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The Original. The naive, little one. Click the Info window below for stats/back story summary           B: Hericane, my first hero from my very first day of beta in City of Heroes, I still have kept the original costume I designed from day one, even though it doesn't look completely streamlined, it has that rookie hero look. Which I guess is why I like it. Since then, she and I have had a long history of COH together. Her name isn't the original one that I used in COH Beta. It was Herricane, who I did eventually name for another character later on. When COH was nearing going live, the people I had planned to team and be a SG with all agreed we'd vote as to what server we'd play on, our SG name, or SG colors, SG emblem, etc. We did this unfortunately after the name reservation for COH going live had been started.  I put in Herricane on what server I had thought we'd all pick, but of my luck it was another one.  I'm on Guardian and have been ever since live, but I think I thought everyone liked Protector. So I reserved Herricane on Protector first. By the time we voted, Guardian came out as the winner and I went to reserve it there as well, but found that Herricane had been taken, so I changed it to Hericane.            On that note... for those who read this recognize the name from Penthouse Comix (please don't sue me or City of Heroes!) I had no idea Hericane was the name of a real heroine. I didn't discover it until I was 6 months into playing the game. I think 6 people have recognized her, due to me having one of Heri's costumes as the real Heri.  Oddly enough I did this at the same time Marvel was suing COH for likeness issues. Hasn't caused any problems. Penthouse apparently doesn't mind it, may be since the comix aren't being published anymore.          Heri's pretty amazing to me. I have my favorite superheroes out there but Heri is starting to rank up there, possibly now the highest. Sure she's not an officially published comic book character. But she's mine... I guess that's one reason why I've kept her not as stylish first look all these years.  I remember when I was getting ready to enter Beta for COH, I had an idea for a storm based character, but I didn't want to make her a ripoff of Storm from the X-Men so I bounced off my ideas with a friend, who suggested that she be an alien, rather than a mutant, and the light bulbs went off. I developed the idea that her world was destroyed and then wove in her father rushing to earth as a means to get Heri here. From there it was a matter of details, who he was, what her name and her mother's name. Ronnie came from me throwing out that name, and friend had liked it also from Jeri Ryan's character on Boston Public, so I threw it in. But Heri didn't seem like a "Ronnie" so somehow I came across the name Jordana, I think I was reading something about Jordana Brewster at the time. Guess I liked the name so much I picked it.           Over time Heri has been a slow bloomer, she took a long time to level and I had to go through a respec because I didn't know how anything about Hasten, wow that's a long way traveled, and how much it would change Heri's worth. With Hasten to speed up powers, Singularity suddenly transformed Heri into a soloable character and worth more when she reached the AV stages. Coupled with her fame due to the real Heri, and more teaming I got known through her as a pretty good controller. And thus my other characters slightly owe their creation and/or leveling due people knowing me via Heri and giving them a chance...	Well, this is my page, my basic info and all the dirt on me, as they say. "They" being my friends and fellow heroes. Even though I was born here, and grew up like everyone else. I'm not completely human. I'm part Aldanian, or alien I guess. Why don't I look alien has to do with my race I'm sure. I can't say for sure, as that all I know about what I am and where I'm from has been from history records, and mainly my Momma. She loved my Daddy so much. I wish I could have known him. He's so caring and compassionate and kind. Not at all what the movies make of aliens. Daddy's people, my people, the Aldanians fought the Rikti like we're now here on Earth. But they didn't survive, Aldana was wiped out, save my father. He followed them here. Seeing a world that resisted the Rikti as much as his people did, he joined their cause, despite his alien nature. People were uneasy about him at first, I don't know why, Daddy doesn't look or seem like a mean person. Momma told me it was the anti-alien sentiment. With the Rikti destroying everything, any alien was a bad alien. Daddy wasn't welcomed very warmly, but like the heroes that protected it, the city warmed up to him as he proved his peaceful intentions.            That's what I love about Paragon City. Everyone is helpful and nice. Eventually. When I was growing up I was teased a lot because I looked different.  No one else had green hair, or green colored glowing eyes. They always called me names, and I was always picked on. I hated being alien. I always colored my hair when I learned how to, so then I looked pretty like the other girls. But I still had my eyes. Which I could never change, so I tried to be good at school like Momma said. But when the other mean kids would tease me, as soon as the bell rang I'd rush home as fast as I could. And I'd tell her that I'm not going back to school. And she'd always ask me what happened. Did the kids tease me again. When I said yes she'd ask me if I remembered what she always told me about my Daddy, that he wasn't liked very much either. That people weren't nice to him, and even grandpa didn't like him. And that's major, because grandpa likes everyone, and everyone loves grandpa! So Momma would then tell me a story about Daddy, usually something I've never heard, but sometimes she'd tell me one of my favorites, or one of her favorites, or one that was both of our favorites. No matter what she told me I'd always feel safe and happy again because Daddy made it safe for us. And Momma told me that if Daddy can do it, so can I, right? Since Daddy was an alien and protected Paragon City, I can be half alien and protect the City as well.           Daddy was a superhero here, something people tell me I am as well. I dunno about that. Momma has told me stories about him single-handedly wrecking whole armadas of Rikti. Momma really likes to exaggerate my Daddy. After fighting them myself, I'm not sure he couldn't done THAT much. Although other reports have mentioned that he was a big factor in deterring incoming Rikti. So I love Momma for how she made him seem real to me, as if he was telling me his stories . I don't think I could ever do anything like that. Only Daddy could be able to do something like he has.           So, I knew I had to do what he did. Momma couldn't, because she was a normal person. She's a superwoman to me, but I was born with the powers that Daddy and my people were natural at. I didn't know how I was going to do so, but I had to learn to use those same powers. That was hard work. They were there, yet they weren't. I thought it was going to be a snap because Momma said Daddy used his without even thinking. That didn't happen for me. I really feel bad for the heroes that volunteered their time to try and help me. The heroes that I accidentally hit and hurt a bunch of times when I didn't have any control of what I was doing. ::sheepishly winces:: I owe them for who I am and hope they don't think bad of me for that.           It was pretty tricky, but I got the hang of controlling stuff in the air. I remember when I was first just trying to push the wind and make it blow when I wanted to. I never did get those winds to gust the exact way I wanted to, but while trying I found I could lift objects, or hold them down. There was this one time when both Momma and I were running late one morning, and we were both running around crazed. Momma finally got everything and then was out the door and into her car and off. As she was driving away I saw her purse on the counter. Quickly I grabbed it and ran outside, trying to catch Momma before she took off. The car was driving away pretty fast and I yelled but she didn't hear me. Running as fast as I could I kept yelling for her to stop, and I reached out my arm as if to grab the car, and then suddenly the car stuck dead its tracks, the tires squealing on the road, until the force stopping it finally stopped the tires too. Frightened, I shrieked and put I covered my mouth with my hands. The instant I did that the car hit the ground and peeled out and shot forward. I think it scared Momma so much that she hit the brake, which caused the cause to skid and swerve and crashed into a nearby neighbors house.           Oh man was I in trouble. Mom's car was wrecked, and the house it crashed into had a big hole. I darted over there to see if Momma was alright. She was, I saw the airbag thing was inflated as I helped her out. I was so relieved that she was safe, and so scared about getting grounded because of the car, that I didn't notice Momma and everyone else that ran to see what happened just stared at me. I figured they were staring at me because they knew I caused the crash. until I noticed Momma still just standing there staring at me. Momma never does that. Only when she's really impressed or something. Like something my Daddy would have done to make her just look in awe. And then I noticed my feet weren't touching anything.  I was floating! I was actually floating, no wait... I was flying! Scared but curious, I jerked myself backwards and glided with ease backwards.  Oh wow! I was flyin just like Momma said Daddy could! I screamed at the top of my lungs with happiness and then jumped up, er well flew higher. After I settled down I somehow landed near Momma. Not sure how, took me weeks later to figure out how to fly straight and turn and all where I wanted to fly.            Everyone there ran up to me and started shaking my hand and started asking questions. Momma was smiling, her eyes full of tears. She just hugged me, for a long time. I started crying too, seeing her so happy,  I never did get grounded, I guess Momma didn't have the heart to on the day that I suddenly found my powers.            The others kept asking me questions like how I stopped the car. I became a bit famous in our block after that. I didn't know what I did to stop the car, but I seemed to be able to stop and lift and push things so I tried it on the car again. Raising my arm I focused on the car, and slowly it rumbled. I pulled my arm had hand towards me and slowly the car was drawn towards me and into the yard. doing so made part of the house wall collapse. I yelped seeing more damage to the house. Thankfully the people who lived there were nice and understood and only asked that Momma and I help pay for the wall. I spent all of my saved up allowance, the one I had set to buy a car, helping fix their house, and using my newfound powers as much as I could to help rebuild the house.
From then on everyone accepted me a bit more. And I slowly discovered another important power of mine. One that Daddy didn't have. One afternoon after school I spent the day with another hero, trying to figure out how my Daddy so easily used the winds. That hero had seen him do it a lot so I I kept trying to do the same. Deciding we needed a nice place to relax, he took me to a calm area along Perez Park by the lake and I started gusting the winds about. I still couldn't figure out what my father did.  but as I made the winds move about around above the lake, some clouds started to form. We both looked up at them, and then looked to see if any others were around. since the sky was clear all day. He told me to keep doing what I was, so I did, and slowly those clouds built up into dark gray rain clouds. And before we knew it, it started pouring. We both got soaked standing there. Even though I was dripping wet, I never felt so happy. I thanked the hero and took off for home, eager to tell Momma what I had found. Over time I slowly discovered I could master more weather related elements.           After figuring out this winds/gravity/storm thing out well enough for me to go out, I thought a while about a name. Thinking up a name that is cool and isn't taken is pretty hard.  I'm not a very creative person, so I just picked a power that I had that Daddy used. Daddy was known as the Tornado, and used a hurricane-ish power a lot. So why not be named after it? Sounded kinda menacing and boring by itself, though. I didn't want that. So I lessened its scariness by using Heri. instead of Hurri. And it stuck :)  Now it was just a matter of getting a costume, cause I look pretty plain when I'm me.
	So here's what I came up with. Ya like it? Since I was going for a tornado/hurricane like theme, I looked at some comic books Momma gave me when I was a little girl. She showed and read them to me so I'd know what Daddy was. I saw some spiky whirly designs from different costumes that in parts looked what I wanted. Blue made sense to me... for water, and then white for the clouds and all all.  I wanted the white to stand out, to represent all the forces I was using to help. On my first day of flying around and seeing the other costumes of heroes that I was sent to assist, I felt like a wannabe with a suit from a costume shop. They were nice to me, and said they liked it, but I'm sure they were just saying that to be kind. I've worn my blue and white jumper for a long time now tho, and its still getting me recognized now.  I never though I'd see the day someone would know me. I had to tell everyone who I was so much at the beginning.           B: Here's my girl. I purposely made her costume not very sleek. Even though she did grow up here and as human as anyone else, she still has a alien sensibility so she's not very fashionable. Hericane's one of those old fashioned girls, hearing of her father, who was a hero himself, and knew she had to do something for him, her race, and her city.  Most of the time she's sweet little Hericane, innocent and naive. But at the same time she'll use her power roughly when she's called on.  And she does so with force as a Gravity Storm Summoning Controller. With her pet singularity, gravity holds and storm debuffs she gets called into help with the big AVs.
As much as that that first costume has grown on me, literally, I still don't know how I've kept it fitted so well yet still fairly good looking, I started wearing other costumes. It's just something a hero does. At least that what Momma says. So... around the time that the City honored Hero 1 by wearing capes again, I decided it was time for a new Heri.  I had met one of my dopplegangers by this time, Herricane. I had to, due to people asking me weird questions, like "how'd you get here so fast?" and "You wanted to meet behind the angel statue in Steel later for some fun? (I still have no idea where that is)" and "why are you wearing that?" turns out there was another person named "Hericane" flying about.  I was mad, that someone was using my name, and also did some stuff you weren't supposed to do. I kinda got scared too, cause I thought maybe I was using HER name.           Whatever the case, I had to find her, cause everyone kept thinking I was her. Felt kinda bad if I messed up anything for her. I did run into her, and I mean nearly run into her, I was skimming the ground looking for something that might be me, to be honest I had no idea what to look for other than this girl wore less than me, much less than me, and wore a different blue, and red hair. Hello? green hair, red hair? Get a clue people!!! I was skimming the ground for a red spot when suddenly I heard something in front of me and a saw this big red and bluish coming at me really fast. Somehow we both turned and avoided each other. When I saw her I was like, "Its you!" And she did the same! I'll say one thing, I don't know how people got us confused, because we're nuthin alike. Ok we're something a like. Close looks, but not really. Oh well. Guess in a city of costumed heroes that happens. We've got the same name, so gotta be the right person, right?          Right.. Ok, where was I... OOH yeah! my costume. I could wear a cape now, and since a cape really didn't look good well with mine and Dads look, I didn't know what else to do but use Herri's Just changed one color and viola! It's not really something I'd wear. Kinda revealing actually. Not sure why Herri picked it, but to each his/her own Momma always says. I get noticed in it more, but not as much as Herri does in hers. I'll talk about that more on her page.           B: Here's Hericane's costume for the real Hericane. To make it true to Hericane, I still kept her color hair and glowing eyes. The real Hericane has had two costume variations. She appears in a red and blue look on the cover of Penthouse Comix, as compared to the normal red and black look. Here's an example:
In high school, Lani, one of my friends, showed up to class looking like a cowgirl. you know.. a cowboy hat, a denim jacket and some Levi's. I really didn't notice it much, except for the cowboy hat. That made her really look... hmm rugged? tough but still feminine, something like that.  But besides that I noticed the boys started talking to her more, a lot more than they had the day before.  Even the one that had been interested in me all semester was talking to her. And I was wearing one of my more prettier dresses. Lani told me later, mostly due to me not talking to her, I didn't know what to say to her afterwards, I was confused, that it was just a look that she felt the most comfortable in, and a lot of guys think it's pretty hot.  She said I should give it a try, I'd look good.           I didn't think so... Lani was showing a lot of skin, and I wasn't comfortable with that. Not to mention Momma would probably kill me. I'd be fine Lani said, so much so that she let me borrow her cowgirl stuff until I wore it.           I still wasn't sure.... for a while. I never stopped thinking about it though. During one pretty chilly winter day, I was getting ready for school. It was windy and rainy outside so I needed something to cover my head. I went looking for my windbreaker and I saw the cowboy hat again. I guess I wanted to wear it all long because I grabbed Lani's outfit and threw it on. I still didn't like how much she showed so I wore a long sleeve denim shirt instead of her tank top. Lani was right, it was pretty comfortable, and guys did approach me more.  Since then I've warmed up to a tank top similar. Everyone kept tell me it wasn't as cool, especially the guys. So I didn't care and just kept wearing what I was. But something didn't feel right, the girls thought I was cooler now, but not as cool as I wanted, so.... I finally just gave in. Doesn't matter much now since when I wear it I'm usually fighting some vicious Tsoo or charging Rikti, so what I'm wearing rrreeeaaallly isn't much an issue.            B: Heri's cool Texas cowgirl look. A few of my friends in the SG started a trend of making a civilian/civvies look for each character. I was the 3rd one to do, it sounded like fun. :) Took us a while to get the 4th member to eventually do so. Anyhow, this kinda demonstrates Heri's innocent-ness. I chose a cowgirl look because Heri would be the type that would see friends wearing it, and she'd think it looked cool so she'd pick it.            Her glasses, specifically were picked for a few reasons. One it's slightly influenced by my love for the Tomb Raider series and Lara Croft, so this cowgirl had a little bit of a Lara feel so I threw in the glasses, but made them square instead of the granny glasses round, The reddish tint stayed. It also is symbolic, of Heri. For the most part she looks at things pretty positively, and has an optimistic outlook on life, so some "rosey" colored glasses seemed fitting.	::Heri steps out hesitantly and then shows off her costume:: That Hami swimsuit really didn't work for me the way it does Em with hers. It's gotta be an Em thing ::shrugs:: So I thought it'd be nice to wear something that people that knew my Daddy would recognize. It's not exactly his look. I'd never wear his look. :Heri shakes her head vehemently:: Oh no, I'd never do that. Can't wear Daddy's look. I'm not Daddy and I've never be able to save the world the way Daddy did.           So... I picked an old look. Somethin the old heroes wore back then. I always liked my Daddy's stripes. He looked like a superhero with his stripes. So I picked something close. I think it looks ok. I guess the people of Paragon City will let me know.           B:  Now that Heri's really not going to hit the Hami Raids on a regular basis and even if she did she wouldn't need her own Hami Raid outfit. I decided to switch it out and give Heri a look I'd switch to now and then.
When I was ready to choose my fifth and final look, nearly everyone in the SG told me to make it count. Your fifth costume is when you've really become a superhero to the city, so whatever you wear now is what the city will think of you. That was an amazing thought at the time. I've finally arrived. Growing up a 6 or 7 yr old girl in a city literally of heroes, I've wanted to fly sky high with them. To be like Daddy. To fight the Rikti so they wouldn't destroy my home like they did his.           I'm finally able to do that! But what do I wear now to show that? I still didn't know much about costumes and what looked good. I tried looking at all the costumes of all my friends that I liked a lot, but there was nothing that stood out. Anything I would came up with woulda looked like I copied someone else.           I really didn't know what to do... other than modifying my first look. But that's so cheesy. They do that in the comics a lot and it really sometimes looks worse. My comics.. that's when it hit me, to check those comics my Momma gave me. Wonder Woman's look gave me an idea. Those white toga like blouses that you see the ancient Greek and Roman women wearing. The ones that are fairly plain, but have little bits of golden details to them. Not very showy, but at the same time very noble. Very Goddess like. I liked that. And when I first went to Icon I picked out something that I thought looked pretty close. Until Herri saw me wear it. I wore it for awhile so I thought it was good, but Herri took me back to Icon and got me the real thing. Some fancy shiny hair leaves. And a real toga, not a close looking toga. And Lani gave me a belt of hers, since the golden pointy one didn't go so well with my new toga. And Em picked out these wings to go with it. I guess she thought I really looked angelic and thought my look wasn't complete unless I really looked like an angel? I think it looks pretty neat. I'm missing a halo though. I wonder if Em can find one of those for me.           B: Slightly golden and slightly angelic, she'd want people that see her to know she's a hero that knows her stuff and can be counted on.
This is for you Daddy. I know you're still watching over me, just like you watched over the people of Paragon City. I'm did it Daddy, you see me at City Hall? Your little girl grew up to be a hero just like you. Ya see what I'm wearing? I hope you don't mind. Don't worry, its not the one that's yours. Momma made one just for me. She wanted to take a picture of me in it, so she has a picture of us both wearing the same thing on our very first day as a hero. I didn't pick your hero costume though. There's only one of you on Earth and there should only be one of you for all time. So I picked something that fits me me best. I hope you like what I picked.            I hope I've become a good a hero as you, Daddy. It's hard being a hero. Why do so many people want to be mean and hurt the city and the people here? It's so hard... Was it ever hard for you Daddy? No, I bet it wasn't. You're the Tornado. Nothing was hard enough for you, huh? Sometimes it's still hard for me. I'm doing everything I can, really I am. But sometimes everything I have isn't enough.... That one time I flew into that office building, and the Sky Raiders had all those bombs in it. There were so many bombs, and so many of them. But I knew I had to try, because there were so many people trapped in that building. I almost got them all... I tried to save them, really I did. ::pauses and cries:: but it wasn't enough, I couldn't save them all. I wasn't enough of a hero like you. ::cries harder, then sobs. stays silent a few moments then composes herself, while looking at a picture of her father, and smiles:: I won't ever give up though. I'm gonna try harder and be as good a hero as you are. Yup, I'm not gonna give up. You never did Daddy, you kept fighting for Paragon City. You never stopped fighting. So I won't stop either, I'll keep fighting. I'll keep fighting and fighting and fighting...... Just like you did, Daddy.
B: Heh, ok that might have been a lil bit overdramatic... But it's Heri again at her core. Heri's driving force is protecting people, protecting them like her father did. And like most kids, she'll probably never feel she's done enough to equal her father. Even though she might already have in her own right. She'll always see her father as larger than life, something nearly unreachable. At the same times she's Daddy's little girl, so she feels she has to try at reach for what her father is, or what she sees her father is. This always leaves Heri in a daze, always so in awe, always so naive. All she knows is she has to be a hero.
Hey.... there's me. :) Momma told me about this.... First time I ever saw myself as Hericane in a photo taken by someone else, when I wasn't aware someone was even taking my picture. She sent me the photo as she was reading the Times, looking over the various features of new superheroes that the reporters like to cover every now and then. I dunno why she looks at them, they're never as good as Daddy's to her, at least that what she always says when she sees all those pictures. I guess she really misses Daddy, and even more when she sees those pictures.
I kinda felt weird with this red bubble thingie around me. I'm not totally sure why. I could seem to do everything normally. That and Joey said it was a lot like her green force field bubbles, just that they were red. It didn't matter that it protected me against radiation. It wouldn't affect me like, so I should be able to do anything as if I just had one of Joey's green bubbles. But it still felt weird. So instead of going back to the city I stayed around Terra Volta. I guess it needs people looking after it anyway, so I decided to stick around until the red thingie wore off. It didn't wear off very quickly. So I was in Terra Volta for a long time.
Hi Everybody! It's Heri again!  I'm here at in the Shadow Shard doing a patrol of one of the islands. The Rularuu are up to their weird tricks again. Somehow they're conjuring up "ghosts" of some of the other villain types that have made their way up here. Crey, Circle of Thorns, you name it, they're up here. Can't let that go unchecked for too long. Who knows what they'll find and use back on Earth.             So a bunch of us are up here trimming down the numbers. Boy they're tougher up here. Had to summon everything I had. Lighting storms, tornadoes, even had my hurricane going.  Even had to "boost" up a few times here and there. Was chucking cars and crates and everything else I could pull at these things. Like a friend said, this hero thing is tough and DANGEROUS!  I still can't figure out how Daddy did this so easily. I've been a hero now for a while and I still get hurt..
B: A few more screenshots that I really lucked out on getting.  The timing of the forklift, the hasten power on Heri's hands show her hands just enough, the flashing of the Singularity, the state of the Lightning Storm in the back.  Just really lucky there. :)
See what I mean? Here's a bunch of Crey and a buncha Nemesis' soldiers fighting each out here as well.  I had to go and freeze them out and keep them from serious causing problems out here. Being a hero never quits... There's always some mean bad guy doing some bad stuff and somebody has to go out and stop 'em.  Boy I'm glad that Paragon City is a city of heroes.  I'd get tired trying to stop all of these villains. ::frowns a moment, then looks uncertain and remorseful:: and with so many out there trying to do harm I dunno if I could stop them all.  I wonder how Statesman was able to protect the whole city by himself when he was the first hero. He must be a really strong hero.. I hope I can be that strong if I need to be.. strong like Statesman, strong like Daddy.. ::Heri smiles while thinking of her father::
B: Heri just bein' Heri, using one of her many mass holds, this one Gravity Distortion Field, one power that gravity controllers can't live without, IMO.
::standing atop a military quad turret, looks around at the orange sky:: Firebase Zulu is pretty nice. You have to get used to the weird way the "islands" are setup, and getting around. The gravity geysers are kinda fun. They shoot you up into the air like you bounced off a trampoline. And after that yer sailing through the skies here is kinda feels like yer on some kinda slide. ::light bulbs:: Hey! You remember those slip and slide water things that ya used to slide on when you were a kid? It's be like a long yellow slippery slide thing, and you'd lay it out like in your backyard lawn, or up on the front lawn grass. And then you'd have to get sprinkler to spray on the slide and make it wet and stuff. Sailing through this place kinda feels like when ya slip on that.            ::smiles and giggles:: I have to watch it when I'm needed here. After we take care of whatever problem comes up, I can sit out her for hours, and just watch the pretty red colored waterfalls.  It's so pretty here, yer so different. It makes me wonder what what Aldana looks like. I wish I'd have a chance to sit there like I do here. Momma has told me a little bit of what it looks like. Even though she hasn't been there she's sure what it looks like. Cause Daddy told her a long time ago how pretty it is. Lady has described it to. Its not exactly what Momma described it out to be. But Lady IS from there, so what she says it is, its has to be, right? Although, Lady does come from a different dimension, so there's a slight chance that they're different, or maybe really different. I'd hope that maybe they just remember something particular so there aren't any problems.             They both keep reminding me of why I'm always here. This place seems to be full of bad people just ready to jump into Paragon City for themselves. So I'm always back here. It's not all that bad, at least here we're all alien, since this isn't a place where humans normally are.  We're the alien visitors to the native Rularuu. It wouldn't be so much a problem except that Crey and Nemesis have gotten out here. It gets pretty ugly, because once they're out there they're tougher for some reason, like they really want to be here. That just makes it so all of us heroes have to be more determined. We have to keep fighting for Paragon City. We can never give up.
"Never give up." That's what you taught me, Daddy. I wish I coulda been older so you woulda been able to tell me in person. I was too young to understand when you died. You died for your city. You never gave up on it, and I'm not gonna either. It's hard sometimes though. Like this time when this big Devouring Earth blob thing came back and attacked the city .The Freedom Phalanx and Vindicators were in Siren's Call fighting off an invasion by Lord Recluse, so it was up to some of us to stop this "Hamidon" thing. Or at least hold if off until more help came. That wasn't easy at it sounded. We jumped at it, but it had all these little blobby thing inside of it attacking back and healing it. We failed a few times, and it kept getting closer to the city, Most of us were able to get back up but each time it hurt more and more.  The last time it hurt so bad, even Herri was laying near me moaning in pain.  I wanted to just lay there. I didn't wanna let everyone down but it hurt so bad. I just laid there, wishing the pain would go away when someone shook my shoulder and lifted me up to my knees. It was Herri! She looked all cut up and stuff, but she was standing. "No givin up for you, Jordi" she told me, before she growled and jumped back into the air, after one of those blob thingies. She started taking hits again, painful ones it looked like too, but she kept at it. And she wasn't the only one. There were others taking huge blasts. I couldn't let them down so I flew up and started helping.            "Never give up." As all of us were flying around, those blobs flying around after us, I thought of something Momma told me. Somethin she said my Daddy did. Way before I was born, my Daddy went into the Crash Site this one time. Er, what was called the Crash Site, at least how Daddy knew it. It's the War Zone now. The Rikti were really attacking the base there. There were already some heroes in there, but Rikti had planned for them or something. Daddy was helping cleaning up Crey's Folly, trying to help fix one part so it could be useable again. He rushed into the Site, along with a few other heroes. Part of the base was destroyed, and most of the heroes there had to be transported to hospitals by the Medicom system, but they hit the Rikti assault so hard that the Rikti didn't try anything for months. When Momma finally got to see Daddy at the Brickstown Infirmary, she was MAD. She thought it was a stupid thing to risk his life like that, since there were others heroes there, and over so little. But Daddy just smiled. "Never give up. There's no one or thing in this city not worth saving." She cried after that, and told him she'd be ok with him doing "stupid" things now. Years later, she'd cry more, as Daddy went to do something "stupid" again in the Crash Site, but this time he wouldn't come back alive.           "Never give up." Whenever I try and help and if sometimes that isn't good enough I sometimes talk to Momma about it, telling here I messed up up again, I did something stupid. Momma never got mad, just like she said Daddy never did. She'd just ask me, "Stupid like your father would've done?" I always felt better after that, and then I'd go back to patrolling the City, cause I'll never give up, just like my Daddy never did.
B: These two pictures actually happened in reverse order. It was on a Hamidon raid one day that we failed. And after those yellow orbs came out, Hami's pretty much untouchable.  Makes for a good story to show Heri's fighting spirit though. Gave me a way to talk about how Heri's Dad died. I never really thought about it earlier, but it made sense to eventually know, as it was probably something that shaped the way Heri viewed life, and directed her to do what she does.
This guy was NOT nice at all. If our Manticore is anything like this Chimera guy, we won't have any problems. Ouch this guy plays rough, boy I really wish Daddy were alive for times like this. I could ask him what to do. Two or three of us kept taking a run at him. We still weren't able to take him down. Luckily he wasn't very mean and full of himself to let us return back to our world. I can't imagine what it would be like being stuck in the Praetorian Earth. Come to think of it, I really don't want to think of it much more... after discovering Wherlwynd ::Heri goes silent and sullen::
Here's one of the few times that Lady Heri gave me my own suit of Aldanian armor. And its the last time too. We both realize that it doesn't work for me. Good thing too. I dunno how she moves around in it, much less fight. I barely felt like I could move my arms or legs. Good and all, I guess, cause we woulda looked alike enough to get confused. We already do that with Herri's look, it'd be pretty weird to have more look-alike looks. Course then again we wouldn't look totally like, my purple and white doesn't look too close to Lady's purple and yellow. Unless white and yellow look the same to you, then it would be a bad thing.
B: Does this look familiar? LOL Before I started creating the Heris and discovered Penthouse Heri I gave Heri a battle armor look. Figured it be fitting since she's half alien. She'd look good in some kinda Zentradi-like battle uniform.  Course then when Lady came along, it seemed natural to pass it along to Lady. Didn't know what to replace it with until I got the idea to give each Heri a Penthouse look. Problem solved!
Having a different look isn't all that bad now and then. Superheroes seem to change what they look like every now and then. I'm not sure if we're supposed to at certain times. Or if there's a reason why. I wasn't told when or why I should get a new costume. I've asked other heroes, a lot when it was my first time going around.  I never did find out. Even Kendal was confused about that one. She told me the other heroes would tell me, or I'd know when the villains I fight react to me differently. I guess no one knows when we're supposed to. Guess I'll keep a look that the people of the city can look up to. I hope what I pick is alright.  The heroes in this picture with me have some really flashy designs. They must go to Icon a lot.  I guess I could go there. Herri and her friends would help pick out a look that's right for me. I dunno though. I always wanna make sure I look like something my Daddy would be proud of me.  I think he would be proud today. I helped out with these heroes in a section of Kings Row where the Carnival had struck. I was happy to help. The Carnival did some really mean things to Herri. Things no one should have done to them. And the Carnival still does that. So I'll fight them with everything I have for Herri, just like I fight the Rikti for Daddy.
B: This was an AWESOME time from this screenshot. It started out bad. There were some people on Guardian setting up a group to farm Master Illusionists to kill the Illusionist decoys for the badge. I brought Aerith, since she's level 40, and the group was around that level. I didn't really need the badge on Aerith, but I wouldn't have minded it. So we start out and I follow the others. Working with another healer to keep everyone alive. It was a lil hectic since there were a few SKed up to others but not all so we had a few deaths. And keeping the MIs around and the pets easy to get to was getting not too worth it. WE had the other healer go AFK and die. So to help out with a 50, I logged Heri, she didn't have the badge anyway. As I was logging, one of the others mentioned, I'd be easier with someone with immob or group immob, so we can keep the MIs together but still allow them to summon their pets. I was thinkin, Heri has immobs!!! So as I got in there and once I got one immob'd, the other in the group worked together to push and help keep 4-5 MIs immob'd. Once I had them immob'd and safely there we worked on the badge for everyone pretty easy, even got some alts in there as well.  It was so easy, I kept them immob'd and the others dropped the pets as fast as they could. I will admit it was funny watching people run around as the pets would run away and I'd see a teammate bolt after it. I know Heri isn't the only hero that could've held the MIs the way she did but it really felt good to help out with something and made it so easy.  (and below are two more MI farming sessions)
B: I think I remember liking the 2nd of the two above shots a bit more due to getting all the MIs bunched up like shown. But then again in the big chaotic mess on the street screenshot, there are 10 MIs, and I think at one point we had more, so the MI bars went FAST.
I'm glad for the heroes and friends that I've fought with to protect the city are my friends. Some of them close friends. A lot of them jump into dangerous pretty fearlessly, like it doesn't scare them. Or like its fun to them. That's amazing to me. I wouldn't think of anything else but to save someone or protect the city or a building or something, but its still scary. Does everyone else get scared? I know I do.           What's scarier is fighting those heroes. You know about me having to fight Herri. It's painful just watching her slam some really bad person really really hard because they thought they could beat her. It's even more painful when she beats on you. It just as painful having to hold and hurt her as well. Herri didn't mean what she did, but we had to stop her before she did more bad stuff, and the only way we could do is stop her like we would any villain. Herri was so much in tears due to what we had to do. I cried to. I didn't want to hurt her, but it was the only way to save her.            I've fought against other heroes at times, to defend some Heris when they've been blamed for stuff they didn't do. It's no fun when a good friend suddenly wants to "take you in" or a friend in. Especially when you didn't do anything. It's never right to strike another hero, and it's never fun. Especially when you know how hard they can strike back. But it's never a good thing to try and get someone for something they didn't do.            I almost got into a close fight with a hero. It was during a time when there were reports of the Vahzilok doing some suspicious stuff.  I was asked to go and check it out, since I was nearby the last known spot. I had plans to go meet Herri at a party, so I was just comin outta Icon in a cowgirl look, that was the party theme. The Old West. Or the Dancin' West. Something Herri would think of.  Anyway, it was important that someone checked it out, so I went ahead. Good thing I did, they were up to something bad. real bad. They were all in a big old group, and when they saw me all of the zombies all started to go after me.  I started throwing some of them around, but they kept coming, there were a lotta them. Just then I heard something whiz by and some of the zombies fell. When I looked at them closer there were arrow stickin out of them. I looked up and saw a girl standing there with a bow. Must be another hero, that wasn't one of those crossbow things like the zombie guys use. But this wasn't just a regular hero with a bow, this was an Indian. That's neat, huh? I remember reading about Cowboys and Indians when I was a kid....And I thought then... oh shoot... an Indian.... I look like a cowgirl....she might not like me.... she might fight me... But she didn't right away. We both kinda looked at each other then I got punched by a zombie and I went back to getting them out of there. The Indian girl I guess had the same idea because when I looked every now and then she was still shooting arrows at them.            We kept that up for a bit, fighting the Vahzilok our own ways. And then I messed up. I saw a zombie running away and so I pulled a large sewer barrel and threw it. But I didn't throw it fast. I did hit the zombie but it was near the Indian girl and the barrel hit both of them.            It didn't seem to hurt her much, cause she stood back up from kneeling after the barrel hit her. But then she looked directly at me, and pulled out her bow. Uh oh.. Now I was in for it. The Vahzilok were still all over the area, and now I have to play cowboys and Indians, but for real. Before I could lift a finger I saw her draw an arrow and fire it at me. I winced, and tried to move, but I heard it fire before I could do anything. I didn't feel nothing for a bit ,so I opened my eyes, and suddenly a zombie went Splat! onto the ground right near me, a arrow sticking through his back. I turned back to the Indian Girl and she barely smiled and nodded, and went back to shooting her arrows back at the zombies. I did the same, fighting a bit more proudly knowing I had a hero friend with me. One that would fight for the same reason I do,  and was fighting with me, not at me.            She's a neat hero. Afterwards she told me her name was Cherokee Rose. Since we both were looking into this Vahzilok thing, we both looked into some other weird things that were related for the Freedom Phalanx. We've become good allies, even when she saw what I usually wear, and I'm not normally some cowgirl hero.
B: Here's @DiamondSpine and me when we went to duo Posi's TF. She needed it on this char of hers, Cherokee Rose. And I wouldn't mind having it on Heri. I wanted to go and solo or small group it. What better than a controller-defender to try it out. She had bubbles and arrow damage, I had holds/mezzes, heals and damage. Should be enough. And it was. Even to do a accidental Unyielding mission at first. Endurance was an issue though. We took 5 hrs due to that. No deaths though. Best of all, it was a blast. We had a fun time, even on the long kill alls.
Hey! That's my Firestar lookin costume! I gotta admit I felt pretty neat in that. Made me feel all bold and powerful and ready to fight anything. Although at the time I was still pretty new to this hero thing. So I wasn't very powerful but maybe people thought I did. So I went back to my usual look, where I grew into my own name and life, and then I found Kendal, Tali, and Kitty. Er, they found me.. Now wait.. we found each other... fighting those Rikti.. oh whatever. We eventually met up and that's what counts. That and being who you are. I remember readin in school a guy who said something similar. Said it better too. "To thine own self be true." Which I didn't really understand back then. I mean how can you not be yourself, if you aren't, aren't you someone else? Anyhow, I didn't care none, I just memorized it for the test so I'd pass. Otherwise Momma woulda been MAD!! And you never ever want a mad Momma!
B: A rare screenshot of Heri while I was a part of my 2nd SG, The Boiling Point. It was just me, Syzmik, and Whyte. I did totally dig it that it made Heri look like Firestar in SG mode, even though there wasn't much sense in it. Like my current SG, it was a fun little group. I did kinda feel out of place as a third wheel, but they never treated me like that. Eventually they moved on to WoW, and Heri's life would open up in a whole new way when joining Veive.
That's me on one of the Point locations in the Shadow Shard. Yer not gonna get past me you Rularuu! Alien or not I'm Hericane, and Earth is my home! I'll take on all of you if I have to, 'cause I'm not gonna let you harm my home.
B: Not sure where that came from. Just  Heri's view of things, and how stubbornly fights to protect Paragon City, no matter how against the odds are. . Whether or not she's the greatest protector or Earth, she'll still defend it with all she has. She's still innocent, naive little Heri, but she's deeply protective of Earth, for she feels she has to protect it. She feels she can't let her father down, her race and people down, she can't let their death and struggle against the Rikti go in vain, so Earth must survive.             The ending of Superman #224 kinda sums up Heri's outlook on life: "Like protect the world from monsters like Luther. Not out of anger or vengeance, but because its right." Yeah Heri feels she has to because her father did and the Rikti destroyed her world, but due to that she knows it right to protect people from injustice.
See those dancing light ball things? They're mini gravity spheres. I dunno how I managed to conjure them up. One day while trying to beat down a while group of those Crey Power Suited Tank things, I was pulling objects out of nowhere left and right while trying to keep those soldiers held still.  With so many of them running around. I got tired more quickly and easily and I really had to exert more control in forcing gravity to lockdown a few of those Tank Suits. While trying to shut one down, instead of collapsing gravity around it, it squooshed into a gravity well sphere thing. At first it started pulling everything towards it, the Crey Tank, a building, some cars nearby, even me... I started to pull away as soon as it yanked me towards it and I tried to crush it and everything nearby with my powers. (Pretty stupid idea now that I think about it, how does one out gravity a pulsing gravity ball?) Somehow that panicing and trying everything I knew how to do did the trick, 'cuz that little force ball or whatever it is, kept locking down everything around it, but left me alone. I dunno if its alive, or how its alive, its a moving little vacuum ball really... but it seems to know well enough not to attack me..
B: In the screenshot above you can see THREE Singularities. Yep, three. Count 'em folks, THREE. Is Heri a super superhero? She used to be ^_^.  Before Issue 5, I had Hasten and Singularity both 6 slotted with recharge rate enhancements. And that allowed me to have out 3 singularities at all times, sometimes 4, with the 4th one being out for maybe 10-20 seconds. Fun times. I miss having the 3 whirly orbs around. But at the same time, just having one forces me to do what Heri's supposed to be an expert at.. controlling.
Learning to be a superhero, I don't think I'll ever get used to this. There's something that I find out I could do all along, but never knew how to do and sudden I just do it. Or there's a new bad guy mad at the city and wants to take it over or be mean and all. Or just something that happens that you've never seen before. The other heroes seem to handle it ok. They'll see some huge monster tearing up some buildings and I'll be scared again. But the others look and get annoyed and take off after it. Are they scared I wonder? They don't seem like it. How do they do that? Everything is always so big, or so scary. I always get scared when I see them. I still make myself go and start fighting, but I'm always scared. I'm not sure what everyone else does to not be scared. I'll see Em or Jorda or Joey fighting without even thinking about it.  I dunno how they do it. I'm supposed to be the leader of them all since I guess I was the first of all of us to be known. I dunno about that.. is it good when a leader is scared more than the people that follow them? That can't be, huh? Leaders don't get scared. Why am I leading then? Em should be leading, she's good at going first anyway. ::looks to her right and sees Herri glaring at her:: And I guess not... Em doesn't want to lead and stuff either, so I guess I have to.            Em usually jokes about me leadin because I'm the one that has figured out how to pull "shit" like "out of hell" and toss it like all over. I dunno if I pull stuff outta Hell. I really don't know where stuff comes from when I pull them from places that aren't right there in front of me. That's where I usually pull stuff from. I kinda learned to do that by workin on how I first pulled Momma's car, like out from the wall. I didn't know what I was doin then, but I've learned a bunch since. I kinda feel bad when I pull stuff from what's around me. Cause its not my stuff. Its not like my own boxes, or my own suitcases, or own books that I toss around. It's somebody else's table, or refrigerator, or car and stuff. I guess I know that usually the people that own those things aren't mad at me. Not like I pick 'em up just cause and throw them around cause I'm mad. Although I've done that before. Never do that. Kendal don't like that. Ya get base cleanup duty for that.  But yeah, most people know I'm usin whatever I'm usin to hit an angry Freakshow guy that's tearing up the street. That's when I have to get something heavy like a manhole or a a big crate and hit him so he falls down.            Sometimes its those other scary villains too. I went to pay my respects in the area of Siren's Call. Bad stuff has happened there. They say a hero lost his powers or something and caused a huge explosion and wrecked half the area. And caused an opening for villains a way to enter Paragon City. They say he should have been more careful, more aware of his powers. I'm not sure about that yet. Maybe he did have control of his powers? How can one tell? I sure don't know about mine. I still don't know how I got mine other that it was natural to my alien half. Could my powers go blow up on me like it did him? I really don't know.  I do know I have to use them, like my Daddy used them. The City needs me to use them. I can't let the Rikti do to Earth what it did to Daddy's world. so I'll keep using my powers, no matter what happens to me while using them.            That's sometimes harder to do than to say. When I was in Siren's Call I saw this clown looking person. I figured it was one of those Carnival girls. Those girls hurt, they can make you hurt really bad if you're not strong enough. I only saw the one running around and I hesitated, I was scared a bit. I thought a bit of Herri though. They hurt Herri. They hurt Herri bad. They hurt Herri in her body and mind. Herri has nightmares because of them. Herri never has nightmares. Herri's never scared of anything, until they hurt her. So I knew I had to stop this one Carnival girl. But she was still scary. So I didn't want to go after her right away. And then she saw me. It was "on" as Herri would say. As I fought her she made my head hurt bad.... I wanted to scream and stop and just tell her to stop, but I had to fight for Herri. So I fought back at her. I did everything that Herri told me to stop a Carnival woman. It worked. Smart ol' Herri. Keep tossin "shit outta hell" and don't stop "for nuthin" It worked, for a little while. But she didn't go down like she should have. I dunno if she was a regular Carnival girl. Maybe she's a new Carnival woman, stronger? Did they learn something from Herri? ::Heri gasps:: Oh no.... maybe that's a hero, like Herri, that the Carnival was forcing to fight for them?            Whoever she is, she finally stopped fighting me, as I was catching my breath. I was tired, and I wasn't sure if I could fight any more but I got ready to, cause I had to stop her. But she just laughed at me and left, going back to the bug looking helicopters. I just stayed there floating, watching her leave, as some other heroes flew up behind me. They cheered for me, telling me what a good job I did. I dunno why. I didn't do anything. I didn't catch her. Whoever that was she's still out there. Still free to cause more harm, maybe to people like Herri, who she really can scare. I didn't do anything, I just didn't let her do anything that day.
B: Propel... a grav controllers love. May not be the key power of a grav, but it sure is fun. The pile of objects in the last screenie is just fun enough. That's Static Magic's Harlequin. We were messing around to see the controller dominator comparisons. And eventually we just had some fun in Siren's Call. We had fun smacking each other around, attacking the same mobs. I even helped her fight some Longbow while she confused me over and over.  Even had some fun when a brute decided to jump me.  Even threw the Nectar temp power on Harle to confuse her and help me fight. Felt good that day. Kept that guy wrapped up. Couldn't kill him, but he couldn't kill me either. Didn't expect it, but when he said, "Ok, draw" kinda lifted my spirits. So if ya see this, Hi Static! And thanx for the PvP fun ^_^
I was kind of amazed when this happened. Some of the others said it would be very fitting. I didn't know why, but most of the time the other Heris are right about stuff so I went down here, just kinda scouted around for something that I wasn't sure what I was lookin for. And then I saw this big dinosaur thing pop its head up. Kinda surprised I went up a flew up to it. It stood there for a moment as I just kinda hovered near the water. Neither of us did much, just kinda looked at each other. We both just did that til it turned around and eventually went back home, or wherever it goes when it goes back underwater.
B: When Heri met Sally, Oddly enough this shot came about when Unstable saw Sally on an alt and yelled "Sally!" So I just responded that we needed Harry now. "When Heri met Sally!" was the response. So of course I had to go get a screenie of them both heh.
Hey everybody. This day there was an emergency. I was down in Steel Canyon stopping by Icon. Em pulled in some special favors from the workers there or something. She said they owed her big time for what she did them a few nights ago. I dunno what she meant but she told the whole gang, even Domi and Kendal and Kitty and Tali, to stop by Icon, they'd give us a few suits for free.  While I was lookin around, there was fuss about some trouble goin on in Boomtown. There's always trouble there, but it's up to us to go stop the really big problems. Its a favorite target of Babbage, so every now and then the city has to respond and make that big Clock go away. That's what a lot of heroes went in there for today, but a lot of them came back out in the hospital, because it wasn't Babbage... it was the Clockwork King himself! I raced out there, and joined the heroes up front. I didn't realize I was wearing my street clothes, cause that thing had to be stopped, and I didn't have time to change. Took a few held Clocks for some of the heroes to let me help. I guess they thought I was just a tourist or something.
These Nemesis guys are kinda weird. I mean they're supposed to be all planned and tricky and misleading and everything, at least from the few searches I've been on with the others. Lady got a tip once and we were all Paragon City trying to nab him. We eventually had to split up to cover the leads for everything. I dunno if we did more harm than good that day. No major injuries so I guess all was alright.            Then comes a day where I'm doing a patrol over Peregrine Island. I'm always a little hesitant when I'm over there, the other Heris love it. Gives them more reason to stop by the Portal Corp, maybe a chance to take a trip. I don't like to though. To scary for me. I'll go if they need me to, but I wouldn't wanna go on my own. Luckily I didn't have to this day. Saw this Fake Nemesis robot thingie keeping watch. Not quite sure what he was watching out for. If he was keeping watch for heroes he wasn't doing a very good job. I took him out with no problems.            A few weeks later I guess they like me doing that. While I was out on patrol again, this time with Gwynevieve along, I think Nemesis had beefed up their numbers, in case we heroes did the same thing. Gwynevieve kept looking out for some Hellions to appear. Maybe she had a bad run in with them during a trip through the Portals?  Anyhow as she dove when she thought she saw some, those Nemesis sniper guys fired at us. Gwynevieve went crazy and soon it was a firefight between them all. The Fake Nemesis' there seemed to keep out of though. Maybe cause they're big. I jumped at them since they were about to get Gwyn. A tornado or two later they were taken care of. It was kinda neat seeing one wrapped up in a telephone pole. I'm hoping that'll make them think a bit before they try anything again.
::waves in a happy reporter-like way:: Hi there! Right now I'm talking to you from the famous dance club, Pocket D. It's a pretty hip place. Em's the famous girl there, since she spends her time when not being a hero there. But it's a pretty fun place for anyone else. All of us went there when Em invited us down during some special day. Something about no cover for ladies. I didn't see the guys covered and all so I dunno what that meant. Still, we all had a good time, even Lady H!            Something special about Pocket D is that its a no fight zone. Everyone acts civil there,  whether hero, or villain. Longbow mixing with Freaks, Skulls chatting with Hellions. It's kinda strange. They'd nearly smack each other outside, but once they walk inside, all fighting and hate end. This was Emily's life before she turned super powered. Joey nearly lead a normal life too. That kinda sounds nice actually. Not having to go protect the world all the time. There are some that lead that life still, so I guess we gotta keep doin what we do to let them do that.           Maybe this world can become that peaceful. It happens in Pocket D, why can't it happen everywhere else. To see if there was anyway, I went on the villains side of the entrances to Pocket D. The villains I ran into over there were pretty nice. One even lit me on fire to keep me warm. They seemed friendly  enough. I almost walked out the door that read "Port Oakes" but the bouncer stopped me. So did a villain, saying that she'd slit my throat the minute I did. That didn't sound too fun so I went back into Pocket D and danced with the other Heris.
B: A few pics that I just really don't have any in theme ideas for...
B: This was "civilian" look for Heri before jackets came along until I found the cowgirl look for her. The colors I chalked up to Heri not being too fashion conscious. Figured it be her idea to bring out her alien persona.  Sounded good at the time, but after while that didn't hold up. Heri may not be the most of anything, but she at least knows what she likes, esp. when she sees it on other people.
B: My experimenting with giving Heri more of a weather-feel costume wise. After a month or two, it really didn't give her any more of a closer feel, so I took it of. To be honest I'm glad that this look for her, has lasted all this time. As disjointed as it is, it's her signature look. And I don't ever plan to change it.
B: Old Faultline, took this pic and others a month before the new zone was going live
B: Heri helping out fighting some GMs, the Kraken and the Kronos Titan
B: Heri launching a rocket in Warburg
B: Heri in Recluse's Victory healing Statesman. It seemed to be the right thing to do atm. heh
B: Heri on a All Controller Statesman Task Force run.