great question! really cool character!
Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier) is a fictional character, a Canadian superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #120 as a member of Alpha Flight. She is the twin sister of Northstar and the former lover of Sasquatch.
Jeanne-Marie Beaubier and her twin brother Jean-Paul were separated in infancy after their parents died. Jean-Paul was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martin, who were cousins of his mother. The Martins could not afford to adopt Jeanne-Marie as well and arranged for Jeanne-Marie to be raised at Madame DuPont's School for Girls in LaVelle, Quebec, a reactionary religious school. Soon afterward the Martins moved to Northern Quebec. The Martins were killed in an accident several years later and Jean-Paul was placed in a foster home, unaware that he had a sister.
powers and abilities
Aurora has the powers of flight and superhuman speed (theoretically able to approach light-speed). The greater her increase in speed, the more durable her body becomes. In an early issue of Alpha Flight Northstar reveals to readers that Aurora can fly for longer periods of time than he can, but that he can fly faster than Aurora. Her strength and reaction time are above-average for a woman of her age and exercise level. Originally, while in contact with her brother, the pair could emit bursts of light, but, after a serious falling-out with her brother, she had her powers altered by Walter Langkowski (Sasquatch), her lover at the time, to enable her to produce light independently; touching her brother - as she later discovered - actually cancels the ability and creates a physical, incapacitating shock. (The treatment incidentally also "cloaked" her from mutant-detection devices, such as the Sentinels.)
It appears that this may have become undone in recent years, returning this ability to its original state. Due to the machinations of Serafina, it appears that Aurora and Northstar can now generate explosive thermal energy on contact with each other as well.
would you consider this a weakness:
Aurora has suffered from dissociative identity disorder for some time: Jeanne-Marie represented her more prim and proper persona while Aurora represented Jeanne-Marie's more outgoing, repressed personality traits. The personalities were later merged into one relatively healthy personality although her sanity has deteriorated in recent years and they resplit.
Recently, Beaubier underwent still further personality changes. For a time, her "Aurora" and "Jeanne-Marie" personae have each manifested traits of the other while nevertheless remaining distinctly separate personalities. Most of the time now, she manifests a third personality which is basically Aurora's but with more of a sense of responsibility than before.
At one point, Aurora and Northstar were retconned to be half-human, half-elf; however, this development was itself retconned away, and the twins are known to be human mutants, as they were originally intended.
Recently, Aurora became a mind controlled agent of Weapon X and was in an abusive relationship with the Weapon X director, Malcolm Colcord who beat her. Aurora managed to retaliate against her mind-control by creating a third personality that wasn't affected. She beat the director up and managed to escape.
In addition, an alternate Aurora from relatively early in her Alpha Flight career was recently brought to the present-day with her teammates, apart from Sasquatch. At last report, this group was continuing to act as Alpha Flight in the present day.
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2007-03-14 13:25:46
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answered by elusive_001 5
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ah, Northstar's twin sister. She is really fast (not quite in Quicksilver's league, but close). She can fly and I believe had some kind of healing power for a while.
Read X-Men/Alpha Flight series for a good story about her and her personalities. The villain was Loki, and it was well written.
Morg
2007-03-15 03:21:14
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answered by Anonymous
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Jeanne-Marie suffers from Dissociative Personality Disorder, formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder. She has the power of super fast flight, as does her twin brother, Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier).
They have another super power which they share, literally: when they join hands, and only then, they emit a blindingly bright light.
Jeanne-Marie suffered clinical depression at age 13 and tried to commit suicide by leaping from the window of a bording school where she lived. It was then that she discovered her power of flight. For a long time, she alternated between her timid, prudish schoolteacher Jeannne-Marie personality and her adventurous, licentious Aurora personality.
Aurora had a long standing sex affair with Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski) of Alpha Flight, to which group they both belonged. Her brother Northstar was shocked by this. (Northstar eventually died of Aids, he was one of the first admittedly homosexual superheroes.) What was especially shocking was the implication that, for sexual purposes, she preferred Langkowski in his Sasquatch form to his human form. Jeanne-Marie was particularly disgusted by this.
When Langkowski’s Sasquatch form was revealed to be a supernatural form created by the Canadian Great Beasts intended to destroy or enslave mankind, it had to be destroyed. Langkowski’s mind was then trapped in BOX (Roger Bochs’ robot) until they could locate a replacement (male) body for him to inhabit (and Aurora to enjoy.) They accidentally liberated the Hulk from another dimension after his Bruce Banner mind and personality had been erased, and brought him back to Earth for a rampage. Langkowski eventually took the human (female) body of Snowbird (Nelvanna) who had been created to oppose the Great Beasts. She had gone on to spirit form oslt, and no longer needed it. This saved Langkowski’s life, but he was female now and nobody believed who he had been. I don’t recall if he was ever restored to his proper gender.
You can find an article on Alpha Flight in Markstein’s Toonopedia, which gives the first appearance of the characters and other interesting data.
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2007-03-14 16:47:40
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2016-12-02 00:36:14
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answered by Anonymous
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