Star
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✦ History of the Stars ✦“She was not born. She was summoned—by longing too old to name, and light too ancient to forget.”
There was a time before memory. Before gods wore names and oceans had tides.
In that silence, the stars sang.
Selena was one of them. No flesh, no voice, only sentience wrapped in flame. She drifted in the cold between galaxies, a luminous soul among billions, content in her orbitless infinity. Stars do not dream of falling. They are meant to observe, to shine, to burn out in brilliance.
But something called her down.
Not gravity. Not fate.
A voice. A human, or nearly. A cry sent into the cosmos, not of prayer but of need.
It tethered her.
She fell, ripped from her celestial plane by the ache of unfinished love, or perhaps a promise whispered through lifetimes. Her descent scorched the sky. The heavens lost one of their own, and Earth gained a myth it could not name.
She was found in a crater of glass and ash, her form flickering between starlight and skin. The world called her a god. A curse. A miracle. But Selena knew none of those names belonged to her.
Now she walks among mortals with a body shaped by memory and desire. Her power caged in bones. Her story fractured by time.
She remembers the stars, but not the one who called her.
She remembers falling, but not why.
And always, always, she aches with the knowledge that she was loved once, so deeply, it tore her from the sky.
That love may still walk the Earth.
And she is still burning for it.
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✦ Powers & Weaknesses ✦
Celestial Abilities
Celestial Embodiment:
She is a star made flesh. Gravity bends, and air stills in her presence. Light flickers like breath around her, and shadows shrink in awe or fear.
Starlight Manipulation:
She can forge beams of radiant light into blades, veils, or illusions. Her strikes do not burn. They judge.
Siren’s Gravity:
Her voice carries longing. Not charm, not hypnosis, just simple gravitational pull. You don’t love her. You remember loving someone like her, long ago.
Astral Projection:
Selena can sever soul from skin, walking through walls of time and space. Her body glows faintly in her absence, beautiful and uncanny.
Cosmic Memory:
She speaks in languages that no longer exist. Recalls names that even the gods have forgotten. These memories flare through her in waking dreams.
Radiant Healing:
She can heal, but pain is the price. Her light purifies through fire. The body lives. The soul remembers.
Celestial Weaknesses
Celestial Burn:
This body is not built for her brilliance. If she channels too much power, she fractures. The cracks in her skin reveal searing light beneath.
The Tethered Bond:
She fell to Earth for someone. A bond she cannot name. That connection still exists, unknown, unfinished, and it leaves her vulnerable.
Emotional Resonance:
Power responds to feeling. Rage, heartbreak, desire. They make her flare uncontrollably. Her control is precise until the moment it’s not.
Mirrorbound:
Reflections are more than echoes. They’re doorways. Magic cast through mirrors can wound her directly, bypassing flesh.
Noctis Hunger:
Selena is a creature of the night sky. Too long beneath harsh daylight or steel ceilings and her strength dims, her power flickers.
“To touch a star is to risk the burn. To love one is to fall with it.”