Young Justice: Nightlight Bio

UPDATE: For her most up to date look and info please check her out here: Dream Team App: Nightlight
UPDATED: Nightlight got a REBOOT

It's been a long time coming, I've been trying to think of new things for Nightlight but have been too scared to implement anything. Between shooting some idea back and forth with some friends and some suggestions from @xXAmaya-himeXx this is what i came up with. I think i finally happy what I came up with and hopefully others will find the new Nightlight enjoyable as well. 

Name: Dimitri Spiros
Nickname: Di, Didi (rare)

Age: 14 (S1), 19 (S2)
Birthday: April 22nd
Species: Human/Child of Hades
Blood Type: A positive 
Astrological Sign: Taurus 
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Demi Sexual
Past/Bio: 
Dimitri’s family was from Greece. When she was four her father received a job as assistant director of the biggest museum in San Francisco, which just so happens to be driving distance to Star City in which that Dimitri’s mother, Gia, spent a semester in during a study abroad program she participated in being housed by the Lance family. They lived in a nice apartment in the city and frequently spent time with the Lances as they were like extended family to the Spiros’s.

Her father, Aaron, was a hard worker and lover of knowledge, particularly history. He was fairly young when he got the job but was determined to move up the latter in the museum and often stayed long nights working alone in the quiet home of history. He was particularly interested n the history of Greek mythology since his line of ancestor traces back to the time of the Gods in their prime, his family being high priests and priestesses of the Cult of Hades. They were so in tune with the spirits and life beyond the living that Hades bestowed the gift of the Spirits to the family. These powers enabled the user with paranormal powers making them the bridge between life and death. Though these powers cause an imbalance to the user so each member is given a clear gemstone that helps to keep the balance within. The gemstone is originally clear but takes one the color of the user’s spirit which varies in color. The powers have been passed down to every Spiros and they were able to use the powers naturally. But over generations the spiritual connection has been strained and the powers of the spirit began to lie dormant within the family, soon only to be awakened when their spirit witnesses death, seeing a spirit descend into the underworld was the key.

Aaron received his powers after he witnessed his brother taking a nasty fall during a hiking accident. His father, not having powers of his own but being that his father did thus learning from him, taught Aaron how to use them. He also visited the cave which the old Cult of Hades did their practices and mediated, unlocking further secrets and methods that his father could not teach him. Though knowing how to use his powers he decided to live a normal life with his wife and child.

This was until one late night at the museum after a new shipment of artifacts came in. He was going over them when the museum was broken into by people dressed in black to which Aaron would describe as looking like shadow men. They wanted to steal the artifacts since they could be used in some dark ritual but Aaron fended them off with his powers. Similar things began happening at the museum whenever they got new artifacts and he became the defender of the museum and soon after began expanding into becoming and actual hero dubbed Shadow Hunter and then later joining the Justice League.

Dimitri’s home life was simple and she loved it. She had a loving mother who would always bake the best treats around and a father who was very smart and talented and always pushed her to try new things and inspired her greatly. She also had a close relationship to the Lance family who they would spend holidays and Sundays together. She referred to Dinah as her cousin and Dinah’s parents her Aunt and Uncle. She had a happy life until her dad received a promotion when Dimitri was 11.

The old director of the museum was retiring and took notice over the years of how much passion and hard work Aaron put into the place and his work and passed down his job to Aaron, who was very grateful. Not everyone at the museum was happy about this though. A coworker of Aaron who was older and had been there longer was angered because he thought the job should have gone to him and not some “young immigrant who came here to steal my job.” This man was also known to have a drinking problem and a few nights after the promotion drunkenly found his way to the Spiros’s home, gun in hand. The family had just came back from shopping, Aaron telling Gia and Dimitri to head up to the apartment fist while he’d take care of getting the heavy packages. So up they went to their floor and the drunk coworker was waiting for them and shot Gia as they approached the door thinking Aaron would be rounding the corner, killing her on the spot. Sensing the death of his wife and fearing for his daughter Aaron dropped the packages and phased through the building in time to save Dimitri who sat next to her mother crying.

By witnessing her mother’s death Dimitri’s powers were awakened. Aaron had hoped that she wouldn’t have awoken her powers as early as she did but since they were now a part of her Aaron began training her how to control and use them. After Gia's death Dimitri became quiet and rarely smiled, and never laughed. It was like the joy was taken out of her life, but she was determined to fill this void in her heart with something else. Dimitri asked her father to be his protégé, wanting to be like the other protégés she’s heard of. She wanted to fill the void inside her with the feeling of having making a difference in someone else's life, wanting to protect other families from the dangers that she wasn't protected from. Reluctantly he agreed and she became Nightlight, a name chosen since the spirits of the underworld were the only source of light in such a dark place, wanting to be that for others.

About Him/Her

Personality: Dimitri has 3 main personalities, it all depends on the situation and who is around her. Dimitri when she is with friends or family and not having to be Nightlight is pretty pleasant to be around. She is often the quieter of the group but when she does talk it's often really fast and with her hands. It's not uncommon for her to try to make jokes or puns but she has horrible timing and tends to forget the punchline. She’s known to make reference to Greek mythology all the time to the point it's almost annoying, but she can't help it. This is the Dimitri she shows to people the most, or at least wants them to see

Then there is her personality as Nightlight. When the hood goes up Nightlight is a no nonsense kind of hero that doesn’t like failure and is very focused on getting the job done, rarely smiles unless accomplishing something. She used to be even more serious before she met the other protégés who told her to lighten up sometimes which she does eventually but is still very serious, paranoid that one mess-up could have drastic repercussions and cause a chain reaction of misfortune. She often things of what will go wrong and works to make sure that it doesn't happen.

And last is Dimitri alone. If she has something to do like homework or something she’s fine and tends to hyper focus on that activity, often forgetting to eat or something until whatever she is working on gets done. But if she doesn’t have anything to do to occupy her or anyone to hangout with she easily gets lost in her own thoughts and is prone to becoming extremely paranoid if left alone with them for too long and over thinks things.

Occupation: 
-Student at San Francisco School of the Arts (highschool)
-Student at Stanford University (College)
-Intern at San Francisco Museum and Historical Society

Likes: 

-Frozen yogurt
-instrumental music
-home videos
-baking
-mythology
-soft things

Dislikes: 
-Alcohol (the smell of whiskey in-particular is triggering)
-ignorance
-people who try to one up her
-misrepresentation of Hades in the media
-Gordon Godfrey 

Hobbies: Spending time with the team, playing the violin, stargazing, eating sweets, riding trolleys, storytelling
Fears: Loosing someone close to her on her watch, making mistakes, her soul being taken from her
Talents: Playing the violin and dancing ballet

Appearance

Height: 5'2" season 1, 5'6" season 2
Skin Tone:  Light olive (result of being a Child of Hades)
Eye Color: Green (normal) Pink (Spirit)
Hair Description:
- Color: Brown
- Length: Medium
- Style: Floofy

Relationships

Father: Aaron Spiros (Shadow Hunter)
Mother: Gia Spiros (deseased) 
Siblings: None (her mother was a few weeks along of being pregnant when she died, they found out during the autopsy)
Best Friends: Tula (deceased) 
Friends: Wally, Dick, Kaldur, Artemis, M’gann (rocky relationship) Conner
Love Interest: Wally West/Kid Flash. Dimitri begins dating Wally West towards the end of season 1. He was the second protégé she met after Speedy and was the first person to make her laugh while she was in Nightlight mode which was an impressive feat and he made it his goal to always try to make her laugh because he liked her smile. He was glad to see that she was a happy girl outside of her hero work. He was originally his flirty self around her at first but once his began to realize his true feelings he began to cut it back a bit and was more sincere with her which she really appreciated. Sometimes they would but heads, him being a man of science and her of mystics but they would often try to understand each other, him tutoring her in science which is the only reason she passed and her telling grand stories of the Gods and her family. He is one of the only people to see through the front she puts up sometimes and always reassures her that if she is ever feeling down or has gone into one of those negative thought spiral that he will be there in a flash (lol) to make her smile again.

Hero Information

Code Name: Nightlight
Place of Origin: Greece
Residence: San Francisco 
Affiliations: Team, Justice League, Hades, The Gods of Olympus


Powers and Abilities: 

-Flight
-Invisibility
-Intangibility
-Force Fields
-Possession
-Spirit Energy
-Spirit Projection (her spirit can leave her body)

Her powers have the side effect of making her emotionally numb since they come from her spirit which borders the plain of existance between life and the after life. When using her powers she channels her spirit, pushing aside her more "lively" side which includes emotions. This is why she has a gemstone which works to balance her powers, not having them take over her being so she can still feel empathy and compassion which is key with dealing with people, good or bad. Powers such as flight, invisibility, intangibility (though hard at first to turn off), force fields and spirit energy blast came to her quickly within the first year of training, but spirit projection and possession came later on when her spirit was strong and occurred by accident, with her struggling to return to her body and to stop possessing a person.

Weapons: -

Weaknesses: Anything that can harm a ghost, examples being…

-Salt (this includes the oceans)
-Iron
-Magic
-Cannot use powers on Holy grounds
-Not physically strong
-Possession she finds as an uncomfortable process so she’s held back on doing it
-Spirit projection leaves her body unprotected, if her body is killed during she can’t return to it.

Also some powers she cannot use at the same time. She cannot be itantigible/invisible and produce an energy blast at the same time. Same goes with force fields, she can’t produce them when intangible or invisible and she can only make one at a time.

Extra Information

Quotes: "Did you know….” “Oh my Gods” “Hades help us” 
Theme Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB1NMf…
Food: Frozen Yogurt
Drink: Hot cider
Color: Green
Animal: Cats



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