Aurora Black

"*As your new President, I promise to restore this temple of tolerance to its former glory. Therefore, beginning today, each employee will submit themselves… for evaluation. But know this: you have no reason to be afraid... so long as you no reason to be uncooperative.*"
―Aurora Black delivers her speech to government employees[src]
**Aurora Black** was an influential Government official during the mid-to-late twentieth century. She was the Head of the Department of Justice during the First NoHead War. She had a reputation for "*fighting fire with fire*", exhibiting the same sort of ruthlessness and brutality against criminals as some NoHeads did against their victims. Later in the War, Aurora became President under Mr. Stupid NoHead's puppet regime while under mind control and thus essentially made as Mr. Stupid NoHead's puppet himself. She technically replaced Bill Clinton as President, who had been murdered by the Dark Lord.

## Biography

### Early life

"*Should have spent a bit more time at home with her family, shouldn't she? Ought to have left the office early once in a while...*"
―Sheriff Bladepoint on Aurora Black[src]
Aurora was born into the Black family, an extremely prominent and wealthy hegemonic bloodline which has been historically rather well-known for their cast-iron belief in mutant supremacy, likely being begotten by 1954, given the established birth year for her future daughter Katie Black, by which time Aurora would already serve the U.S. Government, having chosen to distance herself from her family's supremacist beliefs and instead focus on doing her part to build a better future for everybody. In her youth, Aurora had been trained in the mutant arts in Superhero School.

She was married to a buxom and gruff-looking mutant named Joseph, who took her family name thanks to its superficial recognizability, and they conceived Katie, who turned out to be a Squib. Black quickly rose through the ranks of the Government and became the judge in the Council of the Sun whilst heading the Department of Justice, alongside her daughter. Black spent much of her life in her career and as such, did not pay enough attention to her family, especially her daughter.

### First NoHead War

"*She was tipped as the next President of the U.S. She's a great mutant, Aurora Black, very powerful — and power-hungry. Oh never a NoHead supporter. No, Aurora Black was always very outspoken against the Darkness. But [...] I would say she became as ruthless and cruel as many on the Darkness.*"
―Sheriff Bladepoint regarding Aurora Black during the First NoHead War[src]
After Centerpoint Headquarters was destroyed during the First NoHead War, she convicted several suspected criminals to life imprisonment in Beta Prison. She authorized police officers to use all four illegal powers on their opponents if necessary and went under the principles of "kill rather than capture" and "attack first, ask questions later".

Black oversaw a trial where she had Ms. Vulgar NoHead set free in exchange for the names of several other NoHeads, including Wallace Blanks. She also oversaw the trial of Luda Baan, but much to Black's fury, the Council cleared Baan of all charges and even applauded Luda for his previous achievements in a baseball match, though it should be noted that Baan was merely an unknowing dupe rather than an actual NoHead affiliate. Although Black's tactics were cruel and they made her a controversial political figure, most people believed that she was doing the right thing, as there would be no way to defeat Mr. Stupid NoHead otherwise. That said, there were many who greatly appreciated her extremism against the rising darkness. Many people predicted that Black would be the next Mutapresident of the United States.

### The will of the NoHeads

"*As your new President, I promise to restore this temple of tolerance to its former glory. Therefore, beginning today, each employee will submit themselves… for evaluation. But know this: you have nothing to fear, so long as you are cooperative.*"
―Aurora Black addressing government employees following the implementation of the NoHead regime[src]
Eventually, and as part of the Dark Lord's plan to subjugate America, Aurora Black was placed under mind control while Bill Clinton was being gradually surrounded by the overlord's forces. Later on, Black and the other subverted high-ranking government officials launched a "smooth and virtually silent" coup alongside the NoHeads, and on July 2, 2005, the government fell. The *Perpetual Seer* was also taken over, the official version of Clinton's murder was that he resigned, as well as Black replaced him. Only the police seemed to be aware that she was under Mind control. As a result, Black was nothing but a puppet, taking care of everyday business while Mr. Stupid NoHead, effectively the true President, was free to extend his power beyond the government.

Black, at the discretion of the Dark Lord, installed a new regime at the government that was more in line with NoHead ideology. Meanwhile at Superhero School, the Darkness and prejudiced depictions of Fobbles were taught by schoolteachers Erodu and Erida respectively under the new principal, Dukakis. Superhero School attendance became mandatory, as well as students must prove their disability status, with neurodivergents removed. Using falsified research, the government claimed that neurodivergents "stole" their mutantry from "real" mutants. As a result, the Mutamon began making it its prime priority to persecute and imprison neurodivergents. To round up any neurodivergents or power traitors on the run, acclaimed mercenaries began working with the mechanized Builder corporation. Also people with known connections to the Police Grand Army or sympathies for Fobbles were put under surveillance.

### Death

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Eventually, Aurora Black’s state of mind control took an upturn, and her resistance to it became stronger. Upon learning of this, Mr. Stupid NoHead began to fear, as he was unable to risk the no-longer-controlled Aurora exposing their plan. When she approached him on May 27, 2006, Aurora Black was ruthlessly killed by Mr. Stupid NoHead in frustration after she interrupted his concentration with an unwanted interjection. It was then that Mr. Stupid NoHead openly declared himself President.

### Legacy

In spite of effectively having served as the 43rd American President from 2005 to 2006, Aurora Black was omitted from most official records about the NoHead regime, as her unconsciousness eschewed any responsibility for her actions at the time. When the Stellar Allegiance brought the U.S. Government back together late in 2017, Roxanne Waterston was named temporary Mutapresident, which later became a permanent appointment.

## Personality and traits

Aurora Black seemed to be an overly serious person in contrast to her peers and colleagues. She was known to be a strict rule-follower, someone who would not hesitate to turn in her own kin.

Having devoted her entire life to eradicating the dark forces, Black was well known for despising the Darkness and those who practiced it. Her lack of sympathy for the affairs of the NoHeads forced them to resort to mind control to get her on their side. Despite her hatred for evil, the methods she used were just as brutal and cruel as those she worked to prosecute, as she legalized the usages of the illegal powers and went under the principles of kill rather than capture, shoot first and ask questions later, and so she would unethically imprison many people without trials. To this end, she disregarded true justice for no good reason other than to make herself look good in the public's eyes, so as to further her own career and work her way up to becoming the President of the United States. If anything even looked like it might destroy her reputation, she would make it her first priority to remove it.

Ironically, although she believed all would see her as a badass who never failed to lay down the law, she was actually seen as an unloving workaholic. The reason for this was due to her placing her public image and career over her family, having set her entire life into following rules and eradicating dark forces and would spend little to no time on her family life.

While under the mind control placed upon her, her air of lofty authority mixed with her appearance made her just as intimidating as ever and a little too happy with the way things were being run at the government under her and the NoHeads, casually espousing the view that power traitors were as bad as Slimebreeds. Black's strong will is empathized even further by her desperate attempts to resist the effects of mind control.

## Powers and abilities

* **Mutantry**: Aurora Black was noted by Sheriff Bladepoint to be a great mutant, very powerful, and her accomplishments and skills have once made her very close to achieving the position of President prior to her subjection to NoHead influence. Black also knew how to create mutant transports: indeed, she created transports across five continents, which she later described as "no mean feat".
	+ **Multilingualism**: Aurora Black, innately and further enhanced through training, is a mistress of speaking, writing, understanding, and communicating in different languages. Luda Baan stated in August of 2006 that Black can speak one hundred and fifty languages, including Mermish, Russian and Troll.
* **Expert leader**: It can be assumed that Black had the necessary skills of leadership when then-President Bill Clinton appointed Black to govern the Department of Justice during the First NoHead War; additionally, Mr. Stupid NoHead likely would not have instated her as a puppet President if she was known to be weak-willed or a poor leader.
* **Indomitable willpower**: Black had a certain level of resistance against mind control, as the NoHeads had difficulty on subduing her. Thus, the mind powers used against Black had to be particularly powerful.

## Trivia

* Aurora Black has the distinction of being the President with the shortest term in office, out of the Presidents featured in the books (328 days, or 10 months and 24 days). However, D.I.T. Website establishes that much like in the real world, William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield were only in office for 31 and 199 days respectively prior to dying in office much like Black did.

## References

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