Post by Doctor Light on Apr 10, 2013 0:00:47 GMT -5
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign, top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, border: 10px solid #f1e3b4; width: 450px; background-color: #f6f7f1;] PERSONAL FILE HIGHLY CLASSIFIED AND CONFIDENTIAL  GENERAL INFORMATION NAME: Kimiyo Hoshi ALIAS: Doctor Light (IV) GENDER: Female AGE: 35 OCCUPATION: Astrological Scientist, Medical Doctor, Adventurer, Researcher at S.T.A.R. Labs ALIGNMENT: Good AFFILIATION(S): Justice League of America PHYSICAL PROFILE HEIGHT: 5’3” WEIGHT: 120 lbs EYES: Dark Brown HAIR: Black CLASSFICATION: Human UNUSUAL FEATURES: None BEHAVIOR PROFILE Let’s cut to the chase and for lack of better terminology, Kimiyo Hoshi is an asshole. And that is just being nice. If people thought Batman was a personality to deal with, well Kimiyo is probably one of the only other people who stood up against the Dark Knight and talked him down. She is fierce and not in the admirable, female empowered kind of way but in a cold, detached and almost emotionless way. Kimiyo is quick lipped, meaning she’s not afraid to share her true feelings and opinions. If she does not like you or agree with the level of work you provide she will certainly let you know. It wasn’t a hard life or abusive upbringing that made Kimiyo such a hard person. Rather it was her drive to reach a certain pedestal that made her devoid of much human emotion. That’s not to say she harbors no feelings – Kimiyo has a lot of those. She’s just a lot better than others at hiding it under layers and layers of cold, hard, calculating stares. She is blatantly socially awkward, a fault she covers up by convincing herself that she is above most individuals and that most people are not intelligent enough to communicate with her. A tragic, no one will ever understand me mentality if you will. Her distance from people makes her appear aloof and arrogant, well it is more than her appearance it is the entire basis of her personality in fact. Arrogance comes from her high achievements and success since a young age, her aloof demeanor is from her disinterest in people or anyone that doesn’t see eye to eye with her. On first impressions, Kimiyo can convince anyone that she doesn’t care and doesn’t have a squishy center – and they are absolutely right. There are of course, always exceptions. The only soft spot Kimiyo possesses is for her children. Even then she struggles attempting to display and receive emotion from her children. Perhaps this is from a lack of understanding of her own feelings, or it is because she lacked any display of affection as a child. Whatever it may be, Kimiyo continually struggles with her attempt to connect with her children and to be the loving mother that they both deserve. Her children are the light of her world and often times when she begins to question the path she is going in life, her children are the first ones to help her find a new ray of hope. Despite her very rough and cold exterior, Kimiyo is an extremely dedicated teammate. The amount of responsibility she puts into her heroic duties is equivalent to her own research. She believes deeply in the cause of the League and as a champion of the monitor she takes her duty to the universe very seriously. Kimiyo was bestowed with great powers and she values the decision and does not take her work lightly. She is so grateful for the opportunity to make a difference and is determined to do anything in her power to make the world right. One of her biggest goals is to place the identity Doctor Light in a better light. For too long her identity has been sullied and associated with a benevolent super villain and because of this she is determined to right the wrong and show that world that the light is not something to be afraid of, instead it is the essence of life and the dangling ray of hope that has sparked humanity since the beginning to time. DOCUMENTED HISTORY Born as Kimiko Hoshi and the only child to a rather typical Japanese couple in Nagoya, Japan. Kimiko’s upbringing was very stereotypical to the Japanese traditions. Her mother and father were a rather stoic couple who lived their lives in a very dutiful manner and providing the best they could for their daughter to guarantee her success. Kimiko’s father, Raiden Tazu did not play a huge role in the early part of her life because his work as an astrophysicist kept him out of the home for days, weeks and sometimes even months. She was raised solely by her mother whose unhappiness with her husband’s absence in the family finally drove her to request a divorce. At the time Kimiko was relatively young, still five and the separation of her parents was both confusing and unsettling for the young child. It didn’t help that she was left in the care of her rather estranged father who was almost like a stranger to the young girl. After the divorce, Kimiko’s mother disappeared from their lives completely and any memory of her was erased from Kimiko’s mind. Her childhood was rather lonely, void of any real parental devotion or emotion and spent primarily in school and after school programs that Raiden claimed was to help her academically. It was however, mostly a façade to keep Kimiko occupied until nannies or sitters could pick her up. Kimiko spent most of her upbringing being raised by nannies and tutors hired by her father who was too busy to tend to his own daughter. The lack of attention from her father set a negative effect into the young girl’s esteem. Unable to ever receive her father’s praise or even a glimmer of interest despite good grades and multiple awards for her academic achievements, Kimiko began to develop a feeling of worthlessness and recognized that she would never be good enough for her father. This mentality was the driving force for the young girl who decided to follow in her father’s footsteps and major in the Astrological Sciences. Kimiko was relentless in her desire to achieve greatness and because of this, she grew up as a loner and extremely awkward in social confrontations. Her negative experiences in social settings made her disenchanted by people and in an effort to deal with her ability to connect to anyone she developed an ego that boosted her high above anyone else. She began to view other people merely as competition or simply to incompetent to associate with her. Endless study nights, unrivaled dedication and an extraordinary work ethic got Kimiko the highest score in the Japanese University Placement exams and an admission to the University of Tokyo, the top in the nation. Her hard work did not stop there. Making strides in her field of study, Kimiko found herself being invited as a research assistant at the Laboratory for Theoretical Astronomy & Astrophysics, the same laboratory her father had devote his entire life. Despite working in close quarters, Kimiko was unable to garner much of her father’s attention aside from a few nods of approval or acknowledge between passings. This did not deter her, but instead strengthened her drive. Without her realizing, Kimiko was developing a deep rooted contempt for her father and his negligence and deep down inside she was determined to be better than he ever was. Kimiko graduated from Tokyo University with high honors and was immediately given many career opportunities upon exit. She decided to continue her work at the Laboratory for Theoretical Astronomy & Astrophysics. Now that she was no longer a student or research assistant, Kimiko found that she had a lot of opposition in her field. Despite her honors, awards, degree and knowledge, she was still being dismissed by her seniors or even her own colleagues simply because she was a woman (and a young one at that). Despite her setbacks, her “take no bullshit” personality and headstrong attitude gained her the respect of her coworkers and eventually she was recognized as a top researcher, the prodigy of Raiden Tazu if you will. Recognizing her rise in value, Kimiko decided to change her name to Kimiyo an ambiguous form of her name. This was no one could determine her level of worth because of her gender. Kimiyo’s life was rather dedicated to her research, but eventually when she did find a slow turn in her life it was suggested by her father she consider starting a family. This being one of first times her father ever suggested anything to her, Kimiyo worked a little too fast in fulfilling his approach. Kimiyo married young (and perhaps too soon), to a man who was presented to her through a matchmaker. Kimiyo and her husband’s union possessed anything but love or even compassion. Despite their lack of enthusiasm, Kimiyo birthed two children, a daughter and son. Once her children came into the picture, Kimiyo’s perception of her work and the way she conducted herself began to change. Recognizing her relationship with her husband to be unsettling and familiar to her own parent’s, Kimiyo tried to put effort into making their family work out. The time to mend five years of an undesirable relationship was too late however. Kimiyo learned the hard way that her husband had been having an affair when she walked into their family home with the children and her husband lay in bed with another woman. Enraged, Kimiyo threw out her husband and immediately filed for a divorce. There was no battle for the children, which disgusted Kimiyo but she was happy to her both of her children in her custody. From that day forth, Kimiyo never mentioned her ex-husband and if every brought up it is with the highest disdain. As a single mother, Kimiyo tried not to make the same mistakes her father did, but her work always presented something new and challenging that motherhood just did not fulfill. Kimiyo loved her children, but she also loved her work (a little too much). Her life would change however even though Kimiyo was not completely prepared for it. During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the battle between the forces of the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor warped space throughout the universe allowing astronomers to study phenomena they otherwise would have been able to observe at close hand. At the time Kimiyo and her father were working in the astrophysics group of Professor Raiden Tazu. They were using those space warps to study the star Vega. Eons ago, Psion scientists turned a poor woman into X’Hal – a mad goddess and living embodiment of Vega. During the Crisis, the Omega Man Nimbus battled X’Hal within the core of Vegan triggering powerful solar flares that bathed the Vegan System. The Monitor, needing a new warrior, channeled one of those flares into the telescope Hoshi was using to watch Vega. Her laboratory erupted with energy which the Monitor uses to transform her and recreate her as a superhuman with the ability to store, manipulate, and control all forms of light. She would be his weapon against the Anti-Monitor’s shadow demons. Some years previously, Hoshi’s father had collaborated with an American scientist called Jacob Findley to create a superhero costume based on light manipulation technologies. Findley briefly used the suit to become the superhero Doctor Light II, but he was murdered by another collaborator, Dr Arthur Light, who stole the costume. Arthur used the costume to become the supervillain Doctor Light III and fought the Justice League and Teen Titans. Kimiyo was determined to reclaim the identity her father and Findley had created and adopted the codename and costume of Doctor Light IV. The new ill-tempered Doctor Light was initially treated with suspicion by the American heroes who assumed that she was connected Arthur Light. She joined the heroes when then they attacked the Anti-Monitor’s Fortress in the Anti-Matter Universe. Her experiences there changed her and started to moderate her harsh behaviour. Hoshi began to understand the heroism that drove her comrades and the sacrifices they were willing to make. Monitor’s true plan for Doctor Light was revealed during the final confrontation with the Anti-Monitor. The anti-matter tyrant had been drawing power from a nearby binary star to fuel his fight with the heroes. It was Doctor Light’s job to weakening the Anti-Monitor by redirecting the energy from the star and storing it until she could unleash it against the him. Her attack was devastating and was very nearly mortal. Her abilities were at their greatest during the Crisis and she has rarely matched that early power-level. The Justice League underwent a reformation after the Crisis and the Darkseid inspired anti-hero riots. The Kilg%re and Maxwell Lord conspired to turn the new Justice League into a true international peacekeeping agency and began a covert recruitment drive without the League’s permission. Kimiyo was the first person who Lord offered a League signal device to. Without her knowledge he arranged for a UN conference she was attending to be attacked by a group of terrorists. She was outnumbered and had to use the signal device to call for backup. The mystified League responded to her distress call and together they defeated the terrorists. Doctor Light remained with the League while they investigated the origin of her signal device. When Lord tried to repeat his unauthorized recruitment he was rumbled and Doctor Light quit, angry that she had been so easily manipulated. Nevertheless, she maintained links with the League and was brought in as an expert when fellow Japanese hero Rising Sun was left in a coma by the Queen Bee. Kimiyo had her first encounter with Arthur Light when his soul tried possessing her during an astral projection exercise. She remained a JLI reservist until temporary League administrator Kurt Helmlich recalled her to active duty. He was eventually revealed as a Queen Bee drone, but she stayed on with the Europe/International branch of the League. Kimiyo relished the scientific opportunities the League gave her and she made sure the League’s London headquarters had the necessary laboratories. She had intended to analyze alien weaponry confiscated from the Royal Flush Gang, but it was stolen by a disgruntled artist who used it to become the post-modernist super villain Deconstructo. Light briefly flirted with the disembodied spirit Erewhon and turned down the advances of Rising Sun. She preferred to devote herself to her children and her work. Doctor Light often found herself acting as the JLE’s second-in-command and as the rational voice behind Green Lantern Hal Jordan’s more action-orientated leadership. Light inherited the leadership after Hal was possessed by Parallax entity. During her time with the League she became close friends with Ice of the American branch and they shared an American road trip. Doctor Light retired from the Justice League after the tumultuous events of the Overmaster’s second coming and Ice’s death. She realizes that she was seeing less and less of her children as she had been leaving them in the care of her mother or with the Erehwon spirit. Kimiyo returned to Japan, adopted a new white costume, and began working for the Omnitech corporation developing a solar membrane. The dying scientist Amuro Suriyaki need the membrane to prolong his life, but he died after Dr Light defeated his henchmen. Kimiyo remained conflicted between her dual roles as Doctor Light superhero and as Kimiyo Hoshi mother/scientist, but she found solace in talking about her problems at her late father’s grave (Showcase ’96 #9, October 1996). The date on her father’s gravestone reveals that he must have died immediately after she became Doctor Light. Despite remaining retired from the Justice League Doctor Light continued to appear irregularly to aid various groups during cosmic emergencies. She fought alongside the Outsiders during the Imperiex War. When Thayer Jost bought the Doom Patrol trademark from Cliff Steele he tried setting up his own Doom Patrol team, Kimiyo, Metamorpho, Beast Boy, and the Elongated Man signed on, but the team disbanded after it emerged that Cliff hadn’t disbanded his own incarnation of the team. Dr Hoshi later moved to Chicago to take up the position of Vice President of the Research and Development Division of Kord Tech. Another name for Kord Tech is Kord Omniversal so it is possible that Omni Tech was a Japanese division of Kord. The company was the family firm of Ted Kord – the second Blue Beetle and Hoshi’s collegue in the Justice League. Kord was murdered by Maxwell Lord after he discovered the truth about Lord’s Checkmate organization. Arthur Light, the previous Dr Light, was a sadistic misogynist who had been a real opponent of the early Justice League until he raped Sue Dibny, the wife of the Elongated Man. The JLA unwisely thought that it was better to mind wipe him, to alter his personality with magic, than to just leave him to the normal justice system. However, something went wrong and he was left a bumbling buffoon. Years later, the mindwipe dissolved and Light’s old personality returned. Arthur Light swore revenge on the Justice League, and on Green Arrow, in particular. He blew up Green Arrow’s home and then attacked Hoshi at Kord. She was working late one night when she was ambushed by him. The battle between the two Doctor Lights was brutal, but Kimiyo Hoshi was not Arthur Light’s intended target. During her fight he slowly absorbed her power, the starlight she had absorbed over the years, leaving her utterly powerless. Arthur left Kimiyo as bait for Green Arrow and Black Lightning. The extra-power almost doubled Arthur Light’s abilities, but it wasn’t enough (“Heading into the Light,” Green Arrow v3 #54-57 Nov 2005-Feb 2006). Kimiyo’s physical scars from Arthur Light’s attack healed normally, but it took a long time for her powers to return. Even then they were at best erratic – she helped during the battles of the Infinite Crisis and had a rematch with Arthur Light. She was one of the solar-powered heroes who unsuccessfully tried to jump start Superman’s powers after the same battle. Sometime after this the Japanese Kimiyo took US citizen ship. Without her powers Dr Hoshi’s life began to lose focus and she drifted into a job as Director of Research and Development at STAR Labs, Metropolis. Hoshi’s Doctor Light would have remained in retirement if it had not been for the machinations of the entity called Dharma. The Shadow Thief had usurped the Shadowslide, the teleportation gateway through which Dharma’s agents, the Shadow Cabinet, travelled. Hardwire and the Shadow Cabinet surprised Kimiyo at her address in Metropolis. Startled, she activates her Justice League emergency signal precipitating a confrontation between the Justice League and the Shadow Cabinet. Hardwire gave her a new costume covered with nano-antennas that would enhance her ability to absorb starlight. The Spectre had executed Arthur Light by turning him into a candle, but that candle still contained the power that Arthur had stolen from Kimiyo. Her new costume allowed her to reabsorb that power and to defeat the Shadow Thief. Shortly after Dr Light’s powers returned, the Justice League were left short-handed by Batman’s death and by Green Arrow and Green Lantern creating their own splinter group. Doctor Light returned to active status with the core JLA despite her annoyance with the inexperienced Firestorm. It was only when she and Firestorm interrogated the Shadow Thief that they became aware of the full scope of his plans. The stellar vampire Starbreaker was using the Shadow Thief as a stepping stone back into reality. Once he crossed over he temporarily sated his hunger by draining power from Vega through Doctor Light. Starbreaker and the Shadow Thief escaped when the rest of the League appeared, but Doctor Light followed them through their portal. She found herself in a lightless, shadow dimension and was almost incapacitated by her nyctophobia (fear of the dark). Kimiyo managed to subdue her fears along enough to exit the shadow portal. She found herself at Dharma’s base where Starbreaker was trying to absorb Dharma’s nearly infinite power. She defeated the Shadow Thief and then used her new solar collectors to strip the stolen energy from Starbreaker allowing Icon and the Justice League to defeat him. Doctor Hoshi’s superpowers and her medical experience meant that she was often called upon to assist when Kryptonians, Daxamites, or other aliens who derive their powers from sunlight were injured. Anti-Kryptonian fever was spreading through Metropolis after the appearance of New Krypton (the former Bottle City of Kandor), but Dr Hoshi refused to support it. She asked by Lois Lane to help the “outlaws” Nightwing and Flamebird when Flamebird was stabbed by a Kryptonite knife. She helped them again when Nightwing (Chris Kent) began rapidly aging. Her xenogenetcist at STAR Labs, Dr Pillings, assisted them, but they were unaware that he was actually Jax-Ur, a Kryptonian criminal who has escaped the Phantom Zone. The Daxamite Mon-El had been standing in for Superman whilst he was on New Krypton. Kimiyo first met Mon-El and the Guardian when she asked to examine Mon-El’s erratic powers. She returned to Japan so that her children could visit their father – her ex-husband. Whilst there, Mon-El and Kimiyo had their first proper team-up to fight the Robo-Octo-Ape. Back in America, Kimiyo began socializing the Jim Harper (alias the Guardian). They were both single parents and their children enjoyed playing together. Doctor Hoshi was working late on Christmas Eve when Shimmer and Mammoth attacked her at STAR Labs. They sought to avenge Arthur Light’s execution by the Spectre, but were defeated by Kimiyo. Doctor Light remained with the Justice League when they fought the Royal Flush Gang despite her annoyance at having to work with Plastic Man. She also helped Superman and the Samurai fight Steppenwolf in ancient Japan when they were scattered in time by the Lord of Time. She suffered a broken arm when Prometheus attacked the League. During the Blackest Night event Zatanna recalled the surviving members of the Justice League to the Hall of Justice to face the threat of the Black Lanterns – perverse simulations of the dead created by the Black Rings of Nekron. The moment Kimiyo reached the Hall she sensed that Arthur Light had been reanimated as one of the Black Lanterns and separated herself from the rest of the League to spare them from his onslaught. Black Lantern Arthur Light taunted and bullied Kimiyo, torturing her with racial slurs and accusations about her failures as a mother and as a hero. She was weakened, physically and emotionally, but it was not until he threatened her children that Kimiyo erupted with light. She destroyed the Black Rings animating Black Lantern Arthur Light, Vibe, and Steel, but collapsed unconscious, drained and exhausted from the effort. After the events of Flashpoint, Kimiyo retains most of her experiences and memories intact and remains as one of the most faithful Justice League reserves. She still struggles with her work, her heroic responsibilities and the time she must devote as a mother – but honestly she wouldn’t have it any other way. POWERS AND ABILITIES KNOWN POWERS: Doctor Light has direct control over all forms of light sources without relying on equipment. She can manipulate light in any way, shape, or form. She can illuminate a city or burn hole through steel. Channeling her powers, she can fly at great heights and speeds, although she has no form of invulnerability and is subject to windburn. With her scientific research in solar power, she is quite adept at using light in a variety of ways.
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STRENGTH LEVEL: Kimiyo has below average strength for a woman her height and size who trains six days a week. WEAKNESSES:
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EXAMINATION RECORD The familiar vibrancy of her children’s’ laughter filled her ears as she shielded her eyes from a blinding burst of light. Her deep brown eyes narrowed as she tried to make out shapes in the illumination, but it was to no avail. Her second hand rose to assist the first, a poor attempt to recover from her temporary blindness, but still the light beamed. Despite its brilliance, Kimiyo Hoshi felt no warmth or familiar comfort radiate down upon her skin. In fact the light was cold, almost faceless and lacking the qualities that she had become so acquainted with in her life. Her hand reached forward and she flexed them at the joint in an attempt to grasp at the air. Still cold, still lifeless, still empty. It was almost chilling being in this spotlight and for a moment she wondered if perhaps she had been captured in a moment, in a time, in a flash that intended to imprison her in an image of confusion, uncertainty and vulnerability. Her mind began to linger, but then there was that laugh again. It started off high pitched and at a familiar tone and ring. Brown eyes perked in one direction, still blinded by the luminescence. She searched through the brightness for its source. Another burst, this time the laugh was closer, so close she thought she could touch it. Her arm outstretched, reaching into the white space before her. It was growing louder now, more shrill and she thought she could hear some sort of panic in the voice. Her brows lifted, still trying to see through the light and Kimiyo moved forward, drawn by the laughter. Louder and louder it grew; more shrill and more high pitched, until suddenly she realized that it was no laughter but it was now a high pitched scream. “Imako?” Kimiyo’s voice was barely audible over the sound and she felt her heart quicken in pace as realization settled in. The damn light was still so bright and blinding! She breathed in and out and moved forward, the scream turning into a singular note now and even higher – so high it was both deafening and frightening. “IMAKO?!” There was terror in her own voice now as she called out her daughter’s name. She began to run now, still blinded by the furious light and still unsure of where she was. The sound her daughter was making was almost inhumane, but the high pitched wail resonated throughout her ears so magnificently she was sure that the young girl was in trouble. Kimiyo was sprinting now, running towards the light, toward the brilliance and radiated down upon her with a deafening yell. The scream flat lined suddenly, and Kimiyo paused in realization. The sound was mechanical; it was a single high pitched wail with rhythmic beeps every other second. Her eyes narrowed as the space around her began to grow small and darkened. The light before her began to change in hue, becoming darker and darker until it was red and flashed annoyingly into her eyes. “Imako?” This time her lips did not move and instead, she felt her eyes move behind closed lids. There was a sudden pang in her chest and she was consumed by the darkness, blinded now only by pitch black. Her skin felt the annoying flicker of light as it flashed overhead. Kimiyo tried to breathe, but no air filled her lungs. She felt her body convulse and then suddenly she gasped for air. Chest ringing with pain and head pounding like a beating drum, Kimiyo awoke – awoke from a slumber that was her near death. The Japanese woman inhaled, sucking in the sweet oxygen and rising very weakly from her inclined position. Her head spun and she flopped back as her body found no energy to reel itself forward. Her daughter’s laughter filled her head and so did that incessant flashing and beeping that sounded both urgent and utterly annoying. Kimiyo’s hand rose, grasping the side of her head and she felt something warm press against her temple. Removing her hand and staring down with a blurry vision, Kimiyo observed the deep red substance that had collected onto her glove. ’Blood.’ She concluded, surprisingly not as worried as one should be. Her eyes closed and she began to collect her thoughts, trying to make sense of the situation. Opening them up again, she began to turn her head, studying her surroundings and acknowledging the environment. ’Javelin 8.’ Kimiyo thought, recognizing the space ship’s onboard controls and the concaved ship of the bridge. ’I- we -we were designated for a mission of aid on planet…’ A pause in her thoughts because she could not recall the name. ’To provide medical assistance and provide supplies for the planet’s inhabitants…’ She began to look around the ship’s bridge and recognized the tell tale signs of extensive damage received by the ship. ’Returning home from mission, ship was – an alien object – undetected cause collision. We lost an engine – lost control.’ Kimiyo’s breathe began to quicken as she recalled the terrifying situation of the Javelin 8 as it careened through space and threatened to tear itself apart in the empty vacuum. ’Forced to make emergency landing, fortunately a planet was in close enough proximity. Entered atmosphere… probability of survival 50%. Extensive damage caused wings to tear off the ship… probability of survival 0%.’ The beeping, the flashing, it all made sense now. The Javelin had somehow survived the fall from space and somehow, she had survived the crash landing as well. Her eyes widened and she tried to turn in her seat, listening beyond the beeping and the ringing in her ears. Kimiyo reached out for breathing for the sound of movement, for anything that resembled sentient life. After all, Doctor Light did not come on this mission alone. subject examined by Doctor Cyber | [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, width: 40px;] D O C T O R L I G H T |
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