User:Joshuakorolenko/Chronicles/Tina Bui

Tina Bui
Portrayed by	Devon Aoki
First appearance	Welcome To Primatech
In-story stats
Known ability	Enhanced Strength
Gender
Age	25
Date of birth	14/12/1982
Place of birth	Hong Kong, China
Home	Hong Kong, China Formerly New York, NY
Occupation	Company Agent (Former)
Parent	Unnamed Mother Unnamed Father
Other relatives	Cousin: Zahn Hahn

Tina Bui was a Company Agent who was one of Angela Petrelli's right-hand agents. She helped train new recruits but was fired following Primatech's destruction. She is an evolved human with the ability to exert greater than normal strength in her physical attributes.

About

Tina was born in China, where she was shunned by her parents, who preferred to dote on her above average cousin, Zahn Hahn, who they were keeping as a ward. Never feeling fully at home, Tina was attacked during a home invasion and manifested her ability soon after that. She was considered the best of the best as a Company Agent but stepped down to train new recruits following a mission in Cairo.

Tina is a loyal person who strives to believe the best in people. Her strength, both inside and out, is matched by nearly no one and she wishes to one day return home to form a new relationship with her parents.

Character History

Season One History

Tina begins trainined new recruits Joshua Lincoln and Ethan Campbell. While training them, Tina tries to teach the guys about how dangerous it is being out in the field. When Ethan fails her test, she throws him across the room as a punishment. After two villains are spotted in Central Park, Tina and her old friend Tyson Russel lead the two new recruits on a mission to capture them. Tina searches with her old partner but is no match for Nicholas Sawe, who nearly kills her.

After Angela is palced in a coma, Tina is put in charge of Primatech and its operations. She starts her command by sending Tyson, Ethan and Elisa on a mission to rescue The Seer, who has been captured by Pinehearst. While her operatives are on this mission, Tina learns about the final mission that Angela issued, which involved Level 5 escapee Emily Rose. Tina quickly rallies some troops and tries to save Joshua from Emily's wrath, but she is unable to as Emily uses her power to kill her.

Through Joshua's coaching, Emily is able to revive Tina, who is subsequently knocked out by Tyson's tazer. When Tina awakens, she tries to kill Emily but fails, as Emily destroys herself. Tina returns to Primatech with her friends and is fired by Angela. After completing one final mission for her, Tina leaves Angela and catches up with Joshua. She advises him to return home like she is and she then drives to the airport.

Side Story: Sandman Part 2

Agent Ryland is talking to his partner about their suspections on a man dumped in the desert being correct. Tina emerges from the other room visibly happy at this news.

Side Story: Sandman Part 3

Tina and her partner, Ryland, search through Amid's home. Tina uncovers the doorway leading to Amid's "storage room", where the rotting corpses of eight agents are found. Deducing that Zara will be his next victim, Tina and Ryland go to Zara's house and try to warn her. While Ryland explains the situation, Tina keeps an eye out for any sight of Amid.

After Ryland explains everything to Zara, Tina assumes that Mr Vahava is the next target. As they prepare to leave to rescue him, an enormous sandstorm begins to rush towards them.

Side Story: Sandman Part 4

Tina yells for everyone to hit the floor as the sandstorm rushes towards the house. The windows smash apart and Amid materializes, demanding that Zara pay for what happened to him. Tina tries to use her strength to stop him but fails as he is able to avoid being hurt by using his power. He flings Tina through a wall and Zara tries to drag her away. When Ryland dies, Tina screams in sadness and Zara is forced to drag her from the house.

The two girls go to a diner and learn that many people died because of Amid. As Tina cries about Ryland, Zara notices the sand outside rise into the air. When Amid appears, Tina tries to fight him to avenge her partner but once again she is unable to land a punch. Zara screams that she never wanted to hurt Amid, which makes him decide to leave them alone for the time being. Tina and Zara run through the city and after coming up with a plan to use Mike’s old planes, they head out of town.

Tina flies the plane high into the air and begins to head towards America. The plane is suddenly pushed back into the desert by a new sandstorm, and Tina yells for Zara to hold on. Zara refuses to listen and calls Tina a hero before she leaps from the plane, giving her life to Amid. Tina regains control of the flight and returns home. Sometime later, she resigns from a field agent and becomes a trainer instead.

Hunt, Catch, Crash

Now living in China, Tina answers the front door and bear hugs her old friend Tyson. She is thrilled to see him but becomes confused when another woman, Olivia, enters the house. Olivia comments that Tina has a nice home and Tina asks who the woman is. Tyson explains that she is his fiancee. Tina is shocked and looks a little upset but soon turns to catching up with her friend. Tyson asks for a drink and so Tina goes to the liquor cabinet. Through the reflection, she sees that Olivia is pulling out a gun, which Tyson quickly hides. Tina goes into the kitchen and then returns with a glass, which she hurls at Olivia. She tries to escape but is captured by a group of government agents.

Later, while being loaded onto Flight 195, Tina's heart rate rises to an extremely high rate and Danko's analyst notes that she is incredibly angry.

After The Fall

Tina runs from the crashed plane and into an open field. Hot on her trail are Tyson, Olivia and an entire squad of armed agents. Olivia catches up to her so Tina grabs her arm and throws her into the squad. Tyson comes closer but Tina warns him that she will do more damage to him because he hurt her. He comes closer but Tina can not bring herself to harm him, so she also throws him into his team. She runs deep into the bush, escaping from the agents. Later, Tina exits a cabin in a fresh change of clothes and with a newly stolen phone. The phone gets a message and Tina reads it. It says: VIVA LA LIBERTAD! REBEL AND BE SAVED!

Assignment Tracker Page

As a young girl, Tina was usually ignored as her parents' attention was focused on the young Zahn Hahn, Tina's cousin who had become their ward following her parents' death. Zahn was consistantly better at everything Tina did, pleasing Tina's parents to such an extent that Tina was seemingly forgotten. One evening, while Mr and Mrs Bui were away at a dinner, theives broke into the house to steal the valuable diamonds that Mr Bui and his company held. Tina was shot and Zahn survived without a scratch. Following that night, Tina discovered that she was much stronger than other people her age. Further testing of her power made her realise that she was stronger than everybody. She contacted a doctor, who alerted The Company. A Bag and Tag was initiated and Tina was monitored for four years before a recruitment process was ordered. Tina became an agent to the highest class and currently holds the record for the fastest completion of the training simulation. Her ability, matched with her skill in martial arts makes her one of the best agents in The Company's history. Out of all of Tina's missions, only one target has ever escaped her grasp. Nicknamed the "Sandman", a special with the ability to control sand managed to avoid Tina's capture during a mission in Cairo.

After long years of bagging and tagging, Tina put in her resignation but was instead reassigned to training new recruits, a job which she found personally rewarding.

The file also contains a psychological profile:

Tina's initial jealousy towards other women comes from her childhood problems with her cousin/"sister" Zahn Hahn. However, Tina's control over her mental state and her determination to remain kind and caring has managed to drive these jealous qualities away, at least for now.

Evolved Human Abilities

Tina possesses greater physical strength, stamina, agility and endurance than normal human beings. She has shown that she has enough strength to knock out a very large, muscular man with a single kick as well as lift a man bigger then her above her head and throw him several metres across the room.

According to her assignment tracker, Tina's biological is 97, her cerebral is 52, her elemental is 20 and her temporal/spatial is 13. Tina's control index is 82%.

See Also

• To see a future version of Tina Bui, click here.
• To see an episode by episode recount of Tina's history, see here.