Angelica Jones

## Background

### 1985 - 2001: Angelica Jones

Angelica Jones was born to Bartholomew "Bart" & Gabriella Jones. Unfortunately, her mother did not survive childbirth & left a widowed Bart to care for Angie. Bart was a hard working employee of the nuclear industry, a job that kept him moving around the country. Although he was widowed, he had help from his mother to raise Angie as she moved around with them. The two would often disagree over how to treat Angelica, with her Nana trying to raise her spirits & convince her that she was special while her father wanted her to be more realistic. Moving around the country was difficult on Nana's health & Angelica's ability to make friends but they eventually made their final move to Pennsylvania.

After their last move, Angel found it more difficult than ever to make new friends. The high school girls were initially spiteful & became exceptionally jealous when the most popular boy in school began to show a romantic interest in Angel. Their taunting in the school cafeteria caused her powers to activate, leading to her subconsciously over-heating her carton of chocolate milk, which exploded over a teacher & landed her in detention. The event prevented her dream of participating in the school's ice-sculpting competition. In her anger & pain, Angel's powers caused her to melt all the other entries. Terrified, she ran to a public telephone to call her Nana but melted the telephone when her Nana didn't answer the phone. She immediately ran all the way home to find an ambulance there. Angie doesn't remember much else about that day except for her father walking over to tell her that her Nana had passed away from a heart attack.

Now sixteen & without her grandmother, Angie lived alone with her father, who was unable to cope with helping Angelica deal with her new power. She soon became desperately confused, lonely & miserable.

Her emerging mutant ability caused her presence to be detected by Cerebro, a machine designed by Professor Charles Xavier to locate mutants. Angelica's presence was also registered by Multivac, a similar machine employed by Emma Frost, the White Queen of the Hellfire Club. Xavier intended to recruit Angel for the Xavier Institute, where he trained mutants in using their powers but Frost reached her first. In her public role as headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy, a renowned private school, persuaded Angelica's father to send her there to receive the special help she needed.

### 2001 - 2004: Firestar

Angelica soon made great progress in developing the use of her powers under the White Queen's guidance. However, she remained an innocent, unaware of the true nature of the White Queen or the Hellions, a team of adolescent mutants being trained by Frost. Despite this, Angelica found happiness at the Massachusetts Academy & was grateful to Frost for the kindness she often showed her. Because of her powers, Frost gave her the codename of Firestar.

Thunderbird, one of the Hellions, sought vengeance on Xavier & the X-Men for the death of his brother who had been killed while serving with the X-Men. The other Hellions decided to help Thunderbird despite his refusal of their assistance. Empath used his power to control the emotions of others to force Firestar to fall in love with him so deeply that she would do anything he asked. He thus forced her to participate in the three Hellions' attack on the X-Men, whom Frost had taught Angelica to regard as enemies. However, Xavier was able to convince Thunderbird that his brother died a hero's death. Firestar, now free of Empath's control, felt despair & guilt over having helped the Hellions cause so much trouble. Xavier then offered to admit her into his school but she refused before returning to her father, with whom she reconciled.

While readjusting back to her former life, Warpath notified Angelica of the deaths of the Hellions. She accompanies him & Cannonball to Brazil so they can tell their former teammates Magma & Empath the bad news. Firestar then returned to New York, while Cannonball & Warpath returned to the X-Mansion.

### 2004 - 2007: Firestar

During her first year of college, Angelica now happy & quiet life was interrupted by a mysterious phone call. The voice on the other end stated that they knew her true identity & wanted her to join their team. Suspicious, Firestar flew out to confront the caller & discovered two men waiting on the rooftop. She attacked as a warning blast, which burnt through a thick brick wall & impressed (and scared) them. Night Thrasher revealed it was he who made the call as he wanted to assemble a team of young heroes that would handle the battles that the larger groups didn't have time for. Though wary of the man, Angelica did become close to the other fellow, who introduced himself as Justice. The two gradually developed a romantic relationship.

As Firestar, Angelica began to worry about her powers. Unlike the Human Torch, she was more than just a fire creator & manipulator as she absorbed & re-directed microwave emissions. She rarely let herself lose control, for fear that she would hurt someone or the environment around her. She realized that maybe the emotional manipulation during her years at the Massachusetts Academy still had an effect on her.

To add on to her worries, her relationship with Vance had to temporarily be put on hold. After years of violent abuse at the hands of his father, Vance lashed out telekinetically to protect himself & critically wounded him, killing him. Vance handed himself in to the police & was sentenced to a superhuman prison known as the Vault. Before he was sent away, Vance was given Vance a few minutes alone with Angelica to say goodbye. Confessing her love for him, she offered her body to Vance but he explained that he loved her so much that he wanted their first time to be something special & not a stolen moment behind a few trees.

Angelica was miserable for the following months. All through her life, she felt that she continued to lose those she'd loved & the separation from Vance was taking its toll. Not long after, her father was shot in the chest during a revenge scheme by a gang of thugs. Though he nearly dies, Angel was able to get him to the hospital where he soon recovers.

A year after his sentencing, Vance was released from prison early due to good behavior. Now on parol after killing his father, Vance moved in Angelica & her father as they deemed it the best solution for him. After many months of discussing their future together, Angelica learned that her powers were slowly causing her to become sterile & she began to use her powers more sparingly & to a lesser extent. Not wanting her to feel inadequate, Vance proposed to Angelica & she accepted. He explained that they had grown together & been in love for the last couple of years & now it was time for them to get married.

## Romantic Relationships

* Vance Astrovik: Boyfriend (2004 - 2007); Fiancée (2007)

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology:** She has the ability to tap into Earth's electromagnetic field & convert it into microwave radiation emissions, which she can utilize in different ways. Microwaves are comparatively short waves of electromagnetic energy. Firestar continually absorbs microwave energy from her environment, including microwave energy from the stars & continually broadcasts it at low levels.
	+ ***Microwave Energy Manipulation***: In order to use her microwave energy for specific purposes, Firestar must mentally concentrate, thus causing the microwaves to swirl about her body, creating a visible aura around her. In order to project the microwave energy towards a specific target, she must mentally "push" some of the energy swirling around her towards that target. She can focus microwaves on a specific target & cause it to burst into flame, or explode, or melt. She can also sense microwave signals & disrupt electronics with her own microwave emissions. The nature of Firestar's power grants her the capacity for large-scale destruction. However, she typically limits how much of her own power she accesses for fear of permanently damaging the planet.
	+ ***Microwave Heat Emission***: She can use her microwave energy to generate intense heat. At this point, she can already melt a metal object the size of a cannon almost instantly. She has flown towards a thick wall of solid rock & melted through it so quickly that she could continue flying right through it without pausing.
	+ ***Microwave Flight***: By super-heating the air around her, she can surround herself with an aura of flaming plasma & if she projects her plasma aura downwards in a tightly focused stream, she can generate enough upward thrust to fly at high speeds. Her powers appear to become more powerful when in space. Her maximum speed has yet to be established, but she can already fly quite swiftly & maneuver in flight quite well. She can generate enough propulsive force to carry considerable weights to great heights at high speed. For example, she has carried Colossus in his metal-like form, which weighs 500 pounds, high into the air.
	+ ***Microwave Emission Immunity***: Firestar is apparently immune to most of the damaging effects of the microwaves she emits, although she did undergo tests with Hank Pym to make sure. Unlike most mutants, her immunity to her own power was not complete as she was in danger of rendering herself sterile.
	+ ***Psionic Disruption***: On rare occasions, she has demonstrated the ability to disrupt the psionic powers of others using her own power; namely, Emma Frost & Empath. She is not immune to psychic assault, but when using microwave abilities at a high level she is capable of disrupting it.
* **Suit:** She wears a full-body sheath of micro-circuitry that siphons off & absorbs excess microwave emissions to protect Firestar's physiology from her own radiation that was affecting her cells & diverted it in a way that would "kick start" her natural immunity to her own powers.

### Weaknesses

* **Fire Immunity:** Firestar's powers do not grant her any particular immunity to the effects of intense heat other than that generated by her own microwave powers.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Might:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Quickness:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Mysticism:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Gadgets:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Projection:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Tactics:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Battle:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **TOTAL:** 56 - Power Level 2 / Low Threat

## Trivia

* When she was younger, she expressed having a crush on Iceman & Spiderman. They both are her good friends.
* She is also good friends with Patricia Walker, Monica Rambeau & Felicia Hardy.

## Notes

* The original character of Firestar belongs to the Marvel Universe.