Halo
Halo is a comic book character that first appeared in The Brave and The Bold #200
Halo is the fusion of a human body and an Aurakle, an ancient energy-being of iridescent color.
Halo is Born
Halo returns!
Halo is given a new identity of Gabrielle "Gaby" Doe with Bruce Wayne's assistance and allowed to reside at the penthouse of his Gotham City highrise. Because Gaby's actual human body was that of a teenage girl and due to the fact of her being unfamiliar with human interaction she was watched over for by her team-mate and friend Katana, and was later made her legal ward. Halo has maintained a general air of innocence, despite many traumatizing adventures. Halo soon has a series of adventures in which she has to confront the past of Violet Harper and deal with the consequences of her body's previous occupant's past criminal actions. Halo than meets Violet's father and mother and is confronted by Tobias Whale and Syonide, with the help of her teammates Halo survives the encounter but the Harpers do not, shot dead protecting Halo from Syonide. Halo buries them, ,allowing them to pass away believing the pretense that she is their daughter come home to repent her former sins, anguished by a past she had no part in but would treasure forever.
While going through severe and mind altering dreams, Halo accesses the memories of the long lived Aurakle. Halo and the other Outsiders are visited by other Aurakles who have come into Earths dimension to force Halo into rejoining them in her true form. The Outsiders free Halo and help her severe all ties withe the Aurakles, forcing them to stand down or be utterly destroyed. Halo finally comes to terms with her unique existence and sets forth as her own person discovering all things human. When their plane shot down by the Bad Samaritan, stranding them on a tiny jungle island, Halo came to fear mortality, specifically, dying on the island. In an attempt to escape, she uses her powers to shoot high into the sky, searching for land. She almost did die, if not for the cooperation of her teammates. Later, teamwork did rescue them. She also becomes closely attached to the young new member Windfall, who originally was a member of the Masters of Disasters, who would be one of the Outsiders foes. The two develop a "bestfriend" relationship due to their similar age and tragic backgrounds.
Halo does indeed die, in a manner, in a much later incident. After the team was framed for the murder of Markovia's Queen, which was caused by Roderick and his vampire forces, they were forced to flee. Technocrat evil ex-wife, Marissa Barron hires an old associate named Ryer who believes Technocrat had abandoned him in Markovia. As the cyborg Sanction, he nearly kills the team in Switzerland. Sometime later in Gotham City, he attacks again, slaying both Marissa and Halo. As with Violet Harper, Halo's Aurakle essence is sucked into Marissa's body, reanimating it with all of her former memories and powers. When Halo's Aurakle jumped into the body of Marissa Baron it left behind the body of Violet Harper, which was turned into the villianess Spectra by the terrorist Kobra. In the human form of Marissa Barron she is older and is a brunette, Halo is shaken by her new form and is stranded in it for quite sometime.
A True Outsider
Powers
Halo retains certain abilities from her former state as an Aurakle. She can generate glowing auras of energy about herself, each of which corresponds to a different color of the spectrum and give her a distinctive power when she switches from from one to another.
- Red: heat blast
- Orange: force blast
- Yellow: brilliant light
- Green: stasis beam
- Blue: distortion effect
- Indigo: tractor beam
- Violet: all the power's at once; it gave the sociopath personality of Violet Harper control of the body, enabling her to use any or all of Halo's.
The negation of the color spectrum will also negate Halo's light based powers; the DC universe has many villains with just such abilities. In the 1990s, it was shown that, should the human body be destroyed, the Aurakle can merge with another freshly-dead human. It ca be assumed that Halo may return in yet another human form at one time or another in the mainstream D.C Universe.
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| Super Name: | Halo |
| Real Name: | Gabrielle Doe |
| Aliases: |
Gabrielle Doe Spectra Violet Harper Marissa Baron Aurakle |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Gender: | Female |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | The Brave and The Bold #200 |
| Appears in: | 156 issues |
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