Solarguard

• Solarguard is a creation as a spiritual successor to Luficia[1]

Solarguard
Player: @Luficia
Origin:	Magic
Archetype:	Tanker
Security Level:	50
Server:	Everlasting
Personal Data
Real Name:	Audel Huxley
Known Aliases:	Audie, Princess(to dad)
Species:	Homunculus
Age:	22 (17 based on creation)
Height:	5'6"
Weight:	628
Eye Color:	Light Blue
Hair Color:	Dark Brown
Biographical Data
Nationality:	German Heritage
Occupation:	Gym Teacher & Yoga Instructor, College Student
Place of Birth:	Steel Canyon Hospital?
Base of Operations:	Paragon City
Marital Status:	Single
Known Relatives:	Jeremiah Huxley ("Dad", Brother) Emily Engel, ("Grandma", Mother)
Known Powers
Superhuman strength and extreme physical durability. Solar Manipulation through herself and the Sol Stone. Can manipulate thermal energy through herself to create enough heat to set opponents on fire or create electricity to use against her foes. Inherited her mother's incarnate abilities on accident and provides a heavy boost.
Known Abilities
Due to being a gym and yoga teacher, she has access to physical training. She abandoned trying to fight with a blade and instead resorts to her fists - through physical training.
Equipment
the Sol Stone is always nestled along her cape, acting as a brooch.
Anyone who knew Emily would also know she was physically unable to get pregnant so someone who looks a lot like her may ask questions. Others who knew Luficia for years would mistaken her as Emily first.

Backstory

In a flash, Emily Engel ceased to exist. In the light of her remains did another form take appearance and a frightened child stood in her place. Her confused sobs were heard throughout the deep halls of the cavern and below the Engel Estate. Emily's secret and forbidden project was a success; an actual homunculus with an artificial soul trapped in a stone. All were created with powerful magic taken from several artifacts and Luficia's human remains.

Jeremiah honors her mother's last wish and take the child in as his own. He names her Audel, legally changing their last names and forging a birth certificate with his ex wife's name on it(with consent).

Little did either of them know that Emily did not get the mathematics completely correct and her incarnate powers from the Praetorian War, under the eye of Helios , did not completely disappear. Those incarnate powers carried into Audel and her soulstone, giving the stone the power to absorb sunlight and grant Audel that power when in her possession. Her physical strength, on the other hand, were a result of a few wrong numbers...

Audel Huxley was born into the world of heroes.

Early Childhood

Audel doesn't remember too much of when she was really little. It wasn't easy growing up either but she found joy in the stories of her grandmother's time in the war against Praetoria. Her father told her tales of standing with heroes such as Xanatos, Ascendant and the Imperial. It became part of her world and was what she enjoyed pretending to be; a hero, like her grandma.

It was one of the only way Audel felt she could be herself; everyone else knew just how different Audel was from other humans. For reasons unknown, Audel was physically stronger than any other human in her class. What other kids struggle at that age, Audel exceled in all physical activities and was the kid everyone went to when they couldn't open something. That didn't mean everyone was accepting toward Audel. Other kids would tease her and call her a mutant. Some even claimed she was faking it and tried hitting her to prove it. It ended up with several kids in the hospital with broken limbs.

Because of the incident, Audel was ordered a check up to determine what super powers she had and the origin behind them. They questioned Jeramiah too; asked if she was ever the product of any villainous experiments or reported kidnappings. He always gave the same story and nothing else appeared to be amiss. The medical check ups were almost impossible to accomplish and getting her vaccinations were even worse; her body would break the needles trying to penetrate her skin. It took a needle made of the strongest metal in existence just to get her vaccination or to run blood tests.

Audel would get the all clear and deemed her power to be natural but would have special classes to help control her strength.

Teenage Years

Things did improve as Audel got older. The bullying stopped and soon, Audel made a few friends. High School was an awkward time in her life; naturally fit and no amount of junk food would let her gain much weight. Audel was accepted as a cheerleader for Paragon City's high school football team and was content to be the one to lift the girls or catch them when they fell.

Even if playing other sports would have been impossible, she did sign up for boxing and martial arts after school to help keep her in shape. There weren't any opponents but she listened to her instructors and cheered her friends on in their tournaments.

But the memory books from her grandmother's heroic adventures never left her sight nor did did she stop looking up to the sky. Audel was different but if her grandmother was a hero, perhaps it was her destiny to follow in the same footsteps??

That calling became louder in her mind when the school bus was hijacked by the Skulls with fresh superadine to try to get the teens forcibly addicted to the drug. Unfortunately for the Skulls, they picked Audel first and the needles easily snapped off in the attempt.

It was easy to overpower them after that. For the first time in her life, Audel wasn't doing something because it gave personal meaning or to follow her grandma's path; it was to protect the innocent. It was to protect her classmates! Of course, Audel got in trouble for fighting without a hero license and not waiting for the authorities but her classmates were very grateful.

That became the high school years; misadventures of teenage life and having Audel step in to protect everyone when things got too hairy. Those were simple days.

Early Adulthood

High school graduation came and went with Audel applying to the local Paragon City University. She intended to earn a bachelor's degree in athletics, teach healthy eating or ways to stay fit but her father found her half written application for a hero's license. In the end, Jeremiah knew that this would happen. Audel spoke of it all the time growing up.

One day, her father sat her down and asked her one important question; Why do you want to become a superhero?

To Jeremiah, one does not become a hero just because someone else did before them. To be a hero is to be something far greater. That was what her grandmother did and it wasn't easy for her. It was difficult work and the world was not kind; Arachnos was out there and lots of terrible people lurking in the shadows.

But Audel looks her father in the eye and told him; "I want to be a hero to protect people!"

That was all Jeremiah needed to hear. It was then did he give her something truly precious; Her grandmother's Sol Stone. If left in the light, it will always take the light from the sun and convert its flames to her own use. It had other magical potential and it was left for Audel only. Just touching the stone for the first time made Audel feel warm and loved; like another part of her was here.

Audel felt whole.

Her first use of the sol stone was to give her flight and she flew all around Paragon City like she were a kid all over again. Audel flew as high as she could! She touched the clouds, waved to office workers in the sky lines and flew just above the cars. This was who she wanted to be!

Today

Audel Huxley took the mantle of Solarguard and is officially registered with a hero's license. When she isn't fighting the good fight, Audel is studying at the University for her athletics degree.

Solarguard's name is climbing up the ranks but some would find Solarguard looks almost familiar if they ever knew of Luficia.

While Audel is studying in college, she's taken up teaching yoga and gym lessons at a famous gym in Steel Canyon. Her classes get filled up quick with her dietary advice, exercise regimes and group yoga classes.

As Solarguard, she's been part of the New Defenders for quite a while now! They are family to her; a motley crew she wouldn't replace for the world.

Personality

Audel is nothing like her mother.

She's a kind hearted person albeit very head strong; if stubbornness was a trait, it would be hurt. She isn't afraid to dig her heels and stand strong on any point.

It leads her to get frustrated very easily though and bits of her hot headed temper would flare. She likes to walk away instead of losing her temper, using other practiced means to let it all out in a healthy way.

Of course, this also leads her to wearing her emotion on her sleeve. She isn't afraid to express herself and doesn't like to admit how easy it is for her to cry. She tries to hold it back enough to go somewhere private and let that vulnerable side with no one able to see it.

Her personality shines through the most as long as the Sol Stone is close to her. The further away, the less emotional she is until she's showing no emotion at all. Her very sense of being is through the stone.

Powers & Abilities

Super Strength: Through a miscalculation from her mother, she has developed natural super strength. She can pack a whallop with her fist alone and lift cars.

Super Durability: Through a miscalculation from her mother, she has developed natural durability. Many mistaken it for invulnerability with bullets unable to puncture the skin. With enough force, the skin can be pierced.

Enhanced Combat & Fitness: That training in the gym isn't just for show. She's flexible for a reason.

Solar Absorption: By herself(via incarnate) and the Sol Stone, she is constantly absorbing the sun light and acts as an infinite resource for her powers.

Solar Manipulation: Via Sol Stone and herself(via incarnate), she can manipulate solar energy absorbed by the sun through her own means. Her favorite is power her fists in solar light and punch her foes with mini suns if brute force is not doing the trick.

Thermal Emission: Being solar powered, the air around her can get hot very quickly. This is used to her advantage to allow to create bursts of flame within her range. It can be used to make a fist of pure flame or within short range period.

• Electrical Manipulation: This is only an after effect of the thermal emission. It can also create an electrical charge. It takes a lot to develop and can only fire in huge bursts through many of her foes.

Flight: Through the Sol Stone, Solarguard can fly. Without it, she can't take to the air.

Human Mimicry: Audel is not a traditional human being. She is a humonculus and the rules are different for her. Any potentially fatal blows to the brain, the heart and other vital organs will not kill her. This has been mistakened for immortality many times. The Sol Stone is the heart and soul of her well being.

Emotional Mimicry: Audel is not a traditional human being. She is a humonculus and the rules are different for her. Without the Sol Stone at her side, she can't feel emotion like any other human being can. The further its away from her, the harder it is for her to feel. If the connection is cut, she is incapable of feeling any emotion. This could make for any villain/other being able to completely possess Audel or to control her for their own means.

Friends & Allies

The New Defenders: The motley crew that she's a part of. She wouldn't have it any other way.

Anomalie: Since joining ND, she's taken to Alex. Partial crush that she won't admit, she considers Alex to be a good friend... though she makes it clear that, to her, he's family. Her true feelings are buried deep, wanting to see him happy with Aiko.

Ultrali: Brick girls got to stick together! First meeting another female with amazing strength led her to want to be great friends with her. She won't admit to Aiko how she really feels about Alex; willing to step aside and let Aiko and Alex be happy.

Direct Control: It doesn't matter that he's a machine. He thinks. He feels. Therefore, he's alive and he's human. She'll do whatever it takes for him.

Gold-Fire: A fellow hero that can burn anything with the power of the sun, he's a friend she can relate to.

Villains & Enemies

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. Many don't listen to Audel's protests that she is, in fact, not her grandma. Due to recent revelations, some have started to reevaluate Solarguard but there is the big fear of her return through Solarguard is still there. So, despite Audel's irritation, she is on one of the most wanted under both alias.

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 Skulls: The gang hadn't forgotten about Audel's early exploits with Midknight when they were teenagers. Even if she's at a strength level beyond the gang, they have no qualms against trying to put Solarguard down a peg.

Lukas & The Council: Lukas is an enigma to Audel. He wants to kill her and the New Defenders but his obsession to her friend, Alex, is what sets her to want to do her best. She doesn't hate Lukas but whatever his plans are, she intends to stop it. As a consequence though, its led her to fight more Council and its brought their attention on her on the field.

Her Nemeses

Dominatriea: For all intents and purposes, Audel doesn't know she exists. This villainness knows her though and will do anything to get her clutches onto Audel to research exactly how she was created. If Dominatriea can unlock Audel's secrets, then it will be the key for the villainess' own purposes. Exactly what that purpose could be is anyone's guess.