<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>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>