Editing GWS:Rebecca Achilles (section)

== History ==

Rebecca's childhood was one of privilege.  Her father, [[GWS:Randall Achilles|Randall Achilles]], was a millionaire heir, a race-car driver, world-traveller, trend-setter and adventurer.  Her mother, [[GWS:Sibyll Achilles|Sibyll Achilles]] (nee Sibyll [[GWS:Tenebros Family|Tenebros]]) was an intenationally acclaimed escape artist, a ravishing beauty with a devastating right hook, and elfishly at home in the rebellious social circles of the [[GWS:flappers|flappers]] of her day.

All of that changed with the collapse of the family fortune.  The Achilles family was dangerously overextended when a combination of bad fortune conspired to bring their investments to ruin.  Later investigations even implied (without ever outright saying) that [[GWS:Randall Achilles|Randall]] was engaged in all manner of shady financial dealings.  

The family lost everything.

[[GWS:Randall Achilles|Randall]] and [[GWS:Sibyll Achilles|Sibyll]]'s car went off a sharp turn on the New Jersey Palisades, and into the water below.  Those familiar with [[GWS:Randall Achilles|Randall]]'s driving skills said that it could only be suicide ... that it was too simple a mistake for him to make by accident.

Rebecca ended up in a rapid series of unhappy foster homes (completely unable to cope with her), and then shortly out on the streets.  She worked odd jobs until she found her way to [[GWS:Nate Lockwood|Nate Lockwood]]'s machinist's shop ... from there through a rapid series of promotions on the merit of her ground-breaking (and money-making) inventions for the rapidly expanding [[GWS:Lockwood Industries|Lockwood Industries]] ... and from there to bare scholarship status at [[GWS:Kensington College|Kensington College]], and thence to graduate school.

To be continued ....