Najm

Full Name: Najm bint Abū 'Ubaidah (Arabic: نجم ابنة أبو عبيدة)
Codename: Huraiyrah (Arabic: هريرة‎)
Nickname(s): Star, Kitten, Blue, Najma, Naggie
Alias(es): The Catnip Addict
Age: 16
Birth date: September 19
Classification: Metahuman
Affiliation: Good
Theme Song: Ivanka



Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Startling Blue
Height: 127 lbs
Weight: 5'4"
Other: Najm is a young Arab-Punjabi girl with otherwise fair skin and bright blue eyes as a result of her powers. He hair reach shoulder-length and are shaped so that at the top of her head they resemble a cat's ears. Very much a female version of Stasis when it comes to dress and appearance, she is commonly seen dressed in this. Her signature trait when it comes to dress is a liberal amount of blue eye-shadow that adorns her eyes. As a shape-shifter belonging to the race known as the Imperium (who absorbed their shape-shifting abilities from the Martians), she also has certain other fundamental appearances.

• True Base Form: Najm's true form, in which she is vulnerable to sunlight. (Click me!) She is incredibly scared of showing this form to others because she knows it might scare them all to Hell. Due to the history, as well as the appearance, associated with this form, it is also a reason she considers herself a monster.
  
• Martian Base Form: (Click Me!) Najm's standard Martian form. She normally reverts to this form when she is exhausted and needs rest. She also considers herself a monster in this form as well and only reverts to it in the safety of her room, before 'going to bed'. She is vulnerable and can be more easily injured in this state.
  
• Martian-Humanoid Form: (Click Me!) Also known as her 'superhero' form, this is what most of the world would come to associate with the Teen Titan known as Huraiyrah. In this form she stands at least 6'7" tall (comparatively, Superman is 6'4" and Batman 6'2") and has green skin with dark green stripes (imagine the skin in the picture to be green instead of blue) and yellow eyes, a tail and dresses in what appear to be African style clothing.
  
• Angel/White Najm: (Click Me) White Najm is an angelic figure that symbolizes Najm's most primal, significant and powerful version of herself, mostly shown as a symbol of her highest hidden power and her inner purity against the consuming evil of the rest of her race. She looks exactly like Najm's human form, except she has white angel wings sprouting from her back, white hair, white clothing and lacks the eyeshade.

===POWERS===

Powers: Najm belongs to the race of the Imperium, a civilization of space-faring, parasitic aliens. They are often also referred to simply as the 'White Martians', as they absorbed some of the vast powers of the Martians of the planet Mars roughly one thousand years ago.

• Shapeshifting: The most incredible of the powers of the Martians that the Imperia absorbed is the ability to shape-shift. Najm is able to literally control the molecular structure of her body's structure and make it resemble anything she wants, be it animal or human. She can form clothing, weapons with nonmoving or nonfunctioning parts. She can contort her physical structure allowing her to adopt human form, elongate her limbs, grow to immense size, and so on. She is also able to change colors. She commonly assumes her human form (seen in the picture, above), but has three other commonly assumed forms, which are discussed in detail in the 'Other:' section (see above).
  
• Empathy: The Imperium never really were able to completely absorb the Martian power of telepathy due to its sheer vastness, but got at least "half" of it. As an empath, Najm is able to perceive and sympathize with the emotional strength of other beings, allowing her to possess a natural emotional affinity towards other living things. Najm can also perceive mental impressions from the minds of others and on a low level, transmit her thoughts to other people as well, making this power somewhere on the borders of high-level empathy and low-level telepathy.
  
• Occlumency: Due to her own mental abilities, Najm has a degree of telepathic/empathetic immunity against other telepaths and empaths. She can successfully shield her thoughts and emotions from other, unsuspecting individuals with similar powers, play mind games with them, and/or deceive them. She is also able to tell when another telepath is sneaking in, allowing her to shut off her thoughts and reserve them.
  
• Alter Density: Another power absorbed from the Martians, an Imperia can increase his or her molecular density to become tougher and stronger, all the way to becoming as hard as diamond, giving her superhuman durability and superhuman strength, as well as decrease it to become incorporeal and thus able to pass through solid objects. Unlike normal Martians, who can do this as second nature, Najm has to concentrate to alter her density and so it leaves her mentally drained the harder or more incorporeal she becomes. She can also alter her structure to bend light waves around herself, making her invisible to the naked eye.
  
• Flight: Another power absorbed from Martians, an Imperium like Najm flies by manipulation of gravitons (a subatomic particle associated with the force of gravity), manipulation of magnetic fields and control of her absolute molecular movement. These combine to give her the ability to fly great distances with little fatigue and at great speed. She has been seen to fly at Mach 3 speeds in the Earth's atmosphere. Her bio-polymorphic skin and overall toughness make these speeds bearable and cause her no injury.

===PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE===

Likes: Toy mouses, catnip, milk, balls and other such round things, people who do their work without question, people who are not complete idiots, level-headed people, meat, television, Animal Planet, National Geographic Channel, reading books, winning an argument, winning a fight, hearing secrets, people with a sense of humor, work, sofas, relaxing on sofas, tearing sofas


Dislikes: Fire, being addicted to catnip and it being her weakness, vegetables, being bored and having nothing to do, people who are too easygoing, outgoing, lively, arrogant or those who ignore their basic duties, parties, flirting, food, alcohol, sand, people too busy playing practical jokes, people who whine too much, pricks, scaredy-cats, getting caught doing things she's not supposed to be doing, losing an argument, losing a fight, traitors, her own killing intent, her Feral Form


Weaknesses: Najm, belonging to the race of Imperia, not only absorbed the powers of Martians but also their weaknesses, only adding to some of their own.

• Sunlight: An Imperium's primary and only original weakness is their vulnerability to sunlight. They are generally nocturnal, and can be severely injured or killed by exposure to direct yellow sunlight. Their white skin literally begins to boil and they soon melt into a disgusting white goo of deceased organic matter. This is only true for their natural, white forms, and otherwise, if they are transformed into another species native to the planet whose sunlight they are exposed to, they are resistant.
  
• Psychic Pyrophobia: A weakness absorbed from the Martians, the Imperia have a psychosomatic fear of fire. It is a paralytic fear with Najm. Exposure to fire, causes her to lose her powers, in the case of large fire, to lose her control over her biomorphic form, and in the case of extreme fire, reverting her back into her true white Imperium form, able to be disintegrated to sunlight.
  
• Catnip Addiction: While the Martian Manhunter was addicted to the Earth snack, Chocos, Najm shares a similar weakness/addiction, but of catnip. It has been suggested that something within Najm's physiology makes her addicted to the chemicals found in the Earth herb. She must indulge in catnip at least once a day, or pushing it, once every two days. Withdrawal symptoms include violent bursts of rage, and loss of intellect.
  
• Cynophobia: Due to her experiences with the Hollowman Werewolf, Najm has recently developed an inherent fear of canines (dogs, wolves, et cetera) as well. While it is not as powerful as her fear of fire as in it does not negate her powers or anything, she still becomes really uncomfortable and apprehensive around canines.

Skills:

• Arsenal: She is moderately skilled in wielding firearms, shown by the sidearm she carries with her to use when things get a little too much for her feline powers to handle; unlike other heroes, she does not feel it anything wrong with using guns. This is because she has used the high-tech Imperium weaponry stolen from Martians in the past.
  
• Technology: Having lived and leeched off the highly civilized Martian race for more than five hundred years, all Imperium were well acquainted with the complexities of technology, especially Martian technology. As the tech of Earth is rather primitive, Najm is able to maintain most regular everyday things, such as Nightmare frying the microwave.
  
• Detective: She is an aspiring detective due to, and possessing, her naturally keen intellect and sharp mind.
  
• Polyglot: She is also a polyglot; speaking several languages including English, Arabic, Imperian, Martian, Urdu/Hindi, Punjabi, Sindhi and minor Persian.
  
• Wisdom: Despite being rather quiet and withdrawn most of the time, Najm, being an Imperium, has lived for thousands of years and thus possesses a degree of wisdom over her teenage friends, and can offer a supporting ear or a lending hand to those who need it.

Equipment: She carries a sidearm with her for when things get bloody, as well as a Titans communicator.


Habits/Quirks: She displays several cat-like traits such as playing with balls and an addiction to catnip. She also has a tendency to change her appearance for a day just for the heck of it, especially when she's bored, so if you suddenly find Katie Holmes shredding your sofa using her nails in her underwear, you should know that its not a Sign of the End Times. Yet.


Personality: Lazy, and quite the curious, nosy scoundrel. Najm's a girl who considers herself rather ordinary and with nothing to lose. It was long ago that she gained this mentality, and with it came a general sense of fearlessness, listlessness, and casual indifference. Every bit the Raven of the Titans East, she puts up a facade of being cold, and is also studious and sarcastic. She can almost always come up with a witty remark, specifically in reply to most of her teammates' antics and attempts at humor. Her appearance and attitude appears to be that of a typical modern goth female. Huraiyrah, when not in her animal or half-animal forms, is often portrayed as the most mature member of the group, often giving sage advice to the others about various subjects, and generally staying calm even in desperate situations. She conducts herself very calmly and with a certain sort of grace... Besides her tendencies to speak her mind, however foul or disrespectful it may be.

She is also an embodiment of the no-nonsense personality. Whatever she may do, she does not tolerate when other people associated with her, such as the Titans East on a mission, goof off or don't pay attention. She is helpful to others, to the extent of sacrificing her own possessions if they could benefit a poor stranger or a wayfarer without complaining. However, if attacked, very much like a cat, she fights back as viciously and savagely as possible (ninety percent of the time she's fighting she's an animal, so that should be self-explanatory). When wronged, she may not go out of her way to exact vengeance, but she certainly won’t pass up an opportunity to get even. This ruthless, “eye-for-an-eye” behavior is displayed only to those who she believes have maliciously wronged her (or who have wronged her friends).

However, Najm does not withhold even the slightest chances of forgiveness or mercy, and always tries to forgive the first offense, maybe even further offenses if she truly believes the person could turn over a new leaf. That does not, of course, mean that she would let a criminal go without sending him to jail first, but someone who wronged her personally would be forgiven, of course. In the company of people she finds comfortable and good-natured, Najm has the potential to be quite friendly and extremely docile. There is a certain sweetness and warmth to her, despite her somewhat dark and no-nonsense personality, that makes her somewhat approachable. Very much in similitude to a lonely stray cat that will shred your flesh to ribbons if rubbed the wrong way, she's just a bad person to bully, but even so, not above forgiving.

As hinted previously, her personality also seems to vary with the animal or part-animal transformations she assumes. For example, in both lioness forms, for example, she is queenly, possessing a majestic aura about her. As a tigress and part-tigress she is cunning, clever and bloodthirsty, very much like your average evil mastermind but still on the good side. As a leopard or part-leopard she maintains a feral and shrewd get-go while the domestic cat/panthress and Feral Cat/Feral Panthress sees her as strangely playful, prankster and openly seductive even. These are just some of the few examples of the personality shifts that she seems to go through in her transformations. As long as she is human however, she retains traits mentioned in the previous paragraphs.

===PERSONAL BACKGROUND===

Family: fam·i·ly [fam-uh-lee, fam-lee] noun, plural -lies, adjective
A basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not
Place of Origin: Faisalabad, Pakistan
History: Born in Faisalabad, Pakistan to a Pakistani mother and an Arab father, Najm was named for the Arabic word for 'Star', from where she gets her many nicknames. Ever since she was growing up she had a strange affinity for cats as all stray cats in her immediate neighborhood automatically flocked to her for no apparent reason. As she was growing up, her mother passed away and she moved over to America, where her father worked. It was here, that as she hit puberty she began to manifest her cat like powers. She did not know how they originated or where they came from, but she just had them. Soon enough, she began to train her powers and discover their use by herself. Being an intelligent young girl, she managed to explore her powers and their applications and limitations to quite the extent. Her father however once caught her upon returning home from work and was literally scared out of his wits.

She explained to him the nature of her powers and was apprehensive that he might somehow end up hurting her or send her to some Metahuman Treatment Center or something, but she was warmed when she heard that he supported her; and he also hinted that he knew them better than she did. It led Najm to wonder what exactly her father was hiding from her, as well as the origin or her strange abilities, but she did not delve into it, trusting her father and respecting his secrecy. When she heard of the high concentration of similar Metahumans in the place called Jump City - which was miraculously a place where despite having so many mutants had a preferably stable crime rate thanks to the Teen Titans - she asked for her father's permission and he arranged for her to be moved there.

Najm, as the superheroine Huraiyrah, meaning 'kitten' in Arabic, now prowls the streets of Jump City and intends to build up a good reputation for herself as a local protector among the many there are, and maybe join the Titans if she is allowed to.

But is that really her real history, or something she made up to cover the truth? The truth will soon be revealed...

I dig it. Welcome to the team... Again lol

Dear Simca,

I always had some trouble with the Martians. To me, there's only one good MArtian (no, not a dead one). That'd be this little fellow:



But I digress. I want to talk to you about my Martian Problems. I have taken a liking for J'onn J'onzz simply because his character is very well put together, but his powers are so over the top to me. I'll explain, seeing you share his powers:

He can change into anything. As you said, weapons as well. He'd virtually be able to adapt to any situation and if he knew what it wasn, he'd become an instant specialist in transforming into an I Win-button. Furthermore the density thing. Invisible is one big feature, like Harry Potter's Cloak of Invisibility, but you can also show yourself, but punches still go through you. At any time you'd like.

If I was him, I'd materialise to hit and instantly dematerialise to avoid getting hit with anything. And seeing Martians can fly, there's hardly a safe place for those hunted by them. And they're psychic as well!

However, it is my belief you present such a firm roleplayer that you do not intend to be godmodding with this character. I believe so with pointing evidence at your impersonation of Kara.

I will be watching you, but I kinda reckon you already knew I would.

APPROVED

You just be happy I didn't put in a Martians' superhuman strength, speed, ability, reflexes, stamina, invulnerability, Martian vision and uber-godmod telepathic powers.

Plus, no matter how powerful J'onn, Najm or any Martian gets, in the end all you have to do is light a matchstick to paralyze them or start a fire to scare them away. Or, in Najm's case, throw catnip. o.o So, I never really see a Martian as that godmoddish at all, really...

o.o;;

but whatever. Thankies!

*glomperz Marvin*

Actually currently Jon Jonnz has gotten over his fear of fire and Miss Martian has continued to fight when set on fire before, but hey that's comic world XD