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FOXFIRE
Name: Mae Ko
Hair: Red
Eyes: Green
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 155 Lbs.
Birth Country: Navajo Nation
Birth City: Chinle', Navajo Nation
Occupation:  Attorney
Group Affiliation: ANGEL Corps
Base of Operations: The Synidome
Character:
Origins:
 Mae’s parents died when
she was very young so she lived
with her grandparents, Niyol and
Rayen, her great grandparents,
Nastas and Doli and  and a great,
great grandfather named Ahiga in
a remote Chinle neighborhood.
Her grandmother, Rayen, was the
major income earner for the
family, having written a moderately
successful series of children’s
books about a young Navajo
warrior’s adventures and
ascension to power. When Mae
was 8 her grandfather, Niyol, was
44 and he began teaching her the
Navajo martial arts “Plains Indian”
system taught to him by
generations of Navajo
predecessors that many still
believe is a lost art. He also
showed Mae how the Navajo once
lived off the Earth fishing and
hunting. She continued her
training for 8 years until Niyol
could teach her no more and she
expanded the system herself. As
she grew up, Mae’s great
grandparents, Nastas and Doli,
made sure she understood the
great heritage of the Navajo dine’
(people), and taught her the
legends and stories handed down
generationally for hundreds of
years. Her great, great
grandfather Ahiga was 62 when
she was 8, but his family and
friends regarded him as a
loveable but silly old man clinging
to outmoded ideas about
shamanistic magicks. Mae loved
him very much for always making
her laugh and for taking her
around to many of the wondrous,
majestic sites on and off  the
Navajo reservation. Through
interactions at school and in town
with other teenagers, Mae learned
about the American life off the
reservation and craved to know
more. Seeing better advantages
to gaining knowledge from within
the American school system, she
worked hard to put herself
through Law School at the nearby
University of Colorado at Boulder
where she earned a Juris Doctor
Degree, a PhD in Environmental
Studies and an American Indian
Law Certification. Though her
enlightenment about modern day
America and technology largely
had her writing off Navajo stories
more and more as imaginative
tales from a very old tribe, she
decided to return to the
reservation for some downtime
before launching her career. This
was the exact time frame that the
global phenomenon that would
later become known as
"The
Neogen Flux"
would transpire. At
home, Ahiga had grown very ill but
he begged Mae to take him to a
special spot they had enjoyed
when she was younger. Ahiga’s
family would have no part of it due
to his fragile state. Defying their
will, Mae secretly brought Ahiga
away to the spot he craved where
he spoke about the legends of
Foxfire. He soon began to feel
pain and clutched his chest,
directing Mae to dig at a certain
spot. She dug down into the earth
and found a weathered receptacle
within which was a priceless
stylized fox head with twin blades
on either side of it. It resembled a
weathered clay mask Ahiga had
kept over the headboard of his
bed all his life. Earth tremors
kicked in when a dark evil entity
burst forth from a nearby cliff face
freed from imprisonment in the
mountain.. Mae ran with the fox
head returning to Ahiga where he
identified the evil entity as
Muganthra, an ancient death-
dealing monster reputed to have
been imprisoned inside the
mountain by Navajo legends
Monster Slayer and Child of Water.
Muganthra advanced on the pair .
The Foxfire artifact engaged,
allowing the pair to barely evade  
injuries, and then it changed into
a staff that transformed Mae into
Foxfire. Unfamiliar with her new
powers, Mae barely survived the
battle with Muganthra but she
managed to drive the creature off.
She used her powers to
strengthen Ahiga enough to get
him to a hospital where he
recovered (apparently he had
snuck in and indulged in some
very spicy food) and survived to
advise Mae on the powers of
Foxfire.
Powers:  Mae's abilities stem from
her affiliation with the Navajo Fox-
Spirit imbuing her with a
preternatural cleverness, guile
and stealth. She can borrow
strength from the Navajo people
selectively to enable her to lift 750
tons, can run at speeds of 200
mph and is resistant to injuries.
Mae possesses extrahumanly fast
reflexes, wide band vision
powers, a megahuman sense of
smell and advanced hearing. The
Foxfire spirit allows extreme
image casting and manipulation
powers that enable her to create
realistic illusions, fields of
darkness, fields of light and an
instant invisibility that cloaks
sight, smell and hearing.
Strength Level Unassisted:
Class 1-A Baseline Human Range.
Level 3.
Can press 200 Lbs.
Strength Level Power-Assisted:
Class 7. Megahuman Range.
Can press 750 Tons.
Arsenal:  Mae owns the Staff of
the Dine', topped with a stylized
double-bladed fox head made of
armoridium, the hardest known
substance that can cleave
anything in two.  The staff is made
of dispersium, able to absorb and
re-direct energy. The staff is also
able to facilitate a number of
powerful effects such as control
over super-hot flames, healing,  
protective force fields, body
takeover, balance restoration,
concussive blasts and flight. With
great effort,Mae can  summon
forth great Navajo warriors and
shamans from the past from
hundreds of lost and current day
Navajo tribes to aid her against
opponents.
Fighting Prowess:  Mae has
exceptional hunting, tracking and
combat skills, particularly with a
deadly Navajo martial arts fighting
discipline, called the "Plains
Indian" system, a discipline that
many thought lost. It includes
weaponry skills with various
bladed weapons and staffs. Mae is
also an exceptional marksman  
with a long bow and arrow.
Gear:  Mae's attorney income has
financed a large custom hogan
that has a hidden  passageway to
a secret  underground complex
loaded with high-tech equipment.
Standard Nanotech Armored
Protection Gear (SNAP-Gear),
lightweight uniforming system
equipped with onboard computer
array, variable feed power
sources, life-support, networking
and armored protection. A voice-
activated onboard computer ties
into tactical local and wide-area
networks using a “heads-up”
holographic transparent 17-inch
display panel while it monitors its
wearer’s physiology. A shield
mode provides operatives head-
to-toe protection.   
Adairian Adaptive memory
molecules enable SNAP-GEAR
uniforms to adapt to a host’s
application of wide arrays of
energies. SNAP-Gear is able to
transform into a small inventory of
various non-combat outfits pre-
loaded by its user.  
ANGEL Com (Communications
Device), a neural transceiver
implant that responds to basic
cybernetic commands. The device
utilizes ultra- sophisticated
cerebellinguistic algorithm codes
to translate human languages.
Once set, the device automatically
translates and feeds languages or
dialects in one’s native tongue
directly into the ear with an
average translatability percentage
ratio of 94.6% for all known
language patterns.