A creative, thoughtful dreamer, at heart. Kyle Rayner is the kid who always wanted to grow and become a hero. In fact, he may have had a notebook page filled out once or twice of all of the different meta-powers he'd want, what he'd look like, what his super-name would be, only he'd never expected it to happen. Now he's been tasked with being a hero, but in reality, he's an officer of the law. He's learned that the 'life' is far more serious and far more dangerous than he'd ever imagined. When dreams become reality, what does one dream of next?
| Indomitable Will |
| As is required for all bearers of a Green Power Ring, Kyle has a natural wellspring of willpower. With this comes a near super-heroic (yet still human) ability to perservere through adversity, to fight until the body gives in, and to hold firm to values despite the lure of corruption. Kyle Rayner is a creature of intense willpower and hope. This can protect him from some emotionally-influencing powers where other mere mortals would fail to protect themselves. While he has no psychic protection or special power to protect himself from such affects, his mind is a hard one to dominate, indeed. |
| Artistic Talent |
| With both a minor degree in Graphic Design and an artist since childhood, Kyle is an extremely talented musician. He understands colors, designs, space and perspective, and how to draw a convincingly great comic book character. While he specializes in pencil and chalk, he's dabbled in paint as well. His artistic talent is also a boon when envisioning/creating hard light constructs with his Power Ring. |
| Physical Fitness |
| Kyle has a workout routine that involves elements of Crossfit and other obstacle-running, if not grueling, workout routines. He's seen the benefits of regular exercise and weight training, and it shows. He's at the peak of his physical health and could sign up and complete any number of marathons, crossfit competitions, or other fitness-fad events such as the Spartan Race or Tough Mudder. |
| Self Defense Training |
| Kyle has the equivalent of a black belt in Aikido, if being thrown around a training course on Oa could be called Aikido. In reality, he's received an above-passing grade in his 'physical combat' instruction on Oa, led by other mentor Green Lanterns. His martial arts style is a collected amalgamation of styles from both Earth and other worlds with bipedal beings matching his physiology. Some if it was brought to Oa by means of shared information, but mostly, it's a series of self defense maneuvers that has existed in a constantly-evolving state for thousands of years. |
| Education |
| Kyle Rayner is a high-school graduate from a semi-expensive preparatory academy, as well as two years of college for Graphic Design. With or without the knowledge that comes with his Power Ring, he's semi-fluent in Spanish and is the recipient of a better-than-standard high school diploma. |
| Green Lantern Corps |
| Usually a benefit far more than a drawback, Kyle Rayner is one of the many, proud members of the Green Lantern Corps. With this comes access to some of the most willful, hopeful individuals the universe has to offer, and each and every one of them wields the light of hope through their Green Power Rings. That these men and women of the Green Lantern Corps are his brothers and sisters in defense of the universe is no small benefit, indeed. |
| Fallback Job |
| While it would be a step down from being a Green Lantern, Kyle is a talented artist and has some printed publications from comic book work he did when he was younger. Should tragedy befall him, there are a few graphic design firms that have sent him letters of interest. On a rainy day? Kyle could go from being a guardian of peace and order in the universe to making an okay living designing menus for restaurants and creating web pages. |
| Oan Citizenship |
| As a member of the Green Lantern Corps, Kyle Rayner is a welcome citizen of the planet Oa. He has a spare apartment there, and is also welcome at any of the boarding houses for Corps members set aside by the Guardians of Oa. He is, in effect, carrying dual-citizenship between America and a planet that is the central hub of activity for the Green Lantern Corps. If he so desired, he could choose to retire on Oa. |
| Power Battery |
| Kyle Rayner, like all Lanterns, has in his possession a Green Lanther's Power Battery. It looks like an old railway lantern, and can be used to recharge his ring. The battery is connected to the Central Power Battery at Oa (which can be used to recharge his ring, as well), but the battery Kyle carries with him is a travel-size, portable version. |
| Green Power Ring |
Created by the Guardians of Oa, Kyle Rayner has been chosen to be the bearer of a Green Lantern's Green Power Ring. Created by the Guardians of the Universe as an attempt to capture/control the magical energies that govern the universe, it has been forged into a ring. The arrayed powers of the ring are many, and the strength of the ring itself is governed by the sole emotion that powers the ring's light: WILLPOWER
The stronger the will and hope of the bearer, the stronger the power.
With the ring using the cosmic power hosted at the Central Power Battery at Oa can be wielded through the ring, and its awesome power can be used to perform a number of feats that have yet to be fully catalogued. While some abilities are kept secret and rarely, if ever, discovered, the following abilities are standard to a Green Lantern:
- ENERGY PROJECTION/BLASTS: Including beams, rays, concussive explosions, welding laser, and constructs that perform energy projections.
- HARD LIGHT CONSTRUCTS: Limited only by the imagination of the bearer, a wide array of constructs can be made from the light, including constructs with moving parts. This includes shapes, barriers, and other constructs.
- ENERGY ABSORPTION: Can provide a personal or group force field that absorbs incoming damage. Can also provide life support underwater, or in the vaccuum of space.
- SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH: The strength of the ring can be applied to an energy field around the wielder of the ring, or applied to hard light constructs.
- SPACE TRANSPORT: Flight, Hyperspace/wormhole travel
- LIGHT MANIPULATION: Can bend/infract light, allowing invisibility and creation of holograms
- LIFE SUPPORT: Limited cellular regeneration, provides oxygen/shelter in hazardous environments. Its healing capabilities are limited, mostly used to stabilize the wounded and repair injuries over time.
- FORENSIC ANALYSIS: Recreation of forensic environments, electromagnetic/biological scanning, but cannot affect yellow/magic. Allows the sensing of radio, radar, teleivison, and other EM-spectrum forms of communication.
- COMMUNICATION DEVICE: Mental-link through the ring allows for communication via various radio signals, as well as mental communication (telepathic relay) with other Green Lanterns (and the Guardians)
- TRANSLATOR/DATABASE: Through connection to the Central Database, can be used as a Galactic Encyclopedia and a Universal Translator.
- BEACONS: Emergency/Homing beacons
- SECURITY/PROGRAMMING: Can performed delayed tasks when the ring is removed, if programmed in advanced. Can also be locked down to refuse others access to using the ring. |
| The Oath |
"In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power…Green Lantern's light!"
Kyle Rayner has sworn an oath to the Guardians of Oa, as well as his fellow Corps members, to uphold peace and order in the universe. He is no different from any sworn law enforcement officer, with the behavior and responsibilities included in their expected conduct. However, unlike any given Gotham PD officer, failing to uphold his oath could result in his ring being taken from him and being rendered powerless.
Kyle is expected to follow the rulings of the Guardians of Oa, patrol and oversee the safety of the sector they assign him to, and any hundreds of other rules, bylaws, and sub-bylaws as locked into requirement at the central database. |
| Power Ring Weaknesses |
A Green Lantern's Power Ring can be affected by the following:
- THE COLOR YELLOW: Yellow, the universal color of fear, is the opposite of hope. Because of this, the ring functions impurely against the color yellow, and is considered a drawback of the Lantern rings. Only through great, extended effort can Kyle Rayner affect the color yellow, and even then, the difficulty factor is high.
- MENTAL INSTABILITY: The ring will cease to function for Kyle should he become mentally incapacitated, unconscious, tampered with through the use of narcotic substances, or neural interference.
- RECHARGE PROTOCOL: The power of the Ring is not endless. The ring will sense the planetary rotation of whichever planet is closest, and will need to be recharged with the use of a Power Battery once per rotation. The ring needs to be recharged and can be used until it runs out of charge, but to avoid such a thing happening, Kyle must access his Power Battery.
- VIBRATION WEAKNESS: Certain frequencies or vibrations, if tuned perfectly, will cause the ring to barely function by miniaturizing the effects. A beam once as wide as a redwood's log will come out tiny and weak.
- RED POWER RINGS: Red, the color of anger, can devour the energy from a Green Power Ring, making it very difficult to fight Red Lanterns. |
| The Other Rings |
Despite its awesome power, the Green Power Ring (as well as the Green Lantern Corps) are locked in a never-ending melodramatic space opera with the powers, rings, and Corps involved in the rest of the emotional spectrum of energies. With Yellow/Fear being the opposite of Green/Willpower, there are rings and groups associated with the following:
Rage (Red)
Greed (Orange)
Fear (Yellow)
Willpower (Green)
Hope (Blue)
Compassion (Indigo)
Love (Violet)
Death (Black/Ultra-Rare, Secret Lore)
Life (White/Ultra-Rare, Secret Lore) |
| Buried A Few |
| Kyle has suffered the murder of both his mother and his ex-girlfriend WHILE being a bearer of a Green Lantern Power Ring. With all of the awesome power of the cosmos literally on his finger, he was unable to save them from Major Force. While he draws some strength of will from this, it's not a positive factor. He's failed people close to him, suffered the pain of it, and feels the guilt of loss for not being able to save them. This is a driving force translated to his source of will, to never give up, to never fail in such a way again, but with two very important ghosts living within his psyche, he's driven to never fail in such a way, again. |
| Nonlethal Setting |
Due to his Oath and his duties as a Green Lantern, the Power Ring will not allow a sentient entity to be directly killed through use of the ring without permission from the Guardians of Oa. A Green Lantern's responsibility to is defend, to capture, to save lives, and while at times it's asking too much, the Guardians of Oa feel that through willpower, nonlethal ends can always be achieved. Because of this, even in the darkest of times, the ring will refuse action if it senses the intent is to take a life. Worse yet, continual attempts to do so could result in the ring and title of authority being stricken from Kyle.
In Blackest Night, one must be authorized to switch the ring from stun to kill.
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| Power Battery |
| Both a benefit and a drawback, the Power Battery is portable…and stealable. It's also able to be destroyed. While a Green Lantern needs it once a day to recharge his ring, it presents itself as a definite Achilles' Heel when one seeks to defeat a Green Lantern. |
| Oan True Believer |
| Kyle is a newer Lantern, but he's also a poster boy where Hal Jordan is a Renegade. Kyle is a true believer in the vision and purpose of the Green Lanterns, and he believes in the wisdom of the Guardians of Oa who, at times, have been seen as villains to other Lanterns. The space-opera bureaucracy of the Guardians has been at many times a detriment to other Lanterns, and has (at times) resulted in their decision to NOT act. This has resulted in the deaths of other Lanterns, and some say Kyle is their 'pet'. For believing in the Guardians, this presents a pain point where Kyle may choose against even his allies, due to his higher calling and belief in the organization. |
| Sector 2814 |
Kyle has been assigned as a Green Lantern, with the responsibility of patrolling and maintaining peace in Sector 2814. He is expected to fulfill his duties to a large number of planets, including:
The Alderane System
Aoran
Archos
Athmoora
Dalgova
Earth
Garon
Heliopolis
Jotham
Jupiter
Kormorax
M'brai
Mars
Mercury
Neptune
Nok
Omnicron Ceti IV
Pharon IV
Pluto
Saturn
Scylla
Talkor
Ungara
Uranus
Venus
The Vivarium
Ysmault
Zerbon |
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