Solarguard

No matter what happens, just remember When a superhero shines brightly in the night, never giving up will your love guide you to protect what's important to you. Now, let your light guard against the coming dark!

For you are. . .

Solarguard

"Like my mother before me, I refuse to give up!"

· The Morning Light ·

Identity

Real Name

Audel Huxley

Birthdate

June 20th, 2012

Citizenship

United States

Residence

Paragon City, RI

Occupation

Unemployed

Marital Status

Engaged to Atlas D'Arc

· Known Relatives ·

Em Engel(mother, deceased), Jeremiah Huxley(father, adopted), Luficia(grandmother), Emlyn Engel(great grandfather)

Physical Traits

Species

Homunculus

Sub-Type

Perfected

Ethnicity

Caucasian German

Gender

Female

Apparent Age

24

Height

5'4"

Weight

600+ lbs

Body Type

Peak Human

Hair

Dark Brown

Eyes

Light Blue

Skin

Fair skinned

Backstory

Luficia wasn't satisfied with immortality.

Since the end of the Praetorian War, Emily Engel longed for the normalcy that was denied her many years ago. The Steadfast Pact had disbanded and many of her former comrades have gone their separate ways. Emily raised the boy she took under her wing, Jeremiah, and watched him become a hero just like her.

The thought of watching her son marry, have children and grow old didn't bring her joy but despair. Emily couldn't bare the thought of burying her own son and then her grandchildren, watching whole generations come and go like fine sand. She would face stagnation while life would go on without her.

If she could not stand being immortal then she would simply undo it through the creation of a homunculus. In order to create a homunculus, one must wield the hands of god to create life through means mankind was not meant to do. Seiken warned her about the death of her body, soul and ego in performing this ritual.

Emily understood and chose to do it anyway. Jeremiah tried to stop her but he couldn't convince her out of it. All he could do was help her in order to make sure MAGI didn't discover the project or witness it go horribly wrong.

Then, on June 20th, 2012 at the height of the summer solstice at 7:09 PM, the ritual was performed with the summon with the mix of Greek and Nordic prayer. Seiken and Emily's soul was ripped apart, formed metrically into a new artificial soul and placed into Seiken's former gem. Meanwhile, Emily's body was dissolved into its basic components, reforming into that of a twelve year old little girl.

The prayers were meant to rip both demonic and incarnate out of the equation. While successfully purging the demonic aspect out of her, the Well of the Furies would not be denied. It sensed something within the new birth and instead blessed the homunculus with a mantle on creation.

The twelve year old couldn't comprehend such power and became the sun itself, screaming loudly with emotions rushing through her. All it could was a whisper of her own voice in the back of her mind, reassuring her;

‘Everything’s going to be okay. You are loved and you are safe.’

The power fizzled out and Jeremiah scooped the unconscious child into his arms. It was that day that Emily's life came into an end so that a new life, born out of love and wishes from a Praetorian War vet, could rise in her place. There was only one name Emily saw fit to name the child.

Audel.

After the Ritual...

Jeremiah chose to adopt Audel and had papers forged to look as if she were always his child. There were concerns considering on adoption, Jeremiah was 25 years old but he ignored them. Audel adjusted to her new life, body and mind adapting to that of a typical twelve year old girl. Her mother's mistake in the ritual grew apparent from the child's unusual physical strength and durability with her unusual weight. Her solar power began to manifest with puberty and it only made things worse.

He couldn't allow people to test his daughter or else the lie would expose everything. He couldn't let her inherit the Engel Estate or allow the testing to have her go to a specialized meta school, revealing her homunculus nature. Audel was forced to attend to a normal school in Kings Row and her power only isolated her from everyone.

It only brought despair to the child.

Jeremiah did everything he could and even begged Luficia's former nemesis, Dominatriea, to help him as he had no one else to turn to. She guided him and through Jeremiah, Audel learned to control her power better and that it wasn't all scary. Her mood improved and it got even better when two kids befriended her; May Carter and Reed Davis.

Although she couldn't participate in any sports, May got Audel into reading novels and into fashion. Reed showed her other hobbies she could do that didn't involve using her physical power. The trio became inseparable and it was some of the best years of Audel's life.

Then, at the age of thirteen, she saw May and Reed getting kidnapped by Vahizlok. Even though Audel was told to call the police in situations like this, it was deserted and there was no one else around. She followed them into the sewers and found other people held hostage and being prepared to be butchered up. Audel couldn't stand the thought of her losing her two only friends as well as watching innocent people die.

It was the first time Audel used her power against someone else and it didn't take long for her to subdue the Vahzilok. Untying everyone, Audel was able to guide everyone out of the sewers and back to the streets where police were waiting for them. Audel wasn't scolded for using her power but she was praised for it.

Ever since then, it became routine. Reed would have a silly scheme and drag May along with it. Without fail, either the Skulls, Vahzilock, Trolls, Hellions or some other gang would get involved and May would get kidnapped. She'd send a text through her flip phone to Audel and she'd swoop in, save the day and stop whatever plot was in the process. One time, there was even a Nemesis plot involved and that pushed Audel to her limits.

When they graduated high school, the trio enrolled into the local Paragon City University but Audel couldn't deny the urge to use her power for something greater; to protect people. She didn't want to react all the time but to be part of a new generation of change. For all the years she's guarded Kings Row and her friends from harm, she wanted to do a bit more.

Her father was hesitant about it but he gave his blessing. While May and Reed were all for it, they knew they couldn't interact too much with Audel or else risk getting captured on a larger scale. Jeremiah warned them of the harsh reality of being a hero; it tests everything about you and you won't always be able to save the day. There will also be monsters more than willing to hurt the people who love you in order to get to you.

Audel couldn't risk that.

She would let herself become another kind of guardian; the one that would guard against the darkness. She didn't know what kind of hero she'd be but she knew what hero name that was fitting for her.

Solarguard

Today

Since becoming Solarguard in 2021, the path of a hero hadn't always been easy.

Originally joining the New Defenders, she befriended and fought alongside Anomalie, Sun-Gun, Ultrali, Direct Control, Ghost Eyes and many others. While she enjoyed fighting to protect the city from Lukas Kaiser and the Shadow Corps, it led her wanting to do a lot more. She left the New Defenders in pursuit of reviving the Steadfast Pact but a branch of Arachnos sought value in her.

Being chased for over a year to study her, Audel fled and isolated herself in Etoile until her friends, now the Accord, came and rescued her as well as her friends. Having returned to Paragon City, she's joined them with the group tenets that she believes in.

From the return of Lukas to the Grun'tuk Empire, Solarguard is always on edge. Although it wasn't all bad; she met the 9th Magnitude, befriended him and the two got close. Now under the hero moniker, Vector, he proposed to her and now the pair are happily engaged.

She's constantly evolving with her being involved with the Cimmerion Conspiracy and Science Lord Rixis' hand leaving her with the Talon curse and her soul gem stolen. Soulless, kind hearted folk managed to modify the curse enough to allow her to turn hate into love. Rixis' alliance with Lukas left her stone in his hand and she was used as a bargaining chip to force Anomalie to fight him again.

Lukas' Nictus, Lamontis, corrupted the stone as both wanted her to change into a monster. The last parts of Emily's will, the Accord's love and interference from the Well itself left her to change with a pink aura and ethereal wings. Its speculated the upgrade isn't permanent and could either be part of fate or the well itself trying to hold its incarnate together.

Why the Well chose to give her the Hermana Mantle instead remains to be seen.

Personality

Audel is a kind and compassionate woman despite her upbringing. She's gentle with her touch and is willing to hear anyone out even if she can't understand it. As if stuck in a world made of glass, she's afraid of breaking anything with her weight and is even sensitive about it. Of course, being emotional, she's very quick to speak up and grow passionate with her words.

She's a hopeless romantic and gets excited whenever she sees her friends in budding relationships. Audel loves to indulge in sweets and whenever anyone is feeling down, she's ready to cook something delicious for anyone. Everyone seems to love her homemade potato chips! Audel wishes she could make sweets as well as she could make homemade meals though. Her potato chips is why she's considering opening a local business involving snacks.

Her gentle touch has led her take calm hobbies such as crocheting, cooking, in-door gardening and reading historical and romance novels. Only recently has she grown into video games, thanks to her fiancé, and has grown a love for cozy games. She prefers to be outdoors, surrounded by nature and jogging through the streets of Paragon City.

Powers & Abilities

"Dawn's embrace, bring forth the day, chase the shadows, light my way! With your brilliance, banish the night, grant me strength in morning's light!"

• Hemara Incarnate: Since the incident of her mother's ego death and interference with the Well, Audel lost the incarnate powers of Sol and replaced with Hermana. As such, Solarguard inherited her powers as well as her loving influence.

• Hemara's Philosopher's Stone: The soul gem's shell was created by Direct Control and other influences for Audel's artificial soul. Because of bearing Hermana's mantle, it has empowered and changed the stone in of itself. While originally designed as a Philosopher's Stone, Hermana's mantle has given her soul protection. The stone is capable of bringing a person to life, like any philosopher's stone, but it would not effect the soul. However, this power is only able to be used once a year...

• Love Empowerment: Through Hermana and the remnants of her mother, this allows the Solarguard to channel the profound and transformative power of love to enhance her powers and abilities should Audel ever find herself fighting at night. During the day, this only helps strengthens her instead. The stronger the love she feels to a person she's able to focus on, the stronger and more potent her abilities become.

• Daytime Perception: Audel has heightened senses during daylight hours, enabling her to detect and perceive things more clearly. This includes great distances as well.

• Super Strength: Set apart from her incarnate mantle, her unusual density in her body has gifted her with super strength. Her strength is stronger during the daytime or empowered by her love.

• Invulnerability: Due to being created with unusual density, it's allowed her to become super durable! With Hermana's mantle and her love empowerment, this can increase to being near invulnerable during the daytime. Funny how a miscalculation with numbers led Audel to be this strong.

• Weather Control - Daytime Influence: Audel has limited control over weather phenomena during the day. She's able to clear skies, summon gentle rain or even dispersing powerful storms to protect communities from flooding. Although she's able to attempt this at night, it takes her own solar energy to do it.

• Solar Manipulation & Energy Projection: Absorbing the light from the sun, Audel is able to manipulate aspects from the sun into short or long term blasts. Her signature move is to empower solar energy into her fists for a powerful strike against her opponents!

• Sunlight Healing: Her light has limited ability to heal others with sunlight from herself. She cannot heal herself! While able to tend to minor to moderate injuries, she's only capable of using her sunlight to stability serious to critical injuries until a doctor is able to treat them.

• Daytime Flight: During the day, Solarguard is able to fly at incredible speeds. At night, while able to fly, she's required to use solar energy to allow herself to move at the same speed.

• Animal Communication: Audel can communicate with animals! Being able to understand their needs and feelings, she can also influence their behavior. Her loving warmth can calm aggressive creatures or even rally them to assist her.

Weaknesses

• Acranium: A mystical metal invented by some of the best scholars in Arachnos, it was made specifically to bind or cut through homunculi. Designed to assassinate Solarguard, it has become her personal kryptonite. Even if Acranium is used to forge shackles or metal bars, it is the only thing Audel can't break through brute force. New versions of acranium have shaped it into crystalized shapes that can pulse energy to weaken or even stun the hero.

• Nighttime Limitation: Solarguard's powers are significantly weakened during the night or in the absence of sunlight. She relies on stored solar energy, which can deplete over time. Though love is able to be converted into solar light, if under emotionally durress, this weakness is still at play.

• Eclipse Vulnerability: During solar eclipses or in prolonged darkness, Audel's powers weaken significantly, making her more vulnerable to attacks.

• Hatred: Individuals filled with intense hatred can weaken Solarguard's love empowerment, unless her love is able to overpower hate...

Nemeses

Arachnos: To them, it was a worst fear come into fruition; one of the biggest heroes that fought against Arachnos had returned. It was enough to give Ghost Widow and even Lord Recluse to pause to that heroic name; Luficia. Many come at Audel in the hope of earning personal favor or under orders to try to destroy her. Originally believing it was Luficia herself, they learnt the truth of her heritage. When they couldn't contain her to have her secrets for themselves, they sought to find ways to destroy her instead.

Nemesis: This has been recent ever since joining Seismic Impact in saving the city one morning against a Rikti invasion and Nemesis revealed his hand in the plot. It was the first time she's exchanged real blows against Nemesis and his army but it wasn't forgotten.

The Grun'Tuk Empire: It's DC's fault, really. In his simulated life of a perfect world, he predicted how Audel with six others stopped the invasion of the Grun'Tuk. It was because of this prophecy that it reached the Grun'Tuk... Since then, she's been at war with them since that now has got the Accord involved. They have her marked and she won't stop fighting against the Empire.

GobbaNak: Even if he serves for the Grun'Tuk, his manipulative nature and magic prowess is not to be underestimated. With his own goals of achieving godhood, he's been set as one of the more deadly enemies to Audel to date.

Moonscorch: A clone modified from her own DNA, her "brother" was an experiment from Vital Circuit's villainous alternate. With no love of his own to carry and incapable of feeling much of anything, his moonlight was corrupted to mutate anyone caught in his light. Now having broken away from his "parents," his goal is to show his "sister" the inferiority of emotion as well as see what all humans look like when exposed to his moonlight. Unbeknownst to Moonscorch, he's begun developing his own soul and with it, comes emotions...

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Always remember:

The greatest power of all

is Love.