p y r o k i n e t i c p r i n c e s s
Codename: None (formerly En Flame and Phoenix).
Identity: Secret.
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California.
Date of Birth: Unknown; approximately nineteen years old.
Height: 1.8 meters.
Weight: 65.7 kilograms.
Physical Attributes: Amber is a tall, slender young woman in the prime of her youth. She is very athletic, and is not prone to fat. She has lenghty blond hair and blue eyes, the epitome of WASP breeding. Her facial features are fine-boned and delicate, but the trials of Amber's recent years have begun to show themselves. Her eyes, especially, reflect her guilt, her arrogance, and her resolve.
Mental Attributes: Amber has recently reflected on the events of the last year. Held responsible for the deaths of the original Exiles team, the thousands of deaths during the moon madness (not to mention driving the entire world insane), the deaths caused by the Phoenix blast, and the Ground Zero debacle, this weighs heavily on Amber's heart. However, Amber has also felt the arrogance of gaining so much power in such a small period of time. Her guilt and her arrogance have intertwined to form a very damaged psyche.
An aspect of the Entity still exists within Amber, inextricably tied to her soul from when it used her as a beacon. It lurks in the back of her mind, and speaks to her in inscrutable alien machine code. Sometimes it sings, other times it rages, and on occasion it shows her the shape of things to come... that she is fated to betray the world to the Entity's creations, the cybernetic Progeny, when they return in fifty years' time to invade the Earth. This, more than anything, scares Amber to death. But it has also strengthened her resolve to atone for her sins, both past and future.
Known Skills and Abilities: During her time with the new Exiles and Ultraforce, Amber learned the basics of self-defense, acrobatics, and other battle skills. Otherwise, she possesses no special skills or abilities.
Known Superhuman Abilities: Amber's ultra powers, which manifested along with the Theta Virus, give her the ability to generate and manipulate massive amounts of heat and flame. She has very precise control over the intensity and temperature of these flames, and the upper limit of Amber's abilities has yet to be recorded. Amber is immune to the effects of heat, thus rendering her immune to her own abilities, and her internal temperature also automatically regulates itself. She can fire off blasts of flames and heat energy, which manifest visually as shafts of energy accompanied by animate flame. She has been known to fire blasts powerful enough to destroy buildings, and depowered enough to cauterize wounds. Persons struck by these blasts can not only suffer thermal damage from the extreme heat, but they can be rendered unconscious or even be killed as Amber's attack raises their internal temperatures. The upper limit to the intensity, range, and temperature of these blasts remains unknown. In a similar fashion, Amber can create a sheath of flames and heat energy centered around herself that has the same properties and visual manifestation as her blasts. Depending on how much power Amber channels into such a sheath, bullets and larger projectiles can be caused to melt or detonate, and many forms of energy are also nullified or weakened. Within the vicinity of this sheath, Amber has absolute control over the temperature, and can render everyone within the sheath unconscious or even kill them through raising the temperature in this manner. The upper limit to the intensity, range, and temperature of these sheaths remains unknown. Finally, Amber can create thermal updrafts, granting her the power of flight. She is very maneuverable in the air, though her flight ceiling and top speed remain unknown. When her ultra powers are active, Amber's hair shifts to a burning inferno, and her eyes gain a solid golden sheen.
During her possession by the Entity, Amber Hunt was used as a beacon by this alien intelligence to call all of the Earth's ultras to the moon to free it. By doing this, the Entity gave Amber the power to bend light waves across the spectrum, starting with infrared and ending with ultraviolet, and transmit the Entity's distress beacon. For each color in the spectrum that she shifted, the intensity and range of the power increased, soon spreading to affect the entire planet. For ultras, this allowed the Entity to exercise a very powerful form of mind control. For normal humans, however, this caused them to shift deeper and deeper into obsession with reaching the moon and, as the shift reached the ultraviolet level, homicidal madness. Though an aspect of the destroyed Entity is still lodged within Amber's mind, she is unable to use this power now.
When the Phoenix Force took Amber as a host, it granted her the abilities that the X-Men's Jean Grey once had when she was possessed. The Phoenix Force granted Amber nearly godlike levels of energy absorption, elemental conversion, forcefield generation, interstellar gateway creation, kinetic bolt projection, regeneration, self-sustenance, telekinesis, telepathy, and weather control. Though the Phoenix Force has since left Amber's body, an aspect of it is also lodged within Amber's mind, and she retained the powers of the Phoenix. The Phoenix powers were reduced by at least half, but her own ultra abilities were augmented greatly. She lost the remainder of her Phoenix-enhanced powers to the war robot Maxis, which drained her of them.
Marital Status: Single.
Occupation: None.
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States of America with no known criminal record.
Affiliations: Exiles (former), All-New Exiles (former), Ultraforce.
Uniform: Amber wears a golden bodystocking, which covers her legs and hip areas. The upper portion is halter-style, and the golden fabric twines around her neck, leaving her back completely exposed. This leaves a diamond area in front bare as well, exposing an ample portion of her chest and abdomen. She also wears a pair of golden gloves that extend to the middle of her upper arms. Boots are built into the bodystocking. Her uniform is comprised of unstable molecules, which not only renders it immune to her own powers, but highly resistant to most other energy forms.
Appearances: Exiles (1993) #1-4, Break-Thru #1-2, Firearm #4, Freex #6, Hardcase #7, Mantra (1993) #6, The Night Man #3, Prime (1993) #7, Prototype #6, Sludge #3, Solitaire #2, The Solution #4, The Strangers #7, Black September: Infinity, Exiles (1995): Infinity, Exiles (1995) #1-11, Phoenix Resurrection: Red Shift, Phoenix Resurrection: Genesis, Phoenix Resurrection: Revelations, Phoenix Resurrection: Aftermath, Ultraforce (1995) #12-15, Ultraverse Unlimited #2, Angels of Destruction #1.