Shimmer
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" In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realization that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances." — Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Skye Danvers was born in London, England to Scott and Meredith Danvers. Skye and her brother David were both born mutants. Her parents both being scientists they were no strangers to the mutant gene. So when Skye and her brother began exhibiting superhuman abilities their parents knew exactly what to do. Skye and her brother were trained in the uses of their powers. Skyes main teacher was Swift Swallow who is a member of one of Englands major superteams The London Watch. After helping the team stop an attack by Dr. Destroyer. She was invited to join the team as its newest and youngest member Shimmer. Shimmer has since grown even more powerful from when she first joined the team. Shimmer hearing of the Qularr attack came to Millenium City to help the Champions protect the people from the Qularr invasion. After the invasion, Shimmer has since stayed in Millenium City to help her brother fight the good fight.
- Invisibility: Shimmer can consciously by a simple act of concentration, she can cause all wavelengths of visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light to bend around her without distortion; she also somehow directs enough undistorted light to her eyes to retain her full range of vision while invisible. An observer, unaware of the peculiar path light takes around her body, would have the sensation of seeing through her. The Invisible Woman can also mentally project the invisible energy produced within the cells of her body in order to render other people or objects invisible. The largest volume she can as yet turn invisible at a single time is approximately 40,000 cubic feet of volume (1,133 cubic meters), equivalent to a small swimming pool. She has sufficient control over her power that she can turn parts of her body selectively invisible. She is also able to make objects that have been turned invisible by other sources visible by letting her own energy projection interfere with that other method of invisibility. Further, she can make energy that is not in the visual portion of the electromagnetic spectrum visible by a similar interaction. Sue can also sense something made invisible by physical means (such as a machine) but not by magical or psionic means.
- Force Field Generation: Through concentration, Shimmer is able to project a field of psionic force which she can manipulate into a number of relatively simple forms: rectangular planes, cylinders, globes, domes, cones, etc. The complexity of the shape is limited by her ability to imagine (mentally visualize) a particular form and keep it in sharp mental focus: not even she is able to see the forms she creates. The size of a given psionic force projection is also limited by her ability to imagine. The smallest force projection she can visualize (and maintain the visualization) is the size of a marble. The largest solid force projection she can visualize and maintain is about 100 feet in diameter. She can project larger force-objects if they are hollow. For instance, she could visualize and project a dome 1 foot thick about a mile in diameter (5,280 feet) and a dome 1 inch in thickness she can project for about 3.2 miles. Small objects at high speeds become missiles; large objects at slow speeds become rams. She can make these objects grow or shrink as desired.
- Defensive Force Fields: Shimmer mainly uses her force fields in the form of blue spheres of defensive energy which can absorb damage until she stops concentrating on them, causing them to dissipate. Shimmer is capable of making larger force fields for long durations of time to either contain or protect larger targets or groups of people as she has shown the ability to shield multiple people with one large semi-circular force field. She is capable of generating and concentrating on sustaining multiple force fields around targets with relative ease. Even though her suit is comprised of a durable material, she prefers to protect herself with a powerful force field in combat to avoid direct injury. Whilst she is sustaining force fields she has considerably reduced offensive capability. If she is having difficulty in combat, she will resort to using either extremely defensive force fields or highly offensive force field usage. She prefers to take a defensive position in combat when working with other heroes allowing them to attack whilst she creates defensive force fields to absorb or redirect potentially fatal damage.
- Offensive Force Fields: Shimmer is capable of wielding her force fields for more offensive purposes. In combat whilst she prefers to take a defensive position using force fields of varying shapes and sizes to defend allies, or repel foes, if she is hard pressed she will go on the offensive. At the peak of her offensive ability she can project concussive waves of sheer force. She is also able to focus her power to shatter materials. This extension of her powers is extremely destructive.
- Force Constructs: As an extension of her offensive force abilities, Shimmer has the ability to generate force fields in varying shapes and sizes to attack her enemies. This ability is limited to her own imagination, meaning that as long as she can imagine the shape in her mind, she will be able to successfully translate it into the real world by way of her force field constructs. Shimmer readily uses this ability both for combat (such as generating a powerful series of force fields to slam down on her opponents) and non-combat purposes (such as creating a temporary series of pipes or lab utensils). Shimmer has demonstrated the ability to achieve a form of high speed transport atop a 'platform' thus allowing her to achieve flight. She can extend this ability to levitate others along with her and has on occasion demonstrated the ability to levitate multiple persons using individual platforms for each person. In a similar manner to her force fields, her ability to create and sustain force constructs is limited to her ability to concentrate, either consciously or unconsciously, on them or they will simply cease to exist.
