The Lamplighter

## **History**

### **Alexander Smith: 1981 - 2005**

Alexander “Alex” Smith is the middle child of John and Michelle Smith. As a young child, Alex idolized his father, a test pilot for aviation manufacture Coilins Air until his death on the job in a plane crash. Despite his mother’s wishes, Alex followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the United Sates Air Force in hopes of becoming a pilot. It was in the Air Force that Alex.

An his childhood friend and fellow Air Force cadet, Fiona Coilin (daughter of Fred and Francesca Coilins, owners of Coilins Air) began a romantic relationship. The two of them were young and both did things that they would later regret, resulting in their break-ups (yes, as in plural). Parting ways, Alex became a hotshot pilot codename “Highball” and was deployed to conflicts in the Middle East, while Fiona became an aide to Lt. General Damian Hemingway and got to work closely with Marvel Woman.

### **Alexander Smith: 2005 - 2011**

Some years later, Smith was stationed in San Francisco for additional training. After a long day of boring maneuvers and drills, Alex got the call to respond to an emergency. Alex was eager to see some action as he had seen little in his deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.

What Alex was not expecting to see was a full-scale battle with the Super Legion and several arms of the US Armed Forces against the five members of the so-called **Dark Unit**; in what would later be called the “Battle of Alcatraz.”

### **The Lamplighter: 2011 - 2014**

In the battle, Hek Jur was blasted by Sable Slaughter into the fighter jet piloted by Captain Smith, forcing the pilot to crash land in the bay below the Golden Gate Bridge, Smith was able to eject from his aircraft and managed to swim himself and the dying alien to shore.

As Alex tried to radio for help, Hek Jur scanned Alex with his ring and flashed a whimsical smile. Hek Jur took Alex by the hand and gave him his torch. As the torch calibrated itself to Alex, its translation matrix booted up and let Alex Smith understand the Lamplighter's final words: “I suppose you’ll do…”

### **The Lamplighter: 2014 - 2018**

The sudden infusion of power overloaded Alex's body. In the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Alcatraz, he was hospitalized. While Alex was comatose, the moribund Rombulas Dek explained to him telepathically what had happened to him how Rombulas Dek claimed the body of Hek Jur and flew off and what his mission was. Hal kept his promise (probably out of fear for Rombulas Dek) and after his hand was assessed by military doctors, he was dismissed from duty as a pilot. But the very next day, Alex was alone in his bedroom when Dek suddenly transmitted to him Dek's last gift to Smith, his Aurions uniform. Smith discovered that he now possessed energy manipulation, super-strength, super-durability, the power to fly, and a uniform with a sealed life-support system.

Discharged with a few medals for his service, Alex again met with Rombulas Dek and was taken to Oau for training (and advanced medical care to repair his hand). Alex's training went smoothly and though his constructs were potent and fast-moving, but to unfocused to maintain multiple constructs in stressful situations. Still, his trainer, Kalowg was satisfied and approved Alex for duty. When he returned to Earth, Alex join the new superhero team The Champions.

### **Alexander Smith: 2018 - Present**

On July 9, 2018 while some super terrorists highjacked some planes, The Champions were sent to deal with the emergency, hoping to finally establish their role in the world. The operation was a total disaster: the Lamplighter was the first one to fail, as while flying in front of the plane he was hit by one of the wings, that broke his ribs and almost pierce his lungs. He immediately retired from action this to due to the death of hundreds. While still maintaining connections with Vought he is now simply tasked to "clean up" disobeying patients at the Sage Grove Center, with his member status being taken by Starlight. From now on in his own admission, his father was wrong about him, he's just a guy watching from the sidelines while the real "heroes" do the work.

## **Appearance**

Alex is a caucasian male with blonde hair and blue eyes of 5'11 height and 159 lbs. He has a well-built body that consists of strong limbs and a very muscular torso including him having handsome & appealing features. Both of his costumes consisted of the standard colors of yellow and light blue like all the members of the lantern corps do. The first costume is yellow long sleeve with a blue domino mask his shirt was a blue collar shirt with matching yellow shorts including blue tights, gloves, and boots. In 2021, when coming out of retirement he wears a yellow jumpsuit with a matching blue belt and yellow baggy sleeves plus blue boots and gloves also bringing out his blue domino mask.

## **Personality**

Alex Smith is, at first sight, an arrogant, reckless and immature guy, a ladies’ man who only thinks of fun and of enjoying life the best he can. In reality, he’s a righteous man, with an incredibly strong willpower and a natural sense of good and evil; even in the The Lantern Corps, Alex follows most of the times his own conscience, without need of looking at rules and manuals, since he perfectly knows where the better good lies.

## **Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Abilities**

**Aviation Intuition:** Alex possesses extraordinary skill in piloting aircrafts and are better than everyone else. He usually credited with shooting down several enemies during aerial combat and accounted for the majority of air-to-air victories in any battle/war.

**Mechanical Intuition:** Alex can intuitively understand the operation of any mechanical device and subconsciously/effortlessly create a schematic in his mind. Alex is able to make complex devices or weapons out of mere scrap and "garbage".

**Peak Human Condition:** After training with Alex bodily functions are pushed to the pinnacle of human conditioning; therefore, his strength, speed, stamina, senses, agility, reflexes, accuracy, durability, healing time, flexibility and combat skills are near enhanced/superhuman.

* **Peak Human Athleticism:** Alex agility, balance, flexibility, dexterity, and bodily coordination are enhanced to the levels that are similar to an Olympic gold medalist.
* **Peak Human Charisma:** Alex is incredibly charming, enabling hi, to gain the trust and loyalty of others and win them over to his cause.
* **Peak Human Combat:** Alex is a master of hand-to-hand combat, being extremely skilled in numerous martial arts through her training in military training and direction under various private instructors.
* **Peak Human** **Durability**: Alex higher-level of denser/tougher bones and muscles is at the peak of human conditioning. He can take getting beaten by a thick wooden baseball bat and it would break, falling a couple of stories from a building, getting shot in non-fatal areas of the physical body.
* **Peak Human Reflexes:** Alex reflexes are at the peak of human potential and perfection; this means that their reactions are comparable to those of the finest human athlete. He can respond to extremely fast-paced combat, and perform amazing physically defensive feats.

* **Peak Human Speed:** Alex can run and move at great speeds faster than normal humans. He is capable of reaching up to 30 mph. At peak capacity, he can fully exert his speeds for no more than 35 mph.
* **Peak Human Stamina:** Alex possess a highly developed musculature that generates fewer fatigue toxins than the musculature of most other humans. As such, he can perform feats such as running for several kilometers/miles without losing breath or exerting himself at peak capacity for hours with minor to no fatigue.
* **Peak Human Strength:** Alex physical strength is enhanced to the very peak of human potential, making him consistently able to sustain lifts 800 lbs (363 kg)

### **Equipment**

**The Torch:** The Lamplighter received his powerful torch by an alien law enforcer, who entrusted him to protect Earth with it and to serve good and justice with the immense powers it granted to him. The Lamplighter Torch is a powerful ancient cosmic weapon that power by the great lantern on Oau and used it to create a wide range of abilities that its wielders used to fight crime. It offered the wielder powers including rapid flight, levitation of objects, manipulation of fire, teleportation, creation of defensive force fields, and offensive energy blasts of incredible power. Both powers could be used at once, to protect the wielder from atmospheric damage in high-velocity flight. At present, the staff is attuned to its current holder, The Lamplighter.

* **Fire Manipulation:** The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him pyrokinesis, allowing him to harness nearby fire and blast flames in any direction (essentially making him a walking inferno).
	+ **Fire Attacks:** He can utilize fire to attack targets. The exact nature of his attack may come in various shapes and sizes, intensities, or forms. For example, he may hurl explosive balls of fire while he may augment other forms of attack with fire.
	+ **Fire Flight:** The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him the ability of flight, allowing him to cover vast distances and survive atmospheric damage in high-velocity flight.
	+ **Flame Telekinesis:** He is able to use fire to heat the air surrounding an object and use that to lift the object via fire or heated air.
	+ **Pyrokinetic Constructs:** He can turn the fire into tools, objects, weapons, and other items, create semi-living constructs, and/or create structures/buildings of varying permanence. He has mastered his ability can use it for almost any situation, creating anything they need.
	+ **Fire Portal Creation** (**Fire Teleportation**)**:** The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him the ability of teleportation. He can create portals using fire.
* **Enhanced Athleticism:** The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him the ability of enhanced athleticism, even when he's not holding the torch he's still endowed with incredible agility, balance, and bodily coordination.
* **Enhanced Durability:** The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him the ability of enhanced durability, even when he's not holding the torch he's still endowed with incredible durability.
* **Enhanced Reflexes:**The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him the ability of enhanced reflexes, even when he's not holding the torch he's still endowed with incredible reflexes.
* **Enhanced Speed:**The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him the ability of enhanced speed, even when he's not holding the torch he's still endowed with incredible speed.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him the ability of enhanced stamina, even when he's not holding the torch he's still endowed with incredible stamina.
* **Enhanced Strength:** The Lamplighter possesses a torch that grants him the ability of enhanced strength, even when he's not holding the torch he's still endowed with incredible strength.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor (Self-Resurrection):** The torch has an ability to heal physical injuries; The Lamplighter can use the torch to repair injuries in himself or others.  The Torch can keep its user alive after his/her body reaches a state of irreversible death.

### **Weaknesses**

**Torch Dependency:** If the torch is taken away, or destroyed, he will lose their power.

## **Trivia**

* The Lamplighter is based on Green Lantern & Nova
* Even though he described as a superhuman he's basically human without the torch