Bree O’Reilly

Bree O’Reilly (aka Greatness) is a Boston-based superhero and one of the five founders of L.I.G.H.T. She is also the first person to gain magic-like abilities entirely through science.

## Bree O’Reilly

* Hero
* Civilian
* Young
* Future Arc

### Relatives

* Michelle O’Reilly (sister)
* unnamed mother
* unnamed father

### Occupation

* Basketball Coach (as Bree)
* Superhero (as Greatness)

## History

### Early life

Bree was born in and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. When she was in kindergarten, Ben Green and his mother Carol moved next door to the O’Reillys. Ben and Bree quickly became friends, often playing basketball together. When Bree was 7, her little sister Michelle was born. Bree continued to play basketball, and made her high school’s varsity team in her freshman year, and she dreamed to play professionally. In Bree’s junior year, Michelle felt sick, and was soon diagnosed with cancer. As Michelle got sicker, Bree’s mother spent more nights at the hospital, and Bree’s father had to work night shifts to pay for treatment, leaving Bree alone.

### Gaining her powers

For the second semester of Bree’s senior year, the Greens hosted a foreign exchange student from Japan, Zephidina Yamamoto. While Ben and Zephidina rubbed each other the wrong way, Bree and Zephidina quickly became friends.

One day, a student of Bree’s high school brought a gun to school. They ended up shooting 7 people, including themself and Bree. Bree was shot in the shoulder and rushed to the hospital. The doctors were able to remove the bullet, but there was internal bleeding they weren’t able to do anything about- it looked like Bree was not going to make it. However, Zephidina had her mother’s experimental serum, with the promise whoever took it would have amazing powers. When Zephidina and Ben were alone in Bree’s hospital room, Z gave her friend the serum. The serum gave Bree the extra strength she needed to survive, and when she woke up, superpowers.

After being discharged from the hospital, Zephidina told Bree and Ben that an organization known as the Guild of Anarchy was hunting her because of the serum, and now they’d be after Bree. Bree received training from Carol (herself a former Guild of Anarchy member) to control her powers and to protect herself and her family. But as she got stronger, Bree decided to use her powers for the good of her city, and fight crime to try and make sure that no one ended up like her peers that died in the school shooting.

However, Bree was extremely wary of guns because of the school shooting. It wasn’t until she saw for herself that she was faster than a bullet that gave her the confidence to fight crime. Despite this, she still had a heated argument with her dad about keeping a gun in the house. Bree’s father, a policeman who would’ve died in the line of duty if not for his gun, kept a few in the house for self-defense. After the shooting, Bree realized how dangerous this actually was, and refused to sleep in the house if the guns were there. It was her mother’s support that eventually got her father to agree.

When spring came, the Guild of Anarchy sent an assassin by the name of Rosie Wood to capture Bree and Zephidina in order to recreate the serum. Rosie was the first magical foe that Bree faced, but Bree still defeated her, and sent her back with the message that the Guild shouldn’t mess with her friends. The Guild left her alone, not because of Bree’s threat, but because they needed to prepare for the Dark Master’s return. Bree graduated, and chose to take a gap year to earn money that would go towards her college tuition.