Lorielle Wrote:Name: Lyla Luna
Hero Name: Former Ember, Currently: Wildfire
Age: 21
Gender: Female
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Perks:
Pyrokinesis Broadly the ability to control flames at will. Wildfire has honed these ability from a startlingly young age when she triggered her evolution. While currently incapable of causing things to spontaneously combust all she needs is a single spark to roll into a roaring wildfire. Able to direct flames, shift and move them with her mind and a the aid of a specially made baton she is can look more like a musical conductor than any sort of fighter on the battlefield. This pyrokinesis has also granted her immunity against flames and being burned, as if there was a small cocoon surrounding her that make it so that the heat of the flames cannont touch her. (As a result though she is weirdly cold to the touch though she doesnt even seem to feel cold)
Limited Flight: Years of practice have given her the ability to lift her body into the air on a pair of glittering butterfly like wings. Flames that she molded specifically for that purpose. While not as useful as true flight she's able to leap high up into the air and glide short distances on these spectacular wings, though she needs to be careful as they are still made of fire, losing any amount of concentration while flying can cause her flames to drop and spread onto things directly below her if she is not careful.
Too cute for her own good: While Wildfire would love to shed her childlike youth and beauty, the general public and even criminals can be somewhat taken aback by the beauty before them. She hasnt evolved her outfit or costume much since becoming Wildfire either lending to a look of everlasting youth. In many people's eyes she will always be Ember the flame whizz leaving them to underestimate her or not take her seriously, but now an adult she knows that her looks can have certain.. benefits. Even if she finds its incredibly patronizing at times.
A pretty decent detective: Because of her upbringing Wildfire has found herself less experienced in real combat, but it has had the useful side effect of honing her investigative skills down to a T. Her leaps of logic and ability to piece clues together beat that of even the best professionals, if she were not a super hero she would likely have been a private eye in a different life.
Flaws:
Unstable Flames: Something that Wildfire had learned early on was that controlling her flames was a dance between 3 factors. Fuel, Oxygen and her emotions. the first two were just physics it'll be impossible to maintain her flames for too long without the correct ingredients or if they could be snuffed out by conventional means like a fire extinguisher, but her emotions can actually cause flames to briefly flare up or die down. Either scenario would be bad unless properly managed but if people get under her skin they may notice the correlation between her emotions and the strength of her flames.
Envy is the bitterest sin: A word to sum up Wildfire is Resentment. For the last decade or so she was under the mentorship of one of the greatest superheroes to ever grace Sunrise City, but she couldnt help but notice that for all the training she had undergone and all of the missions she had endured. Her mentor had left her out of the most dangerous missions, real fighting. While she was still the loveable star of the elemental duo, she knew( or thought she knew) that she was just the 2nd fiddle to her mentor who fought "real" crime. This envy and spite carries her forward as she finds herself bitterly fighting to make a name for herself even at the expense of others or herself. She wanted to be a "real" hero and that started as soon as she joined the Angels.
An empty head can easily be filled Wildfire was raised by her crimefighting mentor for many many years and his strict training regimen meant that outside of hero training and media appearances Wildfire lacks many lived experiences. While she isnt a complete idiot when it comes to the subject of love, sex, or other things she is woefully unprepared and easily duped by those who can speak confidently about what those things "should" be. Her single-minded obsession with becoming a "real" hero also leaves her vulnerable to hypnotic suggestion and mind altering substances if her initial wall cracks.
Background: "Come check out the child who has mastered fire the most dangerous of elements! An inferno engulfed her home but she survived!" This was a headline that Lyla saw all too often. At the tender age of seven tragedy befell the young girl. Living in the fire station with her parents she thought that one day she would grow up to do the same. She might not be a Superhero, but she was going to be a hero nonetheless. She wanted to help people and wanted to make sure Sunrise city was safe. But that dream would take a drastic turn when one day the fire station light up in flames. A gas pipe had ruptured underneath the build and shook it to its foundations. Her parents were out responding to a minor call, no big thing just an arson when they heard about the explosion over the citywide radio. Other stations responded but her parents rushed back as soon as they cool in the truck.
Lyla survived thanks to her parent's guidance and sheer luck. She was in the half of the building that didnt get immediately exploded, and she knew how to put on a fire blanket and fire fighter gear. This bought her precious time as she was trapped and unable to escape the roar of fire. And at the time she couldnt do anything but cry and scream for her parents. Hoping anyone would come save her. Over the din of the building coming down around her she could hear the approaching sirens. She thought she was going to be saved, but an even worse tragedy would befall her. Her parents would try their hardest to save their precious daughter, but before they could reach her they were trapped by burning rubble. Lyla could feel the tug at her heart as she heard the crash of roofing collapsing in on itself, but she couldnt see what was happening, only hearing a brief cry of help from her parents before silence. And fire.
The fire was deafening but she couldnt bare it any longer as she felt the tug in her heart grow stronger and stronger. She had to do something, her parents were right over there! Foolishly she threw off her blanket and round to the noise, dashing past burning debris and memories to where she had heard the voices, but she was met with only despair. A beam had crushed her parents and in that moment her life was changed forever. On instinct she tried to use her little muscle to lift the beam not noticing that the flames seemed to shift away from where she had touched, her long hair had taken on an ashen quality, and she was surviving the inferno. But none of that mattered even as the rest of the building burned she spent however long it to to try and lift that beam to no avail. It wasnt until a good number of other firetrucks had arrived that the fire could be contained.
And all they would see is a child amidst blackened ruins and hair that looked like the remains of a burnt matchstick.
The media soon caught onto this wonderchild who managed to survive the disaster that claimed her parents and a few other fire fighters caught in the explosion. This attention would finally bring her into contact with her then new mentor. They were considered a hero that came around only once in a generation. That was likely true, but considering the UAS's enemies and the various other cities they all likely had heroes they'd also call once in a generation. But all Lyla cared about was making sure something like what happened to her, never happened again.
The years passed and her mentor had honed her abilities, helped her to point out the various idiosyncrasies that made controlling fire a nigh on impossible task. She was jealous of him of course, his control of this destructive force was leagues beyond her own ton top of the ability to generate flames of his own without the aid of a device. The first couple of years she used a zippo to give herself the initial spark, but thanks to her mentor's connections she had a snazzy new suit and baton that allowed her much more ready access to fire should she need it. Still despite proving herself more than capable of maintaining her composure in battle and beating up a few thugs even without her flames she had noticed around 16 or so that her mentor refused pointblank to take her on missions that might involve more than C-tier villains. Ones that literal children can be expected to put down.
Instead she found herself the focus of the media. A carefully cultivated media persona along with her graceful appearance made her the talk of tabloids for years to come. An aspect of hero life she never expected to be so mentally draining. The constant questions, interviews, and gossip. It did something to her mind, when her mentor came back from a grueling mission covered in bruises and wounds she inevitably tended to she couldnt help but feel an envy build up inside of her. What was she doing with her life, she wondered when on another media circuit for another charity event and getting bombarded with questions about her love life. One that she didnt have, if they paid attention.
But she didnt want any of this, she complained endlessly to her mentor that she was ready to fight, to do some real good, but was only met with the same thing over and over. That she "was" doing real good by attending charity events and helping these events raise money for various causes. But she couldnt see it, or feel it. Outside of stopping a few fires, helping with a few wild fires and scaring off some would be idiots with her abilities she has still done nothing with her abilities. Even as she helped her mentor investigate crime syndicates with tracks more hidden than ones washed by the tide. She had done all of this and could not prove to her mentor she was ready to do something against the rising crime, the espionage. She wanted to do more.
Her chance would come when she turned 20. She heard through a dinner function that a new team was being formed. Some sort of corporate rebrand of an older team from before her time. But when she heard this she knew she had to hop onto the opportunity. While she expected pushback from her mentor, he was rather serene about the affair. She went out onto her own for the first time ending up at the corporate head quarters for the Sunrise City Angels and after a brief training period with her new teammates, the Angels were ready to make their debut into the wider world.
Turn Ons: Mind Control, Instant Loss, Corruption, Gangbangs, "weak" creatures, interspecies, Bestiality, Drugged, Coercion, Blackmail, Sleeping sex, Trading sexual favors, Tentacles, gloryholes/stuck in walls, Mimics, Excessive Cum, Facefucking, Light-Vore, Degradation, toys, sexy clothes(clothes that alter her physical body/mind/how people view her, Mind control clothes) bimbofication, Blackmail, futanari.
Turn Offs: toilet play, extreme bdsm, pregnancy
"Meetings at Central Plaza, 11 A.M. Press will be there ahead of time, so go in through the back staff entrance. Our Corporate Sponsors will have some talking points I'm sure they'll want to pressure you or the other girls into bringing up, but while they may help pay the bills they don't own the team. Give a little to keep them happy, but you don't need to roll over for them.
On the bright side, those bills they're paying are already getting things done. The Hideout is ready and operational. Checked it out myself when they were doing the finishing touches yesterday. Can't say we had anything that snazzy when I was an Angel. I'll take you and the other girls over to your new secret base of operations once the press talk is done. Something to look forward to for later.
See you soon.
Madison."
Your new mentor of sorts - albeit a far less hands on one than your previous one - seemed to see fit to send you a reminder about the upcoming press conference. A conference courtesy of Angel Studios, a media company cooked up and backed by an array of bigger brands for the express purposes of supporting your new team, had been building up hype in Sunrise City for the past year or two about the new Angels team that would be revealed - well before even the first member had been officially signed on. This company was supposedly pitched as an initiative designed to support young, newly fledged heroines operating in the city by pairing them up with similar young women and providing them with the kinds of resources usually reserved for the big names in the hero business - and in return all you would need to do is occasionally drop a kind word or two about the products that help you keep the city safe whenever talking to the media. Now it seems the company was trying to capitalise on the hype, having you and your team members all be officially revealed at the same event.
Madison Shepherd, the civilian identity of the now retired heroine Wonder Heart and former member of the original Sunrise City Angels, was the official head of the team, passing the torch on to a new generation of heroes. Her crime fighting days were behind her, at least in terms of field work, but she never stopped being a spokesperson for good and pushing for change in more political and economic climates. Her record wasn't completely without scandals... there were rumours about a sex tape or two circulating about from her younger years, and she's been divorced twice over but in terms of social justice she still seems as devoted as any hero. Yet you got the impression your mentor wasn't too keen on her. He didn't say why, nor did he seem to object to you joining up with the Angels, yet he definitely seems a little... perhaps sceptical would be the right term. Not that he's said anything since then. You've not really spoken to him all that much since this began. Perhaps he'll show up to your debut.
Whatever doubts you had in your own head or important events you had coming up to prepare for, Sunrise City was far too busy a place to care. Even with an array of street level heroes of its own already calling a home to this metropolis, a shining beacon of all the prosperity the United Atlantic States have to offer - even in the face of the ever looming red menace - there would still always be something happening for you and your team to deal with on your patrols.
Something the city makes sure to let you know even on your way to Central Plaza this very morning. It must have a sense of humour, placing a crime right in your path on your way to an important meeting. The ringing out of an alarm, the screams of civilians quietened by a threatening snarl and hiss. Lizards. A word that means something very different in Sunrise City than anywhere else.
No one is sure where they came from, but there are plenty of theories. Alligators that got loose from the zoo generations ago and started living in the sewers, only to be mutated by haphazardly disposed chemical waste - Soviet experiments released into U.A.S. territory that have found themselves gathering together beneath this city - a subterranean species descended from dinosaurs that survived the extinction that are starting to invade the surface. Likely none of these are true, but who could say for certain. What was true is that they seemed to live in the sewers beneath the city. There are no consistent sources on what their numbers are, but there's enough of them that they crop up enough. They're smart, but hostile, seemingly conducting themselves with a gang-like mentality and regularly get involved in Sunrise City's criminal underworld.
You catch sight of one large, green, scaly tail disappearing through the shattered window of a jewellery store. From the sounds within, there is likely at least one more inside already, possibly two. You've dealt with Lizards before, though never on your own. Still... two or three Lizards doesn't feel like something that should take you too long to deal with, and it would be rather unheroic to leave the people inside to be terrorized. But the alarm has gone off already, police are likely already on their way here, and its more likely the Lizards are here to rob the store and flee through the sewers rather than harm anyone. You could probably ignore this one, and make sure you get to this meeting in time. Or you could risk being late and flex your muscles as a hero in this city finally outside of your mentor's shadow.
Madison Shepherd
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