Supernal

Supernal is a superhero based in Colonial Bay, originally from the planet Chigja'; she initially used the name Superhuman in the belief that she looked human enough to pass as one, but found that, because she is not, it caused offence. She is publicly known to be the CBSU student Chyoode 0067/0189635435011 (she uses her Guild ID number as a surname).

Description
As Supernal (or Superhuman): Supernal is a slender, leggy girl of 5'9", of delicate features, quite attractive if one is not put off by her skin, which is a deep green mottled in a deep blue in a pattern that tends to highlight her features. Her hair is waist-length and of a nearly metallic silver, flashing in any light. Her eyes are a purple which contrast nicely with the small mask around them, which varies in colour from cyan to turquoise to light green with the angle of the light.

Her costume is in the same variable colour; it's a mini-dress cut to leave both the right shoulder and the left flank bare. On her left breast is a silver S. A purple belt is angled so it is higher on the right than the left, resting just below the cut-out part on the left. Her arms and legs are completely bare.

As Chyoode: Chyoode is a slender, leggy girl of 5'9", of delicate features, quite attractive if one is not put off by her skin, which is a deep green mottled in a deep blue in a pattern that tends to highlight her features. Her hair is waist-length and of a nearly metallic silver, flashing in any light. Her eyes are a purple which contrast nicely with the blue highlight about her eyes.

Her clothes and how she arranges her hair closely track fashion, but she favours short and/or low-cut tops and short skirts – especially the latter, as she has the legs for it. She prefers shoes with a considerable heel, and is hardly to be seen without a matching handbag.

Origin
Chigja' is a large world circling a red sun toward the far end of Guild space. Its inhabitants seemed generally unremarkable, except perhaps in being remarkably unremarkable in developing in the strangely common humanoid shape despite the high gravity of the world. They were contacted by the Guild when they achieved faster-than-light travel, and were soon admitted, entrance requirements being less stringent at the time, as the 67th polity in the Guild.

This event proved important. At that time, following a period of rapid expansion, the Guild was threatening to fall apart, as the various and often quite alien races and polities pulled in different directions. But it turned out the Chigja'ans did have a remarkable property – they, or at least a fair number of them, were friendly, outgoing, and generally unfazed by or even fascinated by alien species. And so the Chigja'ans became famous as traders and diplomats, the glue newly holding the Guild together. They also became rich from their enterprises, though ironically they stagnated in terms of native technology: commerce brought them much greater technology from afar than they could make themselves, and there was little incentive to learn when more could be made in trade.

On their travels, they discovered that on a few worlds, always ones with yellow suns and low gravity, they developed superpowers. But in most cases this remained just a curiosity, because for all their fascination with aliens most Chigja'ans sooner or later miss their loved ones and return to their homeworld.

Powers
Chyoode's powers are typical for a Chigja'an who has been exposed to a yellow-sun in low-gravity conditions for an extended time. She's strong and tough, and capable of moving rapidly, especially in long-range leaps. She can shoot the energy she has absorbed from the sun in bolts of lightning, but so far only from her nose. Her senses have also been enhanced so that she can change the point of perception for any or all of them to anywhere within two metres. Long exposure to strong sunshine will 'charge her batteries' and make her still more powerful for a while.

It is quite possible she will develop more powers the longer she stays on Earth.

Personality
Chyoode is the sort her people are famous for - friendly, outgoing, xenophilic. She became fascinated by Earth during her brief vacation here – its people, its customs, its fashions – and her return is a dream come true, and not just because of the concomitant cool superpowers.

While she is trying to take her studies more seriously this time, she is still very much a party girl, and the social side of things occupies much of her attention.

She's fascinated by just about everything about Earth – even if its customs sometimes seem primitive or even barbaric – to the point she can become distracted.

Relations
Chyoode's relationship with her parents remains rocky, despite her return to university.

Most of her friends are at CBSU. The metas she's closest to are there, or were when she was last a student.

History
In 2058 Chyoode came on a vacation to Earth with her parents, Tyaan and Vyeerhi, and her twin younger brothers, A'al and E'el. Tyaan had read about Earth and realised that not only did it seem likely that Chigja'ans would have powers there but also that the natives looked just like Chigja'ans – so it seemed an excellent spot to visit. It might even be a chance to build friendships that might pay off on Earth's eventual admittance to the Guild. Although the vacation was somewhat marred by a confrontation with superheroes when the children were a bit too exuberant with their powers, Chyoode had fallen in love with the planet.

In fact, she was even motivated to pay a bit more attention to her studies and improve her grades, because she had the idea of going to university there. There were provisions to allow Guild students on Earth, as a Guild accession world, though not vice versa, and she knew her parents would love the idea of her going there to study human ways, in the best tradition of their people.

She attended CBSU from 2062 to 2064, at the same time serving as the hero Superhuman, but unfortunately spend too much time partying and not enough studying. She lost her partial scholarship and fell out further with her parents over this. She's spent a few years touring the popular youth tourist spots throughout the Guild, paying her way partly by working as a waitress. But must as she enjoyed the partying lifestyle, she realised she wanted more from life, so she has returned to CBSU, even though it means paying her own way.

She is again studying anthropology at CBSU, while working as a waitress at the Seven Stars restaurant. She hopes also to join the superhero subculture again – though under a different name: for some reason humans didn't like her previous choice.