Justin Ballantine

## Background

### 1970 - 1980: Justin Ballantine

Justin Ballantine was born into middle class family in Gateway City, a harbor city located on the coast of California. At the eight of eight, Justin's mother died because of a faulty prescription. The local pharmacist was an alcoholic & misjudged the amount of medicine she needed on his weighing scales. They attempted to sue the pharmacist but due to his many connections to the higher ups, he got off with nothing but a slap on the wrist.

After the case was over, Justin's father ironically became an alcoholic himself. He began to take his frustrations out Justin, abusing him almost everyday while yelling profanities at him. To give himself some peace, Justin would go to the roof oh his house & stare at the stars. It took him some months, but he saved up enough money from cutting lawns & bought a telescope. When his father discovered this, he came to the roof to berate Justin. Unfortunately, he lost his footing & fell off the rood to his death. One of the neighbors called the police as Justin stared at his father's corpse until the police arrived. Seeing his father die after all the pain he caused him left Justin with the idea that "life is just a matter of balance."

### 1980 - 2009: Justin Ballantine

Justin was taken in by some mother's family members on the opposite side of the coast in Blüdhaven. He kept his head down & stuck to his studies while continuing to spend every night look at the stars. After graduating with high remarks, Justin earned himself a scholarship to Bowman College, one of the leading schools in the country on astronomy. To make things even better, Justin was able to learn under the his personal idol, Ted Knight. Based on Knight's idea that the stars were possessed of boundless energy, Ballantine built a special device designed to create a "cosmic balance," draining half an object's power & transferring it to the wielder of the device, with technology based upon stolen blueprints of the Gravity Rod. By the time he graduated, he had successfully created the "Energy Transmortifier."

After college, Justin was initially going to stay in Opal City but moved back to Blüdhaven, where his girlfriend Sarah also lived. The two were married shortly after, giving birth to three children over the years before moving into the city of Gotham.

Justin somewhat enjoyed the domestic life but was not completely satisfied. For over ten years, he played the dutiful husband. He got himself a well paying job, took care of the bills and went to his kids' after school activities. But something in Justin suddenly happened, prompting him to make a major life change. Under the guise of staying late at work, Justin began operating as the villain Libra. It became the the thrill he needed in life & the only identity he wanted. He began plotting ways to fake his death but then the 2009 earthquake hit Gotham. Suddenly his plans were no longer needed & Justin disappeared in the chaos, with everyone believing he was killed in the earthquake or the following riots.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* He has ties to both Intergang & Darkseid.