i already pmed bombinate about this so ima just jump right in
eyyyy my favorite superhero movie is Guardians of the Galaxy since it's one of the few that i've watched
i didn't intend to write so much, but once you get the ball rolling it's hard to stop lmao but yeh, if there’s anything that too similar to another hero or just something you don’t like just let me know and i’ll fix it
MICHI KNELLER
also known as Täuschung
i. powers
Illusion Manipulation & Energy Detection - Illusion manipulation consists of the ability to create and shape illusions that can affect someone's sense of taste, smell, touch, hearing, sight, and every other imaginable sense. How Michi's power in particular works is that she sees the "threads" of energy that connect everything in the world (which is where her power of energy detection comes in) and the way she creates the illusions is by "pulling” or “tugging" on the threads, specifically those that are attached to someone senses and the way they perceive the world.
ii. weaknesses
When not completely focused, her illusions start to bend and warp, revealing the fact that they are, in truth, not real. The more complicated the illusion means that the warping is more likely to happen, so making illusions of people is particularly hard for her. This is due to the fact that she hasn’t completely mastered her powers, thus her illusions do tend to be very fickle. Not to mention that someone with advanced sight could very well see through her visual illusions.
One major and innate drawback to using her powers far too much is that she becomes vulnerable to her own illusions. Similar to how someone who is schizophrenic might experience hallucinations, her own powers do tend to turn against her, making it hard to discern what is real and not. This can be particularly dangerous whenever in a fight, and so she tries not to push herself that far. Her power relies heavily on the serum that her father had used to give her her powers in the first place. Given the fact that her power stems from the alteration of neural pathways, without the serum to force the connection of those pathways, her powers go into a state of dormancy where she is unable to use them.
In short bursts of power usage this isn't a problem, but using her powers for extended periods of time is impossible without being constantly injected with the serum. She has bypassed this by having Täuschung's suit outfitted with tubes running along her back to inject it into her arteries, but if those tubes were ever damaged she'd be unable to use her powers in a fight.
iii. faceclaim
Kwak Ji Young
iv. origin
Michi's father was a man of science. Born in North Korea, Iseul Jo was a well renowned scientist for his breakthrough studies on the powerful machine that is the human mind, and the potential that it held. He was most popular for a hypothesis he had introduced; that the human mind could be physically altered to allow for the manipulation of the energy and elements that make up this world. It would allow for the creation of artificial super humans, and it was an idea he became obsessed with.
However, to experiment and prove this hypothesis true, he required a test subject, one that was still a developing human. Instead of adopting an orphan, he had a child of his own with one of his fellow scientists from Germany, Thea Kneller. And of course, this child would later be known as Michi, but for now she was a test subject, only to be referred to as Shun. For the earlier years of her life, she had a seemingly normal childhood compared to that of other children. The only difference is that her body was being conditioned to withstand the experiments she would undergo later in life.
It was when she reached the age of ten that the experiments began. There was a slew of side effects that came with each injection, each serum meant to take advantage of the plasticity of her brain. But Iseul’s experiments had succeeded. However, Michi can't remember the exact moment she developed her powers, and she's sure that she doesn't want to.
Due to certain happenings, she prefers not to speak of her father and instead took on her mother's last name and changed her first in order to limit any association to Iseul. It was only a matter of time until she crossed paths with her mentor, Nebel, and by proxy, ended up joining the New Guardians.
After getting herself stuck in a hostage situation by happenstance, she had pushed her powers as far as she ever had. It was a meticulous process, helping other hostages escape by throwing illusions over them so they could sneak away without being noticed. But soon their captors had caught wind of it, and without the serum and her powers unable to work, Michi was helpless to stop them from harming the other hostages. It was then that Nebel appeared, a literal puff of smoke. He incapacitated the captors and released the hostages, then he was gone as quickly as he came.
It was a freak encounter, one she was sure that would never re-occur. But soon she was face to face with Nebel once again, and this time he made it known that he had seen her using her powers, and had made the odd offer to help her master them. She still doesn't know his reasons for doing so, but she took him up on the offer. It was later that she was offered to join the junior group, the New Guardians, and all the same she had accepted it.