#Xudarian

[radioactive-earthshine]

Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #1

Speedster Xudarian in trans colors and a bitching belly jacket. I am LOVING this team so far.

[angstandhappiness]

Amazing!

Ah… good ol'e fish-bird peoples. I personally can’t imagine that all Xudarians look like Tomar-re, so I kinda played with beak sizes and shapes/skin color/eye color. I tried keeping the skin/fin colors within a certain color range, browns, oranges, reds, whites, which basically means that I pretty much made bird-like koi fish peoples… XD

^^ I am hoping to do more incidental sheets like this, but with different species. I’m thinking of doing some Astonian (Saint Walker) or the Reach incidental sheets next. Maybe even Korugans! ^^

XD Xudarians always look so serious/grumpy…

[who-is-muses]

What languages do the muses speak?

Abe Sapien: fluent in English, Latin, Spanish, and several Ancient Greek dialects. Fully understands American Sign Language, but has difficulty signing due to his webbed fingers. Conversational in Urdu, Sanskrit, Akkadian, Modern Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, Old Norse, and Faespeak. Knows a few words in Infernal.

Antonio da Vinci: fluent in English, Tuscan Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Conversational in Ancient Greek, Modern Italian, Portuguese, German, Old English, and Faespeak. Knows a handful of words in modern Russian, modern French, Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian), Old Arabic, Old Norse, and Kaalanic (Atlantean).

The Artist: fluent in Castellano (Chilean Spanish.) Roughly conversational in English.

Bleez: fluent only in Havanian. Conversational in English.

The Blight: fluent in English. Conversational in Scottish Gaelic and Mandarin. Can read and write in Hebrew, Latin, and Old Arabic.

Bookworm: fluent in English, American Sign Language, German, Hebrew, Spanish, Latin, and French. Conversational in Japanese, Arabic, and Italian.

Candyman: fluent in English and French. Conversational in Haitian Creole, but out of practice.

Catwoman: fluent in English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese. Conversational in Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

Claudette Morel: fluent in English. Conversational in French. Remembers a lot of Latin vocabulary words, but that’s really it.

The Doctor: fluent in English. Conversational in German. Knows a little Mandarin.

The Dredge: the people that were amassed into its physical form spoke a mix of English, Dutch, German, Spanish, and French. Druanee itself can adapt to any languages spoken via the Entity’s influence.

Goswin: fluent in Faespeak, Irish Gaelic, and English. Conversational in French, Scottish Gaelic, and German.

Guy Gardner: fluent in English, American Sign Language, and English Braille. Knows random bits and pieces in Norwegian.

Habeas Corpus: fluent in their birth-tongue. Conversational in English and Latin, though they cannot form the sounds well enough to physically speak it.

The Ichor: fluent in both Modern and Ancient Greek. Conversational in English and Latin.

March Harriet: fluent in English. Can read and write some German, but struggles in speaking it.

Martian Manhunter: fluent in Martian, English, American Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, and French. Able to piece together meanings of other languages via telepathy.

Martian Marauder: fluent in Martian. Conversational in English.

Rorschach: fluent in English. Remembers a handful of Latin words and phrases.

Saint Walker: speaks only Astonian, his birth tongue. Knows VERY limited English- as in limited to names, random nouns and verbs, and a couple slang terms and curses picked up from the human Lanterns.

Salaak: fluent in Slyggian, New Bolovoxian, Xudarian, Korugaran, Graxosian, Varvan, H’lvenite, Old Kryptonian, Grendan, English, Spanish, Latin, Mandarin, various Sector Standards, etc. Conversational in Old Bolovoxian, Thanagarian (Lizarkon and Wing dialects), Martian, Rannian, Jaydian, Karaxite, Garnetian, French, German, etc. Has maybe the best understanding of Astonian in the universe besides a native speaker due to leading the translation and documentation efforts of the language in the Green Lantern database, but even then is still only at a conversational level.

Scarecrow: fluent in English and English Braille. Knows bits and pieces of American Sign Language, German, Hebrew, French, and Spanish.

Sinestro: fluent in Korugaran, a few different Old Korugaran dialects, Ungaran, English, and five Sector Standards (1417, 1418, 2814, 2813, 3500.) Conversational in French, Jaydian, Thanagarian (Wing dialect), Talokite, Slyggian, Vornian, and Grendan.

The Spirit: fluent in Japanese and English.

Thoth: fluent in every Earth and Earthen deity language that has ever existed. Not in just a hand-wavey magic way.

Two-Face: fluent in English. Can read and write Latin. Knows a few words in Haitian Creole and Spanish.

The Wraith: fluent in Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin. Conversational in English.

[rizegreymon22arts]

Ben as a Xudarian from DC comics

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[meatyhandbag]

Rebirth new Krypton

so i just finished the new krypton saga from 2008-2010 and it’s left me with ideas on how to do a new krypton in the modern age.

clearly i can’t just do the bottle city of kandor again, even though that was brilliant, because we don’t just repeat other people’s stories in this house, we mutilate them until we can have a legally distinct counterpart, so here’s my thinking.

So Krypton was a space empire that primarily competed with neighboring systems like Xudar, the home of Tomar-Re. And when Krypton blew up, the radiation could only spread so far, and the outer-colonies did manage to survive. BUT, they were now left unprotected from the Xudarian people who wanted to take this land.

Some like Romat-Ru wanted to genocide the whole race, but stable minds prevailed and the surviving Kryptonians were all absorbed into Xudar, most living on the Kryptonian outer colony of Mirao (original name easily could change, but my thinking is it’s kryptonian for “out of Rao’s gaze” or “Blind Rao”. I.,e. the land was so far away the people could barely see Rao’s star in the night sky)

due to time-dilation, there were many generations of the Mirao-Kryptonians, which were not just made of “true” Kryptonians, but other ethnicities such as Xannians and Vathlovians, which also lived on Krypton but were overshadowed by them.

[ultra-kek]

Here’s a Green Lantern (uniform) redesign sketch, plus some miscellaneous doodles of Tomar-Re and Arkillo. I dislike the excess number of heroes with spandex suits of the DC comics and the weird muscle-textured or over-greebled suits of the many “realistic” adaptions, and instead wanted to keep to a simple slick design that can fit a space-faring organization while still looking like actual clothing.

I imagine the suit, as a construct of the ring, as having a texture like synthetic fabrics, still conforming to the body but not nearly to the degree as it does in the comics. The shoulder and chest pieces, alongside the gauntlets, are also a moderately flexible artificial material. I wanted to add pockets for basic utility (while the rings can do anything, I can imagine many scenarios in which it would be much easier to have real pockets than have to levitate your stuff around. The belts though I do admittedly have no idea what possible function they could serve, besides maybe to have stuff clipped onto them for support. I’m still considering them too, since I want to make this suit be able to fit multiple alien species but these two belts don’t go very well with larger bodies. I like both the old and modern designs of the Xudarians, but I’m kind of more enamored with the cartoony look of the first designs. Early Tomar-Tu looks more like a cheep-cheep than a bird-fish man, and I love it. I have little to say about Arkillo, other than the comics seem to inconsistently portray him as either an ape-faced alien or as something that looks indistinguishable from bara furry art, although I guess I shouldn’t be one to talk.

[trishyeves]

This is the first time Trish has had art of NPC's from her game!

These two lovely ladies are the girlfriends of the girl in the middle, Ramini Kuraji AKA Goldstar, a cowardly Tamaranean living on Earth, using her stolen Sinestro Corps ring to remove her fears and become a hero!

On the left is Jennifer Nwadiwe, a med student and nurse at the university's clinic. After a chance encounter with Ramini, followed for a few times helping her team with minor medical assistance, she finally started dating the incredibly shy cutie, and they've been adorable ever since. While she thinks Ramini's hero work as Goldstar is impressive, she also prefers her as her usual self rather than her bombastic hero alter ego, and hopes that one day Ramini can see for herself that she's a wonderful person, hero or not.

On the right is Tomar-ri, a Xudarian Literature student who up until recently was the leader of an extracurricular club for extraterrestrial students at the university. Introduced with a confidence that often brushed into abrasiveness (if not outright bullying), her rough start with Ramini was mitigated by her admiration of Goldstar, which only grew stronger after Goldstar saved her life during a villain attack at school. They started dating soon after, all while Tomar-ri was unaware her superhero girlfriend was also the timid girl she'd made cry on more than one occasion at school.

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Artwork depicting three people. In the center is Ramini Kuragi, also known as the hero Goldstar. There is a ragged divide in the center of the image, so that to the left she is Ramini in a human disguise, wearing a purple sweater-dress and tights, her long dark hair something she can nervously hide behind, while to the right she is Goldstar, wearing a large belt and a black top with a star-shaped boob window and with her hair now a radiant gold.

To the left, on the Ramini side, is Jennifer Nwadiwe, a human woman standing about as tall as Ramini herself. She has a muscular build, and is wearing medical scrubs with a black and red flannel shirt tied around her waist. Her black hair is in locks, which are pulled back with a red scrunchie.

To the right, on the Goldstar side, is Tomar-ri, a Xudarian woman who is about a head shorter than the others depicted. She has orange scales and a webbed fin on her head instead of hair, as well as a beak instead of a more human-like mouth. She's wearing a grunge t-shirt with a green suit jacket over it, paired with elegant pants and high heels.

Both love interests are looking friendly and confident, while Ramini appears blushy and nervous in both civilian and hero forms.

[END ID]

Commission done for @trishyeves for their superhero ttrpg! ☺️

[primepanels]

Trilla-Tru Is a Bird

Maybe you've heard of Green Lantern Tomar-Re, the Xudarian Green Lantern who kind of looks like a cross between a human, a bird, an elf, and a swordfish. He debuted in the 60's, I think, and eventually he died and had his ring passed down to his son, Tomar-Tu, who looks just like him.

Well, when Grant Morrison, the writer of The Green Lantern (the only ongoing Green Lantern comic on the shelves), must want it to be explicitly clear that Xudarians look like birds, because he created Trilla-Tru, a busty Xudarian Green Lantern who likes to make bird puns and say bird-like things.

I don't have anything deep or cool to say about this. I just think it's weird, and not in a normal Grant Morrison-y way. I don't know if he thinks Trilla acting this way is funny or if he's hanging a lampshade on how ridiculous he thinks Xudarians look. But he also created a Green Lantern whose head is a volcano, so it's hard to read this guy (in more ways than one).

Two of these images are definitely from The Green Lantern vol. 1: Intergalactic Lawman. The other two are either from that one of the following two volumes in Morrison's series.

[bi4bihankking]

Tomar Re 🥺

For this meme

It could be said that Hal had something of a thing for aliens; there wasn't a single member of the Corps who he hadn't had sex with (unfortunately, in some cases). He did, however, come back to old favorites. 

Tomar Re was his first alien, even before Sinestro, because Tomar had been nice to him and Sinestro had just been... prickly, and Tomar had been a scientist, to boot, so it had been easy for Hal to convince him to try intercourse with another species. You know... for science. 

He kept going back. Kissing along Tomar's beak while they were alone together, that one body part making more human forms of intimacy difficult, although it wasn't like Hal could exactly perform more Xudarian acts of intimacy, so things did even out in the end. 

It felt weird, after Tomar died, not doing the old rituals they'd worked out together and the feeling that he would never be able to do them with anyone again. They had become such a large part of his life, something that he did almost every single night, and then, suddenly, they were gone. 

Then Tomar Tu showed up, and Hal admitted... he might have thought about sleeping with him just to fill the void. He had slept with him once, but that just made everything worse. 

That was the first moment Hal realized what he had lost, what he would never get back again. Worst of all, he was left feeling filthy, like he'd betrayed something so special by having sex with Tomar Tu. 

He would end up betraying much more soon enough. 

[shinobirain24]

Green Lantern (Year 2036)

Real name: Martin Jordan II

Eye color: Grass green

Hair color: Brown

Family: Hal Jordan (father), Carol Ferris (mother), Martin Jordan I (Paternal grandfather, deceased), Willard Ferris (maternal grandfather)

Occupation: Green Lantern Trainee, Pilot of the Titans, Superhero, Member of the Titans

Affiliation: Green Lantern Corps, Titans

Species: Human

Biography:

Martin Jordan II was the grandson of the late pilot, Martin Jordan I. Born to Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris. Currently 15, he was among the many teenagers captured by the Light and turned over to the Citadel to be forcefully experimented on to become a metahuman. Only to be saved when Lian Harper broke out of the control of the Female Furies, and saved him along with the other captives to escape.

After Lian teleported back to Earth when a few captives were killed, Martin was one of the few survivors stuck in the Citadel. While fending off against the Gordarian army, he was once again aided, but this time it was a Tamaranean Green Lantern, Lumian'dr (Moonfire in translation).

Lumian'dr was injured from her previous fight against Parademons that were mutated. And she told Martin and the other teens to run. But Martin stubbornly saved Lumian'dr from a pack of Gordarians before they can reach her and carried her to safety, disregarding his own.

While Martin tried to help the Tamaranean that saved him, Lumian'dr was beyond saved, but she felt a strong sense of will in Martin as the ring also does. Lumian'dr chose Martin as her successor, seeing the resemblance between him and his father, who is her predecessor, the late Hal Jordan. Realizing that the person she selected was her predecessor's son. Lumian'dr died after giving Martin the ring.

And with that, Martin became a Green Lantern. Later on, he was befriended by Superboy II, and later, Nightstar, the adoptive sister and protege of Moonfire. Together, the three escaped with the remaining captives.

After he, Superboy and Nightstar become members of the Titans. Martin had some trouble creating constructs with the ring. Nightstar offers to train with Martin, as she had warrior training before Lumian'dr died. The two became fast friends. He also befriended a Xudarian Green Lantern, Tomar Tu, after he also became a member of the Titans, following Kilowog's suspicion on the Daxamite that entered the Science Prison.

Aqualad II, the leader of the Titans appointed Martin as the Ace Pilot of the Storm Shark, a ship the Titans used for transportation. After seeing his piloting skills.

Martin did not have much memory of his parents, but had a photograph of them to know who they are and what they looked like. And did not know of his father's history with the Green Lantern Corps and the Justice League. But that would lead him to be targeted in the future.

Personality:

Having survived the invasion of Apokolips, Martin learned skills of being a a survivalist. And pretty much handles things on his own. Due to his lack of involvement from relatives after his parents disappeared, Martin was used to being alone.

But his skills of survival are proven to be useful, such a setting up a campfire, hotwiring the car when it is needed to go to one place to another.

His social interaction with the fellow new gen heroes, prior to becoming a Green Lantern, he was mostly silent since he was still used to be alone surviving the apocalypse. And seemed to be interested in physical activities like boxing, lifting weights.

However, his will and heart is in the right place, despite being stubborn at times. Sometimes he would have to abandon orders to save his comrades. Having to meet Nightstar, he grew close to her and would confide in her at times. Treating her with respect.

When interacting with younger teammates, such as Jon Kent or Damian Wayne, he would refer to any of them as "kid." Despite being young himself.

Though he had not know Lumian'dr well, she inspired him to continue the fight against Apokolips. And Martin decided that he will honor her without vain. As wielding the ring his father, Hal once wield.

However, Martin wasn't sure if he has the right to wield the ring. His own conflict was his own self-identity. Having to endure the pressures of the fight in the war. Even if Martin was upset that his father never told him before his fate was sealed. Martin knew he had to accept his destiny as a Green Lantern. Hearing his father's message through the ring, Martin grew to respect his father's bravery and will, after learning he was Lumian'dr's predecessor.

[radioactive-earthshine]

top 5... fictional monsters/creatures/species?

1.) Orcs

2.) Dwarves

3.) Turians

4.) Yautja

5.) Xudarians

bonus

Whatever the Thing is from The Thing

[once-was-muses]

[ This thread with Sal reminds me I really need to dig up the art project I was doing of Slyggian, Astonian, and Xudarian clothing. ]

[planetaryalphabet]

Xudar, located in Sector 2813, is home to an advanced race dedicated to the arts and sciences. The have taken a benevolent interest in the universe and they have one of the most peaceful histories in the cosmos. It's people, Xudarians appear to have physical characteristics similar to both birds and fish from Earth. But their DNA is similar to that of the ichthyologic species.

Source: Green Lantern #6 (1961)

[docgold13]

Yeah Tomar-Re sadly died shortly after Crisis on Infinite Earths his ring going to John Stewart so that he could stay in the corps. His son Tomar-Ti took over for him to try & live up to his status & had a....turbulence tenure before HIS death during the end of Venditti's run.

Wait, Tomar is the Xudarian, right?  The bird faced aliens...  I thought for some reason he was still alive and active in the corps.  I guess I was mistaking him for his son.  

Also, now that the Legion book has sort of retconned Daxim out of continuity, does that mean that the Daxim Green Lantern Sodam Yat (sic?) no longer exists??

[poison-shark]

Violet Knight

Fandom: Young Justice/ DC

Characters: Star Sapphire 2814 (Noa Ramires) OC, Star Sapphire 2813 (En’Cennaria Al’Verk) OC

*If you want to see more Noa content or more/different OCs I tag anything with Noa in it with #noa ramires*

**I obviously don’t own DC or Star Sapphire**

Hazel eyes gazed at the sky, for the first time without curiosity. She was aware of what was up there now, and it was war. Each light a star or planet in some sort of peril or dismay. They no longer sparked her heart as they once did. She wasn’t sure anything ever would. As far as she was concerned the vast expanse of darkness above her was no longer inspiring nor was it beautiful. Now it was cold and unforgiving. Noa Ramires had lost almost half of her family. She was an orphan and no longer fit the label ‘twin’. She blamed the sky.

The young girl stood alone in the graveyard, her uncles left with her brother and sister, along with her Obachan, hours ago. Still she sat in front of the headstone with heavy heart re-reading the names etched into the rock. She had to beg them to let her stay. It was not her first time in the Coastville Cemetery, however. She and Ren had hopped the fence many a time to explore and say hello to people long forgotten, without families to visit them, but now Ren was gone. She was alone with her wet, white tights covered in dirt, and her black dress did practically nothing to shelter her from the chilly night breeze threatening to blow her small frame down. The wind howled and the sound of the ocean nearby comforted her.

A few minutes passed and Noa decided she couldn’t bare to read the names anymore. As if on instinct, she ventured past the rows of tombstones and mausoleums, snow crunching as she stepped, and into the shrubbery. The seven year old came out the other side to face the ocean with twenty five feet of cliff face holding her up. Noa had no foolish plans of jumping. She had a baby sister to look after and protect, and a big brother to hold up, and so many people that would miss her. No, that was not her intention. She and Ren would sneak out here often to have picnics and make comics, using rocks to hold down papers. She glanced forlornly at the Pacific beneath her feet, waves crashing against limestone as the wind picked up. Her brother used to dive off and swim to the bottom. He always brought her gifts like seashells or ‘buried treasure’ from the underwater caves. Soon she would have to move in with Obachan and that meant saying her goodbyes to Coastville. Those goodbyes included this cliff face and the memories it held. Turning her head to the stars once more, she noticed something in the inky abyss shining particularly bright and getting bigger by the second. Forgetting where she was, Noa moved her left foot slightly forward before quickly realizing and attempting to step back, but her weak center of gravity combined with her small stature and a rather large gust of wind meant the cosmos had other plans. Noa spilled forward and over the edge.

Whilst falling she tried to reach out and grab a branch or latch onto some stone, but instead only some cuts, scrapes, and bruises. She attempted to right herself as to not land on her head, which actually kind of worked. Her flailing feet hit the water first with a freezing splash. The fall knocked most of the wind out of her, but not enough to stop her from swimming to the surface. Noa Ramires was not a weak swimmer in the slightest. In fact, she could almost keep up with her brothers and father, and they were Atlantean. The seven year old, however, was nowhere near strong enough to fight the ice cold waves pushing her further and further away from the rocky surface. Her head shifted to the sky as she screamed for help, lungs filling at a slow steady pace. The shiny light had gotten bigger and brighter now and Noa could determine that it was a specific purplish color. That was when she realized that it was getting closer and headed straight for her. Her hazel eyes widened and she flipped her black locks out of them in an attempt to prove her vision wrong. It was not. Noa made a mad splash for the cliff, battling the current, but could feel the warmth of the purple light gaining speed as it hurtled to Earth. The freezing temperature of the water contrasted incredibly with the searing heat from the purple meteor.

The supposed meteor slammed into the water with astonishing force, creating a wave that sent Noa tumbling under the depths and into the cliff side, hitting her head. Her drowning body sinking slowly.

The meteor, in reality, was not technically a meteor at all, but a woman encased in bubble of violet light. Her name was En’Cennaria Al’Verk, Star Sapphire of her home planet Ignia in Space Sector 2813. Ignia in actuality was not a planet, but the Ancient Ignites did not know that. Ignia’s proper classification would be a star, a red supergiant to be precise. Well, it was a red giant. Ignites as a people were not typically all that intelligent, but do operate on a code of honor. They are a warrior-like species with great passion and drive and a deep respect for other people’s. Like all Ignites, En’Cennaria was encased in a yellow fire that started in her heart and spread to her eyes and other appendages. The pathways the fire took to get to those places reveal themselves as scars of blue flame. As Ignites get older their fires change color like the life cycle of a star. If an Ignite’s flame goes out they will die

En’Cennaria was coming home from a mission nearly fatally injured and in need of her home’s energy to fully heal. She hadn’t even entered the atmosphere when Ignia imploded, blowing its outermost layer to pieces and sending En’Cennaria to Earth in the next sector. Most of the population of Ignia was evacuated and the blue lanterns eventually returned Ignia to its former glory, but En’Cennaria would never see it.

Now on this strange planet, En’Cennaria was dying, unable to heal, and, in her mind, the sole survivor of her native star. The only thing keeping her from instant death was the protective casing of violet light she made with her ring. Her eyes blasted open revealing bright blue fire. By gazing at the life form just ahead of her she supposed she was on Earth. She had come to Earth a couple of times and had seen humans amusing themselves in the substance they called water, but this human did not look amused. She had heard that some Earthlings could breathe underwater and figured this being was of their kind. En’Cennaria scanned the human for an analysis. A small screen-like energy construct of violet light appeared before her and displayed the humans vital signs.

“I have no idea what that means.” she informed the ring in a raspy voice.

The ring responded on screen with ‘It is a human female child. She is dying. She has an immeasurable amount of love in her heart and has lost many she loved very recently. She will die. Nearly nothing in the universe can prevent that now.’ En’Cennaria glanced down at the injuries she sustained, the gaping holes in her chest and abdomen were nowhere near healing any time soon and any Star Sapphires that heard her distress signal would not be able to aid her or the human girl in time. En’Cennaria was going to die, no matter what, just like that child. Nothing could heal something so severe, unless…

If she was to die, the Ignite did not want it to be in vain. “Is she eligible?”

‘You will die.’

“That is not what I asked.”

‘If you give this child your power ring you will die, En’Cennaria Al’Verk.’

“Would the initiation process save her?”

The ring waited before providing an answer, ‘Yes. Yes, she is extremely eligible. Yes, it would save her.’

Before she was to initiate her plan she had to know, “What happened to Silne-Zo?” Silne-Zo had been her partner in protecting their sector. She was from the planet Xudar not too far away from Ignia. Ignia was not Xudar’s sun which was fortunate for the Xudarians. En’Cennaria and Silne-Zo had become involved a few Earth years prior. She was flying her to the edge of Ignia’s atmosphere when it imploded. She could have been injured or worse in a nearby galaxy.

‘She is close. She is on the planet Mars. Her ring is searching for a new host.’

The news of her love’s fate cracked her heart and solidified her decision, “Then I suppose this is farewell. Please, save her.”

En’Cennaria Al’Verk removed her violet power ring before it could respond. As she did so her gaze fixed on the little girl, whose eyes had opened slightly as if to catch a last glimpse of life. She grinned at the child as the bubble of light collapsed and her flame suffocated. Her black, charred remains dissolved quickly into space dust and soon there was almost no evidence of En’Cennaria Al’Verk’s very existence.

Almost no evidence. Noa Ramires lay quiet and still under the waves and a bright beautiful light came ever closer. It was much smaller than it had been a few seconds ago and she was sure she was about to join her parents and become a twin again. In her eager weakness she reached her hand out toward the light accepting what was to come. It wrapped around her finger like a ring and soon she was fast in a deep sleep. For a moment she even saw them.

Her eyes shot open to reveal an endless expanse of blue. Was she still in the water? No, she couldn’t be. She was dry, and warm, and breathing. There was no plausible way for her to still be underwater, but she was. A thin lining of air surrounded her in violet light. She glanced down at her hands to check if this phenomena was actually happening to her and to her horror found a very familiar ring on her left middle finger and that she was no longer in her own clothes. She was wearing a violet dress with a white star on her chest, white tights, and matching purple boots. She exhaled deeply, trying very hard not to freak out. She attempted to run her fingers through her hair to soothe herself, but there was a tiara in the way that had not been there before.

‘Noa Estela Ramires of Space Sector 2814,’ a voice rang throughout her head that did not belong to her. It was mildly robotic while still being calm and melodic, like a mother’s. ‘You have great love in your heart. Welcome to the Star Sapphire Corps. Follow your heart.’

“Are-” her ability to speak gave her a slight start, “Are you going to fill me with rage or hope and get me killed?”

‘You have great love in your heart, Noa Ramires. That is up to you. Will you return to Zamaron to be properly introduced?’

“Do I have to go now? My family will be worried. What time is it?”

‘You do not have to go at this time. It is 8:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time. You have not slept recently. You would not have enough energy to reach Zamaron. You must go home and rest, Noa Ramires. We will venture to Zamaron tomorrow.’

Noa flew carefully up the cliff face. When she stepped onto the edge she stepped much further away from the drop. She asked the ring if she could change back into her old clothes and suddenly she was back in them, but the ring kept them warm and dry. She walked home,which was only a street away, where she received a lecture from her uncles before collapsing into bed. She could figure out what to do in the morning.

@gegeru @insideoflit

[ultrakeencollectionbreadfan]

Thoughts on the new Legion

I have to say, I'm really liking how the new version of the Legion of Super Heroes is turning out. It's a whole lot more diverse than anything we've seen before. I especially like the minor edits Ryan Sook made; originally Lightning Lad was going to be white, but now he's black. (And yes, for all you racists and haters out there, there are black people with red hair!)

However, so far, I haven't seen too many nonhumanoids. I really wish they'd gone the "snake" route with Princess Projectra. Perhaps some future writer will fix this by making her current form just an illusion, or in a more extreme case, Projectra and Sensor Girl could become two different people. Also, I would really have liked a Legionnaire with a Green Lantern connection, like, say, a Xudarian or a Bolovaxian.