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Name: Alaine Barrows
Alias: Blackstar ("Star")
Age: 25
Gender: female
Family: Roger Barrows (father), Laverne Barrows (mother), Brook Hall (née Barrows - younger sister), Grace Kingsport (née Barrows - younger sister), Ezra Barrows (younger brother), Elijah Barrows (younger brother), Joy Barrows (younger sister)
Appearance:
↳ Standing at 5'6, Alaine is fit but not thin, describing herself as "sturdy". She has a fair complexion that tends towards being pale, a few random small scars from life scattered across her body and nothing very notable. She has a beauty mark/freckle at the corner of her right eye. Her eyes are grey-blue and she has excellent vision; her faceshape leans towards being squarish with a greek nose, high cheekbones, and full lips. Her hair is a mousy blonde-brown, and she currently has a red peekaboo dye job. She doesn't wear makeup and the only accessories she wears are a simple, stainless steel band and a friendship bracelet made for her by Brook and Grace before they went to college. (She wears neither of these when in uniform.) Outside of "work", her style consists mostly of jeans, t-shirts and sweaters, and cowboy boots. She avoids dressing up as much as possible.
↳ In uniform/costume, Alaine wears a suit that is a dark grey with white details (black details for stealth and/or night). She wears a mask that covers her eyes and the red-dyed portion of her hair. Her cosmic energy blades tend to create a small field around her gloves that often creates an inverted colors effect.
Superpower: Flight + Cosmic Energy Blades (overall mild boost of physical capabilities -- slightly heightened strength, speed, endurance, healing)
↳ Flight: Alaine can fly surprisingly high and has discovered she can survive low levels of oxygen for extended periods of time, but she's not able to exist in space or stay in the upper atmosphere for more than ten minutes without suffocating or freezing. She is able to fly slow enough to hover as well as fast enough to outpace a commercial jet (around 400-500mph) but she hasn't attempted to go faster and is unsure of her max flight speed. Flying at high speeds or altitudes will gradually wear her out and she'll need to rest afterwards (think of it like running a marathon). Flying uses energy either way, and her ability to remain in the air can fluctuate with exercise; for example, when she first discovered she could fly she couldn't stay in the air for more than ten minutes. Over time and practice she's built up a flying endurance. If she were to fall out of practice she would have to get back into it before being able to fly to higher altitudes or for prolonged amounts of time.
↳ Cosmic/Dark energy blades: Alaine is able to manifest a mysterious kind of dark/cosmic energy, and it takes the form of visually-crackling/flickering "blade" shapes that protrude out from her hands/fists with a hard-to-describe, inverted kind of light. These blades are at minimum four inches long and the longest alaine has ever been able to extend them was around three feet. When slicing into things they have a similar effect to lightsabers, able to melt/burn through most materials (though thicker/denser materials will take longer to melt and require more energy. Generally Alaine tries to avoid this as it can wear her out quickly and leave her vulnerable). Touching organic material with these blades can cause burning and instant cauterization of wounds. The blades cannot be maintained when separated from her body for more than a second or two (she's tried) and thus are useless as projectiles, meaning she often has to go in for close combat. Like flying, she has to keep up her endurance with the blades in order to maintain them for longer amounts of time, extend them further, or make them stronger.
↳ Other: She has an overall mildly-enhanced physiology, putting her speed, strength, endurance, and healing at slightly above average. It's not necessarily superhuman (as other, unpowered humans could match her speed/strength/endurance with proper training), but it is an effect of her powers and grants her a mild edge over the average person.
Skills: Unrelated to her powers, Alaine is amazing with animals - she loves them and has a natural aptitude for working with them. She's artistic and enjoys sketching/painting and is fairly good at it, but far from proficient; she's got a natural eye for detail and enjoys problem-solving and psychoanalyzing.
Weaknesses: She tends to be a loner and can be bad about speaking up in a group, especially when she's unfamiliar with the others involved. She tends to self-isolate rather than wear herself out with failed social interactions or surface-level relationships, and will often refuse to admit when she's hurt (physically or otherwise). Despite this, she's fiercely loyal to her family and will easily choose them over almost anything; it's not unheard of for her to wear herself thin in multiple ways trying to help them and/or keep them safe.
↳ In relation to her powers, she's not undefeatable and can still be hurt by things that would hurt anyone else -- bullets, sharp objects, high-speed impacts, falling from serious heights, lack of oxygen/food/water. Falling out of practice with her powers will also lessen her ability to use them properly.
↳ She's scared of wolves (lupophobia) 🤷♀️
Equipment: Her uniform/costume. She wouldn't say no to a gun or other standard weapons if she got a hold of one.
Personality: observant - introverted - resilient - curious - self-controlled - guard dog
Alaine is overall a kind and hardworking individual. She's naturally quiet and more of a loner, but in a group she does her best to make everyone feel comfortable and keep things running smoothly, if it's needed -- otherwise she tends to fade into the background and observe. Despite these quiet tendencies, she's more than capable of sticking up for herself. She's earned a reputation in certain circles as being tough, independent, and a bit of a vigilante, never one to back down from a fight when someone's honor or safety is on the line. She's fiercely loyal but has a hard time making good friends because she's had her loyalty taken advantage of before, and blames herself for several incidents that led her to believe she was better off on her own. Even though she tells herself that often, she still feels very lonely at times and wouldn't mind someone to be close to.
She has a tendency to be protective over people she likes, or those that remind her of her younger siblings. Although she's patient in many ways she also has no fondness for arrogance, cruelty, and people who don't use their heads, and she's been known to keep a grudge. Although she's incredibly resilient (and values that trait in others), she also tends to keep her problems under wraps and handle them herself, believing they're her responsibility and not wanting to bother anyone else. "Responsibility" was hammered into her from a young age and, despite going through a period of uncertainty about what her responsibilities were with her powers, she feels the weight of expectations (from herself and others) heavily.
More than anything alaine considers herself a guard dog. Always putting others first, working tirelessly, and knowing when to be gentle makes her a good friend - being keenly observant, tough-skinned, and unafraid to attack makes her a dangerous protector.
Biography:
Relationships: Aside from her family and John, n/a. She's fairly new to Lafayette City (less than a year) and has kept to herself for the most part.
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