Character Bio - Tonya Harding (Some Spoilers)

Tonya Harding is a leading protagonist in the series The Sentinels. Her dedication to justice and equality are as unrivaled as her guilt complex, while she's often meant well her efforts sometimes leave drastic impacts on the people around her. As well as her sense of justice is driven by her pride she has also will go to great lengths to hide her secrets.

Born to Patrick and Tera Harding November 4, 1980, Tonya was born with the Reaver gene. Her powers broke free accidentally when she was 16, during school when she accidentally destroyed her locker. She was reported to FBI and taken to Project Purity the very same day.

During the lobotomy, Tonya's vibrational based powers disrupted the laser based process, preventing any damage to her brain, unbeknownst to the operators. This gave her an extreme advantage over her Reaver brethren, who were incapable of complex thought. Sneaking into the databases one night she changed her new given identity of 'Rachel Rowe' from Dickinson, North Dakota back to Tonya Harding of Trenton, New Jersey. Inevitably getting caught in this incident Tonya put on the act of her life convincing the superiors to chalk the behavior up to sleepwalking.

For almost twenty years Tonya was forced to act as a Drone, thoughtlessly obedient. Taught to love and serve her country, a country that despised her kind. When she was 18, it was time for her to join the military with the rest of the Drones. As much as she wanted to light an American Flag on fire and go on the run she knew that being a national fugitive was a dead end. So she endured the atrocities of being a Drone woman in the military among those who saw her as a thoughtless and sexually exploitable object, holding on to her sanity by keeping a secret diary of her thoughts and experiences. However the experience wasn't entirely negative. It forced Tonya to mature and actually understand the value of equality for everyone, it made her into the Justice seeking woman she is today.

From her years in the military she transitioned into the government. She became the founder and leader of The Sentinels, an anti-gang unit in the Blackout sector. It was rare for a Drone to have such a high responsibility but Tonya's superiors agreed she was far beyond exceptional.

Catch more of Tonya in The Sentinels Weekly story series as she leads in the fight against Rufio.