Gwen Williams

Gwen Williams is a brilliant engineer currently on the 'run' from the Atlas Coalition alongside Dr Santiago Alejandro and their other co-workers. She is currently paralysed from the waist down due to horrific spinal injuries, and her left arm also has severe movement issues due to the same injury.

She is rumored to be hiding with the Adamantine Guard alongside the other individuals involved in Dr Alejandro's Operation Lightswitch, a plan he designed to avenge her injury due to the indifference of Robert Wigram.

Gwen is currently in a relationship with her former boss Dr Santiago Alejandro.

History
Gwen Williams was born to Renee Williams and Thomas Richards, although her father never knew of her existence until she was 16 years old.

She grew up in Queens and attended a public school there. Despite her failing many classes, her Grade 8 science teacher saw talent in her that no-one else apparently could. By the time she was 16, she won a state-wide competition organised by wealthy businessman Thomas Richards, then the CEO of a large shipping company. Part of the prize was a holiday for Gwen and her close family at the Richards' estate on the coast of Brazil. While Renee Williams did not remember Thomas Richards, he remembered her. This led to an awkward situation where he secretly got his butler to run a paternity test on Gwen's DNA, as well as his later confession to Gwen, Renee and his wife and two children.

Luckily, all ended well and Gwen was able to access more utilities through her newfound family connections. She was able to secure education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and quickly gained a degree in Engineering. She continued to study, eventually receiving her Master's Degree in the same field. She branched out, studying human biology and robotics to put her on the bleeding edge of Augmentation development.

Alejandro Technologies Inc
Gwen met Dr Alejandro in late 2036 at a party held by her father. The two of them barely interacted past basic introductions, but Dr Alejandro's interest was piqued when she mentioned her work on cybernetics. He later researched her work and was substantially impressed, leading him to extend an offer of employment.

She would accept the offer, suspending her education and her current work on her Doctorate at the young age of 23 to go work for Alejandro Technologies Inc. It would cost her everything.

Santiago Alejandro
While working together on the Metaenium Project, Gwen and Dr Alejandro began dating each other. It began with something as simple as the two of them staying in late at the laboratory to finish work on the alloy testing. After a few days of the same process, they began to just stay the night at the lab. After a week straight of work, Dr Alejandro asked her out to dinner.

By the time they finally perfected Metaenium, their status as a couple was a badly kept secret in the workplace. They later gave up on hiding it.

MA2 Armour Disaster
"'This armour is my mistake, I'm not robbing your kids of a father just because some rich bastard wants to see it break stuff. It'll be fine, ok? I'll go out, show off the suit and we can use the data to calibrate the suit later.' -Gwen Williams to Tyson Collins, the test pilot for the MA2 Armour."Gwen Williams was initially working on cybernetics, but when Dr Alejandro asked her to take on the MA2 armour project she was completely willing to help out. Despite her genius, she struggled in the task of stabilizing the armour's movement. It was simply too violent. The armour was controlled via body movements, but it amplified the user's strength to an extreme degree. Gwen had not managed to perfect the armour by the time Robert Wigram had demanded a demonstration. Wigram had left Gwen with barely veiled threats against Dr Alejandro if she were unable to provide a demonstration of the armour. Gwen had nearly finished the armour by the time the demonstration deadline arrived, and she decided that she was going to have to risk testing the armour before it was safe. She stopped the usual test pilot, Tyson Collins, from being the one to try out the armour as she knew there was a decent chance that it could hurt or kill him.

Instead, she decided to risk her own life in testing the armour. She donned the MA2, walked out into the testing area, and met her fate.

Whilst the armour was manageable in the first few tasks, there was a critical flaw in the torso section of the armour. When Wigram asked Gwen to twist her body in the armour, it snapped 180 degrees and shattered her spine and left shoulder.

Robert Wigram was impressed with the progress on the MA2, and invested further into the company.

Recovery
"'I'll be satisfied when I can walk up to Wigram, look him in the eyes and snap his neck with my left arm.' -Gwen, upon regaining consciousness fully and talking to Santiago several days after the accident."Gwen was paralyzed from the waist down, and her left arm was left all but useless. She was in a private hospital for nearly half a year, only being released due to Dr Alejandro's help in installing cybernetics to assist her movement.

The first step was removing her left arm, which had begun to wither and was not salvageable. She replaced it with a Metaenium arm of her own design. She has currently been working on a way to restore power to her lower body, and the Adamantine Guard has been key in helping her acquire the materials to do so. However, as of 2039, she is still wheelchair-bound.

Designs
Gwen has been crucial in nearly all cybernetic breakthroughs in the late 2030s, as well as her designs being a major stepping stone in Power Armour development.