Starfire

"Star" (Nickname)

Kori Anders (Alias)

Myand'r (Father, Deceased)

Luand'r (Mother, Deceased)

Nightstar (Daughter)

Joh'n Grayson (Son)

Blackfire (Older Sister)

Darkfire (Younger Brother)

Justice League (Former Member - #26)

The Titans (Mentor, Alumna)

## **History**

### **Koriand'r: 1989 - 2008**

The second child of the Royal Family of her homeworld of Tamaran, Princess Koriand’r never expected to sit on the throne of her people; however, a childhood illness robbed Koriand’r’s sister, Komand'r of her natural Tamaranean ability to convert ultraviolet light into flight energy and because of this, their father decided that the crown should pass on to the younger Koriand’r sister, to preserve the strongest possible bloodline. Of course, this upset Komand’r and she attempted to kill her sister in a violent outburst and was thus exiled from her home planet.

Year later, while Koriand’r was attending to matters of state with her father, the king, Komand’r returned in defiance of her exile with her power of flight returned thanks to her new allies that now accompanied her: Apokalypse. With an Apokaliptan emissary known only at the time as Fury at her side, Komand’r gave her father one chance to surrender and when the Tamaranean king refused, Fury dispatched the king’s elite guard while Komand’r personally killed her own father before Koriand’r's very eyes. After this coup, an Apokaliptan vanguard seized Koriand’r and uses her as a hostage, forcing her people to accept Komand’r’s claim to the throne. Of course, once crowned, Komand’r was little more than a mere puppet state of Apokalypse, while Koriand’r was imprisoned aboard an Apokaliptan prison ship that conducted crude experiments on her and other Tamaranean dissenters.

In six years’ time, Koriand’r was the only Tamaranean prisoner aboard the ship, her Royal blood having carried a trait that made her resilient to the experiments that had killed the rest of her people. While passing through Earth’s solar system, the Apokalyptan ship suffered a catastrophic collision with an asteroid. Due to the damage, a number of key systems went offline, Koriand’r was awoken from the stasis sleep she had been in and found herself “supercharged” with ultraviolet light that allowed her to blast her way to an escaped pod in the confusion.

The escape pod was automatically programmed to travel to the nearest habitable planet and thus set a collision course for Earth.

### **Starfire: 2009 - 2010**

Upon Koriand’r’s invasion of Earth, she crash-landed in Mexico, on the Yucatan peninsula. This was in the sophmore of the Justice League of America and it was the Martian Manhunter, J'onn J'onzz who had the means to detect the presence of an Apokaliptan escape pod. After J'onn investigated and found no lifeform present, he decided that the risk of a possibly Apokaliptan fugitive on Earth was an urgent matter and called the World’s Greatest Detective to assist in the manhunt… err… alienhunt(?). Batman decided to bring Dick and Barbara along.

I was expecting a few hours of searching, a quick beatdown of some alien scum, and then an overnight stay at some resort with a secluded grotto and some private time with Dick. For crying out loud, I wore a bikini under my bat-suit! But did I get any of that? Nope. What happened instead was three hours of searching before I happened upon Dick locking lips with this floozy. Go figure. Sure, she claimed it was to “learn English”, but if that’s the case, then shouldn’t she be a freakin’ English professor after all the kissing she’s done with him since then?

Anyway, after taking her back to the Hall of Justice, the JLA founder heard of her plight and decided to give her sanctuary for the time being and placed her in the Titans program to allow her to master her newly enhanced powers. The rest of the Titans welcomed her with open arms and I decided not to go to the Tower that summer… in hindsight, probably not my wisest decision because while Koriand’r got a new name (“Starfire”), the love of my friends, and my man, all I got was a bullet in the spine, courtesy of that [expletive] clown!

So, after living it up with the Titans in the Tower for while, Koriand’r began to desire to return to her homeworld to free her people shortly after I awoke from my coma. When Terra “died”, Koriand’r decided to “borrow” (read: steal) J'onn J'onzz's bioship. After another night with Dick in Blüdhaven, Koriand’r put Earth behind her without so much as a goodbye to her friends. Honestly, I had hoped she was gone for good. But of course, I wasn’t going to be that lucky, was I? *No*… We hadn’t seen the last of the Tamaranean Manstealer.

### **Starfire: 2010 - Present**

So... Koriand'r doesn't remember what happened to her or what she did between her departure from Earth and her return. I would question this if we hadn't learned that Tamaraneans actually have the ability to block memories on demand as a survival mechanism to retain control of their emotionally dependent powers. We have been able to piece together that she left to go free her people, but was unsuccessful and was forced to flee back to Earth.

My personal theory is that her experiences changed her to such a degree that she feared her friends would no longer recognize her and the guilt or sorrow of her failure would compromise her powers, forcing her to quickly block her memories upon entering Earth's atmosphere, effectively returning her to the state she was when she left Earth to begin with.

Since returning to Earth, Koriand'r spared no time in hooking back up with Dick Grayson, returning to her career as a model, and getting an apartment with Donna Troy. Her and Dick dated for a couple years but ultimately they would have a falling out when Koriand'r didn't agree with Dick's desire to go undercover in ARGUS.

Currently, Koriand'r's whereabouts are unknown, having gone rogue with Jason Todd, Roy Harper, Donna Troy, and Helena Bertinelli following the discovery of Helena's betrayal and the Level 7 secrets.

In 2010 Koriand'r became pregnant with Dick Grayson's child. There weren't any pregnancy symptoms, except an urge for nesting, which she mistook for a call to liberate her people. When she tried to challenge Komand'r she suddenly started vomiting and was beaten by Komand'r. She was imprisoned and Komand'r took her child, Mar'i. After being saved from death by resistance fighters she led a rebellion, but eventually her forces were crushed. In her last attempt she tried to save her daughter, but the Queen's soldiers pinned them down. Mar'i told her mother to save herself. When she was coming to Earth she decided to forget about it. After Helena's betrayal she was imprisoned by ARGUS.

## **Personality**

A true daughter of Tamaran, Princess Koriand’r is the perfect example of that world’s sensual culture and warrior heritage, a no-nonsense fighter with a strong sense of duty and the spirit of a war hero, but with an extremely open-minded view on personal relations and contacts. A princess exiled from her kingdom and an alien forced to live on a world she still struggles to call home, Starfire is a fierce warrior with the soul of a romantic poet, a living paradox who’s committed to protect both her home planet, and the planet that offered her shelter when she was one of the most wanted people in the universe.

## **Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Tamaranean Physiology:** Her alien physiology constantly absorbs ultraviolet radiation and converts it to energy.

* **Bio-Solar Reactor:**
	+ **Supernatural Strength:**
	+ **Supernatural Durability:**
	+ **Supernatural Stamina:**
	+ **Supernatural Speed:**
	+ **Solar Flight:**

### **Abilities**

**Supernatural Combat:** Koriand'r was taught combat moves as a young girl by the Warlords of Okaara and continued to train through her imprisonment and beyond. Koriand'r is also extremely proficient in armed and unarmed combat and she was trained in amazonian techniques by Donna Troy.

* **Aviation Intuition:** Koriand'r has demonstrated considerable skill in piloting spacecraft and aircraft of all varieties.
* **Enhanced Gunmanship:** As the princess of Tamaran, a planet that prides itself on its warrior tradition, Koriand'r was taught to use such weapons since birth. However, since her gene-splicing, Koriand'r prefers using her own natural energy blasts rather than guns.

* **Enhanced Swordsmanship:** Koriand'r has been seen using swords on a number of occasions. She prefers using her own fists.

### **Weaknesses**

* **Solar energy depletion:** Using her powers to its maximum for an extended period can significantly drain her solar energy to the point where Kory is unable to use her ultraviolet energy-based powers until she can "recharge".
* **Allergy to Metallic:**  Koriand'r is allergic to metallic chromium. It gives her flu-like symptoms.

## **Trivia**

* The escape pod Starfire used to get to earth also carried another prisoner: Despero.
* Starfire joined the Justice League of America in 2016 nominated by The Flash.
* Starfire lost her membership from the Outsiders and Justice League after she went rogue alongside Arsenal and Red Hood. Eventually regaining it after helping defeat the Tammarean Invasion
* Barbara hates Kori because she feels her luck got worse when she landed on Earth; she got shot by the Joker, got crippled and lost the chance to confess her love to Dick because he started dating Kori. Kori on the other side legitimately likes Babs and considers her a friend... She believes that Babs is just that way with everyone and doesn't really see that they have a problem.
* Kori loves drinking mustard.
* The way Starfire speaks is because she is naive of Earth's customs and language, but she isn't dumb... A little ignorant, but not without intelligence.
* When we first met Koriand'r, her height was 5`6" but she quickly shot up upon reaching full adulthood.
* Koriand'r has a remarkable memory, as demonstrated by her ability to recite Tamaranean poetry that consists of 6000 verses.
* Tamaraneans' folk music consists mostly screaming, which is one of the few 'musical styles' I've seen that Victor Stone cannot tolerate.