Dreamer

© DC Comics / Used without permission

Origin: Unearthly
Real Name: Nura Nal
First Appearance: Adventure Comics #317 [DC Comics February 1964]

                            Character created by Edmond Hamilton and John Forte

ABILITIES

Prowess 6 {Great}
Coordination 4 {Fair}
Strength 3 {Average}
Intellect 6 {Great}
Awareness 4 {Fair}
Willpower 7 {Incredible}

Stamina: 10
Determination: 5

SPECIALTIES

Deception [Seduction] Expert
Leadership
Martial Arts Expert
Science [Biology] Expert 

POWERS

Danger Sense (Limit: Situational: Only in combat) 8 {Amazing}
Precognition (Limit: Intermittent) 8 {Amazing} 

EQUIPMENT

Legion Flight Ring

QUALITIES

. Extremely beautiful and attractive.
. Sometimes loses track of events in the present when tracking a future event.
. Ex-Precommando: "When you see 10 seconds ahead, I see 20. You see 20, I see 30".

Points: 53 

ORIGIN STORY

The world of Naltor is inhabited by prophets and run by prophecy. It is inhabited by settlers from the Sorcerer's World, a fact that would make most people assume it is a backward place, but rather, it is one of the most technologically advanced societies in the United Planets.

Into this world was born Nura Nal, whose mother was Naltor's High Seer. Nura was born with greater prophetic ability than any known Naltorian, and was expected to succeed her mother in that post. But Kiwa Nal died while her daughters were young, and Nura was unwilling to assume the mantle of leadership just yet. Instead, she preferred to have a little fun, something that came very easily to one of her great beauty, and little danger to one who could forsee any potential threat.

During this time, she toyed with the idea of joining the Legion of Super-Heroes, but decided to wait until her powers told her they needed her. Such an occasion presented itself when she thought she foresaw seven Legionnaires get killed in a spaceship explosion. She joined the Legion and had each of those seven members expelled under various trumped-up circumstances, including apparently removing Lightning Lass's powers. When she found out that what she had actually seen was a rocket filled with decoys, she left to further refine her power, joining the Legion of Substitute Heroes for that purpose. She also revealed that she had used Naltorian bio-science to change Lightning Lass's powers to gravity-canceling powers so that she could retain her membership eligibility, and that she someday hoped to return to Star Boy, who had fallen in love with her.

Her love for Star Boy briefly took a turn for the tragic when a suitor who she jilted for his sake, Kenz Nuhor, attacked Star Boy, who killed him in self-defense and was expelled from the Legion for the act. The two used this to their advantage, and Star Boy joined the Substitute Heroes to be together with Nura while he couldn't be part of the Legion.

They got their chance to return to the Legion when a cloud of kryptonite radiation covered Earth. This forced Superman to leave the to leave the team, and he proposed Nura and Thom as his replacements. Because of the stigma against them, Superman dressed them in lead suits and ordered them not to reveal their identities. They rejoined the Legion as "Miss Terious" and "Sir Prize." Once the cloud was removed, so were the lead suits. In the time they'd been away, the Legion's membership had changed enough that the vote swung in their favor and Dreamer and Star Boy were offered membership again.

The two served faithfully for years until Nura began defying expectations and asserting her intelligence more (few realized that she was Brainiac 5's primary lab assistant). She ran for Legion leader and was elected; of course, she foresaw this. Dreamer led the Legion during their darkest hour, against the god of death, Darkseid. During this battle, her sister Mysa – the White Witch – played a pivotal role in Darkseid's defeat and joined the team afterwards. Though she ran for leader again the next year, she lost out to Element Lad.  

As one of the physically weaker members, Nura trained with Karate Kid until she became one of the Legion’s most skilled hand-to-hand fighters. Her expertise with Naltorian science also made her one of the best scientists. Those talents coupled with her far-reaching powers made her an effective strategist and long-term planner.

One of my favourite Legionnaires, Dreamer is a very skilled character. Not only in combat - where she excels in hand-to-hand, close combat, as well as devising tactics and leading her comrades - but also as a scientist and as a seductress. One of my favourite issues with her,  she fights two Naltorian Precommandos - precogs who honed their visions especially for combat -, and beat them senseless. I decided to trim some of her specialties to the core, in order to avoid an excess point cost. Character revised and updated according to ICONS Great Power book. Streamlined, once again, according to ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying: The Assembled Edition.