Lady Photon

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Lady Photon</default></title>

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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> Sarah Pelham, known publicly as Lady Photon or Photon Mom, if you're the media, is the leader of New Wave.<ref name=cast/>

Personality

She tended to appeal to emotion.<ref name="15.x" />

She disliked the nickname "Photon Mom" given to her by the media.<ref name=7.9e1>The leader of New Wave had named herself Lady Photon, but in the wake of New Wave’s founding, and the revealing of their secret identities, the media had latched on to the idea of a superheroine mom and dubbed her Photon Mom. It was apparent to anyone who followed cape news that the name really bugged her.

Lady Photon’s daughter and niece were in the air with her. Laserdream and Glory Girl. Mother and daughter shared the same general powers; flight, the ability to raise forcefield bubbles around themselves, and the ability to project lasers from their hands. As a consequence, their fight with Purity was something of a light show. - Excerpt from Buzz 7.9</ref><ref name=CastID>Lady Photon, Sarah Pelham – Arguably leader of New Wave, wife of Manpower, mother to Laserdream and Shielder, sister of Brandish. Known to most as ‘Photon Mom’, to her annoyance. Has the powers of flight, the ability to create a personal forcefield bubble, with various lesser applications, and ‘hard light’ blasts from her hands. Wore a white bodysuit with a starburst motif in an indigo-purple gradient, complete with a tiara. - Cast Page (In-Depth)</ref>

She disliked it when Brandish brought up the time they were kidnapped.<ref name="15.x" />

Appearance

Sarah is an attractive woman, with a heart-shaped face, full lips, and straight blonde hair.<ref name="8.5">Lady Photon and the eighteen year old Laserdream landed beside Armsmaster, making a small splash as they touched down.

You could see the family resemblance. They weren’t supermodel good looking, but they were attractive people, even with their hair wet and plastered to their heads and shoulders by the rain. Both wore costumes with a white base color, had heart shaped faces, full lips and blonde hair. Lady Photon’s costume sported a starburst on her chest, with several of the lines extending around her body, or down her legs, going from indigo to purple as it got further from the center. Her hair was straight, shoulder length, held away from her face by a tiara shaped much like the same starburst image on her chest.
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More than anything else, though, the two of them had the look of people who had seen half their immediate family brutally and senselessly torn apart over the course of one terrible hour. As though they’d had their hearts torn out of their chests and were somehow still standing. It wasn’t that I had seen anyone in those circumstances before, but that look existed, and they had it. - Excerpt from Extermination 8.5</ref>

As Lady Photon/Photon Mom, Sarah wears a white bodysuit without a mask. The bodysuit features a starburst on the chest with lines from the star's edges extending around her body,<ref name=cast>Lady Photon – Head of New Wave, flies, can create lasers and generate forcefields, known to some as Photon Mom. Wears a white bodysuit with a purple/indigo starburst featured as an emblem. - Cast (spoiler free)</ref> changing color from indigo to purple as they get further from the center.<ref name=CastID/> She also wears a tiara to keep her hair out of her face, in the same general style as the starburst image.<ref name="8.5" />

Abilities and Powers

Sarah has the ability to fly, create energy blasts from her hands, and create forcefields.<ref name="7.9">Buzz 7.9</ref>

She could gather energy in her hands, which she "spent" to shoot sprays of laser blasts. She was strong enough to blast through Marquis' bone plates in one shot, and had to hold back to avoid firing through them and accidentally harming a teammate. People reacted as if they were punched when hit. Even fired individually, several successive blasts were enough to beat a person to a pulp.<ref name="15.x">Interlude 15.x</ref>

Her shields were broad enough to protect other people, described as a "wall of light", transparent.<ref name="15.x" /> She has demonstrated an ability to use her forcefields as a first aid measure - shaping them to cover a wound - though they are rooted in place unless she makes them a bubble around herself.^{[citation needed]}. She could create a small forcefield to help her lift someone.<ref name="8.5">Extermination 8.5</ref>

History

Background

She triggered just before her sister; when one of their kidnappers was about to execute the starved, kidnapped girls.<ref name="15.x"/>

She joined the Brockton Bay Brigade, and was part of the group who captured Marquis. She convinced her sister to adopt Amy Dallon.<ref name="15.x" /><ref name="3.2">Agitation 3.12</ref>

She was the one who formed New Wave, recruiting most of the members.<ref name="15.x" />

Boston Games

Got her nose broken by some lucky minion, retaliated for that with some nasty burns to minion's master.<ref>Eclipse x.5</ref>

Story Start

Lady Photon fought in the Battle against Leviathan, acting as a ferry and evac service late in the battle.

Her husband and son died, and she understandably mourned them.

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

Declared a ceasefire with the undersiders in exchange for Tattletale giving her information on where her two nieces were.<ref>Tattletale frowned. “I’m trying to think about what’s easiest to achieve while clearing up the most problems. I already got in touch with New Wave and got them to chill out for a bit.”

“How’d you pull that?” Regent asked.

“Lady Photon was wondering where her nieces went. I told her that Panacea was healing Glory Girl but she still wanted her space.” - Excerpt from Colony 15.2</ref>

Gold Morning

Was presumably at the Oil rig waiting to welcome Panacea out of the cage.

She was a member of Khepri's swarm, and was killed by Zion as one of thirty capes struck by a beam of light before Khepri could react.<ref name="30.5">Speck 30.5</ref>

Post-Gold Morning

Sarah was resurrected by Valkyrie at some point.

Post-Time Bubble Pop

She was seen fighting in Teacher's Compound as part of Stonewall's team.<ref>Dying 15.2</ref>

Trivia

• Her signature 'color' on the team is purple.
• Lady Photon is referred to by her nickname Photon Mom in the tags.

References

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