Power Boy

Name: Avery Alias: Power Boy

Age: Same age as Supergirl/Batgirl

Gender: Male

Birth Place: Apokolips

Height: 6'2

Hair color: Black with yellow right, front bangs

Specialty: Empathy

• Power Boy's abilities are shaped by his feelings, these feelings emit in aura and energy that are expressed in different ways depending on his mood.
  • When his emotions are calm and understood, they're stable, capable of being controleld freely
  • When his emotions are uncontrolled they emit like lightning and emit like lightning and are just as uncontrolled
  • When sad, the aura that coats him is blue, messy, and jagged. The energy he emits is crystal-like and hard to change the form of
  • When angry, his aura is a wild black and red aura and his energy is uncontrollable and comes off like lightning
  • When he doesn't understand how he's feeling, the aura emits off of him passively without him even needing to activate his ability.
• Power Boy is also capable of feeling the emotions of those he touches, when he feels the same these emotions are typically expressed as energy

Equipment: N/A

Eye color: Blue

Personality: Empty, flat, guilty, unstable

• Unstable: When in a fight, it's hard for Power Boy to hold back. It puts him at war with himself, e doesn't want to get angry ever again, but due to his lack of self awareness, he ends up venting his anger through fighting as he protects others

Speech (vocabulary when they speak; educated, precise, pretentious, average, childish, uneducated, vulgar, casual, etc.): Casual, educated

Tone of voice (shrill, high, average, soft, deep, squeaky, hoarse, harsh, authoritative, cultured, etc.): Soft

Prominent Facial Features (beauty marks, moles, etc.)

Skin characteristics (Scars/burns/skin damage/birthmarks/tattoos): Burn scar on his left hand from Supergirl's heat vision.

Nicknames: Power (Cassandra, before he gets a name), Ry (Stephanie)

Formative experiences: Coming into contact with Supergirl for the first time, Supergirl breaking up with him after he hit her.

Likes: Neapolitan ice cream,

Dislikes: Getting angry, vanilla ice cream, being alone

Character attributes: willful, sees the good in everything, heroic

• Additional Info: Power Boy's character was heavily influenced by his time with Supergirl. During his time playing hero, he found himself truly enjoying it. He loved not just making Supergirl happy, but protecting people. Power Boy can be seen having three sides: The hero, himself, and His Worst.

  • The Hero is Supergirl's influence on him, what has built his character. This side of him comes out unconsciously to do what needs to be done, it's the side of him that came out when he saved Batgirl.

    • "It is not your duty to finish the work but neither are you at liberty to neglect it" A side effect of being alive in a changing, imperfect, world is that you have to do your part to try to make it better, but it's not your duty to finish it.

  • His Worst is antithesis to The Hero, the side of him associates with hurting Supergirl, it wants to release his anger, to project the feelings he cannot understand onto the world that never gave him a chance. The Hero is never His Worst.

  • Himself is who he is now, it is the hollow person that lives in guilt, tugged by these two sides of himself.

  • The Hero is what keeps him alive, it's what holds him and His Worst accountable, it can be seen as a ghost of Supergirl following him. It's what stops him from plummeting to his worst and part of the reason why he feels guilt, even if he himself doesn't understand that. The Hero restrains him but also motivates him to live.

Thoughts towards romance: Power Boy still loves Supergirl, and it's her rejecting him why Power Boy does not believe he can be a good partner.

Romance partners (If any, if so, how did they meet): Supergirl. Power Boy first met her when she was captured by Darkseid and brought to Apokolips. It was also the first time his abilities activated. Supergirl first met Power Boy when he found and saved her from a metahuman attack on earth. They began dating when Power Boy approached her shortly afterwards.

Happiest memory: Being a hero with Supergirl

Saddest memory: Hitting Supergirl

Being loved?

• Power Boy does not believe he deserves love. He does not trust himself to not hurt those he cares about.

Flirting?

• It overwhelms and flusters him

Has this character dealt with loss, if so, how has loss affected them?

• After hurting Supergirl and her breaking up with him, Power Boy lived everyday in guilt, punishing himself by living in a state of agony.

How does this character view the past?

• Power Boy views the past as nothing but misfortune, all he sees is the torture Darkseid put him through and the pain he put Supergirl in. When he looks back, all he gets is hurt.

How does this character view killing?

• Power Boy's view on killing is heavily intertwined with his characterization. Killing someone slams into the wall of "The Hero", it betrays the sentiments of heroism that he not only believes, but Supergirl does. Killing someone would not just be killing his heroic values, but in a way betraying Supergirl herself. It is a character problem, it creates tension between The Hero and His Worst, pulling his morality on two different sides. (This belief is further reinforced as the story goes on, when Cassandra makes him realize the value of life, and especially at the climax of the story, when he not only accepts that all sides of himself are who he is, but also decides the best way to apologize to Supergirl is to believe in her faith, and killing someone would betraying that sentiment.).

How I want this character to grow:

What is this character’s flaw: Power Boy lacks identity. Having been groomed into an agent by Darkseid at birth, to thinking his purpose was to live for Supergirl, his entire path up until now was him assuming what she should be; not finding himself. His current state is him not understanding who he is, his emotions, he merely lives in guilt now that he's in rock bottom.

Power Boy's core is shaped by his time with Supergirl (His love for heroism, his will, optimism) and shaped by his time with Batgirl (His calmness, his empathy, and analytical nature) Power Boy finally gets a chance from Cassandra and never lets it go. He becomes a person figuratively and literally, getting a name, bringing all parts of him together to truly find himself and overcomes his vices. He realizes how much he hurt Supergirl and it crushes him, he knows seeing her again to apologize would be selfish, so he dedicates himself to apologizing by carrying her faith in how he does good. When Power Boy's left nothing, he doesn't feel as alone this time. He wants to be a hero and he knows what he did is irredeemable, yet he wants it so bad he strives for something greater without realizing. In relation to the theme, "can people come back "Are we better than our worst?", Power Boy's journey is finding the answer of "yes".

Additional Info:

• "Why do I still feel guilty" "Maybe it means because your work is unfinished, and it is pulling you towards this action that something deep in you needs to take"
• "When I look back…For what reason did I come on this beach? Did I simply want to see the beginning of the race like the other spectators? Or was it the nostalgia for the horses that were with me since I was young? I was drawn to the beach by something. People are drawn to beauty…t's better when it's shiny and new."

Relationships:

• Cassandra Cain: Cassandra becomes Power Boy's first friend. As she can read body language and he can read emotions, the two hold a level of empathy nobody else has and thus are connect on a level nobody else can. While she helps him find himself, he's able to help her be herself. Cassandra is the first person he ends up telling his past to, not because he hides it, but because he's just that comfortable with her.
• Barbara Gordon: When Power Boy first meets her, he's kind of intimidated by her, in comparison to Stephanie he can't quite get a read on her. After the two break the ice though, he really ends up seeing her as an older sister type of figure. It's when learning her her biggest fear of getting hurt while on duty that he ends up realizing his biggest fear is being alone. His time with Barbara helps him get more experience with technology. Around her, he finds himself opening up like a book, they banter a lot and she's pretty laid back around him as with the other Batgirls. It's through them both talking about their struggles with being a hero that she ends up putting back on the Batgirl suit when finding Punchline's base of operations.
  • Barbara is also the first person to style his hair when she puts it in a bun with bangs after getting tired of him moving his hair out his face when fighting/flying.
• Stephanie Brown: Stephanie is the first person he really bonds with after getting a grasp on who he wants to be. Due to her energy, she's pushes him out his comfort zone a lot. She has a crush on him, though he doesn't realize his feelings for her until later, which terrifies him. When she ends up asking him out, his past comes back with a greater vengeance than Batman when he tells her about his last relationship and it turns out, Stephanie is friends with Supergirl. Embarassed at herself and angry for obvious reasons, her impulsivity leads her to up on him hard. Though she apologies later for how she reacted (literally shoving a bowl of popcorn in his face), when she cools down she still doesn't forgive him and the friendship ends.
• Punchline: Thematically, all the Batgirl's represent "yes" to the question of "Are we better than our worsts", as the antagonist Punchline naturally is represents the answer of "No". Punchline is pure evil, a product of the city, she thrives off of keeping people at their worst and gaining from it, whether it's making the customers of her drug operations, using them as experiments, or manipulating them by making her seem like their only way out. Punchline and Power Boy's relationship is interesting because he should be someone she is capable of taking advantage of, she can see it in his eyes when they first meet that he's at rock bottom, but though her actions in the story get him to question himself and make him hit his limit, the things he learned from Supergirl keep him afloat even if neither of them realize it.