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Real Name: Alison Blaire
Occupation: Singer, adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen (presumed dead)
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Gardendale, Long Island, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Carter (father, deceased), Katherine (mother, a.k.a. Barbara London), Bella (grand mother), Lois London (stepsister)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men
Known Powers:
Energy Conversion: Dazzler has the ability to absorb sounds and convert them into light. This provides her with energy for her light-based powers. The local noise level determines the rank of her powers.
| Noise level/Source | Rank |
| Total silence | Zero |
| Dazzler humming | Poor |
| Dazzler singing | Typical |
| Background noise | Excellent |
| Radio, crowded room | Remarkable |
| Loud music, street noise | Incredible |
| Explosions, subway | Amazing |
| Jets, rockets | Monstrous |
- Laser: Range 2 areas. She usually cocks her finger like an imaginary gun to use this power.
- Force field: Laser field provides protection against physical attacks.
- Lightburst: Victims who fail an Endurance FEAT against this sudden flare suffer confusion and or blindness for 1-100 turns.
- Hypnotic lights: Victims failing a Psyche FEAT are tranquilized or hypnotized for 1-100 turns.
- Lightshow: A harmless display of lights intended to accompany her musical performance.
- Rocket: By directing her Iightblasts downward through her hands, she can propel herself skyward at 30 mph.
Special Trick: Dazzler’s attacks seem more dangerous than they actually are. If an opponent is unaware of her powers and has a Psyche of Good or less, he must make a Psyche FEAT against her first two light attacks. Failure means the subject is demoralized and will stop whatever he was doing in an attempt to flee.
Dazzler received these effects due to spells cast upon the X-Men by Roma.
Invisibility to Machines: She has Unearthly invisibility where
machines are concerned. Any attempt to visually sense or record her reveals only
a shapeless blur. Mechanical sensors and recorders fail to register her
presence.
Mind Control: Anyone who encounters her must make a Red Psyche
FEAT of Unearthly intensity. Failure means that the person forgets Dazzler and
the X-Men once they leave the area. This power does not affect her former
friends and colleagues.
Equipment:
Costume: Her current blue costume conceals circuitry that automatically stores ambient sound and releases it to her as needed. It can store enough Remarkable intensity sound for 5 attacks.
Tape recorder/amplifier: In her early adventures, she carried a wireless microphone and carried a customized recorder in her shoulder bag. This insured her 60 minutes of music for her powers (if using a tape) or continuous power (if amplifying her own voice).
Roller skates: Her original costume featured clip-on skates that enabled her to cover 2 areas per turn (30 mph) without having to make an Endurance FEAT or face exhaustion. Donning or removing the skates took 1 turn.
Talents:
Dazzler is a trained singer, actress, dancer and roller-skater. She is familiar with show business.
Contacts:
Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman I), Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel I, Binary), and any of Professor Xavier’s mutant groups.
Role-Playing Notes:
Dazzler is a light-hearted adventurer. She likes to make jokes in combat and let her emotions flow freely. She fights with a flashy style. She appreciates attractive men and lets them know it, and likes being the center of attention. She considers herself to be the guardian of style among the female X-Men. She is very fond of Longshot, although his incredible naiveté makes a meaningful relationship difficult.
At the heart of it all, Dazzler is a reluctant superheroine. She reacts rather than controls her life. This deep resentment of her victim status may lead her to grasp at straws or suddenly change her life’s direction.
History:
Alison Blaire was born to Carter Blaire, a prominent lawyer and judge, and his wife Katherine, a former actress. Although born a mutant, her powers did not manifest themselves until her late adolescence, when she was performing at a high school dance. At the time, her powers were mistaken for a light show.
Although her father wanted her to follow him into practicing law, she wanted to be a singer. After graduating high school, she became a professional singer. Her light-generating powers provided her with her name, Dazzler, and the elaborate light shows that accompanied her singing. Onlookers thought these shows were simply clever special effects. Dazzler gave them no thought.
The X-Men’s Cerebro finally detected her powers and a team was sent to recruit her. Although Dazzler had never given much thought to her powers, she soon found herself using them in a fight for her life against the minions of the Hellfire Club. Despite the threat she now faced, she declined joining the X-Men at that time.
As she went on tour, she found herself using her powers time and again to fight the criminals and renegade superhumans who crossed her path. Eventually, Alison moved to Los Angeles where she became the intimate friend and lover of Hollywood celebrity Roman Nebokoh. He produced “Dazzler: The Movie,” a film in which she starred. To insure its success, he wanted her to publicly reveal her mutant nature. When she refused, he revealed the information anyway. His plan backfired. The public was undergoing a wave of anti-mutant hysteria which was only fueled by the revelation. The movie was permanently shelved and Alison’s singing career was destroyed.
Her life in tatters, Alison returned to the X-Men for friendship and training. Under this partnership, she rapidly grew in the use and variety of her powers. She became intrigued with the alien, Longshot, although it has yet to become a full blown romance due to Longshot’s incredible naiveté.
Like the rest of the X-Men, she was presumed killed during a battle in Dallas. In truth, she was restored to life by the sorceress, Roma. Among Roma’s gifts was an invisibility spell that negated any attempt to mechanically sense or record Dazzler’s form, and gives subtle amnesia to anyone she meets. Both of these effects were the worst things possible for a would-be singer and movie star.
She now works out of the Town with No Name, a deserted complex in the Australian Outback. The isolation and lack of recognition is beginning to get to her.