Glare

Meera Chadha, also known by her codename 'Glare' or "Chamak" in Hindi, was an Indian neohuman who worked for the Amrita organisation in India and neighbouring nations. She became an orphan at 11, had a troubled upbringing in an orphanage and spent a short time stealing before being contacted by The Cicerone.

She is an out lesbian and currently dating Tigerwolfe.

### **History**

Born in Jodhpur in northwest Rajasthan State in 1989, Meera was brought up in a strict Sikh family, but fearing that her attraction to her childhood friend Farida was something to be ashamed of, she repressed her feelings until one day, was found by her father kissing Farida when she was 10; her father Darpan lost his mind, saying it was a violation of 'family values' that Sikh customs emphasise. Her mother Binita, however disagreed, with their belief that god and true souls were genderless and love a universal concept. This disagreement split the family to the point where Binita wanted a divorce; a very serious matter in Sikh religious ideology, though Binita believed it was more of a cultural system than their beliefs, Darpan's friends however bulled Binita and threatened to take legal action to protect their holy matrimony.

Darpan, however lost his temper and ended up beating his wife in front of Meera. Seeing this triggered something in the girl and activated her neohuman power, creating a powerful blast of flame from her eyes that killed Darpan and severely burned her mother in the process.

With nowhere to go she ran until she was in the country, in her stress she also discovered that she could fly and levitate, but crashed to the ground a few moments later, where she was picked up by a social aid group on the outskirts of the town of Pali and admitted to the Pali Maahee orphanage, revealing little of herself, her power and her family.

Several days passed and she learned to control her powers enough to try to return back to Jodhpur to see Farida, but was told to stay away from her by her parents who heard various stories through the grape vine about what happened and that she was no longer welcome in her school. When she went to visit her mother in hospital, she was still under a lot of anesthetic and heavily burned, and she couldn't bear to look at what she'd done to her

Angry, Meera spent months brooding, even stealing from shops to, but after stopping herself from being picked up by some men who were clearly only after a young girl, she was contacted by what she called a 'ghost'; fearing it was somehow a spirit of her father; but it looked like a woman.

When she flew away she encountered the 'ghosts' again, telling her to go to a rather high-class residence down in Kolkata, but she refused, instead heading back to the orphanage.

While she slept she even began seeing the woman in her dreams, and this led to her finally giving in and flying down to the city; when she got to the residence a lady in her 40's, the spitting image of the 'ghosts' she kept seeing rolled out to her in a wheelchair; the woman called herself "The Cicerone" (Maargadarshak) who had been watching her for some time; she too was like her and revealed that she was a 'neohuman'.

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### **Personality**

Meera was often a tomboy, impatient and stubborn, especially at traditions that she deemed obsolete, she became determined and tenacious over the years and eventually learned to calm her rage, though she no longer claims herself a Sikh, at least not in the traditional sense, does believe a lot of their core believes. Nevertheless she has been reckoned as having an animalistic fierceness to her and her stare, especially in battle.

### **Appearance**

Meera was a tall, black-haired Indian woman with prominent orange-ember eyes that made her stand out; she often wore sunglasses even inside during her teenage years, but has since learned to embrace her neonic signature. She unusually wears red earrings on her upper ears and has a small scar on the left (her right) side of her jaw. Meera often dresses in red and black, metal band t-shirts, wears jeans and large boots, sometimes adopts spiked collars or bracelets, being a fan of rock and metal music. While on missions for Amrita she wears a dark, biker's suit that has fire down the arms that she herself designed.

### **Powers and abilities**

#### **Powers**

Meera was a neohuman with a series of neones or "n-genes" that gave her superhuman abilities when she was 11.

**Optic Flame:** She could generate extremely powerful blasts of flame and heat from her optic nerves that ignite the air as well as give her other associated abilities.

* ***Firebeams:*** The flame she creates is focused into intense 'beams' of fire that emanate form each eye up to 3000°C; these flames widen the further away from her eye they travel, and with mental concentration she can extend the range of these beams for several meters before they flare out.
* ***Firebolts:*** Eventually she learned to release quick-fire 'bolts' of flame from her eyes that seem to have more of an explosive impact when they strike a surface.

* ***Thermal Sight:*** She could modulate her eyes to detect heat and see heat signatures that appear overlaid onto her regular vision.

* ***Flame Resistance:*** She was highly resistant to flame and heat on her body, with her face and eyelids in particular being utterly immune to her own fire.
* ***Eyeball Regrowth:*** When she lost an eye fighting with a brainwashed Tigerwolfe she regrew her eye within a matter of days to fully-functioning levels.

**Personal Aerodynamic Manipulation:** In addition she also has the ability alter the aerodynamic force upon her body that allowed her to generate a form of personal lift. Whether this is somehow a biproduct of her primary ability to generate heat blasts from her eyes is uncertain, but rather seems to be a separate ability to increase air density and pressure on contact with her body; she can use it without generating any other form of heat or outside visual aid. This power is actually more than just generating lift, very limited and mostly geared towards moving herself through the air, but does have other capabilities.

* **Flight**: She primarily uses this ability to levitate and fly at will by "pulling" herself free from the ground and through the air using aerodynamic force, and the increase in air pressure and density on her skin seems to protect her from high speed flight and movement, breaking the sound barrier at at least the speed of sound and can help her carry weights many times her own; passengers will often experience their ears popping.
* **Enhanced strikes**: She has used her aerodynamic force to increase the impact of her punches whilst protecting herself from the recoil.
* **Enhanced Durability:** While active, the pressure and density of the air around her body will dull impacts and some extreme forces.
* **Omni-Shockwaves:** She has recently learned to create short-range, omnidirectional pulses of air pressure from her body in all directions at once, though doing so is difficult to achieve and requires a lot of concentration and energy, as well as risking her temporarily losing height if she is airborne, is powerful enough to shatter glass and even crack bones at point-blank range, as well as having tremendous kinetic impact.

#### **Abilities**

* **Shastar Vidya Mistress:** She was extremely proficient in the ancient Sikh style of fighting, which not only included hand-to-and combat, but integrated the use of her kukri.
* **Brilliant investigator:** She later became a part-time police investigator for several years, developing skills and abilities that let her track down enemies and find victims, which translated well to her later position in Amrita as their investigation primary agent.
* **Photographer:** She became adept at taking photographs, at first for the purpose of investigative evidence, later she did so for enjoyment.
* **Musician:** She could play the guitar and play the drums.

### **Limitations and Weaknesses**

She can be all-to-often angry, and sometimes let that anger get the better of her, but has since learned to control herself and act calmly in intense situations.

Meera can be stubborn and can hold a grudge for a very long time.