Widowmaker is a human female, 178 cm tall, weighing 73 kg, with long black hair and crimson cybereyes. She usually wears armored clothes of no designer label, unless she's returning from a successful mission, in which case you'll find her in a new outfit. She prefers short skirts and unitards; anything that shows off her chrome cyberlegs. Widowmaker enjoys attracting attention and causing men to stare and women to sniff in disgust. Nothing pleases her more than walking into a very upscale resteraunt dressed in latex and high heels, showing off her cyberware, and generally making a scene. Not that she does this with blithe disregard for the law. Despite her exhibitionist nature, she is a reliable operative, and will not jeopardize mission objectives for a cheap thrill.

Born Sara Reinhart to an upper middle class family in the agricultural heartland of the UCAS, Widowmaker was a tomboy from the start, always dirty, always rambunctious, and more often than not in some sort of trouble. As a child, petty theivery and vandalism is excusable, as a teenager it is not. She might have found herself spending several years in a detention facility had a poor district attorney not owed a friend a favor. In any case, instead of three to five, Widowmaker was seconded into the Lead Haze Tactical Training program.

At first, she approached the regimen with apathy, wordlessly taking the vicious dressing downs of the drill instructors. Then, as the syllabus progressed, she began to realize what an opportunity she had here. After that, it was kitty bar the door. Her academic and practical application scores climbed steadily until she was consistently in the top five percentile of her class. Graduating after two years, she immediately found employment as a site security officer with Minuteman Security. Unfortunately, her old habits began to kick in, and after spending only eighteen months with them, she quit in search of a better deal. That began a series of flirtations with half a dozen other security and paramilitary organizations.

This trend might have continued had not a singular event taken place. Desert War IV. Widowmaker, employed by Apex Force Consultants, was serving as a fireteam leader for one of Blue Team's forward infantry platoons. She and her squad were holding a bridge under surveillance during the last week of hostilities when an small mechanized force from Red Team approached. Ordinarily this would have meant that the infantry force would fade back into the bush and let the armor go by until some heavier support was available. As it were, though, Cavalier Armament Systems needed to demonstrate their new anti-infantry modifications to the popular Devil Rat series of APCs. So as the Blue squad hunkered down in their camoflauged positions, the Red force was given their precise locations and released weapons free.

It would have been a stunning demonstration except for one thing: Widowmaker's squad wasn't exactly where they were supposed to be. They'd moved fifteen meters west to gain a better vantage point on the bridge. As it was, the lead APC rolled right over her position before opening fire. When the dust settled, all three APCs were burning and destroyed, all of Widowmaker's squad was dead or dying, and she herself was lying on top of the third armored vehicle, legs pulped by shrapnel, empty carbine clutched in her hands.

Lying in the hospital, her vitals supported by innumerous machines, she began to contemplate a second career, when she was visited by an individual who offered her a deal: accept the replacement parts he was willing to offer in exchange for exclusive access to her talents. It only took her a moment to accept. That deal took place three years ago, and recently has been renegotiated. Widowmaker is currently a freelance operative, available for the right price, but loyal to none but herself.

Widowmaker is a fiercely competitve woman, and will let nothing stand in her way of accomplishing a mission once she has accepted it. That being said, she is, like all true professionals, very finicky when it comes to taking on missions. She has turned down employers in the past based upon her gut reaction to their offers, and will do so in the future. Once you have secured her initial trust, though, she will more likely than not accept the task at hand.