Aurora

Josephine Richardson, known by her alter-ego Aurora is a British neo, she is an investigative journalist and photographer for Britannica Independent Press as well as often dealing in light mercenary work. She is the younger sister of Volt and Wildstar and granddaughter to Skyren.

She is currently engaged to Equinox and has recently founded the Britannic Services operation.

### **History**

Born in Hastings, England and the youngest of the three Richardson siblings, Jo's natural intelligence made her childhood decidedly less troublesome than her brother and sister, coming top of every class to such an extend she was moved forward an entire year at school.

With Ben the oldest and becoming more and more independent, Jo never played together like Ben did with Vicky, and throughout his teenage years where he was secretly out with Brendan as a vigilante the three sometimes fought. Nevertheless Vicky and Jo formed a deep bond during the development of Vicky's own neohuman abilities some years before she discovered her own and later all three bonded over their neonisity.

Being the youngest, Jo felt like she had a lot to live up to, especially when Ben decided to go of to America with his friend to "start a band", Jo knew that you didn't just develop superpowers and jet off to the US to play music.

When Vicky began using her powers to fight Ben's old nemesis Darren Edmunds and disrupt his drug chain and one of his contact's cruel animal testing lab, Jo, even with no powers of her own yet, began to instruct Vicky on the use of her pyroplasmic abilities.

The resulting fight between Vicky and Edmunds for Volt's 'legacy' that crippled his father, Andrew, resulted in Jo's kidnapping and during a fight out in an abandoned farm, Jo experienced near-death when Darren blasted Vicky with a microwave weapon, and some of it's energy passed into Jo, stopping her heart. In a swift movement, Vicky left an explosive plasma bomb next to their van and flew away, resulting in Darren being crippled from the waste down and his sister Hanna losing an arm.

Landing in a nearby pub garden Vicky tried to resuscitate her, and failing this she used a light pulse of plasma to restart her heart and bring her back.

The event caused Jo to seemingly *"remember everything*" which may have jogged her incredible memory into later advancing the psionic aspect of her powers.

Jo discovered her own powers just over a year later in spring, when both her ability to manipulate solar photons and tactile telekinesis manifested at the same time, levitating in her room as it began filling with golden spheres of light amidst a terrible migraine. In a scream the spheres tore around the room in a hurricane of energy before Jo passed out.

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### **Powers and Abilities**

#### **Powers**

Aurora is a neohuman born with active neone genes that give her a number of superhuman abilities.

**Photosolar Manipulation:** Jo can focus high-energy solar-atoms and photons that filter through the atmosphere from Earth’s sun, and use it to create a range of attacks and constructs. This energy appears to sparkle as the atoms of the protons pop and collide with atmospheric particles and release light-energy and kinetic force.

* ***Sunblasts:*** Originally limited to sphere-shaped bolts Aurora's power over her energy has increased allowing her to generate more intense beams of solar light and heat coupled with a powerful exothermic concussive force.
* **Photon Constructs:** She has recently been able to create more complex shapes of energy-construct ranging from daggers to swords, spears, shields and even light-armour.

* ***Solar Flares:*** Aurora could cause the solar photons in the atmosphere around her to intensify, swathing large areas in a bright light, blinding opponents and causing burning sensations on the skin.
* ***Solar Absorption:*** Jo could absorb and metabolise solar photons in to her body and use it to warm herself, increase or stabilize rate of healing of internal wounds, glow and by focusing the energy in to her hands and feet, could increase the kinetic impact her strikes.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength:*** Over time this permanently increased her strength levels to superhuman degrees and can now lift around 3 tonnes with ease.
* ***Optic Blasts:*** As a result of intense photosolar absorption, Jo later developed the ability to project intense beams of yellow energy from her eyes. These beams apparently have the same effect as a microwave and heat objects from the inside out.
* ***Solar Immunity:*** Jo was immune to the effects of solar radiation and light on her body. She was incapable of getting skin cancer, sunburn and could stare in to the sun as much as she wanted with no adverse effects.
* ***Limited Invisibility:*** She recently learned to bend photons around herself to become briefly invisible, but at the moment can only hold it for a few minutes.

**Telekinesis:**  Like her siblings Aurora shares the ability to produce a limited personal telekinetic field around and throughout her body, however unlike her brother and sister, over time this developed into a much boarder form of telekinesis.

* **Flight:** Aurora can levitate, hover and propel herself through the air at supersonic speeds. This flight field protects her against the rigors of high-altitude supersonic flight such has pressure and temperature and allows her to breathe normally. Her flight speed is currently Mach 1.7.
* **Bolstered Strength and Durability:** Aurora is protected from physical impacts to a limited degree and the field permeates her muscles and cells which grants her a degree of enhanced strength.
* **Matter Manipulation:** She is starting to be capable of affecting matter from a distance, although currently limited to around 5 meters around her body and with only small objects, she can levitate, crush or strengthen matter within her field or launch them at high speed.

**Contact Telepathy:** Along with a growth of her telekinesis, Jo's psionic ability seems to be expanding.

* **Mind Reading**: Jo has began to develop the ability to read minds, currently through physical contact and only surface-level thoughts.

#### **Abilities**

***Eidetic Memory:*** Jo has a naturally photographic memory, to the point where it is near-superhuman in nature, and this ability may have been enhanced by her increasing psionic amplitude.

***Genius Intellect:*** Aurora is a MENSA-recognized genius with an IQ of 180, able to absorb readily almost any kind of knowledge.

***Hand-to-hand combatant:*** Aurora is skilled in hand-to-hand combat of various styles.

***Tantojutsu expert:*** Aurora is an expert of various knife-fighting styles.

***Bojutsu expert:*** She is also extremely proficient in the use of bo-staves and spears to an expert degree, often favouring the creation staff-shaped photosolar energy constructs.

***Skilled Tracker:*** Like her brother Volt, she has learned how to track enemies over large distances.

***Skilled Artist:*** Jo has a talent for various arts including painting, drawing, writing and crafts.

***Skilled Photographer:*** Her incredible eye for detail enables her to produce award-winning photographs.

***Skilled Writer and Journalist:*** She has always been interested in the media and has started to write columns in newspapers across the UK and aboard. She also has a skill for investigative journalism and has
used these skills to track down criminals.

**Skilled investigator:** She has a genial knack for investigation.

### **Limitations and weaknesses**

Still young, Jo has a way to go before she can develop the stamina for sustained powered battles but can already fight above par against most opponents she has encountered, with the continued growth of her power, despite her intelligence, can still overwhelm her at times and sometimes requires quiet moments.

She can be something of a know-it-all and despite her calm nature, does actually have a hidden vengeful side, often unable to let go of something that greatly angers her or that has strongly engaged her passion.