| Real Name: Angelica Jones | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York |
| Date of Birth | |
| Age | 17 |
| Aliases | Firestar, Angel |
| Origin | Mutant |
| Current Location | Morristown, NJ |
| Occupation | High School Student |
| Team | New Warriors (tentative) |
| Alignment | Hero |
| Known Relatives | Bartholomew "Bart" Jones |
| Significant Other | None |
| Identity | Angelica Jones, known to Hellfire Club |
| Known Abilities | Microwave Absorption / Manipulation / Generation, trained at different applications with the White Queen and the New Warriors |
| First Appearance | Uncanny X-Men #193 |
Character Details
- Having lost her mother at a young age, and constantly moving from one school to another because of her father's job at nuclear power plants, Angelica never had the time to settle in anywhere or make friends. Her only constant friends were her grandmother who lived with the family, and her best friend in the whole world, her orange cat Pumpkin.
- At 13 years old Angelica's grandmother read her palm and told her that she possess exceptional talents, the likes of which very few possess. It made her happy, a rare feeling for Angelica. She was just about to start a new school, West Morris in New Jersey. As can be expected, being the new girl, she didn't have any friends and was an outsider.
- Besides being unliked as a new girl, Angelica had the mixed bad / good fortune of having Chuckie Belson — the school's stud — set his eyes on her. That immediately made her a hated enemy of Cassie, the most popular girl at school. This brought about quite a bit of bullying against Angelica. As her grandma told her that people will be friendly if you give them a chance, she tried to join the girls who bullied her in the cafeteria, only to be laughed at again. This made her so angry, that for the first time her powers manifested, projected microwave energy on her chocolate milk, causing its container to explode with the hot chocolate milk winding up thrown directly at Mr. Slattery who proceeded to give her detention.
- While Mr. Slattery thought Angelica was trying to find new friend by pulling that stunt, the White Queen thought otherwise as this manifestation was traced by Multivac, and she instructed her subordinates to pay attention for the next manifestation so the Hellfire Club has a lock on the new mutant's location.
- Chuckie later caught on with Angelica and convinced her to sign up for the ice sculpting contest the school held, which displeased Cassie who overheard it. Chuckie constantly showing affection to Angelica made things gradually worse. On the day of the contest, Cassie and her friends broke Angelica's statue to prevent her from winning. While gloating, they also explained to Angelica how she wasn't special and her grandma lied to her just to make her feel better. Furious, Angelica let out a burst of microwave energy that melted all of the ice sculptures.
- Afraid of what she had just done, Angelica ran to a public pay phone to call home to ask her grandma what to do, but the phone metled in her hand as she held it. Her lack of control over her emerging powers this time alerted both Professor Xavier and the White Queen thanks to Cerebro and Multivac. Scared of how she melted the phone, Angelica ran back home only to find her grandma died of a heart attack.
- Angelica tried to tell her father how she's scared but he wouldn't listen to her, so she stopped holding back and let him see her glowing while the snow around her melted away. Her father was concerned his daughter is a mutie freak as he put it, and desperately tried to think of a way to help her. That's when Emma Frost made her presence in their house noted.
- Using her telepathy, Emma got her father to agree to let her meet with Angelica. She proceeded to win Angelica's trust by talking about the special mark on her palm, using telepathy again to learn all about the girl's interaction with her beloved grandma. Just as Emma secured Bartholomew's consent to send his daughter to her school, and Angelica's consent to go there, Nightcrawler and Professor Xavier arrived on scene but having gotten there too late they gave up on a fight with the White Queen and went about their way.
- At age 14, in her first few month's at Emma Frost's Academy, Angelica was having a great time. She was learning how to ride a horse for instance, which was something she could never dream of in her regular life. Angelica's only concern was that she was being kept in isolation, never getting to see the other students. To drive Angelica's desire to train hard, Emma Frost promised her she could join the Hellions if she perfected her abilities. The Hellions themselves were told that Angelica was assigned as the White Queen's personal body guard, planting the seeds of dislike, as they thought Angelica considered herself better than they are.
- Early assessment in the Hellions' training facilities pointed to Angelica's potential as one of the most powerful mutants in the world. Through induced illusions, Emma Frost trained Angelica to see the X-Men as evil people who want to harm Emma, Angelica, and the Hellions which Angelica really wanted to join. So as Emma helped Angelica develop her power and gain more control over them, she also learned to hate the X-Men and see them as enemies.
- When the Hellions gathered up to go see a movie together, Angelica declined the invitation when it was extended to her, as Ms. Frost did not allow her to leave school grounds as she was too dangerous without supervision. That just reassured the Hellions suspicions that Angelica thought that as Frost's favorite she's too good to hang out with them, and pushed Angelica further into solitude.
- After the initial rounds of tests and training session, Emma Frost gave Angelica the codename Firestar, and set the course for her to become the personal assassin of the Hellfire Club, and more specifically of the White Queen. Firestar was also given a golden bracelet that was actually a holographic inducer programmed to make her have nightmares and visions centered about how evil the X-Men are, and how they want to hurt her.
- A month later the school held a big dance, Empath was mocking Angelica for being too stuck up to show up, and she pleaded with Emma Frost to be allowed to go, dreaming to prove the Hellions wrong. Emma granted Angelica permission, and even picked a dress for her. Meanwhile, the New Mutants also got permission from Xavier's faculty to attend the dance. Before the dance, all the horses was taken out of the school's stables for a horse show except for Butter Rum — Angelica's favorite horse — which made Angelica think Emma Frost was the kindest person in the world to be so considerate towards her. During the dance, Sam Guthrie was pushed by Roberto Decosta to ask Angelica to dance, the two equally shy and clumsy, laughed by others, decided to take a stroll outside — guided by Emma Frost's telepathy. As they were getting along and warming up to one another, Sam moved in to kiss Angelica, which promptly got Angelica to hear a telepathic admonishment from Emma Frost about her carelessness. Fearful she could hurt Sam, and unsettled that she disappointed Emma Frost, Angelica ran away from Sam into the stables where a fire broke out. Barely managing to get Butter Rum — her favorite horse — out of the stable, Angelica just got to witness the horse suddenly collapse and die. Horrified, thinking she set the stable on fire and killed the horse with her microwave energy emissions, Angelica ran into the woods only to be found by Emma Frost, the only one who offered her comfort and understand that terrible night. Of course Angelica didn't know that it was Emma Frost who made sure to set the fire and kill the horse, further making Angelica think she is dangerous and must be kept on her own, with Emma Frost as the only person in the world to love and care for her.
- Sometime after the events at the dance, Thunderbird (original Thunderbird's brother,later taking the name Warpath) decided to get even for the death of his brother, he kidnapped Banshee and intended to lure the X-Men into a trap and killer Professor Xavier. Roulette and Empath decided to join him, trying to score points with the White Queen for learning how to look after their own. To give them the edge, after witnessing the destruction from the dance, Empath used his powers to make Firestar think she is utterly in love with him, prodding her to believe him when he told her that the White Queen wanted her to join them on a super secret mission to attack the evil X-Men. Bringing Banshee to the Cheyenne Mountain, Firestar was unfamiliar to the X-Men and surprised them when she came out of nowhere to grab Colossus and fly away with him to take him out of the battle. Colossus in the meantime saw too much of Illyana in the young Firestar and couldn't bring himself to kill her, attempts to reason with Firestar failed, but eventually Rogue came to the rescue, knocking Firestar out with a touch. From this, Rogue learned how Firestar has been manipulated by Empath. Once she regained conciousness, Firestar kept blaming herself for what happened, going as far as to wish she could die. Professor Xavier offered Angelica to join the X-Men, but she refused, stating that despite her terrible classmates who bully her, she has to stay loyal to Emma Frost who is the kindest person she's ever known besides her father.
- At age 15, Firestar has grown much more proficient in the use of her powers. She had become faster, her aim became sharper, and her user of her powers more focused. She was getting a lot better at flight as well. But during one training session, the White Queen made Firestar see Professor Xavier attacking her while shouting deragatory remarks at her. This froze her and she plummeted the ground, stunned. Firestar explained she had met Professor Xavier and that he seemed a good person, so the White Queen lectured her on how looks can be deceiving, encouraging Firestar with how she expects her to be able to protect herself and those she cares about — which just so happened to be the White Queen herself.
- As a reward for her progress, Angelica started to receive regular dance classes in the Academy, but even there she was not safe from bullying. One day when called to perform infront of the class, Roulette throw a bad luck disc causing Angelica to trip and fall. Empath then proceeded to use his powers to make the teacher absolutely furious at Angelica. This time, however, when getting chastised infront of the entire class, Angelica knew that Empath must have had a hand in this, her furious anger made her release too much heat, activating the sprinklers. For the incident, Angelica was summoned to Emma's office for reprimand, but she also received a gift to ease her suffering, a trip home to New Jersey with her body guard, Randal.
- The night before her trip to New Jersey, Angelica suffered from nightmares where she saw Nightcrawler and Wolverine of the X-Men beating and slashing her to death. Waking up in horror, crying, Emma Frost was there to comfort her. She was now beginning to doubt the friendly faces she saw when she met the X-Men in real life and started to worry they actually want her dead.
- When she arrived back home in New Jersey, Angelica snuggled up with her cat Pumpkin, which she missed terribly, but her father snatched the cat away chastising the girl about how dangerous she is to their pet. All of the ordeals she suffered at the Academy under Emma Frost's orchestration erupted at that moment as Angelica slapped her father's hand when he tried to comfort her, she ran to her room and locked the door, not wanting to see him again. Randal made the decision that the visit wasn't going to be a good one and arranged for him and Angelica to get back to the Academy the following day.
- At the airport Randal was called for the phone, where Hellfire Club personnel detained him while another Hellfire Club agent created an incident with Angelica, running into her and blaming her for not looking where she's going. The man then proceeded to blame Angelica for being a mutant and a crowd of people (likely Hellfire Club agents) gathered around her, spouting hate all about her and beating her father for trying to protect her. When Angelica still didn't respond, one of the thugs pulled out a gun and shot at her, but Angelica melted the bullets. Next the thug aimed at her father, and finally Angelica made a direct strike against a human target, just as the White Queen wanted. While the ordeal was harsh on Angelica, she came to respect and appreciate the hard training sessions with the White Queen, realizing that was what saved her and her father's life in the airport — unaware it was all once again arranged by the White Queen who had settled on using Firestar to kill Selene.
- At age 16 having gone more training and further honed her skills, Angelica got to experience an assassination attempt on Emma Frost's life, a bullet nearly hit Emma when she dove on top of Angelica to keep the girl safe. With guards rushing into the room, Emma revealed to Angelica that in reading the mind of the assassin she discovered the Black Queen — Selene — was the woman who wants to have her killed. Angelica now believed she owed her life to Emma Frost on top of everything, and started to develop real hatred for the Black Queen, going as far as to swear she will kill her.
- In a training session following the assassination attempt, Emma gave Firestar a new mask to add to her costume, and invited her to join her to a formal ball in New York City. Randal — Angelica's bodyguard — found this turn of event suspicious and having grown fond of the girl tried to learn what's about to transpire. Getting one of his buddies from operations drunk, he learned that the White Queen intends to use Firestar to assassinate the Black Queen. He intend to intervene, knowing Firestar doesn't stand a chance, but Emma read his mind and had him imprisoned. The morning after, Angelica was told that the Black Queen has killed Randal, her only friend in the world aside from Emma Frost. Now Angelica wanted to kill the Black Queen more than ever.
- The one thing Emma didn't count on is Randal caring for Angelica so much that he'd risk his life with a daring escape, reaching Angelica before she was scheduled to leave with Emma, and telling her everything that happened. Randal wasn't killed by the Black Queen, Butter Rum was killed by Emma Frost, the incident in Newark Airport was arranged by Emma Frost. Everything was a lie, and now all of the rage Angelica had for the Black Queen turned on the White Queen, the one who has been manipulating her all along, forcing loneliness on her and corrupting her good morals. Firestar was finally unleashed just as Emma Frost desired, only the target of choice wound up being the White Queen instead of the Black Queen.
- As Angelica did not arrive to the limo that meant to take them to the airport, Emma Frost went back to the Academy, finding all of the guards knocked out. Before Emma could trace Firestar, the girl located her and attacked her. The White Queen lead Firestar to the training room and activated it on the most difficult setting, engaging all weapons, but Firestar proved to have trained well, mastering all obstacles even as she kept her ferocious attack. With the White Queen finally defeated, Firestar pressed her palm to the White Queen's face and gave her the illusion she was burning her face by heating the air to produce steam, but in withdrawing her hand, the White Queen was unharmed. Firestar asserted she was her own person, she will not kill because she decided not to kill despite how Emma tried to corrupt her. Firestar did leave her mark before withdrawing from Emma Frost's Academy, unleashing her powers like never before, she destroyed the entire underground level of the Academy, causing the Hellfire Club severe losses in having to rebuild all of the Hellions training facility.
- Angelica was determined to return to normal life, focus on her art, be a normal girl, be with her father, and finally be free of all the abuse and drama she suffered at Emma Frost's Academy. Unfortunately for her, Night Thrasher was creating a new superhero team, and through hacking the Hellfire Club systems he learned about Firestar. Unlike what you may expect from a hero, he blackmailed Angelica into joining his team, the New Warriors. In their first outing as a team, the New Warriors defeated Terrax.
- Firestar proceeded to help Night Thrasher defeat Midnight Fire, and took part in the New Warriors cooperation with Thor to defeat the Juggernaut. During the fight with Juggernaut, Night Thrasher asked Firestar to kill the Juggernaut by blasting his heart with microwave, but Firestar refused to kill, thinking back with horror to the plans the White Queen had for her. Eventually Firestar melted steel girders into a pool of molten slag, before Thor summoned a frigid wind to freeze it, transporting the trapped Juggernaut to another dimension.
- GeneTech was an organization that hired the Mad Thinker to get information about the New Warior, after defeating him, the New Warriors infiltrated GeneTech to learn more about them. That was the first time Firestar learned she could use her microwave powers to completely scramble computerized security systems using quick pulses. Turned out the New Warriors walked into a trap, but Speedball saved them by arriving late, and they wound up winning the day.
- In the meantime the Hellfire Club discovered the breach of their computing systems, turned out there was a traitor who supplied Night Thrasher with the information and he paid dearly. The White Queen decided to pay the New Warriors a visit to "check" on Firestar, seeing as they were interested in finding information about her from the Hellfire Club's computer system.
- The Hellions proceeded to storm the New Warriors' headquarters, the Ambrose Building's Penthouse in New York City. They were attacked by Tai — the New Warriors' mentor — facing defeat, Jetstream went to alert the White Queen who arrived herself to take care of Tai, allowing the Hellions to take over the New Warriors' headquarters to setup a trap. Upon return from a mission, Night Thrasher and Silhouette were captured by the White Queen and the Hellions, leading to an interrogation about why they hacked the computers of the Hellfire Club, and why they were interested in Firestar. The other New Warriors soon returned and engaged the Hellions in battle. This was an exceptionally difficult fight for Firestar, as she was teamed with Catseye, and she knew Sharon Smith was a good girl being manipulated by the White Queen much like she was. In fact, aside from Empath and Roulette, Angelica thought most of the Hellions were good kids being manipulated. This rendered Firestar very ineffective for this fight. In the meantime the White Queen and Tai reached an agreement that whoever wins between the New Warriors and the Hellions will get Firestar. The battle was a close one but eventually Firestar won it by taking down the last Hellion with all of the other New Warriors downed. Angelica was surprised to find both Tai and White Queen refer to the entire thing as a game.
- The White Queen rescinded her claim to Firestar following the New Warriors' narrow victory, and went on to debate with Firestar how the two teams are quite alike. Firestar, however, reminded the White Queen how isolated she was in the Academy, not being allowed to make friends with the Hellions while being manipulated to think she is too dangerous to make friends. Before leaving the White Queen told Firestar she will be waiting for her apology when she learns that her idealistic views are untrue and would seek to join her Academy again. It seemed no matter what promises are spoken, the White Queen remained set on having Firestar serve by her side sooner or later.
- In an adventure that soon followed, Terrax has returned, and during the battle Firestar finally unleashed her powers without reserve for the first time since she destroyed the Hellions' training facilities, surprising her teammates who didn't think she had it in her to truly hurt another. The Fantastic Four and later on the Silver Surfer also joined the fray, finally defeating a much stronger Terrax compared to the first time the New Warriors dispatched him on their own.
- After the adventure with Terrax, Night Thrasher found out that Chord — the guy running Taylor Foundation for him — was lying to him about what he was doing with the Taylor Foundation, and he and Silhouette decided to get the bottom of it. Chord in the meantime gathered all of the other New Warriors, telling them that Night Thrasher was being manipulated, setting the stage for the New Warriors to fight against their leader on his behalf. Eventually Night Thrasher got the New Warriors back on his side, but Chord shot himself rather than tell them the truth about the Taylor Foundation.
- The New Warriors eventually got more information and made their way to Tokyo, Japan, to the Ancestral Home of Clan Yashida. There they met Mariko Yashida who promised to help if they can complete a mission for her, they had to eliminate the Tatsu'o Clan. The New Warriors were making progress in eliminating Tatsu'o Clan, which used high tech electronic armored samurais — turning out to be a poor approach against Firestar's microwaves — before Tatsu'o himself intervened, promising to tell them more than Mariko can if they only leave Japan. Night Thrasher accepted. Firestar argued against. Eventually by majority the decision was to refuse the offer, which made Night Thrasher announce he is quitting and that the New Warriors are disbanded.
- Back in New York, with Night Thrasher's assertion still puzzling her, Angelica once again finds herself not sure what direction her life will take. Will the New Warriors stay a team even without Night Thrasher? Would they force Night Thrasher to change his mind? Or will she finally pursuit the normal life she so wanted, just staying home with her father and her cat?
Altruist - Growing up a perennial outcast, Angelica was constantly bullied and picked on by other kids in whatever school she's been to at any given time. This has put her in a position to sympathize with all who suffer hardships on different levels. She deeply cares for others, and will do everything in her power to help everyone who could use being helped. She will can go out of her way to help, even if at times it means to get distracted from an objective. She cares for people first and foremost, everything else comes after.
Introverted - Having been constantly bullied in her life, and later on kept in solitude at the Emma Frost's Academy, Angelica isn't quite accustomed to being around people in a friendly capacity. She is used to being bullied, being ignored, being mocked, and growing up in such a constant state of loneliness has made her a a shy and introverted person. In her short time with the New Warriors she started to get a little bit more comfortable, but she still tends to get all awkward and nervous when it comes to interacting with people she never met before. Angelica will never be one to start a conversation with people she doesn't know.
Mistrusting - After being manipulated by the White Queen constantly and by Empath occasionally during her stay at Emma Frost's Academy, Angelica has become a very mistrusting person. It takes something special for a person to gain her trust, she is perhaps a bit paranoid in constantly casting shadow of doubt at people who try to get close to her or tell her what to do, but with her history it is no wonder. Especially when the first superhero team she joined, the New Warriors, recruited her by means of blackmail right after she decided to return to lead a normal life.
Unyielding - While she was a relatively timid child who was easily pushed around early on, seeing Randal stand up for her, discovering the truth about the White Queen, and setting herself free from the Academy on her own terms has allowed Angelica to learn that she can be strong. While getting blackmailed into joining the New Warriors wasn't really a very strong act in itself, she did have her motives behind the decision to join that group after all. In her time with the New Warriors, serving as a superhero and helping others, Angelica has acquired newfound respect for what she does and who she is. She may still be introverted, but she will not let people walk all over her as she once did. She has a voice, and she makes sure to use it when she thinks something needs to be said. She will not simply back down because someone pushed her or yelled louder.
Virtuous - It really is a shame that Emma Frost beat Charles Xavier in recruiting Angelica to her school, because at heart, Angelica is the true definition of a hero. She will stand up for the weak, do what's right regardless of what the law or her own objectives say, and will generally seek to help those in need. She believes that people who have been given the gift of special powers, have a responsibility to use them to do good for those around them (OOC note: this has nothing to do with her out of continuity appearance as an Amazing Friend of Spider-Man, she arrived by that conclusion all on her own).
Fierce - There is one quality that Angelica developed during her stay at Emma Frost's Academy that actually makes her stronger. Throughout her time at the Academy, the White Queen tried to corrupt Angelica and make her into the perfect assassin. Slowly but surely chipping at her inability to hurt others, and developing a capacity for unbridled fury when others hurt those Angelica cares about. Eventually all this work wound up functioning against the White Queen, as Angelica learned of how she has been manipulated and for the first time raging uncontrollably, she wound up destroying all of the Hellions' sub-level facilities. When someone wrongs Angelica, there will be hell to pay, and they better hope not to happen before her. She is still ultimately a good person, and would avoid killing, but she's not beyond petty things such as burning one's apartment.
While she discovered her powers as an uncertain 13 year old with no control, Angelica had since grown and received arduous training under the tutelage of Emma Frost about the use and control of her powers amongst other things. Angelica now understands that she constantly absorbs microwave radiation (power Microwave Energy Absorption), as well as generate it (power Microwave Energy Generation) and then focus and redirect into many different applications. She can release it as an offensive projectile (power Microwave Blast), she can form thrust power for flight (power Microwave Emiision Flight), generate intense heat (power Microwave Emission Heat) and she can protect herself with a microwave aura that using her powers generates (power Microwave Aura). For a teenager, Firestar shows great control of her powers, though no doubt there's a lot more she could accomplish as she grows up and further approaches her potential, with many more uses she could potentially learn, discover, or develop. For now she has her training with the White Queen and with the New Warriors as a solid and most adequate base to work with. While the White Queen's analysis suggests Firestar could become one of the strongest mutants in the world, it remains to be seen. With the White Queen, Firestar did nothing but constantly train and hone her powers, learning new applications and increasing her focus and ability all the time. Since she left Emma Frost's Academy, she hasn't been as diligent in training.
While Firestar can redirect and manipulate the microwave radiation she absorbs (Microwave Manipulation), she is also able to generate her own microwave energy in various forms, as described in the powers Microwave Blast and Microwave Aura. While in Earth atmosphere, Firestar tends to limit her use of her powers for fear of hurting the environment or killing people. It would take a very devious person, or someone who directly manipualted or abused Firestar to get her to unleash her powers at near top capacity.
While the blasts created by her powers seem to be fire based, they are in fact intense burning microwaves, which she can focus either to make a target burst in glames, explode, or even melt. The heat her microwave produces can melt thick red-brick walls, as she first did in reacting to Night Thrasher's attempt to blackmail her and burning a hole through a wall of his penthouse. The one time she used her powers without limiting herself, she completely destroyed the Hellions' training facilities, so she has a very high destructive potential, if anyone ever were to successfully manipulate her the way the White Queen tried and failed.
By redirecting her microwave energies to create downward thrusts, Firestar can propel herself with great force in upward motion into the air. Her unique method of flight allows Firestar to perform unexpected maneuvers as she can thrust herself on a whim at different direction which an opponent may not expect. Her flight works much in the same way as that of the Human Torch and Sunfire. While she cannot match Nova's speed, she is far more agile in flight than Cannonball. Using her thrust power she is able to carry incredible weights with her, as she's shown by taking Colossus into the air while the Hellions attacked the X-Men — of course she was lucky Colossus didn't want to hurt her while she carried him, but she has the capacity to do that. Thanks to extensive training with the White Queen, Firestar is something of a markswoman when it comes to hitting targets with her plasma blasts while in midflight, even when taking evasive maneuvers.
As a beacon of microwave energy, constantly absorbing and emitting it even in day to day activities, not being an ability she can turn off, Angelica is immune to the devastating effects prolonged exposure to such radiation can have on a human body, being a mutant herself. However, she still has concern for those she loves, and tends to keep away from being too long in the company of others. While she can control the levels at which her body releases microwave emissions, her conditioning by the White Queen made her doubt herself and fear hurting others she loves. It is something she is learning to overcome.
Firestar constantly absorbs ambient microwave radiation, there's no shortage of microwave radiation for her to absorb thanks to human technology, but her body is so attuned to absorbing this that she is also constantly absorbing microwave radiation from satellites, stars and the cosmic microwave background radiation. Therefore in the environment of space, her powers become much stronger as she found on one excursion with the New Warriors to the Moon. But even within Earth's atmosphere, there's never a shortage of microwave radiation for Firestar to absorb.
This is an offensive application of Firestar's microwave energy which she learned from the White Queen. It can be as destructive as raw microwave energy focused as a torso thick beam of heat, a projectile concussive plasma bolt, or a precise pinpointed thin ray of microwave that can be used much like a laser cutter. When unleashing massive bursts of heat, or massive beams that shear through steel plating — such as when she destroyed the Hellions' training facilities — Firestar feels a physical exhaustion as it is quite tiring. After a feat of such nature, Firestar would need rest and absorbing more microwave energy without exerting it. Using the more fine and precise version, is strenuous in its own way, forcing Firestar to concentrate and focus real hard which isn't as simple to do in stressful situations. While using a more controlled version she can make fine cuts in thick metal plating, and burn objects at deeper layers closer to the core. Finally employing the very nature of microwaves, Firestar can project bubbles that penetrate a target, and then explode in an outward projection, 'popping' from within, which reflects the microwave quality of burning interior layers of an object before damaging the exterior.
While using her powers, Firestar tends to light up with a fiery aura as a side-effect, however, this aura itself can be manifested to a higher degree as a microwave shield. Touching that shield burn, melts or even evaporate objects before they can reach her, so bullets will melt before even reaching her body if someone were to shoot her while her aura is engaged. So long as her concentration is set on maintaining this barrier, solid projectiles will not be able to harm her. Energy based projectile attacks can still easily penetrate this barrier. Another use for this microwave aura is that it allows Firestar to fly through meltable objects such as glass, soft metals, plastics and anything with a lower melting point than the temperature of her shield, giving her the capability of breaking into some structures by literally flying inside or walking through the wall. As of now Firestar can only engulf herself with her aura and cannot offer protection for others, or cover a larger area to protect, limited only to her own body. This shield can burn through about 5 inches of steel per second if she pushes it to full intensity as she moves towards the substance. With this power engaged, Firestar looks to be engulfed by a fire silhouette, and while she can still be seen, smal flames appear to dance along her body. With concentration she can limit the parts of her body that are covered, allowing her to be more easily visible through the dancing flames, as well as allowing her to shake hands or exchange pleasantries. This also make her very visible while using her powers.
Angelica has gotten her driving permit and can already drive a car so long as she keeps to curfew rules for minors (dawn to midnight). With the permit she can finally drive on her own without requiring adult supervision.
Living alone with her father, since her grandmother died, Angelica has been seeing to most of the house chores, especially with her father usually being busy with work. So Angelica had to do the cooking for both of them, and while no master chef, she can cook fulfilling and at times even tasty meals.
Under the constant supervision of the White Queen at her Academy, Firestar has learned to control her powers and finds new applications for them. Flight, controlled blasts, melting objects, heating objects, displaying fine control of the level of microwave radiation and temperature of heat she can produce. Later on she continued to hone her skills with the New Warriors and their mentor Tai, learning how to disrupt and scramble electronic and computerized systems with her powers. In her confrontation with the White Queen before destroying the Hellions' training facilities, Firestar also learned that when she truly unleashes her powers, she can sometimes disrupt the powers of telepaths, although this last use of her powers is mostly a result of unbridled rage rather than a planned effort, as she has been manipulated since by telepaths and empaths.
While Firestar received some hand to hand fighting instruction at the Hellions' facilities in Emma Frost's Academy, she really got more professional training at hand to hand fighting once she joined the New Warriors, and the merciless Night Thrasher. Sure, she's not going to take down Wolverine anytime soon, but she could hold her own against people with no training and those who do not expect her to have any knowledge of hand to hand fighting.
Angelica has been artistic from a young age, she can draw, paint, sculpt and sew. Creating art of different types puts her mind at ease and holds almost a meditative like quality over her usually retless soul. If she were to decide to completely withdraw from the superhero scene, she may well pursuit a career as an artist.
While at Emma Frost's Academy, Angelica learned how to ride a horse. Emma kept her in solitude away from all other students and particularly the Hellions, but she was given Butter Rum, her very own horse to ride in her free time. While horses are not really that common to find these days, being able to ride them isn't a very common skill anymore either.
HOME: As a minor, Angelica is residing with her father in their home in Morristown, NJ, along with her cat Pumpkin. It is a regular suburban home, and while her father is mostly busy with work, Angelica does most of the chores around the house. But she does have her own place to stay, where she can feel at home.
NEW WARRIORS: While it remains to see how active the New Warriors will be after Night Thrasher's announcement that the team was disbanded in Japan, it is likely the Ambrose Building — The New Warriors' Headquarters — will remain open to Firestar should she wish to go there and use it's training facilities. During her time with the New Warriors she had good relations with the team, and it is likely any one of them would gladly come to her aid should she need it.
COSTUME: It was the White Queen who gave Angelica her codename, and she also supplied her with her own costume which was distinct for her, and looked nothing like the Hellions' uniforms, further alienating her from the group. However, that costume was capable of enduring Angelica's powers without being destroyed.
ELECTROMAGNETIC DISRUPTION: Due to the constant microwave radiation around Firestar, as she constantly absorbs and emits it to varying degrees (usually low levels when not conciously using her powers for a direct purpose), she tends to disrupt signals such as cellular phone, remote control devices and electronics systems. This is the basis to Night Thrasher teaching Firestar to scramble security system to allow the New Warriors to break into high security facilities. On very rare occasions, always when furious and using her powers without limits, Firestar has shown the capacity to also disrupt telepathic powers, as she did when she defeated the White Queen after discovering how she was manipulated by her and went on a rampage in the Academy. This only comes to effect when she really uses her powers completely without limits, on any other occasion a telepath will have no problems to use their powers on her, and many have done just that in the past.
IMMUNIZATION: Being source of burning microwave radiation, Angelica doesn't really gets sick, as most bacteria cannot survive the heat and radiation she produces.
Angelica has been manipulated more than once in her life, by bullies at school, by Emma Frost, by Empath, by Night Thrasher and it seems like there's no end in sight. Having had her trust betrayed so often, and having been mislead or plain out mistreated lead Angelica to develop quite a very suspicious nature. It is very difficult to earn her trust, she's been wounded deep and often by different people and tends to close herself quite a bit before eventually opening up to the idea of new friendship. If anyone ever wins her friendship, they better be worthy of her trust, because when she is wronged Angelica tend to react with the pain of her past, and the reaction could be quite violent. This makes it very hard for Angelica to get new friends.
Through circumstances in early childhood, and later manipulation by the White Queen in her Academy, Angelica came to constantly fear hurting others accidentally with her powers, knowing she is constantly emitting microwaves even when not using her powers. She saw herself produce countless accidents in the Academy — all orchestrated by the White Queen — and was chastised by the White Queen when she was about to enjoy her first kiss, after all, she could have potentially hurt Sam Guthrie. Years of conditioning to distrust her ability and assume she can cause damage to innocents have kept her rather secluded, and made her introverted over time. Since joining the New Warriors, Angelica has become slowly but surely more confident about her ability to control her powers, and about who she is as a person. However, while getting better, some instincts and conditioning are hard to overcome. Angelica still tends to blame herself when things do not go as planned.
A childhood without friends, and forced isolation at Emma Frost's Academy which made all the other Hellions think Angelica was too stuck up to hang out with them, lead to a very lonely existence for Angelica. Her only friends early on were her cat Pumpkin and her Grandmother, who died soon after Angelica discovered her powers — whether or not Angelica's microwave radiation had anything to do with it is unknown. After she moved to Emma Frost's Academy, Angelica's only friends were the horse Emma gave her — Butter Rum — and her chaperone who was more of a body guard making sure nobody comes near Angelica, Randal Chase. Butter Rum died in a combined effort of fire at the stables and telepathic assault by the White Queen, but Angelica was told she lost control of her powers because of her attempt to kiss Sam Guthrie, and that she killed Butter Rum. Randal Chase died himself, but not before managing to reveal to Angelica how the White Queen has been manipulating her all along. While Angelica is finally free, and has been improving with her social skills while with the New Warriors, she is very much frightened of ever being alone, and anyone who knows this can use it to manipulate her, much like the White Queen manipulated her in the past.
Firestar was determined by the White Queen to have the potential of being one of the most powerful mutants in the world. This is the reason Emma went to such lengths to manipulate Firestar, trying to shape her into her own personal assassin. While Firestar discovered the truth behind Emma Frost thanks to Randal Chase, it is not unlikely that other will find out about her potential and try to manipulate her so she serves their cause. Empaths, Telepaths, and scheming types are out there, and most of them are not very nice.
Having discovered how she has been manipulated by the White Queen, Firestar reacted with unbridled fury, for the first time in her life explosively using her powers to the very limit she could muster. The result was the utter destruction of the Hellions' training facilities, hidden underneath the Massachusetts Academy. While her violent reaction and threats may have stalled the White Queen from seeking revenge initially, the White Queen and the Hellions soon went after the New Warriors, seeking to take Firestar back with them. While the New Warriors had the better of the Hellions on that encounter, it is not out of the question that the White Queen may go after Firestar yet again. It's one thing that Firestar caused the White Queen to lose face at the Hellfire Club with her failure to fully corrupt the young girl to their cause, what's worse is that Firestar's reaction cost the Hellfire Club a lot of many in repairs to the Hellions' training facilities. The Hellfire Club doesn't usually take kindly to people who cost them a lot of money, and Firestar may sooner or later have to face enemies she didn't even know she had.
Being under the age of 18, and living in the state of New Jersey, Angelica is still considered a minor and juvenile by law. Therefore she is obligated to attend high school, she is unable to sign legally binding contracts, and need her father's permission for all such matters. She is not allowed to consume or purchase alcohol or cigarettes. She may also find it difficult to get into some entertainment establishments such as night clubs, kareoke clubs, billiard halls and bowling balls alleys so long as they sell alcohol or forbid admittance to minors. She is also legally forbidden to own weapons, though she does have her powers as a considerable advantage over most conventional weapons.
While Angelica dons a mask and costume while going on expeditions as Firestar, her secret identity is still known to a select few. Her father, the New Warriors, and worst of all the Hellfire Club and the Hellions. While it's not such a risk that the New Warriors know it, her identity may be discovered through her father. That said, the fact the Hellfire Club and the Hellions know about her secret identity is a severe risk as she can never be too sure whether the White Queen will respect her promise to leave her be, or whether the Hellfire Club will decide to pursuit revenge over the cost of repairs to the Hellions' training facilities. A bigger problem with regards to the Hellfire Club specifically, is that Angelica isn't even aware of its existence beyond a night club that holds fancy balls, where Emma Frost invited her to join her for a ball, with the hidden motive of having Firestar assassinate Selene — The Black Queen — at the event.
=========================[ +sheet for Firestar (AJ) ]=========================
Real Name: Angelica "Angel" Jones Age: 17
Codename: Firestar Gender: Female
Sessions: 0 Approved On: Fri Sep 23 08:28:40 2011
F: Typical (6) Health: 52/52
A: Good (10) Karma: 18
S: Typical (6) Resources: Feeble (2)
E: Remarkable (30) Popularity: 10
R: Typical (6) Experience:
I: Typical (6) Initiative: +0
P: Typical (6) Movement: 3
==================================< POWERS >==================================
Equip-Uniform-Body Armor…………………………… Good (10)
Microwave Manipulation…………………………….. Incredible (40)
Damage Shield…………………………………… Remarkable (30)
Flight…………………………………………. Good (10)
Microwave Blast…………………………………. Remarkable (30)
Resistance To Fire-Heat-Mirowaves…………………… Class1000 (1000)
=================================< TALENTS >==================================
Student………………………………………….. Typical (6)
==================================< FLAWS >===================================
Hunted By: Emma Frost Inorganic Damage Reduced By -1cs
Lack Of Trust
=================================< CONTACTS >=================================
ARMOR RATINGS: Energy: 0 Mental: 0 Physical: 20
Relationships
| Name | Relation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bartholomew "Bart" Jones | Father | While Angelica loves her father, he has been manipulated in the past by the White Queen to call his daughter a mutant freak, and shows fear of her powers |
| Name | Relation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dwayne Taylor (Night Thrasher) | Team Leader | Night Thrasher blackmailed Firestar into joining the New Warriors, he also later proceeded to declare the New Warriors disbanded in a feat of rage over a disagreement with Firestar. The fate of the team remains to be seen. |
| Namorita Prentiss (Namorita) | Teammate | |
| Richard Rider (Nova) | Teammate | |
| Vance Astrovik (Justice) | Teammate | Vance was the one New Warrior that Angelica had some affections for and wanted to be closer to in perhaps a potential relationship. |
| Name | Relation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Telemetry | Teammate, co-founder | Telemetry broke into Warriors Central, Firestar went to check, the two determined to revive the New Warriors. |
| Name | Relation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Guthrie (Cannonball) | Manipulated Attraction | For the purposes of one of her schemes, the White Queen made sure that Sam will ask Angelica to dance at a ball held for the Hellions and New Mutants. White Queen made sure the two would become fond of each other. Angelica may still finds she really fancies Sam when next she happens by him. |
| Monet | Budding friendship | Had a good meeting after fighting crime at the MoMA, Monet offered to invite Firestar to a fancy party and go shopping with her |
| Name | Relation | Notes |
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| Name | Relation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Frost (The White Queen) | Former Mentor | Emma Frost recruited Angelica to her Academy under guise of helping her learn to deal with her powers. What Emma Frost really did was train and corrupt Angelica with the purpose of making her the White Queen's personal assassin, with Selene — the Black Queen — as her prime target. Angelica has since discovered the abuse and retaliated with the utter destruction of the Hellions' training facilities. |
| Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha (Empath) | Fake Love | Empath has manipulated Angelica into thinking she is madly in love with him, in order to get her to join the Hellions in an attack on the X-Men. Angelica was punished by the White Queen, as were the other Hellions involved for that unauthorized attack. Needless to say, Empath is no friend of Angelica. |
Logs
| Date | Title | Characters | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09-25-11 | A Blast From The Past | Angelica Jones & Emma Frost | R |
| 10-05-11 | Down the Rabbit Hole | Firestar and Havok w/ White Rabbit, Miss Locke, Mr Chambers, Arcade | PG-13 |
| 10-08-11 | A Day At The Museum | Firestar, Monet, Sandman & Force | PG-13 |
| 10-13-11 | It's Alive | Firestar & Telemetry | PG-13 |
| 10-16-11 | Saturday In The Park With Friends | Angelica Jones & Xiu Lin Tseng | PG |
| 10-20-11 | Sympathy for The Devil | Angelica Jones & Emma Frost | PG-13 |
| 10-21-11 | Ambush! | Firestar & Telemetry | PG-13 |
| 10-22-11 | No Golden Dragon Of Doom | Firestar & Yishi | PG-13 |
| 11-14-11 | New Warriors: A Recruitment Interview | Firestar, Telemetry, Xiu Lin Tseng & Darklight | PG-13 |
| 12-31-11 | Ghosts of The Past | Firestar & Empath | PG |
| 02-01-12 | Unbridled Violence | Firestar, Spider-Man, Black Knight, Sandman & Dajan | PG-13 |
| 02-05-12 | It's Not A Party It's An Intimate Get Together | Firestar & Night Thrasher | G |
| 02-05-12 | Things Go Awry | Firestar, Yishi & Havok w/ Boomerang, Blizzard and Ringer | PG |
- Going on a Sunday afternoon shopping trip to NYC, Angelica encounters Emma Frost, leading to an emotional and a surprisingly (at least seemingly) heartfelt conversation.
- Trying to help a woman who's baby was snatched, Firestar walked right into a trap set by the White Rabbit. Being knocked out by gas, she woke up in a cell with Havok, and combined her powers with his to escape.
- Hearing gun fire from the MoMA, Firestar flew in to see if she could help, and wound up teaming up with Monet, Force and Sandman to take down a villain. She later started to befriend Monet, and is looking forward to go shopping with her.
- Getting alert that Warrior Central had a trespasser, Firestar went to check finding Telemetry working on the Super Adaptoid in the New Warriors' lab space. Following a conversation, Firestar discovered new-found resolve to keep her superhero life and decided to revive the New Warriors with Telemetry.
- While painting in Central Park, Angelica met a girl by the name of Xiu Lin Tseng, finding herself a new friend.
- Having learned of the Mutant Massacre, Firestar took to explore the ruins at the Massachusetts Academy, her emotions in turmoil, she went to see Emma Frost and wound up spending the night with her so her old mentor won't be on her own. She then proceeded to have a look at the ruins of the Academy along with her teammate, Telemetry.
- Angelica called to her once mentor, Emma Frost, to see how she was doing after the massacre, and proceeded to go visit her at the Hellfire Club, winding up sleeping over. She expressed her desire for revenge and even collaboration with Emma to that end.
- Going back to the New Warriors' CrashPad, Firestar is surprised to run into Xiu Lin, who has joined the New Warriors as Yishi.
- Firestar learns that Empath of the Hellions is still alive and well and suspects Emma Frost has been playing her again as she's always done in the past. Emma tries to get a face to face meeting with Angelica, but she's reserved about it.
- Angelica Jones gets to go to a wedding but is forced to change into Firestar to help fend off crime once again.
- Night Thrasher returns from Asia, and Firestar is happy to welcome him back to the New Warriors.
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