Ava Altrus

Ava Altrus, affective alias Stopwatch, is the protagonist of Heroes Will Fall - Axis and a major hero in Heroes Will Fall and Heroes Will Fall - Atlas. She is a part of the 3rd generation of Branch 0 heroes along with Zirconia and Polypheme.

Appearance
Ava is a lithe, athletic woman standing at around 5'5" (165cm) with back-length dyed white hair, sometimes purple, with wide hips and a heart-shaped face and well-taken care of skin. She has yellow eyes that are known to dart from place to place while she's not moving. She is fond of tattoos, having covered the dorsum of her hand in various 24-hour analog clocks depicting specific times. Ava refuses to discuss the tattoos with anybody except for a select few people. There are also various clock tattoos on her body, with a 12-hour clock striking 6:00 over her navel and another 12-hour clock depicting 3:45 on her back.

As Stopwatch, she wears a bodysuit with stripes of white LEDs and faint imprints of clocks, notably around her waist and buttocks. She generally leaves the front of the bodysuit unzipped to the middle of her chest. Utilities on her belt include a military-grade flashlight that doubles as a baton, a solution of 1:10,000 epinephrine, a notepad and a holster for a firearm. Her boots are white, friction-proof on the soles and contain compartments to carry an ultra-sharp paring knife.

Personality
Heroes Will Fall - Atlas

A workaholic with no social life including hanging out with heroes from various branches, Ava is known to more people by Stopwatch than her real name, even within the organization. She has a tendency to skip social events unless they involve talking about heroics, and tries to keep the topic centered around such. Ava is aggressively Type A and requires perfect organization, structure; she desperately loathes the current muddle that is regularly found in the hero scene. She has a fondness for strong and unique powers, preferring things that are esoteric or hard to understand due to them giving her something to focus on.

Heroes Will Fall - Axis

Heroes Will Fall

Powers & Abilities
Natural Abilities
 * Temporal Entanglement: Ava is capable of influencing the nature of time in her localized vicinity and, through relative means, an area large enough up to and including the entire universe. She commonly applies this ability by granting herself a type of relative speed boost, where her body and several meters underneath her feet exists in a superimposed time field that is accelerated. Through these means, she can easily maneuver around hazards, leap great distances without the pull of gravity determining what to do with her, and defeat several opponents in rapid succession. Her strikes are superhumanly enhanced due to relative speed, allowing her to perform feats such as topple fully grown men simply by slashing them with a paring knife.
 * Temporal Backtrack: When marking out a specified perimeter with her power, Ava can reverse the flow of time relative to the surrounding area and undo damage, destruction, or even construction. She can slow the rate of rapid gangrenous infection, slow the spilling of blood so long as it is properly bandaged and contained, and even re-assemble an exploded grenade long enough to reinsert the pin. This power takes a great deal of calculation on Ava's part, as she needs to determine the local flow of time based on several factors, including the presence of nearby superhumans, Earth's gravity, the position of the sun and the moon, and the gravitational influence of the Milky Way itself.
 * Temporal Damper: Ava can change the local flow of time by making physical contact with an object. Similar material in contact with the start point can be slowed to a crawl, including water, which can be used to make an improvised shield. The further away from Ava a material is, the closer to normal time it flows. This ability also fails to preserve complex structures, e.g. bullets may be frozen mid-air with a touch, but attempting the same with a car may only freeze the body, leaving the chassis and engine to cause massive internal damage to the vehicle. While affected by her power, the objects are perfectly inelastic, meaning there is no risk of bullet ricochet unless the bullet itself had an effect.

Other

 * Though her eating disorder is never specified, it is likely ARFID due to her tendency to eat only one type of food at a time, eat a limited amount, and refuse to eat further if she takes something that she does not like in the moment. Her eating habits are a typical criticism from Jeremy Rinne.
 * Ava's power closely mimics the spatiotemporal abilities that occur in greater frequency among the people from the Mountains, notably among the scholars, strategists, and philosophers.
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