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The heroine who goes by the name Fear Femme claims to be from Earth, in the year 3276, to be precise, and to be a Legionnaire, in that time! On a mission to the distant past, she got 'unstuck in time' and crash-landed in the 31st century, where she got into a disagreement with the Legion over her not only wearing a Flight Ring, but wearing what appeared to be *four* of them!

After a brief private conversation with Dream Girl, who was the only person she trusted with future knowledge, Dream Girl vouched for her, and she is puttering around Metropolis, 'waiting for her ride home to arrive.'

A mixed species human/alien hybrid, she has signs of human and red saturnian ancestry, with dark purple skin, golden eyes and bright red dreadlocks, with extremely limited shapeshifting ability (only able to change the color of her skin, hair and eyes, and change the length and style of her hair from bald to waist-length).

Her true power is the ability to psionically induce terror in others, or to suppress fear, making others unnaturally brave in the face of danger. She can control her fear-generating talents minutely, affecting a large area, or a single target, and imposing very specific phobias.

She explained to Dream Girl that her four 'Flight Rings' were a later development in Legion history. Only one is a Flight Ring, and the others are a Might Ring (which gives her super-strength, channeling the same sorts of gravitic forces that power a Flight Ring) a Sight Ring (which gives her a wide array of enhanced visual perceptions) and a Fight Ring (which she explained was programmed by future Legionnaires Capoeira Kid and the Escrimador with a bewildering array of martial arts maneuvers). As she gains rank and position as a Legionnaire, she says that she'd qualify to earn additional Rings.

At the moment, she seems to be exploring the 31st century, which she's only read about in history books, and fighting crime as she stumbles upon it, rather than actively super-heroing, and tries to avoid interacting with the current-day Legion, as she is concerned about 'polluting the timeline,' and a bit paranoid about a Legion telepath attempting to read her mind and learning things they shouldn't know about the future, but she has told Dream Girl that the Legion can call upon her at any time, if they need her assistance.

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Set, does Fear Femme notice the contradiction between being concerned about "polluting the timeline" and happily taking active part in situations so significant that the Legion needs outside help? [Smile]

Not that I've seen the regular 30th-31st century Legion ever concern itself overmuch with their actions in centuries before their own changing their own history.

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quote:
Originally posted by Shining Son: Set, does Fear Femme notice the contradiction between being concerned about "polluting the timeline" and happily taking active part in situations so significant that the Legion needs outside help? [Smile]
She's more worried about having her mind read or Brainy deducing something from her comments, I think.

She's read future history, so she knows what calls she can and cannot answer, I imagine.

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Ha, I just noticed I posted this to the wrong thread. This was supposed to go in Heroes of Other Worlds. My brain, such as it is, is rubbish!
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"Alternate Legionnaires" isn't too far a stretch though, so she fits here well enough.

I suppose she also has the advantage of knowing just HOW she will help in each situation. [Smile]

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quote:
Originally posted by Set:
The heroine who goes by the name Fear Femme claims to be from Earth, in the year 3276, .

lol i was going to ask who she was supposed to be an alternate for.

But i agree with Shining Son, she's a great fit.
although i wonder how the whole non-natural power/ability works in this future legion....

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Fear Femme sounds like she could be a descendent of my reworked Kid Psycho

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People used to joke that Dom Marino's best friend was his mirror, because he seemed quite fond of his own reflection. Little did they know that he had a special gift, and was able to communicate with his own reflection. He was seventeen when he discovered that he could do more than that, and could actually reach into the mirror and pull his reflection out of the mirror, to manifest as a 'mirrorself' duplicate of himself.

He got up to all sorts of shenanigans with this gift, but discovered that the mirror from which he drew his mirrorself would lose it's reflective properties, and become a silvery blur, while he had a mirrorself manifested. His mother accidentally destroyed a mirrorself, when she smacked the mirror in his room and cracked it, wondering why it wasn't showing her reflection, causing his mirrorself (which was far across town, with Dom, at the time) to crack and fall to pieces, dissolving into silvery light and fading away in seconds. The experience was traumatizing for Dom, who felt like *he* was being broken into pieces, but he discovered later that he could recall a mirrorself from any mirror of the appropriate size, and even have dozens of them in existence at a time (each from a different mirror, as each mirror used in this fashion because similarly non-reflective). From small hand mirrors, he could even call forth miniature versions of himself!

He applied to join the Legion as Reflecto, but was rejected when it was discovered that he needed many mirrors hidden away to maintain his mirrorselves (which themselves possessed no special powers, other than being only semi-real and not needing to eat, drink or breathe).

Not letting this rejection get him down, he went about his life, until he overheard on the newsnet that a small group of Legionnaires was facing down the Fatal Five at the other end of the park from his current location, and rushed to assist his heroes however he could.

Only three Legionnaires were present, and they were hopelessly outmatched. Dom noted the presence of an office building covered with mirrored panes of glass, and ran to it, pulling forth dozens of mirrorselves, and sending them fearlessly into the fray. He had long since discovered that the more mirrorselves he had present, the less disorienting it was if one was dispelled, and so he barely felt it when the Persuader's Axe sundered one, and Mano's touch disintegrated another. In short notice, Mano was pinned by a half-dozen mirrorselves, who kept his hands grappled and held him aloft, unable to bring his deadly touch to bear, but the Persuader was too strong to be manhandled in such a fashion, and the ground steamed with silvery radiance as he sliced apart duplicates with abandon. It wasn't until Dom found a 10 meter tall reflective pane of transparisteel that the architect had placed in the lobby, and Dom drew forth a thirty foot tall mirrorself, and it grabbed the Persuader by the helmet and hurled him hundreds of yards into the park, leaving the deadly axeman battered and unconscious.

And that was Reflecto's undoing, as he finally drew the attention of Tharok, who order the Empress and Validus to coordinate fire at the young man who was sending all of these duplicates after them.

Dom barely managed to avoid the deadly barrage, but the dozens of mirrored walls behind him exploded, causing all of his mirrorselves to disperse, and sending shards of metal and glass in all directions.

The Fatal Five was forced to flee, as the Legionnaires took advantage of this distraction to coordinate their own counter-attacks, leaving Tharok and the Empress reeling and near defeat, but it was too late for Dom, who became a Legionnaire only posthumously, as Reflecto, gaining a statue in the Legion's Hall of Heroes.

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Great way to really change Reflecto and give him a really heroic death!

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quote:
Originally posted by Omni:
Great way to really change Reflecto and give him a really heroic death!

Thanks! I wanted to come up with something new, and decided to pick a 'Legionnaire' who usually only appeared as someone else in disguise, or as a statue in the hall.

Plus I just love the visual of mirror-related powers. There aren't nearly enough mirror / reflection based super-characters!

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quote:
Originally posted by Set:
quote:
Originally posted by Omni:
Great way to really change Reflecto and give him a really heroic death!

Thanks! I wanted to come up with something new, and decided to pick a 'Legionnaire' who usually only appeared as someone else in disguise, or as a statue in the hall.
your totally right! I've never actually read a story with a real reflecto in it.

Plus I just love the visual of mirror-related powers. There aren't nearly enough mirror / reflection based super-characters![/QUOTE]


very true...i think Mirror Master is the only one....???

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+1 on mirror-related characters! An awesome and underused gimmick [Smile]

Have we had a Shrinking Violet yet?

The Earth of the 31st century is not a place where plant life flourishes, but it does still exist...and where plant life exists, so does the Green. Scientist Violet Digby found this out for herself when she tried to replicate the serum which had given Chlorophyll Kid his powers. She wanted to create instant crops for border worlds, and this drew the attention of certain unscrupulous individuals. Such a dramatic change to agriculture would hurt Leland Macauley's holdings in synthfood companies, so he hired killers to take out Violet Digby before her work could be completed.

She was thrown into one of her own serum vats, and her lab burned down around her. Shy socially awkward scientist Violet Digby died that day, and Shrinking Violet, the enigmatic avatar of the Green was born!

Her body now is composed mainly of vegetation, and she can communicate with and control plant life. Violet's mind was damaged in her transformation...she has a vague recollection that she once was a normal woman with friends and family, but her overriding trait is that of a fierce protector of the natural world. Originally this brought her into conflict with the Legion of Superheroes as she waged war against technology, but the managed to convince her of their altruistic intentions and she grudgingly agreed to join their ranks.

When it comes to her mission, Violet is harsh and almost uncompromising in her quest for justice for the natural world. She still retains her shyness when it comes to normal social situations though, more so than ever now that she barely even remembers how to be human....she is developing more normalised social skills though the longer she stays with the team (though it's a sometimes painfully slow process)

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Luan Torgo, of Naltor, was born with the uncanny ability to see three future possibilities at once, and distorts time in her wake, appearing to be in three places at once. Whatever quantum uncertainty has beset her, it made her a nightmare for her overworked parents to try and keep track of, as she existed in all three locations at once, and yet was only partially real in all three locations at once, making it impossible to get ahold of the precocious and willful child unless one was able to grab *all three* of her manifestations at the same time. If even one was free, the others blipped away, unable to be restrained, or even confined to a single room, for an unwanted bath or bedtime or 'time-out,' unless all three had been snatched up and carried there at the same time (a feat her two parents could not accomplish on their own, and one that, due to the child's cleverness, often required a half-dozen or more adults!).

As she matured, she became less of a wild child, to the muted shock of her jaded parents, and began to apply her unique gift to bettering herself, and accomplishing surprising things, able to take three times as many courses as the average Naltorian. She left for earth to join the Legion as Triplicate Girl, and while her effectiveness was questioned at first, her single-handed defeat of the Fatal Five member Mano proved her value to her new friends, as she blithely entered hand to hand combat with him, frustrating the killer, as he could never lay hands on (and therefore 'destroy') more than two of her at a time, making her utterly immune to his fearsome annhilating touch.

She danced around him for several minutes, before finally bonking him on the head with a bit of debris, cracking his life-support helmet and prompting him to surrender with alacrity, afraid of suffocating in the unpolluted air of earth.

Her fearlessness, and apparent immunity to any force that could not simultaneously strike all three of her quantum selves (as well as the short ranged teleportation that she had developed, as her quantum selves could manifest at a short range from her original position), proved a welcome contribution to the Legion of Super-Heroes.

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Set love this new use of Triplicate Girl!

i wonder how seeing three possible futures works out for her. that must really play havac with some of her actions.


Raz I love yours as well!
Great take on Shirnking Violet! she's swamp thing for the 31st centruy.

and yes there was a shirnking violet done. but there's always room for more alternates with a mulitvers out there!

i mean i feel like we have at least sepaerate three legions that could exist on different earth in this thread so far.

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Cosmic Boy: Rokk Krinn was born on the planet Colu and while nowhere near as intelligent as that planet's most well-known export, even a slightly smarter than average Coluan is leaps and bounds ahead of most other sentients intellectually.

When Rokk was still a young child, a team of Legionnaires were sent to Colu to stop a raid by the evil cyborg Tharok. Instrumental to Tharok's defeat was the White Witch, and Rokk found himself fascinated by her mastery of magic. Magic of course was one of the few disciplines alien to any Coluan, so there was only so much he could learn on his homeworld. Rokk spent several months travelling the UP trying to learn more, but was frustrated by the severe lack of educational opportunities available in the highly technologically dependant 31st century.

Finally, he found his way to the Sorceror's World. The ruling council of Zerox were curious enough that a Coluan would find interest in their arts that they allowed him to study amongst them, even though they detected no real potential for spellcasting within him.

The next few years at first provided only more frustration. Finally Rokk had found the perfect place to pursue his interest, but as his teachers had tried to tell him from the start, he just had no natural talent for the craft. His keen analytical mind and excellent memory made him essentially a walking grimoire, but try as he might he couldn't embrace the philosophy of a magic user which was completely alien to anything he had had been brought up with. He knew the concepts behind sorcery, but he couldn't cast a single spell.

In an effort to help him, one of his teachers suggested that he try to abandon his need to analyse everything, and to just accept the teachings of the universe by faith. Rokk realised he was incapable of doing this, and that led to an idea...he had been fighting against his analytical nature all this time, what if he embraced it? He changed his focus, and finally a breakthrough happened.

While he still can't utilise magic actively, Rokk has elevated his consciousness through hyperlogical pursuance of philosophies and mystic precepts that he has reached a state of cosmic awareness. He can instantly sense disturbances in the spacetime makeup of reality itself. The greater the disturbance, the greater his range.

For example, he can generally sense the presence of another magic user or a uniquely powered individual within a city's radius. He can pinpoint the exact location of time travellers, extradimensional travellers or space warps on a continental range. When Darkseid and the Archmage manifested in his era, he sensed them from halfway across the galaxy. His studies have also given him such an innate understanding of how the universe is supposed to work that he can predict actions and reactions with almost Naltorian clarity. He can analyse the comparitive strengths and weaknesses of a target physically, mentally and spiritually (which gives him his only real edge in combat). He has a general sense of whether things are the way they're meant to be around him, which can be infuriating for himself and others because sometimes he knows something's wrong instinctively but still needs to figure out what exactly that is.

Rokk was forced to end his studies on the Sorceror's World after the Magic Wars. Calling himself Cosmic Boy, he tried out for the Legion of Superheroes. Though the Legion noted that his power could be useful in certain situations, they also found it too vague and without any consistent applications. They would have turned him down, but Dream Girl had a vision that he would save the entire universe as a Legionnaire and she talked the rest of the team into letting him join. It has been a bone of contention, because he has sometimes been key to their adventures, but has also been less than useful on a lot of other missions.

Andromeda: Cosmic Boy's shining moment as a Legionnaire was when he convinced the team that they needed to investigate a disturbance in the Andromeda Galaxy. After many side adventures along the way, they finally found the source of this disturbance. A mad supergenius named Laur El-Gand had used science to evolve herself to her maximum biological and psionic potential, and overthrown more than two thirds of the galaxy. Not content with this, she pursued the ultimate power. El-Gand cannibalised the resources of an entire solar system to create a Dyson Sphere housing the most advanced machine ever created. This machine would expand El-Gand's consciousness until she was one with the universe itself, and would be able to control space-time at will in her home reality.

By the time the Legion found her, she had already gained control of local reality. She condensed the Andromeda Galaxy itself into her form, leaving only her cosmically enhanced body and the Legion of Superheroes inside a Dyson Sphere floating now in the middle of a galaxy-sized vacuum. She engaged the Legion of Superheroes in a brutal and drawn-out fight which would have ended with the Legion's slaughter if Saturn Girl and the White Witch hadn't pooled their power to totally wipe her mind before she could accustom herself to her new level of consciousness.

This dealt with El-Gand, but they couldn't reverse the destruction of the galaxy around them and they were left now with a cosmically powered mindless body. Cosmic Boy proved his worth to the team again when of all the Legion, only he possessed the knowledge and insight to reach out to the fragment of consciousness belonging to Kismet herself (the personification of the universe) which still resided in El-Gand's body. Traumatised by her ordeal, the fragment of Kismet is incapable of rejoining with the rest of her universal consciousness until time heals the psychospiritual damage done. Until this happens, the Legion have agreed to take her on as a member.

Appropriately naming herself Andromeda, the new heroine is easily their most powerful member (and probably the most powerful sentient being in the universe). She possesses all the power you would associate with a galaxy condensed to humanoid form. Her strength and durability are off the charts, as is her ability to manipulate electromagnetic energy. She can fly at lightspeed, and she has an instinctive ability to navigate the universe as she knows every cosmic landmark intimately.

Andromeda's downfall is that she is new to life on this scale, and therefore socially awkward and unfamiliar with the day to day normalities of human existence. She is a complete pacifist and will only use her abilities in purely constructive ways. She finds violence disturbing and extremely upsetting. She is also incredibly naive and trusting, and the Legion have taken her on as much to protect her from being manipulated by villains as for the power she can offer.

Visually, Andromeda still wears Laur El-Gand's form and appears as an athletic blonde woman. A starfield permeates her entire body however, making her look the part of a cosmic scale heroine.

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