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Kring-el was proud to be the 437th Earl of Sussex as well as a direct descendant of Kara Zor-el, the first Supergirl and part-time member of the Legion of Superheroes. Although Kring would have loved to have met his ancestor during one of her visits to the 31st century, the chance of disrupting the time stream was too great. Unknown to Kring was that Homo Magi blood also flowed in his veins. A visit to Zerox awakened the magic in Kring. His magic was limited though. He could pull any object that he needed from any bag, box, chest, pouch, or anything that can hold something else. The size of the object is not limited by the size of the bag, etc. He once pulled a Legion cruiser out of Dawnstar's belt pouch.

Kring knew that his power did not qualify him for Legion membership, so instead he joined the Legion of Substitute Heroes as Sir Prize.

Hearing that her cousin Kring-el had awakened his Homo Magi genes by traveling to Zerox, his cousin Terry Spencer also took a trip to Zerox. Terry's did have some Homo Magi genes but also some Orandian genes as well. Terry also got a power. She could make everyone in a 2 mile radius look just like her for 3 hours. She joined her cousin in the Legion of Substitute Heroes as Miss Terry Us.

Xao Jin awoke from a long sleep. Even as he stretched, he felt that something was wrong. His bed looked much bigger than he remembered it. As if by instinct he reached a hand up to rub the sleep from his eyes when he realized that this was not something he should be able to do. Xao ran to the nearby pool of water, surprised that he was running on two legs instead of four. Looking into the water, Xao saw not his own handsome visage looking back, but that of a humanoid. Granted the humanoid did have silvery scales and not that soft ridiculous flesh. Xao yelled in shock as he realized that this puny humanoid staring back at him was himself.

It took weeks for Xao to travel from his mountain retreat to the center of the humanoids' magical academy on Zerox. And every day he cursed the loss of his beautiful leathery wings. Still, during that trip, he learned that despite his diminutive size, he still retained the strength of a dragon and that the scales on his body still provided amazing protection. But he was in for disappointment. The mages could not detect any alteration magic on Xao. This change was not magical in nature. They did discover that Xao could breath both fire or freezing cold water. Not sure what to do next, Xao consulted with an augury. The ceremony took a day and a half and the answer Xao got was this. "Your answer is on Earth among the many planets."

Xao was a bit wary about traveling to a planet that knew little about magic. The elemental mages to go see their former pupil, the White Witch, who was now a member of the Legion of Superheroes. Xao did so and eventually joined the team as Dragonmage. While Xao never did discover the answer to how he was transformed (Brainiac 5 suspected that he was a mutant), he did find a sense of purpose and a family among the humanoids.

Ooh, Dragonmage as an actual dragon! Very, very awesome!

A dragon-humanoid is a fun way to play a very different sort of 'paragon' character in a superhero RPG. You've got great strength, bulletproof scales, winged flight, incredible dragon senses, and can breathe a blast of fire. Basically, all the powers of a 'Superman' wannabe (barring super-speed), and yet not at all recognizable as a 'Superman-clone' like the Sentry or Supreme or Gladiator.

Xao Jin is an odd name. Jin means gold. Xao doesn't seem to be a common spelling for anything, although Xiao has a *dozens* of possible meanings (none of them dragon, sadly, as 'gold dragon' would be a fun name for a character who actually *is* a gold dragon, and not at all out of line for a universe in which people can have names like Reep Daggle or Roy G. Biv...).

I quite like the re-imagining of Dragonmage as an actual dragon! Making it a non-magical transformation could lead to some interesting stories too!

According to Wikipedia Xao Jin is the name of the original Dragonmage.

Yup, I actually looked it up because I'd been misspelling it Xiao Jin all these years.

Dragon-themed characters rock, whether they conjure dragons of energy or actually are dragons!

Wicked cool XS, Thothkins. I love how He's tied to a different 20h century dynasty but in a very original way.
a bouncing force of discord. i'd love to see that in art work!

Zoe once worked for Brande Industries as a Stargate repair person. One day Zoe, was fixing the Stargate near Aleph, her home world. While out there a meteor shower began. The Starget's repelling shields were down and the reason Zoe was there.

The Stargate began to malfunction and opened with Zoe at its epicenter, The gravity from the Stargate affected the meteor's and slowed them down stealing their momentum and transferring it to Zoe. Infusing her and transforming her into a kinetic energy being. Zoe, who was then worried about not surviving and found herself teleported back to her home world.

Scientist discovered Zoe once she landed because they tracked the energy signature that she left in her wake as she teleported from place to place across the planet, as she stole more kinetic energy from those around her.

Capturing her in an energy chamber, they did their best to bleed all excess kinetic energy from her, to keep her from continuously teleporting. Once they figured out how to keep her in one place, they studied her and eventually got her to return to her humanoid form.

They helped her refine her abilities to be able to to absorb kinetic energy and then use that energy to teleport people by transforming herself and others into Stargate energy: which allows her to open personalized Stargate networks. Then usining the momentum she gains once in energy form to move around allows her to teleport long distances.

Finding her way to earth Zoe applied for membership into the Legion during one of their open calls as Kin-et-ix.

Zoe joined their ranks as she became instrumental in the Legion's plan to win against the Dominator's who had destroyed the Stargate network to cripple the U.P.

being the sole transport for the entire Legion and several hundred U.P. navel forces was a hard task and with the help of Brainiac 5 and his energy amplifier Kin-et-ix extended herself and her powers to the limit with the fist jump. But when the fleets needed to retreat Zoe wasn't sure if she could do another jump. But she pushed herself to and in doing so brought everyone home safe but at a cost.

That day Kin-et-ix gave her life to save the fleet and the Legion from a losing battle. but that proved useful as the Legion figured out how to restore the Stargate network. giving them back their advantage.

Kin-et-ix's golden statue stand in the Hall of Heroes. Remembered as a true hero.

Charles Taine wanted to join the Legion of Superheroes more than anything else, but as a Titanian telepath, he knew he'd never make the league while Saturn Girl was on the team...not unless he could bring something to the table that she couldn't. Studying holos obsessively, he realised he'd never seen Saturn Girl mind-control a foe. Not recognizing this as being a sign of Imra's strict ethic code, he instead assumed she was incapable of it. He devoted the next year of his life to perfecting his own mind-control abilities and went to a Legion tryout as Possession Prince.

Young Charles never even got a chance to show the Legion what he could do before the Fatal Five chose that moment to attack. They knocked out several Legionnaires, and Mano himself disintegrated Charles' body during the battle. The very moment before his death, Charles' mind reached out desperately and he found himself inhabiting the form of the unconscious Lightning Lad. He took Mano out, but a couple of minutes later Garth gained consciousness and Charles' astral self was bounced out of his body to the next nearest host - Mano himself. Charles didn't want to be responsible for killing anyone so he bounced from Mano to Ultra Boy, only to find that he could only possess a conscious target for a few seconds before being bounced whether he liked it or not. He continued bouncing from target to target, Legionnaire to would-be Legionnaire to even the Fatal Five themselves, and in the confusion nobody really knew what was going on.

It was only when he eventually found himself in possession of Validus that he'd found a neural network powerful enough to house him indefinitely paired with an opposing will weak enough that he could overcome. In Validus' body he helped repel the villains, and with Saturn Girl's help the Legion figured out what had happened to him. With Charles' original body ash, and any other conscious mind repelling him in seconds, Brainiac 5 had to come to the rescue. He built Charles an artificial plasti-steel floating globe capable of storing his psyche.

With the addition of a voice modulator he can communicate with the outside world, and given the circumstances the Legion saw no choice but to induct him into the team. Charles' condition has given him an irreverent gallows humor, and he gave up his original code name to be called Bouncing Boy. As he can only possess a conscious host for a few seconds before being ejected, he figures this describes his power set much better.

That's an insanely cool take on 'Bouncing' Boy! I love it, from the bad assumption about Imra's powers (and ethics) and the Silver Age-y 'Possession Prince' to shout-outs like Garth being the one to get possessed first and the later 'brain-globe' containment suit.

It's like a grab-bag of Silver Age tropes, all rolled up into one origin!

And a well-designed power, with a built in drawback to keep it from getting out of hand. He's kind of a sideways look at Quislet, a little energy dude who bops into people, instead of objects, and controls them for a short time (and doesn't disintegrate them on the way out!).

Ellis Dean is known as Dream Boy. He has the power to make the dreams of others come true.

Like that one where you having lunch with King Arthur, and all the Knights of the Round Table are six-inch-tall giraffes… or where that big blue thing is after you… or where you open the door in the side of a hill and are immediately attacked by thousands of carnivorous shoes…

Although he cannot control or anticipate what dream manifests when he uses his power, the dreams are always both intense and personal. No dream lasts longer than sixty seconds (although time within the dream may pass differently) and he is able to stop a dream if it is too dangerous.

In some ways, his powers are the opposite of Projectra’s: her illusions are convincing, yet unreal, his dream-projections are preposterous, but really happening.

Due to the random nature of his powers, he ended up in the Legion of Substitute Heroes Auxiliary.

Lots of Earth-S (Shazam) Legion alternates on this thread

According to the United Planets Astronomics Authority, it is known as N-378, but it calls itself by a complex chain of chemical reactions. For over 3 billions years, it thought itself was the only sentient in the universe. That is until the Green Lantern Mogo saved it from a Sun Eater. Mogo revealed to N-378 that the universe was filled with sentient beings, but that most were infinitesimally smaller that N-378. After Mogo left, N-378 decided that it wanted to explore the worlds of these microscopic (to it) sentients. N-378 was able to split off a part of itself that would retain its sentience. (the amount was relatively like a human splitting off an atom from her body)

Traveling at the speed of light, it took this part 1200 years to reach an inhabited world. On this world, he molded his form into a humanoid shape and reduced his body temperature so as not to cause other object or beings to melt or burst into flames.

In meeting other sentients, it was asked its name was. It tried to convey the complex chemical reaction, but no one understood it. One person said that it looked like her cousin Staq, so it took the name Staq. Staq knew how much of the physical universe worked, but interactions with other sentients was something brand new to it. Staq loved all this new knowledge of interaction and sought out the best ways in which to experience it. Over time, Staq was able to cool its body enough so that it looked like most humanoids rather than a being of flame.

Staq eventually traveled to Earth and tried out for the Legion of Superheroes as Fire Lad. It wanted to experience being part of a group with a purpose. Fire Lad demonstrated its powers to generate flames at various intensities and to travel at the speed of light. Staq was rejected for being over the age limit as specified in the Legion Constitution. However when he was approached by Polar Boy & Night Girl, it said that the reason for its rejection was that it was unable to control the flame it produced. That is how Fire Lad became a founding member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

Occasionally Staq wouldtravel back to N-378 and get reabsorbed in order to share its new experiences with itself. And then Staq would be split off again.

Fire Lad is brilliant! I was just wondering the other day about how I'd reinterpret the Subs...I love the idea of him being an offshoot of a star, and I like the way he came across the name Staq too

That is a cool take on Fire Lad!

A more cosmic powered group of 'Subs' could be scary.

Imagine 'Night Girl' as a primordial entity of darkness, known in the past as Apep or Tiamat or Ratri, or any of a dozen other night-gods or goddesses, or Infectious Lass as an actual viral hive-mind inhabiting a humanoid body, or Color Kid as a hyperintelligent shade of the color blue.

Oh sure, steal my ideas for Night Girl & Infectious Lass

I felt I cheated a little with Fire Lad. There is another thread with re-imaged Legionnaires (but tied as a group story) I did a new Blok which has a similar origin.

Here is that thread. The link goes to my Blok origin, but there are a whole bunch more that are real good

http://www.legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=135282&page=5

Frenk & Dyvud Mulligan were identical twin brothers. They are also mutants. When they clasp hands and concentrate, they are able to go back in time 9 minutes. Using the knowledge they have of the immediate future, they make a formidable opponent. They cannot use their power to go back further than 9 minutes as it takes that long for their power to recharge after each use.

Frenk wanted to call themselves "Do-over". While Dyvud wanted to call themselves "Replay". They tried-out for the Legion with Cosmic Boy and False Pretenses Lad. Cosmic Boy said that the 9 minute time limit reminded him of the 9 innings of the ancient sport of baseball and that 2 back-to-back games were called a "Double-Header". Saturn Girl convinced them that their power would be more effective if it was a secret power and the codename "Double-Header" obscured their power. So Dyvud & Frenk agreed to the new codename.

Double-Header proved a valuable member of the Legion, saving 14 Legionnaires from death by the use of their power.

love Double Header. wicked inventive. do you think with practice they could expand their time limit?

and can they only use their powers separately? each only able to reverse time by 4.5 minuets?

I'll leave that for future writers who want to tweak the characters.

The native inhabitants of Gliese were descended from arachnids. They were the size of a Terran humanoid. The Gliesians had four arms from their torso and a bulbous abdomen supported on four legs. Their four legs allowed them to leap 20 feet. They had multiple eyes which allowed them a 360 degree field of vision. Their spinerettes produced a sticky webbing that was as tough as leather. Each Glisian had a spinerette in their abdomen and two from their upper arms.

Sussa Paka was fascinated by the stories she heard of the Legion of Superheroes. That beings her own age were using super-powers and abilities to help those in need and to stand up against evil intrigued her the most. When she found out that some Legionnaires came from worlds in which everybody had the same power, Sussa knew she had to try out for the Legion. Scraping together all her savings (and borrowing from some friends) Sussa traveled from Gliese to Earth.

Taking the name of Spider Girl, Sussa passed her try-out and became a Legionnaire. Initially some of the humanoid Legionnaires were skittish around her due to her arachnid appearance, but eventually all came to admire the young heroine. Her first Legionnaire friend was Veilmist, who knew what it was liked to be shunned and bullied for her appearance.

Awesome non-humanoid Legionnaire! Spider Girl as an actual Spider Girl! (Perhaps even a futuristic or AU take on the Spider Guild?)

I like that you picked Gliese, a star that may have habitable worlds in real-life.

Isabeau 'Bo' Blaise grew up on the colony world of New Calais, primarily settled by Francophones from Earth, in the haunted port city of Lake Royal (Lacreal), the 'City of Tears,' so named after the tragedy that befell the original colonists after it was discovered that the lake was the spawning ground of a local predatory species that hibernated for decades after spawning, giving the settlers the false indication that the area was predator-free and safe to settle.

After an incident during a science fair project involing atomic fission, she developed the power to split atoms within thirty meters of her position, at first singly, but over time in greater numbers and quite quickly, creating tiny explosions, at first barely detectable, but growing more intense as she caused multiple atoms to split at the same time. She can use this effect to cause tiny explosions to occur all around a target, to startle or disorient them, less powerful even than recreational firecrackers, or, faced with an out of control construction droid, detonate hundreds of atoms at once deep within the machine, with the force of a grenade, and her powers can react quickly enough to blast some projectiles off-course by detonating atoms within them, causing some attacks directed her way to swerve away faster than she consciously recognizes their threat.

Named 'La Frisse,' on her home world, she goes by Atom Girl when she visits Earth, or other worlds where French is not the lingua franca.

Cool Atom Girl! It is such a typical Legion name it's a shame they used it for Vi because I would have preferred the Legion have a Shrinking Violet AND an Atom Girl, not either/or!