Koriand'r - "Starfire"
Jan 8, 2013 22:32:30 GMT -5
Post by starfire on Jan 8, 2013 22:32:30 GMT -5
Starfire / Koriand'r
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Full Name: Koriand'r
Code Name: Starfire
Age: 25
Date of Birth: Unknown
Sexual Orientation: All
Species: Tamaranian (alien)
Alliance: Former 'Teen Titan', current superhero
Citizenship: DC
Canon or Original?: DC canon
Hair: Long, wavy auburn hair
Eyes: Verdant irises; but entirely glowing green when using powers.
Height: 5'11''
Weight: 158lbs
Distinguishing Marks: Orange skin
Appearance: Starfire has outgrown her 'Teen Titan' body, and has since developed a curvaceous feminine figure, complete with soft curves and hourglass proportions. Her long, red hair flows past her waist, usually tousled and kept down.
Face Claim: Comic (no celeb face claim)
Likes: Music, dancing, laughing, friends, order, justice.
Dislikes: rudeness, disregard for life, littering, clothes, people who judge, criminals.
Personality: Starfire is incredibly bubbly and optimistic. While she can have a no-nonsense warrior attitude when combating criminals, she is super sweet and loyal.
In her younger years, she came across and naive and clueless to the ways of the human world...but has since learned their ways and habits. She loves interaction with others, and even since her recent split from Nightwing, has quite enjoyed male and female company alike.
Powers:
Tamaranean Physiology: Starfire's alien physiology constantly absorbs ultraviolet radiation and converts it to energy.
Energy Absorption: She can also absorb the ultraviolet radiation from other life forms. She once used this application of her power to weaken a group of Kryptonians who otherwise require ultraviolet radiation to maintain their superhuman abilities.
Flight: Which leaves a distinctive energy contrail behind, looking as if it is coming directly from her hair. Starfire has also been stated to have flown light years through space in short amounts of time.
Starbolts: The solar absorption experiments performed on her by the alien Psions granted her the amazing power and ability to channel and project that same energy into destructive blasts called "starbolts". Starfire also has the power and ability to unleash all her stored energy into a pseudo nova blast. It is suggested to be as hot as the sun itself and so only uses this in dire situations.
Superhuman Durability
Superhuman Strength
Lingustic Assimilation: She is also capable of assimilating other languages through physical contact with another person.
Weapons n/a
Strengths/Abilities:
Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced): Starfire is also an extremely proficient in armed and unarmed combat, having been trained in those arts by the Warlords of Okaara.
Weaknesses: Starfire is often too trusting and gullible at times. She wants to believe there is inherent good in everyone, and doesn't catch on to lies right away....but is starting too.
History:
Tamaran's Princess Koriand'r was the second of three children. Her older sister, Komand'r was the next in the line of succession, but she was crippled by a childhood illness that robbed her of her natural Tamareanian ability to convert ultraviolet light in to flight energy, so she was deemed not worthy to be queen and the succession fell to Koriand'r. When both sisters were sent to train with the legendary Warlords of Okaara, the bitter Komand'r ran off, allying herself with the Citadel. They used Komand'r's information to successfully invade the planet Tamaran. King Myand'r turned Koriand'r over to the Citadel to ensure peace.
Koriand'r endured six years of torture until she and Komand'r were both released for experimentation by the Psions. The Psions, who are largely sadistic scientists, performed a deadly experiment on both of the sisters to see just how much energy their Tamaranean bodies could absorb before exploding from the overload. During the procedure, Komand'r's forces attacked the Psion ship to rescue her and while the Psions were distracted, Kory broke free with the starbolts, destructive blasts of solar energy, a result of the experimentation. Against her better judgment, she decided to free Komand'r who was still absorbing energy. However, far from grateful, Komand'r struck her sister down with the same-much stronger- power and had her restrained for later execution. Koriand'r escaped and found her way to Earth with the help of the Teen Titans. She chose to remain with the team and took the name Starfire, and quickly formed a romantic relationship with Dick Grayson, then - as Robin - the leader of the team.
Kory is regarded as extremely physically attractive even by the standards of the superhero. She also displays the traits of Tamaran's highly sensuous and sexually liberated culture, coupled with a no nonsense warrior attitude. For a time, Kory had a career as a fashion model.
Writing Sample:
Starfire flew high above the familiar city, looking down onto the rooftops of tall buildings and the busy streets below. From here, the citizens looked so small, and so many of them. She contemplated a rest, as she'd just flown back from Paris after modeling designer clothes and accessories on the catwalk.
It was at this time she heard faint shouting from a building below. The lower she descended, the clearer she saw a man standing on a ledge at a dangerous height. She gently landed upon the concrete, and cautiously approached him.
Stay back! I mean it! the man shouted behind towards her, only hearing the loose gravel crunching beneath her feet.
Please, sir...come down from the ledge. she calmly spoke.
The man carefully turned his head at the female voice, to find the beautiful Starfire at his aid. He gulped before speaking again, Stay back, not any closer! I'll....I'll do it! I'm ruined! he yelled desperately.
It doesn't have to be like this. Why don't you come down, so we can talk? she sweetly offered him her hand, hoping he'd make this easy on her.
Talk? Y....yeah....talk! Over coffee! the native New Yorkian replied in a heavy accent, trying to coax a date out of the heroine in the situation.
Sure she smiled, almost oblivious as to the man's ulterior motives. As the man turned his feet to come down from the ledge, concrete cracked and shifted below him, throwing his weight backwards, making him fall towards the city streets stories below him.
NO! she shouted, reaching out for his hands a second too late. Starfire took a running start and swan dove without hesitation from the top of the building, plummeting down after the man with her hands extended in front of her. As soon as she could make contact with an extremity, she gripped with all of her might and began to slow their descent into a gentler (albeit still rough) landing.
As the man was being taken by professionals to be medically (and mentally) evaluated, citizens and officers alike clapped and clamored at the heroine's actions while reporters camera's flashed like strobe lights. After a wave or two, Starfire bent at the knees and pushed upward, taking off into the sunny sky once more.
What a way to come home! she thought.
Your name/alias: Starfire
Timezone: EST