<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/UMC7dP3.png)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>Quasar<strong></strong></strong></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Vala Schwarzschild</strong></span><br/><strong>Nova</strong><br/><hr/><strong>Concept</strong>The child of wealthy german immigrants, from a very young age Vala began to demonstrate unusual abilities.  Unfortunately a toddler is ill equipped to wield one of the fundamental forces of the universe, and her ability to control gravity caused terrible problems for her family.  She was home schooled and spent most of her life in her room, books and the internet her only companions.  She sees being a hero as a chance to finally not be so alone.<br/><br/><strong>Look</strong>Eighteen years old, with very pale skin and shoulder length white hair with blue highlights.  In her civilian identity she dresses quite formally, with long skirts, and nice blouses.  As a superhero, she favors a practical costume with pants, boots and gloves, although her tight blue top reveals quite a bit of cleavage.  In either identity she likes to wear chokers around her neck.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities</strong>Gravity Manipulation.  Quasar can generate intense gravity and anti gravity fields.  It is easiest for her to manipulate her own body, weighing herself down or lifting off the ground with an anti-gravitational field to fly.  She can also project fields outwards, pushing away objects or pulling them towards her.  With greater effort, she can create and throw a small, unstable singularity, which tears apart objects in its immediate area with unstable but intense gravitational forces.  When using her powers tiny black orbs appear in her palms, and when she squeezes them a bright but unstable looking white aura forms around her hands.  The singularities she throws look similar, being a black nucleus surrounded by a chaotic field of white light.<br/><br/><strong>Labels</strong><br/>Danger: +1<br/>Freak: +2<br/>Savior: 0<br/>Superior: 0<br/>Mundane: -1<br/><br/><strong>Backstory</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>When did you first use your powers?</strong> As a toddler.  Her parents first noticed when she didn't want to be picked up, and suddenly became super heavy.  It wasn't long before she was pulling toys towards herself, or throwing disliked food away from her without touching it.</li><li><strong>Who was the first person you accidentally hurt with your powers?</strong> Her mother.  She was throwing a temper tantrum and objects in the area started getting alternately pulled close and flung away.  Her mother tried to calm her down and was thrown across the room directly into the wall, knocking her unconscious and giving her a serious concussion.  This was when Vala was three, and is her first memory.</li><li><strong>Who, outside the team, helps you control your powers?</strong> By the time she was eight, her powers were so out of control that her parents looked for help.  A retired Gold Generation heroine, Stardust, began to teach her what she could.  Stardust didn't have much in the way of power herself, but she helped teach Vala self discipline and emotional control, although this training perhaps went to far, as she usually comes across as cold and distant.</li><li><strong>Why do you continue to use your powers?</strong> Vala has had them for so long that asking her to not use them is as hard to understand as telling someone to stop using one of their arms.  Her abilities frighten her, but they <em>are</em> her.</li><li><strong>Why do you care about the team?</strong> Her parents are distant, her mentor stern and old, and she's never had a friend outside of strangers over the internet.  The team is her chance to really meet people like herself, and to finally stop being so lonely.</li></ul><br/><strong>You hang out all the time with <span class="bbc_u">Red Wasp</span> to blow off steam.</strong>What started as patrolling and training together transitioned into regularly hanging out in costume.  Quasar didn't have anyone else that she spent much time like that with, and after noticing that Red Wasp had a very busy personal life, asked to know who she was under the mask so that they could hang out that way, but she refused.<br/><br/><strong>You once hurt <span class="bbc_u">Superbus</span> when you lost control of your powers.</strong>They were practicing a 'Fast Ball Special' team attack, with Quasar throwing Superbus at a dummy.  Unfortunately Quasar lost control of her powers, throwing her much harder than intended, and she was knocked right through a wall.  Quasar completely freaked out, but Superbus was okay, and to calm her down she bonded with Quasar by revealed that a demonic presence is coming for her someday.<br/><br/>You have a locked down demeanor, with only Red Wasp having Influence on you.<br/><br/><strong>Burn</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Reality Storm</strong> This is her tossing one of her singularities -- a very powerful attack, but causes tremendous collateral damage due to its unstable nature.</li><li><strong>Move</strong> She can fly with her gravity powers, and her ability to repel objects allows her to smash through most things that try to contain her.</li><li><strong>Overcharge</strong> Her powers are immense, and with the focus her training with Stardust has given her, she knows how to bring them out fully when she has to.</li><li><strong>Snatch</strong> She learned to grab her toys and pull them close before she could speak.</li></ul><br/><strong>Stardust</strong><br/>Stardust is a grumpy mentor figure that will call up Quasar any time she makes the slightest mistake to scold her.  Basically, Quasar will panic whenever the phone rings, since it's usually Stardust pointing out all of her failings (which, in Stardust's opinion, are many and varied).<br/><br/>Stardust can generate glittering clouds of lights, which she used to disorient and distract villains.  She was once part of a team of heroes, but eventually was forced to retire when the Silver Generation started popping up because she just wasn't powerful enough to get the job done anymore -- some of her extreme attitude at Quasar's mistakes is because of how powerful the young hero is, and she's a little jealous of that, and also afraid of what she could do if she gets out of control.<br/><br/>Stardust was famous for being extremely photogenic, always smiling, always ready to put in a well thought out sentence for the press.  Basically, the golden age super hero starlet and media darling type.  Because of that fame Quasar's family knew about her, and when they had a chance to contact her they did, and Stardust agreed out of a combination of wanting to actually help the scared young girl, and wanting to relive her glamorous youth.