Furia Powers

Furia Powers
The Praetorian Hero
Creator:	David 2/Battlerock X
First Appearance:	"The Guardian Powers" #12
Game:	City of Heroes
Personal Data
Real Name:	Faith Powers
Known Aliases:	Furia
Species:	Mutant
Age:	'
Height:	'
Weight:	'
Eye Color:	'
Hair Color:	Purple
Biographical Data
Nationality:	Praetorian
Occupation:	Hero
Place of Birth:	Wales, Great Britain (Praetorian Universe)
Base of Operations:	Paragon City (Primal Universe)
Marital Status:	single
Known Relatives:	Kate Powers (sister, deceased), Katie Lea Powers (adopted sister), Galatea Powers (adopted sister), Kent "Icon" Powers (adopted uncle)
Appearances
The Guardian Powers
Known Powers
'
Known Abilities
Kinetic Mêlée, flight, willpower
Equipment
Praetorian Police equipment
This character is from the Praetorian Universe. This character is a member of the Guardians of the Dawn. This entry deals with an alternate universe.

Furia Powers is the last surviving member of the Powers family in the Praetorian Universe. She is the Praetorian counterpart of Faith Powers, the late sister of Lyon Powers. She would later become a member of the Guardians of the Dawn in the Primal Universe.

Character History

In the Praetorian Universe, the world was under attack from the Hamidon and the Devouring Earth. With whole cities falling, the decision was made to get as many survivors as possible and start anew.

One of the people recruited was Windham Powers, a British intelligence officer that oversaw the European hero efforts against the Hamidon. His organizational skills were essential for Marcus Cole, who was appointed "Global Commander". Windham agreed to help organize the heroes in the new city-state on the condition that his two daughters be brought over and given citizenship.

With the creation and opening of First Ward, Windham began working on the Powers Division, while his older daughter Faith began her training to become an investigator and younger daughter Katherine (or "Kate") attended primary education. Sadly, not long after the completion of Imperial City, Windham was found dead in his office. Members of the Destroyers were blamed for his murder and Praetor White, the new leader of the Powers Division, vowed he would make sure every Praetorian hero would bring the Destroyers to justice.

Following the death of their father, Faith became the legal guardian of Kate. But this time was short-lived as First Ward was attacked from below by the Hamidon. To stop the Hamidon aspects already inside, the decision was made to turn the sonic field inward. Evacuation transports ferried as many civilians and "prime citizens" as possible, and the last transport was waiting for Faith and her sister. However, an aspect of the Hamidon appeared and killed Kate before Faith could act.

Faith was evacuated to Imperial City, where she was honored by Emperor Cole. It was then, full of rage and anger, that Faith changed her name to "Furia Powers". With help of the other members of the Powers Division, Furia focused her energy toward cleaning up the city, particularly against the Destroyers.

But the one thing she could not do was let go of First Ward, even when the Emperor ordered that people "forget" about it. Her time in First Ward was a bright spot in her life, and she could not fathom giving it up to appease Cole. So she relied on her early training to compartmentalize her feelings to prevent the Seers from knowing.

Still, those thoughts would lead her to recognize a former resident of First Ward working for the Resistance that she was previously told was dead. The Resistance member told her that there were still a few hundred survivors still living in the outermost corner of First Ward and that they had been trying to get as many of them to safety as possible.

Returning to what was left of First Ward, Furia discovered that what she was told by the Resistance was true. Not only that, but she discovered that Cole had created special teams with orders to exterminate those survivors. Since all remaining survivors of First Ward still there are officially declared "dead", there would be no public backlash, since the special teams would "officially" be looking for Devouring Earth creatures.

Furia could not allow this to stand, although she knew that challenging the will of Cole would be suicide. So she made a deal with the Resistance to quietly bring as many survivors to Praetoria as possible. She would focus her efforts on every other threat to the city, but would leave the Resistance alone.

She seemed comfortable with this agreement, at least consciously. But weeks after, her nights were plagued with nightmares concerning the death of her sister.

Recruitment to Primal Universe

For reasons she did not understand, she was blackmailed by a mysterious caller to go to Studio 55, where she found a strange portal to the other-dimensional Pocket D nightclub. There she encountered Katie Lea Powers, her younger sister in the Primal Universe.

Katie Lea, the Primal Universe superhero known as Lyon Powers, had also been lured to Pocket D by a mysterious caller. The two compared notes and Lyon guessed that Libra was behind their arranged meeting as part of his overall plan for Praetoria concerning Midnight Arachnia.

With tacit approval from Vanguard, Furia returned to Praetoria with Icon Powers and ExGemini to try to find their missing friend. But their arrival was noticed by Neuron and lured Furia to the Magesterium to confront her about it. She was offered to become a praetor if she turned over Icon and ExGemini, but she refused. Neuron tried to kill her, but she managed to overwhelm him. She was then offered the same arrangement from a proxy to Emperor Cole with the added condition that if she refused him, she would never again be welcomed in Praetoria.

She gave her response by aiding Icon and ExGemini in the rescue of Midnight Arachnia and returning with Icon to the Primal Universe.

Primal Universe

Not long after her arrival in the Primal Universe, she was put under Vanguard observation.

She would later become a member of the newly-restored Guardians of the Dawn supergroup.

In "Guardians of the Dawn GRADUATION" #3, it was revealed that Furia was having problems adjusting to life in the Primal Universe. She was reprimanded several times for actions that were otherwise normal in Praetoria.

Powers and Abilities

Furia Powers is classified as a Brute archetype with Mutant origins.

Her primary ability is Kinetic Mêlée. She can project telekinetic (TK) energy as bursts. Initially these were projected through her punches, but she has expanded this to include short projected bursts of TK energy. Her strength also increases exponentially the longer she is in battle.

Her secondary ability is Willpower. She can internalize her TK power to give herself additional protection from damage or to heal herself.

As part of her expanding TK ability, she can propel herself in the air to fly. It is suspected that further development of her ability would give her greater control her internal energies.

Personality

Furia spent most of her life in Praetoria dealing with pain and loss. The loss of her family, especially her father and her younger sister, haunts her even to this day. She still suffers from nightmares surrounding their deaths.

She has learned to keep her feelings and thoughts bottled up to keep from being audited by the Seers, which allowed her to keep the secret of her double-life with the Resistance, but it has also made helping her adjust to her new life even more difficult.

Furia has bottled rage and anger, which she is able to vent through her TK energy, but occasionally it comes out in other ways. She never had a social life in Praetoria, mostly because she viewed everyone with suspicion, and also because she spent her off-time helping the Resistance get First Ward citizens into Praetoria.

Related Information

Furia Powers first appears in Issue #12 of "The Guardian Powers". She would later be the central character in the "Guardians of the Dawn 2012 Special" and eventually take center stage in "Furia and the Guardians".

According to the character's creator, Furia was originally designed to be an alternate to Galatea Powers. At one point it was believed she would even possibly take over the central focus in "The Guardian Powers", although that would eventually happen in the series that followed.