Kiara Lidellan

Kiara Lidellan is a superhero on the Superhuman task force.

Early life
Kiara was born to Alicia Lidellan and Samuel Lidellan on a farm in the rural west of Lestigue’s capital. Kiara was, oddly enough, the only Super in her family apart from her mother, who never wanted to talk about them. The smallest in the family, Kiara always seemed to have boundless energy and could never really sit still.

Discovering her powers
As she got older her powers became more and more prevalent. The more she ran, the faster she ran, and the harder she got hit, the harder she hit back. When she was thirteen, her powers truly manifested when she was running from a bully. The bully caught her and hit her in the back of the head, which broke the bully’s hand and left Kiara standing there, glowing.

Kiara was left with energy enough to run and get help, and be back with the teacher in under five seconds. She realised the more she got hit, the more energy would be stored. She experimented over the next few years, finding more ways to gain the energy, and figuring out exactly how to divert it to what she needed.

With this experimentation came a harsh realisation when she was 16, that if she used more energy than she had stored, she would use up her own energy reserves. Over the course of a week, her body had almost consumed all its fat, leaving her at a very skinny 40kg and unable to gain the weight again. It would have killed her had she not met Stanley, a young man new to the hospital who had broken his arm in a street brawl. They became friends and got talking. Kiara explained why she was in the hospital, and Stanley listened intently before explaining his ability to turn sunlight into energy blasts – something a local street gang wanted him to weaponize for them – and he offered to get Kiara back on her feet.

Kiara meets Stanley
Kiara accepted, and felt more energy than she ever had before. Her frail frame still belied her energetic nature, but she was healed. Stanley and Kiara became close friends and were inseparable for a year before Stanley had to go back home to Traven to bury his grandmother. Kiara didn’t hear from him for a full year after that, but she came up with her own management plan which did not involve Stanley’s help. Although she never said it out loud to him, she had a crush on Stanley for most of the time they were hanging out. These affections changed when he left, and she no longer had him in her life.

Coming out
Kiara started to date her first girlfriend, Allie, at the age of 17, which was of no surprise to her mum who had been the first to notice Kiara’s bisexuality. Allie broke up with her publicly six months into the relationship, leaving Kiara humiliated and angry. She ran from her farm to the city in a matter of an hour, an extremely painful experience by the end of it. Stumbling through the city, she collapsed outside of the Lestigue Police Department headquarters.

Meeting the first heroes
She woke up shortly after an impact to find herself being carried inside by Rock Solid – one of her favourite heroes – and being placed on a bed. When she woke up again her mother was by her bedside, and Kiara looked for her saviour but didn’t see him. The news on the wall was a full week afterwards, and showed footage of the Taskforce in disarray, avoiding cameras. Kiara knew something had happened and it wasn’t good. This was confirmed by what became one of the scariest moments in Kiara’s life, watching Rock Solid return to the precinct, smash a pane of glass, and demand something to hit. She had never even heard of Rock Solid getting angry, let alone this upset, and she wanted to help him. She got up, moved towards him, and, as he was unprepared for the touch of her hand, he hit her in the face accidentally, destroying his robotic arm. But the hit made her glow and healed her muscle wastage, providing her with extra energy. Kiara felt better, but Clayton felt worse for hitting a 17-year-old girl, and so he offered to take her and her mother home, but her mother declined.

Becoming a hero
Kiara went home and applied to the police academy shortly afterwards. She had seen on the news the tragedy that had befallen the team, with Byte and Cyberia seriously injured on a mission, and she felt she needed to join them. She was not aware that Stanley would also be joining her in the academy, applying separately.

When Kiara was accepted to the academy, she had Rock Solid’s encouragement, even if he never visited her until the day of the Superhuman Taskforce selections, when she fought Besupo and his hammer as her test. She became best friends with Lauren, Rock Solid’s sister-in-law, and soon the Superhuman Taskforce had a full complement of Supers.

Kiara was partnered with Stanley, and they completed many missions together. Kiara became adept at draining force fields and nanotech in an instant, and Stanley was an adept fighter and technician. Between them, there was nothing they couldn’t breach, and thanks to Kiara’s small size, she often would go unnoticed until she was right on top of the villains, at which point there was nothing they could do. Despite their time together, Kiara never mentioned to Stanley how she felt when she was younger, choosing to keep him as a friend. But she did work up the courage to tell the superhumanly strong Walker how she felt, and was very surprised when she felt the same way. They became a couple a few months later and they were happy until Walker was mind-controlled and went back to Edgehart for her family, a death sentence for a public Superhuman there.

Drug abuse.
Kiara began abusing alcohol late in 2299, after an accident befell her father. She blames herself for the ensuing death of William, as he would not have died had she not been at the pub when a wave of deadly energy washed over the pub, killing everyone apart from her inside. Shortly after the Turn of the Century, having lost William, Walker and Clayton Matthews in as many days, Kiara was found to have overdosed on a dangerous drug and had been taken to hospital.

Powers and Abilities
Kiara has the ability to absorb, store and redirect kinetic energy into incredible strength, or speed. This reduces her stamina, however she is able to regain it quickly.