Illness

Illness is one of the Four Agonies of the Mask Makers. "Illness" is a code name. Her real name is unknown. Since infancy, Illness was worshiped as a sacrificial god by a branch of SAMPLE and experienced constant abuse at their hands. She joins the Mask Makers after they annihilated her torturers, and in August 2002 hijacks the cruise liner Exit along with the rest of the Mask Makers. Illness comes across to strangers as an eccentric and childish, but generally friendly, teenager. She is talkative and outspoken about her thoughts and opinions, whether they are positive or negative, and has no reservations about approaching celebrities like Claudia Walken to share them. This is not because she does not worry about how others perceive her, but because she has accepted that everyone will consider her weird no matter what she does. She is described by Claudia as an "honest person". Illness tends to experience emotion in intense but fleeting bouts. She reacts in the moment, without consideration for whether it is appropriate to do so -- and often even before she understands what she is feeling or why.