Brixton is a district of London, located in the borough of Lambeth in south London. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centers in Greater London. Brixton is mainly residential with a prominent street market and a robust retail sector. It is a multi-ethnic community, with a large percentage of its population being of Caribbean descent. It lies within Inner south London and is bordered by Stockwell, Clapham, Streatham, Camberwell, Tulse Hill, and Herne Hill. The district houses the main offices of the London Borough of Lambeth.
As an adolescent in Brixton, growing up was extremely hard. There were not enough opportunities, especially around London. Especially when it came down to what she looked like. Facing adversity daily, only to go home to a broken home consisting of two parents who don’t like each other and being the youngest of three, having a brother being the eldest and having a sister is the second child, was terrible to deal with. Not really being good at sports, she immersed herself in the library, reading about none other than superheroes.
Being a loner, most of her life didn’t do her much favors growing up as well as she was not only consistently picked on but got into weekly fistfights. Her father was rigorous and beat her. Meanwhile, her mother was incredibly vain and thought little of her academic suits, but when she did something wrong, she was punished severely.
In the inner city of London, especially in Brixton in the 1990s, crime and gang relations are commonplace, and her oldest brother followed in seamlessly. With their father not being able to hold a job and her mother not being able to save any money and buy food for the family, it was her brother will who become the breadwinner of the household by doing gang-related activities such as dealing drugs. Unfortunately, it would catch up to him as he died within two years of him being a part of the gang.
The second child of the three who happens to sell her body for money as well wasn’t so lucky either. Within a year, she contracted HIV/AIDS and died months later due to AIDS-related complications. With child services nipping at their heels, her father decided to leave the broken family and never come back. Being devastated, the youngest of the three tried to take her life by cutting her wrists, only to wake up in the hospital bed days later.
There, she met a weirdly polite Japanese woman wearing a kimono. In retrospect, she thought she was hallucinating, or the antipsychotic drugs were kicking in. However, in time, she gradually believed her. Many people were talking about supernatural events happening all over town but never really paid attention to it since it was so outlandish.
However, the Japanese woman confirmed these assumptions with their facts, and soon enough, the ten-year-old African British female was entranced with the Aethereal Queen. Leaving her broken life behind, she immediately left the town of Brixton and leaving everything behind and her name along with it. Cashing in on her love of comic books and her creativity, she came up with her new name, Selena Logan.
Under the tutelage of the Aethereal Queen, she became the mother and the sibling she never had growing up. Traveling all over the world, she had learned so much about the Crux Nexus. Five months later, she would end up unlocking her Aethereal gate, which allows her to be in touch with the Ether and perform spellcasting. Quickly enough, she became a Crux Nexus member one year later.
Incredibly focused and dedicated, being a part of the Crux Nexus was pretty much her life. If she didn’t train, she studied in a library. If she didn’t study in the library, she trained. If she didn’t do either, she either ate or slept. There was no room for anything else. Like friendships or relationships. Those didn’t mean much to her. Although, the Aethereal Queen was like her family and that’s all she ever needed.
The Aethereal Queen was her mother, was her sister, was her friend. Her only friend. A friend that she never wants to let down. Fortunately, enough for her, she didn’t. One year later, the heavens selected her to be one of the Crucis Sentinels of the newly formed incarnation. Adding the cherries and the sprinkles on top of the most mountainous of ice cream sundaes, she was named the Alpha, being the leader of the Crucis Sentinels. Selena Logan not only had become the youngest member of the Crux Nexus, but the youngest member to ever reach the Crucis Sentinel status and become the Alpha at the age of twelve.
Since then, she didn’t waste any time making herself a force to be reckoned with. When the enemy had seen her coming, everybody else knew that all of heaven was coming with her. They even gave her so many nicknames, most of them were extraordinarily vulgar and unladylike, but one stuck with her and fit her very well; The Blackbird.
Earning the nickname “Blackbird” after The Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” was a long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft that was operated by the United States Air Force. It was developed as a black project from the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s by Lockheed and its Skunk Works division.
Also, there are multiple reasons they pretty much named an aircraft after her. Being born in October 1993, Air would be her Aethereal alignment. Naturally, she has become faster and more mobile. On foot, she can run faster without any Aethereal buffs, about 75 mph. With her Aethereal buffs activated, she can double or triple her average running speed easily. However, if she wants to show off, she can manipulate the environment around her, creating massive jet streams of wind, creating a current of wind control in all directions. She has become so powerful she can create sonic booms just by running alone.
During her combat training, the Aethereal Queen wanted to make the most out of her abilities by giving her athletic and quick-footed maneuver skills and techniques that fit her alignment well. Since it is essential for all Crucis Sentinels to carry a weapon, the Aethereal Queen gave her a Sabre Rapier made from titanium; the same material made from aircraft like The Lockheed SR-71. Mastering the art of fencing at age fifteen, along with the fact she has learned Savate, French martial art that involves kickboxing, earning her blue glove (technical rank, first degree).
With such set skills, she is a nightmare to fight one-on-one and usually fighting an Alpha Crucis is pretty much committing suicide anyway, so fighting her in a group setting is sufficient, right? Wrong. Her fighting style is notably garnered, taking on multiple people at once. In her dashing and using her extreme speed to create sonic booms knocking her opponents back, meanwhile using thrust attack, dodging, feint parries with her fencing and countering attacks with her melee maneuvers with Savate kicks, time and time again she has become a one-person army.
Particularly she does have her weaknesses. She is a bit of a glass cannon. She can’t take physical hits very well and would rather keep a healthy distance between her and her opponent, maintaining eye contact always. Her tall yet lanky frame is right to be fast and sleek, but not when it comes to being in a brawl. She is not the brawling type but uses style and finesse to defeat her opponents. However, they are times where she becomes physically overpowered by someone who could be stronger than her. However, there hasn’t been anybody who has out sped Logan yet.
Due in part of her upbringing and her unfortunate loss of her family members, she has become too emotionally attached to work. She can also become very rude towards others very quickly and is quick to heavily criticize others since she always considered to be defensive about everything. She usually assumes the best and the worst of things without meeting things in the middle, making her difficult to reason with. She’s always tense and is always working and always training, never really having any fun.
Even though she does value her fellow Crucis Sentinels, the problem is she becomes exceptionally protective and calls out on their mistakes frequently and heavy-handed. While this is a good thing since she is a leader, she usually nitpicks on the smallest things and magnifies them to the nth degree, causing a sense of uneasiness in the group.
However, overall, the group loves her no-nonsense attitude, especially the Aethereal Queen, who believes the rest of the team sometimes needs a harsh reality check to pretty much keep them all in line.