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 and the New York Protectorate team.
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 former 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.
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="14.5">Interlude 14.5 - Legend</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. As a related minor power, he has perfect, superhumanly clear vision.<ref name="14.5">Interlude 14.5 - Legend</ref>
His lasers were primarily blue-white<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>.
His lasers can turn corners, fork into multiple lasers, pass through walls, and freeze and/or ignite his targets. He can create cutting, disintegration, impact, heat, focused, staccato bursts, fat lasers, and invisible lasers. He can also combine different kinds of beam, but it takes time to figure out and it's usually simpler not to<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>. The freezing laser wasn't so much a 'create ice' laser as a 'this deals damage and then frost spreads out from the site of impact'<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>.
According to Glaistig Uaine, Legend is the keeper of the "Coruscant Knave" shard.
History
Background
Legend received his powers as part of Cauldron's program.
As Legend, he was a founding member of the Protectorate. After Hero's death, he became the leader of a smaller team based in New York.<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>
Legend was present for Behemoth's emergence.
Behemoth, Leviathan and Siberian have all managed to land blows so devastating that they were sufficient to take him out of the fight. <ref name="14.5">Interlude 14.5 - Legend</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.
Fanart Gallery
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