Ikaris

Ikaris is a member of the Eternals, a near-immortal evolutionary offshoot of humanity created by the Celestials. He was born over twenty thousand years under another name which has not been revealed. When the cities of Atlantis and Lemuria were sunk in 18,500 B.C. by the Second Host of the Celestials in what is now known as the Great Cataclysm, Ikaris guided an ark of refuges to safety by flying high above them always watchful for ambushes, the humans aboard the ark mistook Ikaris for a bird, the tale eventually became part of human folklore. Around this time a Celestial committed some unknown crime while on Earth, and was punished by having its energies released from its armor, then forced into a deep slumber, buried by its fellow Celestials, where it became known as the “Dreaming Celestial”. The weapon used to disperse the Celestial and its essence are entombed within the Pyramid of the Four Winds, an Arctic facility built by Virako, Ikaris’ father. Ikaris is one of the few to know what the Pyramid contains.

Over the millennia, Ikaris became a constant opponent of the Deviants, a misshapen race who were also created by the Celestials, although most Eternals judged Ikaris as rather head-strong, his closest friends stood united at his side, among them: the speedster Makkari, the hedonistic Sersi, and Thena, daughter of their leader, Zuras. In ancient Greece, Ikaris (under another name) fell in love with a human woman, whose name has long been lost to history, but she bore him a son, whom she named Ikaris. The younger Ikaris not gaining the full power of an Eternal, wanted to fly with his father, so Makkari built the child a flight harness, which would enable the boy to fly on his own. The elder Ikaris was called away to battle the Deviants shortly thereafter, seeking to find his father and help him fight, the younger Ikaris flew to find him, but he soared to high and fainted from the lack of oxygen and lost control when the sun’s rays burnt the harness’ controls. Ikaris fell from the sky into the Ocean; Ikaris buried his son, and took the name Ikaris for his own to ensure that he would never forget. At some point in his lifetime, Ikaris became the sworn enemy of the long-lived mutant Apocalypse.

As the Eternals prepared for the coming of the Forth Host, Ikaris befriended Black Bolt, ruler of the Inhumans, another subspecies of humanity. During this time the Eternals assisted the Inhumans in moving their capital city of Attilan from the Atlantic Ocean to the Himalayan Mountains.

At the time of the Forth Host’s arrival on Earth, Ikaris adopted the human guise of “Ike Harris”; posing as a guide through the Andes Mountains for archeologist Dr. Daniel Damian and his daughter Margo. Ikaris led the Damians to the city of the Space Gods where the Third Celestial Host had been based. Ikaris awakened Ajak who served as the Eternal’s point man for the Celestial Host; he contacted the Host and they arrived in orbit of Earth. The Deviants attempted to interfere, but to no avail. Dr. Damian remained with Ajak; Ikaris introduced Margo to the world of the Eternals, and the two became lovers.

The Forth Celestial Host arrived soon after and the Eternal revealed their existence to humanity, but after judging in favor of life on Earth, the Celestials erased humanity’s memories of the event.

Many Eternals during this time chose to leave Earth and explore space, causing their numbers to dwindle on Earth. Zuras’ daughter became Prime Eternal in her father’s place (Zuras had been killed by the Forth Host), and Ikaris clashed with her over matters of authority, and when Ikaris became aware of a Deviant plot to awaken the Dreaming Celestial he challenged her for the position of Prime Eternal, feeling that Thena’s love of the Deviant Warlord Kro compromised her leadership. Ikaris won the title and aided by the Avengers was successful in defeating the Deviants, although Margo Damian was killed in the conflict. Ikaris buried her on an island where he had laid to rest dozens of other lovers over the centuries.

Margo’s death drove her father insane and he attempted to use Eternal technology to destroy both the Eternals and the Deviants. He was finally stopped and killed by his one-time friend Ajak. Later Ikaris was among the heroes who assisted Quasar in stopping the Starblasters in acquiring the Starbrand.

When Apocalypse further mutated the Deviants to make them run amok, Ikaris was forced to re-introduce the Eternals to humanity, although this time he called his people “the New Breed” and referred to himself as ‘Sovereign’.

Recently, seemingly suffering from partial memory loss, “Ike Harris” attempted to force “Mike Curry” that he was indeed Makkari. It was later revealed that Sprite (an eternally young Eternal) not only caused the memory loss, but caused the Dreaming Celestial to un-create the Eternals. Causing all Eternals to forget anything about themselves and lose all their abilities. Only Ikaris’ position as Prime Eternal allowed him to recall anything.

Sprite was defeated by the reformed Eternals.

Ikaris possesses the conventional attributes of the Eternal race as well as certain special abilities developed through rigorous discipline. Like that of all Eternals, his life force is augmented by cosmic energy and he has total mental control over his physical form and bodily processes even when he is asleep or unconscious.

Immortality

Immunity

Invulnerability: to conventional forms of injury. Should Ikaris be injured somehow, he could regenerate any injured or missing tissue. An Eternal can only die through an injury that disperses a significant portion of his body molecules, or if he is injured after his mental control over his body is somehow broken. He can resist temperature extremes through mental concentration

Enhanced Metabolism: Cosmic energy bolsters Ikaris's metabolism so that he does not tire from any physical exertion. . 

Flight: Ikaris can levitate himself by mentally manipulating gravitons (subatomic particles carrying the force of gravitatioal attraction between atoms) around himself. He can also levitate other persons and objects, even while simultaneously levitating himself. Ikaris is able to fly via self-levitation at approximately 850 miles per hour (1.1 times the speed of sound), a rate of speed most other Eternals cannot match. 

Psionics: Ikaris has low level psychic abilities, enabling him to scan the superficial thoughts of any mind less adept than his own. He can mentally create illusions so as to disguise himself. Ikaris can also psionically manipulate atoms and molecules so as to transform an object's shape. However, Ikaris is only a second-level adept on a five level scale (the fifth level being the highest) in this discipline. He can rearrange molecules in the air so as to create a virtually impenetrable shield about himself. 

Cosmic Energy Manipulation: Ikaris can project cosmic energy in the form of beams from his eyes or beams and flashes from his hands. This cosmic energy, stored in specialized enclaves of cells in his body, can be used as force, heat, light, and possibly other forms of electromagnetic energy. Ikaris can project a maximum concussive force of at least 260 pounds per square inch. He can project heat of a maximum temperature of at least 3,000 Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt iron. It takes about one minute for him to attain this maximum temperature. Because Ikaris's heat beams can vaporize solid objects, they are often called his disintegrator beams, The maximum range for his energy beams is about 200 feet. Ikaris is a fourth level adept on a five-level scale (the fifth level being the highest) in this discipline. The expenditure of cosmic energy in this way continually for several hours will temporarily deplete Ikaris's physical strength, but not his resistance to injury, although it will temporarily increase his sensitivity to pain. He will rapidly return to normal after such lengthy energy expenditure is over. 

Teleportation: Ikaris can teleport himself psionically, but prefers not to do so, since, like other Eternals, he finds the self-teleportation process physically unpleasant. He can also teleport other people along with himself. 

Enhanced Senses:Through a thousand years of training, Ikaris has vastly sharpened his senses to an extent that he would be able to warn the rest of the Eternals when the Celestials returned.