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Part 12 of Kiva's Cavalcade of DC Prompts
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2025-08-07
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Kiva's Cavalcade of DC Prompts: Outsiders

Summary:

Another additon to the new DC Reboot universe.

Now a lesser known team, one I have a huge soft spot for. Meet the Outsiders. They are unconventional but these ragtags deserve some love too.

Chapter 1: Scottish warrior waifu Looker

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Looker of the Outsiders gets a bit of an update. I am inspired by her Young Justice counterpart whom spoke with a Scottish accent.

 

So Looker in this universe is much older than her prime counterpart. Here she was a Celtic warrior woman named Eimear whom lived in Scotland, somewhere in the first century before BC.

 

Her tribe was attacked by Vampires. Most killed, a few like her were converted. Looker though was the only one converted whom not only kept her free will but developed greater powers, in her case some psychic powers. However, with her tribe mostly gone, that existence felt more like a curse.

 

When the first colonists of England headed to what would become the United States, she went along as she felt she needed a change of scene.

 

During World War II she had become a bank teller. She changed her name to Emily and married a man named Greg Briggs.  Emily only fed on the blood of irredeemable monsters and criminals. However, as she had gone out to feed, she got sloppy and was tracked down. The result was the death of her husband and Emily going on a rampage against the hunters.

 

Eventually the military caught her. She could either work with them with at the new Project M or she would be hunted down and killed like any creature of the night. While she would prefer death at this point, she never could self-terminate. But since she is ageless, she decided to play along and wait for her chance to start somewhere new. She had done it multiple times.

 

She hence became a part of the Creature Commandos (taking the place of Vincent Velcro) during the second World War. After disbandment she wandered again for a while. She would eventually be recruited in the Outsiders.

 

 

Other Notes

 

  • Looker in the comics was mousy and unattractive whom became beautiful after becoming Looker. This version of her was instead a thick buff woman, but hid behind the glamor of a thinner more conventionally attractive woman.

 

However, in WWII, Diana Prince/Wonder Woman gave her a pep talk, and Emily learns to accept her true self again, and that thick buff waifus need love too. Thought it’d be a good theme about self-love and different forms of beauty even if they aren’t conventional.

Chapter 2: Forager

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Forager is associated with the Outsiders in this universe, mostly because of the Young Justice cartoon, whom had a great portrayal of him despite the flawed writing of later seasons.

 

He is still a New Genesis Bug in this universe, he has some technical aptitude like his comic book counterparts (whom created gadgets to fight with and reconfigured a WWII era radio into a Motherbox) as well as his excellent tracking abilities.

 

Like the cartoon he also has a great friendship with Brion Markov despite the two’s different backgrounds and was the main inspiration to include Forager in this entry of my DC Reboot.

 

Forager also keeps a crab he found on the beach where he and the Outsiders trained as a pet and called it Apple. It was due to a misunderstanding about what it was and having heard the world crabapple without context. Even when explained later, he kept the name for the little critter as he saw the humor in the name.

Chapter 3: Halo

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My version of Halo, like the comics, forms a sort of daughter-mother bond with Katana. Katana may initially be reluctant, remembering the death of her own daughters but her maternal instincts won out in the end.

 

While in the comics she took on the name Gabrielle Doe or Violet Harper, due to being adopted by Tatsu Yamashiro/Katana, she takes on the name Sumire Yamashiro. Sumire is the Japanese name for the violet flower, so in a way she is still called Violet.

 

My version in terms of backstory (she has the Aurakle in her instead of a Motherbox soul), appearance and powers matches the comics version more clearly.

 

She does share some elements with her Young Justice counterpart, like her personality, her host’s involvement in letting the assassins in the Markovian royal castle resulting in their deaths, created after host dies in a metahuman trafficking ring before fusing with the Aurakle and being reborn as Halo.

 

And also the fact that she is a love interest of both Brion Markov and Harper Row. Yes, they eventually become a throuple.

Chapter 4: Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning

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A gold medal-winning Olympic decathlete, Jefferson Pierce returned to his old neighborhood in the Southside (Suicide Slum) section of the city of Metropolis with his wife Lynn Stewart and his daughter Anissa and Jennifer to become the principal of Garfield High School.

 

Southside, as it was once known, was where his father—renowned journalist Alvin Pierce—had been murdered. Guilt over this event was a factor in his decision to leave the city of Metropolis. Suicide Slum was being torn apart by a local organized criminal gang called the 100, shady corporations and crooked local politicians like Tobias Whale.

 

A family friend and tailor, Peter Gambi, had taught a much younger Jefferson how to suppress his inborn metahuman abilities so that he would not accidentally hurt any of the people he cared about. Upon his return, Gambi suggested to Jefferson that he should use his powers to help the neighborhood.

 

After the public murder of one of his students, Pierce was appalled tried to intervene on behalf of the schoolchildren but quickly learned that the 100 objected violently to any interference. Pierce adopts the costumed identity "Black Lightning" where he had the costume, mask, and wig made by Gambi.

 

Pierce drew inspiration from Morris Grant aka Soul Power, another electric-powered African-American hero whom had made his mark on history, and continued his heroic ideals.

 

While his wife Lynn and Jefferson loved each other, they divorced because Lynn couldn’t stand seeing Jefferson put himself in danger while playing hero, even if she understands why he does it. They remained amicable exes and shared custody over their children.

 

 

Jefferson briefly lost his powers when, during a fight the 100 brought to his school, wasn’t able to save one of the children. The symptoms were not a result of physical damage, but mental and emotional one. He was still recruited to join the newly formed Outsiders to Markovia to save Lucius Fox. During this time, due to his determination to save the children from the metahuman trafficking ring they found there, he regained his powers and confidence.

 

Jefferson’s daughters Anissa and Jennifer would unlock their own metahuman powers as Thunder and Lightning, joining the Outsiders themselves.

 

 

When Lex Luthor became president, he became the Secretary for Education. While he didn’t like working under Lex, he at least could use his position on the inside to do some good. He resigned after Luthor was impeached to rejoin the Outsiders.

 

During that time he also became the Chairman of the Justice League after he disagreed with their methods over how to combat the Light. Jefferson would be the one capable of keeping them honest.

 

 

Black Lightning would find his second love in his teammate Tatsu Yamashiro/Katana. She had recently released the souls trapped in the Soultaker and was able to move on from past tragedy. The two gave dating a chance, and would eventually marry.

 

They would be blessed with a son, Alvin Pierce-Yamashiro, and a daughter Aika-Yamashiro.

 

 

TRIVIA

 

  • Soul Power was a character in Static Shock created as a stand-in for Black Lightning. Here Soul Power was Jefferson’s predecessor hero.

 

  • Black Lightning and Katana had feelings in the comics for each other but weren’t able to act upon it. But here they do.

 

  • Elements from Young Justice like the trip to Markova and becoming Leader of the Justice are incorporated here.

 

  • Alvin Pierce was his nephew in the comics, but here he is his and Tatsu’s son, he’ll also incorporate elements from Akio Yamashiro, Tatsu’s son in the Arrowverse.

 

  • Aika is a nod to the main character of the same name from ‘Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl’, whom was also Afro-Asian.

 

Chapter 5: Emily Sung/Elemental Woman

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Emily Raina Sung was originally a CIA Agent on the trial of the Kobra Cult. However, she ended up caught. She was subjected to the same kind of experiment that Simon Stagg used to turn Rex Mason into Metamorpho. She became a being with similar power, the Element Woman.

 

She was forcefully brainwashed to become a member of the Strike Force Kobra, an Elite team of Kobra’s metahuman agents. However, she was released from her brainwashing and would end up joining the Outsiders herself. She would become mentored by Rex Mason, whom she would look up to as a big brother.

 

She would go on to have a successful career with the Outsiders, the Justice League and even a stint with the Doom Patrol. She would also meet her future girlfriend Indigo during her heroic career.

 

Though for all her competence and skills, Emily is a little bit out there. Emily shows the same kind of excitement an overeager child would about getting to join the Justice League, and even brought hamburgers for everyone when she was invited as a member. She also likes to bring juice boxes with her and remember to have extra for other people.

 

 

TRIVIA

 

  • Emily Sung/Element Woman is a composite of herself and Urania Blackwell/Element Girl.

 

  • Her middle name Raina is derived from Urania, as well as her job as a CIA agent.

 

  • The fact she was forced to become part of Strike Force Kobra makes her a composite with the Elemental Woman as well.

 

  • She replaces Shift, a clone of Metamorpho created from part of his body, as the love interest of Indigo.

 

 

Chapter 6: Wendy Jones/Windfall

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Wendy Jones/Windfall was a young metahuman who gained her aerokinetic powers after her mother allowed her and her sister Rebecca ‘Becky’ Jones to be taken by a metahuman trafficking ring and be experimented on. Her sister Rebecca, becoming the Aquakinetic metahuman New Wave, killed their mother in revenge later in life.

 

Rebecca forced her little sister to be part of a group of metahuman mercenaries, the Masters of Disaster. The group was  an enemy of the Outsiders, but Windfall eventually had enough and joined the Outsiders over her sister.

 

Windfall would join a different group of elemental metahumans consisting of herself, Tefé Holland/Sprout, Tara Markov/Terra, Leslie Willis/Livewire, Andie Murphy/Smoke and Claire Selton/Volcana (the latter three reformed). They call themselves the Mistresses of Miracles, the name specifically suggested by Wendy to be the opposite of her sister’s team name.

 

 

TRIVIA

 

  • Wendy’s time being sexually assaulted during a fraternity and being on the Suicide Squad is omitted from my universe.

 

  • The Mistresses of Miracles is an original team idea. It has members from the Natural Disasters from the Harley Quinn tv show (Tefé, Tara and Claire), and reformed/liberated metahumans form Young Justice (Wendy herself, Andie and Leslie).

 

  • Andie Murphy’s codename is changed to ‘Smoke’, since she has little to nothing in common with the villains whom bore the moniker of ‘Mist’.

 

  • Wendy is Australian in my universe, just like her Young Justice counterpart. This means Rebecca/New Wave will be Australian too.

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