[hider=Kana Matell][center][color=gray][color=white][b]Name[/b][/color]
Kana 'Astro' Matell

[color=white][b]Age[/b][/color]
23

[color=white][b]Grade[/b][/color]
Graduated

[color=white][b]Personality[/b][/color]
Kana is quite rebellious and fiery, taking her pride to the next level if somebody tries to dent it. Loyalty is one of her biggest morals, she will kindly treat those who know how to keep a secret or come to her side when she needs a hand. She can't stand being called butterfly, and will often use her power as a means to intimidate if she is called that. She may come off as a bit of a bitch normally, but deep down inside, is a girl who wanted a happy family and happy life. Her desire for that makes her long for a lasting friendship with people that she can call a brother or a sister, but her exterior attitude often pushes people away. Those that do manage to breach her hard exterior, find a girl that had no control throughout her childhood. When it comes to talking, Kana is rather unfiltered and will say what she has on her mind most of the time.

Kana is an avid racer and a competitor at almost anything she sets her eyes on. She loves driving and she actually seems totally at ease when she in the driver seat of a fast car. When competing against somebody, she will take a defeat honorably and respect her opponent or encourage them if they lose. Kana enjoys the company of others who are into fun competition, and that is the best way to get to know the girl behind the bad ass. She takes up a challenge on a whim if it is claimed she can't do something which can sometimes be exploited to get the best of her.

While Kana may seem like a delinquent, she is actually very smart. She is always on time with her classes and diligent, never complaining about a bit of extra work. Kana tries to keep her intelligence masked with a somewhat thuggish attitude, finding it funny when people think she will hit first and ask questions later, only to get a nasty surprise that she outmaneuvered and outsmarted her opponent in a battle of wits. The result: A quick thinking glass cannon.

Kana doesn't like talking about her family, and often tries to change the topic when it comes around.

[color=white][b]Appearance[/b][/color]
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Kana has some muscle definition that suggests she is very active in her day to day activities. On her left shoulder is a flaming sun, on her right is a crescent moon. Between her shoulder blades, there is a compass tattoo. Kana has piercings on both of her ears, just small ones, and a larger piercing in her belly button. She has two precious gems inlaid in the back of her hands, a form of body modification that isn't very common. The gem in her left hand is a blood red ruby and the gem in her right hand is an azure blue sapphire. Both gems are pure and flawless, she never discloses the price of them. Strangely enough, the gems don't seem to bother Kana in the slightest. She changes her style up every other week, which usually includes different coloring in her hair or a totally different style of clothing.

Kana prefers colorful clothing and has a 'mix-it-up' attitude with them. She doesn't care if her top doesn't match her sweater. Kana usually wears knee-high socks with shorts or a skirt but jeans aren't an uncommon sight with her either. She enjoys hoodies of varying style but likes the zippered ones the most. Kana will commonly wear fingerless gloves to keep the inlaid gems out of sight or arm gloves on colder days, she doesn't keep the gems a secret but she doesn't like it when people gawk at them. Sometimes Kana will wear caps.

[color=white][b]Power[/b][/color]
[u]Astral-Elemental Synchronicity[/u]
Kana is attuned to astral patterns of the sun and the moon and draws elemental energies from them both. During the day, Kana can wield the element of fire. At night, she can wield element of ice. When both the sun and the moon are in the sky and are visible, Kana can wield both elements. When the moon eclipses the sun, her ice wielding powers are doubled. On the rarer occasion that the sun emits a solar flare, Kana's fire wielding powers are doubled. During the day, Kana's eyes glow a fiery orange color; during the night, they glow a brilliant azure blue.

[color=white][b]Weaknesses[/b][/color]
The passage of time is not always Kana's friend. When dawn and dusk come around, Kana's element of control switches and not always at a scheduled time. She is quite hasty during these times of the day to get the most out of her current element before needing to switch tactics. On the flipside, Kana can bait her opponents into getting comfortable with one element, only to have it change moments later. Kana's pride is also her enemy. She doesn't back away from challenges and if one can exploit that trait, she can easily be baited into a sticky situation. If her pride is dented, she will more than likely defend her ego.

[color=white][b]Did Kana know of her powers before?[/b][/color]
Yes

[color=white][b]Power Awakening[/b][/color]
Kana's power awakened during a heated argument with a boyfriend who cheated on her. She slammed a fist down on his car in frustration and incinerated the whole thing to ash.

[color=white][b]Background[/b][/color]
"Let me tell you about my life. Unlike a lot of the students here in this town, I didn't get the chance to grow up with a happy family and lead a girly life with shoes and purses and talking about boys. I was born into this world and put in the hands of a father that wasn't my own, some pushover cop who swung in after my real dad high tailed it out of Canada when he found out my mum was with pregnant with me. My older brother, Nathan, had joined in some stupid little gang down the street and was being reigned in by my step-dad and the police every other night. The house was alright, I suppose, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, in a quiet neighborhood, but when your big bro is bringing girls over every night to screw and friends over every day to drink and do drugs, ya it wasn't the greatest place to be.

So, I spent the majority of my time at school. At least there it was quiet and secure and I didn't need to hear those girls moaning in the next room. I did what you're supposed to do at school, learn and become a responsible young adult. I joined the auto-club in our high school and even got to be the school's driver in the racing league! But, unfortunately, all good things come to an end. My brother got hooked up with the local mob and before I knew it, there were police asking me questions about every dirty little secret in my life. People at school were stupid and drew conclusions and it basically ruined the half decent reputation I had there. Some people feared me when they found out my big ol' bro was a mobster and avoided me. Others just stopped talking to me. The worst was the teachers treated me like a bloody criminal because these damn blues showed up at the class door to question me every damn day.

So I stopped going to school and started learning at my pace, trying to distract myself from the new girlfriend Nathan had every day. Sooner or later, my brother's friends started forcing me to join them in their escapades. I don't know if I was scared cause they were thugs or if I was excited cause I got to hang out with some of Nathan's hot guy-friends. Regardless, there I was committing small crimes like vandalism and illegal street racing to win Nathan some money here and there. Problem is, I kinda liked it. I hooked up with one of Nathan's friends, we partied, we fought, we broke up and that was that.

You might be wondering why my step-dad cop didn't do a thing about this. Well, like I said earlier, he was a pushover. He was too afraid to come clean and do the right thing by kicking in Nathan's bedroom door and arresting him on the spot. But nope, he sat there and literally watched Nathan sell some drugs to some bum and then point a gun at him to get out of 'his' house. Hell, if I went up to that guy and said 'Boo' he'd probably piss himself. So let's just take my step out of the equation here.

Now, where do my powers come in? That whole night and day, fire and ice thing I can do? Remember when I was talking about that boyfriend I had. Well, I didn't know at the time that he was cheating on me and basically using me. So when I found out, I went a tad bit ballistic. Should've seen the day we broke up, his car wasn't much more than a pile of ash afterward. And that was when I found out that I had powers. Fifteen years old and a fire-throwing, ice-shaping bad ass with a chip on her shoulder.

So, with these newly discovered powers, I decided that I should take Nathan's shit into my own hands and try to straighten out my family. My little brother, only three at the time, was already swearing. I mean seriously, the kid's first word was fuck and he was 'imitating' those disgusting groans whenever he and his girl got a little loud. So, I waltzed into the house and punched my brother. I was gonna set his pants on fire after but it turns out, it wasn't just something I could call up on a whim, at least... At the time, it required some practice. So that didn't pan out too well.

I got the beating of my life and nobody did a thing. I practiced for a few days in private to figure out how to tap into my new found power; when I did, I brought him into our back yard at night where I froze the guy's feet to the ground and shot apples off of his head with icicles. I purposefully missed one and put it straight into Nathan's shoulder and threatened him to never come back, 'leave us alone' I said.

He left. When I woke up a day later, it was to a fire alarm. The entire house has been ablaze and the only reason why I'm alive now is because it was daytime and I was able to manipulate the fire around me. I cleared a path through the flames and went to my little brother's room, the smoke had already gotten him... I then went to my mom's, she wasn't there, maybe outside. So I went outside, and all there was were fire fighters preparing to enter, my step dad talking with more blues and in tears. And there I was, oblivious to what had happened, with a paramedic looking me in the eyes and getting unsettled by the orange glow of them that the sun gave me.

When I learned what had happened, I was wrecked. The weight of my little brother's death was heavy enough. But when I heard Nathan and his band of thugs took mum and lit the house on fire, I was beyond repair. I mean, the fucker actually tried killing his family, he even succeeded a little bit. So he holds a special place in my heart that's hotter than hell during the day and colder than space during the night. So I was lost, I sure as hell wasn't going to live with my step, fuck that. I wandered about, driving some crappy car that was falling apart around me as I went from Western Canada to Eastern and back again. Along the way I got these sexy little jewels in my hands by some extreme body-modifier and some sick tattoos to go with it.

After drifting around the country for a few months, I was coming up on eighteen, I decided enough was enough. I wanted to do something right and smart for a change. I wanted to enroll in school again. But no money meant no education, so I started racing. My piece of shit car ended up becoming a eighty-thousand dollar power house and I went to college for astronomy to learn more about my unique ability. College was college, y'know... Parties, drinks, sex, spring break, thinking you're smarter than the rest, pretty standard stuff. Except my attitude wasn't really meant for it, I may have made a fireball one too many time on campus grounds. That was when everything changed.

I was sleeping at around noon when the MEU kicked in the door and window. Before I knew what was happening, I was pinned against a wall and getting cuffed. But I don't take shit like this lightly. At that moment, I felt a rush of heat through my body, a heat unlike any I had felt from my powers before. The agents went silent as air began to howl through the door and window of my dorm. Things went silent, then from my hands exploded white hot flames. The cuffs were melted from my wrists because of the sheer heat. The agent cuffing me had has his arm turned to ash. This new feeling of power invigorated me, so I fought back. Directing the white hot flame in my hand, I used it to punch a hole clean through the disarmed man's heart. There was another howl as I conjured more white flame. Even for me, the fire was hot as it roared through my room and turned everything but me into smoke and ash. The fire alarm was ringing and I could hear scream outside, I had caused an explosion. I ran from my dorm and took some clothes from my friend's dresser down the hall. I disappeared from the scene and drove until I had no more gas to keep going.

I had learned that the sudden surge of power came from a solar flare that had reached Earth that day. That's when I realized that my power was more in tune with the universe than simply day and night. I used what I had learned from my lessons in astronomy to test new heights for my powers. Sure enough, my fire in the day was made exponentially more powerful from solar flares. And the ice I wielded at night could flash freeze things through and through on lunar eclipses. I was always grateful that I'm a fast learner. Because not even a week after the incident in my dorm room, the MEU came again. This time, they had bigger toys. My fight for survival had destabilized the dam we were on. All in all, the encounter took several hours. I had survived but barely. If it wasn't for some sympathetic man who seemed to know who I was, I would have died on that collapsing dam.

When I came to, I was in some bunker. The man introduced himself as somebody who wanted to take the fight to MEU. He told me he needed a team, and that I had been on his list of candidates for a long time; he just had troubles tracking me down. He explained what MEU was, and that's when I really began to understand that they weren't going to stop hunting me down until I died or fell into their hands. The man opened my eyes to a great deal of things and I am proud to call him a real friend. But I couldn't take him up on his offer to actively wage a war on the MEU. If I was going to take them down, I was going to do it on my terms and without rules. I told him that I was just a phone call away and would offer my help if he needed it. I even said, that if times were tough enough, I would step up and join his team."[/color][/center][/hider]