Aurora

Real Name: Jeanne-Marie Baubier

Powers: Beaubier has the power to fly at superspeed, although not as fast as her twin brother, Northstar. She can also generate light (strobes, flashes, lasers, etc.)

During her initial adventures, Beaubeir needed to be in physical contact with Northstar in order to generate her light powers. Later, genetic experiments gave her the power to generate light on her own, at a lesser intensity. Contact with her brother at this point would negate both of their powers for a brief time, but currently their genetic structures has stabilized and are unaffected by such contact.. The same genetic experiment allows Beaubeir to remain undetectable as a mutant if scanned.

History: Born in Canada, Beaubeir and her twin brother, Northstar, were serparated in infancy after their parents died in a car accident, and they both grew up without knowledge of the other. She was raised in a hyper-religious school in Quebec. Extremely nervous and introverted to the point of suicide, she then discovered her mutant powers of flight, believing them to be a miracle. Telling her story, Beaubeir was severly and inhumanly disciplined by her teachers. This incident began the schizophrenia she would suffer for the rest of her life-- her primary personality of a prim and proper, repressed woman, and a second personality of an uninhibited extrovert. Both personalities strongly dislikes the other, and would switch in fear, despair, or severe stress.

Leaving school and learning of her acceptance as a schoolteacher, Beaubeir's uninhibited personality exerted herself to revel in joy. She was attacked by muggers, however, and used her powers to defend herself. The mutant Wolverine witnessed this, and brought her join the Canadian hero, Guardian's, Department H. Here, she was reunited her with her brother, and the two served on the superhero team Alpha Flight as Aurora and Northstar.

The extroverted Beaubeir personality reveled in the superhero aspect of her life, adventuring with Alpha Flight and having many affairs, including a long romantic relationship with fellow teammate Walter Langkowski (aka Sasquatch.) Langkowski, at Beaubeir's request, performed an experiment that would negate the twin's need for contact with each other to release their powers.

Later, an adventure brought Alpha Flight to contact the norse god of mischeif, Loki, who, for reasons of his own, led the Beaubeir twins to believe they were not mutants, but half-elves. Loki claimed that Beaubeir's mental disfunction (and her brother's current physical disease) was due to the broken gestalt that seperated their powers. Beaubeir used her power on Northstar, which seemed to cure his illness and leave herself powerless. Loki transported Beaubeir to a convent which helped her regain a healed psyche (and which led to a re-emerging of her powers)-- merging the extroverted and introverted types into a superpowered religious devoutee. Beaubeir was asked to return to Alpha Flight to help rescue her brother, who was trapped in Asgard by Loki. The two remained with the team.

Her powers at this point had changed until they significantly resembled her original ones. She decided to join Gamma Flight in the role of a psychiatric counsellor when she was captured by the supervillain Headlok. Headlok's psychological torture brought back the split personalities Beaubier had before. The result of returning to this condition created a psychic backlash that left Headlok dead and Beaubier able to escape.

She was abducted, however, under mysterious circumstances presumably on behalf of the Canadian government. She was rescued by the mutant Havok during the point he was leading the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Havok brought Aurora to the extradimensional Dark Beast, who believed he may be able to cure Aurora once and for all.

Havok, eventually revealing himself to be a double-agent, challenged the Dark Beast and the Brotherhood disbanded. Havok set Baubier free and told her to return to Alpha Flight. Aurora was eventually located by her brother, and accompanied him in joining the original Alphans Shaman, Sasquatch, and James Hudson to uncover the truth about the latest activities of Department H. The original Alphans ended up assisting the officially sanctioned Alpha Flight against the latest bearer of the name Weapon X, and afterwards combined into the one Alpha Flight team. During her time with the team, Beaubier was exposed to a strain of sentient bacteria, which ultimately removed her multiple personalities once again.