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The owner of the infamous Emerson City nightclub and criminal hangout, Darkness, Neon is not just a pretty face (even if said face is colour inverted). Able to absorb and manipulate light and then convert it into other forms of energy at will (most commonly sound and heat, but also kinetic energy if she so wishes, giving her short bursts of superhuman speed), she can be a formidable adversary depending on how much light she has at her disposal. Unfortunately for her, she cannot turn off her ability to absorb light and if she absorbs too much without releasing the energy she can suffer ill-effects, so she prefers to stay out of direct light as much as possible. Her nightclub is used as a front for all sorts of criminal activities, from drug dealing to hiring contract killers, Neon knows everyone who does anything bad in her city, and she can hook you up... for a price.

When Starborn (at the time known as Starchild) was enlisted into an army of galactic heroes attempting to defend another planet from Magnetar, he fought the tyrant to a standstill but Magnetar is a cruel and petty being and refused to accept defeat. He unleashed a device deep into the planets core, triggering a a countdown to the planets fiery death.

Starchild's allies managed to evacuate much of the populace but Starchild himself became trapped as he held off Magnetar, preventing him from destroying the fleeing spacecraft.

As his allies fled the dying planet into space, they could only look back in horror as the world exploded.

Starchild died instantly.

...Or so everyone thought.

The universe itself had other plans.

The explosion shattered the ancient gems which gave Starchild his abilities and as the power of the cosmos was set free it enveloped the matter that had once been Akihiro Shigenoi and reformed it, infusing itself into the very atoms of the young human.

That day Aki became Starborn. The chosen warrior of the universe itself. An envoy of eternity, built from the very matter of the cosmos itself but with the human heart and mind that made him a hero in the first place.

Since then, Starborn has continued to aid the entire galaxy against all manner of cosmic threats and has become an interstellar legend of whom stories are told on many worlds.

Aki remains the friendly and likeable young man he has always been but he now has almost unfathomable power at his control and he often has to rain himself in for fear of accidentally destroying entire planets.

He has put his powers to good use though and has been instrumental in protecting several worlds from forces that would utterly destroy them. Most recently he has made a powerful enemy in Gamma Ray. When the insane rogue preserver returned to Earth with plans to destroy Comet and his adopted home, Comet recruited Starborn in a desperate attempt to rid the world of Gamma Ray. Starborn managed to teleport Gamma Ray to a far off corner of the galaxy and trapped him (at least temporarily) on a planet full of raging monsters. As Starborn and Comet escaped, Gamma Ray bellowed that he would find his way back to Earth and make them both pay.

Both Comet and Starborn know that if anyone can escape that world it will be Gamma Ray so they both prepare in their own way. Comet protects Earth should he ever return while Starborn travels the galaxy, keeping a close eye out for any sign of Gamma Ray while also remembering that he isn't the only threat looking to destroy him.

Magnetar is still lurking somewhere, waiting for an opportunity for revenge.

Thanks to Ams for this pose but here is my latest creation Rush in a different pose. Love how this has turned out.

There are a lot of insect people in the world now. Some of them transformed into winged but still ostensibly human beings. Orlin Zehr was not so lucky. He transformed entirely into an insectoid creature.

Some of them gained the power to shrink. While Orlin definitely shrunk to tiny size. He didn't seem able to return to human size.

Both of these things made Orlin absolutely furious and so he used the one thing he had up on everyone to take the revenge he thought he was owed for his misfortune. For such a tiny being, Orlin is immensely strong. Stronger than any normal sized man. The tiny bug became a megalomaniac with the biggest case of Napoleon complex anyone has ever seen. He used his strength to bully and intimidate everyone he encountered, including a number of masked heroes, on his path to his grand goal of world domination.

When the media caught wind of this diminutive despot they dubbed him Dust-Mite. This mocking moniker only enraged Orlin even more but he wouldn't let them get the better of him. He decreed that instead of Dust-Mite, he would be known as Dust-Might!

The fact that these two words sounded exactly the same when spoken aloud seems entirely lost on Orlin and whenever anyone misspells his name he goes into a blinding rage.

Orlin's plans for global domination haven'y quite succeeded yet but it's surely only a matter of time before the world trembles before the mighty Dust-Might!