TWverse: SHE

This is SHE, the Super-Heroines of Earth, a small group of superheroes in the world that Thunder Woman inhabits.

SHE was one of the premiere superhero teams operating, rivaling the Vindicators and Interguard in terms of international status. Created by the French heroine Marianne, what made them stand out was their all-female membership, as well as an attempt to speak out on feminist subjects and issues. Both of these aspects raised much controversey, but SHE stood firm in the face of criticism from both sides of aisle. Marianne hoped that one day they would be the ultimate example of a superhero team, that would serve as an inspiration to women around the world. For a time, she saw some of this actually happen, and hoped that Thunder Woman would join.

And then the Harbinger arrived...


The members of SHE are, from top to bottom, left to right:

Energia, a heroine from Belarus. Energia was a nuclear physcist and engineer who worked at an experimental nuclear research reactor when an accident exposed her to radiation, activating and changing her latent super-genetics. She became a living energy generator, capable of putting out enormous amounts of heat and radiation, as well as manipulating the atoms in matter, allowing her to transmute substances.

Lunazon, the one surviving member of SHE. She was a frequent ally and friend of Thunder Woman, at first due to their mutually impressive powers and skills as fighters, but then through personal differences and similarities. She is an alien from a hidden civilization on the dark side of the moon, exiled to Earth for an unspecified transgression. She hopes that her work as a hero will earn her a chance to return home, but ever since the demise of SHE, Luna has been on a warpath of revenge against the Harbinger.

Lunazon possesses vast strength, comparable to Thunder Woman's, as well as a similarly superhuman physiology and tolerance for otherwise inhospitable environments and physical damage. She can manipulate gravity, which is enhanced by the Lunar Lance, a spear of super-dense matter she wields that can even cut through dimensional barriers.

Defengine, daughter of the current incarnation of the legendary legacy hero Avengine. When she expressed interest in heroism, her father challenged her to prove she could handle the responsibility and hardship it took to become one like him. She met and surpassed his challenge, and has become a formidable heroine in her own right. With the Defengine armor, she can operate in multiple environments, has the most advanced sensor systems possible, and wields a wide variety of customizeable defenses and weaponry.

Marianne, the leader of SHE, a psychic heroine from France with telekinetic, telepathic, and extrasensory powers. She is the descendant of a French hero called the Blue Banner, infamous for surrenduring and collaborating with the Germans during World War II. She originally took up heroism in order to clear her family name and defy her ancestor's tarnished legacy (as well as French stereotypes), emerging to become one of the most notable heroes in Europe. She developed a vision of superheroines inspiring women around the world, and so formed SHE with that mission in mind. Though declared deceased, no body was recovered in the aftermath of the Harbinger incident, raising doubts about whether she is truly dead or not.

Marianne can induce or halt motion in physical objects. This allows her to fly, levitate and "throw" hundreds of tons of matter, fire objects as projectiles, generate powerful gusts of wind, crush or rip something apart like a giant was holding it, and deflect most attacks made against her (but only those with mass; she cannot block lasers or electrical attacks directly, though she can deflect plasma blasts, lightning, and pretty much any projectile attack to a point). She can also read minds and extract information from them, as well as mentally communicate, but is incapable of any other form of mental manipulation. Lastly, she can displace her senses across great distances and even dimensions, see normally invisible entities and phenomena, and has a limited form of precognition that allows her to see possible outcomes in the short-term, serving as a kind of "danger sense."

Panoply is the resident scrapper and close-combat expert, a master of virtually every weapon it seemed. She claimed to hail from a mystic society of dimension crossing hunters who defected due to her dislike of their lifestyle, and is a member of SHE partly as protection from them. Panoply has been useful in training the other members in the art of fighting, only Lunazon rivaling her in that respect. She appears to have no powers, except for access to a dimension called the Universal Armory, which allows her access to a broad array of weapons, both arcane and high-tech, mundane and exotic.

Starshine, an American heroine possessed by an alien intelligence that shares her body with her, much to her chagrin. She struggled constantly to live her own life while under the influence of the entity, heroism being one of the few things they could do well together. It was she who identified and named the Harbinger, as apparently the entity within her was very familiar with it, but she died before she could impart any more information, the Harbinger also killing the entity when it tried to flee her corpse.

The entity within Starshine allowed her to wield the power of the stars, generating vast amounts of light and plasma energy. She could fly, channel the energy into powerful blasts or blinding bursts of light, or solidify it into powerful forcefields of almost any shape, as well as the seemingly unrelated power to heal injuries in others and herself. The entity conferred enhanced senses upon Starshine, allowing her to acutely analyze phenomena.


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