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. | |
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
OOC Notes
- Audel's solstone was transferred to a brand new stone, thanks to the Accord! It cannot be destroyed but it can be damaged to try to subdue Audel herself. The solstone is her mind and soul.
- To those who knew Luficia in any capacity; yes, she looks exactly like Luficia. Just a little thicker and with a toned frame.
- It was never intended to be this way but a lot of inspiration for Solarguard's inception were the rules of homunculi in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Though she seems to relate a lot more with the themes from Rose Quartz in Steven Universe. It wasn't meant to be but her story and Luficia's seem sort of similar!