Soldier

Powers

• Cosmic Starburst: Using the Crescent Moon Staff, Neo Moon Knight is able to launch off several small balls of light that create small explosions. He is able to direct the balls of light either in the same direction or in along a line.
• Celestial Supernova: Using the Crescent Moon Staff, Neo Moon Knight gathers a large ball of energy and launches it at a single target where it creates a large explosion on contact.
• Moonlight Bow Meteor Shower: Neo Moon Knight uses starlight or moonlight to create a bow and arrow out of light. When he shoots the arrow into the sky, it rains down over one or more targets like meteors falling from the sky. Since the bow is created directly from starlight or moonlight, he can only use this ability when he is in direct natural light produced by the sun and stars or reflecting off the moon.
• Moondust Purification: The moonstone on top of the Crescent Moon Staff glows and sends a beam of light that engulfs the target. This is a healing attack and while it is not powerful enough to heal corruption or purify one of their enemies, this can be used to heal minor injuries and re-energize an ally.
• Lunar Portal Creation: He is able to create wormhole like portals that he can use to either redirect attacks (can only be an attack from someone else as he doesn’t have enough mental energy to sustain both an attack and the portal) or to transport people or things. He needs to be able to focus on where he wants the beginning and ending pots to form, and either see them physically or in his mind’s eye.
• Immunity to Stellar Energy: Along with his powers comes immunity from the effects of stellar energy. This grants him immunity to UV radiation, bright lights, fire and certain types of heat (heat from fire doesn’t affect him, but artificially produced heat, such as from a heater can make him feel overly warm quite quickly).

History

Small Lady was the first person he confessed to when he started thinking he wanted to be a boy. He’d been born a girl and never felt right living as a girl, but it was because talking with Small Lady that he felt confident enough to tell his father. He and his father had several discussions about it before he spent several years in therapy talking with counselors. He’d been to several different ones that all told him the same thing, that they needed to be sure this was what he really wanted and not just a phase he’d grow out of.

Eventually, he was put on hormone blockers to keep him from going into puberty with female hormones, and then was eventually put on testosterone so he’d be just like the other boys in his classes at school. He continued the therapy throughout high school, which ended up being really good for him, especially when he started having crushes on some of the other boys. He was able to talk through it in therapy and then came out to his friends as gay not long after.

It was the therapist he had through most of high school that introduced him to writing. She had him keep a journal and encouraged him to make journal entries when he felt intense emotions, no matter what they were. She also practiced narrative therapy with him (since he loved reading so much), often encouraging him to find problematic narratives in his life so he can find ways to rewrite his narrative. He started envisioning himself as a character in a book, which eventually turned into him thinking up entire stories. At his therapist’s urging, he started writing those down as well and eventually decided he wanted to become a writer.

He was happy that Small Lady stuck by him through the entire thing. She would always have his loyalty because of that. It made him quick to defend her when others spoke down to her and he’d do anything he could to protect her. During one incident where he jumped in front of her to protect her, the Crescent Moon Staff appeared in front of him. He didn’t hesitate to grab it and use it to fight, causing him to transform into Neo Moon Knight. He couldn’t say he was entirely surprised considering Small Lady was like the sister he never had.

Despite how close he was to his dad, Eli never told his dad about becoming Neo Moon Knight. It all happened around the time when his dad was getting remarried, so his dad was distracted between his new love and figuring out wedding plans. His dad even admitted it was all a bit of a rush, but Eli thought it was all romantic. Besides, if it gave him more freedom to come and go as he pleased... Well, who was he to argue with that?

He doesn’t know what happened to his dad and step-parent after he and the others in Small Lady’s court headed to the past. He was admittedly a little jealous that she went back in time before and was excited to go along with her this time, but he also worried a little about what they might change by accident. He has been worrying more about that recently now that Small Lady transformed into Sailor Neo Moon and revealed herself and her court to Queen Serenity and those of the Crystal Empire, but he also understood her reasons for doing it. He would support her no matter what.

On a personal note, he enjoys living in the past. He loves writing historical romances so he’s excited to have the chance to learn about the time period his stories are set in while living in it.

Writing Sample