Tenative costume design

An old character of mine that I drew as a dog bc human faces are hard. Supreme blorbo, so brace for INSANE amounts of loredump.

So, His/Their name is Nikya Kekoa. Born to a family who was harboring a whistleblower for Lexcorp, Nikya was separated from his family when a failed assassination attempt on the whistleblower forced the assassin to abduct him as a hostage to escape. Raised by a clan of assassins, he was taken in by the poisoner, a wise old woman named Liyu.

Under Liyu's watch, Nik grew to be a tough fighter and a master of potions and poisons. By the age of 10, he was far outclassing many of the people who were in the same age group as him, and even some beyond. Eventually, this caused tension that forced him to flee, and so he ran off with Donna Troy, the second Wonder Girl, and his future mentor.

Nik's powers work in three categories. He has his artifact granted powers, which include his bracelets, which are made from adamantine and can deflect most attacks and produce a powerful force shield, and his sword, which is made of songbird cries, able to easily conceal into a the hilt, and able to cut through anything sound could cut through.

The next category is a small array of spells, largely originally learned for self-preservation and to save others. They include a slow-falling spell, a flame-reduction spell, a sound-reduction spell, a spell to restore memories, and a few spells that mostly involve reading an object's locational history, as a means of tracking where it's been and where it might go. These spells all are powered by his own magical energy, and will be unusable if he is somehow cut off from the Earth's familiar magical fields.

Finally, Nik has a layer of powers that are more physical attributes than powers. He is naturally strong enough to lift about 3.5k lbs, and is a fast runner and master hand-to-hand combatant. He has a healing factor that functions by converting injured tissue into plant matter, which his blood naturally accelerates the growth/regrowth/healing of. In addition to this, his skin is naturally rhino thick. Finally, Nik is always able to tell if he is being lied to or misled, to what extent, and what specific words are a lie. He is able to see through almost all illusions, and can often see through people's masks. This power also makes him able to quickly locate concealed objects, hidden doors, or secret passages. However, he is also physically unable to lie, and while he is able to mislead, it can hamper his ability to use his powers, will cause him physical pain, and frankly, he doesn't like it.

Nik is a very tired individual. He's got a lot going on, and is constantly doing his best to not have everything crash down around him, but another part of him is secretly always wishing he'll go to a mission and not come back. Nevertheless, he's a studious person with a love of nature and stories. He's devoted hours to reading every scrap of literature he could get his hands on, and has entire books memorized from sheer enjoyment. When he's down, he finds that some hard physical labor helps him clear his head, and on the rare occasion he's happy, you'll see a bottle in his hands that is far too low to be alright. He's not got the best coping techniques, but he's had a rough life.

He went by Lost Boy from his origin as a superhero until about 2007, when he was about 16, when he changed it to Black Star.