“What is it I do? I’ve given a lot of thought to how to explain it. I explore order, and balance, and symmetry, and harmony. I find a sound that pleases me and I work to translate that sound to a color or a gesture or a feeling. The appreciation of art unites all sapient races, and the soul of art is order. When I change a sound to an image and an image to a sound, I am strumming upon the very soul of art.”

–Lucia 

 

“I felt devastated. The composition didn’t go over well. It didn’t come out like it was in my head, and they clapped not because they liked it but because they were polite. I wanted to go home and cry. I couldn’t even manage a smile, but then I saw my friends in the audience, Amy, Matthew, and Tanya…and I knew I was going to be okay.”

–Lucia

 

Name:

 

Lucia Regio

 

Supername:

 

The Conductor

 

Average Grade:

A

 

Emergency Response Class:

 

2

 

Lucia isn’t interested in superheroics at all. She’s an artist, not a fighter. But after being pressured to at least try emergency response classes past the rudimentary level in light of how much help she was in sealing off Earth from Fairy during Morgause’s attack on the Sandcastle Contest, she took up ERC 2 and stayed with it because she liked how it allowed her to work off her frustrations. She doesn’t plan on going for 3.

 

Personalized Curriculum:

 

Flight Club, Superpowers and Culture

 

Lucia wants to use her powers to create not only art for humans but art for alien species. She believes art and beauty can unite cultures and create peace. In her Superpowers and Culture class, Lucia is learning how to create and use devices that convert the sounds and images her powers create into forms species with senses different from man, such as the Estrel who visually perceive electromagnetic radiation much differently from humans, can experience.

 

Lucia takes flight club not only because flight adds a dynamic element to her performances, but because she finds flight relaxing. After putting on a performance, she can often be found in the troposphere bathing in the clouds and idly strumming the air with her power.

 

Contact Education:

 

Kurtzberg Foundation For Extraterrestrial Culture

 

The Kurtzberg foundation serves as Lucia’s management. They arrange for her to perform not only for humans but for all kinds of sapient beings.

 

Hyperstasis:

 

Somatic Telekinesis

 

Lucia is a somatic telekinetic. By gesturing with her hands, she can cause a variety of telekinetic effects. Pointing, clapping, snapping, and flipping can create colors, sounds, and shockwaves. Her supername comes from her looking like an orchestra conductor when she uses her powers.

 

Though all the chirping, bleating, harping lights she creates with her telekinesis may look like thoughtforms, they are not. They are not alive and are simply constructs controlled by Lucia.

 

Lucia’s powers might look pretty and dainty, but they tap into vast reserves of immeasurable astral energy. She would make a powerful superheroine if only that was something she was interested in. But she would much rather use her powers as an artist creating performances that combine music, visual art, and dance into one.

 

She lives to make people feel something, not to beat them up.

 

A chief limitation of Lucia’s powers, as well as the powers of all somatic telekinetics, is that she must be able to gesture to use her powers. Her powers are controlled by neural pathways in the posterior parietal cortex which also control motor function in the hands. When she moves her hands, she uses her powers, and when she uses her powers, she moves her hands. When she moves her hands idly without willing her powers to activate, they activate in the form of 300 kHz radio waves. One can tune into Lucia with a radio set.

 

Behavior:

 

Exemplary

 

Lucia is a very well-behaved student. Her only concerns come from the stress placed upon her by the expectations of others and her own exacting standards.

 

Lucia has performed in front of packed stadiums. She has used the sky itself as her canvas. Her performances have been the first time many extraterrestrials have seen a human. Performing is her life. It is not a hobby. It is not a job. It is her life. And she loves her life. But that love comes with a mountain of stress. Lucia is constantly pushing herself to up her game.

 

If she performs for aliens that see in infrared, she wants to perform for extraterrestrials that see in ultraviolet next. She becomes moody and depressed if anything goes wrong during a performance.

 

Lucia rarely has time to socialize with other students due to how often she rehearses. Because she often turns down offers to hang out and refuses to advance her emergency response class beyond 2, some students think Lucia is a snob. They believe that Lucia thinks herself too special to learn how to fight like the rest of them. They work hard learning how to defend people from danger while Lucia lets people gawk at her for being pretty.

 

This belief couldn’t be further from the truth. But some students still hold to it–likely because they’re either jealous of the success Lucia has earned or don’t understand how much work Lucia puts behind her art.

 

Lucia is troubled by the degree of untapped power she possesses–or to be more exact, by what others have to say about it. There is no measurable limit to the amount of energy she can produce. In theory, she could snap her fingers and create a star instead of a tiny firework. There are tests that could be done to more accurately access Lucia’s power, but Lucia has declined them. She’s afraid they might tell her “We’re sorry Lucia, but we still can’t find an upper limit.” She wants nothing to do with cosmic power. Power isn’t what she’s about.

 

But some people believe that’s exactly what she should be about.

 

It’s a well-known fact that on average, men and women handle superpowers differently. Men are more likely to seek empowerment and strengthening. Women are more likely to seek nullification and weakening. Men push against the limits of their powers. Women accept their limits or even increase them. Many have seen this as a great injustice to be corrected and encourage women through whatever means to take on more power.

 

Why it has to be a bad thing to not want to seek power is a question they typically don’t ask themselves.

 

“The powerful girl that dulls her own powers.” is considered by many to be a vicious stereotype, and some of Lucia’s teachers fear she is falling into that stereotype. They encourage her to seek power. She could be mighty. She could be commanding. She could wield cosmic levels of authority.

 

This puts Lucia under a lot of stress because she could care less about being mighty, commanding, and having authority.

She wants to make art. That is simply all there is to her ambitions.

 

Lucia wonders why so many adults around her have to act like its a waste that she’s an artist and not a superheroine. Did they want everyone to be a superheroine? Was that really all there was to their world–just power and danger and fighting?

 

Lucia believes that art and culture makes a world that’s worth having superheroines protect it.

 

Appearance: 

 

Perhaps the girliest of all of the girls of Martin’s, Lucia loves dressing up and looking her best. She wears a lot of black dresses–it’s what conductors wear after all–and jewelry. Some of her jewelry is quite valuable, especially the ones given to her as gifts from alien representatives, and because of their value she doesn’t actually wear them. Instead, she wears photite duplicates and only wears the real versions for performances.

 

Lucia loves gloves. She has more pairs of gloves than shoes and dresses combined. Gloves are incredibly important to Lucia’s performances. Her gestures aren’t just to make the performance happen, they’re part of the performance just like the telekinetic lights and sounds. It’s a dance the way she moves her hands, and she tries to take the best care of her hands. That means top-of-the-line gloves–all the top-of-the-line gloves. Typically, they’re flawless white. But she does have other colors such as light pink. Recently, Lucia has been experimenting with gloves that change colors in time with her performance. She wants to create a performance that draws the audience to her hands as much as they’re drawn to her lights and sounds.