Name: Tseng Chen
Codename: Sunfire
Age: 27
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 121 lb
Meta-abilities
Solar Flare: Chen's mutant powers enable her to absorb solar and other radiation to generate the process of ionized matter (usually air) through a mentally-triggered unknown biochemical process so that it is converted to plasma, the superheated state of matter. Plasma is the state in which matter making up the sun exists; hence, Sunfire refers to her projecting "solar fire". Hence she can sheath her body in flame.
- Flight: She can use her powers to create super-heated air currents which push her forward through the air, enabling her to fly. This super-heated air is generally visible as a trail of flame behind her. She has yet to try flying faster than about 150 miles per hour.
- Plasma Blasts: She has the ability to project the flames she generates as powerful blasts of energy.
- Plasma Emanation: Sunfire can generate plasma temperatures and release them in a massive blast affecting a wide area. Her upper limits on temperature or area of effect are unknown, due to her limited opportunity to test safely and her reluctance to put others in danger.
- Heat Signature Sense: She has the ability to sense beings by the heat signature that they give off but she lacks practice at distinguishing between types of profiles and has mostly used it only to keep tabs on someone trying to hide from her.
- Plasma Shield: She has the ability to manipulate the plasma around her to form an aura that can melt incoming bullets or stave off other attacks.
Solar Shielding Psi-field: She is protected from the heat and radiation she emits by a short-range psionic force field which automatically comes into being whenever there is air friction, and also prevents excessive amounts of light from the plasma from reaching her eyes so as to blind or damage them. Her body emits a protective field whenever she uses her powers, preserving her clothes and her possessions.
Skills:
American/Chinese Contract Law
Profiicent in Wushu
Languages - Native speaker in Changsha dialect of Xiang Chinese, fluent in Mandarin and English.
Equipment:
Laptop, smartphone, discretionary income.
Bio: Chen was born in Changsha, Hunan Province in China into a successful professional family. Her grandfather was a co-founder of Haier Group Corporation, a Chinese electronics manufacturer, and she grew up groomed to study, excel and eventually take a role in the family business. At the age of 18, her family sent her to study business in America, at Columbia University. She had a business degree by the age of 22, and by the age of 25 she had a Juris Doctorate in Business Law. Since then, she's worked in the offices of Haier America in New York and New Jersey, supporting contract negotiations and legal compliance. On paper, Chen looks to be just another successful corporate suit.
It's a lie she's worked very hard to cultivate, to keep her family happy and to avoid suspicion. For when Chen was 19 and on spring break, she fell asleep while sunbathing on the rooftop of her friend's villa and woke to find herself floating a mile above the earth. She survived the fall, and the incremental discovery of her powers, but knew she couldn't go home
like this. Instead, she pursued her legal education with a token effort towards American contract law to appease her family while spending most of her real scholarly attention on human legal rights with an international focus.
Now that she's a few years out of law school, with real experience in courts and boardrooms, Chen finally feels ready to start building a case for national and international human rights, to build on to the regulations built into the existing Accords. The prospect of working with other superhuman individuals is appealing and she remains hopeful that she can serve humanity and herself by partnering with others.