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: ''For the original Rockstar submission, see [[Rockstar/old]]''
: ''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.” 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.
 
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.
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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.
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. 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
Wealth Level: 6
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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 personhood 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.
<!-- self-explanatory -->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.
 
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.


==Discography==
==Discography==
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| title8          = Don't Ask Me
| title8          = Don't Ask Me
| length8        = 4:27
| length8        = 4:27
}}
=== ''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
}}
}}

Revision as of 07:19, 2 September 2022

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


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

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. 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

Original Tinkertech

High-Threat Equipment and Concert Gear

Second Round of Tinkertech

Noise Control

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 personhood 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 (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