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Real Name: Jean-Paul Beaubier
Alias: Jean-Paul Martin
Occupation: Pro skier, adventurer
Legal Status: Canadian citizen (believed dead by all but Alpha Flight); currently a citizen of the Faerie realm
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Jeanne-Marie Beaubier (sister, a.k.a. Aurora), Louis Martin (adoptive father, deceased)
Base of Operations: Alpha Flight HQ, Tamarind Island, British Colum bia, Canada
Past Group Affiliations: Alpha Flight
Known Powers:
Flight: Northstar can attain Shift-Z air speed (Mach 10, 7700 mph), although he normally limits his speed to Good (120 mph). He can also hover in place. As a side effect of his flying, Northstar gains enough Invulnerability to counter the effects of friction with the air.
Multiple Attacks: Northstar’s speed enables him to deliver repeated blows for a total of Incredible damage.
Power Gestalt (defunct): When in physical contact with his sister, Aurora, they jointly possess the ability of Monstrous Light Generation. This affects everyone in line of sight with the couple.
Costume: His special costume has Monstrous resistance to air friction and tearing.
Talents:
Northstar is a world-class skier and is bilingual in French and English.
Contacts:
Northstar is known to the members of Alpha Flight and to the mutant Wolverine.
Role-Playing Notes:
Northstar is driven by his strong passions. He is a flamboyant hedonist in his personal life. However, he is so protective of his twin sister, Jeanne-Marie, that he has become a total prude where she is concerned. He develops a dislike of his sister’s lovers, even if they are Northstar’s teammates. He is a stoic in his personal troubles. Since his transformation into a Faerie, Northstar may have become wiser, more tranquil.
History:
Jean-Paul Beaubier and his twin sister Jeanne-Marie were separated in infancy after their parents were killed under circumstances yet to be revealed. Jean-Paul was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martin, who were cousins of his mother. The Martins could not afford to adopt Jeanne-Marie as well, however, so they arranged for her to be raised at Madame DuPont’s School for Girls in LaVelle, Quebec. Soon afterward, Martin, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was posted to northern Quebec, and moved his family there. When Jean-Paul was about six years old, Mr. and Mrs. Martin were killed in an accident, and Jean-Paul was placed in a foster home. Jean-Paul and Jeanne-Marie thus grew up separately, each unaware of the other’s existence.
During his adolescence, Beaubier’s mutant powers began to emerge. Beaubier was befriended by Raymonde Belmonde, who helped him overcome his fears about the ways in which Beaubier was different from the majority of people. Having reached self-acceptance, Beaubier now secretly used his mutant powers to achieve success in skiing. Beaubier became a world champion skier, winning a gold medal at the Olympics while he was still in his late teens. He then turned professional skier and became quite wealthy. At some point during his adolescence, Beaubier was also apparently a member of a radical French Canadian separatist group.
To this point, Beaubier, unaware of his true parentage, had called him self Jean-Paul Martin. After James McDonald Hudson recruited Jeanne-Marie Beaubier to be a superhuman agent for the Canadian government’s Department H, Hudson’s wife Heather noticed the resemblance between her and Jean-Paul Martin. Hudson himself investigated and discovered that Jean-Paul Martin was really Jeanne-Marie Beaubier’s brother. Agents of Department H contacted Jean-Paul and informed him of his true parentage; thereafter he called himself Jean-Paul Beaubier. Beaubier met with Hudson, who told him that he had discovered his superhuman powers. Hudson invited Beaubier to become one of Department H’s agents, and then introduced him to his sister. Beaubier was overjoyed to learn that he had a sister, and accepted Hudson’s invitation. After a period of training, the Beaubier siblings both became members of Alpha Flight, the team of superhuman agents that Hudson created for Department H. The siblings took the code names of Northstar and Aurora.
Even after Alpha Flight temporarily lost the financial support of the Canadian government, Northstar remained with the team in order to be with his sister. He not only cared deeply about his sister as his only living relative, but was concerned about her because she had a dual personality. After the Beaubier siblings had a particularly intense quarrel over Jean-Paul’s sexual attitudes, however, Northstar ceased to operate with the team on a regular basis. Aurora sought to break her ties to her brother completely by altering her own superhuman powers so that they were no longer the same as his. Her lover, Dr. Walter Langkowski, known as Sasquatch, performed an experiment in molecular rearrangement upon Aurora which did indeed alter her superhuman abilities. As a result, however, Northstar and Aurora can no longer touch each other without their temporarily becoming incapable of using their superhuman powers.
After the death of Langkowski, Aurora and Northstar became reconciled with each other. Northstar is once again a member of Alpha Flight, which is now led by Heather Hudson and again receives funding and support from the Canadian government.
Beaubier caught a fatal disease recently that caused him to waste away over a period of several months. However, before true death would have resulted, Beaubier made an astounding discovery. He was contacted by his mother, a Faerie who revealed that he and his sister were human-Faerie hybrids. This accounted for their powers and appearance. By casting off his dead human half, Beaubier became a healthy, true Faerie. Soon thereafter, he, his mother, and the being who was Aurora’s Faerie self all left Earth for the Faerie realm.