Starshine

Ariel Levi Asch was an astronomer who was in a committed to Elijah Asch and Delilah Asch for many years, even changing her name to signify that the three considered themselves to be married. She spent most of the last two decades as a housewife, raising their children Abigail and Susan.

Secretly, however, she was Starshine, a superheroine and one of the founding members of the Starlight City Champions. Ariel’s family had for many generations been skilled mages of various stripes - her mother, for example, was known as Nimbus - and she maintained the tradition, specializing in nyctomancy and its subsets, umbramancy and lumomancy.

When Abigail turned 16, Ariel began teaching her magic in the tradition of their family, and on her 18th birthday allowed her to join her in heroing as her protege, Vega.

As a hero, Starshine was considered stern and highly professional.

She operated as a hero for nearly two decades before being killed by Tyrant during his assault on the Champions’ base, the Cheque.