They're called Binaries and no one really knows exactly what they are. Some say Binaries are individuals from across the universe that have been chosen for a greater purpose, others that Binaries are an unusual species in which each individual is born with a counterpart. Whatever the truth, one came to Earth thousands of years ago at the dawn of Sumeria. There he infiltrated society and observed the development of humanity from the opening states of its civilizations. That was all he did for thousands upon thousands of years. Eventually he came to be known as The Monitor.
The Monitor eventually took a more active role in a civilization he had come to cherish and became one of its guardian heroes, a warrior beyond repute, an immortal being invincible to all forms of damage. He was a warrior like none had seen before and no super villain ever stood up to him for long. Many tried to find a weakness, many tried to find some means of defeating him...but there was nothing but inevitable defeat when The Monitor took notice of you. Eventually this changed...because The Monitor met a young woman named Kendra Saunders Hol, at the time, last of the Hawk Lords. Binaries have one weakness and it is quite the unusual one. When a Binary is around someone they love more than life itself, their invulnerability vanishes and they become mortal, weak to every weapon under the sun, almost human. Even then they retain their powers, but not their invulnerability.
Luna Hawk and The Monitor spent a great deal of time together but were never seen on the battlefield at the same time. It was known that Luna Hawk was his weakness...but who could exploit it when one's weakness was a being willing to die for the one they loved...and completely aware that death was not the end for them anyway. Eventually the answer came in the form of Solar Hawk, who arrived on Earth not knowing who The Monitor was. Through means that have since been kept secret by the Hawk Lords a cabal of criminals, all enemies of The Monitor, conspired to take him down. When they realized Solar Hawk and Luna Hawk looked identical, they made their move and used mind control to make Solar Hawk take on the outfit of Luna Hawk (whom she had yet to meet) and approach The Monitor.
The Monitor, for a moment, believed he was in the presence of his loved one and that was enough, his invulnerability dropped...and he died.
The second of the Binary Pair has now arrived, her name is The Custodian and she wants to know why she has not heard from her brother for over a year. The Custodian controls gravity and light and is an expert manipulator of both. She is as invulnerable as The Monitor ever was but no where near the physical fighter that he was. Like The Monitor she has but one weakness...all someone has to do is find out who it is.
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