Elizabeth Roxanne Markona

The Ultimate "Merry Sue" Character

Elizabeth Roxanne Markona, also known as Beth or ERMa, is a character who has been thrown into the maelstrom of the Omniverse, doomed to wander forever from one World to another, never controling her Curse, and never going home.

She is a psionic, a mathematician and geometer, and whatever she needs to be to get by. She's been a superhero, a sidekick, an expert, a support staffer, an investigator, a programmer, a lab assistant, a detective, a philanthropist, a professor, an entertainer, a cook, a janitor, and a god.
She is (as far as I know) always a good guy, at least in her eyes. She never takes lives, except her own. She claims to be far from supernatural, but is very confused when someone accuses her of being "mortal."

Her primary non-psionic talent is Mathematics. She is a lightning calculator, able to solve complex equations rapidly and creatively, but, then, she has trouble reducing the world to equations. She has made it a point to be fluent in multi-dimensional geometry, as well as quantum mechanics. In any given era or planet she is quite likely to know all the top people in those fields, or at least who they are. She is occasionally studied up enough on astrogation that she can look at the sky and quickly determine where in the galaxy she is and sometimes even when.

Her primary psionic talent is the Tesser Door, a doorway between one place and another that doesn't pass through the intervening space or time. Her doors are described in full here, but they can transport a person beyond a wall or across the galaxies. She can door someone into next week or a million years ago. In certain cases, she can even use them to travel from one universe to the next.

The Tesser Door is also her Curse, for she cannot control it entirely. It is only rarely that she can travel Continuity, or even local multiverses, on purpose. Most often, it is her subconscious that finds a new world to explore, and activates the Door. She wakes up in odd places far too often for her liking.

Each Universe, or Multiverse, or Ficton, or Realm of Shadows has its own rules, its own physics, or even metaphysics. The only constants she has found so far are: everyplace her Door takes her, her Door can take her (duh); and she can exist, in some form, in every place she has been conscious. Sometimes her Door only serves to get her there and out again. Sometimes she arrives and her current body cannot even live in the place she visits and she is reduced to a ghost. Some places she is an exploding dynamo of psionic talent, others she is devoid of the slightest hint of power, and still others she can regain all her abilities, but only after years of studying.

But enough generalities. You probably want to know something more about her History, or her Talents, or how to use her in a story or game of your own, or her adventures as recorded so far.