Alycia Cross

**Alycia Santina Castillo-Cross** (born October 31, 2006), is one of the two main protagonists of Blood and Power.

Alycia is the second-born child and firstborn daughter of Rose Castillo-Cross and the firstborn child and daughter of Devon Cross, the younger maternal half-sister of Azure Castillo, the older fraternal twin sister of Andre Cross, the older sister of Jayvon and Seraph Cross, the best friend of Brooklyn Young and Hakeem Parks.

Alycia is an extremely powerful meta-human, who similar to her twin brother, has more superpowers than her entire family. She primarily possesses the ability of Molecular Manipulation, allowing him to manipulate matter on a molecular level, granting her several superhuman powers, Ergokinesis, allowing her to manipulate and generate energy and a powerful Psychic-bond to her twin brother, Andre.

She is a junior at St. Johns Visions High School. Alycia and her family are living in Harlem, secretly as the daughter of the world's most powerful superheroes in the world, and aggressively fights against her parents as they have constantly neglected her and her siblings.

Although the firstborn daughter of Olympia, the most powerful superheroine in the world, Alycia is determined to blaze her own trail and become a vigilante, with a penchant of going after criminals who terrorize the citizens of New York, her new home, as the vigilante **Scarlet**. She is unknowingly hunting down her own crush, Hakeem Parks, as she and her twin brother become a bone for him to pick.

## Biography

### Early Life

Alycia was born to Rose Castillo, a military general and Devon Cross, a fitness coach, both of whom were meta-humans and subsequently superheroes, *Olympia* and *Bronze Eagle*, respectively on October 31, 2006, alongside her twin brother Andre, whom she was five minutes over than. A few years before she was born, her mother had a son, her half-brother, Azure, who was a big part of her life. She was raised in Aurum, one of the hidden Mystic Provinces, and was of African-American, Italian and Puerto Rican descent.

From a young age, unlike most meta-humans, she and her twin brother both demonstrated great control over telekinesis. About three years after she was born, she became older sister to her brother, Jayvon.

Around the age of four, she showed signs of photokinesis, allowing her to shape light to conjure bright colors in her hands, which she used when it was time for bed, pretending they were stars. Then when she was around five, her parents had another child, her only sister, Seraph.

She grew up idolizing one of her cities' protectors, Jade, a bold and beloved vigilante able to manipulate energy (like herself), despite Devon's - her father and (by the book) hero - reservations about her. Alycia also attended Lucent, alongside her siblings growing up. Gifted in the arts, Alycia expressed herself independently by leaving sticker tags wherever she could and would graffiti walls around the city.

### Throughout the Series

In *Power*, Alycia is first seen in class sitting and taking a test. She finishes and tells her teacher that she's done. He questions that, as it has only been nine minutes. He doubts her intellect, to actually finish and get anything correctly, which Alycia takes offense to. She uses her telekinesis to make all the papers fly off his desk and make his chair break. Afterwards, she stands up, puts the paper on his desk and states "karma's a bitch", walking out of the classroom.

## Physical Description

Alycia is a beautiful young teenage Afro-Latina with chest-length honey brown curly hair, bright green eyes and a slim build. She is highly athletic and wears clothing that matches her physique. In nearly every outfit, Alycia wears some shade of red, whether it be red and black plaid, red boots, a black and red sweatshirt, so much so that even her nails are painted red. Sometime after her sixteenth birthday, Alycia got her nose pierced.

She is the about the same skin tone as her father, although slightly lighter, due to her being of both African-American and Puerto Rican descent.

Alycia also inherited her mother's eyes, just like her siblings.

## Personality

Alycia is a whip-smart, rebellious 16-year-old girl. Knowing she'll never get her parents approval, she finds ways to provoke her parents and even stir up a little trouble. Wanting to venture out and become an independent vigilante, she is known for going out on her own and thinking for herself.

Alycia's described of as an unstoppable force of nature, that nothing will get in her way, when she is determined to get what she wants and will charge through obstacles in her path with confident intent. Alycia has shown to have a problem with authority, and when disrespected, will lash out in the most difficult way that will hurt someone else.

Alycia is shown to have an incredibly bold and confident disposition, with a strong desire to act perfectly out of what her parents believe, and forge her own path. She shows to long for a connection to the real world, as she was born and raised in Aurum, she was raised with the ideal to always do the right thing, as well as to always have the dream of being a superhero.

## Powers, Abilities & Weaknesses

### Powers

* **Meta-human Physiology**: Alycia inherited the meta-gene from her parents, resulting in a genetic mutation within her cells, altering her DNA and allowing her to be born with superhuman powers. From a young, she unlike most meta-humans, displayed a plethora of abilities. Her superpowers are even stronger due to her status as one of the youngest and only Class 5 meta-humans in the entire world.
	+ **Molecular Manipulation**: Alycia has the ability to manipulate matter on a molecular level.
		- **Telekinesis**: Like her brother, Alycia possesses telekinetic abilities, enabling her to move and levitate inanimate objects and manipulate living beings with her mind. She has used this to destroy a photograph of her parents, Rose and Devon. She has even demonstrated enough strength in order to shatter glass with a simple thought and even hold back fire. She has demonstrated to move people with exceptional ease. She even has the precise reaction timing to deflect an object unexpectedly thrown at her.
		- **Photokinesis**: Alycia can bend and generate light to her desire. She applies this in many ways, through generating light and variety of colors in the palm of her hands.
			* **Invisibility**: Alycia is able to refract light away from her to achieve invisibility, a technique she learned from her grandmother, Santina. At first, Alycia was only able to turn her hands and partially her face invisible, but was more training she learned to turn her entire body invisible, including her clothes.
		- **Molecular Acceleration**: The direct opposite of her twin brother, Alycia is able to speed up the movement of molecules, causing them to become disordered, and in most cases, rapidly heat up. While practicing her powers, Alycia has demonstrated that she could cause things to heat up, boiling water in under thirty seconds, and thawing out ice. Later she used the heating aspect of her power to boil, and ignite the other half of her staff, in conjunction with Andre using his molecular inhibition on the other half, to create an electrical current to restart Hakeem's heart. Alycia's control over her powers are shown when she used them to heat up a door's hinge and cut through it.
		- **Healing**: Alycia is able to manipulate the molecules in the bodies of others to cure living beings, such as humans and animals. However, this power has its limits, because in doing so makes her reduce her own energy.
	+ **Ergokinesis**: Just like her brother, Alycia's body is able to generate limitless amounts of bright red energy, which she can harness and channel throughout her entire body, which can affect electrical frequencies and signals around her, allowing her to absorb the light from light bulbs and even electronics. She is even able to use to create an electromagnetic pulse, sending out a burst of energy capable of disabling anything electrical in the area. Her energy has even shown to allow her to levitate off the ground.
		- **Eye Coloration**: When manipulating energy, Alycia's eyes glow a sparkling bright gold color.
		- **Energy Absorption**: Alycia can absorb various forms of energy, while removing it from source, and into her body to use it in multiple ways, gaining a form of advantage. She can drain energy from individuals or objects, such as draining some energy from her mother. She can drain physical energy from a target or group, making the affected physically weaker or causing them extreme fatigue.
		- **Energy Projection**: Alycia can manipulate her energy to release it into powerful waves applying destructive amounts of force, with its lowest intensity being strong enough to cut through flesh. The energy not only can manifest from Alycia's body, sometimes causing bright light to emanate from her chest, but can be channeled through objects, such as her bow staff, as well as through gestures. While battling Brainstorm, she generated multiple tendrils of energy from her hands to suspend him in the air, albeit for a short time.
		- **Flight**: Alycia is capable of flight, channeling her power into an energy field around her body, allowing her to propel herself into the air and fly.
	+ **Psychic-bond**: Alycia has a psychic connection with her brother Andre, known as a "bond" due to their nature as twins. When connecting their minds, they both enter another plane of existence, which they refer to as the "bridge", a space where the two of them can confer, and sometimes warn each other when needed. They describe the sensing of each other as a "warm presence", and whenever the other is either unconscious or completely unresponsive, they sense a "cold absence". More over, Andre has felt Alycia's physical pain on at least more than one occasion, when he felt the sting of a needle in his left arm at the same time Alycia had blood samples taken from her. On one rare occasion, through their bond, they were able to transport matter across time and space, as Andre were able to unwittingly transport the Orb that Brainstorm was after, to Alycia without even knowing what he was doing.
		- **Psychic Communication**: Their bond allows them to communicate telepathically across long distances, and even have shared dreams with one another. They've discovered that through their bond they are able to see through each other's eyes, in times of emotional distress, and can feel the emotions of one another. When she was fourteen, Alycia also used this ability unintentionally to release a psychic scream that alerted a weakened Devon from afar. Alycia was able to intercept a message Andre sent her when he was in trouble, signaling her that he was in trouble.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Alycia is highly intelligent, a recognized hallmark quality of the Cross family, able to often beat her prodigious older half-brother in chess in her toddler years. Later as a teenager, her intellect - which enabled her to impressively master several disciplines, academic and otherwise.
* **Peak of human physical condition**: Even without using her powers, Alycia is in exceptional physical form, having a powerful physique. She is an experienced basketball player, and while fighting was strong enough to swiftly incapacitate, hurl through the air with ease, Alycia was able to single-handedly flip a gang member onto the ground, and could withstand a punch to the abdomen and was able to get up second after with little discomfort.

### Weaknesses

* **Power Instability**: In most cases, the powers of Alycia, like Andre's seem unlimited. But in some cases, such as healing, if she tries to push her powers too far, she can get sick or severely weakened and in need of meta-human and medical assistance, such as needing Brooklyn's assistance with her mental-manipulation powers, in order to convince her mind to come back from unconsciousness. Because of how meta-humans like Alycia have three times the normal iodine concentration in their bodies, and since hers as a meta-twin is twice more the three times the unusual level, going below that could be very dangerous, and potentially kill her.

## Equipment

* **Bow Staff**: Alycia has learned to use a bow staff, given to her by father.
* **Scarlet Suit**: After seeing Andre hurt from his actions, Alycia decided to use her powers to help other individuals, she enlisted Gloria's help to design her a suit.

## Relationships

### Andre Cross

*Main article: Alycia and Andre*

Andre is Alycia's twin brother. Alycia is the older twin and the two have been best friends since they were born.

### Azure Castillo

Azure is Alycia's older maternal half-brother. Azure is the only role model Alycia's ever had, thought the two are different, as Azure strives to be just like their parents, in order to gain their approval. Although Alycia doesn't seek the approval of their parents, and doesn't try to have their opinion.

### Seraph Cross

Seraph is Alycia's younger and only sister.

### Rose Castillo

Rose is Alycia's mother. Alycia and her mother have somewhat of a complicated relationship.

## Trivia

* Her middle name is Santina, namesake of her maternal grandmother's name.