Legend
<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Legend</default></title>
<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>
<label>Status</label><format><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> Legend is the leader of the Protectorate in general and the New York Protectorate team specifically.
Personality
Legend is probably closest to the classic superhero the worm verse offers, heroic noble and willing to make sacrifices for others[citation needed]. As part of the leading heroes of the Protectorate Legend is seen as a paragon of what a hero should be acting on and off the camera largely the same[citation needed]. This is perhaps the reason the man made of light was kept in the dark for so long.
Appearance
Legend wears a skintight blue costume with white lightning designs. He has wavy brown hair.
Abilities and Powers
As a member of the Triumvirate, Legend is considered one of the most powerful parahumans in North America. His powers can be summarized as "flying artillery": he can fly, shoot lasers from his body, and endure strong attacks. Attacks from Behemoth, Leviathan and Siberian have all been devastating enough that they were sufficient to take him out of the fight.<ref name="I14.5"/>
Legend can accelerate to a speed that exceeded sound and continue accelerating, to no hard limit. However, surviving at these speeds requires the use of his secondary Breaker ability.<ref name="I14.5">Interlude 14.y</ref>
Legend has a breaker power that changes his body to living light. As he becomes more like light, he is able to fly faster and ignore most attacks, though it impairs his ability to think. While in this state, he absorbs most kinds of energy, using it to repair his human form. This transformation happens instinctively to avoid injury, usually when he is struck or when he flies too fast.<ref name="I14.5"/> It allows him to survive in time dilated environments without food or water.
As a related minor power, he has perfect, superhumanly clear vision.<ref name="14.7">Prey 14.7</ref> He took advantage of this by learning to lip read.<ref name="19.4"/>
His lasers were primarily blue-white<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>. These beams can turn corners, fork into multiple lasers, pass through walls, and freeze and/or ignite his targets. He can use different effects creating cutting, disintegration, impact, heat, focused, staccato bursts, fat lasers, and invisible lasers. He could combine these effects, but this took time to investigate and he rarely faced threats that necessitated the effort to create.<ref name="SB1">Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref> The 'freezing' laser actually lowers the temperature at the point of contact close to absolute zero, damaging the target and freezing ambient moisture.<ref name="SB1"/> The 'heat ray' that ignited a target works on a similar principle.
History
Background
Legend received his powers as part of Cauldron's program.
As Legend, he was a founding member of the Protectorate. He was present for Behemoth's emergence in 1992.<ref>15.z (Donation Interlude 3; Alexandria)</ref> After Hero's death, he became the leader of a smaller team based in New York.<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>
When Leviathan approached Brockton Bay, Legend took the opportunity to inform every parahuman there of the odds of survival.<ref>Extermination 8.1]]</ref> This was something that he as a veteran of such engagements, was rarely able to do.<ref>Extermination 8.2</ref>
Post-Leviathan
despite the risks he deployed with his team against the Slaughterhouse Nine when they came to Brockton Bay.
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Despite knowing that his teamates had been lying to him for years he repeated the same lies to Gully and Weld given the gravity of the situation the Protectorate faced.<ref name="19.4">Scourge 19.4</ref>
Post-Echidna
Legend stepped down as leader of the Protectorate after his ties to Cauldron were revealed.
He was briefly trapped in accelerated time by Khonsu, but survived by entering his breaker state. By the time the Endbringer dropped the effect, an enormous charge of light had built up inside it.
Golden Morning
Chevalier asked Legend to become his second-in-command in the new Protectorate after Revel's death, and he accepted.
Trivia
- According to Valkyrie, Legend is the keeper of the "Coruscant Knave" shard,<ref>Teneral e.1</ref> an example of Valkyrie's use of antiquated language.
Fanart Gallery
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