A separate sheet for Lucia.
Username: Potatrobot
Name: Lucia Lattore
Codename: Daybreak
Age: 25
Powers: Lucia can project beams and pulses of bright, white light to inflict damage. The 'light' is a combination of visible light radiation and a unique type of radiation that carries so much energy is can actually cause physical repulsion. As a result, the light is incredibly hot to the touch, causing burns with minor attacks and setting fire to materials like concrete with intense, powerful attacks. Lucia can only project light out of parts of her body through which she can focus her energy with physical gestures, namely her hands and feet. With this in mind, Lucia can use her light beams to propel herself through the air, allowing her to skate around just off the ground or taking to the sky. Producing the light drains on her energy, with more intense and frequent use eating away at her stamina.
Weapons: A set of technologically advanced gauntlets and boots with adjustable lenses on the palms and heels. The inside of the hands and feet are lined with refractor arrays that direct Lucia's light through the lenses, offering advanced focus and precision.
Fighting Style: Lucia keeps her opponents at a distance and attacks by firing beams at singular targets or pulses at crowds.
Appearance: Lucia has long, straight, bone-white hair. Her eyes are a fiery orange, and her skin is tanned. She wears a white and orange combat uniform with a pixel camo pattern, along with her gauntlets and boots. She is also equipped with a pair of wraparound sunglasses (tinted orange), night vision goggles, radio communicator and a compact face mask.
Personality: Lucia is quick-thinking, strong-willed and vocal. She cares about her job as a means of helping others, and will take charge of a situation in a pinch if she needs to.
Backstory: Lucia and Darcy aren't twins, or even clones. They were once one girl named Angelina, who in all respects other than the colour of their hair and eyes and apparent superpowers, they were identical to. Due to a freak light show accident under the Aurora Borealis when she was 17, she was somehow split metaphysically into Lucia and Darcy — effectively her Yin and Yang. In Angelina, their powers cancelled each other out and thus were not present, but in two separate bodies, they became prevalent.
This miracle of science was not a private event, however. The tale of the so-called 'Aurora Twins' spread like a shockwave, bringing Lucia and Darcy well into the public spotlight by the time they arrived at the hospital from the incident. While her parents (who were not superheroes themselves) tried to come to terms with the situation, the media hounds were trying to come to terms with hospital security. DNA tests confirmed that both girls were genetically identical to Angelina, and both had her memories and personality — there were just two of her, now.
When it came time to check out of the hospital, the whole family was assaulted by a barrage of flashing cameras and pressing questions that awaited them by the front of the building. Among the ecstatic crowd, however, was a man in a dark suit and impenetrable black sunglasses. He took the family into what looked like a government car and drove them away from the crowd.
They were given a clearer picture of what had happened by the agent. He explained what happened to Angelina, and what was to happen now that it had happened. Both girls would soon find themselves subject to an array of super-human abilities, and so had to be enrolled at Sky High. They were given two months to adjust to their situation and realise their powers before being enrolled. During that time, they looked online for names for themselves, since both decided that neither were the original Angelina.
After they completed their education at Sky High, they joined the SPA, under the agent's advisement. They have since then become very capable and high-ranking members of the organisation.
Other Notes: Lucia and Darcy, after being split from Angelina, shared the same memories and personality and by extension were effectively identical in that regard. However in the years that followed they were exposed to different situations and therefore have both splintered from their original, shared identity.
Spoiler: Old sheet
So the sheet on the previous page has shown you the absolute pinnacle of my creativity, going into an anime face generator and creating the same face twice but with black and white features respectively. You can imagine the complexity and uniqueness of their detailed and flawed personalities when I decided to save those images.
Jokes aside, they weren't my most creative asset. I even imagined that their powers, despite being based off light and shadow, functioned the exact same way, because why start making sense now? Yes truly, these characters had no place in a roleplay. I let them sit in this thread in that state for a long time.
Until I was given a college assignment where I had to design and model a superhero character. 'Hey!' I thought. 'I love reusing my characters, so why don't I give them a shot?' My teacher told us that we had to think of their powers and their backstories carefully, since that's a crucial element in character design. This led to a period of deep pondering that I normally devote to my characters to develop them; one that I neglected to give Lucia and Darcy. In this time I decided that they couldn't just be black and white (metaphor hueha). Their powers needed an update. Lucia's powers remained mostly the same in terms of function, in that she fired beams and pulses of light. I expanded upon it though, giving it the power to heat things up and burn them if used with enough intensity. I imagine that the light she attacks with is very hot, causing damage when used at regular strength and outright burning and melting targets when used with enough power. Out of the two, Lucia's powers are more for offence than anything else, with very long range, virtually no travel time and plenty of damage potential. With fire being Lucia's secondary power, I integrated it into her design. Her white clothes now have orange flames as decoration, and her eyes are a fiery orange.
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