Name:

Sarin Aboev

Alias:

Shade

Age:

17

Sponsor:

Black Canary

Personality:

Sarin is disciplined. She sticks to plans and does so without complaint. She's quiet and contemplative. With her, there's no beating around the bush with difficult topics of conversation; she's direct. She has little patience for people who bemoan challenges or following a goal.

Powers:

Shade has no superpowers, but is extremely well trained in kyūdō (Japanese martial art of archery) and khridoli (Georgian martial art). She's keen with a bow and has a small arsenal of trick arrows including rope arrows, bolo arrows, anchor arrows and smoke arrows. Her bow, a long relex bow, is made of an extremely dense material that prevents damage and makes it a viable weapon alongside a curved blade with a length between a short-sword and a dagger. She speaks Russian, Georgian, Ossetian, Japanese and English fluently and is passable in Chinese.

Weaknesses:

She lacks any sort of healing aspect that other heroes may have, meaning she's vulnerable to wounds. While strong, she's also rather slight so those villains who have a size advantage on her may find it easy to pin her in isolation.

Sarin also has a weak spot for people who are struggling to survive under threat of some power such as a mafia or gang and will make an effort to put a stop to it without hesitating, which could distract her from a true goal.

Moreover, though Black Canary is her sponsor, their relationship is tenuous because of Sarin's original trainer and mentor, Shado, who caused turmoil in the Canary's relationship with Green Arrow. Sarin, however, sees this turmoil to be the result of ill placed jealousy and a sign of weakness.

Appearance:

Sarin is petite. She stands at 5' 3" and 110lbs and has endowment to match. She has thick, jet black hair that she keeps at about chin length. She has heterochromia, with one eye being brown and the other being an icy blue. On her left side, under her arm, she has a tattoo of the proverb "Mze abnele ghomes
ar abraleb" -- "Do not blame the sun for the darkness of the night".

She wears a skin tight, but armored black suit with a leather shoulder guard and quiver over her right shoulder, and a hood with a face mask. She has a thumb ring with a string catch that's made from lapis lazuli, matching the color of her blue eye and providing accuracy in release when firing arrows. Her bow is a tall relex bow made from an unknown material that keeps it unbroken and provides an amount of drawstring force that rivals most high tech compound bows. At her hip, she wears a belt with a hilt for her blade. Her black gloves are reinforced at the knuckle with with mercury sealed in pockets in the leather, working like brass knuckles and her boots are steel-toed.

Brief Bio:

Sarin was born and raised in rural Georgia near the town of Mleta in the region of South Ossetia. Her mother and father were proud Ossetian nationalists and passed on this trait in lessons to her and her siblings. When she was fourteen, a caravan from Russia landed in area, consisting of military police and mafia enforcers who layed down taxes and threats to those who wouldn't pay. Many of the families were frightened and did the best they could, but ended up failing to meet the demands and they were burned alive in their homes. The smoke was seen across the mountains and families with sentiments like Sarin's met and decided to fight back. At night, they made their assault on the camp. They killed man after man and armed themselves with the fallen's weapons making it easier and easier to fight back, until the tides turned and they were forced into submission. A truck went around that night by the homes and a man on a loud speaker announced that the rebels would be brought to their homes and see their families executed before being killed themselves. Out of fear for her children's lives, Sarin's mother sent her and her two brothers away. They made it as far as the crossroads at the bottom of the mountain and its forest, when two of the enforcers found them and opened fire, killing one brother and maiming the other. He fired back and killed the two of them, but was moving slowly. He and Sarin traveled for a day on foot, before he was too sick to travel. He insisted she continue on, since it was likely they were being followed. With great sadness, she left her brother behind and continued down the road at the edge of the woods.

It didn't take long for the men to catch up to her, but just before they caught sight of her, she was pulled into the tree-line by an unkempt man wrapped in rags and animal skins who told her to be still and quiet. After the men passed, he struck her in the head to knock her out and carried her away. When she awoke, she found herself in a wooden home in the woods filled with the smell of stewing meat. The man offered her a bowl. This man, she would come to know as Avtandil, was a hermit and practitioner of what he called "the old ways" and lived his life pursuing them. He fed her and taught her to take care of herself in the wild, trained her in khridoli martial arts and taught her to hunt with a bow. She lived like this until she was 16, when the men who tore her life apart found her again. They slew Avtandil and burned his home, but with her new skills, Sarin took down each of the men who attacked and followed their path in, out, where she found a truck and drove until she hit Tbilisi. There, she took on a simple job and lived in a one room apartment, and went out at night to stop criminals and extortionists terrorizing the undefended common people of the city. News outlets began talking of The Huntress.

One night, on her route, Sarin met another woman with a bow. This woman was Shado, who was following a contract out on The Huntress of Tbilisi. She didn't kill her outright, merely maimed her and talked to her, which is how Shado came to know of Sarin's past and her loss. Drawing similarities to her own struggle with criminal organizations affecting her family, Shado brought Sarin to a hospital and promised to come back to speak to her and to offer her discipline. Shado trained her in her art of kyūdō and stealth, honing her skills as an archer and an assassin. Despite the sisterly, though almost romantic, attachment she developed for Shado, she did things in her training that still haunt her, as she simply wanted to protect the weak and oppressed. Eventually, she became fed up with Shado's ambition and want of money and fought to leave, gaining an advantage on her trainer through her combination of Asian and Caucasian martial arts, prompting Shado to reach out to Black Canary; the closest she could get to Green Arrow. She told her of Sarin, who now had adopted the name Shade, and offered her as a fit for the gathering heroes.

Name
Alexander Pollux

Alias
Apollo

Age
21

Sponsor
Giganta (Formerly, Currently unsponsered)

Personality
Before his death and subsequent resurrection, Alexander could be described as Curious, Logical, and Empathetic. He has undergone a drastic change in his time with Hades in the underworld, however, and would be better described as distant, with intense emotional mood-swings.

Powers
Solar Energy Absorption/Manipulation: Apollo can absorb and manipulate mystical solar energy for multiple purposes. He uses this power to create his arrows, and heal wounds, as well as create intense heat and light for various purposes.

Demigod Physiology: As an Olympian/human hybrid, Alex's body is far superior to that of an ordinary human. He can lift approximately 2 tons at maximum, run far faster than any human athlete (Though not a speedster) and has superhuman stamina. His body can endure massive punishment. Small caliber firearms only leave bleeding scratches on his skin, and his bones and epidermis are superhumanly dense.

Olympian Steel armaments: Though not technically a power in and of itself, Alex's armour and bow were forged by the smith-god Hephaestus, and given to him as a gift from his father. They are virtually indestructible, and possess special qualities which augment his own powers. His bow works as a channel for his natural ability to manipulate solar energy, allowing him to create special 'hard-light' arrows with varying degrees of lethality. This allows him to subdue weaker enemies without lasting harm, or blast more monstrous enemies into oblivion. His armour augments his already impressive endurance, allowing him to take blows as if he were a daxamite or kryptonian.

Superhuman accuracy: As the son of the god of Archery, Alex's accuracy, precision and skill with a bow go above and beyond that of most humans.

Weaknesses
Sunlight reliance: Alex's powers rely on his ability to 'charge' himself from solar energy, much like a Kryptonian or Tamaranian, and he will grow weaker if he is kept from seeing the sun for too long.

PTSD: Alexander suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from his time spent as a prisoner in Hades' underworld. He has a tendency to drift off in thought, suffers from intrusive flashbacks, and has hypersensitive emotional responses. He hasn't answered any questions about the details of his time spent in the underworld, and has thus-far refused offers of psychological assistance.

BRIEF Bio

Born as the illegitimate result of a forbidden passion between the Olympian God Apollo and a mortal woman from the island of Themyscira, Alexander's birth killed his mortal mother, leaving him effectively orphaned, since his father could not claim him. By Amazonian law, he was permitted, as one with the blood of the Gods, to live among the women of Themyscira. In his early years, he, like anyone else borne to the Amazonians, spent most of his time training for combat, and studying the arts. He developed a talent for archery, and trained with Wonder Woman on occasion to harness his powers. Despite this, he never truly felt that he fit in on Themyscira. When he reached the age of eighteen, he was visited in secret by Hermes, the messenger of the gods. Hermes brought a message from Alexander's father, along with armaments from Olympus itself.

Apollo's message was one of hope, expressing confidence in his son's abilities, and imploring him to utilize them for the greater good of humanity, rather than hide them away on Themyscira. Alexander took up the bow and armour his father had given him, and left Themyscira, only pausing to say goodbye to Princess Diana, with whom he felt a kinship. Arriving on the mainland of the united states, he set about fighting crime and villainy where he could find it. After two years of this unsanctioned crime-fighting, he was greeted by a wary government and the reformed Giganta, with a proposition. Due to the ban on any non-league or non-sponsered heroes in the United States, Giganta informed Alex (who had, by this time, taken up his father's name) that he would need a sponsor if he intended to fight villainy like his father had suggested. Given her experience with Demigods and the Amazonians, Giganta offered to sponsor Alex, and take him to Star City. Alex begrudgingly agreed, slightly frustrated that the son of a God required political sanction to perform heroic deeds.

After spending a brief amount of time with the group in Star City, Alexander's naivete caught up with him and he was manipulated, and subsequently murdered by Heartbreaker. As a Demigod, however, his spirit went to the realm of Hades. Hades revealed that this was a part of his plan all along, and that he had previously planted a seed into Apollo to make him more susceptible to mind-control and hypnosis. After this revelation was made, Alex was kept hostage in Hades' realm. Eventually, his father, the God Phoebus Apollo, traded himself for Alexander's freedom and resurrection. Hades accepted the trade, and imprisoned Apollo, which in turn drove Zeus into a rage, thus beginning a divine war in Olympus. The war Rages still, and Alex has been unable thus far to contact any of the Olympians to find out what has happened.

Notes
-Giganta chose to sponsor Alex because she had prior experience with Wonder Woman, and the Greek Pantheon. It is rumored that she was asked to sponsor him by Wonder Woman.

-Alex is uncomfortable around males, having only seen a few in his life. They tend to intimidate him.

-Alex has a slight phobia of dark places and corpses after his time spent in the Underworld.

Name: Tea C. Sun the V (That's TEH-ah by the way. I can't find the ' to put over the e)

Alias: Armory

Age: 18

Sponsor: Cyborg (If he's available. Since Tea herself is a cyborg, I figured it be appropriate)

Personality: Tea is kind, noble, friendly, and fiercely loyal to her friends. But this also comes with being naive and overly optimistic. Ironically enough, she's also very shy when meeting new people. But that doesn't stop her from being an utter beast in battle. (or at least that's how I'm going to try and play it. In truth, I have a hard time with personalities, so I'm trying to work outside my comfort zone of my own).

Powers: Tea used to be a very strong technokinetic with technopathic ability as well, however, those day have since passed. Her technopathy has been reduced to merely hearing whispers in machines, and her technokinesis is limited to strictly what's in her body, specifically the micro chip in her brain. Using a combo of both technopathy and technokinesis, she can take the data stored on the chip and forcibly materialize it in the real world. This is called Data Resolution. However, this is only temporary as the objects true form is data and thus has no real anchor in this world. After one minute the data will derezz (yeah, I stole that from Tron. It sounds cool) back into data and enter a "cooldown" period of about one hour. The only exception to this rule is her armor and the weapons it contains. This is because it was reverse rezzed. Basically, her armor IS real, and was merely turned into data and stored on the chip. Thus, it can exist in the real world forever, but can only be held on the chip for exactly 24 hours at a time. The back of the armor also has plates that fold out into a wing shape and while she does have six jets under them (two main, the rest for maneuvering), as well as a brake jet in her torso, flight is impossible. Due to her weight, the energy output required would drain her generator (her heart) ridiculously fast. However she can glide, and use the jets to assist in a high jump or to shift direction in the middle of a jump.

Her armor's weaponry includes:
Twin pistols: Stored in and attached to, her gauntlets (all ammo is data with both lethal and non-lethal rounds)
Twin collapsible mini SMGs: Stored in her thigh guards (all ammo is data with both lethal and non-lethal rounds)
Twin katanas (because katanas are just better) named Kindness and Sweetness.
Collapsible Bow: Stored in her left gauntlet, opposite her pistol. Primarily used for stealth (to use, she has to turn the gauntlet to line the bow with her hand. Arrows are data)
Cybernetic right arm also contains an experimental high-output energy projectile device. However, this is dangerous to use because risk of overheating could result in permanent damage to arm systems. Usage recommended only as last resort.

Data Weaponry includes:
Ammo for pistols (as magazines) - 20 total
Ammo for SMGs (as magazines) - 30 total
Arrows for Bow (individual) - 10

And that's it. But if the lock on her microchip was removed somehow, more data could be added or removed.

Weaknesses: WARNING - WARNING - Armor shock-absorbing systems and anti-electrical systems are malfunctioning. Too much damage can cause system to fail and allow heavy impacts and/or high voltage shocks to knock some systems offline. Please exercise caution when facing dangerous opponents, specifically those electricity-based and those with high physical strength. Thank you and have a nice day.

Appearance: For Tea herself, she looks like this:

Her armor looks like this (but obviously adjusted for a female frame) minus the helmet, and the back is covered with plates that can fold out into wings.

For her helmet? This (although the coloring and texture matches the armor):
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While her entire right arm, left forearm, and both forelegs are fully cybernetic, the last layer of metal is colored to resemble her skin, but is slightly lighter.

Brief Bio: Tea remembers nothing from before her 17th birthday (or at least what she considers her birthday). Her first memory began in a high-tech laboratory somewhere. Awaking in a sheer utter panic, she attempted to flee, but was stopped by a tall black man in silver armor. The man, named Victor Stone, or Cyborg, managed to subdue her and calm her down, before explaining how he had found her lying, damn near dead, near the wreckage of an explosion out in the deep forests of the countryside. Unable to just leave her behind, he brought her back to his lab and tried to help her recover, but he had to replace half her body with cybernetic replacements. When he asked if she had any family, she just responded with "I don't remember". Asking what her name was, she tearfully responded "I don't know". The girl had no memory of anything. Even her name. Looking at her remaining human arm (or at least what was left human) she noticed a few letters and a number stamped into it. T. E. A. C. S. U. n. 5. Teacsun 5? Maybe it was a clue? Breaking it down, she decided to call herself Tea C. Sun the V. At least until she could learn the truth.

Deciding to help her, Cyborg offered Tea room and board to help her in her search. One day, about a year later, while visiting the city, Tea was assaulted in the streets. Attempting to defend herself, she found herself wishing for a weapon, like a sword, and suddenly, one materialized in her hand. Without even thinking, she easily disarmed her assailants. In her shock, they managed to get away, but she didn't care. She was too stunned. Then she realized she couldn't exactly walk around with a full-blown katana in sight. She tried to make it go away, but nothing was happening. Panicking for a few minutes, it eventually broke down into little pixel-like squares and disappeared... right into her brain. Immediately making her way back home, she explained what happened to Cyborg. Without hesitation, she asked permission to become a superhero. She had heard about this whole crime-fighting thing and had strongly desired to become one herself. But Cyborg refused, on the grounds that they had no idea what her abilities were or how they even worked, not to mention she hadn't even had any training. After arguing for a bit, Tea locked herself in her room. Deep down, she knew Victor was right, but she didn't care. Ever since that day he found her, she had wanted to do something to show her appreciation, and now that she had learned she had a special ability, she wanted to be able to help him. To take some of the load off his aging shoulders. So she decided to train in secret. The first thing... how the hell to form her katana. Which... actually came easy, now that she knew she could do it. So was using it... almost like... muscle memory. Weird. Didn't take her long to figure out she could form two katanas. Soon she discovered she could form an entire suit of armor, chock full of weaponry. And she even figured out how to put it back. Although she also noticed her weapons had a time limit. The armor on the other hand. Once she started using it, she eventually realized she had to pull it out once every 24 hours to let it recharge (she had been doing this subconsciously at night while she slept to deal with the 24-hour rule). Finally, she started taking to the streets at night, where she began to take on small time crime under the name "Armory". Needless to say, she was caught by Cyborg rather quickly. Realizing how determined she was to help him, and that nothing he could say or do would stop her... Cyborg decided to place her on "the team". At least that way there would be others who could watch her back, and keep her from doing anything stupid, as well as being "official". And that brings us to today. (I figured she would be a new addition. That way I can learn how this works alongside Tea)