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

Yoga Instructor

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

One June 20th, 2012, at 7:09 PM, a homunculi was created from the body of Emily Engel and an artificial soul gem created from herself and her grandfather. She stood in the body of a twelve year old girl, confused and scared of the sudden new world before her. With a near wall shattering wail, the raw power of the sun itself erupted before her and melted the entire ritual chamber.

No one could have anticipated that the power of the incarnate, that originally belonged to Luficia, would transfer over to the child nor could they have predicted the sol stone would become an incarnate artifact as well. Before anything could go wrong, she heard a voice call out in a comforting tone.

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

It was enough that fizzled out the power and caused the child to collapse. The only witness of the ritual, Jeremiah, scooped up the child in his arms and cradled her in his grasp.

Hence that day, she would go by a new name…

Audel.

After the Ritual...

As far as Audel knew, she was a twelve year old girl that lived in Paragon City all her life. She lived with her single father, Jeremiah, and they could only afford a cheap apartment in the Kings Row district.

While her dad did the best he could, he was also a part time hero himself and was gone for long periods of time trying to save the city. It left Audel alone with her books and looking out the window. With her unusual physical prowess, there wasn’t much she could play with; any attempts either broke what she touched or accidentally hurt other kids. The little girl felt like a monster.

She felt like a lost teenager with nowhere to go in life.. That is, until May Carter and Reed Davis approached her. They sat with her, asked about her interests and showed Audel things she could get into that didn’t involve hurting anyone. It brought so much light into her otherwise lonely mood.

Everything changed when she noticed the Vahzilok kidnapped May and Reed into the sewers. They were her only friends and she couldn’t let this stand! For once, she decided to not hold back with her power and fight them in the sewer.

Her friends weren’t the only ones she saved that day; there were other victims waiting to meet under the Vahzilok hacksaw. She burns through the undead, freeing her friends and other civilians in the process. She fought through any other gangs in her way, like the Skulls, and got everyone to safety.

It was a strange feeling, being thanked instead of scolded for her power.

It led Audel on a journey of self-discovery, learning her power slowly but surely. She learnt how to control the heat around her and make fire form in her hands, or how to use that raw power to fly through the air. Reed taught her some basics from his kickboxing classes and May snuck in a hand-made costume with stars and stripes.

The more Audel fought to protect the streets at night, the more she found herself more passionate about protecting the civilians. There was no real explanation how her powers came to be or why but she could do something meaningful about it. Even if her powers felt like the sun itself, she could harness it to protect people.

Even if some people feared her, there were others who admired her. The more Audel fought gangs and villains, the more she found herself growing attached to the people. Even if she didn’t understand people well or even herself, she had the urge to protect it with all her heart and soul.

Was this what it meant to be a hero? Is it to guard her friends, family and strangers with her solar might? If the city needed more heroes than she was more than happy to step up.

After all, that’s who she was now; Solarguard.

Today

Audel Huxley held the Solarguard moniker, fighting without a hero license up until she was eighteen years old. Her father found out and instead of grounding her, he let her sign up with a license under the condition that she held no secrets from him. He got a big ol’ hug as his answer.

Since then, she joined the New Defenders in 2022 and became friends with Anomalie, Direct Control, Sun-Gun, Ultrali and many others. Through them did she discover her homunculi heritage and learn to come to terms with it. Eventually, she left the New Defenders to pursue fighting for more than just the city; she wanted to protect the world.

Unfortunately, Arachnos wouldn’t allow it. They kidnapped her and wanted to study her to try to replicate her grandmother’s homunculi formula for themselves. She broke out and fled for a year until her old friends, now called the Accord, came to her rescue.

With new and old friends alike, she works with them as if they were her second family the whole time. Together, with the Accord, she works to be the hero she wants to be; protecting a world and all the people she loves so much in it.

Though the journey of a hero wasn't easy. With the return of Lukas and dealing with Science Lord Rixis, she lost part of her mother within her soul gem. Though thanks to Lukas' indirect hand, her mother's sacrifice and the well's intervention, Audel became something more...

Personality

Audel didn’t really have a childhood to develop much of a personality; she was very temperamental, struggling to figure out her own emotions when she was younger. It took meeting her friends and being part of the Accord to realize who she is; a kind hearted but excited woman with her playful side held deep within.

Her loving side is shown to her boyfriend, her friends and even strangers alike. Audel loves to cook and accommodate anyone she meets; she isn’t even above reaching a hand out to a villain in hard times with food.

Because she lacked a childhood, she doesn’t really have many hobbies except reading or other quiet activities. It wasn’t until her boyfriend did she find herself able to find other hobbies, to play, even.

Overall, Audel cares and growing older, it’s allowed her to be less temperamental and to open her heart even more to others.

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: Due to her mother’s sacrifice and interference from the Well itself, her mantle of Sol was replaced with Hemara. Her power and abilities have become associated with the day, emitting the goddess’ love to mankind. Her mantle shines in a pink ethereal light with matching wings sprouting from Solarguard's back. When she flies in the air, the light from her wings can part the darkness.

• Hemara's Philosphers Stone: Audel is a homunculus and her soul resides within her soul gem. This gem was forged by Direct Control other associates to house Audel's soul. Since her mother's sacrifice from within the stone, its gained a pink glow from the red stone with tiny etheral wings emitting from it. Love pulses from it and holding it long enough can make you feel love within itself. It is a philosopher's stone and it is capable of reviving the dead. Although Audel's soul can no longer be sacrificed for it, the blessing of revival can happen only once a year.

• Love Empowerment: Love through her mother and her incarnate power has increased her physical strength, durability and her solar powers. Should Audel run out of solar light and there’s no light to absorb from then she will be able to convert her love into light itself.

• Loving Aura: Hermana's love, now Audel's, is always pulsing from her. Those with empathy powers will feel it, like a gentle warmth on a summer morning.

• Super Strength

• Invulnerability

• Flight

• Solar Energy Blasts & Projections

• Solar Light & Energy Absorption

• Heat Generation & Manipulation

• Heat Transferal & Heat Immunity

• Animal Empathy: Because of her light, small animals are attracted to Solarguard. They feel safe in her presence!

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.

• Hatred: Love and hate come from the same coin. Hate can make her feel physically ill if it comes from someone's whole being. It can make her recoil in its strong bite. That being said, if love is stranger than hate, then perhaps love can overpower hate in time...

• Ice Powers & Cold Temperatures: She is very receptive against the cold and far more sensitive to those with ice powers.

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.

NetHack: Kevin and the Passenger; an entity that nearly got Audel killed, she let her light burn against the eldritch monstrosity with Celestial and Dawnkeeper. Now no longer afraid of NetHack, she's prepared to let her light sting should he dare to darken her or her loved one's skies ever again.

Count Bedlam: It started out nice. The two shared a love of literacy and he seemed interesting. The fear of villainous betrayal was too great and after one incident, the two fell at odds. Bedlam's vengeance will come one day.

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Always remember:

The greatest power of all

is Love.