CITY OF HEROES - LIBERTY SERVER'S The SOLUS Foundation OLYMPIAN LEGACY
The son born of that fiery coupling, Brandon, didn't appreciate the humor, at least not as the undersized, geeky, glowing blue-eyed and green-haired child who had been mutated by the radiation while only a few cells old. He grew up rebellious and frustrated at his teen idol parents. It wasn't until both his parents died heroically alongside their companions during the Rikti War that Brandon saw them, and their lifestyle, in a different light. It was then that he vowed to live up to what he thought would be their hopes for him. Donning a blue and green jumpsuit, all he could afford, he tried to become a hero like his parents. When it was discovered that Captain Superior, the leader of the SOLUS Collective during its last days - and "Uncle Cap" to Brandon - had been found alive in the rubble, he rushed to the comatose hero's bedside and helped the doctors work the fallen hero back to health. It was under Captain Superior's tutelage that Brandon, in a new, designer uniform, learned to use his mutant abilities to carry on where his parents left off. Flying , fighting, and studying side-by-side with his girlfriend, Riane Vendaval - known heroically as Gyrfalcon - Brandon adapted to the loss of his parents and moved on. Almost two years later, a pair of twin miracles saw the return of both his parents as Blastion Redux and Empathy's Requiem. But Brandon's joy was short-lived, as another tragedy, this one wrought by the Circle of Thorns, took the essences of his parents away from him yet again - leaving him to be haunted by their bodies, still animated by the Kheldians Kyrbykr and Apihelion. With this most recent blow, the quiet and somewhat naive Brandon Moore had finally had enough. As Empathy's Child, he swore revenge on the Circle of Thorns until and unless his parents were returned to him. Donning a new uniform, designed with the darker aspects of both his parent's newer suits in mind - he quit school and took to the hunt, determined to use the weaker powers passed down from his father to punish the Circle and anyone else that stood in his way. Months later his parents' spirits resurfaced. While no one ever knew what actually happened, the fact that they were back - still Kheldian, but back - brought peace to Brandon for the first time in years. But the years of struggle, combined with his companionship with Riane, brought its own silver lining. He'd grown stronger, more confident, and comfortable with himself and his abilities. With that confidence came an understanding that, though the legacy of godlike powers left him by his parents would always be a part of him, they no longer defined him. It was then that he finally came into his own. Changing his heroic name from "Empathy's Child" to "Olympian Legacy," Brandon Moore embraced his stronger empathic abilities, finally choosing the inheritance his parents had wanted for him in the first place - happiness. Read about the loss of Brandon's parents and his, and the SOLUS Foundation's, coming to terms in: Heroes
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