Blazestone

## **History**

### **Stephanie Beatriz: 1971 - 1989**

Stephanie was given up for adoption by her parents as soon as they discovered her abilities— sadly a common fate for infants with super abilities. She spent her childhood bouncing from foster home to foster home, living an unstable and often loveless life, as no one wanted to deal with her heat abilities. When she was 17 and in San Francisco, she ran away from her foster home and went to live with an homeless community she’d found downtown. These individuals helped her out, giving her shelter and food. They got her access to resources where she could develop her own identity, although as a homeless runaway she couldn’t have that much.

### **Blazestone: 1989 - 1994**

She began to live as a vigilante, protecting the vulnerable in the bad parts of town. She also committed a series of petty crimes, including theft and arson. When she was nineteen, she was jailed for stealing, and she was bailed out by an NSA agent, who’d heard of her abilities. They offered to give her a sponsorship in their supers program. She agreed, and began training. Her life changed for the better, receiving a new apartment in Malibu.

She took the name Blazestone and began her career as a superhero, and she was well received by the public. However, she still struggled with her ADHD and couldn’t hold a civilian job down for longer than a few weeks. She had close friendships and even flirtations with a number of supers, including Elastigirl, Fironic, Apogee, Psycwave, and Hypershock, and had a brief romance with Frozone. Stephanie was paired with Universal Man for a super team, Beta Force, with often chaotic results. The two didn’t get close until after the ban, when the NSA placed them in a black ops team together, where they bonded closely.

### **Blazestone: 1994 - 2014**

She had close friendships with a number of supers, including Elastigirl, Fironic, Apogee, Psycwave, and Hypershock, and had a brief romance with Frozone. Stephanie was paired with Universal Man for a super team, Beta Force, with often chaotic results. The two didn’t get close until after the ban, when the NSA placed them in a black ops team together, where they bonded closely. After the lawsuits she eventually married Downburst and had to twin daughters. She was killed by the Omnidroid v. X2 during the training sessions for Operation Kronos.

## **Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Super Physiology:**

* **Bio-Fire Manipulation:** Blazestone possessed the mental ability to control ambient heat energy. The cells of a normal human body convert energy from foodstuffs into a form of energy usable by the body, adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Among other mutagenic changes, triggered a specific genetic code rearrangement that caused Blazestone's ATP production sites to generate a new form of energy containing molecule. (Erza Mold has dubbed this molecule adenine ribo-heptaphosphine, AR-HP.) This complex molecule not only provides ordinary bodily energy but contains large stores of latent chemical-bonding energies. Blazestone can generate shapes composed of fire from any point on her body (she usually employs her hands to "sculpt" the flames, occasionally as a lasso to ensnare enemies). She can form fire into long streams, spheres, or even more complex shapes like letters in skywriting. She can also discharge concussive blasts of heat most notably in the case of her human candle punch. These flames-objects will only remain their shapes as long as he concentrates upon them. The objects will only burn about 3 minutes before expiring unless the Blazestone continues to infuse them with energy. The temperature of these fiery projections is generally around 2,800 F (near the melting point of iron). Blazestone refers to her highest, hottest levels of plasma that she can create as her "nova flame". Blazestone can release all of her body's stored energy in one intense, omni-directional "nova-burst," which can reach about 1,000,000 F, and which is similar to the heat-pulse of a nuclear warhead detonation, with an area of total devastation of about 900 feet in diameter and the power of a super nova. (Blazestone has claimed that she can destroy a small moon with her nova-flame.)
	+ **Fire & Heat Immunity:** Blazestone is unaffected by heat and flames, including her own, even when part of her is aflame and the rest of her is not. Her flesh cannot be scalded or burned by any heat source whose level is below that of her maximum output.
	+ **Fire Surfing:** Blazestone's plasma has a high hydrogen content, and is surrounded by an exuded cloud of mono-atomic hydrogen atoms. The hot cloud provides sufficient positive buoyancy for her to float. With mental stimulation of her flame, she can provide enough lift to carry around 180 pounds. By forming a jet from her feet, directed behind her, she can achieve a normal flight speed of 140 miles per hour, and accelerate up to supersonic speeds capable of catching up with faster beings such as the Star Shot while in the Earth's orbit.
	+ **Heat Manipulation:** Blazestone has the ability to mentally control the ambient heat energy within her immediate environment, even when she herself is not aflame. She can reduce objects' temperatures (if they are in a normal range for existing on Earth's surface) to about 30 F, raise them to several hundred degrees, or extinguish open flames. Her radius of influence is about 80 feet. The heat energy she takes from the environment is absorbed into her own body. If she takes in a critical amount while she is not aflame, she will become aflame. There are unknown limits to the amount of flame she can absorb into her own body harmlessly while she is herself aflame.
	+ **Pyrotechnic Manipulation:** Blazestone possesses the superhuman ability to generate what she calls "fireworks" (also known as Energy Plasmoids or "Lumikinetic Explosive Light Blasts":). These are essentially globules of light energy that vary in power and intensity. The globules obey her mental commands, travelling where she directs them, arranging themselves in a variety of forms - balls, streamers, and other shapes - and exploding when she wishes. The explosions can result in anything from a multitude of colorful sparkles, capable of temporarily blinding a person, to a fairly powerful detonation capable of smashing tree trunks or metal objects. Blazestone can also absorb the generated fireworks back into her own body without harm. According to Erza Mold, she has the potential to detonate matter at a sub-atomic level.

### **Weaknesses**

**Exhaustion:** The exact temperatures that her "nova flame" can attain are not known. At an average rate of expenditure of energy, Blazestone can stay aflame for about 16.8 hours. In her younger days, she could only maintain her flame for much briefer periods, and sometimes exhausted it while in combat. She cannot maintain her "nova flame" for as long a time as her can maintain her ordinary flame. This violent discharge uses her entire reserve of energy (except for the necessary to keep her alive) at once, entirely exhausting her flame power. She generally requires at least 12 hours to recover entirely from such a feat.

**Fire Extinguishing:** Blazestone's flame is supported by the presence of oxygen, and thus is extinguished in low air pressure or a vacuum. Blazestone's flame can be extinguished by smothering materials, such as water, sand, fire-fighting foam, and heat-resistant blankets, unless her flame is at such an intensity that it immediately vaporizes such materials on contact. If hit with small amounts of water, up to about five gallons, Blazestone can turn it to steam with relatively little effort. More water than that could extinguish her flame at its normal level, and she would have to wait until she could evaporate the residual moisture before re-ignition.