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Name: Red
Personal LJ:

citrinitas
Contact Info: quixoticavian at gmail dot com

Character Name: Salu Digby – Atom Girl
Character Series: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes_(New_Earth)

More than you ever wanted to know about it, I'm sure.

Background:

Salu was the last of the Legionnaires to appear on panel. She spent the first 11 issues being a running joke amongst the members: Atom Girl, the Legionnaire so small nobody could see her around. Most of the members thought she was non-existent for obvious reasons...they hadn't met her, and the ones who had thought it was hilarious so they kept quiet about the truth. Lyle Norg's attempts to pin his spying on her failed for obvious reasons.

Her first actual appearance was quite literally doing her best impression of a chestburster, and, for lack of a better descriptor, ripping through the shoulder of the villain of the week armed and ready. After responding that yes, she is that Atom Girl, she suggested cauterizing the would she caused with a blaster. There is a scene change at this point in which the Legion wins the battle and the universe is saved.

Immediately afterwards, in the aftermath she confronts Lyle (by which I mean surprising him when he's got his flight ring off and dangling him over the city by his collar, several hundred feet in the air) about how he blamed his spying on her and the fact she has blackmail material on him now. Turns out, however, she doesn't mind what he did...the exact opposite, really.

More time passes, and while Salu exists she doesn't do anything incredibly noteworthy. The pitfalls of being in a team book consisting of 20 members and a handful of background characters. She helps Brainiac 5 try to bring Nura back to life. She goes off on missions and fights things. There's a big epic battle and a fight to save the universe. The usual thing.

She's sent on a mission to Lallor with Shadow Lass and Timber Wolf. There they encounter the enigmatic E.R.G.-1, who is being manipulated into fighting them, though she ends up convincing him to side with the Legion instead.

Yet more things happen, but really, the sum of Salu's involvement is pretty much, 'Salu goes on missions, shoots things, punches others, gets really upset over losing a fight, and then shoots and punches and kicks some more while other people hog the majority of the screentime.' The universe is also saved again.

Point in Canon: Post-Legion of Super-Heroes the comic, pre-Legion of Three Worlds.

Personality:

In one of life's little ironic moments, Salu has a major complex about being perceived as small in the eyes of others. The quickest way to piss her off is to, intentionally or otherwise, make a comment which implies that she's small. When her teammate's brother, a natural giant to whom most everyone else is small, quipped that they were like 'tiny fairies' she responded by punching him hard and flying off.

Because of this she has a tendency to...overcompensate, usually violently. Her first on-panel appearance was bursting through the shoulder of a man before it was implied that she shot him, though not fatally. At one point, she calls herself one of the 'three meanest mothersprockers on the roster' and...not only does no one in the room disagree, there's no reason in general to disagree.

This isn't to say that she wanders about and randomly punches people just for the sake of punching something and is just a wandering whirlwind of violence in general. Rather, Salu simply likes a good fight. One of the quickest ways of getting on her good side would be establishing yourself as a good sparring partner or not being afraid of getting your hands dirty in general. Not only that, but when she gets into a serious fight she's willing to fight hard and dirty if that's what it takes to win: her first on-panel appearance was her emerging from the shoulder of the villain of the week, after all, immediately afterwards being implied to shoot him. Another time, when up against a monster which was repelling the Legion's attacks and was told to do something creative, Salu responded by turning microscopic, flying into the monster, and using her blasters to kill it from the inside.

But, barring someone making small jokes, she doesn't always resort to blind violence if it's not the right thing to do. When the team discovered that E.R.G.-1 was being used, she resorted to diplomacy and not only successfully talked him out of his vendetta, but also got him to side with the Legion.

Salu really enjoys having a thick cloud of rumors and speculation as she feels that it gives her more of a presence than she might otherwise have. When she confronted Lyle about how he spied and tried to blame it on her, she ended up ultimately saying...

SALU: And then I turn out to be real and perfectly capable of saying to them, “I'm not a spy. You've got the wrong Legionnaire.” Bad break. You have any idea what I do to people who spread stories like that about me? I buy them a drink.
LYLE: Wh--? I thought you'd be—aren't you pissed?
SALU: Please. Tall tales? Myths that make me big in everyone's eyes? Kid, I love how there are always rumors swirling around about me. Gives me presence.

And ultimately she offered to forgive him, but only if he mentioned her dangling him over the city by his collar. Lyle agreed.

Salu's good with direct confrontation of the punching kind, but excels far less when it comes to interpersonal direct confrontation. When dealing with something she just doesn't want to talk about, her usual response (if pissed sufficiently) is to tell them the 31st century version of fuck off and fly off, possibly punching them before leaving. Feelings aren't really her strong suit, specifically if it touches upon themes such as her feeling scared or vulnerable.

Among the various Legionnaires, Salu has the closest relationship by far with Querl Dox, or Brainac 5. This is for a number of reasons. The big one is because Brainy saved Imsk and the planet currently exists on what appears to be a snowglobe to the average layperson, and as a result all Imskians think Brainy's amazing. But their abilities and personalities complement each other and they make for a rather impressive team. It isn't a crush, but more like what you would get if your close friend and teammate happens to be also the person who saved your civilization, and as such you know exactly what they're capable of on a deep and personal level.

Sample Entry: Testrun! (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/274984.html) She's also got threads here (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/274832.html?thread=9207440#t9207440) and here (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/275756.html?thread=9234476#t9234476) going.

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Salu Digby isn't the character I reserved either, go team.

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