Name: Youko Kitamoto
Alias: Auriga, The Shooting Star
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Appearance: Youko is a slightly taller than average girl with an athletic body. She keeps her hair cut short, and often highlights the ends red. She has dark brown eyes and her nose is slightly crooked from an injury long ago. She enjoys wearing loose, comfortable shirts, often with a coat or hoodie over. She often wears sweats or shorts, clothes that don't obstruct her range of movement. She's near sighted and wears black square glasses, refusing to wear contact lenses. When transformed her suit is very much like an armor, through providing a surprising range of movement. The armor is red, styled with yellow, giving Youko a more masculine silhouette. The suit seemed to change itself to Youko's preferences, the amount of plating for her legs was considerably reduced, and now covered with white pants. The boots changed to armored running shoes, and it now comes with a white fur lined coat. The suits helmet lenses also has adjusted to compensate for Youko's poor eyesight. Youko wears her pendent, the Starlight Legionnaire, as a necklace.
Biography: When Youko was four her parents disappeared. They were well known astronomers, studying the Auriga Constellation, specifically IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula and the nearby binary stars. While their work extended to stars and other nebulae, the majority of their time was spent observing those binary stars and the nebula. Among the scientific community, they say that the two Kitamotos disappeared in a brilliant flash of light when they observed a flash of light from the Flaming Star Nebula. But those are just rumors. The news simply says they went missing with no trace, and the trail ends there. Her brother, Satoru, being 12 years older than her suddenly found himself with a decent inheritance and a little sister to take care of. The boy who once played video games instead of doing homework and goofed off instead of studying became very serious. He lost nearly all of his friends in his pursuit to become an adult, to make sure he could take care of his sister himself. He took part time jobs while in school, and when he went to college, he worked two jobs. Satoru was unstoppable in his pursuit to make sure Youko could live comfortably without their parents. And she did.
In school Youko was never good at academics. In stark contrast, where Satoru was excellent in academics and poor in sports, Youko shines in sports and barely scrapes by in academics. During elementary school she was often bullied by others because her parents had seemingly abandoned her. At first she took it without resisting, becoming meek and troubled, because of the bullying she felt alone and betrayed by her parents. One day, when Satoru was cooking dinner for her she lost her composure and began to cry. Satoru quickly noticed, and the two talked about her bullying. He comforted her and taught her that she is a Kitamoto, saying that she should outsmart her bullies to stop them, putting them in embarrassing situations, blackmailing them, spreading rumors about them and then forcing their friends to alienate them. Satoru admits that he went a little overboard here, but Youko took this advice in another direction. Instead she just punched her bullies. The result was far more immediate, and her brother couldn't argue very much with the results. She physically attacked anyone who belittled her, and the bullies quickly stopped picking on her. She later joined her elementary schools martial arts club, and as her confidence grew, so did her will to become stronger. She didn't want to be bullied anymore, by anyone.
In the first year of middle school, a delinquent and two others attempted to scare another girl to into giving up her lunch money. Youko saw this and decided to intervene, immediately attacking the delinquents. This did not end well for either party. The three delinquents were defeated, but Youko did not win unscathed, she came out with a broken nose and a number of bruises and scrapes. Her brother was called and she was dismissed for the day. Satoru took her to the hospital and expressed his disappointment. He told her to be smart about things, and her sudden intervention of this bullying incident was not smart. He told her that if you want to help someone, you must make your intentions clear. Her sudden attack on the delinquents could be seen as a bully proving that they're stronger than the others. Youko took this to heart, and to help repair her image, she tried out several sports clubs. She joined the baseball team, finding that her throwing arm was impressive. Her speed wasn't too bad either, but as a batter she wasn't very good. It took her two years to be called a normal student again.
In high school she didn't join the baseball club, instead she played for fun, and joined the martial arts club once more. Her high school experience was fairly normal, her skill with martial arts bought her club a regional victory twice, but she and her peers weren't skilled enough to win a national victory. Her brother had since graduated from college, and gotten a degree in studying the monsters that plagued civilization. By the time Youko graduated high school, Satoru was leading a small team of scientists dedicated to the study of these monsters. After high school Youko was fairly aimless, she took up photography as a hobby, and hoped that maybe she could become a photographer for a living. A few months after her graduation, she found a request for any information about the creatures, and a few days later, she found a strange pendent on her desk. She has since joined her brothers research group as an agent on the ground, doing only a little bit of combative hero work, she mostly rescues those trapped, or those who can't get away from a monster fighting a hero.
Personality: Youko is a fairly serious person, she has a job now, one where she can help people and she doesn't think goofing off is appropriate while she's doing it. When transformed she tries to be as cool and professional as her brother is, but sometimes her emotions get the better of her. She particularly can't help but help those in harms way, and usually she's quick enough to go in and get out without being harmed. When not transformed she's been called a tomboy for most of her life, and that isn't wrong. Youko is a quiet person, when she does speak it's usually short and to the point. She has few friends, and those who are her friends are often boys or her brothers coworkers. She tries her best to be helpful, a good listener, and overall a good human being.
Powers: Starlight Legionnaire. When transformed she has a number of her natural human abilities increased. Her durability, agility, stamina and strength are increased, and her reflexes become supernaturally powerful. These let her use her active powers much more effectively. She has two, hyper speed and light manipulation. She's able to use her speed comfortably while moving and fighting, even able to throw objects at such a velocity that the thrown object breaks the sound barrier and ignites the air from the friction. This is her most powerful technique, Youko calls it The Lightspeed Star, as the object is usually glowing or on fire mid flight. The impact from Lightspeed Star is usually devastating at both ends, because of the throw and explosion from the objects sudden acceleration, Youko is usually blackened with soot, with her armor plating glowing from the heat underneath. She is usually unable to run at high speed after the throw. The point of impact is often obscured by dust, rubble and smoke from the explosion, when cleared reveals a sizable crater.
Her powers over light however are far less practiced, while she's capable of making her 'aura' glow to illuminate dark spaces, she cannot do much more than create an intense flash for a split second. She is only able to cast her light powers with her as the point of origin, all light must come from her. So far she's figured out that her abilities concerning her light magic is much like a decreasing function on a linear graph. With x being intensity and y being duration, she can either create a low intensity, high duration light, or a high intensity low duration flash. Youko is actively practicing her light magic, focusing on increasing her light intensity.
When she isn't transformed, she has no special powers or abilities. The two most notable things is that she is quick, fast enough to be a trained athlete, and her presence seems to make the rooms she's in seem a bit brighter.
Origins: Starlight Legionnaire is a pendant in the shape of a three pointed star, made of an unknown alloy which came from space. Astronomers who were tracking the pendant estimate that it comes from the same region of space that the Auriga Constellation occupies. The scientists expected it to burn up in the atmosphere, but it appeared to be unaffected by the heat, it had actually changed direction and landed in the ocean. The next night it appeared on the desk of Youko Kitamoto.
