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[center][h1][color=c31922][b]S T A R[/b][/color][/h1][color=white] Ripley Mikayla Ryan [color=c31922] ★ [/color] 26 Years Old [color=c31922] ★ [/color] American [color=c31922] ★ [/color] Human / Kree hybrid 

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Ripley Ryan has had two different lives. The public life is that of a pretty faced, Alpha girl who excelled in school and her social life growing up in the Texas country side. Star athlete in both cheer and basketball, as well as Editor and Columnist of her school’s newspaper; a gig that landed her becoming the ‘Millennial Voice’ columnist for her rural Texas county’s newspaper. This led to occasional spots on the local Fox affiliate weekend news. 

The private life was torture and abuse. First was the trauma of her father’s sexual abuse when she was far too young to understand what was happening; this fact never did stop her mother from, privately, blaming the destruction of her marriage on her daughter for the rest of her life. Second came the broad spectrum of abuse inflicted on Ripley’s mother, a pageant and stage mom who did everything possible to make sure Ripley won crown after crown; be it starving the child, emotional abuse, or, on the rare occasion, actual physical abuse. 

When Ripley started high school, her mother announced Ripley would be quitting pageant competition. Relief for Ripley was quickly lost as her mother’s next obsession became known; Ripley’s mother had ambitions to be a Reality TV star, and was convinced turning Ripley into a social media starlet was the path forward, becoming a demanding and cruel social media parent, officially acting as Ripley’s ‘manager.’ 

By the end of high school, Ripley would boast a total follower count across social media platforms of over a hundred thousand. It provided an income that her mother kept to herself, and sometimes at the cost of her mother setting Ripley up on ‘business meetings’ with men twice, or three times, her age. Ripley was able to siphon some of the money for herself when she started college and moved away, to Florida State University’s Broadcast Journalism school. After a few years in the program, her portfolio of on-air work, both before and in college, allowed her to become an intern at Fox News. Upon graduation, Fox News signed her to an on-air personality contract.

While college had provided Ripley some the first positive relationships of her life, Fox News provided a true mix; her Senior Producer was a good, conservative, man. Some of her Junior Producers were far less upstanding, and her fellow on-air personalities were outright viciously competitive. Despite this, Ripley became a favorite of her conservative audience, becoming a major field reporter for Fox News and Fox Sports, even being one of the main floor reporters for the Republic National Convention. She was well on her way to becoming a conservative media star.

It was on assignment for Fox News covering a metahuman situation in New York city that she was kidnapped by Nuclear Man and taken to Roosevelt Island. Ripley was only one of many human women kidnapped by Nuclear Man, paid in secret by Kree geneticists Dr. Minn-Erva for specimens to experiment on. Of the experiments, the only survivor left when heroes such as Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, and Echo arrived was Ripley.

Although Ripley believed the experiment had given her superpowers, in reality the experiment had infected her with an alien bio-engineered virus that was activated and fueled by her ‘mirroring’ the super-powers of the hero that showed up to control the situation a ‘super-powered’ Ripley Ryan was creating in Manhattan; Captain Marvel. With the virus fueled and activated, Captain Marvel had to act quickly to stop Ripley from spreading the virus to the island of Manhattan by stopping her before she got too charged.

However, Ripley would retain the ‘mirrored’ power-set from Captain Marvel for nearly a year. During this period of time, Ripley would be used as a puppet by Minn-Erva, hellbent on using both Ripley, now re-branded by the fanatical Kree cell under Minn-Erva as ‘Star’, and Captain Marvel in a fight for the Kree Empire against their Skrull invaders. When the truth become known to Ripley, she nearly killed Minn-Erva, with the Kree geneticist only surviving due to Ripley’s lack of experience. 

Captain Marvel would save Minn-Erva’s life by getting her medical attention in the nick of time. In return, Minn-Erva admitted her plot, and her role behind her pawn, Ripley ‘Star’ Ryan. This led Captain Marvel to confront Star in Times Square. Although their fight would end with Captain Marvel talking Star down, the collateral damage and, worse, the recordings of the fight would lead Ripley in legal trouble with the government, and to being fired for ‘due cause’ by Fox.

Luckily, she was alive. This was one of the only ‘lucky’ parts for Ripley, as the incident marked the end of her career with Fox, despite Fox News using the incident as fuel on its ongoing attacks on the Avengers for leaving US authority with the move to Avengers Mountain in the Arctic Circle. It led to the complete loss of any super powers, leading Ripley with no other option than to return home in rural Texas, and the unholy wraith of a scorned, neglected, abusive mother. 

A Glock pistol to her temple was Ripley Ryan’s answer. When the gun shot, the shell bounced off her. A confused Ripley suddenly appeared as ‘Star’ once more, just as powerful, perhaps more so, than she had ever been. Landing atop the Fox News building in Manhattan, Star felt on top of the world…until she was promptly knocked unconscious. When she came to, it was Loki standing over, cursing and sighing at her. He explained he had tried to extract it from her, and had no idea how she came into possession of it. It was, somehow, literally intertwined with her essence. When Ripley asked what he was talking about, he simply laughed, and told her: the Reality Stone. If she didn’t know what that was, and she didn’t, she’d find out soon as others came for her. With that, the Trickster God left her.

Star continued trying to do what she could to be both a hero and social media star. Though she did some real good, she was unknowingly damaging reality, a fact she did not learn until the Scarlet Witch showed up and told her. Captain Marvel responded to Wanda’s alert, and the two restrained Star while Wanda attempted to come up with a plan to extract the Infinity Gem. Before anything could be decided, the Black Order showed up and attacked, providing a window for Star to escape and disappear. As soon as Star was gone, the Black Order disappeared, leaving Captain Marvel and the Scarlet Witch with the dreadful realization that Star and the Black Order had, on some level, worked together. 

Using her conservative media stardom, Ripley Ryan managed to secure a meeting with several high ranking Republican members of Congress. The deal struck was that all charges against Ripley would be wiped from the record, in return, Star would become a metahuman enforcer for a joint effort between the Department of Defense, and the National Security Agency. 
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[color=white] On the surface, Star appears to have a very similar powerset to Captain Marvel. This includes flight, energy projection, as well as superhuman durability, strength, agility, reflexes, stamina, endurance, and regeneration. 

She can fly at speeds comparable to Captain Marvel, though lacks a pilot’s training, let alone Captain Marvel’s experience with her powers. Likewise, while Star’s strength level is comparable to Captain Marvel’s, once again she lacks the training and experience to make full use of this strength.

While she is not capable of Captain Marvel’s Binary state and related powers/abilities, Star has one thing no other metahuman in the universe has: the Reality Gem literally bound to her. Although she seems totally oblivious how to control it, the Reality Gem seems to go where her subconscious thoughts point it. This alone has made Star one of the most dangerous, and powerful, metahumans on the planet…if not the universe. [/color]

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[color=white][color=c31922][b]Government Contractor[/b][/color] — Star finds herself on the frontlines of the US government’s disagreements with the Avengers, Krakoa, and their primary ‘heavy hitter’ when one is required to respond to a metahuman situation.

[color=c31922][b]Friends In Low Places[/b][/color] — The Black Order and Star still communicate. They are teachers, they are guides, and they are bored out of their minds being stuck hiding on Earth. But, at least, with Star they have access to an Infinity Gem. What do they plan to do with that? Surely, nothing altruistic.

[color=c31922][b]Project: Thunderbolts[/b][/color] — Star has been given a governmental civilian paygrade (read: rank) of Senior Level Service, cleared for confidential briefings up to Top Secret. The first briefing she received was for the project of that joint Department of Defense / National Security Agency effort: Project Thunderolts.  [/color]

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