The many costumes of Dazzler
Real Name: Alison Blaire
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130 lbs
Hair: Reddish blonde
Eyes: Blue
Nationality American
Powers Mutant.
Affiliations X- Men
Occupation: Singer, adventurer
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Gardendale, Long Island, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Carter (father, deceased), Katherine (mother, a.k.a. Barbara London), Bella (grand mother), Lois London (stepsister)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men
Known Powers: Energy Conversion: Dazzler has the ability to absorb sounds and convert them into light. This provides her with energy for her light-based powers. The local noise level determines the rank of her powers. Able to convert sound into light, whether it be a Dazzling flair to a high powered lazer beam
Light Emission: Dazzler can project coherent light whose intensity depends on the available noise level. She has developed these Power Stunts:
Laser: Range 2 areas. She usually cocks her finger like an imaginary gun to use this power.
Force field: Laser field provides protection against physical attacks.
Lightburst: Victims who fail an Endurance FEAT against this sudden flare suffer confusion and or blindness for 1-100 turns.
Hypnotic lights: Victims failing a Psyche FEAT are tranquilized or hypnotized for 1-100 turns.
Lightshow: A harmless display of lights intended to accompany her musical performance.
Rocket: By directing her Iightblasts downward through her hands, she can propel herself skyward at 30 mph.
Resistance to Light: Dazzler has Unearthly resistance to light-based attacks.
Special Trick: Dazzler’s attacks seem more dangerous than they actually are. If an opponent is unaware of her powers and has a Psyche of Good or less, he must make a Psyche FEAT against her first two light attacks. Failure means the subject is demoralized and will stop whatever he was doing in an attempt to flee.
Dazzler received these effects due to spells cast upon the X-Men by Roma.
Invisibility to Machines: She has Unearthly invisibility where machines are concerned. Any attempt to visually sense or record her reveals only a shapeless blur. Mechanical sensors and recorders fail to register her presence.
Mind Control: Anyone who encounters her must make a Red Psyche FEAT of Unearthly intensity. Failure means that the person forgets Dazzler and the X-Men once they leave the area. This power does not affect her former friends and colleagues.
History- Alison Blaire is a mutant whose superhuman powers first manifested themselves in her late adolescence. As an aspiring singer, Blaire was performing at a high school dance when her ability to transform sound into light first surfaced. Upon graduation she set out to make a name for herself in the entertainment world using her light powers to create spectacular effects as she sang. She used the stage name The Dazzler. Virtually no one knew that Blaire was a mutant; almost everyone in her audiences assumed that her lighting effects were created through technological means. Although Blaire had no intention of using her special powers to fight crime on a regular basis, time and again she found herself using them to thwart the criminal activities of gangsters and renegade superhumans.
Eventually Blaire moved to the Los Angeles area from New York City, and formed a romantic and professional relationship with Hollywood celebrity Roman Nekoboh. Nekoboh produced a motion picture (which was never released) featuring Blaire, and persuaded her to reveal publicly that she was a superhumanly powerful mutant. The revelation backfired, stirring up renewed public hostility against mutants. Blaire was virtually blacklisted in the entertainment industry, and had to take primarily low-paying obscure jobs in order to continue her singing career.
Blaire sought and received training in the use of her superhuman abilities from the mutant X-Men. As a result, she is now far more adept in the use of her powers than she was in the past. Dazzler has recently been spending her time in the Mojoverse with her companion Longshot. The two have been placed as the rulers there and are attempting to build their world into a much more fair and hospitable place. When last seen, Dazzler had decided to take care of the X-Babies, miniature versions of the X-Men created by Mojo.
Equipment:
Costume: Her current blue costume conceals circuitry that automatically stores ambient sound and releases it to her as needed. It can store enough Remarkable intensity sound for 5 attacks.
Tape recorder/amplifier: In her early adventures, she carried a wireless microphone and carried a customized recorder in her shoulder bag. This insured her 60 minutes of music for her powers (if using a tape) or continuous power (if amplifying her own voice).
Roller skates: Her original costume featured clip-on skates that enabled her to cover 2 areas per turn (30 mph) without having to make an Endurance FEAT or face exhaustion. Donning or removing the skates took 1 turn.
Talents:
Dazzler is a trained singer, actress, dancer and roller-skater. She is familiar with show business.
Contacts:
Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman I), Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel I, Binary), and any of Professor Xavier’s mutant groups.
Role-Playing Notes:
Dazzler is a light-hearted adventurer. She likes to make jokes in combat and let her emotions flow freely. She fights with a flashy style. She appreciates attractive men and lets them know it, and likes being the center of attention. She considers herself to be the guardian of style among the female X-Men. She is very fond of Longshot, although his incredible naiveté makes a meaningful relationship difficult.
At the heart of it all, Dazzler is a reluctant superheroine. She reacts rather than controls her life. This deep resentment of her victim status may lead her to grasp at straws or suddenly change her life’s direction.
History:
Alison Blaire was born to Carter Blaire, a prominent lawyer and judge, and his wife Katherine, a former actress. Although born a mutant, her powers did not manifest themselves until her late adolescence, when she was performing at a high school dance. At the time, her powers were mistaken for a light show.
Although her father wanted her to follow him into practicing law, she wanted to be a singer. After graduating high school, she became a professional singer. Her light-generating powers provided her with her name, Dazzler, and the elaborate light shows that accompanied her singing. Onlookers thought these shows were simply clever special effects. Dazzler gave them no thought.
The X-Men’s Cerebro finally detected her powers and a team was sent to recruit her. Although Dazzler had never given much thought to her powers, she soon found herself using them in a fight for her life against the minions of the Hellfire Club. Despite the threat she now faced, she declined joining the X-Men at that time.
As she went on tour, she found herself using her powers time and again to fight the criminals and renegade superhumans who crossed her path. Eventually, Alison moved to Los Angeles where she became the intimate friend and lover of Hollywood celebrity Roman Nebokoh. He produced “Dazzler: The Movie,” a film in which she starred. To insure its success, he wanted her to publicly reveal her mutant nature. When she refused, he revealed the information anyway. His plan backfired. The public was undergoing a wave of anti-mutant hysteria which was only fueled by the revelation. The movie was permanently shelved and Alison’s singing career was destroyed.
Her life in tatters, Alison returned to the X-Men for friendship and training. Under this partnership, she rapidly grew in the use and variety of her powers. She became intrigued with the alien, Longshot, although it has yet to become a full blown romance due to Longshot’s incredible naiveté.
Like the rest of the X-Men, she was presumed killed during a battle in Dallas. In truth, she was restored to life by the sorceress, Roma. Among Roma’s gifts was an invisibility spell that negated any attempt to mechanically sense or record Dazzler’s form, and gives subtle amnesia to anyone she meets. Both of these effects were the worst things possible for a would-be singer and movie star.
She now works out of the Town with No Name, a deserted complex in the Australian Outback. The isolation and lack of recognition is beginning to get to her.
Mutant Powers: Dazzler has the ability to convert sound energy into light energy, that can be released and manipulated at her will. She cannot convert any sound made by herself as her body cannot take it in. Also, she must constantly render unused sound "useless" or she would project a constant glowing aura.
Dazzler can alter the intensity and colour of her light, which is also related to the intensity of the sound she absorbs. Her eyes have also been strengthened as part of her mutation, allowing them to withstand intense light to a degree where she can stare at the sun without harm.
First Appearance: X-Men (Vol 1) #130
History: Alison Blaire grew up in the strict household of her father, after her mother left when Alison was very young. Her father pressured her to study hard, with ambitions for her to become a lawyer. She wanted nothing more than to become a singer, but these dreams were shunned by her father. She began to develop severe headaches, which her father put down to her listening to music too loud.
After entering high school, Alison entered a talent competition, and once she got on stage, her mutant powers surfaced, and her body began to emit glows and sparkles, dazzling the crowd. A gang burst in soon afterwards and tried to wreck the hall, but they were foiled when Alison loose a blinding light, which everyone in the hall suffered except her. She swore to never again use her powers.
Alison went on to graduate college, but decided to follow her dream and become a singer. Her career was successful enough until her performances were constantly interrupted by super villains. She struggled to maintain a steady job and eventually sought out the help of Professor X to help her hone her mutant abilities.
She eventually joined the X-Men, and had numerous adventures with them. After going through the Siege Perilous, Alison was found washed up on a beach, totally amnesiac. She rejoined the X-Men and met Longshot, deciding to return to Mojoworld with him to fight. Here she helped release the X-Men after they had been captured by Mojo. She was also found to be pregnant.
Dazzler later returned to Earth to rescue the X-Babies. Her own child had apparently miscarried. She returned to Mojoworld and has remained there ever since.
History:Dazzler began by starting her music career with the assistance of Hank McCoy. She went on her solo career for some time, which ended abruptly when she was forced to fake her own death to escape a cult. She later joined Lila Cheney as a back-up vocalist and toured with her for some time, and was later posessed by Malice(see marauders). She was freed of Malice's influence by the X-Men and later joined the team along with the other newest member, Longshot, with whom she became romantically involved with later. After being walking through the Seige Perilous, she was reunited with Longshot and became part of a resistance force to free the people of Mojoworld, a strange dimention where politics are based on television ratings.
Status:Last known was living in Mojoworld(see Mojo in X-Villains) with her boyfriend, Longshot
Relations:Carter Blaire(father), Katherine Blaire(mother), Bella London(grandmother), Lois London(step-sister), Longshot(boyfriend), Shatterstar(possibly a clone, possibly her's and Longshot's son from the future)
Affiliations:Former member of Lila Cheney's band, former member of the X-Men