Description
Raw Power: The Influence of Black Holes
Transformation (pictured)
Messier Star Power, Make-Up!
To transform, Lyra takes the broach she wears around her wrist and holds it out in front of her as she cries out her transformation phrase. The broach explodes with black ribbons as they engulf her, forming a mini black hole around her creating her fuku. When she appears from the black hole, she is wearing her fuku but her skin is black and speckled like dark matter. She slowly materializes from the black hole and strikes a pose, finally showing her true self.
Group Attack
Catastrophic Black Drift!
Messier 22, with the help of some Red Star Sisters or her Court, can create a black hole to suck up her enemies into an alternate dimension. Sometimes, when she transforms (shown above), she can actually keep her black hole and dark matter skin intact, sucking any nearby enemies up before she even finishes transforming. The black hole sucks her enemies into an alternate dimension / reality. Messier 22 cannot choose where they end up though.
Ability
Galactic Vortex!
Messier 22 gathers energy around her into a vortex, using her body like a black hole sucking power, creatures and other objects to her. Everything she pulls towards her is trapped in a gravitational pull and cannot free itself until she releases her power. She uses this ability to trap enemies so other sisters can have a chance to attack, heal or otherwise participate in the battle. She also uses this ability to stop enemies before they can get to an injured sister and attack her.
Magic Attack
Blaze Pulse Blast!
Messier 22 is capable of summoning forth energy pulses that can both crush her enemies and throw her enemies. She uses her attack by placing her arms outstretched in front of her (two hands out is crushing power while one hand out is throwing power). The strength of her crushing ability is determined by how many times she has called on her black hole powers. If she hasn't called on them at all, the crushing power is equal to that of a black hole and can decimate her enemy easily!
Physical Attack
When Sailor Messier 22 touches her broach, a magical arrow appears. She does not need a bow to let these arrows fly, and because they are magical arrows, she has an infinite supply of them. She can, using only the will of her mind, summon an arrow (or series of arrows) to blast her enemies. Her arrows glow brighter the more power she infuses them with, and once they glow blue, they can explode with the force of dynamite when they hit (they otherwise shock their targets). She can also cause her arrows to turn black as night. When she lets a black arrow fly, it tears the space around it and creates a black hole that will suck in even her allies or herself! She must be very careful when using her arrows to create black holes.
On the Influence of Black Holes and her Powers
The great blue star, Messier 22, is surrounded by black holes. The gravitational pull it resists is immense. The blue star draws from the area around it her own powers, thus the star is mostly influenced by the black holes and gravity of the system it was born in. Messier 22 can use the power of black holes and gravity because of her innate ability to resist their pull. She does not have the ability to control their output however. This means that she cannot decide to where objects end up that are sucked into the black holes she creates nor can she always control how strong a black hole will be that she creates. With her powers come a great deal of responsibility as she could potentially create a black hole to help suck in an enemy to save a planet but suck the planet into the black hole instead...
About the Art
Raw power... It wasn't easy deciding what to do. I couldn't figure out gravity or energy pulses because they are so vague, so I just dove in feet first and went for what mostly influences Messier 22: Black Holes. I feel I did a respectable job with the artwork. That perspective was hell for me, but I really wanted her coming towards my audience from the black hole itself. In the end, I created a dual piece. Not only does this piece show Messier 22's influence and raw power, it also shows her transformation as it is starting to come to a close. The lighting was also playing havoc with my sanity as I don't typically do lighting top-down like this, but in this instance, the light from the surrounding stars are all I had to play with. The space background, the lining, the overall coloring... I love. LOVE. In the end, I am truly pleased with this work XD
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Messier 22 © me; Messier Sisterhood © Sir-Frog and Singing-Kiwi
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