Demeter James

== Appearance ==
Demeter James is a biracial woman with caring eyes and very curly black hair. She’s rarely not smiling. She dresses fairly casually, not super concerned with her appearance other than her hair. Curls take a lot of work. 
Demeter is a caring woman who thinks any hard conversation should be had over hot chocolate and cupcakes. It’s rare that she doesn’t have time to listen to someone’s problems if they come to her for help. She’s also incredibly smart and strategic, but she uses those as tools to be kind and protect others. 
In her costume as the hero Daybreak, wears a white suit with gold and black accents, long black sleeves with black gloves, and a gold cape. The dark gloves contrast with her suit, and she wears a domino mask instead of something more concealing so that she can properly sign while in costume (the artist just forgot to add it and decided it was too much work to add it in). She tends to wear her hair tied back, both so it doesn’t get in the way, and so that her hearing aids are visible. It’s important to her to be a visible member of the Deaf community.
== Background ==
Demeter James is the mother of Atlanta and Jasper James and the wife of Noah James. She vanished when Atlanta was 12 and wasn't heard from for four years. She is Deaf and uses hearing aids.  
Her favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, and she worked as a cake decorator at a bakery. She’s the one who taught Atlanta to bake and decorate cupcakes. 
Demeter was a hero in the mid to late nineties, taking the moniker Daybreak because of her light powers. While she enjoyed this, her real passion was baking. So she retired from hero life and became a cake decorator, eventually opening Sweet Nothings. A few years later, she met Noah James and asked him out after several months of him being too shy and also not wanting to flirt with her while she was at work. For reasons unknown and probably super complicated, she never told him that she had superpowers or used to be a hero. (Keeping unnecessary secrets seems to be a family trait.) 
In 2016, she donned her costume again in an attempt to rescue her parent, Hero One, from Reaper One’s Pockets. She got trapped there instead, but she and Hero One were rescued by Verve, Boon, Ellen, Jackal, and Carmilla during Season 4. To Daybreak, it hadn’t seemed like she’d been gone for very long. 
On return to Halcyon, she decided to continue doing hero work in order to bond with her daughter again, and offered to train Verve to be a better hero. 
== Powers ==
Much like Verve, Daybreak can absorb energy of all kinds. Unlike Verve, the energy that’s easiest for her to work with is sunlight. She can also use the light she absorbs to make hard light constructs, including platforms that she can ride on to fly. 
She hasn’t, to date, shown any signs of developing Pocket powers. 
As a hero, she embodies Superior and denies Danger. A hero should be smart before they run into a fight. 
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