Phosphene
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| Phosphene | ||||||||||
| Player: @goodbyeclock | ||||||||||
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| "Beauty is easy to find; all that's needed is life and a magnifying glass." | ||||||||||
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| Real Name: | Chloe D. Reynolds | |||||||||
| Known Aliases: | Phosphene | |||||||||
| Gender: | Female | |||||||||
| Species: | Human | |||||||||
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | Warren, MI | |||||||||
| Base of Operations: | Millennium City, MI | |||||||||
| Relatives: | Biological Parents | |||||||||
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| Age: | 18 | |||||||||
| Height: | 5'10" | |||||||||
| Weight: | 135lb | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Brown | |||||||||
| Hair: | Dyed; natural light brown | |||||||||
| Complexion: | White, slightly pale | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | Lean and athletic | |||||||||
| Physical Features: | Hair often kept in elaborate braids or curled locks | |||||||||
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| Identity: | Secret | |||||||||
| Years Active: | 0 | |||||||||
| Citizenship: | American | |||||||||
| Occupation: | Student (until recently) | |||||||||
| Education: | Astronomy undergrad, Millennium City University | |||||||||
| Marital Status: | Dating | |||||||||
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| Currently able to manipulate fire and generate it to a small degree. Highly resistant to high temperatures. Regenerative capabilities exceed that of a normal human. | ||||||||||
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| Various radiometers, telescopes, and monitoring equipment for personal use. | ||||||||||
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| MaekadaBox created by @Maekada | |||||||||
Contents
Biography
Early Life
Chloe Reynolds was born on March 20, 1995, and raised nine miles north of old Detroit in the city of Warren. Her extended family was decimated by the destruction of the city in 1992, leaving her parents as her only living biological relatives. From a young age Chloe had a glint in her eye each time she stood outside on a cloudless night: the vast unexplored universe above her became a fascination. As she grew, studying it and learning about the worlds outside her own developed into her passion.
As a student, Chloe was a heavy daydreamer. Reasonably introverted and highly book-smart, she'd ended up flying through her secondary education with high grades and finishing a year ahead of her original class. Immediately after graduating from high school in Warren, she immediately became accepted into an astronomy degree program with an expenses-paid scholarship in Millennium City.
Paralyzed By Wonder
Through some clever bureaucracy, Chloe was able to divert some of her scholarship funds to personal studies. Telescopes, radiometers, all she'd needed and wanted to turn her studies into a viable hobby as well.
Things were all set for Chloe's career to succeed. One clear November night in 2013 changed that.
During a curious study of a potentially habitable planet named Odar in the Oseris solar system from one of her homebrew telescopes, she'd witnessed the destruction of the world and the near-complete obliteration of the Oseris system by an unholy bright orange blast of incomprehensibly massive, virtually stellar proportions. The magnitude of the event shook her to the core, simultaneously being the most stunningly beautiful and fundamentally violent scene of her life. Seeing it in front of her eyes sent her into an intellectual frenzy: the patterns and signals she'd seen and received with her equipment would've been impossible had they originated from a static source. Whatever caused the blast had to have been alive.
Dubbed "Starlet" by Chloe herself, this cosmic being's mere existence turned into an obsession for the young student. She dropped out of university unceremoniously. She'd started skipping meals, exercise, and most communication with the outside world. She took to drawing images of the event on her tablet PC in her spare time, recalling the explosion from memory. She'd studied the creature's movements and energies with intense devotion, coming repeatedly to a daunting conclusion: this living being of incredible destruction was moving towards Sol.
Reality Hits
By the winter equinox, Chloe's research had hit a dead end. The chances of "Starlet" being anywhere within visual range were narrowed down to slim odds, so she returned to sketching her visualizations of the cosmic blast on her tablet. Unknown to her, four young men from the nearby high school, well-built and wearing matching yellow hooded jackets had their eyes on her.
Chloe was approached by the four with a malicious mix of jeers, hollers and swipes as the makeshift gang went after anything they could grab. There was no path of escape, no witnesses, and no way to protect herself or her gear.
A flash of orange flame struck down behind the gang.
In its place was a woman; tall, muscular, and cloaked from head to toe in layers of seemingly non-combustible beige and black fabric. Two of her attackers fled upon the arrival of the superhuman entity - the other two were dispatched with effortless ease. Her savior smiled to her. Chloe was apprehensive, but thankful for the deed, and the two ladies began talking in private.
The lady of flickering flame introduced herself as Hypernova: a medium-profile registered human heroine operating out of the Detroit suburbs. She'd expressed a similar passion for stargazing, with Chloe responding by showing her some of the data and theories she'd strived to collect over the previous month.
An Unlikely Best Friend
Chloe met Hypernova again a few days later while the latter was on air patrol near the City Hall district, once again falling into a conversation about the histories and passions both had shared over their lives. 'Nova proved to be a capable listener as Chloe scrambled through an explanation of her nightly notes and journals about her research, and the pair both departed with wide smiles and eachother's contact information as the night wound down.
Her research stalled a day after that, once again leaving the young Reynolds in a slight disarray. Hypernova extended her greetings to her home, inviting Chloe over for another chat between new friends; Chloe brought along some board games and bits of her radiometry equipment and recorders just to have something to do while there.
The equipment went ear-splittingly insane as Chloe powered it up, causing her and 'Nova to drop the radio antenna in shock. Chloe immediately went to check the recording of the errant signals and ran the machine over to her computer to analyze it: inexplicably causing quite the protest from her towering friend.
"Starlet!?"
The signals she'd picked up from Hypernova's presence and the ones from the world-obliterating explosion differed only in amplitude. "Starlet", the source of her life-changing curiosity, ended up being the only person Chloe had talked to for weeks. She was far from excited: knowing full well how catastrophic the blast she'd witnessed was, standing beside the 'person' that had caused it drove her into absolute terror.
Chloe feared for her safety and that of her planet. She ran screaming. Her escape was prevented with a reflexive dash, as Hypernova grabbed her arm mid-flail and sat her down to explain her benevolent intentions for being on Earth. Chloe stiffened her lips in a forced placation, listening in frozen silence.
She eventually calmed enough to regain rational thought, asking a few questions before heading home and fainting from the shock of the experience.
Both women took a while to gather enough confidence to speak to eachother again. In a bid to try and regain Chloe's trust and interest, Hypernova offered to take Chloe with her on a civic patrol run and show her what a day in the life of a superhero was like...
Fatal Mistakes
Riding behind the ominous orange-shining figure by bicycle, Chloe found herself in a crossfire between Hypernova and a group of armed soldiers working on behalf of the TriNet corporation. Vastly unprepared for the gnarled reality of a battlefield, she attempted to ditch the bike in the roadway and dive for cover amidst a hailstorm of gunfire directed towards her superpowered friend. Her attempt was in vain.
The young student was hit by a wave of sharp pain and collapsed to her knees with a breathless yelp, curling up on the ground as blood oozed from a fresh bullet wound in the belly. Seeing her only friend take a grievous wound for her sake made Hypernova's temper-ridden mind completely snap. In an inhuman display, the heroine erupted into a hellish deathbringer, losing all control over her abilities and virulently slaughtering anything that could possibly hurt her: soldiers, responding policemen, property, even civilians. Chloe was forced to watch, slithering helplessly in a crimson puddle as death and relentless flame rained along the community ahead by her friend's hand.
As quickly as it started, the hellstorm ended while Chloe was kept in the nearby hospital's intensive care ward. Awake and conscious for the whole ordeal, she frantically scoured news reports and other witness' statements in an attempt to track down the fiery creature for one final chat. Stubbornly releasing herself from the hospital that same night, she followed her leads and ended up finding the broiling, battle-scarred barely-conscious remains of her monstrous ex-ally tucked away in the shade of a local park.
In a deathly serious tone, she expressed the fundamental difference between their existences: and her belief that Earth was too weak to sustain Hypernova's inherent power without grave consequences to its inhabitants. Knowing Nova would survive her injuries, but faced with no other options, Chloe asked her to leave permanently. Allowing something so unspeakably deadly near her was a mistake she had to rectify: after her speech, Chloe turned away and walked home amidst her former friend's howling protests. Battered, guilt-ridden, and truly alone in the universe, Hypernova burst into tears of sorrow.
Backtracking
Hypernova came to Chloe's dorm later that week on her own accord, giving the young student a final farewell and announcing that she intended to destroy herself to prevent any further damage on her behalf forever. Chloe had spent the meantime in virtual isolation, having lost the passion for her research and spending her nights stewing over a mix of rough emotions. But she didn't have any of it when Hypernova arrived: feebly punching the cosmic creature in the gut and yelling about how her intention was for no lives to be lost in the process.
Chloe wanted Hypernova to live a life worthy of her nature; 'Nova wanted to suppress herself in order to coexist with other sentient beings. Both of them came to the same realization on that same very night: for the first time in either of their lives, they weren't alone.
Theme Music
Phosphene to Hypernova: Fitz and the Tantrums - Out of My League
