[hider=Vernon Reed] Age: 17 Gender: Male Alias: Green Lantern of Sector 2814 Parents: An earth-bound male and woman. Grandson of John Stewart. Powers & Abilities: Green Lantern Ring: One who is selected to bear a Green Lantern ring harnesses Willpower as its source on the emotional spectrum. As a result, one is privy to a litany of abilities. Common to all wearers of a ring is the ability to create hard-light constructs respective of the color under which their ring operates. Vernon's constructs are green. A Lantern ring is not limited to constructs and outfits one with a number of great powers. Oan Energy Manipulation: A Green Lantern's ring affords him the ability to control specific energies on the emotional spectrum. One can also expel this energy in the form of blasts, waves, cones, etc. Natural Energy Absorption: It has been shown in the past by senior Corps members that a Lantern ring can absorb some natural energies: lightning, fire, water. A ring can only expel these energies outward, it has no kinetic control over any energy it absorbs. Flight: A standard mode of travel for any possessor of a Power Ring. Vernon, much like his father, is among the best fliers in the Corps, though not [i]the[/i] best. Force Field: When a Lantern is wearing her ring, she has a thin forcefield surrounding her body which allows her to: breathe in space, funnel wastes, toxins, resins, and poisons, and protects her from projectiles of varying kind. Energy Constructs: Tied to the specific emotion under which the Power Ring operates, the energy constructs produced by a Power Ring vary depending on the strength of said emotion within a user. A member of the Red Lantern Corps whose rage is deep creates sturdier and stronger constructs than one who is yet to enslave himself to the fire within. The same goes for a member of the Green Lantern Corps: one whose Will is powerful creates stronger constructs than one who is without a firm will (Hal Jordan, the most famous member of the Lantern Corps, has been shown to contain Superman within his constructs for a short period of time, even while Superman resisted.) Imagination: There is a reason why the Power Rings, and specifically the Green Lantern Power Rings, are considered by many to be the most dangerous weapon in the universe: the only thing that limits a Power Ring is one's imagination. Whatever one can imagine, his ring can create. Vernon's constructs retain the architectural integrity of his father's, but the creativity of Kyle Rayner's. Willpower: He has not yet reached the apex of human will like the older, battle-hardened champions of the Corps: Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Kilowog, Saalaak, etc. His lack of overwhelming willpower speaks to his lack of experience as a relatively new recruit. As such, his constructs are nowhere near strong as some of the aforementioned members. Pocket Dimensions and Wormholes: A common use of pocket dimensions and wormholes among members of the Corps is for storage of their Ring's Lantern, the sole method for re-charging a ring aside from siphoning energy from another ring of the same type. Vernon has not yet discovered other uses for this ability. [hider=Post Transformation][img]http://static.tumblr.com/c87d659d932dd61a7c80a571648f9963/h4tjuf5/II7mq9ylh/tumblr_static_tumblr_mjufpvwtjr1rd1j5no1_r1_500.jpg[/img] He wears a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and brown boots otherwise.[/hider] Bio: In the deepest tundras of space, the light had died. A quarter-century after the Regime, and still more time passed since Batman began his reformation efforts, there was nothing. Twenty years ago, the gleams of light shone bright across the reaches of the cosmos, illuminating the endless expanse of the galaxy where men dwelt. Hope, greed, fear, will, hate, love, compassion, greed, death, life. Gone. It was a good day to die. These days it seemed like everyone had forgotten what it meant to feel. Everyone had settled, and Superman's tyranny had fell to the back of everyone's mind--or so it felt. Vernon's father had always told him that disaster strikes where urgency recedes, and Vernon had always taken it to heart. It served him well during his civilian life, and it serves him doubly in his tenure as a Lantern. Nepotism is not a reason one is selected for the Green Lantern Corps, and if such a thing does occur, it is an exception to an age old tradition. In an extreme and special case, the child or immediate relative to a deceased or retired Corps member will be chosen for induction by the ring and the Guardians of Oa, subsequently, for sharing a similar--or exact--trait that warranted the elder family member's selection. Often, such selection is done without explanation, one is chosen and flown to convene with the Guardians without regards to whom, what, or why. Such rare circumstances befall the ordinary man sometimes, and Vernon was one such unlucky man. His reaction, one might deduce, was suspicious at worst and skepticism all around. The Guardians never were ones for answering questions, and had gone through a. . . transitioning period in the intervening years of the Regime's fall and Batman's restoration. Luck was on Vernon's side, for he inherited his grandfather's rather untenable habit of not asking questions and doing the task assigned of him. If he had known Hal Jordan, he'd probably know what his grandfather was not a man who refused to ask questions, he was a man who refused to leave them unanswered. It was this same curiosity that, when assigned as the new Lantern of Sector 2814 (Earth) led him to read and research the events leading up to the rise of the Regime and Superman's fall from grace only two decades ago: he read about the decimation of the Corps, both Green and Yellow, Hal Jordan's disappearance, the deaths of Oliver Queen, Alfred Pennyworth, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Billy Batson--and most shocking to him at least, the disappearance of the galaxy's inter-galactic police force: the Green Lanterns. He knew, of course, that the Corps was still around, but it was no where near its former strength and lacking its most prestigious members, who were either dead or M.I.A. He would take on the challenge himself, re-build the Corps. from the ground up! Or so he thought. Before he could ever [i]dream[/i] of being anything close to worthy of leading the Green Lantern Corps, he first had a lot to learn. With few available ranking officers assigned to Sector 2814, Vernon had to look elsewhere for training, and so now he attends Oliver Queen's Memorial School in hopes of bettering himself so he may lead a new generation of Green Lanterns and restore the shattered image of the once respected purveyors of hope--and just as well, to uphold the oath that had not been uttered in Sector 2814 for a quarter century: [i]In Brightest Day In Blackest Night No Evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship Evil's might Beware my power Green Lantern's light![/i][/hider]