Azure Scarab

"*Some things are beyond our control...*"

**Azure Scarab**, (real name **Eleanor May Carter**, born August 2nd 1992), is one of the five founding members of the The Team, alongside Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash and Superboy. She was originally born in Gosport, England, but moved to Washington, D.C when she was fifteen years old, with her mother, step-father and younger sister.

## Appearance

Eleanor is a young adult, British female with ghostly pale Caucasian girl, short ginger hair with long bangs swept over the right side of her forehead, sap green eyes and freckles under her eyes. Her build is slender, but she somehow shows feats of agility and strength.

## Civilian Wear

In 2010, TBA.

In 2016, TBA.

In 2018, TBA.

In 2020, TBA.

## Superhero Attire

As Azure Scarab, Eleanor resembles an insect in an azure blue full-body suit, exactly like her namesake. She can extend two large wings behind her back and can transform her limbs into various tools and weapons.

## Personality

Azure Scarab is kind, generous and compassionate, good to have around during a crisis as she knows how to remain calm and take control of the situation until it is resolved. Azure Scarab is very caring and nurturing to others, however she has a habit of neglecting her own needs while giving to others. She shows to be very intelligent and loves to learn.

Azure Scarab tends to wear her heart on her sleeve, she feels anger intensely and joy quite well, but her sadness is silent and hardly, if ever, marked by tears. She hardly lets her rage control her and cheerfully remarks on the things that make her happy, but hardly says a word in her sadness, though it is visible to everyone. However, though she may feel sad, she never gives in to despair, always looking for a solution the right way. Her determination and little regard for pain can make her a powerful force to be reckoned with.

Alongside, Azure Scarab is gracious and well-mannered, knowing just the right things to say and do. Although she doesn't look it, Azure Scarab has high moral standards and doing the right thing is important to her, along with being a loyal friend and a faithful partner, gentle but not passionate.

Although strong-willed and loyal, Azure Scarab is a good listener and can view others problems with empathy, clarity and a balanced analysis, seeing both sides while showing respect and caring.

In short, Azure Scarab is generally frank, fairly sociable, but preferring peace at any price. She can be too self-effacing, modest and patient, and run the risk of being exploited by others. She may appear to be innocent and naïve but she is actually quite streetwise and astute - she can read others well, but often keeps it to herself.

## History

Originally born in Gosport, Hampshire, South Eastern England, Azure Scarab's childhood life was anything but ordinary. Before she turned fifteen years old, Azure Scarab mostly grew up being raised by an abusive, alcoholic father and a strong and stern mother, alongside her younger sister. When Azure Scarab turned 8 years old, her mother divorced her father and left home to a smaller town named Newark-on-Trent, where her mother met a gentle giant mechanic named Stephen Henderson and Stephen became Azure Scarab's step-father.

Throughout her childhood, Azure Scarab was bullied by the other children in her schools, because she was different, as she always found companionship with animals instead of people, as well as her empathic meta-abilities. Scarab's mother worked in the British branch of S.T.A.R Labs, as a genetics researcher. During her young teen years, Azure Scarab had a habit of running away from home, to express that she wasn't happy with her life in England. So, to help stop this habit, Azure Scarab's mother and step-father decided to immigrate to Washington, D.C, because Azure Scarab's mother was transferred to the main branch of Project Cadmus. Azure Scarab and her younger sister were more than happy to agree.

July 4th, 2010, Azure Scarab was walking down the streets when she found that Project Cadmus was on fire. Worried for her mother's wellbeing, and following a whispering voice in her mind, Azure Scarab joined the three male sidekicks; Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad, to help her mother get out of the building and discover the secrets that a simple genetic research facility is truly hiding from the public.

## Powers

* **Empathy:** Azure Scarab's primary metahuman ability is her empathy; the psionic ability to sense the emotions of others, allowing her to gain insight into their thoughts and intentions, and even experience their own feelings. This also enables her to sense the mental state of others, as she has stated that she would know if someone's mind had been tampered with.

* **Sensory Scrying:** As an extension of her empathy, Azure Scarab is capable of seeing through the eyes of other animals and people, as well as hearing and feeling, as if they were her own, which give her empathic insight of the situation.

## Abilities

* **Martial Arts/Parkour:** Though not the most physically talented of the Team, Azure Scarab is nonetheless a fairly skilled and proficient hand-to-hand combatant, having received at least some degree of physical training.

* **Master Hacker:**

* **Taming:**

* **Master Detective:** Azure Scarab has a genius-level intellect and can solve riddles and puzzling crimes committed by the most skilled and intelligent criminals and psychopaths, like Joker or Riddler. Due to her detective skills, she was able to detect that Robin/Nightwing was Dick Grayson and Batman was Bruce Wayne with a simple glance.

* **Multilingualism:** Like her paternal grandfather, Azure Scarab has a talented gift for foreign languages. She is almost fluent in French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Swahili and Russian. She can also understand Korean, Mandarin and Zulu.

## Equipment

* **Scarab:** Azure Scarab wears an alien Scarab, found within the labs of Project Cadmus, that grants her a number of powers. She often converses with its artificial intelligence.

* + **Construction:** The suit is able to construct certain objects, such as staples and Reach-tech Eggs through nanotechnology.
	+ **Durability:** The suit has protected Eleanor from the deleterious effects of being knocked into a wall by Blockbuster. The Scarab also calculated that it could possibly survive the bomb blast that destroyed Mount Justice.
	+ **Energy blasts:** The suit can transform parts of the armor into a sonic cannon or plasma cannon. The suit can also transform the chest into a larger plasma cannon.
	+ **Flight:** The suit can sprout translucent wings, enabling him to fly, but they do not flap like real wings; instead they stay in one place. The suit also has additional rocket boosters.
	+ **Holo-projection:** The suit can generate holographic images.
	+ **Sensors:** The suit has a variety of sensor systems. It is capable of producing scanner units that can be used to detect the presence of people in buildings. The Scarab also has passive sensors that can monitor other people's physiology which, along with voice analysis, allows it to tell when a person is lying or being truthful, or has hostile intentions.
	+ **Super strength:** The suit grants Azure Scarab enhanced strength, allowing her to knock down powerhouses like Tuppence Terror and Superboy.
	+ **Technology interface:** The suit is capable of manipulating Reach technology upon contact and altering its functions. This extends to the ability to link with other scarabs through tendrils, allowing attempts to reset or destroy the other scarab. This is not without risk, as such attempts can be resisted and even reversed.
	+ **Transformation:** The suit can change into different forms. Examples of her transformations are a sonic cannon, battering ram, staple gun, a lockpick, maces, drills, scythe blades, and a plasma cannon.
	+ **Translation:** The suit has demonstrated the ability to translate Krollish and Reach languages, as well as Earth languages like Arabian.

## Weaknesses

* **Headaches/Migraines:** Due to her empathic sensitivity, Azure Scarab suffers from occasional headaches, sometimes migraines, depending on the intensity.

* **Astraphobia/Brontophobia:** Due to her sensitive nature and sensitivity to noises and the atmosphere, Azure Scarab is deeply terrified of thunderstorms to the point that she freezes on the spot and collapses in tears.

* **Camera-shy and Crowds:** Due to her shyness, Azure Scarab is not a big fan of cameras or crowds.

* **Depression and Anxiety:**

* **New God technology:** The Scarab has stated that it isn't compatible with technology from Apokolips or New Genesis being unable to even scan it.

* **Magic:** When hit by Klarrion's chaotic magic at close range, the armor could not maintain its structure.

## Quotes

"*Just because you have super-strength, doesn't mean the battle will always be yours to win. There will be someone, out there, stronger than you. Superman learned that lesson a long time ago.*"

"*Silence of the owl. Cunning of the fox...*"

"*Don't beat yourself up about it.*"

"*Megan... Do you truly believe your friends, your family, are that shallow?*"

"*Hey, Klarion! If you want the Helmet, you'll have to go through me for it!*"

"*I guess only time will tell.*"