Aurora

**Aurora** (real name **Jeanne-Marie Beaubier**) is a Marvel Comics superhero and Northstar's twin sister.

## History

Born in Canada, Jeanne-Marie and Jean-Paul Beaubier were orphaned after their parents were killed in a car crash. While their mother's cousin, Louis Martin, adopted Jean-Paul, Jeanne-Marie was sent to Madam DuPont's School for Girls. There, she grew anxious and introverted under religious teachings. When she learned of her mutant powers of flight and superspeed, Jeanne-Marie thought them to be a divine gift. However, she was disciplined for her "blasphemy," resulting in Jeanne-Marie suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. She formed the Aurora persona, an outgoing and carefree version of herself.

Jeanne-Marie was later recruited into Alpha Flight, discovering from Guardian that she has a twin brother, Jean-Paul Martin. Although Jean-Paul was reluctant to believe that he had a twin, the two continued with Alpha Flight until Aurora's multiple personalities clashed with Northstar. Aurora cast out her relations to Northstar, stating she never wanted to see him again. Northstar immediately left Alpha Flight, and only returned later when Aurora needed assistance.

## Powers and abilities

Aurora is a mutant with the following abilities:

* **Superhuman Speed**: She possesses the ability to propel her body at superhuman speed, becoming a living projectile. Through an act of concentration, Aurora can channel a portion of the kinetic energy of the atomic motion in her body’s molecules in a single direction. This can accelerate her body in a velocity in direct proportions to the amount of kinetic energy she has tapped. It was once theoretically possible for her to reach 99% of the speed of light (186,272 miles per second in a vacuum), although she never traveled at anywhere near that speed since if she did, she would wreak great damage upon herself and her environment. Aurora can also move a portion of her body at superhuman speed at a time. Dr. Langkowski's actions in molecularly restructuring Aurora's body greatly reduced the potential limits of her speed. She now can move at speeds roughly up to the speed of sound (about 770 miles per hour at sea level). This reduction has made little difference in the use of her powers over short distances, since she can still move faster than the human eye can follow.

* **Superhuman Endurance**: Northstar has stated that Aurora is able to fly longer and has greater endurance than him, while he can fly faster in the same period of time.

* **Superhuman Durability**: As a side effect of partially robbing her molecules of their atomic motion, the binding forces within and between the molecules increase. This enhances the sheer toughness of Aurora's entire body. This effect gives her skin enough durability to withstand the ravages of wind, friction and air turbulence.

* **Flight**: She has the ability to propel herself through the air. To hover in mid-air Aurora applies thrust downward in a carefully controlled manner. When carrying another, unprotected human being aloft, Aurora does not move faster than 60 miles per hour in order that her "passenger" may be able to breathe easily (Aurora herself can breathe at somewhat higher rates due to training) and so that the "passenger" will not suffer harm from wind, friction, or air turbulence.

* **Photokinesis**: She can generate from her body a bright white light equivalent at maximum intensity to half million-foot candles. She does so by varying the rate of acceleration of the molecules of her body out of phase with one another, thereby generating a cascade of photonic discharges.

## External links

* Aurora on Wikipedia
* Aurora on Marvel Database