acosmicburden-blog

[acosmicburden-blog]

michael b jordan + cismale + he/him.┊ ❛ ━ hey, is it just me or do you hear ( the balancer’s eye by lord huron ) playing in the distance ? oh, that’s just (the emerald star ), a (lawful good) member of the league of ( heroes ). i suspect they might be (benjamin “benji” andrews), a ( twenty-six ) year old ( police officer ) with the ability to ( cosmic energy manipulation ). according to my sources, ( he ) can be ( righteous ), but also ( stubborn ) which is probably why they remind everyone of ( the brightest star in a clear night sky, a story you swear you heard when you were very young ) so much. anyway, a ( superhero ) or not, crystalline city is keeping a close eye on them! 

*Swings in and does a cool superhero landing* Hey everyone! (Tom Holland Voice) I’m Peanut! Long time roleplayer, even longer time a superhero enthusiast. I haven’t been in a superhero rp in awhile, but I’m very excited to get back to this side of the community, because this is where I’ve had some of the most fun throughout my years of rping on tumblr. Without further ado, let me tell you about Benji:

 - His childhood was pretty normal. No real deep rooted past traumas. Yeah of course there were issues. I mean, what childhood is perfect? But nothing that was unbearably awful or shook the very foundation of his life. Those things will come later. Most important thing to know about his childhood is that his Dad was a cop as well.

- Benji grew up knowing he wanted to follow in dear ol’ dad’s footsteps. It’s hard to be raised by a man with strong morals and an affinity for protecting and serving, and not have that rub off on you.

- Benji did well in school, and was a reasonably good athlete. For awhile, in his teenage years, he ditched the idea of being a police officer in favor of wanting to play basketball professionally. That dream carried him into college on a few scholarships, but it became apparent to him pretty quickly that while he might have been able to play pro, he wouldn’t have been able to do it at a high level, and he ultimately decided he’d rather make a difference in the world by becoming a police officer. 

- He did well at the police academy. He wasn’t top of his class, but he wasn’t bottom of his class either. That was also sort of the thing with Benji; he was sort of right in the middle of the field, good, but never quite remarkable. After graduating from the academy and becoming a police officer it was the same sort of thing. He was a good cop, but he wasn’t a John Mclane or anything. 

- With Benji, he was always just a little above average. Sometimes, that bothered him, not being the best at anything. Sometimes he felt like he lacked a greater purpose, or a chance to make a larger impact. Most of the time though, he was pretty content being the way he was. 

- Everything changed one night while Benji was on duty. A meteor came streaking through the sky, and crashed near where he was stationed at the time. When he went to investigate it and evaluate whether it had caused any damage to public property, as soon as he got close, the meteor sucked him inside of itself. In the meteor, he was exposed to knowledge from the extinct alien race of the Shny-Dar. It had been them who had sent the meteor to the Earth, containing the secrets of harnessing the power of cosmic energy. They sent it to Earth to keep it from the hands of their conquerors, who would use it as a means to do unspeakable evils. Benji, having been the one to find the meteor, was to be the one to use those powers.

- Inside the meteor, Benji underwent training on how to utilize cosmic energy. He was taught how to use it in order to fly, how to use it to produce beams/balls of  glowing green energy which could be used offensively, and how to coat his body in a veil of cosmic energy which would act as a sort of armor to dampen the effects of hostile attacks. He was also taught about the limits of the powers he now possessed. While the meteor was an endless source of cosmic energy, Benji’s human body was only capable of storing so much of that energy at one given time. The use of his powers would deplete the levels of energy inside of him and could, if he wasn’t careful, make him completely run out, unable to do anything until he returned to the meteor and “recharged” so to speak. 

- Once Benji came out of the meteor, he was really unsure of what to do next. He’d always been pretty opposed to superheros, even if he did understand what they were trying to do, because it directly interfered with his ability to do his job. His dad felt even more strongly about the subject, believing all super-powered individuals were dangerous and should be contained. Yet it was hard to deny that these powers afforded Benji a chance to do even greater good. After attempting to apprehend a super villain without using his powers, and failing to do so, which very nearly resulted in the death of an innocent, Benji realized it was negligent of him to have the powers he had and not use them, and finally became a superhero. He took on the name of The Emerald Star, because the Shny-Dar had come from a galaxy with such a star, and when it shone bright in the sky, they took it to be an omen of hope, which is supposedly had at the time when they had sent the meteor to Earth during their last moments before being wiped out. It was also from this very star that they had collected the cosmic energy which was the source of Benji’s powers. (Though it’s not star energy. Because The Emerald Star isn’t actually a star at all... I could go on about this in greater detail but like, does anyone actually care?)

- Benji has been able to do a lot of good as The Emerald Star in the short amount of time that he’s been working as a superhero. However, he’s still somewhat reluctant to be a superhero at all, and the voices of the Shny-Dar  inside the meteor continue to suggest that he leaves Earth behind and embraces his larger cosmic destiny, which Benji flat out refuses to do. The irony is not lost on him, that he used to find himself craving to be able to make a bigger impact, and now that he’s able to do so in a way that goes beyond Earthy bounds, he’s hesitant to embrace it. Most of all, he’s terrified of what his dad say or do if he were to find out the truth about him.

That’s basically the gisty-gist-gist! If you wanna know anything more, or need anything explained in greater detail, please feel free to hit up my IMs! I’m open for plots and connections, so bring ‘em here!