Neon

Real Name: Hikari Nagato
Hero Name: Neon
Title: Purple Speedster
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Race: Japanese-American
Hair: Pitch Black
Eyes: Dark brown
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 130lbs
Blood type: 0-



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Neon's Hero Suit consists of a skin-tight, black body suit.  Along her ribs and outer thighs are long, thin purple colored streaks.  Her mask covers her whole head but is completely open around the face and chin with purple streaks running along both sides of the face. Neon's lips are always covered in a dark purple, almost black, lipstick. Her eyes are covered with large, round goggles with silver trim and purple tinted lenses.

Neon's Suit:

Hikari is a tomboy at heart, a bit hot headed, and has a fiery temper.  She enjoys fast cars, street bikes, and anything that goes fast.  When not running around fighting baddies, you could find her at a rave party as well.  She likes the fast paced music, and of course, the neon lights.

In regards to criminals, she’s pretty cold.  Criminals are scumbags and the justice system is broken to her.  Now she doesn’t normally kill, but she had no issues with putting gangsters in the hospital.



Hikari’s story began even before she was born in Kyoto, Japan.  Her mother was the lead technician for a state-of-the-art particle accelerator in the city.  The experimented with sending particles as close to the speed of light as possible in order to see the reason for the universal speed-limit.  But unfortunately there was an accident, as there always is.  Hikari’s mother was stuck inside the accelerator making updates to the tech when the machine mysteriously kicked on, sending matter straight through her body at mind-numbing speeds.  For the time being, she left the accident unharmed, but she was 3 months pregnant with Hikari at the time.

Sadly, Hikari’s mother passed a few years after her birth due to Uterine Cancer.  Feeling as though his family had no reason to stay in Japan, Hikari’s father moved to East Village, New York City and opened up an oriental restaurant.

Because of where Hikari’s family lived, the Yakuza thugs come periodically for protection money, extorting them for their hard earned money.  The extortion got so bad at one point that Hikari’s father was in great debt to them and their restaurant almost bankrupt.

Being the hot head she is, Hikari felt it was her duty to confront the extortionist once and for all and get him to back off.  The exchange of words escalated, Hikari lost her temper, her powers surfaced, and the thug ended up dead.  Hikari thought they were in the clear, thought she saved her family.  Turns out, one thug doesn’t make up the Yakuza.  She found her family home and restaurant burned to the ground, and her Father with it.  

Hikari apparently wasn’t worth the bullet, because she was left alive, and never bothered again.  This doesn’t mean she forgot.  Since that point she goes out in costume and uses her powers to take down the gangs of New York, but this time, not being so lethal about it.

Hikari was around during the Assault on New York, among the ranks of the defenders of the city.  She now spends her time in the ruins, helping rebuild.. and making sure crime doesn't take over the vulnerable city.



1. Agility 1
2. Endurance 4
3. Reaction 2
4. Strength 3




Super Speed:  Hikari's main ability is her speed.  When she runs, her body becomes enveloped in an aura of bright purple energy that interacts with her body like her own personal particle accelerator.  This allows her to bolt in any direction at immense speed, traveling up to Mach 7.  As she runs, Hikari's body leaves behind a bright trail of purple light, similar to a light bike from Tron, that fades after about half a minute.

Energy Manipulation:  Hikari's powers grants her the ability to shoot highly focused beams of energy.  They are bright, purple, and resemble neon lights.  The intensity of the damage the beams can cause are controllable by Hikari's emotional state.  The beams can be just powerful enough to hurt an enemy like being shot with a taser or, when she's under distress, her beams can be hot enough to slice through very hard object such as a bank vault door like it was butter.

Energy Weapons: Related to the ability above, Hikari as the ability to emmit energy from her body and maintain it in a specific form.  This gives her the ability to basically form psylocke-style energy blades from her hands that could cut through the toughest of metals.

Martial Arts Mastery: Because Hikari grew up in a rough part of town, she wasted no time learning how to fight.  She's mastered a few forms of martial arts such as: Jujitsu, Karate, and Aikido.  Because of her extensive training, she is a master at hand-to-hand combat, as well as being very capable to fight any battle without a weapon in hand whether or not her enemy has one. Her training, combined with her powers, also grants her an advanced reaction time, being very quick to react to situations.



Only Human: Hikari has super speed, laser beams, and knows how to fight, but she's still a fleshy meat-bag.  Punch her in the eye, you'll blacken it.  Throw her off a building, you'll break her bones.  Shoot her in the head, she's dead.  She's got all the vulnerability to trauma as any human being.

Overheating: Hikari has alot of raw energy in her body, which means she that although she doesn’t tire when she runs at her top speed, the faster she goes the more unstable she is.  She’s prone to overheat at really high speeds.

Strong Magnetic disturbances:  Because her powers basically make Hikari a personal particle accelerator, strong magnetic fields have a poor effect on her abilities.  The strength of such a disturbance would have to be noted as a weak magnetic field wouldn’t do much besides slightly slow her down and a highly powerful magnetic field could stop her from running.

Inescapable traps:  Hikari’s speed is incredibly fast, as is her reflexes.  But she cannot run through walls.  If you capture her in a trap that is so sealed that even light cannot escape, she will have no way to escape as well.

Ill-Temper/Bad Attitude: Growing up in a bad neighborhood also had its impact on Hikari's personality, she had to be tough and a hard-ass to survive as a girl in New York's Asian Districts, especially the ones where the Yakuza was prominent.  Because of this, she always rushes into her fights head on, sometimes without thinking first, this can get her into trouble.  She's also quick to piss off, which could be problematic in some situations.

Checkered Past: Like stated above, growing up in a crappy neighborhood affected Hikari as a person.  She grew up fighting to survive, because of this the police have a nice file with her name on it.  A lot of counts of aggravated assault, petty theft, a few counts of illegal street racing, public intoxication once or twice, and of course a murder charge that didn't stick due to self defense.  Whether she was charged for that murder or not, it doesn't change the fact that she killed a man, and because of it her family paid for it.  Hikari never quite got over it, her guilt is what drives her to be a hero, and it could also be used against her.



Music Gal: Hikari loves fast paced music, like dubstep, or techno, or anything you’d hear in a nightclub.  When she hears it, it gives her energy, not like a battery getting charged kind of way.  In a, “This music kicks so much ass!” kind of way.

Fear: The fastest Hikari has ever gone was about a fourth the speed of sound.  Because her body basically gets ripped apart at the molecular level while running, Hikari has a fear that if she went too fast her body wouldn’t be able to put itself back together again.