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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....???

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

Very interesting take on Cosmic Boy, but wow, that Andromeda is indeed, as you say, 'off the charts!'

Marvel has gone so far as to have Cloud, a sentient star, on a hero team, but a sentient galaxy? That's certainly a step into the cosmic!

OK, so now I say, “Surely you jest,” and you say, “Don’t call me Shirley.”

You’re putting the power of a Galaxy in the hands of a teen-ager?

Look, it seemed absurd when the Silver-Age Superman would move a planet by standing on his head. But that takes less than 1% of the power output of the sun. This Andromeda has the power of hundreds of billions of suns: not to mention the supermassive black hole in the center of the Andromeda galaxy. (about thirty times the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.)

All that power compressed into a couple of hundred cubic centimeters? The Andromeda central black hole would approximately extend beyond the the orbit of Pluto—yet Andromeda has quintillions of times the energy density. Does she project a Schwarzchild radius of a couple of billion kilometers around herself?

Superman, Darkseid, the Phoenix Force, Galactus—they are infants compared to her. Extinguishing suns or creating solar systems would be child’s play to this Andromeda. Such feats would not require even an eyeblink’s worth of energy.

Even utilizing the ordinary physics of our Universe (let alone comic book physics) she has enough power to…

1. Create time-zero singularities—that is, singularities that will expand into new universes. Since time-zero singularities have vanishingly small masses (until they explode in a “big bang”, creating new mass and time) she should be able to create very large numbers of them.

2. Re-unify the four forces; then re-break the symmetry, possibly in a different way, probably creating new forces and universal laws. She can probably manipulate the Higgs field, or create new Higgs fields.

3. Warp space sufficiently to transform vector space dimensions into scalar time dimensions, and vice versa. She ought to be able to create additional space-time dimensions beyond the four (or nineteen) that we ordinarily experience.

I cannot even begin to imagine these power levels. Concepts like “speed”, “strength” and “invulnerability” are meaningless. How invulnerable are a hundred billion stars?

I can't even begin to conceptualize it. Maybe Stephen Hawking could work it out. Although this might be more along Sheldon Cooper's line.

Assuming she knows how to do any of that stuff, sure...as a fracture of consciousness bound to humanoid form, she's limited to what she can actually conceive of herself doing/being. With her primary influences being a bunch of teenagers who run around punching things as hard as they can, it makes sense that's how she would apply herself as well.

She's the kind of character I think who works best for a limited duration....as time goes by, she would gain more knowledge about herself and more applications for her power, and it would get to the point where she's more of a plot device than a character...by that point though she'd be ready to rejoin Kismet and leave this scale of existence behind and her story as Andromeda would be over. I guess an analogy might be that any human being could live the rest of his/her life playing god to a cage full of mice, but why would anyone want to limit themselves to that existence?

Raz, both are really great. but i have to agree that Andromeda is wow!

i think it would be awesome to watch her story unfold.

Nightwind - (inspiration for this comes from Raz's current storyline in his Postl3w Legion series.)

Berta Skye Haris was born on Earth, but traveled around the U.P. with her parents who were U.P. delegate staff members. During her travels she got to see many different worlds and explore.

During her visit to Kathoon, it was during a lunar eclipse. since the world is shielded in darkness perpetually, the lunar eclipse would bathe the planet in silver light. It was a great sight to see.
But no one knew that there was a dark presence on Kathoon, that was waiting for the lunar eclipse. That presence was Xola a leader of a vampire sect on Kathoon.
He obtained some magical amulets to help him and his people withstand the lunar eclipse. The reason for the protection is that this lunar eclipse was a cursed that was placed on them by their arch nemesis. They were cursed to be slain by the lunar eclipse every ten years. because of this and the insurgence of more off worlder's, installing more lighting fixtures their numbers have dwindled. But with these amulets they will survive it and turn as many people as they can during it.

As the lunar eclipse began Xola and his army of vampires descended a pone Nightmare hill, where the best view of the eclipse was. Berta and her family ran but they soon were caught and bitten.
Xola took Berta's life and became her sire.

but when Berta pulled away from him, she pulled his amulet from him,and he died instantly. But Berta was still bitten and being changed into a vampire.
rescued by Xola's second in command Jedth and put the amulet on her to save her from the lunar eclipse's deathly light.

taking the young girl in, he showed her the ways of their coven. But Berta still resisted the vampiric urges and had yet to feed on a sentient being. She found that the amulet gives her strength in helping her sustain without blood.

When the next lunar eclipse happened, Berta and her people charged into the light again. But this time they were interrupted by a visiting Legion of Super Heroes.

Facing off against the likes of Timber Wolf, Night Girl, Shadow Lass,and Cosmic Boy.
The vampires were no match for the legionnaires. Berta was captured by the Legionnaires. Berta, who didn't want to attack anyone, and still felt as if she a shred of her actual soul and humanity; agreed to help the Legion.

She helped lead the legion to the vampires and helped round them up. She only agreed to help as long as they could be relocated to another planet that was suited for the vampire life and away from all other sentient beings. even though she didn't believe in her peoples way, she didn't think it was reason to have them all die.

because of her willingness to help the legion and still help save her own people the legion asked her to join their ranks.

when she arrived on earth she found that the amulet allowed her to walk in direct sunlight and allowed her to still use her natural vampire powers. she must hide this fact though from the Legion.

The Legion figured her only problem was from the need to feed. the Legion put Brianiac 5 to work on a way to make a synthetic blood for her to live off of.

In the 31st century,, the lizard-like scientist race known as the Psions were investigating… well, everything.
A certain group thought it would be cool (in a purely logical, cold-blooded way) to create and army of super-powered Kryptonians to do their bidding.

First, they needed samples of Kr-DNA for experimentation. These they found readily available among the remaining Phantom Zone criminals.
Next, they used elementary recombinant DNA technologies to create what they considered to be the “perfect” Kryptonian genome.

They then needed to construct replicas of the Kryptonian birthing chambers. This was somewhat more difficult, and involved time travel—and more than one unsuccessful attempt.
At last, they had something under a thousand embryos incubating.
This is when the United Planets stepped in.
Alerted by the Intergalactic Counter-Intelligence Corps, the UP Science Police intercepted the Psion laboratory-ship, destroyed the equipment found their, and took the Psions as prisoners, charging them as enemy combatants.

There was a debate regarding the birthing chambers and the embryos. Many were in favor of simply destroying them all. The Daxamites, however, offered another solution.

As no psychic programming had been begun by the Psions, the chambers would by taken back to Daxam. The embryos would be allowed to develop normally, They would then be mainstreamed into Daxamite society; fostered out as orphans. Their true Kryptonian origins would be unknown, except by a secret oversight committee, who would monitor the development of the Kr-children.

This would result in an increase of less than .01% in the population of their generation, The Kr-children would live out their lives as ordinary Daxamites,, and in a century, no one would know the difference.

However.

At the age of twelve years, all Daxamite children undergo an intensive sequence of psychological examinations and aptitude tests to project what profession and place in Daxamite society they would be most fitted to.

The Kryptonian children proved to be exceptional.

They were significantly more outgoing, adventurous, and charismatic than the average Daxamite. They also scored highly in emotional intelligence, particularly empathy. Many were suited to be high-level executive administrators, entrepreneurs, and politicians. Many were projected to be excellent physicians—not merely the biomedical researchers that many Daxamites qualified as, but actual doctor-to-patient, face-to-face physicians.

An alarming number—nearly one-quarter— showed non-standard patterns of thinking to the point of being a possible criminal danger. These were slated for psychic re-education in impulse control and social consciousness.

But two of the group were of particular concern.

One Kr-Child named Gol Ber, was impulsive and rash. For example, at the age of ten, he had been at the site of a freak accident. Most of Daxam is powered by geothermal (daxothermal?) energy generators. These are located throughout the substructure of the cities. One of these generators had run out of control, causing a planetquake and fire in the school Gol attended. Nearly all the teachers and students escaped without incident, but there were three children who were unaccounted for. Gol recklessly ran back into the school, moving desks and lifting fragments of walls until he had found and freed the three trapped children. It is likely the children would have been rescued anyway by the Daxamite SP anyway, but by the time they showed up, it was only Gol who needed attention, due to severe smoke inhalation, burns, bruises, and physical exhaustion. Gol spent some time in hospital after that incident.

The other problem child was Tamila Hon, well-known to her former teachers as a troublemaker. Tamila was involved in nearly every fight in her grades, both on- and off-campus, and always taking the weaker side. She ended up starting a number of fights herself, constantly demanding apologies from students who bullied, teased, or belittled more vulnerable students. By the time she was twelve, she was being home-schooled, and appeared to be reformed, but it was well-known that if an injustice came to Tamila’s attention, somehow the perpetrator found his or her life suddenly became—well, interesting—for a period of time.

Looking at their histories, psychological profiles and aptitude tests it was obvious: these two had an incurable “saving-people thing.”

There was only one thing to do.

Gol and Tamila’s Kryptonian heritage was revealed to them, and to their foster parents, by the oversight committee; no mention was made of the existence of the other Kr-children. Gol and Tamila were to be given new identities. The Ber and Hol families were to keep this information in the strictest confidence.

The two were then enrolled in the Legion Academy on Earth.

Both taking the 21st-century Superman’s symbol as their own, Gol Ber adopted a black-and-indigo costume; Tamila Hon went with pink.

The 31st-century Superboy and Supergirl .






Quotes:

“I can’t believe it. My own child… *choke* an alien .”— Ma Ber

“I suppose it’s for the best. He’ll be among his own kind now.”— Pa Ber

“How could they do this to us? Those two chambers should have been destroyed thirteen years ago.”— Ma Hon

“I knew there was something strange about that ‘girl’ from the very beginning. But this!”— Pa Hon

“Well, actually, I think it’s kind of frunt. I mean, an alien. Right here in school. I mean, you know, wow.”— Jak La-Hey, schoolmate of Tamila Hon.

“What else could we do? Daxam has no place for heroics.”— Lart Behr, DaxGov spokesman

By the 31st century, the Amazon nation had left Earth, and settled on a distant planet. The island of Themiscrya is now no more than a tourist resort off mainland Greece. This is where young Max Izor worked as a parking lot attendant at the Museum of Trees. Eschewing the popular boutiques and other “hot spots”, Max spent most of his spare time scuba-diving in the Aegean. An bizarre incident involving an unexpectedly rapid current and a large squid led him to discover a secret underwater cave.

Emerging into fresh air within the cave, Max was greeted by the strange sight of two stone statues—remarkably lifelike in appearance—which seemed to be staring into a large, open box decorated with elaborate scrollwork and intaglio. Acquainted with Greek myth since a child, Max suspected the truth. Looking into a mirrored shield hanging nearby, he saw that it was, indeed, the severed head of the Gorgon Medusa in the box. Resisting the terrible urge to turn and look directly into the eyes of the hideous head, Max closed the box, placed it back on a shelf, and began to explore.

The cave was itself a museum of many of the implements of power of the ancient Gods and heroes of myth. Hermes’ helm of invisibility, winged sandals, and caduceus were here, as was the bow and quiver of Artemis. The Trident of Poseidon gave power over the sea, the Globe of Helios generated light and heat. The Staff of Charon gave the power to see and converse with ghosts. The Sword of Hades sundered the soul without harming the body. The Shield of Achilles foretold the future to those able to interpret the engravings.

Many of the magical devices and tools were not immediately obvious in their function. The Bridle of Pegasus seemed useless without the winged horse. The lion-cowl of Herakles did not appear to confer great strength. On the other hand, a collection of mysterious golden ovoids proved upon later experimentation to be the Thunderbolts of Zeus.

Taking the name GEAR, after the magical gear which he utilized, Max applied to the Legion of Super-Heroes—and was rejected, as his powers are not innate, but relied on mechanisms. Nevertheless, he continued to experiment with and refine his skills with the mythical weapons and implements. He has occasionally associated or teamed with the Legion, and has proved himself a competent and even valuable ally, especially when facing some sort of magical threat.

re Nightwind: glad I could be of inspiration, Omni!

re Gear: I love using the name of a technologically-based character for someone who uses mythological artifacts, and the name actually makes more sense this way! It's also pretty cool to see a character with a vague link to Wonder Woman without necessarily being the 31st century Wonder Girl/Boy

ECHO: The young squire Mychastor had a relatively good life growing up on Orando. His family were wealthy enough that life was rarely a struggle, but not so high up in Orandan society that they needed to overly concern themselves with political intrigue.

From the time he'd been a young child it was well known that Mychastor showed some vague predisposition toward psychic ability. On a planet like Orando this in itself was far from uncommon, and there were plenty of Orandans whose abilities were stronger or more disciplined than his own. It was seen more as a quirky novelty than anything really useful; at times he might sense that someone's father had recently passed away, or know that a lady's brooch had been handed down from her grandmother, but it wasn't very often useful beyond the occasional parlor trick.

That all changed the day Queen Projectra's disgraced cousin Prince Pharoxx made a bid to take Orando by force. Pharoxx had found favor with Orandan dissidents who were unhappy with their queen's more egalitarian worldview. They struck during one of her frequent absences, and while her more loyal servants defended Orando bravely it was Mychastor who really turned the tide of battle that day.

Pharoxx had personally slain the knight who had been Mychastor's mentor. When the evil prince moved to kill the knight's family, Mychastor grabbed his mentor's weapon and fought with all the skill of the dead hero. When that skill proved insufficient, he cast all weapons aside and downed Pharoxx with a mastery of martial arts not seen since the death of the original Karate Kid. When the cowardly Pharoxx turned to sorcery to kill Mychastor, the young squire inexplicably transformed into a being of iron, taking on the one form which was a perfect nemesis to magic. Pharoxx's spells were useless against him, and he was physically no match against the boy. He had no choice but to surrender.

Projectra returned to her world as soon as possible, and when she heard what Mychastor had done she insisted on meeting him in person. She noticed instantly that there was something unique about the young boy, and she asked her colleague the White Witch for her input. The White Witch discerned that Mychastor has one singularly powerful innate mystic ability; he can call upon the essence of anyone who has died in his vicinity, and use their skills or powers as though they were his own. Depending on how strong-willed the deceased was, or how strong their emotional connection to a person or place, he sometimes feels or remembers certain things himself as though he were an echo of the deceased.

Projectra convinced Mychastor to join the Legion Academy to hone his talents and to experience life outside of Orando. He graduated there with far more precise control and versatility than he'd had when he entered, and when Projectra left the Legion to devote herself to her world as a full-time monarch he was honored to take Sensor Girl's place in the Legion of Superheroes as the hero named Echo.

Some of the older Legionnaires initially found it creepy when he would take on aspects of deceased comrades like Ferro Lad, Chemical King or Lyle Norg, but they have since become accustomed to it and some of them even like having a reminder of their old friends pop up every now and then to help save the day.

That's an awesome 'echo,' and I love how he even duplicated Nemesis Kid's powers!

I like the consistency of the idea, how, right from the beginning (knowing that someone's relative had just died, or that a brooch was someone's grandmothers), the nature of his powers (tapping into the knowledge of the dead) was right there in the open.

Raz you made another awesome Legionnaire and i love how you included the reactions of the other legion members.

i love this one! i would love to read a back up feature of This GEAR and see how he uses all of the different mystical artifacts.

Zerox is the socerer's world, but other planets have areas where magic is strong. One such place was the island of Loa in the Southern hemisphere of Lallor. The island is considered inhospitable and most people stay away from it. But there a cult of Anima developed. The cult practiced magic involving the life essense of all things.

Among the cultists, young Somi Gan was most adept at weilding the forces on anima. Unlike the rest of the cult, Somi also had a desire to explore the world outside the island. When the government made its yearly inspection of the island, Somi snuck aboard the flyer.

As fate would have it Somi arrived at the capital of Lallor just as a rebel force attacked the city. She was horrified to see soldiers on both sides firing indiscriminately, killing innocent civilians. Calling upon the magic of the anima, Somi brought the dead back to a semblance of life. She then commanded this army of undead to attack the soldiers. Many soldiers were unnerved by the sight of this undead army, including some of their former comrades. The fighting soon ended.

Although most of the citizens were horrified by the animated dead, they also realized that Somi had prevented even more people from being killed. Somi explained as best she could her anima magic and took the name Life Lass.

About thirty thousand years ago, just as Cro-Magnon man was wiping out the last of the Neanderthals, the planet Koellus suffered an almost unimaginable ecological disaster.

In the 31st century, the oceans of Koellus are still so heavily acidic that almost no life can survive there. The largest form of ocean life currently is a sort of tiny salt-water pinworm, feeding upon the sparse krill-like creatures which still live in the oceans. The surfaces of the oceans are also still thickly encrusted with the gradually decaying detritus of the long-dead Koellion super-civilization. Now mostly various plastics, polymers, and other synthetics remain. Finally, the overheated environment makes the oceans so hot that they literally reach boiling temperatures near the equator.

The steam from the equatorial oceans rises high into the atmosphere, spreading thick, black storm clouds throughout the planetary atmosphere. Ninety percent of the light of Koellus’s sun never reaches the ground. The black, desolate, rocky surface is frequently, although briefly, illuminated by flashes of lightning from continual thunderstorms. The largest land animal is a tiny twelve-legged beetle, the largest no larger than ½ inch in length. The larvae of this beetloid feed on the rotting lichen which grows on the rocky landscape, and upon the massive ruins of the ancient Koellion cities. When mature, these beetles become cannibalistic, warring amongst themselves and feeding upon one another’s corpses, until only a few gorged adults remain. These then mate, each female laying thousands of eggs apiece among the rotting lichen, and the cycle begins all over again.

Few would have any reason to visit this depressing desolate planet, but the Legion received intelligence that a group of Space-Pirates was using the world as a base of operations. Thus, the Espionage Squad was sent to scout out the world, and confirm the existence of the so-called Koellion Pirate Base there.

They found nothing. The planet appeared empty of higher life forms, and most lower ones. However, as Phantom Girl searched through a ruined city, she did discover one other living being: herself. Or rather, a strange duplicate of herself. Indeed, the creature possessed not only her appearance, but her powers, skills, memories, mind and even personality. The only thing distinguishing the creature from Phantom Girl herself was that it manifested in a palette of pale purples and grays.

Returning to Earth with the Espionage Squad, the creature calling itself Apparition displayed its ability to perfectly duplicate any other Legionnaire, from Bouncing Boy to Mon-El. Each duplicate, however, is easily distinguished from the original in that it is colored in nothing but various shades and hues of purple and gray.


In its natural form, Apparition appears as a diaphanous, purplish-gray, indistinct semi-humanoid shape. Imagine an appearance something between the Time Trapper and a column of lavender fog. However, it is seldom seen in this form, as it only assumes this appearance when there are no other entities around for it to duplicate. Otherwise, it immediately transforms itself into the first living object it perceives.

It perfectly replicates any other being’s appearance, powers, skills, memories, and personality. It must stay relatively near to the original to retain this form, however. If it is separated from its original by more than about two miles, it will revert to its natural form, and then immediately replicate the closest living being. If the original dies, it also reverts to its natural form.

It must be within line-of-sight to replicate another creature. In its natural form, it has rather undeveloped senses, unable to perceive any creature smaller than about ten kilograms. As a human, however, it can easily transform into small animals, birds, or even insects. Using Daxamite microscopic vision, it can even replicate a minute bacterium or virus.

It is unwise to allow Apparition to replicate the more powerful Legionnaires. It is all too easy for Mon-El or Ultra Boy to become separated from Apparition by the critical distance, and Apparition will immediately assume the attributes—including the evil disposition—of its opponent, doubling the initial threat.

When changing forms, Apparition loses all the memories it had previously replicated, and even gradually loses all the memories it acquired while in the previous form. There is therefore no way of knowing how long Apparition has existed. It may be millennia old, or a very recent phenomenon. It is possible that it was responsible for the disappearance of the rumored Koellion Pirates, or even the entire ancient Koellion civilization, but there is no easy way to verify this.

It is possible, of course, that Apparition does, in fact, retain the memories of its previous incarnations, and is merely lying about its true nature and history. In its replicant forms, its thoughts and thought patterns are indistinguishable to Saturn Girl from the originals, and in its gauzy, natural form, its mind is a perfect blank to all telepathic inquiry.

Apparition’s powers are transcendental in nature. It is possibly that it is itself merely an ancient natural force. Should it encounter one of them, it would effortlessly—and unconsciously— duplicate a Guardian, Doctor Fate, the Spectre, Zauriel, Mordru, Darkseid, Omen or the Prophet, the Phantom Stranger, the Demon Nekron, even one of the Avatars of the Emotional Spectrum, or Wally the God-Child.

Brainiac 5 has suggested that Apparition might be taken to certain remote world devoid of animal life, and be asked to duplicate one of the huge long-lived trees there. After millennia, when its parent tree dies, it would then replicate the next nearest tree, and then the next, and might be kept safely isolated from the rest of the Universe for hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years. It would also be perfectly content, in the same way that long-lived giant trees are content.

Other Legionnaires have argued that Apparition is no more dangerous than The Miracle Machine was, and in the meantime, it is so confoundedly useful that the Legion keeps it under careful observation at Legion Headquarters, and frequently includes it—well-chaperoned—on some of the more important Legion missions.


When Apparition duplicates another being, red becomes violet, blue becomes indigo, yellow and white become pale lavender, and black becomes a deep, dark purple. As Lightning Lad, it produces lavender lightning bolts. As Sun Boy, it produces a magenta radiance. As a Green Lantern, it produces a violet light, but with the properties of Will rather than Love. As Rainbow Girl, it projects a rainbow of purples and grays, no matter what its emotional state. As Color Kid or Chameleon Boy—unlike in any of its other forms—its powers are severely curtailed, as it is limited to producing only the shorter wave-lengths of the spectrum. Green Kryptonite, however, affects its purplish Kryptonian forms just as it would any other natural Kryptonian.

Is the world Koellus a pre-existing 'Legion World' or one of your own imagining? I love the detail, in any event!

That it downshifts all colors to the dark purple end of the spectrum is a neat touch.

To quote the White Knight in Through the Looking Glass, "It's my own invention."

There do seem to be an unusual preponderance of cloud-covered, rocky, desolate worlds in Science Fiction films, however.

agreed. i love the detail.

i also think that Apparition could easily be the secret weapon that could be brought in to help at the last moment; maybe even the weirdo Legionnaire.

Element Lad - Born on Trom Jan Arrah was a mutant among his people. They all could transmute elements but he was a literal living, breathing being of elements. He could consciously control his body to shift into various elements. Jan was kept apart from most Tromians as a child due to his constant state of transitioning as a child. When Jan finally learned to control his transitions, he still chose to spend much of his time in constant transitional states. He learned to meditate during these times and it seems to have made him a little bit of a space case because he spends much time day dreaming. Since Jan has chosen to stay in his transitional states so often, he hasn't really learned social skills. He can be very abrasive when he talks. He also doesn't understand basic sentient relationships.

When the White Triangle members of Daxam came to Trom and destroyed their world, Jan's transitional state saved him, as he instinctively transmuted himself into Rock and merged with the ground beneath him. As his world was incinerated Jan meditated and spread himself through out crust of trom trying his best to save whatever he could of Trom. But he wasn't fast enough to save any people. For he wasn't even sure he could transmute them, the way he does himself. After everything was gone Jan released everything that he had saved. Creating a museum and memorial to his people. Jan for the first time felt connected to his people while he was buried in the crust of Trom. The reason being that has they were incinerated by the Damixiaets, the energies of his people were transferred to him and he is a living memorandum to his people.

Jan spent a few years trying to help heal his planet. Crystal markings littler the grounds where Jan was able to find some remains of a Tromian body.

One day when He was transmuting more remains and helping the ground regrow some of its fertile green grass, when there was a Legion envoy that came to his world. The legion was scouting for hospital worlds after the White Triangle War; which ravaged several planets through out the U.P. before the Legion stopped them two years after the war began.

Now the legion was underway to try and find worlds that could be repopulated with survivor's of the known destroyed worlds, for the Legion didn't know that Trom was destroyed by the White Triangle.

Jan didn't great them right away. He spied on them for a minuet or two before he was discovered by Saturn Girl's telepathy. She sensed him. He didn't fear them and he appeared before them rising out from the crust of Trom. Saturn Girl scanned him and helped him establish a psychic link to the group to allow him to communicate. Learning all they did about his world and Him learning about what transpired after his home world was extinguished.

Believing his world wasn't quite ready yet for anyone to return to it, Jan invited the Legion visit when every they would like.


Years later such an occasion arose. The Legion had been banned from Earth. Forced to find another home base. The Legion remembered Jan's offer and took up residency on Trom. Not long after their new headquarters was attacked by the Fatal 5 and Jan used his powers of transmutation to help defeat them. At that moment they asked Jan to join the Legion as Element Lad!

Interesting take on Element Lad. I'd made a child of Element Lad at one point with that power, able to only change herself into a pure element, but this is quite a bit more creative!

I like the idea of the power of transmutation flowing from the dead Tromnians to Jan. It suits my own sense of 'balance' for every single Tromnian not to have had planet-altering levels of transmutation, but for Jan's own powers to represent the power of his entire race, passed on to him with the death of his people.

(And it comes with a built in 'powerdown' option, in that if Jan ever has a child, or is cloned?, some of his power passes on to them.)

Exactly and i agree there had to be some type of balance.

I just felt his name is Element lad, so why not have him actually be of the elements.