[Bixir] K'ur Salm {Justice League}

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.”
Psalm 23:4



General Information

Full Name:
K'ur Salm
Codename or Alias:
Pilgrim
Selma
Ul'gri-Shar ("Cosmic Wind")
Shar
Anonymity
Pilgrim is a forgotten anomaly from a distant galaxy. Her only presence lies in her deeds on Earth as a so-called superhero. She is primarily known in the rural parts of New England and the American Midwest. Though she is among the ranks of the Justice League, Pilgrim is often looked over compared to other members, particularly since she often avoids media appearances if it can be helped. For those that have come to know Pilgrim, it is as a quiet defender of the downtrodden.
Gender:
Female
Race:
Vellian
Age:
Seventy-seven human years
Place Of Birth:
Vel, Andromeda Galaxy
Occupation/Status:
Extraterrestrial Nomad
Alignment:
Good
Factions:
The Justice League
Canon Or Original?:
Original
Powers/Abilities:
Vellian Physiology
As a member of the Vellian race, Pilgrim is privy to the characteristics inherent in all of their kind. On a general level, Pilgrim is significantly superior on a physical level to most humans, though with distinct traits that certainly set her apart from those native to Earth.


Learned
Though Pilgrim presents herself as a wise, enlightened individual, zen-like and removed from worldly affairs, she is in fact quite intelligent in scholarly and scientific pursuits. Even before leaving Argus she prided herself on her understanding of applied sciences, chemistry, quantum physics and more. Though the rest of the Vellian people were not savages, Pilgrim was an exception in how devoted she was to these sciences, an interest that persisted when she came to Earth, and to this day as well. She can speak on equal footing with many of Earth’s foremost scientists and intellectuals, though only enough to hold a conversation with them. Technology is not Pilgrim’s strong suit in the least, and is not among the first things that come to her mind in conversations.




Aerokinesis
Pilgrim was among the Vellians believed to be blessed by the god Argus himself. Her powers that manifested were among the more powerful of these “blessings”, comprising the element of air itself. Ulgri-Shar, as she was known then, or “Cosmic Wind”, can not only manipulate, direct, and guide wind currents around her at will, but generate air itself with little to no effort, creating boundless potential and power upon a whim. The following techniques encompass a majority of what she is capable of:


Weapons/Items:
Vacuum Helmet
When traveling through the vacuum of space and other environments hostile to their physiology, Vellians wear a sealed helmet known as a Vacuum Helmet, or “Vac” for short. Vacs are often elongated in nature, styled around the wearer’s head while presenting a sharp, cone-like aesthetic. The helmet also covers the user’s neck and upper collarbone, also armoring those areas from attack if they aren’t already protected by other armor. The helmet is composed of a high-grade, alien material native to Vel that, while not as strong as adamantium or vibranium, can resist most attacks up to concentrated energy blasts or point-blank explosions.

Vacs are equipped with a highly advanced digital-mesh UI that doubles as an opaque visor, capable of faintly displaying the user’s eyes and mouth should the user desire to do so. The visor can revert to a translucent UI at a mental command, revealing the user’s face while still providing the user with critical mission data and feedback on their surroundings with high-end sensors. The capabilities of a Vac cannot be impacted by an electromagnetic pulse, its hardware protected within insulated Vellian technology.


Appearance

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Physical Appearance:
Pilgrim is an exceedingly tall individual, though not wide or physically imposing aside from her height. She stands about six and a half feet tall, weighing two-hundred pounds. As soon as someone sees Pilgrim’s face, it is immediately clear that she is not of this earth. Namely, Pilgrim holds a striking resemblance to the Turians of the Apien Crest. Her face (along with the rest of her body) is an icy-blue hue, pale and unseemly, though quite durable and more like hide than skin. Cyan warpaint marks the middle of her face, cresting up and towards the back of her head. Her eyes are a cold, sombering blue. Pilgrim’s hands are four-digits, and partially claw-like, though as opposable as any human’s.
Clothing and Armor:
Pilgrim wears the Vellian cosmonaut suit she wore when she first left Vel for the universe at large. It is light and form-fitting as far as Vellian armor goes, jet-black with silver LEDs lining the suit to denote functionality as well as the user’s life signs, dimming when they go to sleep. Pilgrim wears a long-flowing black shroud that drapes her entire body, stopping at her elongated ankles. Wearing her Vacuum Helmet in addition to this shroud conceals Pilgrim’s identity completely, giving the image of an enigmatic wanderer.


Personality

Sexual Orientation:
Pansexual
General Personality:
Pilgrim exudes a foreboding, solemn presence, a far cry from the ferocity Vellians became known for in the Andromeda Galaxy, though no less intimidating to those in her presence. Despite how imposing she may present herself to be (though more often than not this is unintentional), Pilgrim is very reclusive and usually avoids contact with humans whenever possible. On the off chance that she is forced to meet a human face to face, she will offer parting words at the very most before disappearing in a blur with her aerokinesis. Having never had a proper upbringing, Pilgrim does not know how to talk to others, let alone make friends. Though she is awkward and in most cases naive, she means well, and will make sincere efforts to befriend others.

Pilgrim cares a great deal for humanity, despite still understanding very little about them, how they think, or their society as a whole. She is a noble Samaritan, a bleeding heart who refuses to leave anyone to their fate if it means suffering, for others or for themselves. She believes that there is good in all humans, a people that are still able to be redeemed unlike her kind. Pilgrim has taken after religious and philosophical texts, taking them to heart in trying to understand humanity and how they (and through extension, herself) may benefit themselves from following their tenets. This unilateral faith (or longing to have faith) in humanity leads Pilgrim to be incredibly naïve towards humans, always taking their word and actions at face value. Though Pilgrim is not entirely stupid as to believe a criminal or someone that is unpopular among the masses, a perceptively devious or two-faced individual would not find it difficult to earn her trust, so long as they do not do anything to break that trust, or ask anything of Pilgrim that, in her mind, any Earthling, seemingly good-natured as they are, would not do.
Face/Voice: Vanessa Marshall

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Character's History

Siblings:
Nearly all Vellians are siblings of one another, born from the countless birthing Cradles that mandate their reproduction. Though Vellians are not all the same or completely identical, differences can be far more difficult to discern among their people, particularly by outsiders. Pilgrim does not consider any members of her race as siblings in the traditional sense, none of them anyone that she would or ever held a lasting relationship with.
Mother:
N/A (see Other Family)
Father:
N/A (see Other Family)
Other Family:
Vellians are reproduced via birthing Cradles that are fed genetic material from the Great Thul, the progenitor and undisputed ruler of the Vellian civilization. All Vellians owe their existence to the Great Thul, and their service for as long as they live.

History:

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Gautama Buddha




Vellia
The Vellians were a proud warrior race, settled in the Argus cluster of the Andromeda Galaxy. Dominated by martial culture, war was their life, subjugating entire civilizations in neighboring systems as a means of driving their war machine. They thrived on conquest, pledged to the cause of their enigmatic leader, Great Thul, whom they revered as a deity figure. Their destiny was to the stars and beyond, spreading the divine decree of their leader that they were the chosen children to inherit the universe.

Vellians were not raised in a traditional sense, bred into the martial programming designed for all of their kind. The only Vellian capable of reproducing was Great Thul, from whom the entire species depends on to continue their legacy, and entirely central to the Vellian civilization as a whole. All Vellians were siblings, cut from the same genetic cloth, even if they belonged to separate generations. They had no fathers or mothers; The Great Thul was the only guardian they needed in their lives, caring for his people and giving them life, who in turn lovingly served their Creator without question.


Ul'gri-Shar
K’ur Salm was born in the 12th Legacy of Vellians, one of the more disappointing batches in the eyes of Great Thul, physically inferior as they were to the last two Legacies which had been remarkably endowed with physical prowess and ambition that rivaled their Creator. K’ur was particularly inferior in the eyes of her supervisors, though not for lack of strength. She was hesitant when ordered to maim and kill her prey, and held back when she did. In spite of this moral weakness, K’ur remained steadfast to Great Thul and her programmed destiny, believing these trials were a test of her faith and resolve to the Creator. Whereas for the the other Vellians alongside her, they acted without question to prove themselves as obedient, skilled warriors, as was the actual intent of their training.

The undue attention that K’ur drew to herself for her aberrant behavior led to her handlers discovering that she was carrying the metagene. As far as Vellian scientists could understand, the metagene was a genetic anomaly that seemed to take place in the Great Thul’s reproduction in miraculous circumstances. It altered the subject’s physiology in untold ways, usually culminating in the development of abilities tied specifically to their metagene, the inner workings of which remained an enigma to their understanding of the Great Thul’s already inscrutable reproductive process.

K’ur Salm’s case was hardly the first. Anomalies of the metagene had been emerging ever since the First Legacy, and measures began to be taken to accommodate and even cultivate these “gifted” Vellians. The Great Thul offered no answers on this “metagene” or why it was in his essence, simply insisting that they were a part of his divine plan, and that they were as important, if not more important, than the standard rabble. This led them to be increasingly envied and antagonized, often resulting in them being forced into self-imposed exile, or simply vanishing off of the face of Vel, never to be seen again.

By the 12th Legacy, this process had become less extreme, and the Great Thul’s retribution upon those that dared to defy his command had cowed most of the prejudice out of those that might consider action against the “gifted”. Regardless, K’ur began to realize that the values that she had accepted as her own were not in line with her peers, and certainly not the Great Thul to whom she owed her very existence. As K’ur Salm, or as she had come to be known for her gift, Ul’gri-Shar, the “Cosmic Wind”, reached maturity, she was more and more certain of one thing and one thing only: There was no place in this society for a Vellian who spared life instead of taking it.


Exodus
K’ur’s ship crashed along the Eastern Seaboard, close to the cape of Delaware. She didn’t remain for long, ejecting from the vessel as soon as it had hit the water. Vellia bore no streams that weren’t magma, never mind oceans of chilling foam. K’ur bound for land as quickly as possible, her first experience on this new world making her terrified of what covers 96.5% of the planet’s surface. Half-conscious, she made herself scarce, as what seemed to be the local authorities closed in on her crash site. She was certain that she had been seen, though as she escaped deeper inland, any pursuers she might or might not have had grew less and less, until she was certain that she was alone in a field of corn. This world was her new home… and she was here to stay.

K’ur quickly found the rural community that she had taken refuge nearby, though she made sure to stay away, out of sight until she knew what was going on, or what the people on this planet were like. It took her Vac over a week of constant surveillance of these people, these “humans” before it could translate their language into something she could understand, and hers into what they could understand. However wary K’ur was of these people, so strange and intimidating this unknown was to her, she knew that eventually she would have to enter their society in some form or another. She could not remain an outcast as she had been among her own kind.

K’ur’s first forays into this town involved taking whatever sustenance she could find. The Vellian did not see this as unlawful or stealing (though it was), as in her society everything was provided for the warrior-citizenry, and crime as a concept was nonexistent. She remained undetected for a time, leaving a mystery thief in her wake. Finally, she was discovered by an elderly man of the neighborhood watch. Though the encounter was short-lived, the man’s declarations of K’ur as a “no-good thief” and a “worthless vagabond” haunted her thoughts as she fled the market. There was so little she understood of the world that she lived in, completely unprepared for any kind of life outside of the one that she had left behind. There was only one thing that K’ur Salm knew how to do.

The lost Vellian traveled about, though now on her winds, appreciative that this new journey was without the last vestiges of her civilization. K’ur did not remain in one place for long, though she primarily kept to cities, American cities specifically, drawn to these bastions of human society, places where she was most likely to learn about the human race. Although K’ur continued to scavenge for food and drink, she began to develop a palette for different kinds of terran delicacies, and the value of trade and commerce that human society (and all societies as far as she was aware) relied on. K’ur gradually interacted with humans more, though still under the cover of darkness, and in the guise of an enigma she crudely put together with her Vacuum Helmet and a cloak that she had pawned off of a homeless man. These encounters more and more commonly occurred by way of K’ur stopping a criminal from stealing or hurting the person in question. K’ur was introduced to the criminal element, and unjustness itself. With no interest in making herself known to the public, K’ur saw becoming a “vigilante” as humans were calling her, the most logical thing for her to do in order to fit in this world, where these kinds of people who opposed injustice, albeit outside the law (which she took many years to fully grasp), had begun to propagate themselves in recent years.


Finding Justice

K’ur Salm made a name for herself as the Pilgrim, a mysterious individual with tremendous power that traveled about American cities and towns, disappearing as quickly as she resolves whatever incident she arrives to resolve. Though she had been on Earth for twenty years now, she was just as new to all of this as any fledging vigilante fresh off the streets. That paradox of inexperience was put to the test when the Kree Empire staged attacks across the globe. She did not participate at first, keeping to the small communities that she had defended so far. This changed when she encountered Superman while fending off a Kree battalion in Smallville. She was moved by his words, and soon joined the rest of the superheroes in Manhattan, where the heart of the invasion had taken root. Pilgrim focused on saving as many people as she could, while Superman and other heroes took the fight to the invaders. Never once did Pilgrim consider herself like these would-be conquerors. She was of Earth. It was as simple as that. When the dust eventually cleared, Pilgrim received an invitation from Superman to join a group of people who wanted to help protect the world. Who was the Pilgrim to say no?

Pilgrim got on well with the members of the Justice League. Though she was comforted to be in the company of like-minded protectors, she often skirted their social events, appearing only when she was asked or needed. In that sense, Pilgrim's life did not change that much. However, these new people in her life would not have her remain isolated for too long. She came to know many of her peers in the Justice League, and beyond this circle as well. This came to include the illusive Darkwatch when the wrath of the Enchantress threatened the world. Pilgrim did not understand what was happening, only that the world was in danger and that the threat needed to be stopped. She remained unaware to the tension between the Justice League and Darkwatch until she saw Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate nearly coming to blows. Pilgrim failed to understand how there could be discord within a mutual goal, and one so noble at that. Her questions were largely dismissed. These nuances were apparently beyond the Pilgrim.

Pilgrim has maintained her reputation as a simultaneously mysterious and inoffensive member of the Justice League. She does what she can to remain distant from the so-called "politics" of the superhero profession that she has taken upon herself while striving to do the right thing. She is continuing to learn about the culture she has become so ingrained in. She must. It is her home now. Her only home.

Or so she thinks.


Role Play Sample:
(This is a tentative encounter that may or may not have happened in continuity.)