With powers granted by ’The Goddess’, Alchemiss has demonstrated a varied ability to wield what appears to be magical energy. Most important in early battles because she is the only member of Freedom Force who can close dimensional gates, she can also hurl bolts of arcane power, shield herself, repulse enemies, and perform other mystic feats.

She is also quite attractive and knows it, though she usually relies on her appearance more than her personality.

Magic or Science ?

There is some debate about the actual nature of Alchemiss’s occult abilities. According to one school of thought, all of her powers are actually normal super-powers, and not mystical in any way. They are manifestations of Energy-X, and not magical. ’the Goddess’ is little more than a construct in her mind, a fiction through which she can focus the abilities she has recieved.

The other school of thought, and the one used in this write-up, is that the Energy-X did not actually grant her powers, but rather used the latent belief in The Goddess that Emily’s worship implanted in the statue, enabling said entity to reach through. Finding Alchemiss, she deemed her worthy, and granted her a certain amount of occult knowledge and the ability to manipulate mystical energies via incantation and gesture. In this, Energy-X was merely a facilitator, and not the actual source of her powers.

History

Catherine Larchmont-Price was a spoiled Southern girl who believed in nothing but her ability to make men drool. Her college roommate, Emily, was an early practitioner of Modern Wicca, at the time numbering barely more than a handful of people worldwide. She scoffed at Emily’s beliefs in ’The Goddess’, suggesting that if she spent less time with such “nonsense”, she might be more popular.

One night, a strange purple glow appeared in the window, and saturated Emily’s statue of The Goddess. Emily was away at the time, and Catherine heard a voice in her head calling to her. Entering a dreamscape, she had a vision of The Goddess telling her that she was her Chosen One for the Earth plane, and she found she now possessed mystical abilities!

Dressing up in a… costume, of sorts, she took to calling herself “Alchemiss”. She encountered members of Freedom Force when holes in time and space started summoning large raptors (probably deinonychii) and even a T-Rex to Patriot City. She managed to shut down the gates that were sumoning them, and ended up joining the group as their first official recruit.

Description

Alchemiss is a sexy young lass who apparantly shops at The S&M Shop for Sorceresses. Her costume includes a pink lace-up bustier with sleeves and a mini-skirt attached, thigh-high leather boots. leather gloves that reach her bid-upper arms, and a dark blue cape with the alchemical symbol for Earth on the back (a capital “A” with an extended central bar) attached to a leather collar that covers most of her neck. Her identity is ’concealed‘ with a domino mask whose sides extend as points twice as wide as her face, and her bright red hair (parted to one side) flows free.

Personality

Superficially, Alchemiss seems to be a spoiled Southern rich girl. Under the surface, she’s a hot-tempered, snotty, spoiled Southern rich girl who snidely insults teammates and gets jealous of any female more attractive than her, but actually does care about them, though she refuses to admit this. The only teammates she doesn’t seem to insult are Minuteman, Mentor, Man-Bot, and Liberty Lad. She still calls them names, but there’s no acid in her voice when she does so. In fact, she seems slightly fond of Liberty Lad in a ’little brother‘ kind of way, and has a SERIOUS thing for Man-Bot.

DC Universe History

Most of Freedom Force should really be kept together as a whole. They tend to compliment each other nicely, and have most of their ’bases’ covered. In this case, they could be dropped in whole cloth into the period between the Golden and Silver ages, perhaps holding the title of the ’World’s Premier Team‘ after the Justice Society ends, and before the Justice League starts up. Alternatively, Mentor could have been trying to escape with the Gene Bomb during Invasion, and when he fails, gathers many of the Energy X powered individuals as Freedom Force.