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|location    = Devilfish
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|image      = Rockstar.jpg
|image      = Rockstar_Vogue.png
|caption    = Emmaline Trenton AKA Rockstar
|caption    = Emmaline Trenton AKA Rockstar
|birth_date  = 2004-03-05
|birth_date  = 2004-03-05
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: ''For the original Rockstar submission, see [[Rockstar/old]]''


Rockstar hails from Los Angeles, California. She's been in the spotlight since her debut as a Ward, always on the front page of some magazine, TV show, or sketchy tabloid site. She has no cape persona, and her public information is full game. Her debut was loud and flashy- an experiment gone wrong due to a tinkertech malfunction. No one was hurt, but the abandoned warehouse she was using as a workshed was shaken down to its foundations and later collapsed. After she joined up with the PRT, she made it her duty to always be in the starlight in some way, shape, or form. Her recent transfer to Devilfish has been under some amount of scrutiny- but the official talking point is to, "Bring life into an otherwise unnoticed Protectorate branch." She sticks by this, regardless of whatever nasty rumors the tabloids drum up.
Rockstar hails from Los Angeles, California. She was originally a member of the Wards team there following her incredibly public trigger event. She’s released most of her music during her time in Los Angeles. After a few years she was quietly transferred to Devilfish’s Wards program with a goal of “bringing more life into a quiet PRT branch.”


As Rockstar (which is an incredibly cliche name to release music under) she’s released two full-length albums, a 4 song EP, and a slew of singles and tracks she’s been featured on. Her first album, ''Damage Control'', is a pop-rock look into being a cape and totally PRT pushed. Her second album, ''NewGame+'', is less PRT focused and is a multi-genre rock opera style album that deals with the themes of identity, isolation, being comfortable as yourself- and also has a quirky interlude about really enjoying some salsa late at night. Her first album wasn’t very well received, with many people seeing it as a PRT cash-grab. (True depending on who you asked.) Her second was more successful, with one of the singles from the album hitting the #8 slot in the Billboard Hot 100.
Rumors of her engaging in manipulative behavior of other PRT parahumans and civilians is completely unfounded, and slander. Following a period of time where she lived and worked in Devilfish, MN, Emmaline was involved in a tinkertech-related accident that saw her disappearing from the public eye in order to recuperate from injuries that she had sustained.
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Any rumors of a mental breakdown are also completely unfounded, and simply tabloid-talk. After a few quiet months where Emmaline stayed out of the limelight, she turned 18, joined the Protectorate outright, and went on a World Tour for her latest album, Rosegold.
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Following her World Tour, Emma returned to Devilfish. Rockstar belongs to Masquerade Entertainment Group, a label that has worked with her, the PRT, and other parahumans in the past.
 
Quite a lot of Emmaline’s public life is known due to tabloids, reporters, and interviews that she’s done. Emmaline has toured most of Europe and North America, and has very publicly met many of the high-ranking capes in the Protectorate as well as their foreign counterparts. She’s been one of the PRT’s media darlings since her debut, and has had the blessing of both the PRT media team, and from her agency. It’s incredibly easy to find photography, tabloids, magazines, interviews, fanfiction, conspiracy videos, and all sorts of media relating both to Rockstar and Emmaline Trenton.
 
For an intermediate period of time she dated Isaac Romero- another singer/songwriter- who passed away due to a likely self-inflicted drug overdose. Rumors surrounding this are all over the place, with some suggesting that she had a part to play in his death. Regardless of what one is looking for, nearly all of her private life is public and there’s very little that isn’t known about her. (Excepting some of the more nebulous details, specifications about her power, and PRT coverups.)
 
Rockstar/Emmaline’s personal life is, as such, constantly mired in rumors, tabloid assumptions, online chat threads, and much, much more.




== Character Sheet ==
== Character Sheet ==
=== Appearance ===
=== Appearance ===
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Emmaline is exactly what you'd think of when you imagine a teen (semi) Popstar. She's loud, gaudy, and always doing something that ends her up in the public eye. Standing at 5'4", she makes up for her small stature with how loud she is. Pink hair constantly done up in a flashy little 'do, with her outfits even flashier. When she'd not trying to draw attention to herself, she usually wears a hat and bulky clothing to obfuscate her identity as much as possible. She's exactly what you'd expect from someone who's physical appearance is often the end-all be-all of her popularity.
Emmaline has changed and grown since her time in the Wards and the Protectorate, and her style has changed to match. She stands at 5’5” and is typically seen in either ostentatious outfits, haute couture, or expensive streetwear. Her hair is nearly always dyed in bright colors (typically light purples), her makeup is always immaculate, and she often preens. As you’d expect, Emmaline is pretty enough to star on the cover of magazines, fashion shoots, and other things that commodify her image. When trying to go low-profile or otherwise not draw as much attention to herself, she typically wears baggy pants, hoodies, and the like. Yet, Emmaline is a prima-donna popstar with an aesthetic to maintain. Interrupt her routine at your own risk.


=== Equipment and Resources ===
=== Equipment and Resources ===
Tinkertech gear that she takes into the field, in addition to the standard slew of equipment that the PRT outfits the heroes with. Handcuffs, zipties, pepperspray, SWORDFISH-approved communications relay, and the like. Whatever is reasonable to take into the field as a hero does.
''Wealth Level:'' 6
 
Tinkertech gear that she takes into the field, in addition to the standard slew of equipment that the PRT outfits the heroes with. Handcuffs, zipties, pepper-spray, SWORDFISH-approved communications relay, and the like. The only time when she is not wearing some sort of tinkertech protection is when she is ordered to go without, and she becomes skittish and standoffish without some sort of Master/Stranger protection on her. As she’s employed Master/Stranger gear in the past, she understands how subtle and ruthless it can be.


Wealth Level: 6
=== Tinkertech ===
=== Tinkertech ===
'''''Newly Updated Tech'''''
{{Equipment
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| name      = Sonospheres
| name      = Sonosphere v3.0
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| appearance = Small little floating drones that project light onto an area in front of them, as well as around them. They're mostly spherical, with the exception of where the lights are mounted. Each one is slightly larger than a tennis ball.
| appearance = A perfectly spherical black orb, roughly about the size of a grapefruit. The orb is so utterly black and seamless that it appears to be 2-dimensional rather than spherical.
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| abilities  = The Sonospheres operate off of sonoluminescence- meaning they create light through sound. The louder that the sound is around them, the brighter they can become. At the maximum, the entire array can create enough light that each one is as bright as a floodlight. In addition to being able to produce light from them, the Sonospheres are also capable of recording the area around them- approximately 30 feet.
| abilities  = Sonospheres are flight-capable, semi-autonomous drones designed to maximize effectiveness while minimizing possibility of damage against them. They are capable of reacting to and executing both simple and complex instructions, as well as logic. They are capable of producing lights within the entirety of the visible spectrum, including rudimentary holograms that become better fidelity the more Sonospheres are involved. They contain onboard cameras, and can produce lights through sonoluminescence. They can produce sound within the infrasonic and ultrasonic areas of sound, in addition to human-audible sound. Finally, Sonospheres are capable of recording in all the spectrums they can also emit, acting as both passive and active sensors for a variety of Rockstar’s other programs or tech. While recording in dual mode (which is basically always) they have a passive range of half a mile. While in listen-only mode, a range of a mile and a half. Sonospheres are sensitive enough to hear heartbeats, and internal bodily functions. They are incredibly sensitive machines that are capable of deploying any of the acoustic effects, programs, or software that Rockstar deems necessary. One example of an effect that multiple Sonospheres can produce is localized sonic booms, complete with enough overpressure to damage buildings. They are incredibly versatile devices, and are the focal point of most of Rockstar’s outings in costume.
 
| notes      = The most current upgrade of the Sonosphere line. Sonospheres all link to one another, link to the rest of Rockstar’s tech, and additionally act as data relays or blocks between the link. The entire system is designed as a redundant web, so that one Sonosphere being degraded/destroyed will not affect the rest of the swarm. They are additionally also protected against jamming, effects that spread between/from tinkertech, and run off of custom code that Rockstar has designed specifically for her tech. Sonospheres act as the basis for the rest of Rockstar’s tech, and are the most capable and modular of her technology. She will have 30 of these, all accounted for and itemized. Some of the effects that that they can produce: awe, fear, psychosomatic pain, happiness, forgetfulness, sadness, anger, and others.
One of the staples of Rockstar's arsenal, it allows her to turn any patrol she's apart of into an impromptu concert if she so chose.  
| notes      = Relatively easy to make, it's more worth her time to build a new one and scrap a damaged one for parts than it is to repair said damaged one. The Sonospheres serve as a baseline platform for potential upgrades in the future.
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{{Equipment
{{Equipment
| name      = Sonosuit
| name      = VenueControl 2.0
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| url        = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/la9f08/emmaline_trenton_rockstar/
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| appearance = A flashy, gaudy suit that Rockstar wears into the field. It has the trappings of something that Lady Gaga would wear to the VMA's. It's skintight, pink and cyan, and covered in sound equipment. It has a small case on the back of it for the Sonospheres to deploy out of, as well as a mounted rig that carries speakers along her body. LED's run up and down the length of it.
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| abilities  = The Sonosuit turns Rockstar into a one-woman show. She's able to amplify her voice to incredible lengths- approximately up to 150 decibels, which is louder than listening to a live rock band in the front row in front of the speakers. It's armored enough to deflect knives and small caliber pistol ammunition, but only knives reliably. The suit allows her to manipulate sound in a variety of ways. She can increase or decrease sounds in an area around her, approximately 75 feet. She can launch a bass-noise-rumble out of her feet, which allows her to 'fly' (More like jumping really well.) The equipment gives her a HUD with pertinent information. Decibel level and sounds from around her. The pitches created from her speakers are able to amplify or detract from emotions- but not as strong as an outright emotion hijack. Her sound is bone-conducted, meaning that you hear it even if you cover your ears or use earplugs.
| abilities  = VenueControl v2.0 is the latest and greatest software update that Rockstar has produced. It has all of the updates of previous VenueControl modules, and allows for Rockstar to edit and alter the functions of her various tech on the fly or according to pre-programmed instructions. The modules that have been wrapped into VenueControl 2.0 include: VenueControl 1.0, VenueControl- Silence/Deafen v1.2, VenueControl Mobile, and VenueControl- Mapping/Safety v0.7. VenueControl v2.0 consists of: a fairly competent Virtual Assistant, Rockstar’s cloud computing processes, PRT servers and services, and other redundancies that allows for near-real time applications. The VI filters data and feeds it to Rockstar in an easily digestible manner that’s keyed to her and only her, and allows for a myriad of effects to be produced from her devices, tech, other equipment, and computer systems she interfaces with. VenueControl v2.0 controls how, when, and where Rockstar’s more esoteric effects are activated. Namely, Master/Stranger effects, bone conduction, infrasonics/ultrasonics, Sonar, 3D sound modeling, the Frey Effect, and other acoustic effects that can be achieved through the propagation of certain Hertz.
| notes      = The Sonosuit that Rockstar is currently using is her baseline variant. Before she was transferred to Devilfish, she wasn't able to complete the upgrades to alternative variants. She's got plans in the future to help her make a bigger, better show.
| notes      = As paranoid as Rockstar is, she’s locked down her software to biological keys, passwords, two/three/four factor authentication, encryption keys, and tokens that change and generate keys every 10 seconds or earlier. The VI portion of the module is a perfect voice copy of herself, and is programmed to mitigate damage, employ technology and tinkerech effects for maximum effectiveness, and generally just be helpful. It’s additionally programmed to protect her and generally have good intentions and a working relationship with PRT members. It is not comparable to a true AI, or even one of Phalanx’s more complicated VI’s, but it’s more than capable of protecting and defending Rockstar, her goals, and her tech. It’s additionally likely that the VI is nicer and more helpful than Rockstar herself. To summarize the modules being added into one:
 
VenueControl 1.0 was the beginning of this line of tech. It was meant as a controller for the rest of her equipment, and basically acted as a UI for her to employ everything. This also included her speech recognition patterning software.
 
Silence/Deafen: An upgrade to her software that allowed her tech to completely silence an area, or increase sounds to 175db.
 
VC Mobile: Sunglasses with tinkertech insets that allowed her to run a mobile version of VenueControl, for pairing with non-costume tech.
 
Mapping/Safety: Sound-based 3D terrain models, while additionally protecting the environment from her equipment as a preventative measure.
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{{Equipment
{{Equipment
| name      = Stratos 001
| name      = Songbird Suit
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| appearance = A tinkertech guitar that hooks into the overall sound system of the Sonosuit. It's rigid enough to be used as a baton in either its collapsed or extended form. It's very minimalistic, more like a MIDI controller than an actual guitar.
| appearance = A black, skintight torso rig and shorts that are concealable underneath clothing, a set of two rings, two earrings, and a small necklace.
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| abilities  = Stratos is the means by which Rockstar accompanies herself. She can launch visible soundwaves out of her speaker system by using it, as well as use it to beat the fuck out of villains when they think they can flee arrest. Mostly, it's just a means by which she can make a show. The main effect of the guitar is that it's an infrasonic psychological weapon. Those that hear it's tune find themselves experiencing awe or unease at the frequencies it operates at. The soundwaves she launches from the device can be focused or omni-directional. She can adjust the performance, volume, and traits of the device through VenueControl.
| abilities  = The Songbird Suit is an upgrade to the Songbird Module, designed as the basis to protect Rockstar when she’s in civilian attire, while additionally being worn underneath her costume when patrolling, or otherwise fulfilling PRT duties. It basically turns Rockstar into a walking, talking acoustic weapon, capable of employing a variety of effects without needing her Sonospheres, and all of her effects with them. It additionally protects her from Master/Stranger effects that rely on audio or spatial distortion (which is done by creating 3D terrain mapping around her while worn for situational awareness). While wearing the Songbird Suit, Rockstar has the capability to: employ infrasonic/ultrasonic sounds, project sound directly into someone’s head (The Frey Effect), create bone conductive sound (as in, forcing targets to hear something through their bones), employ moderately powerful Master effects, track and target objects and people within a 100ft range, and increase her voice to a range upward of 300 decibels.
| notes      = The Stratos is entirely white, an homage to The Artist Formerly Known as Prince's guitar ''Cloud''
| notes      = The Songbird Suit runs off of the VenueControl software, and is additionally linked to the rest of her tech. Some of the effects that that it can produce: awe, fear, psychosomatic pain, happiness, forgetfulness, sadness, anger, and others.
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{{Equipment
{{Equipment
| name      = VenueControl
| name      = Captivation v1.0
| image      =
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| url        = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/la9f08/emmaline_trenton_rockstar/
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| appearance = N/A. Built into her suit and nearly entirely software.
| appearance = An all black outfit that includes a helmet with proper protection. It’s vaguely nondescript while still staying feminine. It has a few exposed wires for aesthetic effect, and additionally has a few hidden away power supplies. The “functional” part of the suit is really a full-cover bodysuit, covered in obvious tinkertech. It can be layered or changed aesthetically as needed, or even worn under normal civilian clothes if necessary.
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| abilities  = VenueControl is the general term for the controller portion of her helmet and equipment. It's designed to increase her sounds, and decrease the sounds that she doesn't like or want someone else to hear. It makes sure she's autotuned and always on pitch, as well as keeping her equipment running smoothly. It also operates the microphone panopticon that's on the Sonosuit. through this, Rockstar is able to capture voice prints and analyze them through their patterns of speech. It pings back to her computer back at base, and is engineered into a voice profile which can then be used to text-to-speech a voice that's been analyzed. The microphones are very sensitive, even able to pick up someone's hearbeat if they're close enough.
| abilities  = Designed entirely from the ground up, this outfit is completely laden with tech meant to Master her adversaries into submission. The suit combines all of the most sinister and mind-ripping effects that Rockstar could produce into a complicated piece of technology. The suit is able to produce effects that make LRAD, MEDUSA, and MKULTRA seem like child’s play. While wearing the outfit, Rockstar constantly emits an infrasonic hum designed to force the target or targets into feeling extreme awe, fear, happiness, submission, feelings of unease, et cetera. She is able to project sound directly into target/targets heads, while additionally using pre-prepared voice modules to force, trick, or otherwise subvert the subject to think that her words are their own thoughts. Coupling this with the ability to flood a target with overwhelming emotions, dull/negate emotions, or otherwise force a target or targets to take a certain action makes this suit a formidable threat when utilized.
| notes      = If you're within a 50 foot range of Rockstar and you're having a hushed conversation- not only can she hear you, but you're also being recorded. The extent of the sensitivity is not publicly known, and she's nearly always recording at all times. Regardless if you're hero, villain, or civilian- if Rockstar gets ahold of your voice she's making a copy of it.  
| notes      = Designed in secret and sent to some of the spooks at SWORDFISH for approval with a very concisely written note about the effectiveness of the technology, and how much of a waste it is not to use Rockstar’s tech aligned with the goals of SWORDFISH and sub-agencies. If not approved or if ignored, Rockstar will quietly shelve this product and legitimately abandon it for fear of getting black-bagged, disappeared, or otherwise SWORDFISH’d. The suit is kept under lock and key by SWORDFISH, only allowed out with SWORDFISH approval.
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{{Equipment
{{Equipment
| name      = Concert-Grade Sonospheres
| name      = SonoSafe Bud
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| image      =
| url        = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/lkoy4r/rockstars_concert_preparations/
| url        = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/wvqbnc/rockstar_emmaline_trenton_resubmit/
| appearance = About the size of a volleyball, the Concert-Grade Sonospheres are oddly-shaped. They vibrate and shift like they're alive, shifting through several different spherical shapes as they pulse and hum through the air. While they don't look as if they're capable of doing much- the Sonospheres can direct focused or omni-directional light, in addition to changing shapes and reallocating mass.  
| appearance = The SonoSafe Buds are a set of in-ear headphones that conform to the user’s inner ear. They are completely black, with small Rockstar logos embossed into them.
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| abilities  = Similar to the normal Sonospheres, the Concert version is capable of the same feats. They can create dazzling light shows, holograms, and even simulate fireworks and lasers. In addition to that, each one of the Sonospheres is capable of acting as both a subwoofer and a surround sound system, pumping out whatever Rockstar wants up to 150db. The Sonospheres are also two-way devices, recording sound in addition to broadcast. They can record any sound within a 50 foot radius, and are sensitive enough to pick up someone's heartbeat. The sounds they make are bone conductive, meaning that you don't need your ears to hear the music. These Sonospheres are also capable of broadcasting Rockstar's master effect, though it's off by default and needs to be toggled on. The official reasoning for this is: Crowd Control during EB or Class A/S events. The 'Infrasonic Psychological Weapon' setting is also toggled off, but can be toggled on. She will have ten of these for the show.  
| abilities  = The SonoSafe Buds protect the user from any and all audio-based Master/Stranger effects, including Master/Stranger effects that can be defeated due to audio tracking. When paired with a Sonosphere or a SonoBot, the SonoSafe Buds are capable of projecting this effect outward in a 15 foot bubble around the paired device. They are able to protect against various Master effects to be decided on a case-by-case basis.
| notes      = Some of them are painted when in storage. Little hearts and pink skulls.
| notes      = SonoSafe Buds have 28 hours of battery life, and require an approximate 4-6 hours of charging time before full after a dead battery. They’re optimized with audio alerts to let the user know if they’re approaching low battery, and additionally can be set to have several audio filters. They automatically include active noise cancellation, toggleable Bluetooth, audio transparency, and wickedly good sound quality. Even if they were just headphones- they would beat anything on the market.
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{{Equipment
| name      = VenueControl- Silence/Deafen v1.2
| image      =
| url        = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/lkoy4r/rockstars_concert_preparations/
| appearance =  N/A
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| abilities  = A software plugin to VenueControl, this allows Rockstar to use her Sonospheres to silence or deafen an area within the Sonosphere's range. She can pinpoint certain sounds and cause them to become dramatically amplified, or silenced. The same applies for the overall area as a whole- allowing her to deafen and entire area completely, or turn every sound within it up to 175db. This is only included with the Concert Grade Sonospheres, but will be added at some point. Duration: Until upgraded. Can be destroyed, but it's a software program that Rockstar keeps under lock and key.
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| name      = Weapon of Bass Destruction
| image      =
| url        = https://www.reddit.com/r/wormrp/comments/lkoy4r/rockstars_concert_preparations/
| appearance =  A subwoofer array that's modular, allowing her to scale the amount of bass needed for a show. The entire array consists of a literal wall of subwoofers, with each of them being varying size. The front of them are slick like metal or glass, making it almost like a mirrored finish.
| creator    = [[Rockstar]]
| abilities  = Originally designed for concerts, this array has been upgraded over time. It allows for a massive increase in bass, allowing an entire stadium to vibrate to the point of shaking itself apart. The mirrored surface projects lasers, lightshows, and holograms. At maximum, this array is capable of creating a physical wall of sound similar to a forcefield. It's entirely meant to amplify shows/concerts, or be used for crowd control in Class A/S events. Capable of being used as an Infrasonic Psychological Weapon, but this effect has been turned off and needs to be toggled on. The entire array is about the size of the back stage wall- so about 50'x20'. She can remove parts of the array for individual use. The smallest one she would be able to carry on her back. The smaller it goes, the more diminished the effects.
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=== Skills and Specializations ===
=== Skills and Specializations ===
Rockstar's power gives her an innate understanding of all musical instruments, musical composition and theory, as well as vocal ability. Anything relating to music she just gets! She's only moderately versed in boxing, having taken a few classes just to make sure she didn't always have to rely on her tinkertech. Out of costume, she likes to do some scrapbooking and interior design. A little bit of fashion stuff, too. Pays to always be on the cutting-edge of haute couture.
Rockstar's power gives her an innate understanding of all musical instruments, musical composition, music theory, and vocal ability. She intuitively understands anything to assist her in these goals. Furthermore, she’s a skilled programmer and computer expert, as a vast amount of her tinkertech requires incredibly complex code. Rockstar does take physical combative lessons in order to not always rely on her tech and to protect herself, but that’s a last resort due to her stature and her inexperience. Some of her hobbies include fashion design, modeling, interior decorating, and trying to improve her brand. Due to having been basically raised by PR agents and media departments, she’s good with people- even if it’s all superficial. Emmaline can manage herself and her business quite well, as long as it’s some way related to her stardom.


=== Mentality ===
=== Mentality ===
Emmaline is lonely. Incredibly lonely. Sure, she has all the fame and adoration she could ever want- but at the end of the day it's worthless. She's paranoid that people only want her for her fame, for her looks, for her power, and never the stuff inside that makes her who she really is. She's afraid that she's boring and dull, so she often acts out in the public eye just to make herself interesting. All publicity is good publicity, after all. Her shard has only increased the thoughts and ideas that she has, ramping up her paranoia of interpersonal relationships past the point that it was before she'd triggered. She's still a stable individual, but there's always a part of her that yearns for something more. To be truly noticed.
To put it simply, Emmaline is a psychologically troubled individual. Her power and shard have influenced her over the years as she’s tapped into her power, and her mental state has changed to reflect that. Emmaline is paranoid, insecure, manic, and hyper-narcissistic. She desperately seeks attention, validation, affection, and love, but immediately disdains those who give her the attention she’s looking for. Inversely, she actively dislikes those who don’t pay attention to her, or otherwise don’t act like an adoring fan should. Emmaline is incredibly used to getting whatever she wants, being pampered, and generally being regarded as the center of attention. When this is not true, she’ll quietly instigate drama, or otherwise create a situation where she’s back in the starlight. As a result of being both a self-claimed popstar and a cape without a secret identity, Emmaline typically doesn’t allow people to get too close to the “real” her. However, even she doesn’t quite understand what the “real” her is. Emmaline doesn’t fully understand her own person-hood at times, and often just sees herself as the media that she’s featured in. She’s trying her best to work on some of these issues- if only out of fear that SWORDFISH will disappear her if she gets too unstable. Due to her breakdown following a piece of prototype tinkertech literally exploding in her face, Emmaline was ordered to attend mandatory therapy and take several medications to manage her mental issues. She attends her therapy sessions with disgust, and only half the time ‘forgets’ to take her medicine. Yet, she is still attempting to “be a better person,” if only for the fear that SWORDFISH, her label, or the PRT will drop her completely if she fails to comply. Additionally, she is incredibly paranoid of data breaches, Master/Stranger effects, and surveillance. As a surveillance-related cape herself, she fully knows what these powers are capable of due to utilizing some of their ill effects herself in the past. Due to additional side-effects of her powers, Emmaline wants to know and understand everything about everybody. She yearns to know rumors, gossip, personal information, and every other shred of data she can get about people. Unfortunately, she’s unable to bring herself to just ask for this information or go through small talk or the typical normal human social cues. As such, she employs roundabout means to get this info.


=== Power ===
=== Power ===
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Trigger Type: Natural Single.
Trigger Type: Natural Single.


Rockstar is a sound-focused tinker with a slight subdiscipline in Master effects. Through the tech she creates, she's able to both manipulate how sound operates, and also manipulate the emotions of those that hear them. She would be classified as a Multithreaded Tinker (Hyperspec X Multi). The more that her different effects line up, the better that her tech operates. While she can still make tech in only one category, it tends to either be shallower, or hyper-focused.
Rockstar is a sound-specialty tinker with a subdiscipline/parallel focus in Master/Stranger effects. Her power actively wants her to create surveillance-related technology, Master people, create Stranger effects, and store that data in massive repositories for further use and exploitation. While she is able to create technology that doesn’t require Master/Stranger effects or a surveillance aspect due to how wide and general her tinker specialty is, the more she leans into Master/Stranger effects, surveillance, or both- the stronger, more capable, and just plain better the resulting piece of equipment will be. Through the technology that Rockstar creates, she’s able to manipulate sound, wavelengths, acoustic effects, and a startling amount of esoteric examples.


=== Backstory ===
=== Backstory ===
<!-- self-explanatory -->Emmaline had never had anyone actually love her. Not really. For years and years and years, she was the bane of existence to everyone around her. A failure. A waste of space. No matter what she did, no matter how hard she worked- it was always the same. She was the byproduct of a ruined marriage, just a tool used by her parents to get back at each other. Despite being an only child, she knew that her parents would've been better off without having kids at all. Emma did everything she could to try and stand out, to make something of herself. It never seemed to work. She was always a failure, always unloved, always alone. Even when she eventually found a small group of friends it never felt like it was anything real. She could've ever tell if she was being used or not, just a pawn in some nefarious gang of her betters. Day after day, week after week, year after year- she did what she could. She learned that she could find solace in music, and started to make her own. Even then, no one was ever really impressed. It was just the futile efforts of a sad, sad girl. No one supported her. Not even her friends. Eventually, she just got used to it. She learned to shut up, keep her chin up, and not rely on anyone for something you can do yourself. It all came to a head one day when her Mom was drunk, screaming, violent. She ran away, got a ride over to her Dad's house in the hope that it would be better there. Bad idea. He ripped the headphones out of her ears and broke them,, throwing them to the ground and stomping them underfoot. It was all just silly little games, her silly little coping mechanism. It all came to a head that day. The loneliness, the betrayal, the isolation- and a problem she was never able to solve no matter what she tried. Trigger.
Emmaline has had a troubled past, and her experiences have not helped her to become more of a stable person. She has a horrible relationship with her parents and has completely blocked them out of her life, placing all of the blame of her trigger event on them. Due to her public trigger event and the damage that she caused due to malfunctioning tinkertech, Emma was more or less forced into the Wards program, something that she’s still resentful of to this day. Her trigger event, explained more [here], warped her, and was compounded on by how commercialized her adolescent period was. While a Ward in Los Angeles, Emma experimented with tinkertech that startled, scared, or otherwise discomforted those around her. After an unspecified incident that was handled internally and subsequently redacted, Emma was transferred to a smaller PRT branch with the hope that she would “cool off” and have less access to some of the vices that big city life offered her at the time. There was the hope that another Los Angeles incident wouldn’t occur again. Unfortunately, events during her tenure as a Devilfish ward did indeed see another incident happening, and Emmaline stayed several months in a psychiatric care facility. Following these months, Emma was unceremoniously sent on her world tour- both to get her away from Devilfish and additionally to give her some sort of outlet to force her efforts into. While she was away, she was completely cut off from the Devilfish PRT proper, reporting to the PRT HQ and the PRT media department in lieu of the Devilfish chain of command or another authority structure. During her World Tour, she met up with or visited numerous PRT and non-PRT capes throughout her tour destinations, rapidly boosting her already-substantial fame. Briefly detained in Germany due to a riot at one of her shows, she paid her bail and spent the rest of her tour on her best behavior. It’s theorized that her stint with The Law was a PR media stunt to draw even more eyes towards her. When back in the United States, she additionally performed a pop-up show in Los Vegas between scheduled tour dates. Once all of her tour had been completed, she returned to Devilfish. While away, she made no particular effort to keep in touch with anyone, nor did she keep a finger on the pulse of what’s going on in Devilfish. Emmaline had made great strides to work with her handlers, debrief properly, and be in no way obstinate or a hindrance to the program. She’s back now, and ready to get things back to how they were- or better.
 
==Discography==
=== ''Damage Control'' (2019) ===
{{Track listing
| title1          = Unsanctioned Chatter
| length1        = 3:19
| title2          = Control
| length2        = 4:18
| title3          = What's Mathrock?
| length3        = 2:32
| title4          = Bandolier
| length4        = 3:20
| title5          = Open Song
| length5        = 2:43
| title6          = Always Off
| length6        = 3:52
| title7          = June Gloom
| length7        = 4:31
| title8          = Never Too Late
| length8        = 4:41
}}


While in the Wards, Rockstar was more focused on her career as a musician than as a Hero. While she does have experience both patrolling and fighting villains, she was often relegated to console duty due to her perceived importance by PRT higher ups. After a close call that's been covered up, she was transferred to Devilfish in an attempt to cool down.
=== ''NewGame+'' (2020) ===
{{Track listing
| title1          = Back On My B.S
| length1        = 4:53
| title2          = Down, Not Out
| note2          = 2020 single
| length2        = 3:55
| title3          = Ballad Four
| length3        = 3:01
| title4          = Aurora
| length4        = 4:06
| title5          = Fangs
| length5        = 4:30
| title6          = Always Off-Line
| length6        = 3:54
| title7          = Pico
| length7        = 00:32
| title8          = Don't Ask Me
| length8        = 4:27
}}
[[File:Rosegold_Back_Cover.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Rosegold]]
=== ''RoseGold'' (2021) ===
{{Track listing
| title1          = Self-Immolate
| length1        = 7:13
| title2          = Covet Me
| length2        = 3:12
| title3          = Not Your Girl
| length3        = 3:01
| title4          = Honeysuckle
| length4        = 3:42
| title5          = Violent Delights
| length5        = 4:31
| title6          = Me 'n' You
| length6        = 2:15
| title7          = Rosegold
| length7        = 3:53
| note3          = 2021 single
| title8          = Dedication (tell me u love me)
| length8        = 2:34
| title9          = Platonic Love
| length9        = 2:48
| title10          = Silver Medal Club (Always Second Best)
| length10        = 1:58
}}

Latest revision as of 22:29, 22 July 2024

Rockstar
Emmaline Trenton AKA Rockstar
Author /u/Skelitinor
Civilian name Emmaline Trenton
Alignment Hero
Affiliation Noncanon (Devilfish)
PRT Classification Tinker/Master
Born (2004-03-05) March 5, 2004 (age 20)
Los Angeles, California
Status Noncanon


For the original Rockstar submission, see Rockstar/old

Rockstar hails from Los Angeles, California. She was originally a member of the Wards team there following her incredibly public trigger event. She’s released most of her music during her time in Los Angeles. After a few years she was quietly transferred to Devilfish’s Wards program with a goal of “bringing more life into a quiet PRT branch.”

Rumors of her engaging in manipulative behavior of other PRT parahumans and civilians is completely unfounded, and slander. Following a period of time where she lived and worked in Devilfish, MN, Emmaline was involved in a tinkertech-related accident that saw her disappearing from the public eye in order to recuperate from injuries that she had sustained.

Any rumors of a mental breakdown are also completely unfounded, and simply tabloid-talk. After a few quiet months where Emmaline stayed out of the limelight, she turned 18, joined the Protectorate outright, and went on a World Tour for her latest album, Rosegold.

Following her World Tour, Emma returned to Devilfish. Rockstar belongs to Masquerade Entertainment Group, a label that has worked with her, the PRT, and other parahumans in the past.

Quite a lot of Emmaline’s public life is known due to tabloids, reporters, and interviews that she’s done. Emmaline has toured most of Europe and North America, and has very publicly met many of the high-ranking capes in the Protectorate as well as their foreign counterparts. She’s been one of the PRT’s media darlings since her debut, and has had the blessing of both the PRT media team, and from her agency. It’s incredibly easy to find photography, tabloids, magazines, interviews, fanfiction, conspiracy videos, and all sorts of media relating both to Rockstar and Emmaline Trenton.

For an intermediate period of time she dated Isaac Romero- another singer/songwriter- who passed away due to a likely self-inflicted drug overdose. Rumors surrounding this are all over the place, with some suggesting that she had a part to play in his death. Regardless of what one is looking for, nearly all of her private life is public and there’s very little that isn’t known about her. (Excepting some of the more nebulous details, specifications about her power, and PRT coverups.)

Rockstar/Emmaline’s personal life is, as such, constantly mired in rumors, tabloid assumptions, online chat threads, and much, much more.


Character Sheet

Appearance

It's Emma's world. You're just living in it.

Emmaline has changed and grown since her time in the Wards and the Protectorate, and her style has changed to match. She stands at 5’5” and is typically seen in either ostentatious outfits, haute couture, or expensive streetwear. Her hair is nearly always dyed in bright colors (typically light purples), her makeup is always immaculate, and she often preens. As you’d expect, Emmaline is pretty enough to star on the cover of magazines, fashion shoots, and other things that commodify her image. When trying to go low-profile or otherwise not draw as much attention to herself, she typically wears baggy pants, hoodies, and the like. Yet, Emmaline is a prima-donna popstar with an aesthetic to maintain. Interrupt her routine at your own risk.

Equipment and Resources

Wealth Level: 6

Tinkertech gear that she takes into the field, in addition to the standard slew of equipment that the PRT outfits the heroes with. Handcuffs, zipties, pepper-spray, SWORDFISH-approved communications relay, and the like. The only time when she is not wearing some sort of tinkertech protection is when she is ordered to go without, and she becomes skittish and standoffish without some sort of Master/Stranger protection on her. As she’s employed Master/Stranger gear in the past, she understands how subtle and ruthless it can be.

Tinkertech

Newly Updated Tech

Skills and Specializations

Rockstar's power gives her an innate understanding of all musical instruments, musical composition, music theory, and vocal ability. She intuitively understands anything to assist her in these goals. Furthermore, she’s a skilled programmer and computer expert, as a vast amount of her tinkertech requires incredibly complex code. Rockstar does take physical combative lessons in order to not always rely on her tech and to protect herself, but that’s a last resort due to her stature and her inexperience. Some of her hobbies include fashion design, modeling, interior decorating, and trying to improve her brand. Due to having been basically raised by PR agents and media departments, she’s good with people- even if it’s all superficial. Emmaline can manage herself and her business quite well, as long as it’s some way related to her stardom.

Mentality

To put it simply, Emmaline is a psychologically troubled individual. Her power and shard have influenced her over the years as she’s tapped into her power, and her mental state has changed to reflect that. Emmaline is paranoid, insecure, manic, and hyper-narcissistic. She desperately seeks attention, validation, affection, and love, but immediately disdains those who give her the attention she’s looking for. Inversely, she actively dislikes those who don’t pay attention to her, or otherwise don’t act like an adoring fan should. Emmaline is incredibly used to getting whatever she wants, being pampered, and generally being regarded as the center of attention. When this is not true, she’ll quietly instigate drama, or otherwise create a situation where she’s back in the starlight. As a result of being both a self-claimed popstar and a cape without a secret identity, Emmaline typically doesn’t allow people to get too close to the “real” her. However, even she doesn’t quite understand what the “real” her is. Emmaline doesn’t fully understand her own person-hood at times, and often just sees herself as the media that she’s featured in. She’s trying her best to work on some of these issues- if only out of fear that SWORDFISH will disappear her if she gets too unstable. Due to her breakdown following a piece of prototype tinkertech literally exploding in her face, Emmaline was ordered to attend mandatory therapy and take several medications to manage her mental issues. She attends her therapy sessions with disgust, and only half the time ‘forgets’ to take her medicine. Yet, she is still attempting to “be a better person,” if only for the fear that SWORDFISH, her label, or the PRT will drop her completely if she fails to comply. Additionally, she is incredibly paranoid of data breaches, Master/Stranger effects, and surveillance. As a surveillance-related cape herself, she fully knows what these powers are capable of due to utilizing some of their ill effects herself in the past. Due to additional side-effects of her powers, Emmaline wants to know and understand everything about everybody. She yearns to know rumors, gossip, personal information, and every other shred of data she can get about people. Unfortunately, she’s unable to bring herself to just ask for this information or go through small talk or the typical normal human social cues. As such, she employs roundabout means to get this info.

Power

Trigger Type: Natural Single.

Rockstar is a sound-specialty tinker with a subdiscipline/parallel focus in Master/Stranger effects. Her power actively wants her to create surveillance-related technology, Master people, create Stranger effects, and store that data in massive repositories for further use and exploitation. While she is able to create technology that doesn’t require Master/Stranger effects or a surveillance aspect due to how wide and general her tinker specialty is, the more she leans into Master/Stranger effects, surveillance, or both- the stronger, more capable, and just plain better the resulting piece of equipment will be. Through the technology that Rockstar creates, she’s able to manipulate sound, wavelengths, acoustic effects, and a startling amount of esoteric examples.

Backstory

Emmaline has had a troubled past, and her experiences have not helped her to become more of a stable person. She has a horrible relationship with her parents and has completely blocked them out of her life, placing all of the blame of her trigger event on them. Due to her public trigger event and the damage that she caused due to malfunctioning tinkertech, Emma was more or less forced into the Wards program, something that she’s still resentful of to this day. Her trigger event, explained more [here], warped her, and was compounded on by how commercialized her adolescent period was. While a Ward in Los Angeles, Emma experimented with tinkertech that startled, scared, or otherwise discomforted those around her. After an unspecified incident that was handled internally and subsequently redacted, Emma was transferred to a smaller PRT branch with the hope that she would “cool off” and have less access to some of the vices that big city life offered her at the time. There was the hope that another Los Angeles incident wouldn’t occur again. Unfortunately, events during her tenure as a Devilfish ward did indeed see another incident happening, and Emmaline stayed several months in a psychiatric care facility. Following these months, Emma was unceremoniously sent on her world tour- both to get her away from Devilfish and additionally to give her some sort of outlet to force her efforts into. While she was away, she was completely cut off from the Devilfish PRT proper, reporting to the PRT HQ and the PRT media department in lieu of the Devilfish chain of command or another authority structure. During her World Tour, she met up with or visited numerous PRT and non-PRT capes throughout her tour destinations, rapidly boosting her already-substantial fame. Briefly detained in Germany due to a riot at one of her shows, she paid her bail and spent the rest of her tour on her best behavior. It’s theorized that her stint with The Law was a PR media stunt to draw even more eyes towards her. When back in the United States, she additionally performed a pop-up show in Los Vegas between scheduled tour dates. Once all of her tour had been completed, she returned to Devilfish. While away, she made no particular effort to keep in touch with anyone, nor did she keep a finger on the pulse of what’s going on in Devilfish. Emmaline had made great strides to work with her handlers, debrief properly, and be in no way obstinate or a hindrance to the program. She’s back now, and ready to get things back to how they were- or better.

Discography

Damage Control (2019)

No.TitleLength
1."Unsanctioned Chatter"3:19
2."Control"4:18
3."What's Mathrock?"2:32
4."Bandolier"3:20
5."Open Song"2:43
6."Always Off"3:52
7."June Gloom"4:31
8."Never Too Late"4:41

NewGame+ (2020)

No.TitleLength
1."Back On My B.S"4:53
2."Down, Not Out" (2020 single)3:55
3."Ballad Four"3:01
4."Aurora"4:06
5."Fangs"4:30
6."Always Off-Line"3:54
7."Pico"00:32
8."Don't Ask Me"4:27
Rosegold

RoseGold (2021)

No.TitleLength
1."Self-Immolate"7:13
2."Covet Me"3:12
3."Not Your Girl" (2021 single)3:01
4."Honeysuckle"3:42
5."Violent Delights"4:31
6."Me 'n' You"2:15
7."Rosegold"3:53
8."Dedication (tell me u love me)"2:34
9."Platonic Love"2:48
10."Silver Medal Club (Always Second Best)"1:58
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