Vega

Backstory
Abigail Asch was born to Delilah, Elijah, and Ariel Asch, a polycule made up of two famous artists (an actress and a musician) and an astronomer. The three of them raised her privately, keeping her out of the public eye as much as possible, but she still made appearances in local theater as well as submitting a few art pieces and short stories to galleries and magazines.

Ariel began teaching Gail magic in the tradition of her family, a long line of witches, when she turned 16, and she took to it like a duck to water. It wasn't until she was 18, however, that Ariel - secretly the superheroine Starshine - allowed Gail to become a heroine and join her as her sidekick and protege, Vega.

At the beginning of May 2021, however, Starshine - as well as the rest of her team, the Starlight City Champions - were killed, losing their lives in battle against a telekinetic called Tyrant.

After the loss of her mother, Gail took time off from being a heroine, grieving and trying to come to terms with her loss. Now, however, she's ready to get back in the saddle...

Present
Gail attends college at Vanderburg University, where she is in her third year of a five-year plan in which she will attain three degrees: one in Psychology, for her intended career as a therapist; the other two out of more personal enjoyment, in English and Theater. Outside of her schoolwork, she takes part in a handful of clubs, most notable Theater Underground, which she is the current president of.

Vega is a founding member of the New Champions, and is known to be close friends with Phoenix.

She currently has friends-with-benefits relationships with Luca and Vex.

Trivia
Delilah's family has hereditary cat traits as the result of eldonium exposure several generations ago. Abigail's manifestation is light, granting her only the ability to purr.

Vega is open about the fact that she's a transgender woman, and participates in activism to raise awareness of trans rights. Abigail, however, sees no reason to alert anyone that she's not dating of this fact, preferring to keep her privates private.

She dated Bianca, aka Blank, in both their civilian and heroic identities both for two months, until Bianca left on an exchange trip to London.

Summary
Well trained in magic by her mentor, Vega is a mage with all that implies - able to produce magic in a wide range of branches, to perform rituals, craft artifacts, and brew potions. However, as was tradition in her mother's line, she has specialized heavily in her particular specialty: psychomancy. That specialization has led to her developing abilities such as empathy and telepathy, as well as forcing permanent lucidity on her in dreams. She can perform the telepathic half of psionics with every bit of the facility of a natural psion - however, she needs the assistance of an enchanted ring, crafted by Counterforce and given to her by Starshine, to use kinetomancy and perform telekinesis without great difficulty.

In short: Vega mainly serves as a classic psychic with telekinesis and telepathy, but can use her magic to act in other ways through Power Stunts, Ritualist, and Artificer. Her most iconic powers are her Telepathy and Telekinesis - her most iconic traits, her kindness and humor.

Strengths Personal Gail is an excellent artist and musician, as well as being gorgeous and good with people.

As Vega, she has a great deal of experience and a wealth of knowledge learned from Starshine, all of which she's more than willing to share.

Mechanical Vega excels at supporting a team - her telepathy helps coordinate her teammates, and she can use telekinesis to either protect her allies or to trap her foes. Her telepathy makes for a powerful attack or debuff option on weak-minded foes, but she's usually better off in a defensive and supportive role.

Weaknesses

Personal Vega's emotions often get the better of her, and she has a tendency to let her initial judgements of people stick. While she's generally a good judge of people, she can make mistakes... and even when she recognizes those mistakes, she finds it difficult to let go of her initial judgement.

Additionally, her empathy means that she can be easily influenced by those around her, her personality shifting somewhat depending on who she's with.

Lastly, she has an intense guilt complex over her psychic abilities, which she believes are inherently immoral as the result of unconsciously misunderstanding Starshine's warnings about psychomancy.

Mechanical While Vega excels in a supportive role, she is unable to take advantage of much support offered by others. Her attacks are all either AoE or Perception range, meaning that she gets little benefit from Feints or her targets being Defenseless - while she can't underperform, she also can't overperform as she helps others to do.

Additionally, her most powerful abilities - such as mind control - are ones she is highly reluctant to use.

Lastly, much of her defensive power relies on a fragile Device - if her ring is broken, her defensive PL plummets, and she loses access to powerful options such as her Deflect and Creation.