara froze, she didn’t have a clear shot at the bastard, she heard a voice in her mind telling her to take the shot and don't worry about the collateral. So she hesitated to do what she had to do in order to protect herself and her brother, and in that hesitation, he pushed the button. Dylan moved so fast that she didn’t even know that he had pushed her out a window until she saw the explosion send a fireball through the now broken window as she made contact with the ground, Dylan nowhere in sight. She tried to get up and run into the collapsing and burning building but her teammates grabbed her away, it took four of them to drag her from the compound. For the next week she was in denial about what happened and she was certain that Dylan was still alive and tried to convince the captain to let them mount a rescue mission to get him. It wasn’t until he gave her a small package that the foreign government sent after they went in and cleared the compound that reality finally set in. Inside the package was a pair of burned and charred dog tags, reading Lance Corporal Dylan O’Connor. It was like a gunshot straight to the heart, her brother, her twin was gone, and it was all her fault.

They had a ceremonial funeral for Dylan three weeks later, no body was discovered, assumed to be ashes. Meara was granted an extended leave of absence and eventually was removed from active duty for the time being. She continued to work on the family farm, going through the motions of everyday life until one day, McMalley came to her home. McMalley offered Meara a chance at a fresh start, to heal her mental wounds and do something to honor her late brother. That chance lay in Japan, at a hero university where she could become a professional hero like she had dreamed of as a small child. The UK had been working on an exchange program with the university for a number of years so they could open their own school in the UK. Meara would no longer be contracted to the army and couldn't be reactivated while she was abroad. This was her chance to honor Dylan’s memory and sacrifice by doing some good for the people there. Initially Meara was hesitant to go and wanted nothing to do with hero work, but after several long discussions with her parents, she accepted. Her dad told her that she needed to heal her soul and that Dylan wouldn’t have wanted her to waste her life feeling sorry for herself. So she packed her belongings, said goodbye to her parents and set off on her new journey, with the promise to make them and Dylan proud. Though as she left, Meara couldn't shake the feeling that McMalley wasn't telling her the whole truth behind her being released from her contract, and she still ponders how he got the hook into the prestigious university, and more importantly, why he seemed so intent on pushing her there.