ANNIE JANUARY.

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important.

My Starlight is canon divergent in terms of her powers. Instead of it being electricity-fuelled, it is fuelled by light, and thus also gives her a couple other sub-abilities. She is also canon divergent in terms of season four, in that she never got pregnant. Other than that, I mostly follow the show's canon. Read the rest of this page for more info.

biography.

Annie January was born in 1996, as the only child of Donna January and an unnamed man. Desiring for their child to be special, Annie's parents decided to take Vought's offer to have her injected with Compound V, and be turned into a supe. Afterward, Annie would be groomed by her parents to become a superhero and would grow up in a hyper-religious home. When she would ask about the origins of her powers, her parents would lie and tell her that God gave them to her, further reinforcing her faith in Christianity.

Despite Donna and her husband both agreeing to turn Annie into a supe, Annie's father would come to regret his decision due to the guilt of having to lie to his daughter. The guilt would eventually make him leave his family.

Despite losing her husband, Donna would continue to train her daughter so that she could become a famous superhero one day. To achieve that objective, she would force Annie to participate in dancing contests, such as a "Little Miss Hero Pageant" and other supe pageants to lay the groundwork for her hero career. At one point, Annie had been in the supe pageant circuit for at least 3 years, having competed against Firecracker in their childhood to early teens. Particularly, in one such pageant where she and Firecracker (Sparkler at the time) had become the top 2 finalists and were about to face off to determine the winner, under her mother’s influence to be ruthless in order to win, Annie had begun spreading false rumors about her competitor that she had only managed to get into the final two by giving sexual favors to the judges and later rudely and offensively brushed her aside by calling her a “fat slut” when she confronted her why she did it. Starlight then proceeded to beat Sparkler and the false rumors she spread around about Sparkler continued to follow her well after that pageant. Eventually forcing her to drop out of pageant circuit all together due to Starlight ruining her reputation. Annie was oblivious to the far-reaching consequences of her actions.

Annie would join up with the Capes for Christ, and eventually, Young Americans, where she met Supersonic, whom she dated for quite a while.

She was eventually selected to be a member of The Seven after an interview following Lamplighter's retirement. She was at first overjoyed at being selected, wanting to use her position as a superhero to help people and make the world a better place. These dreams suddenly became dashed, however, when Starlight was sexually assaulted by The Deep, who extorted her into performing oral sex on him at Seven Tower. He did so by convincing her that he was the second most important person in the group after Homelander, and that whether or not she went through with it would determine if she would stay in The Seven or not. Starlight was left feeling humiliated and traumatized, a pain she now carries with her.

Since then, Annie has only seen uglier and uglier sides of Vought and The Seven, finding herself trapped between two options; to leave, or try to change things from within. She attempts the latter first, though it eventually proves to be an impossible task.

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