Not
every Legacy member is the child of two Legionnaires,
or even any Legionnaire at all.
Hardware *is* alive, but not organically so, being
the result of the Hero of Lallor, Life Lass,
accidentally ‘giving’ her powers to a servo-droid, in a frustrated attempt to
imbue lasting animation to a construct. She succeeded, and Hardware is
permanently ‘alive,’ sentient and capable of reconfiguring itself at will,
forming any gadget or device that it has blueprints and material for within
it’s increasingly bulky form (as it continues to add components necessary to form
new ‘toys’ that it has researched). Life Lass is pretty sure that she could
‘take it back,’ but knows that doing so would ‘kill’ her creation, so has
resolved to live the rest of her life as a powerless ex-hero.
Elu, who may or may not be the same Elu
that fought alongside the Omega Men of the Vegan system during the 20th
century, appears as a meter-high force field, seemingly impenetrable, and has
‘evolved’ the ability to levitate and project bolts of repulsive force, or
expand it’s own field to encompass and protect others (in this event, it
retains a *second* personal field, shielding itself from even those welcomed
into it’s ‘outer field’), or even deflect away attacks that it fears might be
able to penetrate it’s own ‘personal field’ (which is always up, even when it
sleeps, such that few even know what it looks like).
The son of a former villain, Lazon
of the League of Assassins, the young man who calls himself Focus is
able to convert his body into light in a blinding flash, move superhumanly fast
(via instantaneous conversion to light) and strike with laser intensity. He’s
got a huge chip on his shoulder about his professional killer of a father, and
feels that he’s always having to prove himself. While
he can alter his spectrum, and even transform into light so high in the
ultraviolet or low in the infrared spectra as to be invisible to human eyes, he
cannot modify beyond this range, as his father could, to turn into other energy
or radiation forms, like Kryptonite radiation.
Elemental can transform her body into any pure
element, maintaining her normal temperature (making Mercury her only liquid
form). She derives this power from her father, Jan Arrah,
aka Element Lad, diluted by her mother (Shvaugn Erin)’s human blood. Her ‘mother’ is currently
male, and going by the name Sean, again, having abandoned the female form about
six months after their daughters birth, noting that there was no way he was
going through *that* again...
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Not a
member of Legacy Legion, the former Substitute Legionnaire who went by the name
‘Porcupine Pete’ is now known as Quill and serves as the unofficial
protector of Metropolis, being a more street-level hero, using a stealth-suit
of his own design, and an assortment of specially concocted toxins on his
self-generated spines, which he can project over a large area as a burst or
spray, or singly with incredible force, enough to penetrate most forms of 30th
century body armor (or an inch of steel plate!). He operates out of a
long-disused underground lair, recognized from its stuffed tyrannosaurus and
giant copper penny…
Laurel Kent is alive and well, and not a robot. At
some point after being shot (with a kryptonite bullet), she was captured and
replaced by the Manhunter assassin. After the failure
of that plot, the force that captured her quite literally forgot about her,
leaving her in stasis for the next eight years, before the Legacy team found
and freed her. A decade has passed, a decade in which people have come to terms
with her ‘never having been real,’ only to find that she is back, and was never
a robot.
It's been a confusing time for the young girl, and one
that shattered her fledgling relationship with ‘Power Boy,’ Jed Rikane. She has taken to exposing herself to
ever-increasing amounts of Kryptonite, to ‘build up a tolerance’ and wears
scraps of body armor made of Kryptonian metal, being
somewhat paranoid and overcompensatory about the
whole shooting incident that left her vulnerable and resulted in the loss of so
much of her life. In the process, she quite nearly kills herself as it turns
out one can’t ‘build up a resistance’ to Kryptonite radiation poisoning in this
fashion, and she was incrementally amassing an ever-increasing dosage within
herself, driving herself somewhat mad (exaggerating her burgeoning paranoia),
but also fortunately rendering her weak enough that the Legacy team was able to
subdue her without extreme effort. Brainiac 6 was
able to synthesize a form of ‘fake Kryptonite’ that would have similar effects,
without the lingering contamination, and she is exposing herself to this to
continue her ‘toughening’ regimen. She can already function at full strength in
the presence of real Kryptonite for 30 seconds before beginning to weaken and
fall ill, and she works every day to increase that number…
Crystal Kid is now an architect, and lives
off-world, on a moon that he has ‘crystal-formed’ into a titanic work of art,
with crystal palaces and sweeping structures that can support thousands, and
yet only currently inhabited by a few hundred hangers-on and sycophants in a
perpetual party, funded mainly by his increasingly rare departures to ‘do work’
on commission. He’s rich, but not as much as one would think, as his lifestyle
is extravagant, and his entourage of leech-like ‘friends’ take shameless advantage
of his generosity, and his naivette, partying
eternally, at his expense. On the upside, he has a lot of sex. On the downside,
he’s growing increasingly strange and disconnected from reality, and his
‘friends’ certainly aren’t helping, all of them together falling deeper into a
shared fantasy life of pageantry and masquerades and ‘court intrigues’ that has
little bearing on the real-world.
Karate Kid II (Myg) never cared
for the idea of being v2.0 of anyone. And since he has developed super-powers,
he has changed his name to Kiai (pronounced
‘ki’). He remains a shockingly proficient martial
artist, but uses a bewildering combination of ‘kiai’
shouts to stun, disorient, or otherwise confound his foes. His quasi-psychic
shouts can affect someone’s senses, cause overwhelming emotional reactions
(usually fear, but also anger, and even attraction) and cause various ‘internal
disharmonies’ that can injure or hamper a foe (temporarily blinding them, or
causing them to trip, for instance). He can even shatter boards, or paving
stones, with harsh language, or cause a person to briefly hallucinate
something. True to his nature, almost every application has been harmful, but
under the advisement of Zen, with whom he has a playful competitive
relationship, he has explored other avenues (and it was her suggestion that led
to him discovering that he could awaken attraction in someone else with his
harmonic effects). It is believed that he may be able to heal with these
effects, but he hasn’t ‘found his voice’ yet in this matter. He has refused an
offer of membership, and if Zen's snippy comments on the matter are any indication, that's not all he's refused...
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Night
Girl and
Stone Boy, of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, serve as mentors to the
team, both residing in the headquarters.
Shadow Lord and Night Girl don’t seem to get along, but no
one but them knows why. Darkfire doesn’t like her for
other reasons, thinking that she’s a cradle-robber taking advantage of her
little brother (phrases like ‘dried-up hag’ and adjectives like ‘withered’ and
‘shriveled’ have been aired).
Stone Boy has changed from a near joke to a significantly
powerful combatant, able to change form from solid stone to flesh and back in a
microsecond, allowing him to absorb a blow as near-indestructible stone, revert
and grapple a foe, and then change back faster than they can react, leaving
them imprisoned in an unbreakable stony grasp. He often uses his flight ring to
dive-bomb a site as a human cannonball. ‘Night Girl’ has changed her name to Twilight,
and Stone Boy just to ‘Stone.’ He doesn’t appear any physically
older, due to his species tremendous lifespans.
Twilight is not so blessed, and appears to be middle-aged, with a couple of
prominent gray streaks in her jet-black hair. Training sessions between Stone
and Focus are a sight to see, with each standing still and staring each other
down, as both are dependent on precisely-timed split-second transformations.
Druhra Sept, Infectious Lass became a catastrophic threat to
Earth, after the destruction of her home-world by a cometary
impact. Maddened with grief, she began infecting all around her with a proteanic retrovirus that caused many to die, and others to
transform into members of her species, reborn… She was 'killed,' it seemed, by
the attempts to cure her Birthing Fever, but her body continued to live on, now
inhabited by a collective viral sentience. She currently has a unique status as
ambassador for those transformed into members of her race, and also as
ambassador for several sentient forms of microlife
now resident in her body, giving her unusual prominence in the ambassadorial
corps, as she represents several newly admitted UP member races that would not
otherwise have representation, one of which represents a former ‘plague’ that
consumed several worlds before it was successfully contacted and informed that
the species it was using as hosts were also sentient and a peace was brokered.
Fire Lad was one of the 'Birthing Plagues' first
casualties, being unable to transform into a member of her species, and
combusting as he attempted to burn the sickness out of himself...