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There have been multiple versions of the legion over the years. So i thought it might be fun to take the familiar and turn it on its ear.

whether its different power sets, origins, gender, ect. how can you change the Legion?

I'll start.

Monstress- she's still the sweetest and nicest person anyone's ever met. but her powers are being able to conjure monsters from other dimensions. when conjured they lose all sentience and she has completely control over them. but if she loses focus, she loses her control over them as well. if she's knocked out they can return to their dimension(s). able to conjure two to three at a time.

origin: she was exposed to threshold technology, when it was in its infancy and untested. the energy out put from it caused her to form a special relationship with dimensional doorways. at first she could just see them and then she learned she could open then enough to conjure the monsters.

Legion: she joined the Legion after the lost Legionnaires returned from the second galaxy.

Planet:Xanthu.

Thunder- she's still a member of the the Shazam family. but instead of being from the 90th century, she was born in the 30th century.

she was accepted into the legion as a legacy member. her powers qualified her more than enough. but with her powers being a duplicate it made it harder for her to gain entrance till, the legacy status was written in.

she met the legion during the battle with Mordru. He was about to absorb Binderaan and her for that matter because of her magical properties. He almost succeed till the Legion intervened. Weakened by his attack, the magic of Shazam was almost extinguished. but to help protect it, she used her connection to the Rock of Eternity to have it blow up and scatter its magic to the far ends of the universe. now she's on a quest to restore the rock.

Catspaw: The Dominators' experimentation of April did not turn her into a feral cat, but instead unlocked her mutant power. Much like Karma from the New Mutants, Catspaw is able to take complete control of another being's body and they become her catspaw.

nice!

good play!

maybe she could even be called Catspawn???

Duo Damsel: Duo Damsel is able to double any attribute of herself or another, from size to speed to intelligence.

The new Monstress and Catspaw are awesome character concepts!

It always kind of bugged me that Catspaw would take that name originally as a Legionnaire considering that's kind of exactly what she was intended to be; this way removes the uncomfortable connotations.....then again, Danielle Foccart named herself after the psychotic robot that nearly killed her and a bunch of Legionnaires, so go figure...

How about a new Chameleon Girl?

Unlike the Legion's Chameleon Boy, Chameleon Girl isn't Durlan and she can't change her shape. She is one of the Guriini, an evolutionary offshoot of the Gordanian race. The Guriini are relative newcomers to the interstellar stage, having spent most of their existence living peaceful lives of isolation and hiding from the more aggressive Gordanians' attempts to enslave or kill them.

Like the Gordanians, the Guriini are reptillian. The Guriini are bred more for stealth than war however. They are generally slightly shorter and more slender than humans. They are amazingly agile, with prehensile tails and the ability to cling to almost any surface. Like an Earth chameleon, their eyes are bulbous and able to focus independently, giving them 360 degree vision. While they can't change their shape, they can change color...this is an autonomous response triggered by strong emotional states rather than anything they can usually control consciously though. When frightened, they will blend into their surroundings; when enraged, they will take on violent red and orange shades to appear more intimidating; when despondent, they will wear more muted colors, and so on...

The Guriini in general are more than happy living on their own arboreal world with very limited contact with the rest of the galaxy, though a few of the more adventurous among them have journeyed out into the UP. Chameleon Girl is one of these adventurous souls. Just like Chameleon Boy she took her name in reference to her similarity to an Earth chameleon, though ironically she had never even heard of Chameleon Boy until she arrived at Legion Headquarters for her tryout...

i really like this concept! its sometimes hard to believe that the Legion has never had someone who can amplify powers.

Raz as always you blow me away and i think you just found a new cadet or maybe even a actual member???

Awesome job!

this really is a whole new character!

Next up...
Dream Girl - is a dream walker. she can enter peoples dreams and learn information from them and retain the information. but she can not interact with their dreams. she must also be asleep herself to do it.

She never got to join the Legion due to her always having to be asleep in order to enter peoples dreams. she joined the Subs instead and has become a valued and steady member. She has learned hand to hand combat and the use of various weapons. But she prefers to stay and coordinate from the Subs headquarters as their top tactical officer.

her relationship with Starboy still flourished as he could not resist her beauty and charm.

Dawnstar - still a winged Anasazi from a colony named Starhaven, Dawnstar's mutant body generates generate light in great quantities, and she also possesses limited empathic powers, allowing her to sense emotion, and, to a lesser extent, influence the emotional states of others, heightening or dampening their own current feelings.

Typically, she blinds an evildoer with a dazzling burst of golden light, and then concentrates on amplifying their sense of confusion and uncertainty, as they stagger around sightless, sometimes inciting full-blown panic attacks!

While her wings are capable of bearing her aloft, she finds Earth's gravity cumbersome, and is quite thankful for the assist of her Flight Ring!

An intensely spiritual person, Dawnstar has not yet fully come to grips with the fast-paced and physically combative nature of Legion membership, being more of a diplomat and spiritual advisor than a brawler, and once reacted poorly particularly to an attempt to grapple and restrain her, broadcasting light and her own fear in all directions uncontrollably. Embarassed by this reaction, she has been spending extra time in the gym, practicing martial arts, less for the combat benefit, than to acclimate herself to the immediacy and intimacy of hand to hand conflict.

That would have been my first choice for 'Amp Girl' to give her the power to give not just herself, but also others, a 'super-adrenaline boost' that makes them stronger, tougher and faster, temporarily, followed by a hard 'crash.'

yeah that makes total sense. too bad we didn't get to see more of her.

nice Dawnstar btw! definitely an interesting take! and we've never had an empathic legionnaire before!

Star Boy - astrophysics student Thom Kallor thought he'd hit the lottery when he beat out thousands of other applicants for a chance to intern in R.J. Brande's stellar fusion program.

Unfortunately, a flawed containment chamber cracked during the initial testing, and Thom was sealed in the lab during the breach by security measures meant to protect the research team.

It took almost a year to bleed off the excess energy that took root in the young intern, but a trace lingered, and now, as Star Boy, able to generate dozens of basketball sized spheres of solar plasma and direct them remotely, he has joined the Legion of Super-Heroes.

So far, Monstress is my favorite. I love that power! (It reminds me of an old Alpha Flight character named Laura Dean, who could call up a 'Goblyn' from another dimension to protect her.)

Alright so far we've got

Montress
Thunder
Castpaw
Duo Damsel
Chameleon Girl
Dream Girl
Dawnstar
and Star Boy.

off to a great start.


also i realize that Thunder revision is well sucky... too much like the real Thunder.

here's another attempt!

Thunder- capable of producing/creating sounds on various sound wave lengths that allow her to affect peoples nervous systems, creating vertigo of sorts. she also has an ability called healing harmonics. it allows her to heal others with soothing harmonic tones. the monks were the one's who perfected this technique and taught her how to alter her powers to replicate it. she uses this ability sparingly and not in the heat of battle.

She comes from the planet stepple. Like the monks that live there she has been planet side for most of her life and spent it trapped there by the Black hole that cuts off its connection with the outside world for 10 years at a time.

she was an orphan who was adopted by the monks at a very young age.

after the most recent black hole lift, she decided it was time to leave. Hearing of the Legion but of its foundation, not where it stands today she thought she would try out for the team. she was shocked to see how the legion has changed from her first impressions of them.

her personality is very reserved and calm. she would rather not fight in battle and believes in peaceful resolution, when ever possible.

Definite improvement on Thunder! Sonic powers make sense, given her name.

thanks! the first Thunder really was a dud. glad you like the new one!!

The healing harmonies thing is aces. I love the idea of a sonic character whose powers aren't all about finding the right resonance frequency and blowing stuff up.

After City of Heroes added a sonic powerset, I made a sonic character called \'Shielding Song\' who believed that the entire world was vibrating along with some sort of cosmic song of creation, and that by learning to first hear it, and then to add to it, she could both 'hear' when things were unnatural or out of place, and either reinforce (force field powers) or damage (sonic attacks) objects or people.

I love the idea of 'words of power' or a 'song of creation' being a source behind a sonic character, instead of the more Marvel Universe-y 'mutant vocal chords.'

I like the idea of Thunder's personality and the way she uses her powers leaning towards the opposite of what you'd expect from someone with that name. Plus, points for using Steeple! I quite like the idea of Steeple

To lend a bit of gender balance to the proceedings:

Tyroc: In the 18th Century, Tyroc's ancestors were on a slave ship and would have had no hope for escape except that one of the captive men was a sorceror of some skill. The sorceror's magic wasn't powerful enough to free his people on its own, but it was strong enough to summon help from mysterious interdimensional beings. The beings agreed to free the captured African men and women under the condition that they would make their new home on an uncharted island named Marzal.

It was only after the pact was sealed that the sorceror realised the awful mistake he'd made in his desperation; the interdimensional beings were full-fledged demons and they held incredible power on Marzal, where the barriers between Earth and Hell were at their weakest. The demons planned to breed a race of demi-demons, and in time use this new race of creatures to wreak havoc across the face of the Earth.

Tyroc was the first demi-demon to survive birth. His name literally means "Cry of the Devil", which is the sound his mother was said to have made as she died in childbirth. The demons tried to raise Tyroc as their willing agent of evil, but despite the truly horrific circumstances in which he was raised, some spark of goodness survived in him. Long-lived thanks to his demon blood, Tyroc saw generations of his mother's people brutalised and tortured by the demons on his father's side. He recognised the injustice in this, and at the age of 15 he led a rebellion against the demons of Marzal. Tyroc reinforced the dimensional barriers with his own power, trapping the demons on their own side and giving his mother's people true freedom for the first time in centuries.

While he was the first demi-demon though, Tyroc was not the only one. Seven more of his brethren survived his rebellion, their own powers allowing them to remain on Earth. They couldn't match Tyroc's experience so rather than stay and fight, they all fled to the far corners of the Earth. Tyroc felt a responsibility to find them and stop them from hurting innocents, so with mixed emotions he left behind his island home once he had trained a cabal of sorcerors in maintaining the barriers between Hell and Earth themselves. It was in his search for the other demi-demons (or Demonspawn as they now called themselves) that Tyroc met and joined the Legion of Superheroes. Now, he uses the Legion's resources to aid his search for the Demonspawn while using his abilities to aid them in their altruistic deeds generally.

As a demi-demon born within close proximity to the infernal realms, Tyroc has great mystic power. He is generally stronger, more durable and heals faster than humans. He possesses the power of flight. He is completely immune to extremes of heat, and has an indomitable will. He has a natural ability to sense the presence of magic, as well as purity or corruption of spirit in a person or place. Tyroc's most devastating power though is his ability to directly harness the essence of Hell itself in a warcry. He can accomplish various effects with this including pyrokinesis, an emotional or spiritual assault, concussive force, and can even weaken or reinforce dimensional barriers.

Tyroc is naturally enhanced in the presence of evil, and weakened in spiritually pure places or in the presence of spiritually enlightened people, blessed objects and the like....this affects more than just his powers, he physically gains or loses vitality as well. He despises this aspect of himself, as it is a constant reminder that no matter how much good he does, he will always be demonic in nature.

That's mad genius, right there, playing off of the purported meaning of his name 'cry of the devil,' and yet keeping most of his Marzal / slave ship origins intact (and making them so much better than were!).

Very cool!

raz i have to agree with Set! Thats a really great Tyroc!

raz i have to agree with Set! Thats a really great Tyroc!


and thanks! to both raz ans Set on the new Thunder! i thought Steeple was a good place to go. we know so little about it and haven't seen much of it since the Legion Worlds issue.

Very nice thread idea with some very cool concepts!

Let's try...

Sensor Girl of Orando acts as an early-warning device. She can prime herself to detect any of a number of things - evil thoughts, natural calamities, invisible and mystical beings. She can instantly detect the soource of whatver she has primed herself, and instantly transport herself and up to 2 others there. She can also adapt a superpower that will enable her to neutralize said threat - the catch is, she doesn't gain complete mastery of said power right away!

So raz is right, so far its been the ladies getting the over hall. here's another guy.

Colossal Boy- still able to transform in size. but its specific to just hit hands and feet. he can expand both to be the size of 12 feet high and 6 feet wide. with great concentration he can expand his arms to match. but this is much harder to maintain. he does increase in strength but not durability while they are extended.

but he didn't gain it from a meteorite. its a natural ability that runs in his family and He's still from Mars but he was a sports star. He was the equivalent of a goalie in Mar's version of soccer; where they use

during one of the games, a couple of hover chairs malfunctioned. he used his hands to save five children from falling to the harsh Mars field ground. He found out that the malfunction was deliberate and worked with the science police to catch the culprit. because of his ability they suggested he try out for the Legion academy as they might be able to help him learn how to extend more than just his hands and feet.