Character Bio: Khamsen (Everlasting)

[Steampunkette]

"It is said that some people are born to be heroes. Others become heroes by the decisions they make in the long years of their life, or only minutes before their end. For me it is more... complicated." -Khamsen

 

Identity: Khamsen (Coptic for Sandstorm)

Name: Tasherit El-Masry

Height: 6'2"

Weight: 180lbs

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Skin Tone: Black

Ethnicity: Egyptian

 

Born: 1988

Deceased: 2012

 

Khamsen was a moderately well known superhero in the early 2000s. One of only a small number of Pyraterrakineticists, she had the ability to impart directed motion and random motion to silicon particles at the same time, vibrating sand to high temperatures as it launched toward those she sought to fight. She took the name of Sandstorm as a result, but due to registration issues, translated it into Coptic Egyptian.

 

Born in Cairo in 1982 to wealthy parents, she immigrated to England by the age of 5 and grew up in the London school system. Her powers manifested during secondary school (8th year) she managed to keep it relatively secret, sharing the information only with her parents and a single close friend whom she eventually began dating.

 

In 2002 she moved to Paragon Rhode Island to begin her superheroic career. While she would never attain the level of superstardom that she had some hopes of reaching, her impact was widespread in the community, focusing primarily on fighting against those who sought to abuse innocents, such as Crey and the Family. During the Second Rikti war, she gained some notoriety among the Heroes Upon the Hill of Talos Island by being so dedicated to protecting her allies that she spent months recovering in a hospital bed after saving a fallen ally by shielding him with her body.

 

During the Praetorian Incursion of 2012 she became trapped in a Brickstown office building while attempting to lead a group of civilians to safety away from an incursion site. In the end she made the ultimate sacrifice to save those innocent lives, collapsing a portion of the building on herself and the rampaging ghouls who were coming to consume her charges.

 

Her body was recovered and her identity revealed in a touching farewell to what many remembered to be the kindest heroine they'd ever met. Her body was enshrined in Paragon at her parent's wishes, in a tomb that bore her costumed likeness on the door. One of many in the graveyards of Paragon City.

 

Seven years later, the tomb was found opened. The body missing. Now a new hero calls herself Khamsen.... or is it the same person, after all this time?