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brief history ( abuse tw, sexual assault tw ) | Starfire is actually Princess Koriand'r of the planet Tamaran in the Vega system, and was in line to rule the planet as queen. Komand'r (also known as Blackfire), her older sister, developed a bitter rivalry with her after suffering a disease in infancy that robbed her of the ability to harness solar energy to allow her to fly, and by extension, her right to the throne. This rivalry continued and intensified when the siblings were sent for warrior training with the Warlords of Okaara. Things came to a head during a sparring exercise in which Komand'r attempted to kill her sister. As a result, Komand'r was expelled and she swore vengeance. That revenge came in a plot where Komand'r betrayed her planet by supplying detailed information about Tamaran's defenses to their enemies, the Citadel. They conquered Tamaran with ease, and the surrender conditions included the enslavement of Koriand'r, who was never permitted to return, since that would mean the Citadel would devastate the planet for breaking the treaty. King Myand'r turned Koriand'r over to the Citadel to ensure peace. (click here for a relevant comic strip)

To her horror, Koriand'r learned that Komand'r was her master; her own older sister made the most of her sibling's years of horrific servitude, which included frequent torture and sexual exploitation. (click here for a relevant comic strip) When Koriand'r killed one of her captors, Komand'r decided to execute her as punishment, but the sisters were attacked and captured by the Psions, a group of sadistic alien scientists. While performing deadly experiments on the sisters to test their solar energy absorption limits, the Psion were attacked by Komand'r's forces. Koriand'r broke free using her newly developed starbolts, destructive blasts of ultraviolet energy which were a result of the experiment. Out of misguided familial loyalty, she freed Komand'r, who was still absorbing more amounts of ultraviolet energy. Far from grateful, Komand'r contemptuously struck her sister down with the same, but with more intensity and power and had her restrained for later execution. Koriand'r escaped by stealing a spacecraft to flee to the nearest planet, Earth, where she met the first Robin (Dick Grayson) and his compatriots; she joined them in forming the Teen Titans. She became a charter member of this team and remained a member for years, finding work as a professional model using the name Kory Anders.

She soon began a relationship with Dick Grayson, being together for several years, before Dick was convinced by Bruce to break up with her. This shattered the both of them, and Koriand’r fled Earth and returned home, where she ultimately was wrapped up in an arranged marriage put together by her father. In a bid for unity on the war-torn planet, Myand'r and Tharras decided their children should marry to form a strong pact between the Southern States and Tamarus. Neither wanted to, both being desperately in love with other people. However, they knew it was their duty for the better of their homes and eventually married. They were never intimate, both incredibly open with one another about their other interests and relationships. This was a marriage of necessity, of peace-- not one of love and passion.  

Koriand’r then learned about the passing of Dick Grayson, immediately leaving her home to return back to Earth. Her husband resumed his relationship with his true lover, impregnated her, and ultimately fell in battle before the baby was born. While Dick had never died, but was sent undercover to protect himself and his loved ones, and Koriand’r was none the wiser. She mourned him greatly, desperately wanting revenge but knowing that it’d only make things more complicated and messy-- and more importantly, insulting to Dick’s character. She then flew down to Key West where she took residence for awhile until the multiverse exposed itself, and she happily climbed on through to hopefully leave the dark and horrible memories behind her. superpowers |

Tamaranean Physiology: Starfire's powers are largely derived from her alien physiology; her body constantly absorbs ultraviolet radiation and converts it to energy, which can be used for a variety of purposes.

Energy Absorption: She can also absorb the myriad radiation types from other lifeforms. Her species being powered by the Ultraviolet radiology given by stars and suns. She once used this application of her power to weaken a group of Kryptonians who otherwise required solar radiation to maintain their superhuman abilities.

Starbolts: The solar absorption experiments performed on her by the alien Psions granted her the amazing power to channel and project that same energy into destructive blasts called "starbolts". Hyperion described Starbolts as highly concentrated solar energy that possessed incredible power. Starfire also has the power and ability to unleash all her stored energy into a pseudo-nova blast. It is believed to be as hot as the sun itself, and so only used in dire situations. She can augment the effectiveness of her punches by surrounding her hands in energy, and she can also use this method to weld or carefully burn through obstacles with contact from her hands. A chiming sound is heard when using her starbolts. In addition to starbolts, she is also capable of starblasts, starbolt waves, starbolt shields, starbolt bursts.

Light Generation: Starfire can intentionally use her powers to illuminate a dark area.

Enhanced Vision: Due to her alien physiology, Kory has a better eyesight than the human race.

Superhuman Strength: Starfire is immensely strong. While the true extent is unknown, she is shown over four times stronger than Cyborg himself. 

Superhuman Agility and Superhuman Reflexes: Starfire possesses highly advanced agility and reflexes. Her natural fighting skills are much greater when in conjunction with her superhuman reflexes, durability, and agility.

Superhuman Stamina: Starfire can remain awake for long days at a time before tiring out.

Superhuman Endurance: She has supreme physical endurance; she was capable of surviving the most severe of snowstorms, but eventually wears down her endurance.

Nigh-invulnerability: Like all of her kind, she is immune to most physical harm; capable of surviving a massively powerful explosion without taking much damage; as such she has bulletproof skin.

Flight: Starfire possesses a flight capability which leaves a distinctive energy contrail behind, looking as if it is coming directly from her hair.

Interstellar Travel: Starfire has also been stated to have flown light years through space in short amounts of time.

Linguistic Assimilation: As a Tamaranean, Starfire can replicate all the acquired spoken knowledge of languages from other life-forms via lip contact; a process known as "the transfer of knowledge." To which, she gains as much fluency in the dialect and idioms as the target, but she still retains her natural accent grammar. Her current known languages are: Tamaranean (native), English (from Dick Grayson in Teen Titans), Japanese (from a stranger in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo), and Spanish (from a stranger in "Titans in Love" short).

Advanced Hand-to-Hand Combat: Due to the warlike nature of her home world, Starfire is well trained in the martial arts of hand-to-hand combat and unarmed combat. Although she is not as skillful as her older sister, Starfire is an expert in high-levels of Tamaranean martial arts, being skilled enough to take down numerous Gordanian soldiers while her upper body was bound. She is also skilled in various fighting styles of hand-to-hand combat, such as kickboxing.

weaknesses |

All of her abilities are tied to her emotional state, and generally can only be triggered when a specific emotion is focused on; because of this, her powers can be weakened or compromised when she is in emotional turmoil, like when she lost her ability to fly due to depression.  

Starfire, like many Tamaraneans, is allergic to metallic chromium. It gives her flu-like symptoms, and when she sneezes, she unleashes explosive star bolts out of her nose and mouth.

Like all Tamaraneans, she is not immune to her own energy blasts. Using her self-sustenance and resistance to extreme temperatures takes a lot of energy so she cannot survive forever in space. She also does need to breathe through her self-sustenance can delay that for a while.

Because of her naivety, it is easy for certain people to take advantage of or betray Starfire, as seen in "Transformation", where she is lured into a trap and almost eaten by a hungry alien.

Although few have exploited it, Starfire's relationship with Dick Grayson can be counted sometimes as a weakness. Once, it was inadvertently exploited by Killer Moth when he wanted then-Robin to take Kitten to prom, which angered her beyond rational thought other than to protect Robin. Since their split, her love for him has caused her to become occasionally more irrational and reckless, especially when it comes to the safety of Dick and the people she loves. She now doesn’t think she has much to lose, if she were to die over the rest of them.

Despite being able to survive in the cold vacuum of space, Starfire is vulnerable to snowy climates and will succumb to their bitter temperatures over time.

affiliations |  justice society international, R.E.B.E.L.S., justice league of america, teen titans, outsiders, justice arcana.  notable allies | dick grayson (robin/nightwing), donna troy (wondergirl), rachel roth (raven), victor stone (cyborg), garfield logan (beast boy), tara markov (terra), karen beecher (bumblebee), garth (aqualad), roy harper (speedy/red arrow), toni monetti (argent), captain leonid constantinovitch kovar (red star), más y menos, jason todd (red hood).  previous relationships | dick grayson (ex-boyfriend, the first love of starfire’s life), prince karras (deceased husband, married by necessity for a peace treaty),  hobbies | despite being a horrific chef when she first came to Earth, making foods from her homeland that horrified the other members of the teen titans, she learned to become a pretty decent chef with the help of alfred during her relationship with dick. even after their breakup, she put herself further into improving her cooking, taking many professional classes with the best chefs available. though she still will make food from her homeland, she mostly does it in small servings and makes “Earth-food” for gatherings. she now loves to cook and bake for other people, but does struggle with having to be patient for baked goods.  it’s unbearable, but she also genuinely enjoys working out. she’s incredibly fond of yoga and Pilates, and will regularly attend SoulCycle classes. she’s also grown incredibly fond of hiking and rock climbing, but finds herself flying on accident far too often while rock climbing or going up incredibly steep hills.  she is your most typical girly-girl and loves shopping-- though she should never be allowed to go alone. she still struggles with the concept of human currency and is commonly taken advantage of when she hands over far too much money for something that is relatively cheap. she very much enjoys buying clothing, as well as food, and she also has an obsession with buying any gift that makes her think of her friends and family. she goes incredibly overboard when it comes to holidays and birthdays. she’s also a huge party-goer; she’s into socializing, drinking and dancing-- being that girl you meet in the bathroom at 2am that tells you how beautiful you are and almost steals you away from your boyfriend. it takes her a CONSIDERABLE amount of alcohol (far more than a human) to get her tipsy.  she loves to read, although jason is quick to let her know that her taste in books is horrendous. she’s absolutely the girl that reads smutty literature and anything she sees on booktok that fits her vibe with romance.

she also loves disney animated movies. anything with a princess has her hook, line and sinker. it’s almost always a BatBoy who gets conned into watching the movies with her as she sings along and happily bops to the tunes while sitting on the couch.