Solarguard
- Solarguard is a creation as a spiritual successor to Luficia[1]
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| Solarguard | |
| Player: @Aymeigh | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| 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. | |
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.
Sol Incarnate: Like her mother, Audel inherited the power of the incarnate from the Praetorian War. Where her mother learnt slowly and built her power on her own, Audel had everything her mother worked hard given to her all at once. Audel didn't know this for years but it amplifies her powers as well as given her power of solar absorption and manipulation to begin with.
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 & Emotional 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. Not only that but 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.
Personality
In her early age, she was nothing like her introverted mother.
That didn't mean she didn't inherit some things; her compassion was transported over with a desire to protect the weak. She inherited her stubborness though Audel has a tendecy to not wield easily.
She did develop a big of a temper that she wasn't able to control easily. The scorn of her powers only made it worse and she broke things. A lot. It was difficult to control her strength around everyone else.
As she got older and developed as a hero, her temper cooled down and developed a playful side. A wink to a villain with a slam of her fist or other little details unless the situation demanded her to take it seriously. Her playfulness is reflected in her costume; from her jacket to the heart shaped sunglasses she always has on.
She is a hopeless romantic and always secretly gushes on any relationships that develop from friends to even strangers. Even with her extroverted nature, she desires calm things in life like gardening, knitting, reading books and listening to music.
Audel isn't perfect but that leaves her open to develop, to grow, and to change. Just like every other human being!
Villains & 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. 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.
Khalgra and the Grun'Tuk: 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... or, rather, to Khalgra. The two have been enemies since with their potential clash growing inevitable.
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.
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.
Backstory
Before Audel, was Emily Engel.
Emily Engel was a veteran hero that served in the Praetorian War and was part of the many heroic elite. Under the moniker Luficia, she was rumored to be part of many supergroups such as the Challengers, the Steadfast Pact or even fighting beside the great Xanatos himself. It was hard to tell from fact and fiction but Emily retired from her heroic work on August 31st.
Even with her retirement, Emily couldn't comprehend her own immortality. A lot of her friends had either departed or died in the war. Emily couldn't bare the thought of watching her own adopted son grow old and die while she remained the same. With her grandfather's soul, they studied in creating a homunculus; specifically out of her own body.
Emily's contact with Ghost Widow through the years led her to master magic involving souls as well. For even if one could create a homunculi, they would lack a personality or a soul.
She covered her tracks well! The only people that knew was her son, Jeremiah and his wife. Emily burnt a lot of her notes before the process was done.
On June 21st, the ritual was performed with only her son as her witness. She had the formula set up with other materials to make up where her own body lacked. Her soul and her grandfather's would be merged into a stone to anchor to the new body. Everything was set up to perfection!
... except Emily messed up the formula mathematics, causing the ritual to make a far denser human being than what was supposed to be there. There was also the fact that Emily was an incarnate; under the power of Sol, or Helios . This alone helped in ensuring a success in the newly created homunculi but also made her far more powerful than Emily ever wanted her daughter to be. Without it, Audel wouldn't have survived.
Emily wanted to leave behind a daughter; instead, she left behind a scared five year old with the power of a god and inhuman strength.
Audel Huxley was born into the world.
After the Ritual
It wasn't easy growing up.
Audel's strength alone forced her father to get a first floor apartment and specialized furniture to be able to keep up with her density. His budget could only cover a place in Kings Row. She went to public schooling despite her power and was feared a lot by the other kids. Specialists came in to run tests to try to find the source of her power but all would come either inconclusive or interference from her dad.
It left her with not a lot of friends except for two folk; May Carter and Reed Davis.
They gave her a chance where others wouldn't and adapted so Audel could play. Too strong for sports? Reed brought books for them to read together. Tired of sitting on the sidelines? May snuck magazines for the girls to look at; fashion and gardening magazines! It developed a special bond with the trio.
Were it not for her two best friends, Audel might have came out completely different.
Once in high school, things changed.
Walking home from school, Audel was abducted by the Vahzilok and dragged into the sewers. The only reason they were even successful was for the super powered vahzilok they had that day. She woke up to them attempting to try to cut her open except all their tools were breaking on impact. It wasn't difficult for her to break the restraints and subdue every single one of them.
Audel had to fight through many gangs in the sewers just to get out; the Skulls being the majority underneath the Kings Row sector. It was how she meant her nemesis of her teenage years - Draven. She punched him directly in the face while fighting through the rest of them. It left her understanding that her power could be used for something positive; something good for the city.
Maybe Audel could be just like her grandma, Emily.
Her father forebade her from getting her hero's license; not until she was 18. That didn't stop Audel or her best friends. Donning some thrown on costumes sewn by May, the trio set out to fight against the Skulls. It wasn't easy and May was kidnapped(a lot) but the trio managed to make Kings Row a little safer. It only brought them closer together.
Fighting against Draven made Audel feel alive; among other things.
All good things do come to an end though. After one last tussle that left the gang incapacitated for weeks, the trio graduated high school. Reed and May enrolled to colleges outside of Paragon City but they keep in touch with Audel. As for Audel?
When she turned 18 years old, her father sat her down and gave her a gift; the sol stone. It was a gift meant for her granddaughter. When taking the stone in hand, Audel discovered other powers she never knew she had and she could fly! After flying over the city for what seemed like eons, Audel signed up to get her hero's license and came up with the only fitting name for herself.
Solarguard.
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.
She was part of the New Defenders, under the tutelage of the Global Defense Force, for a short while. It was a learning experience but Audel wanted to defend the city her own way. Briefly forming the Steadfast Pact, it was interrupted by Arachnos. Having finally accepted Audel Huxley as an independent person, they wanted to take her and study her whole being. If they could create perfected homunculi like Luficia did, who knows what Arachnos would do with such a thing?
They kidnapped her from her apartment but it didn't last long; Audel broke out with ease and has been on the run in the Etoile Isles since.