[hider=Stargirl][b][u][color=00aeef]Name:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]Courtney Elizabeth Whitmore[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Nicknames:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]Courtney[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Alias:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]Star-Spangled Kid
Stargirl[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Age:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]17[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Sex:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]Female[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Appearance:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent][img]http://orig03.deviantart.net/613c/f/2014/102/a/1/stargirl_by_marciotakara-d7e7xvm.jpg[/img]
Courtney is your average teen. She's five foot seven. She's skinny and completely flat (front and back), but not anorexic skinny. She has long blond hair which tends to curl, much to her dismay, so she straightens it every morning. She has a fair complexion and blue eyes. She has some muscles but not much at this point. What she has has been developed over the year she has been solo superheroing. [/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Powers/Skills:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]Courtney has no superpowers. However the [b]Cosmic Staff[/b] grants Courtney powers:
[list][*]Rapid flight[*]Levitation of objects[*]Energy manipulation[/list]The staff can also:[list][*]Absorb stellar energy, which can then be manipulated into defensive force fields, and offensive energy blasts of incredible power.[list][*]Courtney can use both powers at once to protect herself from atmospheric damage in high velocity flight[/list][*]Receive Courtney's mental commands from a distance[*]Attune itself to the user. It is difficult to quickly change the staff's affiliation.[/list]Courtney also has the [b]Cosmic Converter Belt[/b] which gives Courtney the following powers:[list][*]Enhanced Strength[*]Enhanced Agility[*]Enhanced Speed[*]Enhanced Stamina[*]Shooting Stars: A move where Courtney can call forth light forms which disrupt electric devices and organic nervous systems.[*]The Converter Belt is attuned to the aura of the wielder much like the Cosmic Staff.[/list]Courtney also has some training for fighting but not much. She currently taking Kickboxing and getting tutored by Pat.[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Backstory:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]Courtney was very much your average teenage girl in Los Angeles. So average that her family didn't get along. Watching your parents fight was never something she wanted. Nor did she like the divorce. It had been painfully obvious that it was going to happen but the young girl had held out impossible hope against all odds. Hope had nothing against her father, [color=00aeef][b]Sam[/b][/color], walking out on them. The months after that were hard on both Courtney and her mother, [color=00aeef][b]Barbara[/b][/color]. Mainly on her mother who had to struggle to get Courtney's deadbeat father to sign the divorce. 

The whole of Courtney's young teen years were the worst. Her grades slipped and quite frankly she was nearly flunking out of high school. It was miserable. Without her best friends she never would have made it. Her friends were highly supportive and kept her afloat more times than Courtney could count. Her safety net. Then after the whole divorce thing was over things were looking up. Courtney and her mother were spending time together again. Time that wasn't marred by the absence of her father. Courtney was even beginning to do better in school. 

Then [color=00aeef][b]Pat Dugan[/b][/color] walked into Courtney's life. At first he was just another guy that her mother was psudo-dating. Courtney figured he'd go away like the rest of the losers. After all the two of them were doing just fine. But Pat continued to bulldoze his way into their lives. He pushed through barely rebuilt walls and his mother was okay with it. Courtney was annoyed by the interloper and her grades began to slip again. This time her friends weren't as supportive of her anger issues or her complaining. She ended up falling into a bad crowd and things continued to fall downhill. 

The bottom of said hill soon arrived when her mother and Pat announced that they were getting married. And the joys didn't end there. Not only was she going to get a step-father they were moving to Nebraska! It was just completely unfair. Where the hell was Nebraska anyways? It didn't even sound like somewhere she wanted to live.

Courtney's resentment of Pat continued to grow in [color=00aeef][b]Blue Valley, Nebraska[/b][/color]. She had a hard time making friends and was generally aloof in school. Though she did befriend [color=00aeef][b]Mary[/b][/color] and [color=00aeef][b]Josh[/b][/color] nearly immediately despite her best efforts to the contrary. Things continued in this vein for a while until one day when she was staying home sick from school. Pat and her mother were off working and she had free run of the house (Pat's house). Curiosity got the better of the teen and she ended up in the attic pawing through Pat's old stuff.

In one trunk she found a really strange belt and a few other items. It was only after a bit of quick research she discovered Pat used to be [color=00aeef][b]Stripesy[/b][/color], a adult sidekick to a teen hero. The only one in history! Quickly Courtney realized with this stuff she could get back at Pat and mock him! Over the next week she cobbled together a make-shift costume, sparing no (hilarious) expense. When it was finished Courtney showed off the costume at the local Independence Day event. 

And once again Courtney's streak for bad things struck again. It was only after Pat turned red in the face at her mockery and he began to chastise her that the screaming began. Blue Valley might not have been hopping in the way LA was but apparently not even Nebraska was exempt from random (or not so random) super-villain attacks. It was the nefarious [color=00aeef][b]Dragon King[/b][/color]. (Side note: Apparently a Japanese war criminal hiding out in Nebraska. Fun Facts!)

Pat quickly, much to Courtney's surprise, got most of the townsfolk, including her mother, to safety. However Courtney's day was still to get worse. [color=00aeef][b]Shiv[/b][/color], the Dragon King's daughter, apparently took affront to her costume and attacked the young girl. It was only Pat's intervention that saved her life. Pat had built himself a mechanical fighting suit of armor (that he named [color=00aeef][b]S.T.R.I.P.E.[/b][/color]). Together the two were able to fight off both the Dragon King and his daughter. 

After a long [i]discussion[/i] with Pat and her mother it was agreed that Courtney could continue her "teen crime fighting" as long as Pat tagged along. Having no other option but to agree, she did. And the [color=00aeef][b]Star-Spangled Girl and S.T.R.I.P.E.[/b][/color] was created. With her new calling in life Courtney's life was finally on the right track. She was reconciled with her mother. She even liked Pat! Which was good because not even a month later after the whole 4th of July attack her mother announced she was pregnant.

Nearly nine months later little [color=00aeef][b]Patricia[/b][/color] was born. A few months after that [color=00aeef][b]Starman[/b][/color], whom she had fought together with against the Dragon King, retired. Upon that decision he gifted Courtney the [color=00aeef][b]Cosmic Staff[/b][/color]. With the Staff she changed her name to [color=00aeef][b]Stargirl[/b][/color] (At Mary's suggestion) to honor Jack/Starman. During this time she also joined the JSA for a brief time. When the JLA vanished she decided she'd be more help filling the void.[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Motivation for joining the League?:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]She thinks she can do the most good in the League.[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]What do you bring to the League?:[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]Courtney might be young but she has a strong sense of right and wrong. She is also quite powerful in her own right if she can move past her own fears and doubts.[/indent]
[b][u][color=00aeef]Notes[/color][/u][/b]
[indent]Courtney really doesn't have that secret of an identity. Pretty much everyone in Blue Valley knows who she is.
I really want to include something in this story about how her father's a criminal. <3[/indent][/hider]