Hellfire

Hellfire
Synopsis

Hellfire was not born a Hero, or even a metahuman. She was born an average person. Well maybe there was nothing average about Sandra Meyers. She has a rare gift for languages and is a master of quite a few. Just after she graduated High School, she went out to celebrate with a friend. She and her friend were invited to a rave by a couple they met at a bar. The girls were at the bar using fake ids. They went to the rave to find a strange warehouse. The couple grabbed them and tied them up. Turned out the two were Demons who used humans as hosts and were looking to use Sandra and her friend as their new bodies. They started the rituals and started with Sandra. She felt the demon enter her, and fought back. Her mind proved stronger than the demon was expecting and Sandra remained in control. She managed to strangle power from the Demon and use it to destroy the other demon. She and her friend escaped. Her friend never recovered though and ended up in an institution.

Sandra recovered and went on to college. She ages a bit slower thanks to the demon within her and it gives her some unique abilities. She has to wrestle mentally with the demon to use the powers, and sometimes the demon wins. When it does, unless she rests, it weakens her will and makes it easier for the demon to win again, and sometimes take over, and rampaging a bit.

She calls herself Hellfire now, and is planning on trying to do what good she can.

Powers
Being possessed by a demon is not what one normally expects to happen, and on top of that, still retaining control of your body is even more unexpected. Sandra has no powers of her own, other than a talent with languages and a strong will. All the powers that she can use come from the demon within her. Each time she goes to use one of the powers it is a mental struggle to exert her control over the demon's essence, if she wins she has access to the power, if she loses, she takes a minor backlash and loses some of her will temporarily, giving her the choice of waiting till she feels better or risk another confrontation in a weakened state. In regards to specific abilities. Just being possessed makes her resistant to all drugs, poisons, chemical and biowarfare, as well as slows down her aging slightly and allows her to survive harsh enviroments. She can call on a fiendish aura which surrounds her in a hellish greenish black flames, though they are faint and not very bright, as well as summon wings which rip from her back and give her the ability to fly. She always feels pain when using her powers.

She has a range of attack based powers. She can throw bolts of helfire, explosive balls of hellfire, or even a cone of hellfire. Her hellfire always appears as greenish black flames. She can summon skeletal hands from the ground to entangle and grasp foes both a single foe and an area, though the outside edges of the area the hands are weaker. She can form demonic claws increasing her melee damage. Creating an area of darkness blocking out all sight, except her own can be at her call. She can summon small imps that she has complete control over and act as if she had telekinetic powers. And then comes the last. She can only do it once per day and it takes a lot of endurance but she can burst into greenish black flame and heal herself. All of her powers require her drawing runes in the air with her fingers. She doesn't exactly know what the runes mean, the knowledge of them came with the possession, so probably from the demon's mind. Each hand draws a separate rune and leaves a greenish black image in the air for a moment.

Skills
Sandra is a natural born linguist. She has a gift for languages and can pick up even the hardest without too much difficulty. She knows quite a few and also teaches them. She went to college for Archeology and Anthropology, though she also delved a bit into occult studies. She does field work and archeological digs now and again, but most works as a college professor, teaching the next generation. She has learned over the last 19 years more about how to control the demonic essence within her as well as how to use her powers. She has a passport and keeps it updated as well as gets a good stipend from grants and other work that she has done.

Disadvantages
Those with mental awareness, or ability to detect minds, or even something similar will sense two minds within Sandra's body, and when she goes to use a power it will set off alerts as if she was using mental powers as the power struggle between the two ensues. She also gives off a demonic and evil aura that is hard to mistake. She is completely devoted to protecting innocents. She goes out of her way to do it whenever she gets the chance. She does her best to keep her secret identity, figuring that she would have problems being a teacher, given the dark nature of her powers and abilities. Being possessed by a demon makes her both weak against holy based attacks, as well as unable to go onto holy or sacred ground without suffering. Possibly the worst weakness that she has, when she fails to control the essence and use a power, her will is sapped slightly, if it drops too far, she has a chance of losing control and the demon takes over, going enraged and going on a rampage, which no one will understand that she wasn't responsible for.

Origin
Hellfire's origin is originally non-powered human. Then she was kidnapped and chosen to be the new vessel of a demon who had been body hopping for generations. Only when he entered Sandra's body and tried to take control, he found a will that was too strong. It is a constant battle, but Hellfire tries to use the powers she has to do good, even while seeking a way to rid herself of the demon, one that doesn't involve ritual sacrificing of humans, which most of the rituals she has found involve.

Personality
Sandra tries to be friendly, but often comes off as impatient and even rude. It isn't always her fault, the possession of the demon has altered her personality a bit. She is often shy and tends not to open up too much to people till she gets to know them. She is more open when she is dressed as Hellfire, because there is less risk of the possession being revealed and her secret being in the open.

History
Sandra was your normal teenager. She wasn't extraordinary in anything except having a gift for languages. By the time of her high school graduation she could speak almost a dozen languages. She had a desire to go into Archeology when she went to college. Her best friend and her were celebrating graduation. They had some fake ids and were partying at a local bar. This guy and his girl invited them to a rave and the two decided to go. When they got to the warehouse where the rave was supposed to be, they found it empty. There was a place in the center that was lighted by candles and had strange things drawn on the floor in what looked to be blood. Turned out that the guy and lady were demons. They moved from body to body, possessing the host and controlling them completely. They had chosen Sandra and her friend as their next hosts.

They tied the girls up. They took Sandra first. She was secured to a table and her blouse was cut open, along with her bra, leaving her pretty much naked from the waist up. They drew symbols on her skin in blood and the guy leaned down and kissed Sandra, the demon was passing from the guy into her through the kiss. She felt pain and burning as it entered her. And then the guy fell, a burned husk. Sandra felt the demon trying to take control, but somehow she was stronger. It was a long struggle in which her friend and other demon watched. In the end, Sandra had managed to remain in control.

Screaming in fury and not really knowing what she was doing, her hands came up and started tracing runes in the air which left a trail of greenish black fire. The female demon smiled thinking it had worked, but then piercing bright flames appeared in Sandra's hands and she hurled them at the female demon, which burst into flames and a moment later was nothing but cinders.

Sandra managed to get free and free her friend. They got out of there. Sandra's friend ended up in a mental hospital, she had a breakdown and didn't seem able to come out of it. Sandra went through similar phase but finally realized that there was no changing it, she would have to find a way to do it on her own, that no one would believe her anyway.

She went on to college and graduated and even got a phd, she got a degree in anthropology and occult studies as well as lingual studies. She has been out of the country a few times on digs and has done research looking for a way to banish the demon within herself, but all avenues have turned up rituals involving human sacrifice and she won't do that.

She has a teaching job in Colonial Bay at the moment, though is planning a dig soon if her grant comes through. She feels compelled to use her powers for good as much as she can, to try and fight the demon taking over and corrupting her fully.