Koriand'r

Koriand'r: 1985 - 2004
The second child of the Royal Family of her homeworld of Tamaran, Princess Koriand’r never expected to sit the throne of her people; however, a childhood illness robbed Koriand’r’s sister, Komand'r of her natural Tamaranean ability to convert ultraviolet light into flight energy and because of this, their father decided that the crown should pass on to the younger Koriand’r sister, to preserve the strongest possible bloodline. Of course, this upset Komand’r and she attempted to kill her sister in a violent outburst and was thus exiled from her homeplanet.

Year later, while Koriand’r was attending to matters of state with her father, the king, Komand’r returned in defiance of her exile with her power of flight returned thanks to her new allies that now accompanied her: Apokalypse. With an Apokaliptan emissary known only at the time as Fury at her side, Komand’r gave her father one chance to surrender and when the Tamaranean king refused, Fury dispatched the king’s elite guard while Komand’r personally killed her own father before Koriand’r very eyes. After this coup, an Apokaliptan vanguard seized Koraind’r and uses her as a hostage, forcing her people to accept Komand’r’s claim to the throne. Of course, once crowned, Komand’r was little more than a mere puppet state of Apokalypse, while Koriand’r was imprisoned aboard an Apokaliptan prison ship that conducted crude experiments on her and other Tamaranean dissenters.

In six years’ time, Koriand’r was the only Tamaranean prisoner aboard the ship, her Royal blood having carried a trait that made her resilient to the experiments that had killed the rest of her people. While passing through Earth’s solar system, the Apokalitpan ship suffered a catastrophic collision with an asteroid. Due to the damage, a number of key systems went offline, Koriand’r was awoken from the stasis sleep she had been in and found herself “supercharged” with ultraviolet light that allowed her to blast her way to an escaped pod in the confusion.

The escape pod was automatically programmed to travel to the nearest habitable planet and thus set a collision course for Earth… and my life.

Starfire: 2005 - 2006
Upon Koriand’r’s invasion of Earth, she crash-landed in Mexico, on the Yucatan peninsula. This was in the infancy of the Justice League of America and it was the Martian Manhunter, J'onn J'onzz who had the means to detect the presence of an Apokaliptan escape pod. After J’onn investigated and found no lifeform present, he decided that the risk of a possibly Apokaliptan fugitive on Earth was an urgent matter and called the World’s Greatest Detective to assist in the manhunt…  err… alienhunt(?). Batman decided to bring Dick and me along.

I was expecting a few hours of searching, a quick beatdown of some alien scum, and then an overnight stay at some resort with a secluded grotto and some private time with Dick. For crying out loud, I wore a bikini under my bat-suit! But did I get any of that? Nope. What happened instead was three hours of searching before I happened upon Dick locking lips with this floozy. Go figure. Sure, she claimed it was to “learn English”, but if that’s the case, then shouldn’t she be a freakin’ English professor after all the kissing she’s done with him since them? Anyway, after taking her back to the Hall of Justice, the JLA founder heard of her plight and decided to give her sanctuary for the time being and placed her in the Titans program to allow her to master her newly enhanced powers. The rest of the Titans welcomed her with open arms and I decided not to go to the Tower that summer… in hindsight, probably not my wisest decision because while Koriand’r got a new name (“Starfire”), the love of my friends, and my man, all I got was a bullet in the spine, courtesy of that [expletive] clown!

So, after living it up with the Titans in the Tower for while, Koriand’r began to desire to return to her homeworld to free her people shortly after I awoke from my coma. When Terra “died”, Koriand’r decided to “borrow” (read: steal) J’onn J’onzz’s bioship. After another night with Dick in Blüdhaven, Koriand’r put Earth behind her without so much as a goodbye to her friends. Honestly, I had hoped she was gone for good. But of course, I wasn’t going to be that lucky, was I? Noooo… We hadn’t seen the last of the Tamaranean Manstealer.

Starfire: 2006 - Present
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Trivia and Notes

 * The escape pod Starfire used to get to earth also carried another prisoner: Despero.
 * Starfire joined the Justice League of America in 2006 nominated by The Flash.
 * Starfire lost her membership from the Outsiders and Justice League after she went rogue alongside Arsenal and Red Hood.
 * Kori's address is a nod to her first comic book appearance: DC Comics Presents #26, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez in 1980.
 * Barbara hates Kori because she feels her luck got bad when she landed on Earth; she got shot by the Joker, got crippled and lost the chance to confess her love to Dick because he started dating Kori. Kori on the other side, legitimately likes Babs and considers her a friend... She believes that Babs is just that way with everyone and doesn't really see that they have a problem.
 * Kori loves drinking mustard.
 * The way Starfire speaks is because she is naive of Earth's customs and language, but she isn't dumb... A little ignorant, but not without intelligence.

Links and References

 * Appearances of Koriand'r
 * Character Gallery: Koriand'r