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Player Information
Your Nickname: Edaigoa
OOC Journal: Edaigoa (DW and LJ)
Under 18? NO
Email/IM: Edaigoa@gmail.com
Characters Played at Singularity: Optimus Prime (Transformers: Prime) and Wistala (Age of Fire)

Character Information
Name: Koriand'r (Kori) aka Starfire in English
Name of Canon: Teen Titans (Animated Series)
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Canon
Reference:  Starfire's wiki page ; Tamaran's wiki page ; other Titan teams
Canon Point:  During the 10th episode of the 4th season, Mother Mae-Eye

Setting: Teen Titans is set in yet another DC universe, where super powered humans, part-humans, super aliens, and super technology harnessed for both good and evil is the norm. New superheroes, super villains, and potentially world-ending disasters spring up every other week.  Aliens exist and regularly visit earth; genetic mutations resulting in superpowers are everywhere; cybernetic implants can be used for military-grade crime fighting - and oh yeah, magic and mind control and demons exist, too.  Even Atlantis, with true, water-breathing Atlantians (like Aquaman and Aqualad,) are fact rather than fiction.  While the general population knows about the heroes and villains, many elements - such as the raging demons and underwater city-states - are generally kept safety under-wraps. (Until the Heroes Drop The Ball and world-ending plots erupt all over, but that is a different story!)

This universe in particular happens to be set apart from the normal universe somewhat indirectly, as the usual lineup of heroes - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, etc, are never directly mentioned, and the angst quotient is far, far reduced (but not completely absent.)  Also, it is full of crack and anime-style comedic fourth walling.  But it is still set in the same multiverse of the Justice League, where super heroes saving the day is par the course.  The focus is simply on the adventures of the Titans - the junior versions and sidekicks of their adult, more popular counterparts, and their own, often unique enemies.

Set largely in Jump City, somewhere on the west coast of the USA, the Titan's chosen protectorate is under virtually constant attack by said various super villains. Some are largely harmless, some humorous, and some want to destroy the world. However, the group of five teenage superheros, joined together by chance, each with their own issues, have formed a cohesive team effective enough to take out those powerful bad guys despite their own hilarious teen dramas.

While not the focus of the story, travel between planets is also possible as well, at least for superheros with expensive gadgets and aliens that can breathe in space. One of the most relevant planets besides earth is Tamaran, Starfire's home planet.  Home of the warrior race of Tamaraneans, the planet itself has recently come under attack by the Gordanians, lizard people who have razed the previously lush world into a barren waste. Starfire, second in line to the throne, was betrayed and sold into slavery by her own elder sister Komand'r, aka Blackfire, who aided the enemy during the conflict.  That very event allowed Starfire to end up with the Titans in the first place, as she managed to escape the transport taking them her to the Gordanian world when passing near Earth.  Her destructive arrival - angry, caught in handcuffs capable of holding her, and unable to speak the language - brought together four other unallied superheroes.   When they learned the truth about her, they banded together to defeat the pursuing Gordanians, learned they made an awesome team, and formed the Team Titans to protect the city and the planet at large. 

Thankfully, Earth is spared alien conflicts of any grand scale. Most of the threats to Earth come from within.  Super crime syndicates, power hungry manipulators, multiverse-jumping crack alternates, and demons destined to destroy the Earth are only some of the things the Titans face - and successfully defeat.

The H.I.V.E. Academy ("Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination") was one such criminal organization that proved to be a geniune threat.  Hosting a collection of super powered youths in a school-like setting, they trained them in villany and sold their skills to the highest bidder.  Another central villian, Slade, put the skills of a trio of H.I.V.E. students (Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth,) to the test, using them to try and destroy the Titans. Thankfully they never succeeded, but Slade (aka Deathstroke from the comics) later continued his assualt against the team on his own.

More than anyone else, Slade came closest to truly defeating the group. His (positively creepy) obsession with turning Robin into his apprentice - and Robin's own obsession with stopping him - nearly tore the group apart. He managed to successfully lure Terra, a girl with earth-controlling powers recently accepted into the group, into becoming his apprentice in Robin's place. (The relationship between Slade and Terra was also creepy.)  The two of them nearly killed the entire team once she gained their trust, and Slade successfully took over the city.  Even once he was defeated and supposedly killed, the effects of the betrayal lingered on.

Unfortunately for the Titans, Slade just wouldn't die, and continued to haunt them.  Saved from true death by the demon Trigon - Raven's actual father - Slade would aid the demon in attempting to raze the planet.  (His attack on Raven - massively creepy.  It is safe to say that Slade is a TOTAL CREEPER.)  The culminating battle against Trigon - which they will win - occurs right before Starfire actually arrives in game.

Despite all these varied threats, the Titans have backup. Throughout the series, other branches of Titans are formed, along with independent teen superheroes joining on to become Honorary Titans. As the main group is on the West coast, additional Titan groups are formed in the East, South, and North. Speedy, Aqualad, Mas y Menos, Bumblebee, and Wildebeest are but a few of the official members, and each team is allied but under it's own leadership. The more independent heroes such as Kid Flash (young!Wally West) and former villain Jinx are also in possession of communicators and can be called upon to aid the main titans when something big is going down.

Basically, a humble, haphazardly created team of super-teens successfully managed to form a large, intercontinental group of allied superheroes, most of which are all underage, ready to defend the planet from any threat.  Dubious moral and legal questions aside, that is rather awesome.

Personality: Starfire's personality is a diverse mixture of innocent, girlish enthusiasm, and the stubborn determination of a warrior. She is terribly naive about earth culture, (she eats mustard like a drink, and sleeps with her feet on the pillow and her head at the end of the bed,) but it is earth's culture and her friends who allow her more gentle nature to show through.

Born on Tamaran, a world of warriors for whom it is survival of the fittest, most of the more gentle emotions are considered weaknesses - at least in public. Koriand'r did not even have a word for 'nice' in Tamaranean, though given her interactions with Galfore, her massive 'nanny', she has clearly known kindness and affection, even if she did not have words for them. Once she came to Earth, her true personality was able to shine through.   She is naturally optimistic, placing her utmost faith in her friends once they have earned her trust. She is forever bubbly and good natured, even when the rest of her friends have lost all good humor.

She is, however, a teenager, and subject to a number of the normal teenage issues. She is terribly boy crazy, becoming easily flustered in the presence of attractive young men such as Aqualad, ogling them freely and striving to gain their attention. Starfire and Robin have ongoing romantic tension, and whenever another girl shows him attention she becomes horribly jealous and self-conscious at the idea that Robin might prefer the other girl to her. Her own elder sister Blackfire was able to bring this out in her, when she visited with Starfire's friends.  Despite her outgoing, friendly nature, Kori has a buried self-conscious side.  Her self worth and confidence can take a harsh blow very easily at a perceived slight.  She clings tightly to her friends, sometimes too affectionately for them to bear, but she appreciates them all the more because of her issues.   She does tend to overreact, treating any cultural flub like a great embarrassment, and sometimes lying (badly) to cover up any mistakes. This often ends in comedic, accidental destruction of property.

That said, she is very protective of her friends and team mates, and any threat to them is able to bring out her vicious temper. Tamaraneans are warriors, and Starfire is no less one despite her happy nature. Her rage only fuels her fighting prowess and lends her the strength to topple buildings. Thankfully, she is able to control herself when needed, and she does not go out of her way to cause destruction. She has a very strong sense of honor and duty. She is technically a princess of Tamaran, raised for the duty and full of pride for her people and culture. When tasked with marrying a giant green blob alien to save her people from invasion, she faces the terrible duty with stubborn bravery.

Overall, she is curious and loving, and wants nothing more than to protect her adopted world and the people in it that she cares for. She strives to form more personal bonds with her friends, going out of her way to seek them all out on an individual level. Training with Robin, meditating and doing 'girl things' with Raven, helping Cyborg with his robotics, and even laughing at Beast Boy's jokes when she doesn't understand them. She loves to cook for her friends, and attempts to throw various Tamarian parties for them to raise their spirits. As proven in an episode when she vanishes through a portal into the future, Starfire is the glue that holds the team together, helping to balance their various quirky, vastly different personalities. Without her, they fall apart.

Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions:
Starfire, and therefore Tamaraneans in turn, have such a list of powers it leads one to wonder just how they managed to be cowed by the Gordanian race, who invaded their world so easily. However, given that she is royalty of a warrior race, it is entirely possible that Starfire and her family are unusually strong for her species.

Starfire easily competes with Cyborg as the most powerful of the Titans despite her waifish figure, with vastly superhuman strength, capable of shaking whole buildings and tossing semi trucks. She has proven to be just as resilient as she is strong, taking hits that would kill a normal person easily. Her fighting skills are impressive, and even if she does not seem to use a specific trained style she is very quick and agile, aided by her impressive strength. Her entire physiology is different from that of a normal human, and she can somehow survive in the vacuum of space, presumably not requiring oxygen to survive.

She can fly with little effort - and really, really quickly, as she is able to journey between planets within a day or so without trouble. It is mentioned that she knows the 'secret to flying faster than light' at one point, but it is unknown if she can actually reach said speeds on her own. Her most striking ability is the use of 'starbolts', green energy she can shoot from her hands (and later, eyes) in the form of blasts, beams, and bolts.

Randomly, she can learn new languages by touch - usually kissing, as this seems to be her custom.

The most important aspect of Tamaranean powers, however, is the fact that their vast physical abilities are based entirely around their emotions and their minds. Given how wildly Starfire's abilities seem to vary in the series, the strength of said emotions is likely just as critical to the strength of their powers. She is able to withstand the cold of space, while later succumbing to the lesser cold of a normal earth winter. Her starbolts are powered by 'righteous fury' and seem to get larger and more explosive when she is truly enraged. Her strength is generated by 'boundless confidence', and her flight by joy.

This also creates her weaknesses. If she is feeling unsure of herself, she is weakened. She is seen walking rather than flying far more often when she is sad or disheartened, her powers fading along with the proper emotion. For as many times as her strength and abilities are massively superhuman, there are other times where her weaker allies are able to take down foes she herself could not overpower. Basically, less strength behind her emotions, the less strength behind her attacks.

...She is also allergic to metallic chromium, causing her to sneeze explosive sneezes.

Obviously, she is going to need some limits. Her strength should be limited to tossing around vehicles, not causing minor earthquakes on her own. And her ability to apparently 'breathe' in space should be harshly limited, if present at all. With mod permission, perhaps she can only go short periods outside the station, growing faint of breath when venturing outside for more than a few minutes at a time?  Or this can be taken away entirely, if plot forbids. Up to you, mods!

Inventory: Nothing but the clothes on her back (top, skirt, boots, bracers and arm cuffs,) and her Teen Titans communicator.

Appearance: Starfire has the typical looks of a young Tamaranean native, which is very human like other than a few key differences. Her orange-gold skin is somewhat comparable to a rather badly done spray-tan. Her eyes, both iris and sclere, are completely green, and her hair is a brilliant red and extends down her back, with abnormally small, round, matching eyebrows. She is very thin, with no apparently muscle to speak of, while still being the second tallest of the team at approximately 5'10" or so. ...She also possesses a several foot long tongue and nine stomachs. Not that you can tell most of the time. The girl can pack food away like a beast! Age: Unknown; Tamaranean equivalent of 16 or so.

OC/AU Justification If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across? N/A
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test? N/A
And What Did You Score?
N/A

Samples Log Sample: One moment, she was up in the air, shooting startbolts and dodging rubble as the building next to her exploded.

The next, she was upside down, air, light, sounds, everything different; and she was falling, battered by broken concrete suddenly turning midair as the ground was opposite from where it was before.

Crashing down with a startled squeak and covering her head until boulders stopped landing all around, Starfire cautiously peeked up with a gasp. Jump City was gone. The fight, her friends, the enemy - all gone, a giant mess of twisted scrap in their place. She gasped. Had the city been destroyed?

"...Hello? Robin? Beast Boy-?" They had been fighting nearest to her, and were most likely to have been caught up in...whatever she had been hit by.

Carefully, she hovered up, trying to catch sight of a familiar landmark and threading the potential sight of crushed friends... only to thump back down with a startled eep. There was no sky! A dome arched high above, the entire surroundings filled with... trash?

"Ooh, where have I gone now?" This was not the home, and she didn't remember seeing a portal of any kind at all!

She was honestly beginning to tire of portals. They never did anything good.

Pulling out her Titan's communicator, only the sound of static hissing greeted her attempts to contact the others. Distress welling up, she was forced to walk over most of the random bits of rubble and twisted metal, searching for an exit or sign of life. Hovering slowly and occasionally jumping when more random space junk fell through the sky, she only perked up at last when she finally heard her first voice since arriving.

"Welcome to Sacrosanct. Please watch your step."

Network Sample: [The video turns on with a minimum of fumbling; the view of a rather dusty, green eyed teenage girl is upside down at first, before the wearable is simply slipped onto the other wrist so the camera faces her properly. What looks like a yellow and black walkie talkie is gripped in the other hand, activated at the same time.]

Hello? Friends? Is anyone here? ...Robin? Raven? Cyborg? Beast Boy? Please, if you are here, answer me. Did any of you fall through the portal as well?

[She sighs, drooping miserably.]

...If I am in the future again, I will be most displeased.
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