FFBE Contest Entry 1: SETSO

Obsessed with mythical creatures and old lore, Jessa was considered to be an outcast by her fellow scientists of Kolobos.  While they toiled away, she was developing a way to trace the energy of what she believed were long dormant lifeforms from a past time.  It wasn’t until Rain and his crew began to awaken and recruit the espers that Jessa was able to verify their life forces.  With a trail to follow, she tracked the party from shrine to shrine, never actually arriving in time to witness the espers in person but still in time to collect evidence of their existence: a strand of Siren’s hair, an ice shard from Shiva that refused to melt, and so on.  In time, Jessa possessed remnants of each of the espers, and she realized that those remnants held incredible power.  Wanting to tap into that power, she set out to create a way to infuse her own genetic makeup the abilities of the espers.  The final result was various versions of what she called “esper serum.” Referring to herself as Synthetic Esper Test Subject One (SETSO), she used the serum on herself without a second thought.  While it granted her the abilities that had sought after, the espers’ power was so strong that it began to tear her body apart at the molecular level.  SETSO was able to develop a “cellular adhesion formula” to hold herself together, but she now requires a constant feed of it to avoid a rather agonizing death.  She theorized that her condition was due to a flaw in the esper serum, and that with purer samples she could make a perfect serum to grant her omnipotence.  With that thought in mind, she has renewed her search to catch up with the ones who command the espers... Rain and his party.

TRUST MASTER