<strong><span class="bbc_u">== Character Bio ==</span></strong><br/><div class="floatright">(http://backwoodshorror.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mt5.jpeg)<br/>(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/2/22385/400579-83459-nightstar.jpg)<br/>(http://backwoodshorror.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mt3.jpeg)<br/>(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/2/22385/400584-185208-nightstar.jpg)<br/>(http://api.ning.com/files/q6aevX3lsWG25d0yuSti9FNxX6m-BzNbR*24aRSUuXcF61oVYRC04jqP6UTGGepxfsA4ollG3NOMBIEttjaj18u6Kz2FhhyW/michelletrachtenbergsteamyshoot.jpeg)<br/>(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/0/77/159239-46538-nightstar.jpg)<br/>(https://pp.vk.me/c623629/v623629637/15771/Qa0THTj70qU.jpg)<br/>(http://41.media.tumblr.com/108cd6e0ef4ffea5041a35e462e13e6f/tumblr_mt1zdnOA2I1swl4xoo1_500.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Personal Information ==</span><br/><br/><strong>Legal Name:</strong>Mar'i Grayson / Mary Grayson / Mary Gray.<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Nightstar<br/><strong>Age:</strong>23<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Bisexual<br/><strong>Part of Gotham Residing In:</strong>Gotham Mid-Town.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Physical Description == </span><br/><br/>Mar'i Grayson stands at roughly 5'11 - inheriting at least some of her mothers height - and is in possession of a slender, athletically curvaceous form thanks both to the rather exquisite genes donated to her by her parents, Dick Grayson and Koriand'r, and the focus that was emphasised in her youth on staying fit and healthy in order to best employ her natural abilities to defend the helpless and the vulnerable. She has long, smooth legs, a slender waist and a modestly generous chest - Earth Measurements place her cup size at 32C - with a smooth and pleasantly shaped face. Long, black hair flows down about her face and shoulders down to her middle back in luscious, healthy curls and frames a pleasingly symmetrical face with a gently angled jawline. Her eyes are a brilliant emerald green - inherited from her mothers Tamaranian physiology - that glow brightly when she is feeling an intense emotion or using her abilities in any way. Much the same as her mother, she has an orange tint to her skin that sets her apart from other females, though thanks to the mixed breeding of her father, her skin is closer to a "natural" human olive than the outright bright orange-pink of a pureblood Tamaranian.<br/><br/><em>Civilian Wear:</em><br/><br/>Mar'i tends to favour jeans or short skirts and t-shirts when walking around town in her normal attire, thanks to their lack of restriction to movement compared to a dress and their comfort; she finds herself more at home in more "tomboyish" clothing than "girly girly" stuff, though she has been known to slip on a slinky dress if going somewhere posh or nice. She enjoys shopping despite her more tomboyish tastes, simply because she loves all of the choice that is afforded her in the Gotham high street, but she won't go anywhere near high heels unless going to a formal function; they're very, very difficult to move in and if she learned anything from Bruce, it was that mobility is always key.<br/><br/><em>Superheroine Wear:</em><br/><br/>Her costume is very, very simple; it's a single-piece purple half-robe, half-leotard like article of clothing, covering just her groin and backside in order to give her as much freedom in her legs as possible and stretching up and out to reveal an ample amount of cleavage in a low-cut V shape before cresting the shoulders and flowing down her arms in a pair of purple loose-ish fitting sleeves that end in blue arm bracers. Her outfit is accentuated here and there by bits of blueish-indigo trimmings and in one place, a belt, and she tends to use a Tamaranian-style circlet of the same colour with a purple star set into it over her forehead and around her scalp to hold her hair out of her face when fighting and flying. She tends to also wear a pair of dark purple and blueish-indogo-trimmed, thigh high boots to protect the soles of her feet and her lower legs.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Persona ==</span><br/><br/>Despite her complicated past and her rather unique circumstances, Mar'i tries to retain the outgoing, good natured persona that she left her own timeline with, despite all the hardships. She tries to offer support to those she considers friends, and believes that loyalty, honesty and dependability are the most important things that you can offer those you love. She is<em>very</em>strict in her high standards, holding others to them just as much as she does herself, probably due in large part to her own experiences with the matter. Being a young girl of the "Next Generation" and being from a family with a kind, understanding mother - from what Mar'i can remember, anyway - and a distant, if caring, father, Mar'i is a bit more free with her sexuality than you would imagine from a woman of her age and her alien heritage. Being raised on Earth of course helped that latter issue, but she is - despite her sexual liberation - afraid of getting close to anybody in this timeline, for obvious reasons given her history. She is loyal but slow to trust, passionate in her interests and intense in her desires but guarded about her own identity - she can't let anybody know who she really is, for fear of what might happen to the timestreams - and fiercely determined to live up to the values and beliefs of those she left behind. She forcibly keeps a cheerful disposition despite the ennui that she feels inside sometimes, and though she largely keeps a brave front up, she is susceptible to bouts of depression and melancholy which is, perhaps, to be expected. Despite her friendly nature, she has a certain edge to her that sometimes makes her come across as a little harsh in her dealings with people, and definitely makes her seem a tad overzealous when fighting criminals and supervillains. She hasn't seriously hurt anybody yet, but she apparently doesn't know how to hold her anger and sorrow in check enough to hold herself back in a fight. Similarly, if somebody breaches trust or betrays family or anything that goes contrary to what she holds dear, they'll soon know just how quickly that friendly disposition can change into one of unimpressed iciness and sometimes outright fury. She may be friendly...but she's far from a pushover, and she has that edge to her that makes her more dangerous than you may otherwise think.<br/><br/>Though she has largely given up on returning home - since there's not even a home to return to - she has not lost hope; she will make her own life in this new Timeline, and try to prevent the same thing that ruined her old home from happening in this one. She has taken up a job as a waitress in a local burger restaurant - and the crime rate has mysteriously sharply dropped since her arrival; imagine that - and lives in a one-bedroom apartment just down the street. She makes enough money from her job and her tips - she's a very good waitress, and knows just who to flirt with to get a bit extra; just because she's good natured doesn't mean she won't take advantage of the obvious tricks of the trade...a gal needs to eat, after all! - to get by, and her "night life" both social and Vigilante provides plenty of chances for excitement and meeting new people. She's content, for the moment, while she figures out her long term plan. She misses her home..but she's stuck in this Timeline. She may as well make the most of it!<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Powers And Abilities ==</span><br/><br/>-<em>Tamaranean Physiology:</em>As a Tamaranean, Mar'i has the same abilities as her mother, Koriand'r, that are granted by to her alien physiology. However, she is markedly weaker than her mother due to the dilution of her genetics with a human (Dick). These are, specifically, as follows:<br/><br/>-- Nightstar's physiology means that her body constantly absorbs ultraviolet radiation from her surroundings and converts it internally into energy.<br/><br/>-- Energy Absorption: Nightstar is able to absorb the ultraviolet energy from other lifeforms in order to restock her own supply of energy more rapidly and allow her to use larger levels of power at once.<br/><br/>-- Flight: Nightstar is able to use her internal energy to take flight at extreme speeds, though not yet as fast as her mother was able to during her prime. Much like her mother, her flight leaves corntrails behind her that appear to originate in her hair.<br/><br/>-- Starbolts: What was done to her mother was done on the genetic level, meaning that her offspring - Mar'i - can also use less powerful versions of her mothers Starbolts, converting the internally collected UV Radiation into powerful external blasts of energy. She appears to lack the ability to produce the "Nova Blast" that her mother is capable of, however.<br/><br/>-- Superhuman Durability: Thanks to her alien heritage, Nightstar is able to shrug off blows that would incapacitate a normal human. Whilst not as durable as some - for example, Superman or Wonder Woman - she can still walk off wounds that would land normal humans in the hospital.<br/><br/>-- Superhuman Strength: She is able to hit harder and lift heavier weights than her size would suggest.<br/><br/>-- Language Assimilation: Like her mother and every other Tamaranian, she has the ability to learn new languages through touch, though being a half breed, she cannot do so instantaneously; she must maintain the contact for slightly longer than a full-blooded Tamaranian. She tends to agree with her mothers old philosophy on this one; kissing is, generally speaking, a lot more enjoyable than just touching somebodies hand. Especially if they're cute.<br/><br/><em>Other:</em><br/><br/>-- Through intensive training with Bruce Wayne, Nightstar has gained an impressive resistance to mental attacks and psychic readings. Whilst not immune, she is as resistant to it as a non-telepath can be without having a super power specifically directed at it.<br/><br/>-- Her brief time with Bruce Wayne and her few interactions with her father earned her basic lessons in self defence. Whilst she is unlikely to be able to take on people such as Nightwing, Starfire, Ra's Al Ghul or Deathstroke in single hand-to-hand combat with any efficacy, she knows enough to get by.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Background ==</span><br/><br/>Mar'i Grayson was born to Koriand'r and Dick Grayson - Starfire and Nightwing (Formerly Red Robin) - on 27th April, 2027 in a small town just outside Metropolis. Her early life was relatively quiet as Koriand'r and Dick attempted to raise her in a normal, quiet, peaceful environment whilst striving to teach her about her powers as she grew up rather than leaving her to figure them out on her own. She went to pre-school, then primary school, played with her friends and only occasionally wondered where her parents went every so often in the middle of the night. Her parents, for their part, mostly retired from Vigilante work - only going on occasional patrols if they heard something unsettling, or only going after specific criminals if they passed through - in order to avoid orphaning their daughter. Ironically, it wasn't a super villain or a gang war or a secret government organisation that ended up doing that; it was nature. When Mar'i was only eleven years old, Koriand'r was diagnosed with an untreatable, unknown alien version of circulatory disease. Despite copious donations from the Wayne Empire and dozens of favours being called in from the extended Justice League family, Koriand'r passed away when Mar'i was only 13. Dick withdrew inside himself at her death, unable to properly cope with losing the woman he thought he would be spending his life with, throwing himself back into his vigilante work as a way to distract himself at the cost of neglecting his daughter. Thankfully, Mari's adopted grandfather Bruce Wayne - who knew first hand what it was like growing up without parents - stepped in to effectively raise the girl on his own, doing his best to reinforce and cultivate the values of loyalty, kindness and compassion that her parents had started to instil in her...of course, some of Bruce Wayne's own old personality rubbed off on her, and she soon set out as a vigilante in her own right.<br/><br/>When she reached the age of 18 - and after a couple of years of Bruce desperately combating his most dangerous foe yet; a teenage daughter - she had come to not despise her biological father but instead pity him, though their relationship was admittedly rather strained due to his years of neglect. He, to his credit, realised upon meeting her on the streets of Star City how much he had missed and how much he had ended up wallowing in his own self pity, and tried to make amends...but Mar'i was of the opinion that it was too little, too late. Though she didn't dislike her father, she also didn't have time for him. Why should she, when he never made time for her? Unfortunately, the family squabble was about to get worse...when Kansas was destroyed by an unknown assailant, two rival Hero groups emerged from the ashes; Superman stepped out of retirement to reform the Justice League, which Dick joined, and Bruce Wayne similarly re-donned the Cowl to head up "The Outsiders," a group of slightly more shadowy and obscure young heroes whose methods sometimes got under the JL's skin. Just as conflict between the two groups began to boil over into full-scale war...history diverged, as it so often does. Brainiac, finally recovered from his final defeat at the hands of the JLA and the united heroes of Earth thirty years previously, returned and attacked the Earth. Over the course of two years, the JL and The Outsiders were forced to put aside their differences to fight against him...and soon enough, Mar'i and Dick were, after a fashion, reconciled after Bruce Wayne fell in battle and Dick managed to retreat with a screaming Mar'i over his shoulder.<br/><br/>Whilst Brainiac was eventually defeated...it took the life of Dick, too, only half a year after he and his daughter had begun to rebuild their relationship. Mar'i was distraught, and attempted to attack the remnants of Brainiacs exploding ship in an attempt to ensure that he was really, truly dead this time...and the Quantum Drive chose that exact moment to detonate, flooding the space above Earth with all sorts of radiation, most of which was at that point completely unknown to humankind. The explosion caught Mar'i in a Quantum Fluctuation that tore a hole in space and time and pushed her through it, through to an entirely different version of reality. It was the same year - 2047 - but a completely different timeline where Brainiac had never attack and where Dick Grayson had actually settled down with - of all people - Jason Todd and adopted a son and daughter who had likewise followed in their parents footsteps in becoming vigilante's. Crucially for Mar'i...all her loved ones were alive. Bruce Wayne, now the retired, ageing CEO of Wayne Enterprises. Dick Grayson, in this Reality a doting, loving father....and most importantly, Koriand'r, her mother, alive and - shockingly - single (though apparently only a year or so out of a messy divorce with Garfield Logan) and without children. Mar'i had to try very, very hard not to let on about her relations with any of them, though she was able to strike up a friendship with her mother (which was weird at first, but Mar'i got used to it...barely) and get on speaking terms with the alternate version of her father. She continued her vigilante work, though she spent most of her time trying to get used to the new world...until a series of disrupting Quantum Ripples opened a Wormhole above the planet Earth threatening to destroy all life on the planet.<br/><br/>Whilst the reformed Justice League was able to eventually close it, Mar'i's origins came to light during the struggle and it arose that the Wormhole happened to lead back to her own reality, her extended presence being the thing that had triggered the Ripples; whilst random, they had coalesced the way they did due to the nature of the explosion that took her to the alternate universe. Even if the Wormhole didn't take her home...travelling via the timestreams attempt to correct the imbalance would - hypothetically - stop it from happening again. At least, that was what Bruce told her. So, she took the risk and flew into the Wormhole...and arrived home a year after she left, at the age of 22. Unfortunately, it was not a happy ending. The Earth, devastated by years of Intergalactic War had been coated in radiation that made the entire surface uninhabitable, the surviving members of humanity escaping underground or leaving the planet altogether to survive. Left with no other option, Mar'i attempted to return through the wormhole...but the local radiation and fluctuations due to the high level of unstable technology left over from Brainiac's ship tampered with the Wormhole, and she was dumped in yet another Alternate Universe, this time having been sent back in time to boot.<br/><br/>She spent the next year getting used to the new world and the new timeline, getting used to the new villains and the familiar yet younger faces around her. She can't let her parents know that they're her parents in another timeline - that might screw<em>this</em>one up, for all she knows - so she adopted the last name "Gray" and established a cover as the daughter of a deceased Tamaranean exile who died when she was young...not a lie per say, but far enough away from the truth that nobody should suspect much. The last year has been spent establishing herself as a Hero in the community and forging links with the other local heroes in order to try and build a life for herself here...her old home is uninhabitable with nobody left for her even if it was, and the chances of successfully getting back to the first alternate universe are slim to none...so if a new wormhole opens up, she'll stay put. She's had enough of Dimension Hopping for a lifetime. Her friends and family are all dead in her own timeline. She needs to create a new life, a new family, new friends...or she'll never make it through the crushing bouts of despair that hit her when she stops to think about what she's lost.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Existing Relationships: ==</span><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">-- Artemis Lian Crock, "Tigress:"<br/><br/>"Arty" and Mar'i are best friends. There's no other way to say it; when, a few months after Mar'i fell to Earth, she was at her lowest, Artemis was there to pick her up and dust her off. After running into each other during a bar room brawl (that Mar'i technically started, but come on! The guys TOTALLY deserved it!), the pair departed for a night of fun at bars and clubs across town. Unlike everybody else, however, Arty stayed the morning after and elected to hang around as long as Mar'i needed it. They formed a close, sister-like bond that endures to the current day; if Mar'i is in trouble, Artemis will leap to her aid no matter what, and vice versa. They're friends, honorary sisters and lovers; Artemis is one of the very, very few people who know the truth behind Mar'i's past (though she doesn't know who her father is, Arty knows who Mar'i's mother is, and that Mar'i is from an alternate future), and Mar'i is one of the few people who can assuage Artemis's doubts and insecurities about her scars. The two engage in frequent mischief and misadventures, and if they're on the battlefield, can frequently be found fighting as a duo, a tradition that started all the way back in that nondescript drinking establishment on the 23rd of December, 2014. <br/><br/><br/>-- M'gann, "Miss Martian:"<br/><br/>Mar'i met M'gann shortly after Artemis, the blonde Tigress swiftly introducing them since she "thought they should meet." And honestly, Mar'i is glad that she did; the three of them soon formed a tight-knit group of friends that frequently spend time together doing all sorts of things, from shopping to movies to lunch to fighting bad guys in back alleys and open clearings both. Whilst Mar'i isn't as close to M'gann as she is to Artemis, she still trusts the Martian with her life and couldn't ever imagine losing her as a friend.</div></div><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Personal Timeline Thus Far ==</span><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">It's Complicated.</div></div><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Face Claim: ==</span><br/><br/>Michelle Trachtenberg<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Theme Music:== </span><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Star Sky by Two Steps From Hell</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://www.youtube.com/embed/pICAha0nsb0</div></div><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">== Current Side Scenes ==</span><br/><br/>Hunting A Stars Descent (Vergil & Vergil): (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=240804.0) In a small, nondescript drinking establishment, a lonely girl-out-of-time attempts to drink her sorrows away when a drunken patron attempts to "pick her up." When he doesn't quite take "no" for an answer, a fight breaks out and a mysterious blonde woman steps in to help the lonely young Tamaranian...<br/><br/>Between Realities And Bowstrings, A Demon Domme Tale (Vergil & Vergil / Ace Flyer): (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=240752.0) When Artemis decides that Mar'i needs to learn to "let go" and give up the tight grip she has on control, she manages to convince Mar'i to order a "home call" from a highly-recommended local Dominatrix Club. Mar'i does so, but signs Artemis up for the "home call" as well, pressganging her into joining in. What will happen when the Dominatrix they've ordered turns out to be a very specific type of bird?