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[b]Full Name:[/b] Halen Hubble

[b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] Hal, Hallie, Darkstar, Starchild (formerly)

[b]Age:[/b] 16

[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Division:[/b] Strength

[b]Powers:[/b] Darkstar's powers, inherited through his family line, are the result of his grandfather having been infused with the god particle, giving them the cosmic power of the Big Bang. In practical terms, this means that Darkstar possesses the winning combination of super strength, speed, durability, and flight. While he is still getting the hang of his flight powers, Darkstar has a strong grasp of his more basic abilities, and is an absolute wrecking ball in combat. Besides those abilities, Darkstar can also create and manipulate a variety of different cosmic energies and materials, such as stellar matter, dark matter, and so on, which he uses in various attacks and techniques. Darkstar's grasp of this power is somewhat lacking, and he can only reliably manifest a few basic types of cosmic matter.

[b]Description:[/b] Darkstar is a self-described "late bloomer" and is short for a boy his age, barely 5'5". He is thin, with not much musculature to speak of (though his tremendous strength has nothing to do with his muscles), and his features are soft and still androgynous. His hair is dyed black from its usual strawberry blond, and his shaved and styled into a punk coif. Darkstar has a few earrings and other piercings, though he has a scar over one of his thick, dark eyebrows from where his eyebrow ring got ripped out last year. His big, baby-blue eyes and childlike features result in most people thinking he is adorable and difficult to take seriously, which Darkstar does his best to combat with punk clothes such as studded leather and combat boots. 

[b]Personality:[/b] A classic case of the troubled and misunderstood teen, Darkstar isn't truly evil, but has a lot of misplaced aggression, frustration, and personal trauma. He has felt as though he's spent his whole life pretending to be someone he isn't and sees his enrollment at Lanius as a chance to cut loose and be himself. When in a good mood Darkstar is friendly, generous, quick with a joke, and enjoys being the center of attention. When his mood sours, he lashes out at anyone in striking distance, and loathes attention.

[b]Crush:[/b] N/A

[b]Skills:[/b] Thanks to his sidekick training, Darkstar is competent in hand-to-hand combat even without his prodigious strength, and has basic training in hacking, forensics, engineering, and other practical skills. Of particular note is how much information about astrophysics and similar cosmic phenomenon has been drilled into his head by his father. In a less practical sense, Darkstar plays the guitar, sings, and can draw and paint. He likes video games but only relaxing ones because he tends to break controllers if he gets too heated while playing.

[b]Weaknesses:[/b] Darkstar's powers have not fully grown in, and he worries that they never will. They can activate or refuse to activate sporadically, and he sometimes cannot control the intensity of his abilities. By and large, his superhuman physiology is the most under his control, and his cosmic powers are the least. There is also some mention of a particular antimatter particle or weapon that was used to defeat his grandfather, the legendary Star Captain, but such a weapon hasn't been seen in 30 years.

[b]Brief History:[/b] The history of Darkstar begins in the 60s with his grandfather, Hubert Hubble, who was a world-renowned adventurer and super-scientist even before his transformation. While conducting an experiment to simulate the birth of the universe, the safety mechanisms failed, and Hubert was caught in a massive explosion of exotic cosmic matter. This converted the matter in his body to be comprised of "god particles," the essence of the Big Bang, and infused him with tremendous cosmic power. Hubert took up the superhero identity of Star Captain, and became one of the most famous superheroes in world history. His legendary reign ended in the early 90s, when he was defeated and killed by a supervillain wielding an esoteric anti-matter weapon.

The legacy of Star Captain was taken up by Hubert's son, Harrison Hubble, who had worked as his father's sidekick and understudy for years under the identity of "Starchild." In the wake of his father's death, Harrison cast off that name and became known as Stardriver, and became an even more widely-recognized heroic icon than his father, practically an international celebrity. Stardriver attempted to continue his own legacy when he had his own child, who he also began to train from a young age so that he might follow in his father's footsteps.

Halen and his father never got along, partly because Halen resented being forced into being a superhero, and partly because he and his father don't understand each other. It was never Halen's idea to become Starchild, but his father didn't understand his objections to it, and pushed it on him all the harder. They would bicker endlessly about almost everything, and it came to a head before Halen was ever able to debut as Starchild. He ran away from home, living with friends and surfing on couches for some time. While Stardriver, given his powers and resources, easily kept tabs on his son, he let him have his space, seeing it as a temporarily solution to their problems that could be fixed later. Unbeknownst to him, Halen was scouted by the Lanius School, and was whisked away to join their young villains program, out of Stardriver's notice and reach.
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Full Name: Rakshasa claims his birth name was "Yaun," but will mention in the same breath, "that man is dead."

Nicknames/Aliases: Rakshasa, Hell's Disciple

Age: 30-something, though he claims to have spent hundreds of years in Hell

Gender: Male

Division: Strength

Powers: Rakshasa is allegedly half-demon, which he claims is responsible for his body's extreme power and durability, as well as his ability to use supernatural demonic martial arts. Rakshasa knows a variety of esoteric martial arts techniques that allow him to perform such bizarre feats as flinging spiritual fireballs at his opponents, running on water, or other strange abilities. He also claims to have the ability to transform into a super-powered demonic state, though the consequence for doing so is that he will be dragged back into Hell.

Description: Rakshasa is very tall and powerfully built, but does not come across as gigantic. His musculature is obviously the product of extreme training, and his body has the toughness and strength of steel. While his features are generally handsome, his expression is usually stoic or dour, except when in combat, whereupon he seems to adopt the visage of a snarling demon. His hair and eyes are burning red and yellow, respectively, and his Ajna chakra is so powerfully trained that it glows through his forehead. When not in his battle attire, his dress sense is best described as "trashy," with undersized tee-shirts and shorts usually his standard fare, as he claims that cold and heat have no effect on him.

Personality: Most people that know Rakshasa casually consider him a terrifying lunatic, constantly rambling about something nonsensical and a hair's breadth from a violent outburst at any time. Those that spend more time with him understand the method to his madness, and find him somewhat amiable. While he is certainly violent, he never prosecutes his violence without good reason, though sometimes his reasoning can seem distorted to other people, and he holds his bizarre sense of honor very closely. He fancies himself a warrior-poet, and often cites koans and proverbs that seem disturbing or nonsensical.

Crush: Kill, Destroy

Skills: Rakshasa is one of the preeminent martial artists on the planet earth, his only peers also supernatural or superhuman. He has studied dozens of different styles and forms, many of which he claims are supernatural or otherworldly in origin. Aside from that he is also a master yogi, familiar with several forms of spiritual philosophy, and is a fairly accomplished vegan chef.

Weaknesses: All of Rakshasa's power is self-cultivated, and he has great difficulty working alongside others. His unpredictability can be a curse as much as a benefit when fighting opponents, as his murderous rage can be set off by strange and seemingly innocuous things. There is also the matter that he claims to be hunted by the forces of Hell, but this is as of yet unproven.

Brief History: To hear him tell it, Rakshasa's personal history is strange and mystifying, but none can confirm if what he says is true or not. He alleges that he was born from the union of a demon and a human woman, and grew up alone in the streets of Mumbai with only the ascetic gurus of the inner city to look after him. It was the depravity of living alone in an urban hell as a small child that Rakshasa claims made him "awakened to violence."

Rakshasa spent his youth traveling Asia, learning as much as he could about how to kill a man with his bare hands, and picking up a substantial criminal record along the way. It was deep in the Himalayas that he heard tell of a mystic master that could teach him the martial arts of another world. This was a ploy, however, as he found instead a demonic cult that used him as a human sacrifice, or so he claims. The next part of his tale is the most outlandish, as he claims his soul was banished to Hell, where he learned of his demonic parentage, and did in fact learn demonic martial arts from the denizens of Hell.

After his escape from Hell, which was an epic saga in and of itself according to Rakshasa, he found that almost no time had passed in his centuries in the underworld, and continued to strive to find challenging battles in the modern world. He provoked many other mystic or spiritual superheroes and villains into battling him, assembling a long list of rivals and enemies all the while. However, in recent years he was contacted by the Headmaster of the Lanius School, who propositioned that Rakshasa become his hand-to-hand combat instructor. A mysterious bargain was brokered, and Rakshasa has since fulfilled this role dutifully. Even so, students usually consider him among the strangest and most terrifying of the school' instructors, particularly when he introduces himself by claiming he will only recognize them as worthy if they manage to kill him.

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