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TBA

Bio

Kate Williams never meant to become famous, let alone one of the most powerful beings the planet had ever seen. This was not among Kate's plans or wildest dreams when she was growing up: at this point in her life she was supposed to be worrying about freshman orientation at Duskveil Falls University, a heap of overpriced textbooks in a world gone digital and whether or not she wound up with a roommate with zero chill in the dorm.

When some kind of cosmic invasion from 'the void' hit earth, all sorts of 'meta-humans' and magic and supernatural beings went from folklore, conspiracy and AO3 fiction to reality - uniting to help drive back all those nightmarish horrors and carnage. Pandora's Box, the lot of it -- the perception of the world at large had changed, and Kate really wished it hadn't.

In the aftermath, there were a multitude of strange and inexplicable phenomena - but for Kate, Fate decided she'd take the cake: one minute she was having a falafel wrap and going over Sociology notes in the park and the next, a coalescing energy storm swallowed half the sky and bonded with a single human being from a lower middle-class family among billions.

When Kate came to, she was glowing, weightless, and blearily watching falafel drift into a Strauss Enterprises satellite while she floated in orbit. After a not-so-brief panic attack and determining she was not, in fact, having some kind of energy drink fugue fever dream from cramming for an exam, Kate came to grips with the fact that she was perfectly capable of -being- in outer space.

From there, tentative exploration: Kate learned she could fly, crossing continents in the blink of an eye. That was a big one, since it meant she wasn't going to spend the rest of her days hoping she bumped into the ISS to hitch a ride. She learned that she could exude and focus phenomenally daunting cosmic energy that suffused every fiber of her being - and that it was very, very, -very- dangerous. Not for her, really: she'd also quickly figured out that she was pretty much invulnerable - but if she didn't check herself, well, collateral damage and 'overkill' were an understatement.

Kate didn't want to be a veritable demigod - she just wanted to pass Intro to Sociology and riff off dumb Barry Oppenheimer movies with her friends.

Everything after that's been a learning experience, to say the least - splitting her life between cram sessions and studying and zipping at supersonic speeds to fight everything from creepy necromantic wizards to otherworldly invaders and kaiju robot sea serpents. She'd gotten dubbed the moniker 'Avatar', as in 'incarnation of a deity on earth' and not 'cool elementalist' (that guy was named Sir Rocko or something.)

All the while struggling to keep her full power in check. Sure, she could plow the peak off a mountain top or fling a tank one-handed -- but the hardest part was figuring out how -not- to knock over a city block or cook innocent bystanders when passing by. That is, as it happens, a whole lot harder to grapple with than someone might appreciate - because screwing up even a little can mean the difference between life and death for the very people she was trying to save.

Fortunately, Kate wasn't alone in the world when it came to other beings with special powers or technology or anything in-between -- and though it was a big ask to find anyone near her 'level' - she didn't have to take on every challenge, super-villain or trial on her own. Among those beings, she even made new friends - and together, worked to establish one of the first real-deal 'superhero' teams: Beacon. Positive optimism for the symbolism, beacon of hope and all that - and also because she could light up the sky like a Kate-shaped atomic blast, which was hard to miss.

Hope was something a whole lot of people could really use after the traumas the 'Masters of the Void' had brought the world - and Kate wanted to try her darnedest to help with that in between hurrying to afternoon class after a costume change or trying to go on a date as Just Kate - clinging to the idea that at the end of the day, she's still who she'd always been: just another dorky college student with dreams.