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Matt Taine is the oldest child of Chuck Taine and Luornu Durgo, Legionnaires Bouncing Boy and Triad. Raised in the confines of the Legion Academy, by it’s two primary instructors, Matt’s abilities manifested late, and he had taken to training with armor, staff and arm-guards simply to spar with his class-mates. It was during such a practice session that he was clobbered by a student who’s powers went out of control and set fire to the building. It seemed like Matty was everywhere at once, helping people out, extinguishing the fire, etc. and as the smoke cleared, it was apparent to all concerned that there were two of him!
At first, he could only create a single duplicate at a time, but within months he far surpassed his mother’s Carggite gifts, and was able to produce a dozen duplicates, which he coordinated with an eerily silent efficiency. In time, he not only grew to revel in his newfound ability, but learned to send his duplicates out to coordinate tasks. Research for schoolwork could be done in a matter of minutes, with a dozen of him telepathically linked and able to divide up the task. Structural work, such as the inevitable repairs to the Academy, and later the construction of the Legacy HQ, were greatly augmented by his gift, as he likes to remind people of the ancient adage, ‘Many hands makes light work.’
Brainiac 5 performed tests on Matty, and determined that he could generate extra mass, like his father, which, combined with his mother’s racial ability, allowed him to create many duplicates. Unlike a true Carggite, Matt was a single sentience, and the loss of a duplicate was apparently of no importance, and he proved capable of sending a dozen or more out at a time, although all vanished if he lost consciousness… Brainiac briefly used him as a lab-gopher, enjoying having a dozen research assistants, but his parents put a stop to that and returned him to the Academy, to continue his training, now to develop his powers as well as his skills.
Legion’s dupes seem to physically grow out of him, a process that appears disturbing, and perhaps even painful, but Matty insists that it doesn’t hurt. (And in fact, doesn’t mention that it feels kinda nice…) The special equipment he has had constructed during his training duplicates with him, a belated repayment of his services from Brainiac 5 (although Matt’s parents had to browbeat him into even that concession that he had been taking advantage of the boy’s powers to use him as a nearly limitless supply of flunkies…). However, he had not been considered for Legion membership at the time, and so the Flight Ring and Transsuit he has acquired recently do *not* duplicate with him.
Matty is younger than many of his team-mates, and has no idea what to make of the various relationships forming and breaking up among them. As a result, he tends to keep to himselves, and avoid getting entangled in these antics, for now. As a result of his days working in Brainy’s lab, he’s somewhat conflicted about Brainiac Six. On the one hand, he knows that he’s just a clone of the same arrogant jerk-wad that ordered him around like a trained monkey, and yet, he’s also the closest thing to a surviving adult-figure, with the loss of his own parents, and generally immature behavior of so many of his team-mates.
While Matt has a few younger siblings, none have yet shown any sign of unusual powers, or even 'standard' Carggite triplicate natures. They live in Legacy Headquarters now, and despite his youth, Matt has argued with more distant relatives to allow him to retain custody, for now, fairly cunningly using the argument, 'just until mom and dad get back,' which he knows none of his soft-hearted relatives are quite ready to refute in the presence of their neices and nephews...
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Other residents of the Legion Legacy world;
Not every Legacy member is the child of two Legionnaires, or even any Legionnaire at all.
*Hardware *is* alive, but not organically so, being the result of the Hero of Lallor, Life Lass, accidentally ‘giving’ her powers to a servo-droid, in a frustrated attempt to imbue lasting animation to a construct. She succeeded, and Hardware is permanently ‘alive,’ sentient and capable of reconfiguring itself at will, forming any gadget or device that it has blueprints and material for within it’s increasingly bulky form (as it continues to add components necessary to form new ‘toys’ that it has researched). Life Lass is pretty sure that she could ‘take it back,’ but knows that doing so would ‘kill’ her creation, so has resolved to live the rest of her life as a powerless ex-hero.
*Elu, who may or may not be the same Elu that fought alongside the Omega Men of the Vegan system during the 20th century, appears as a meter-high force field, seemingly impenetrable, and has ‘evolved’ the ability to levitate and project bolts of repulsive force, or expand it’s own field to encompass and protect others (in this event, it retains a *second* personal field, shielding itself from even those welcomed into it’s ‘outer field’), or even deflect away attacks that it fears might be able to penetrate it’s own ‘personal field’ (which is always up, even when it sleeps, such that few even know what it looks like).
The son of a former villain, Lazon of the League of Assassins, the young man who calls himself *Focus is able to convert his body into light in a blinding flash, move superhumanly fast (via instantaneous conversion to light) and strike with laser intensity. He’s got a huge chip on his shoulder about his professional killer of a father, and feels that he’s always having to prove himself. While he can alter his spectrum, and even transform into light so high in the ultraviolet or low in the infrared spectra as to be invisible to human eyes, he cannot modify beyond this range, as his father could, to turn into other energy or radiation forms, like Kryptonite radiation.
*Elemental can transform her body into any pure element, maintaining her normal temperature (making Mercury her only liquid form). She derives this power from her father, Jan Arrah, aka Element Lad, diluted by her mother (Shvaugn Erin)’s human blood. Her ‘mother’ is currently male, and going by the name Sean, again, having abandoned the female form about six months after their daughters birth, noting that there was no way he was going through *that* again...
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Not a member of Legacy Legion, the former Substitute Legionnaire who went by the name ‘Porcupine Pete’ is now known as *Quill and serves as the unofficial protector of Metropolis, being a more street-level hero, using a stealth-suit of his own design, and an assortment of specially concocted toxins on his self-generated spines, which he can project over a large area as a burst or spray, or singly with incredible force, enough to penetrate most forms of 30th century body armor (or an inch of steel plate!). He operates out of a long-disused underground lair, recognized from its stuffed tyrannosaurus and giant copper penny...
*Laurel Kent is alive and well, and not a robot. At some point after being shot (with a kryptonite bullet), she was captured and replaced by the Manhunter assassin. After the failure of that plot, the force that captured her quite literally forgot about her, leaving her in stasis for the next eight years, before the Legacy team found and freed her. A decade has passed, a decade in which people have come to terms with her ‘never having been real,’ only to find that she is back, and was never a robot.
It's been a confusing time for the young girl, and one that shattered her fledgling relationship with *‘Power Boy,’ Jed Rikane. She has taken to exposing herself to ever-increasing amounts of Kryptonite, to ‘build up a tolerance’ and wears scraps of body armor made of Kryptonian metal, being somewhat paranoid and overcompensatory about the whole shooting incident that left her vulnerable and resulted in the loss of so much of her life. In the process, she quite nearly kills herself as it turns out one can’t ‘build up a resistance’ to Kryptonite radiation poisoning in this fashion, and she was incrementally amassing an ever-increasing dosage within herself, driving herself somewhat mad (exaggerating her burgeoning paranoia), but also fortunately rendering her weak enough that the Legacy team was able to subdue her without extreme effort. Brainiac 6 was able to synthesize a form of ‘fake Kryptonite’ that would have similar effects, without the lingering contamination, and she is exposing herself to this to continue her ‘toughening’ regimen. She can already function at full strength in the presence of real Kryptonite for 30 seconds before beginning to weaken and fall ill, and she works every day to increase that number...
*Crystal Kid is now an architect, and lives off-world, on a moon that he has ‘crystal-formed’ into a titanic work of art, with crystal palaces and sweeping structures that can support thousands, and yet only currently inhabited by a few hundred hangers-on and sycophants in a perpetual party, funded mainly by his increasingly rare departures to ‘do work’ on commission. He’s rich, but not as much as one would think, as his lifestyle is extravagant, and his entourage of leech-like ‘friends’ take shameless advantage of his generosity, and his naivette, partying eternally, at his expense. On the upside, he has a lot of sex. On the downside, he’s growing increasingly strange and disconnected from reality, and his ‘friends’ certainly aren’t helping, all of them together falling deeper into a shared fantasy life of pageantry and masquerades and ‘court intrigues’ that has little bearing on the real-world.
Karate Kid II (Myg) never cared for the idea of being v2.0 of anyone. And since he has developed super-powers, he has changed his name to *Kiai (pronounced ‘ki’). He remains a shockingly proficient martial artist, but uses a bewildering combination of ‘kiai’ shouts to stun, disorient, or otherwise confound his foes. His quasi-psychic shouts can affect someone’s senses, cause overwhelming emotional reactions (usually fear, but also anger, and even attraction) and cause various ‘internal disharmonies’ that can injure or hamper a foe (temporarily blinding them, or causing them to trip, for instance). He can even shatter boards, or paving stones, with harsh language, or cause a person to briefly hallucinate something. True to his nature, almost every application has been harmful, but under the advisement of Zen, with whom he has a playful competitive relationship, he has explored other avenues (and it was her suggestion that led to him discovering that he could awaken attraction in someone else with his harmonic effects). It is believed that he may be able to heal with these effects, but he hasn’t ‘found his voice’ yet in this matter. He has refused an offer of membership, and if Zen's snippy comments on the matter are any indication, that's not all he's refused...
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Night Girl and Stone Boy, of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, serve as mentors to the team, both residing in the headquarters.
Shadowblade and Night Girl don’t seem to get along, but no one but them knows why. Brightflame doesn’t like her for other reasons, thinking that she’s a cradle-robber taking advantage of her little brother (phrases like ‘dried-up hag’ and adjectives like ‘withered’ and ‘shriveled’ have been aired).
Stone Boy has changed from a near joke to a significantly powerful combatant, able to change form from solid stone to flesh and back in a microsecond, allowing him to absorb a blow as near-indestructible stone, revert and grapple a foe, and then change back faster than they can react, leaving them imprisoned in an unbreakable stony grasp. He often uses his flight ring to dive-bomb a site as a human cannonball.
‘Night Girl’ has changed her name to *Twilight, and Stone Boy just to *‘Stone.’ He doesn’t appear any physically older, due to his species tremendous lifespans. Twilight is not so blessed, and appears to be middle-aged, with a couple of prominent gray streaks in her jet-black hair. Training sessions between Stone and Focus are a sight to see, with each standing still and staring each other down, as both are dependent on precisely-timed split-second transformations.
Druhra Sept, *Infectious Lass became a catastrophic threat to Earth, after the destruction of her home-world by a cometary impact. Maddened with grief, she began infecting all around her with a proteanic retrovirus that caused many to die, and others to transform into members of her species, reborn… She was 'killed,' it seemed, by the attempts to cure her Birthing Fever, but her body continued to live on, now inhabited by a collective viral sentience. She currently has a unique status as ambassador for those transformed into members of her race, and also as ambassador for several sentient forms of microlife now resident in her body, giving her unusual prominence in the ambassadorial corps, as she represents several newly admitted UP member races that would not otherwise have representation, one of which represents a former ‘plague’ that consumed several worlds before it was successfully contacted and informed that the species it was using as hosts were also sentient and a peace was brokered.
*Fire Lad was one of the 'Birthing Plagues' first casualties, being unable to transform into a member of her species, and combusting as he attempted to burn the sickness out of himself...
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