Beatrice

Previous experience lets Beatrice naturally attempt to infiltrate any system she can connect to. She's very good at this, though it is possible for a heavily-secure system to thwart her. She can break in remotely if she has some kind of access point, but she is less effective at that. She is also very good at breaking encryption and sending new commands or manipulating the system she has broken into, given enough concentration and time. However, she is not a normal programmer by any means, and cannot make the system do anything it wasn't designed to do, merely string together existing functions in new ways.

By viewing the world as its underlying laws, Beatrice can tweak those laws in the local area a little. This is temporary, reverting within seconds, minutes, or at most an hour or two for very minor adjustments. After that, the natural laws forcefully reassert themselves. She can change local gravity slighty, but not negate it or crush with it, and local temperature, lighting, and other typical environmental effects. The amount she can change these is usually not enough to be damaging unless it was already nearly a dangerous environment, but it is often annoying or enough to make people off-balance. This can mimic minor weather control with mist or light rain, too.

Adjusting the code of the world is hard, especially when your code skills aren't that great. Adjusting inputs and outputs though? That's easy. The short version is that Beatrice can move basic elements like earth, water, fire, and air in her immediate vicinity, about ten meters in radius. She can only move about a small car's worth at a time, and the smaller the amount the faster she can move. She can't create new elements, but she can use this to form barriers, hold it in shapes, and attack enemies with it. Less natural materials like refined metals are much harder to move.

Many of Beatrice's powers require her to think carefully, but her instincts are more powerful and clear. Showing a hint of what she could be, Beatrice instinctively tries to filter out anything dangerous, slowing incoming projectiles and diverting harmful energies away. This is far from perfect, operating much like a force field that can be penetrated with skill and/or force. She doesn't actually have to be aware of the incoming attack, but it does have to be something she considers dangerous, so an attack from an apparent friend might take her by surprise, or if she couldn't recognize the source as a weapon.

Beatrice doesn't know how to interact with people in person. She's something of a shut-in, so normal social cues and expectations fly past her. She can try to be polite, and knows things like please or thank you, but she's bad at reading people. She's also quite shy and stammers when confronted, making it difficult for her to interact with people she doesn't know.

Her Firewall ability gives her protection, but it isn't foolproof. Once past that, she's very scrawny and weak. What's more, the Firewall doesn't protect her against stumbling, falling, or other accidents. She's well aware of all this and is reluctant to go into danger, and if things are going poorly she may just bolt. She'll try not to abandon friends and allies, but she'll definitely suffer a morale break sooner than most.

Beatrice has difficulty compromising with any situation that seems markedly unfair, and will always try to argue for more even-handedness even if the leverage isn't there. She loathes slavery and captivity, even if she reluctantly acknowledges the idea of prisons is necessary, but she will always favor freedom over captivity. She will never work with slavers and will predictably try to free slaves at great risk to herself, and with greater priority than anything else she should be doing. Highly classist or hierarchical systems will breed distrust in her, and immediate suspicion if she thinks others are supporting them.