Sandra Knight

## Background

### 1956 - 1980: Sandra Knight

Sandra Knight was born in Opal City to North Carolina Senator Henry Knight & high school teacher Dee Tyler. Unfortunately, she would lose her mother at a young age. Being raised solely by her busy father, Sandra spent a lot of time with her cousins Ted Knight & Rex Tyler.

With a high ranking father & mother involved in academics, Sandra received the best education possible. With her amazing academics & father's connections, Sandra attended Ivy University where she received a degree in physics.

Because of her father's job, Sandra was constantly around political & law enforcement officials. So it didn't come as a surprise when she began a romance with Don Borden, an agent of the State Department's counterintelligence division. There was no doubt that his occupation earned him some brownie points when he met Senator Knight.

### 1979 - 1984: Phantom Lady

While Sandra could have easily settled for the comfortable life of a socialite, she decided to pursue the more exciting life of a superhero after discovering her cousin was Starman. With the help of his friends, they created her a suit of armor with a black light ray that could either blind her opponents with a field of darkness or make her invisible. Drawing from her suit, she began calling herself the Phantom Lady. Though she initially fought off crime solo or with her cousin, she was eventually asked to join the Justice Society of America after two years as a crimefighter. On the downside, the superhero lifestyle would eventually put a strain on her & Don's relationship, leading to their break up.

After years on the team, they would take a hit following a battle with Dr. Ian Karkull. She was one of the members that was captured & experimented on. The radioactive energy that they were exposed to would eventually lead them to her aging at a much slower rate than the average human.

### 1984 - 1988: Sandra Knight

In the aftermath of the event, Sandra retired from the hero life. She settled into a socialite lifestyle & became a philanthropist to fill her time. She also continued her on & off relationship with her former teammate, Arnold Munro. The two eventually broke up for good just weeks before she discovered that she was pregnant. After contacting Arnold, the two sat for a discussion where Arnold made it clear he was not in a place to raise a baby. But Sandra refused to have an abortion so they both agreed that he wouldn't have anything to do with their child.

She moved herself to Ivy Town, ready to start a new life for her & her unborn child by getting a job in the physics department at Ivy University. Though Sandra had prepared herself to raise the child as a single mother, things would change when she started a relationship with her longtime friend & now work colleague Al Pratt. He was well aware of her pregnancy & didn't mind. By the time Kate was born, Al was claiming her as his own daughter & he was listed as her father in all the documents. The two welcomed their son Grant a little over a year later then went on to get married.

### 1988 - Present: Sandra Knight-Pratt

Sandra & Al would continue to live a quiet life, settling down with their children in Ivy Town as they were both working at Ivy University. Unfortunately, good things never last.

Shortly after Kate's fifth birthday, Arnold showed up to their house & demanded to see his daughter. Trying to keep him away from Kate, a pregnant Sandra tried to get him to come outside to talk but he refused. Instead, he pushed his way through the door. As Sandra was home alone, she had no one to call to assist her so she tried to fight him off herself. The details get pretty fuzzy but Al would eventually come home to Sandra in tears screaming & Arnold holding a knife to Kate's throat. It's not clear exactly how they were able to get the knife away from him but Sandra was the one that drove the knife into his chest. After the police were called & determined that Sandra acted in self defense as the Arnold was the one who brought the knife, they freed both her & Al from custody.

Following that catastrophe, Sandra gave birth to their child Thomas not long after. They eventually moved to her hometown of Opal City so they were closer to family.

Al & Sandra would go on to raise their children with the right morals & even helped foster their children's superhuman abilities. She considered it an honor to watch her children grow up to become superheroes of their own, just like their parents.

## Romantic Relationships

* Don Borden: Boyfriend (1977 - 1980)
* Arnold Munro: On & Off (1983 - 1986)
* Al Pratt: Boyfriend (1986 - 1988); Husband (1988 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Hand to Hand Combat:** During her career as Phantom Lady, she was an excellent athlete & an accomplished hand-to-hand fighter, especially skilled at exploiting the distraction caused by her revealing costume. She can hold her own quite well in a fight, even when not using her powers.
* **High Level Intellect:** Sandra possesses a high level intellect & is a brilliant quantum physicist who helped design & build her gadgets. Due to her intelligence as well as the immense capabilities of her wristbands, she was considered one of the most dangerous members of the team.
* **Longevity:** When the Justice Society battled with Ian Karkull, many of the members were infused with a radioactive energy he was working on. The energy allows for her to age at a slower rate than the average human. She appears to be in his 50s & is physically fit at one.
* **Stealth:** Sandra was a skilled detective & could move about with great stealth in order to avoid detection.
* ***Black Light Bands (Formerly)***
	+ **Darkness Manipulation**: The Black Light emits intense darkness as both an offensive & defensive piece of artillery. Said beam emitted was used to blind and disorient the effected or make it's user invisible.
		- **Intangibility**: Through the act of focusing, Phantom lady could phase through just about anything. Including inescapable magical items like the Golden Prefect of Wonder Woman.
		- **Invisibility:** With concentration, she could turn invisible.
		- **Dimensional Travel**: Through use of the Black Light bands, can access a shadow dimension through which the user can open portals to traverse overlong distances in a heartbeat by delving in and out of this black light space. The area one enters in is pitch black and hard to navigate, necessitating the usage of Black Light Goggles to enable safe passage through this other realm.
			* **Teleportation**
		- **"Shadow Slide"**: Phantom Lady can bring people into a shadow dimension, void of all emotion except sadness.
		- **Dark Light Constructs**: Phantom Lady can form constructs from blackness into items such as shields and razors.
* ***Black Ray Goggles (formerly):*** She used to wear special goggles which enabled her to see in the darkness created by her Black Ray gun.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

#### General

* Her nickname Stormy comes from her edgy personality that she had when she was younger.
* Sandra was blessed with movie-star looks & an hourglass figure back in the day, provoking intense jealousy from other women. Her sexy & revealing costume both distracted her male opponents & caused them to severely underestimate her.

#### June Robbins

* In college, she became good friends with Claire Robbins. When Claire divorced her husband Paul Westfield after his organization Cadmus Labs was exposed for running unlaw experiments & genetic cloning. Sandra offered her home to Claire & her daughter June so the two moved there before they got their own place.
* Claire & June frequently spent dinners at the Knight-Pratt residence & even came along to the ones they did with the Tyler family. They became such close family friends that the two were a regular occurrence at the summer family reunion.
* When June's mother unfortunately passed away during her senior year in car accident, June moved with with Knight-Pratt family until her high school graduation.
* June still comes to Opal City for the family reunion.

## Notes

* She is a composite character of Sandra Knight, Stormy Knight & Lydia Pratt (Kate Spencer's mother).
* Dee Tyler is one of the people to take on the moniker of Phantom Lady.