Sundancer

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Alive

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Marissa "Mars" Newland, also known as Sundancer, is a member of the Travelers.

Personality

Marissa is a friendly girl that is shown to be at odds with Trickster's way of thinking, despite following his orders. She would prefer not to be involved with the Travelers and Coil, but it was her only hope of saving Noelle and returning to Earth Aleph.<ref name="Cast2">Sundancer, Marissa Newland (Returned home) – A young woman that has demonstrated the ability to create a miniature sun, hundreds or thousands of degrees in temperature, that she can manipulate at will. She has indicated some unhappiness with the group’s methodology, stating it is too high intensity and lonely for her tastes. - Cast (in depth)</ref>

She wanted to get away from her controlling stage show mother, she eventually did but not in the way she wanted.<ref name="SB1">There is a connection though.

Marissa's mother wanted her to shine, and she only found peace when she got away from the spotlight. Now she shines brighter than ever.

Luke was the pillar of the team, everyone's friend, the glue that held them together. Now he stands alone, and he destroys rather than support.

Jess was good at compartmentalizing her life, facing reality and entertaining fiction with monsters and superheroes in good measure. Now the lines between reality and dream are blurred, she has everything she secretly wanted for herself, and little else... Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>

Appearance

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She is an attractive young blonde woman with delicate features and a long neck.<ref>Plague 12.3</ref> Her costume is a suit of black body armor emblazoned with red suns.

Abilities and Powers

Marissa's power allows her to create a miniature sun, hundreds or thousands of degrees in temperature, that she can manipulate at will,<ref name="Cast1">Sundancer – A traveler, Sundancer wears a red and black costume with a sun motif. Her power lets her create a miniature sun, an intensely hot orb that can melt concrete and turn rock to ash. - Cast (spoiler free)</ref> even while the orb is out of sight.<ref>“Then tell me where to move it,” Sundancer’s eyes were closed. “I can’t see that far.”

“Out further, left, left, left,” the miniature sun slid twenty or so feet with every order I gave as I tracked the enemy’s position and the movements of the orb with the binoculars. “Short bit left and then out!”

I couldn’t look directly at the thing, but I saw Mannequin and Siberian wheel around as the blinding light of the orb caught their attention. Mannequin ran, and Siberian lunged forward. - Excerpt from Snare 13.6</ref> It is bright enough to leave spots in the vision of anyone who looks at it, even for a second.<ref name="5.9">Hive 5.9</ref>

She is able to create orbs the size of a three-story building,<ref>Echidna materialized out of the darkness the Grue had created.  She was nearly twice the height she’d been before, to the point that the human body on the top was miniscule, a speck by comparison.  A human figure atop a broad three-story building. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.4</ref><ref name="19.7 e1">Sundancer hung her head. She started approaching Echidna, her hands cupped in front of her.

“Move!” Chevalier shouted. “Clear out of the way!”

Capes began to retreat. Final patch-up jobs were thrown onto the mound of rock, forcefields and ice before the respective capes turned and ran.

It took Sundancer a long few seconds to form the miniature sun. When it was formed, she held it over her head, letting it grow with every passing second.

I had to back away as the heat reached me. I could note how the ice was melting, even though it was a hundred feet away.

Echidna roared and threw herself against her temporary prison. Rock and melting ice tumbled away. She began to claw free, until her upper body was exposed. Capes opened with ranged fire, tearing into her forelimbs and limiting her mobility. Alexandria dropped Tattletale and cast off her cape, before flying in and helping to hold Echidna in place.

“Marissa!” Echidna screamed, her voice guttural, voiced from five different mouths. “Mars! It’s too soon! I want to kill them! I want to kill them all! Kill this world! Destroy this universe that did this to me! Not yet, Mars!”

The sun flew forward, melting pavement as it traveled, before it enveloped Echidna, Alexandria and the prison of ice and stone.

It hung there for nearly a minute, deafening with its sizzling and crackling.

The sun flickered and went out. Echidna wasn’t there any more. Only sections of her feet were still in contact with the ground, bones and claws scorched black, crumbling and decaying like any part of her did when disconnected from the core that supplied her with power.

Alexandria was there in the midst of it, panting for breath. Her costume had burned away, and only the metal pieces remained, including helmet, belt and metal underwear, each so hot they were melting and running over her skin. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.7</ref> but even small orbs are dangerous.<ref>Sundancer created her flaming ball – small, but still far too bright to look at – and sent it after Kid Win. The young hero scrambled for cover, dropping his gun in his hurry to get away from the superheated orb. - Excerpt from Sentinel 9.3</ref> One the size of a beach ball was capable of forcing a fifteen-foot-tall Lung to collapse from the heat.<ref name="5.9">Hive 5.9</ref>

Can put out fire by flash burning oxygen and absorbing heat and flame into her sun.<ref name="14.3">Prey 14.3</ref><ref>A few seconds later, Tattletale was back on the phone, “Genesis is already making a body that can withstand the fire. Sundancer thinks she can clear away some of the blaze by flash-burning the oxygen from the area and drawing the heat and flame into her sun. If she can, it might give us some elbow room.” - Excerpt from Prey 14.5</ref>

Temperature completely normalizes close to her, preventing her from getting burned.<ref>There’s other limitations or advantages that come with the powers. Sundancer over there can’t be burned. Temperature completely and one hundred percent normalizes within a certain range of her body. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.3</ref> This effect extends to her clothes and the ground beneath her for about five feet. It doesn't extinguish flames, but prevents them from damaging anything.<ref name="5.9"/>

It took time to form the sun, with repeated flickers of flame appearing between her hands. When sufficiently transformed, Lung's pyrokinesis was able to prevent her attempts to form the orb.<ref name="5.9"/>

History

Background

Marissa was a member of a professional-level video game team on Earth Aleph.

Migration

When the Simurgh attacked Madison, WI on Earth Bet, she took several buildings from Earth Aleph - including the building Marissa was in - which left her stranded on Earth Bet with her friends. After Francis found a suitcase full of Cauldron superhero serum, they each took one except for Noelle and Oliver who only took half a dose.

Trivia

• Marissa took a combination of the Cauldron vials 55% of C-2-0-6-2, 'Prince' along with 30% of O-0-1-2-1 'Aegis' and 15% of C-0-0-7-2 'Balance'.<ref>Migration 17.6</ref><ref>Migration 17.7</ref>

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