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Heh. Monkey Man to the rescue!

Still, it would be cooler if the monkeys were also ninja.

Or perhaps pirates. I'm flexible.

The Infinite Boy: Kando Vyr was one of Naltor's most gifted minds. Before his 13th birthday, his prodigious intellect earned him an internship off-world at the Time Institute.

After an impressive year of study there, Kando took on a project of his own; he decided to use the Time Institute's resources to analyse Naltorian precognition. Kando was certain that the Institute would hold the key to isolating exactly how his people's native ability to see the future worked, and that from there he would be able to find a way to enhance those abilities within himself and others.

Then his research brought him across the tragic story of Jaxon Rugarth's transformation into the Infinite Man.

At first, Kando's only thought was in applying Rond Vidar's theories on circular time to his own work on precognition. As he came to learn more about the Infinite Man though, it occurred to him that maybe Jaxon Rugarth only lost his mind because he was woefully unprepared for the heightened perceptions of time to which he was exposed during his transformation into the Infinite Man. Maybe someone who was already gifted with a high intellect, a thorough understanding of temporal physics and an innate ability to sense the future might fare better?

The idea became too much to resist. Kando worked in secret to duplicate Rond Vidar's hyperdrive for months. It was a few weeks after his 14th birthday when he finally completed it, and full of youthful exuberance he wasted no time in testing it upon himself.

He felt himself flung forward through time with immense power, physically and mentally changing to adapt to the experience. Then, just as suddenly as it had started, his journey was over. It almost felt to Kando as though he had been forcibly ripped from his journey and thrown backwards to his starting point. The machine exploded and where once had been been Kando Vyr now stood the cosmically powered form of the Infinite Boy.

Visually, he resembles a younger, teenager-sized version of the Infinite Man. He has kept his own personality for the most part, though he tends to come across as a lot more of a space cadet these days to those around him. His perceptions are constantly sliding through the endless cycle of time and he has to really focus to mentally stay in the here and now. He can specifically focus on any other point in time at will, and can even summon native beings or objects from that time but he has found out the hard way that summoning those things doesn't mean he can control them. While he no longer possesses the precognitive abilities he once had as a normal Naltorian boy, he does now have a weird awareness of how events in the here and now will affect any other point of time he chooses to focus on and vice versa. The further along the cycle he looks, the more vague this sense becomes as his awareness is split further and further between the two temporal loci.

The Infinite Boy (as he has come to be known) did very briefly consider applying to join the Legion, but dismissed the idea. He isn't yet adept enough to employ his abilities effectively in the kind of combat situations the Legion find themselves in, though he knows one day he will be. More to the point, the one thing he has never been able to see is what force exactly was responsible for ending his journey through time prematurely and this bothers him immensely.

The Infinite Boy has embarked on a personal mission travelling the universe to find answers. Along the way, he uses his abilities to help those in need when he can while he waits for the day when he will become better versed in using his new abilities to more actively seek the truth.

The Infinite Boy is awesome! I love how you tied in not only another 'Legion World,' but also some Legion history to create this character!

It's also cool how you created a Naltorian hero whose powers aren't based on his original precognitive abilities. It wasn't better than average or oddly-functioning precognition that led to his transformation, but his keen intellect and curiousity. Very 'outside the box' and creative!

Thanks!

I was thinking about Gates' commentary on Swarmcaller, and how it's easy to build a character around the one thing their race/species/etc are well-known for, so I figured it might be cool to try for an origin where it makes sense for him to be Naltorian, but his actual powers have very little to do with that side of himself.

I actually debated on whether I was gonna post him...by about halfway through I started thinking how he would be an awesome character to use in my own series and was wondering if I should keep him aside for now, lol

Go for it! If I am inspired to write again, I might pillage an idea or two from this thread as well!

raz please do use him! he sounds wicked Awesome!

Set i can't wait to read something with any number of these characters!

Andromeda, a Tamaran whose natural abilities have been boosted by the Okaaran Warlords. As well as flight her solar. radiation absorbing abilities also power her metabolism giving her strength, speed and durability, and also boosting her mental processing skills so her natural tactile low level telepathic linguistic absorbing ability is strong enough that she cqn understand any language in her presence. She's been trained by the Okaarans so knows how to take care of herself.

Cool to see another Tamaranean, and with ties to the Warlords of Okaara, too! I like how her powers have nothing to do with blasting, and how she's internalized the solar-absorbing powers to function more as a 'mini-Kryptonian' with more Batman-like fighting skill.

From Talok VIII;

The mysterious Emissary has the uncanny ability to alter his coloration from the various shades of blue common to the desert tribes, to the greens of the hill folk, the violet of the sea-going island-dwellers or the glossy black of the polar tribesmen, in reaction to the company he keeps. His features as well change, subtly, from the harsh angular planes of the desert-dwellers faces, to the rounder 'softer' features of the islanders. He is considered an impartial advocate by the various tribes he travels between, overseeing arbitrations of disputes, and helping to settle disputes before they turn into clan wars. Because his true heritage and family name is unknown, the clans accept his neutrality, and he has not betrayed that trust, speaking the different dialects and languages of each tribe as if born among them, a reflection of his power to adapt to any culture he encounters, learning their customs and traditions, taboos and mores, as instinctively as if he had lived among these people all of his life.

Detractors whisper that he is not nameless and clanless as a result of his powers, but is secretly an alien, perhaps a shapeshifting Durlan, or a telepathic spy, manipulating Talokkian tribes for his own benefit, or according to some scheme to render Talokk VIII weak or submissive to an alien agenda. He has survived more than one assassination attempt, as a result of 'unhappy customers' who did not appreciate a truce or agreement he had brokered with their tribal leaders, proving capable of anticipating, and countering, combat techniques as readily as cultural nuances and negotiating gambits.

From Imsk and New Bengal Colony;

Five years ago, a disastrous accident at a research facility on New Bengal Colony caused the disappearance of over a thousand researchers. Scattered through space, and, it was later discovered, as lost people reappeared, even through time, the survivors were left with a gift for teleportation, although most of them were limited to a range of a few meters, at most.

One of the most affected, a young intern named Fayora Ben Stiner, has the ability to teleport over a thousand kilometers, but is limited in that she retains a 'lock' on her starting point, and the farther she teleports, the sooner she involuntarily 'snaps back' to her starting location, with even a short range teleport lasting a few minutes, before she is whisked back to where she started.

Since the 'bungee effect,' as she calls it, only affects her person, she is free to drop off small items or even a larger object up to the size of another person! She initially made a living as a courier, zipping between the domed facilities of New Bengal Colony, although, on a world with dozens of teleporters, few with her range, but also few with her unique limitations, she found it tough to establish a niche for herself.

So she packed up and moved to Earth.

Today, SAGES (pronounced say-jess), aka Snatch & Grab Emergency Services, consists of Fayora and four Imskian brothers, who are adventurous explorers (specialized in caving expeditions), and trained in emergency medical and disaster response and rescue techniques. The brothers shrink down to a few inches in height, and Fayora teleports them into a dangerous situation, where they use tiny thruster packs to navigate through wreckage, in search of survivors (while she snaps back to her starting point, and awaits their call for evacuation). When they find one, they clear a space large enough for Fayora, and activate a locater beacon, so that she can teleport into the area and teleport the survivor to safety. All wear protective environmental suits, and after a couple of years of exposure, now wear recording equipment as well, as they are the focus of their own 'reality holovision series,' which tracks them through their various adventures (and the various downtime shenanigans the brothers get up to).

Titan-

Gorla- not born with the normal telepathic abilities of the average Titan, he grew up very isolated from the rest of his kind. Even though his family was very caring and he loves them more than anything. But as he grew he learned that he had a talent for making psychic suggestions to people through physical touch. just a simple tap and he can send either simple or complicated commands to peoples minds.

this made him feel more isolated because he was never sure if anyone he touched was just following his own unconscious commands/desires or if they were actually caring for him.

he was eventually recruited by earthgrov to work in espionage. his covert actions have helped stop waring planets and sooth peace talks.

Having a mind-controller who is actually uncomfortable with the connotations of that is different....I can't think of anyone off the top of my head who has suggestive abilities who doesn't just embrace them and run with it, so nice one Omni!

Another one from Titan:

At the Legion of Superheroes' very first public appearance, somebody asked Imra Ardeen why she chose the name Saturn Girl when Saturn is only the planet her homeworld orbits...the question was raised, wouldn't it make more sense to call herself Titan Girl? Imra explained that she couldn't take the name Titan Girl; that name already belonged to Dacey Gorann, one of Titan's most beloved heroines.

Titan Girl possesses the ability to absorb ambient psions in her immediate vicinity and use them to fuel her power to increase her size, making her kind of a Titanian Colossal Girl. A side-effect of this ability is that she actively dampens psionic powers in a radius around her as she increases in size. The larger she grows, the wider her dampening net extends and the more power it leeches. Her own telepathy isn't immune to this effect, so she can't use her natural Titanian abilities when she is at giant size...her own natural telepathy isn't that well-developed anyway and as most people around her generally can't use their powers either, she doesn't consider this much of a setback.

Titan Girl did very briefly join a precursor to the Legion of Superheroes known as the Justice Legion, but she quickly resigned when she realised that her power was far more limited in scope once she left a planet full of telepaths...she was also concerned that her psion-leeching ability might actually be damaging to people who don't generate an excess of psionic energy to begin with, as telepaths do. At any rate, the Justice Legion fell apart soon after its inception under mysterious circumstances.

Titan Girl now exists in the fairly unique position of being very well-regarded as a hero with a lot of experience on Titan, but practically unknown anywhere else in the UP.

I kind of love the idea of a Titanian who taps into all the telepathic energy running around on Titan and uses it to do something else! A telekinetic, powered by telepaths in the area, could be Jean Grey levels of awesome, on Titan, and, on earth, barely able to move a paperclip (and, depending on how her power works, attempting to do so might cause non-telepathic humans around her to suffer headaches or nosebleeds or memory lapses or fainting spells, as she attempts to draw upon psychic energies that they don't have to spare...).

Lume- a planet that is arid blue dessert. a world that is always at dusk. the dominate life form on the planet are sprightly balls of light that fly around. each of these sprites can generate heat and grow to the standard size of a human. their larger form is translucent.

Sorry for the geography lesson. but i figured some nice background to help understand the characters to follow.

The Blue Night-On this planet there is a silent hero to the Lumians. this hero is made from the very blue dessert they call home. he shift his form in the sand and creates sand storms when needed. but what they don't know is that its actually their own power of light projection is what drives the blue dessert. the blue dessert has like a hive mind, that shift from grain of sand to grain of sand and they see the lumians as almost god like figures shining down on them and giving them light.


BrightStar- A light manipulator. whose able to use the light from other lumians to create blinding light shows that can blind even the brightest lumian. also allows for small energy burst in laser form. his light shines the brightest around other lumians but his own light isn't as bright when he's alone. still capable of flight. When he draws the light from the other lumians he makes them dimmer. in some cases it has almost drained a few of his people of their life light.

learned very early that his light wasn't as bright at others but one day, when the Krudian Empire invaded. he was one of the Lumians to fight back. but he noticed during battle that as he became more aggressive and intense his light got brighter. but the light of his fellow Lumians weren't as bright. As he fought he began to show small burst from his hands and his speed came with a little burst as well.
when this happened he noticed some of his fellow freedom fighters fall to the ground. almost lifeless. One of them was his best friend, Starshine.

as he tried to save her she was captured by the Krudian soldiers. They left before he could save her. he began to train in the use of his powers to not kill those around him and use their light safely. he vowed he will find away to save her.

From Mars;

Lohsy Treannan, aka 'Genius Girl' developed her unique talent (or, some would say, condition) after barely surviving an accident on Mars that left her without breathable atmosphere for over a day. Found in a comatose state, when she finally awoke, she seemed to be suffering from visual and auditory hallucinations, at least, until it was proven that these 'hallucinations' were providing her with accurate information that she couldn't possibly have otherwise known.

From these 'Intelligences,' as she called them, she could learn many things about her local environment, or, over time, about people in an area, and it was never entirely clear if she was in communication with actual invisible entities, or if she had some ability to sense things over great distances, and her 'communications' were simply her brains way of parceling out information in discrete chunks, to save her from overload. In any event, once it was determined that her constantly 'talking to herself' and addressing invisible entities wasn't a sign of chemical imbalance or mental trauma, she was released from observation and allowed to resume a more or less normal life, turning her new talents to investigative work, as the many 'voices in her head' gave her a wide array of perspectives on any given case, in addition to valuable information.

She seemed to have access to both 'local Intelligences,' which had more specific information on wherever she found herself, and her 'regulars,' who attended her wherever she went, and some theorized that she was in actual communion with some sort of psychic or spiritual remnants of the long-dead Martian race.

The truth may never be known, but the effectiveness of her unique talent is irrefutable!

Steeple -

A planet that is hidden for a decade at a time by a black hole.

Like any world cut off from the rest of the U.P. it has its share of problems. the S.P's are able to deal with most things. But there is an order of Monks there trained in the use of harmonic healing. they ride the winds on giant beast. Three of the monks have taken to becoming local protectors forming a squad of wind riders. they try for peaceful resolution but are trained fighters and each with powerful variation of the Harmonic sounds they create.

Friar Hiam - capable of harmonic sonar. The eldest of the monks, he's their leader in the field. But he's also the quietest of them all. his voice is soft but when he does speak everyone can hear him.

Friar Evly - his particular sound capabilities allow him to sooth almost anyone into submission and almost putting them into a trance like state.
an eager young monk, who has recently entered into the brother hood and as much as he believes in the peaceful ways of the monks, these adventures as protectors intrigues him.

Friar Semel - the only monk whose harmonic abilities is destructive. he has the ability to produce a sonic cry that can shatter almost anything. he uses it more localized to take out his opponent weapons. he can also create a wall of sound as a shield. Very much the middle man between his two brothers. he tends to be the strategist of the group.

That's a super-evocative idea you've got there!

Very creative and cool!

I like how the youngest and most 'impetuous' of the friars also happens to have a peaceful power, and isn't the one with the destructive resonance harmonics, and how the 'leader' and eldest has a purely sensory / information-gathering power. That's a nice mixup.

From Xanthu;

Thom Kallor was never the only 'champion of Xanthu,' and nor was Atmos, for that matter.

For decades, four champions have been chosen by the pre-eminent scientific body of the planet, and empowered with mastery over one of the four fundamental forces of the univese. Thom Kallor, imbued with gravity manipulating powers, as Star Boy (his origin falsified, as the nature of the process is classified), is the most widely known of these, and his own powers have been altered over the years, as he has served off-world (the bulk of the powers artificially bestowed upon him transferred instead to local protector, Atmos).

Easily the most popular, Jasmin Cullen, aka Brightflame, has command of the 'strong' nuclear force, which binds atoms together. Manifesting as a greenish 'fire' that radiates a warm golden light, she can cause matter to fall apart into its component atoms, utterly disintegrating it on the molecular level. Alternately, she can generate a purple 'fire' that dims light and sucks in heat from its surroundings, and instead reinforce the atomic bonds of the item she targets, making items (or people) temporarily effectively invulnerable. Using these powers, she is able to become invulnerable to harm, and to destroy anything she turns her green flame upon. Creative applications of her power allow her to 'disintegrate' herself, while remaining in conscious control of her power, allowing her to become a form of glowing green mist, and move incorporeally through most obstacles, or to use her reinforcing violet fire to repair damaged objects, or even to selectively strengthen someone's molecular bonds so that they can not move, paralyzed by the same forces that are protecting them from harm.

Like the other members of the fundemental-force-empowered champions, she uses her powers not merely as a super-powered combatant, but also in the course of civic works, destroying pollutants or reinforcing disaster-damaged buildings, as the situation warrants.

Thanks Set!

I wanted to stay away from the idea of the youngest having a destructive power.

and i feel like a leader needs knowledge, so why not have him be the intel.

also i love your Genius Girl. but i have a question does he ability work outside of Mars or only on Mars??

I didn't want to nail down exactly how her ability works, so I left it a bit fuzzy on purpose. She does have some 'regulars' who seem to be attached to her, in addition to the 'locals' she communes with at any given location, so even off of Mars, she might be able to make use of these 'regulars.' (Unless they really *are* the discorporate 'telepathic echoes' of the long dead Martian race, in which case maybe they can't follow her off of Mars! Or maybe they can, being spiritually linked to her and, more or less, 'possessing' her? Eh, six of one, half-dozen of the other.)

Whatever keeps the mystery alive.

I haven't read much with Steeple in it, but the idea of it fascinates me, cool work with the monks.

And I love the reimagining of Jasmin! Awesome!! Also, the idea that Star Boy's origin is a cover is super interesting, makes me wonder if any of the other Legionnaires or even Dreamy would know. Thom has been pretty dedicated to his world in the past, I could see him keeping it a secret if he is instructed to...

I wanted to introduce a version of her for the 'classic' continuity, and yet not go to the 'quantum' well of squiffily-defined powers. The strong nuclear force makes for a very powerful ability (which suits her), and yet is easier to nail down, I think.

Thanks! I wanted to play with the idea that he used to have a ton of powers (Superboy-like in nature) and has been cut down to just gravity manipulation (while, not-so-coincidentally, a stay at home hero named Atmos has taken his place as planetary champion, and now has the same Superboy-like powers). Having the powers be some sort of legacy handed down (and sometimes taken back and re-gifted) by the Xanthuan government / science authority, keeps his past power changes in-continuity, while coming up with an explanation for them more detailed than 'they went away' and 'oh, and here's Atmos, a totally unrelated guy with pretty much the same powers...'

i love this re imagining of her! and she sounds powerful enough to join the legion!


i like the explanation of Thom's power changes as well.

Here's another one from Steeple...idk why but i'm really just intrigued by this planet. I think its because of the reboot planets its the one we got to see the most of but yet didn't learn that much about...

Black Hole -Griem - able to increase the gravity of people and things much like Star Boy, but he steals the gravity from the Black hole that cuts off Steeple from the rest of the U.P. for 10 years at a time.
He is connected to the black hole, because he was born during the onset of one. He mass affecting powers emerged shortly after his birth. As he grew he learned to control them. On his tenth birthday, the Black hole was lifting. He was using his mass powers to help keep him attached to one of the gliding beast without having to use the reins.
suddenly his mass powers faded and as he took a sharp turn, he feel from the beast's back. as he plummeted to his death, he was saved by The monks. specifically a younger Friar Hiam.
He realized that his powers came from the black hole's presence.

The boy was so grateful to the Friar Hiam that he sought out to be a monk just like Friar Hiam. But as he grew and came closer to being a monk he realized that the life of a monk was not for him. this event also coincide with the Black hole reemerging. As the black hole closed in many people were frantic to get off planet before it cut off transportation from Steeple. there were various ships that were about to take off, after the alarms went off that no more ships were allowed to leave; and he used his mass increasing powers to keep them from being destroyed by the Black hole. he felt the excitement of saving people and looked into the hero life. Not long after this he ran into Friar Haim again, But this time with his fellow wind riders squad. The three Friar's were in pursuit of a local villain who was in mid-transport to Talkton-Glactous (sP?)when the black hole reemerged and was marooned on Stepple. He broke free of his restraints and killed several Science Police officers. Griem followed the wind riders through the Ariel catacombs. As the Friar's closed in on the Villain he took each of them out and captured them. the villain had acquired a cave and some gear to maneuver around the skies.

Black hole followed the villain to his lair, where he ambushed him. using his mass powers to pin him to a wall. while he freed the Friar's.


As he grows older he learned that he can actually create mini black holes and uses it as a portal to the other side of the black hole. he has yet to actually try going through himself or sending a living person. but he does send objects.

As his power is tied to the black holes reemergence into Steeple's orbit, he can only use his powers during it and on Steeple. He ventured out once during a safe time and tired to use his powers. but nothing happened. once he returned back to Steeple, he still had no powers but he could sense mass differences.

Ha, I wasn't sure if Steeple was a 'real' Legion World, or something you'd made up! Guess I really need to catch up on my Reboot stuff!

It sounds really fascinating, with the black hole isolation and the flying steeds. Both alien and sci-fi funktastic!