Editing Scion


{{Infobox character
|name = Scion
|alias = Golden Man
|gender = Masculine
|status = 
|relations = [[Eden]] (Mate)}}

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'''Scion '''was the first parahuman to make themselves known to the world. He is a mostly expressionless man with glowing golden skin, long golden hair, and a resplendent white bodysuit. Most people claim that he seems sad, although no one knows why.

==History==

On May 20th, 1982, a golden man was first spotted hovering above the ocean by a passenger on a cruise liner crossing from Plymouth to Boston. The golden man approached the ship and interacted with the passengers. He cured a man of cancer simply through touch, and inspired a new era of hope and optimism.

For years afterwards, the man restlessly travelled around the world, assisting and preventing countless crises around the world, ranging from car accidents to quelling an active volcano. It's also implied his actions prevented 9/11 and the levee failure caused by Hurricane Katrina.

After extinguishing a fire in Alexandrovsk, he was asked by a reporter who or what he was. He responded by shocking the world with the first and only word he has spoken in the past thirty years.

"Scion."

A word that meant descendant became the name for the first parahuman to appear on earth.

However, he was misunderstood - the actual word he used was 'Zion' because he had a deep longing for something akin to the human notion of a 'promised land'. What Scion longed for was the completion of a long-awaited cycle.

In 1987, only five years after Scion's first appearance, the first superheroes began to emerge from rumor and secrecy, followed soon after by villains. The illusions of them being divine figures was shattered fairly early on when the superhero [[Vikare]] attempted to quell a riot over a basketball game in Michigan. He was clubbed over the head and died hours later of a brain embolism. He was later found to be Andrew Hawke, one of the passengers who originally met Scion.

The golden age of heroes was thus short lived, but regardless, Scion continued to travel restlessly around the world.

He is the only one capable of turning the tide in a battle against an [[Endbringer]], but he isn't always guaranteed to show up. This is especially devastating in the case of Behemoth, who is effectively impossible to get close to. While he can fight them off, Scion appears either unable or unwilling to actually destroy them.

==Powers==

Scion, being the world's first parahuman, is almost godlike in his abilities and demonstrates a wide range of powers. In addition to flight, telekinesis, and super speed, Scion can produce a vast array of elemental lasers. These can freeze, burn, or disintegrate matter with ease. He is believed to be the most powerful parahuman on Earth.

==The Truth==
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Scion - or Zion - is not actually human at all. He never was.

He is the avatar of an inter-dimensional alien creature, often referred to as an [[Entity]]. He and his mate arrived on Earth hoping to exploit Humanity to continue their evolution, theorised to be a necessity of the lifecycle of their kind. Long ago, their race competed with itself for the limited energy across the different realities of their home planet. After nearly dying out, their species began to travel the stars, bonding parts of themselves (called '[[Shard|Shards]]', the pieces of themselves that give powers) with the lifeforms of planets they encountered, and survived and grew by granting part of their power to local beings, and learning from how these abilities were used in conflicts. After they learned all they could from a world, they regathered their Shards, absorbed all bonded life for energy, and then launched themselves into space again.

This process ends up destroying all copies of the planet across reality in the process.

Zion and his mate, [[Eden]], repeated this process across countless realities and worlds until they arrived on Earth Bet. However, Eden was killed by [[Contessa]] and [[Doctor Mother]] before the process began, leaving Scion alone and incapable of continuing, since he was unable of performing the cycle alone. He hovered above the Atlantic for days, depressed, until the cruise ship came upon him.

After a human - [[Kevin Norton]] - told him to perform acts of heroism he followed this course, hoping it would grant him some form of satisfaction or joy, since with the loss of his partner he had lost his purpose. When this did not happen, he nevertheless continued his heroic actions out of habit.

However, eventually, in 2013, Slaughterhouse Nine leader [[Slaughterhouse Nine#Jack Slash|Jack Slash]] convinced him to find meaning in destruction. Scion took the opportunity to experiment with his power by destroying the British Isles, a task he found as simple as crumpling paper in his hand.

Feeling a sensation equal to some form of pleasure, relief, or satisfaction, he decided to follow through with the destruction. Scion began with doing the opposite of what Kevin had told him to do - Scion ignited forest fires and killed parents, creating countless orphans. In response,  a coalition of heroes, villains, rogues and even  the Endbringers stood against him, but he was able to defeat them all. Eventually, [[Khepri]] united nearly all the remaining capes and used them as an army to fight Scion.

He was eventually defeated by his emotions after Khepri essentially bullied him to death, showing him images of Eden to call forth his feelings of loss and grief, and then used [[Doormaker]] to bring in [[Oliver]], who appeared as a third Entity for a second - long enough to paralyze Scion with grief. [[Foil]] then hit him with one of her bolts, allowing a cannon built by all the Tinkers combined with the shards of two [[Yangban]] members to kill him.

It turns out that all powers that parahumans have originated from Scion or Eden. While some of Eden's core powers have been removed - for example, the 'win' power that [[Contessa|Contessa ]]uses - Scion still has the strongest powers possible, including the strongest precognition power and his own copy of the 'win' power. Presumably, Scion has access to almost any power that has been demonstrated.
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