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xxxxxFrances Marina Lucas was born and raised in suburban Cleveland, technically in Bedford. Her childhood was not especially remarkable. She was never the most popular kid in class, nor was she the bottom of the social totem pole. She was the kid that flew under the radar. She always got good grades, though she often got in trouble for talking and acting out a bit. All in all, it was something of the All American midwest experience.
xxxxxAs a teenager, things took a turn for the strange. Once age 13 happened, Fran (her preferred nickname at the time,) found music. She started off with Nirvana and everything blossomed from there. She was soon ravenously taking in punk rock music of all stripes. Somewhere in the teenage search for identity, Fran decided she was going to be the Punk Rock Kid at her school. Around that time, there were other changes taking place in her life. Fran found herself waking up at night with cramps in her limbs, muscles knotting up and aching terribly. Her parents, of course, attributed them to growing pains. It wasn't until one morning when Fran woke up and accidentally pulled the bathroom door off of it's hinges, then yanked the handle off of the sink that it became apparent to her that she wasn't going through the typical aches of puberty.
xxxxxHer parents blamed the breakage on clumsiness and on termites and never said much about it, a bad sink, a sleepy teenager. Fran, however, found that off and on over the next few weeks, she would go to do something and apply far, far too much force to it. The incidents became more and more frequent as a potential buried inside of her made itself manifest. Instead of the Punk Rock Girl, she started getting a reputation as the clumsy girl, thanks to her habit of breaking things around school. Fran made a point of trying to conceal the strange strength she was finding herself burdened with, while working intently on figuring out how not to squeeze all of the toothpaste out of the tube in one go.
xxxxxThe strength continued to grow over several months and eventually stopped fading out entirely, as the mutant muscular development completed it's manifestation. Fran found herself rather excited to have a secret. Not just some little goofy thing to keep from people, but an honest to goodness serious secret. She had no idea what people would do if they found out she could lift a car off of it's front wheels without breaking a sweat, but her imagination told her it wouldn't be good. Instead, she focused on schoolwork and became a bit more introverted. All the better not to let anyone in on her secret.
xxxxxUp through school and into college, she started calling herself Frank instead of Fran, since Fran sounded frumpy to her. She also found a keen interest in computers and programming. What had been a hobby in high school to keep to herself blossomed into a career path. Soon out of college with a computer science degree, she found herself moving to California to work in the Silicon Valley. She found that, with her increasingly unorthodox taste in fashion and her desire to keep her mutant secret to herself, working overnight as a systems administrator and network operations technician suited her just fine. It meant no one could give her any guff over her hair and if she ever had a slip and yanked the door off the refrigerator at work, no one would be around to see it.
xxxxxRecently, a job offer has brought Frank to New York, with an offer of great pay and good benefits to ply her trade for an East Coast company. If there's one place in the world where a punk rock computer nerd who's trying to hide that she's an inhumanly physically strong mutant can get lost in the crowd, it's probably New York City. After all of the mutant activity of the past few years, in a strange way, it seemed like the most logical choice to her.
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xxxxxSuperstrength. There is nothing fancy or flashy about it. Frank is simply exponentially stronger than one would expect for her build and muscle development. She does not often take advantage of this ability, nor has she practiced to a huge degree with it. The majority of her knowledge of her power has been garnered through trial and error, as well as every day life being someone who can lift several times her own weight. Her body is constructed to handle the forces involved, but this confers her no invulnerability or any other classic 'Superman' kind of power.
xxxxxAt peak, through training and conditioning, she could likely lift several tons. Work put in to training would pay off at a dramatically enhanced rate compared to an average person. However, she is currently far below that. Frank is currently strong enough to lift the front end of an average passenger car off of the ground, putting her maximum full lift capacity, currently at roughly 2000 pounds. She could, for example, sling a refrigerator on her shoulder and walk it around. She could not do the same with a pickup truck.
xxxxxHaving extremely dense and superhumanly effective muscles does make for some drawbacks. Apart from the risk of overdoing it and breaking nearly anything she touches, Frank's body has a lot of fuel demand. She normally eats quite a lot more than a person of her size and build would, and if she exerts herself a great deal, her need for more energy will rise propotionately. This would make extended use of her enhanced strength quite a drain, if put in a situation where she could not destroy an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet afterwards.
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