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SUNSWORD

PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Anatolius Aelianus
Homeworld: Ancient Earth
Group Affiliation: (formerly) Judgement League
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 127 lbs
Eyes: hazel
Hair: blond

HISTORY
In ancient Rome, the soldier named Anatolius Aelianus was gifted with a gladius made of fire from the god Apollo in order to slay the conquering tyrant Vandal Savage who had offended the Roman gods with his arrogant ambitions. Aelianus was one of the best swordsmen in Rome, but the gods had underestimated Vandal Savage’s own capacity for violence. Savage defeated Aelianus handily even with the soldier’s enchanted weapon, and threw him into a ravine to die with dishonour. Savage would later come to be humbled by the Roman gods themselves when his reach outstripped his grasp, and this would be just one more incident in the immortal man’s long and storied life.

Aelianus was saved from his fate when Earth-Man gathered him to join his Judgement League in the 31st Century. Earth-Man gave him the codename Sunsword, and the time-displaced warrior cast his lot with Earth-Man out of gratitude for saving his life and awe at the feats he could do with his powers and technology from the future.

Sunsword was never a particularly notable member of the Judgement League, and since the team’s dissolution he has taken a break from adventuring to work on familiarising himself with this strange future where he has now found himself.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Sunsword is an extremely skilled swordsman, and since moving to the 31st Century he has replaced his old iron alloy armour with a lightweight plasteel equivalent which is much more durable.

He carries a gladius blessed by the god Apollo so that the blade is composed of divine fire which is as hot as it needs to be, but can also be sheathed safely by Sunsword when not in use. Its godly origin also makes the sword uniquely effective against dark magic and psychic phenomena that would normally be unaffected by a physical attack.

To assist him in wielding his weapon without fear, Apollo gave Sunsword a secondary blessing which renders him immune from even the most intense heat or light-based attacks.

EYEFUL ETHEL

PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Ethel Lyn Niwtyn
Homeworld: Earth
Group Affiliation: (formerly) Judgement League
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 123 lbs
Eyes: different colors (see Powers & Weapons)
Hair: black (dyed blonde)

HISTORY
Eyeful Ethel’s history prior up to the point she joined the Judgement League has already been documented. Though her powers aren’t useful in combat, her expanded vision powers have been quite useful to Earth-Man’s xenophobic cause. She is also one of Metropolis’s best teachers, which has been arguably even more important in changing the minds of young Terrans to embrace the Judgement League’s prejudices.

Although the Judgement League has officially disbanded, Ethel is still working with at least her husband Tusker, the electrically powered White Lightning, and until recently the destructive Bouncing Betty.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Originally, Eyeful Ethel’s only power was 360 degree vision thanks to a ring of eyes circling her head. As she’s grown older, she has learned to manifest eyeballs anywhere on her body at will…she has also expanded her vision powers, so far showing evidence of x-ray vision and telescopic vision capable of seeing clearly over interplanetary distance.

To maximise her efficiency while she’s working with the Judgement League, Ethel now tends to leave eyes peeking out from anywhere she has exposed skin, though she can still absorb her extra eyes back into her body again whenever she wishes. Her eyes all function independently of one another and come in every color normally seen in Terrans. It’s unclear whether the color of her eyes has any connection to whatever vision power that eyeball might manifest.

A subtle side effect of her power is that Ethel’s brain is capable of processing information at the same rate as a 7th level intellect. While she’s not truly more intelligent than any other Terran, she can absorb and retain visual information far more effectively than her peers. This helped her immensely when she decided to become a teacher, and she is particularly knowledgeable about Earth history.

Great work tying Ethel’s powers into her teaching skill - love the secondary power that lets her process and retain everything she sees with her many eyes! Good way to make her more formidable

Also like the story around Sunsword!

Thanks IB! The bit about Ethel I actually cribbed from her old Who's Who entry....they said she was naturally good at studying because she could read a bunch of texts at the same time so I just extrapolated from there

ah! had no idea, but Who's Who was indeed a goldmine of nice tidbits. but kudos for taking that and expanding it!

RAZORWIRE

PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Han Sashi
Homeworld: Rimbor
Group Affiliation: (formerly) Trigger Mob, Emerald Emperor’s Fatal Five (defunct); frequently allied with Sub-Zero
Height: 6’
Weight: 220 lbs
Eyes: brown
Hair: blonde

HISTORY
Han Sashi was a member of a Rimborian gang called the Trigger Mob, and he likely would have spent his life as an unremarkable criminal on a world full of them until a rival gang firebombed the warehouse that Sashi’s gang used as part of a weapons smuggling operation. Sashi was one of the only gang members who survived, but he had extensive burns over 35% of his body and was so severely injured that both his arms had to be amputated.

When the gang’s leader offered to pay for Sashi’s arms to be replaced with weapon-enhanced prosthetics if he would act as the Trigger Mob’s agent of vengeance, he was only too happy to accept. Covered in synthetic flesh with barbed wire tattoos looping down from his shoulders to his wrists, Sashi’s arms appear perfectly normal. Each arm contains tightly spooled barbed wire which he can shoot out at great speed and control, and he took on the codename Razorwire in honor of his unique attack.

It took months of dedicated training and nearly a year of relentlessly hunting down his enemies one by one, but Razorwire eventually killed every member of the rival gang just as he’d said he would. With his obligation to the Trigger Mob’s boss fulfilled, Razorwire left the gang on good terms and launched a broader career killing and maiming for profit throughout the United Planets.

At some point he met his romantic and often professional partner Sub-Zero, and the two men have been together ever since. Razorwire has happily joined Sub-Zero in his own revenge mission against the Persuader (who killed Sub-Zero’s brother), and Razorwire and Sub-Zero even joined the Emerald Emperor’s short-lived Fatal Five together.

Following his team’s defeat on the science world Cadmu, Razorwire was briefly incarcerated before he and Sub-Zero escaped only to be defeated once more in a fight with Sun Boy and a Laurel Kent who was still a Legion Academy student at the time. The two criminals were taken into Science Police custody again and haven’t been heard from since.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Razorwire has no natural powers, but his cybernetic arms give him slightly greater than human strength and are more resistant to injury than his flesh. His signature weapons however are the thin strands of barbed wire from which he takes his name, and that he can shoot out of ports in each wrist at great speed. He has a great degree of control over these whipstrands and can use them to flay an opponent, constrict around someone and even grab items for retrieval or to swing across rooftops. It’s not clear what these wires are made of, but they were capable of resisting Sun Boy’s fiery sheath in battle. Razorwire claimed at the time that Sun Boy could probably have melted through the wires, but he would have had to use such intense heat that it would have destroyed the rooftop they were fighting on.

Even before becoming Razorwire, Sashi was an accomplished street fighter and reasonably skilled with firearms; he has since become a combat expert with his barbed wire weapons, and along the way he’s also picked up some martial arts skill from Sub-Zero.

Phew. Part of me wants to like him and Sub-Zero more, as they’re a bad ass gay couple, but..!

They’re probably also the type who’s get all the attention at a club, but they’ll only flirt with guys just as fit as they are

Oh yeah they are definitely the narcissistic weirdos that always hook up with someone who looks enough like them to be their clone

They’re probably boyfriend twins too

And they freak out if their 8-pack looks like it will downgrade to only a 6-pack