{{Hero|
image=[[Image:Aurora_1.jpg]]
|character_name=Aurora
|real_name=Jeanne-Marie Beaubier
|debut=Uncanny X-Men #120
|affiliations=[[Team Northstar Extreme Snowsports]]
|past_affiliations=[[Alpha Flight]], [[Weapon X program]], [[Brotherhood of Mutants]], [[Gamma Flight I]], [[Beta Flight]]
|status=Active
|aliases=None
|relatives=[[Jean-Baptiste Beaubier]] (father, deceased), unnamed mother (deceased), Jean-Paul Beaubier ([[Northstar]], brother), [[Joanne Beaubier]] (adopted niece, deceased), Temporal Copy (Active)
|height=5'8"
|weight=120 lbs
|eyes=Blue
|hair=Black
|}}

==History==
[[Image:Aurora_2.jpg|right]]During infancy, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier and her twin brother [[Northstar|Jean-Paul Beaubier]], fellow former [[Alpha Flight]] member and current X-Man known as [[Northstar]], were orphaned when their parents were killed in a car accident

While her brother was adopted by relatives with the surname Martin, Jeanne-Marie was not. Instead, she was placed into foster care at Madame Dupont's School for Girls, a strict and seemingly archaic Catholic boarding school. Jeanne-Marie did not remember the existence of her brother, but retained what is presumably her original surname. Under the oppressive regime of the nuns, Jeanne-Marie?s personality developed into shy introversion marked by a lack of self confidence. She seemingly had close connections to neither teachers nor classmates. At the age of thirteen, Jeanne-Marie attempted suicide by throwing herself off the roof of the school.

Instead of falling to her death, Jeanne-Marie?s mutant power of flight manifested itself. She viewed these powers as a literal miracle that saved her life. The powers also apparently awakened new purpose and confidence in Jeanne-Marie. She did not return to the school for several days; upon returning she was wearing lipstick. When the nuns demanded explanation for her absence, she admitted her power to fly. The nun?s immediate response was an accusation of blasphemy and punished Jeanne-Marie for the blasphemy, for the lipstick, and for her unaccounted absence. On some level, Jeanne-Marie accepted her guilt of all of these ?crimes,? and accepted the punishment with the plea? ?Punish me and make it good.? The nun delivered with a brutal caning followed immediately with an archaic time out of being locked in an unlit closet for an unspecified duration

Jeanne-Marie did believe in the moors and morals with which she was raised. Her mind associated the punishment with all the ?sins? of the prior days. Her mind developed a defense mechanism that those sins had been committed by someone else. Her belief proved so pervasive that she associated both the powers and the more social and assertive behavior with a separate identity. She developed clinical Multiple Personality Disorder (often erroneously confused with schizophrenia.) The separate personality retained sole use of the mutant powers of flight and speed, along with extroverted and uninhibited personality traits. ?Plain old? Jeanne-Marie could not access her mutant powers and remained a very prim and proper woman with ultra-conservative values consistent enough that she could have been a nun herself; following the incidence of ?blasphemy,? the nuns considered Jeanne-Marie as a model student.

MPD is the natural mental state of an adult Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, but the exhibition of the disorder has fluctuated over time, often in direct response to various stimuli. The primary personalities of Jeanne-Marie and Aurora loathe each other. Jeanne-Marie is more inflexible, and would typically banish Aurora forever. Aurora has typically been more pragmatic and would pretend to be Jeanne-Marie whenever it proved practical to do so. Jeanne-Marie attended college and graduated with accreditation as a teacher in Quebec. Presumably during her college years, the Aurora personality became dominant, but the teaching post she accepted was at the only place Jeanne-Marie knew as home: Madame Dupont's School for Girls. By day in the atmosphere of her work and home at the school, Aurora pretended to be Jeanne-Marie. In the evenings Aurora would go out on the town to enjoy herself. While out one night, Aurora was attacked by muggers. Aurora used her powers to defend herself, an action witnessed by fellow mutant [[Wolverine]]. Wolverine brought her to his employers [[Department H]], the agency of the Canadian government that served as support and research for the neophyte government team of marvels, [[Alpha Flight]]. At Department H, Aurora received training in her powers of speed and flight, and also found something of a home with people who accepted Jeanne-Marie as Aurora. In considering the powers and appearance and personality of Aurora, Department H director James MacDonald Hudson discovered (or at least strongly suspected) that Aurora suffered clinical MPD. He concealed this suspicions or discovery from Department H and the other members of Alpha Flight. For some time Alpha Flight remained unaware of Aurora?s quieter other self, as it remained dormant through her early period in the team[footnote=1]%2$s[/footnote].

More importantly, Hudson chanced upon a news article profile about Olympic skier Jean-Paul Martin, ?a mediocre skier until he learned he could fly.? Hudson recruited Martin and introduced him to Aurora. Upon meeting, the twins shook hands. To everyone?s surprise, the hand to hand contact generated intense bioluminescence. Both twins immediately redefined themselves to this newly discovered familial connection. Martin legally changed his surname back to Beaubier, and both twins chose the code-names Aurora and Northstar that reflected their joint power to generate light, even over their independent abilities to fly and move at super speeds. This further reinforcement and acceptance of her brash personality probably aided Aurora?s ability to keep Jeanne-Marie dormant.

The formation of the Alpha Flight team developed slowly and saw various roster incarnations. Aurora's first mission came about when she, Shaman and Snowbird were hand selected by Wolverine to rescue hostages. During the mission, Aurora demonstarted a (partially) playful antagonism towards Snowbird's cool, standoffish demeanor.

The first revealed mission in which Aurora and Northstar participated together brought Alpha Flight into combat with the American mutant marvel team, the X-Men. Shortly thereafter, the first true sign of Canada?s need for super-human operatives became apparent in simultaneous ?needs.? While Aurora?s other teammates were dispatched to defeat the Wendigo, Aurora, Northstar and their sixth teammate [[Sasquatch I biophysicist |Walter Langkowski (Sasquatch)]] were dispatched to New York to capture Machine Man. While in off-time in New York, Aurora and Langkowski began what became a long-term relationship. Following the failed mission to capture Machine Man, the Canadian government disbanded Alpha Flight and dismantled Department H.[footnote=2]%2$s[/footnote]

The relationship between Sasquatch and Aurora continued as an affair that they concealed from the Flight membership. Despite the relationship, Sasquatch remained utterly unaware of Aurora's MPD. Northstar had begun to question the utter division of Aurora?s marvel position and her civilian ID and occupation at Madame Dupont's School for Girls and seemed to discover or suspect the affair between his sister and Sasquatch. Northstar had developed a dislike of Langkowski and did not approve of the relationship. The feelings among the three created a schism in the relationship between the twins. Northstar?s dislike burned to hatred of Langkowski. Aurora favored her lover over her brother. Northstar became disenfranchised with the team, and almost failed to respond during the fight with the Ravager. The six current members of Alpha Flight were joined by two others and elected to stay together following the chance success in defeating the Great Beast Tundra. Just as Northstar had responded to the Ravager incident only when seeing his sister endangered during news footage, Northstar remained with the Flight at this time solely to look out for his sister. While he remained opposed to Aurora's still-secret relationship with Langkowski, Northstar did consider the larger team environment as beneficial to Aurora.

Aurora's MPD became known to the Flight membership during the team?s third battle independent of the Canadian government. Aurora was captured and secluded in utter darkness. Unable to generate ?protective? light without her brother, the shock of the incidence triggered the re-emergence of the Jeanne-Marie personality, to Sasquatch?s utter shock. Appalled, Jeanne-Marie severed the relationship and turned to her brother. Now knowing that Jeanne-Marie suffered clinical MPD, Northstar submitted her for private psychiatric care. Unfortunately, the division of personalities proved so complete that the MPD proved undetectable.

The dynamic between the twins proved complicated. Aurora knew that her brother was homosexual. A sexually liberated woman, Aurora was not bothered by it. The conservative fundamentalism of Jeanne-Marie seemed not to know this fact as early in their relationship as Aurora knew, and would undoubtedly disapprove. Another mugging attempt against Jeanne-Marie triggered the personality change back to Aurora. A chance remark by Northstar at the conclusion of a private superhuman encounter offended Aurora; she found the apparent yet perhaps unintended sexual innuendo offensive. Aurora abandoned her brother and returned to her lover.

When Alpha Flight was assembled for a mission, Northstar attempted reconciliation with an unresponsive Aurora; this led to a brawl among the team prior to the actual mission. Alpha Flight remained unaffiliated with the Canadian government, and this mission resulted in the death of team leader Guardian.

[[Image:Aurora_3.jpg|left]]Several factors at the time seemed to exacerbate Jeanne-Marie?s MPD. Aurora clearly and exclusively favored her relationship with Langkowski over Jeanne-Marie?s emotional preference for the relationship with Northstar. Northstar?s defensive distance in reaction to the death of Guardian further seemed to alienate Aurora from Northstar. As the more worldly and socially aware personality, Aurora also seemed more cognizant of Northstar?s awareness that the MPD was a problem to be treated. The schism in the mind(s) of Aurora and Jeanne-Marie recognized the duality of her two primary relationships, with Northstar and Sasquatch. Aurora began to view Northstar as a threat to Aurora, and to view Jeanne-Marie as a threat to the pleasurable relationship with Langkowski. The submerged consciousness of Jeanne-Marie attempted to exert itself in reaction to legitimate fears that Aurora would destroy Jeanne-Marie.

With the relationship between himself and Aurora severed, Northstar had also severed his association with Alpha Flight. Aurora asked her biophysicist lover to alter her DNA. Langkowski agreed, in part because he knew such an alteration would mask Aurora?s mutant nature from detection, and in part because he had calculated that he could allow Aurora to access some level of her bioluminescent powers independently of Northstar. If Langkowski was at all aware of Aurora?s objective to break the genetic link with her brother, he approved because of Northstar?s opposition to Langkowski?s relationship with Aurora[footnote=3]%2$s[/footnote]. The procedure was effective, but not all results were expected. It did apparently sever the binding ties to her brother; Aurora could generate light independently from her brother, albeit significantly reduced in intensity, and her top speed potential was greatly the reduced. The twins did not learn until later that the alteration drastically ruined the twin?s sympathetic and symmetric use of their powers. Aurora?s tolerance for cold temperatures diminished. The first time the twins tried to employ their powers jointly, their touch temporarily nullified the powers of both twins. Aurora's French-Canadian accent also seemed to thicken as the war of her personalities escalated and a third personality burgeoned.[footnote=4]%2$s[/footnote].

During Aurora?s next combat encounter alongside Sasquatch, this time against [[Gilded Lily]][footnote=5]%2$s[/footnote], the Jeanne-Marie personality again ascended under the great stress of her achluophobia (fear of the dark). Jeanne-Marie fled from Sasquatch and to her brother in Montreal. The Jeanne-Marie personality had gained some ground against Aurora; this was the first time since her suicide attempt that she could access the mutant powers as Jeanne-Marie. Happy to have his sister Jeanne-Marie back in his life, Northstar introduced her to old friends?friends who had terrorist connections. A battle broke out with super-humans who had active terrorist activities. Aurora regained dominance over Jeanne-Marie during the fight. She proved still angry at her brother. As the conflict between Jeanne-Marie and Aurora had escalated, Aurora viewed Northstar as an increased threat and planned to use Northstar?s vague but real connection to Canadian anti-government terrorists as leverage to keep him off the Alpha Flight team that had Heather Hudson reformed in the wake of her husband?s death.

Without a relationship with his sister?s Aurora persona, Northstar had no desire to maintain any association with Alpha Flight. He returned only when forced magically to aide the team. Sasquatch had been executed as a Great Beast and the team successfully struggled to save his soul; they temporarily housed Langkowski?s soul in the Box armor until a new body could be found. Aurora?s threatening implications that a soul housed in a mechanical body could not keep her satisfied fervently motivated Langkowski?s search for a flesh-and-blood body. The MPD fractured further; despite her threats against Langkowski, and even though Northstar?s return to the team was temporary and under mind control, Aurora reported Northstar?s terrorist history to the team. The resulting inquest was interrupted by a battle with Omega Flight. During the rest and recovery immediately following that battle, the team?s ongoing other-dimensional search for a new body that could house Langkowski?s soul resulted in the loss of Langkowski?s soul. Northstar recognized his sister?s emotional need following the death of her lover and remained with the team for her benefit.

Aurora strove harder to remain the dominant personality, but the death of her lover and the renewed relationship with her brother further dissociated Jeanne-Marie?s MPD. A third, ?merger? personality developed. The discovery that any touch (not just hand-to hand touch) now nullified the twins? powers probably further contributed to the fracturing of Jeanne-Marie?s psyche. Aurora began a relationship with teammate Roger Bochs, who was a physical opposite from the brawny Langkowski. The regular contact between the twins proved harmful to both, due to Aurora?s genetic alteration. The next emergence of the Jeanne-Marie persona seemed not just more fractured, but was outright shattered by the death of Boches. As the body of Jeanne-Marie grew more mentally ill, Northstar suffered physical illness. An attempt to find a mystical solution to the twin?s powers proved disastrous and led to each twin finding some semblance of cure, but individually separating from the team[footnote=6]%2$s[/footnote].

Aurora?s ?cure? seemed to be the streamlined dominant emergence a a third 'unified' personality. Unknown to her teammates or her brother, Jeanne-Marie entered a convent, returning only once to the aid of her resurrected former lover [[Sasquatch I|Sasquatch]] after the Great Beasts and the Northern Gods had striven to reclaim him[footnote=7]%2$s[/footnote]. Jeanne-Marie returned to [[Alpha Flight]] during a search for her missing brother[footnote=8]%2$s[/footnote]. At this point Jeanne-Marie was mostly powerless; she did not seem to have any ability to move at super speeds, but possessed altered powers with her bioluminescence, including the ability to heal others with her light. During a protracted war with [[Llan|Llan the Sorcerer]], a semblance of her more customary power set returned only after Northstar merged his powers with her. Following this merger, both twins seemed stabilized in the possession of their powers. Jeanne-Marie/Aurora seemed to possess a greater range in the use of the bioluminescent power set.

After the second confrontation with [[Llan|Llan the Sorcerer]], Aurora left [[Alpha Flight]] again, this time to aid the fledgling [[Gamma Flight II|Gamma Flight]] as, ironically, a psychiatric consultant[footnote=9]%2$s[/footnote]. When Alpha Flight regained Canadian sponsorship, Aurora served with them, including in a battle with the Master in the Northern United States and when Doctor Doom made a diplomatic mission to Canada.

Aurora disappeared when the then-recently resurrected [[Alpha Flight]] former leader [[Guardian I|James MacDonald Hudson ]] teleported various members of [[Alpha Flight]] and the [[Avengers]] to the trans-dimensional planet [[Qwrll]], in an attempt to protect Qwrll from [[Galactus]] [[Image:Aurora_4.jpg|right]][footnote=10]%2$s[/footnote]. In an effort to find Aurora, [[Northstar]] enlisted the aid of [[Dr. Strange|Dr. Stephen Strange]], the foremost mind on the occult. Strange?s search proved inconclusive[footnote=11]%2$s[/footnote].

Aurora resurfaced in the dungeon cell of the psychopathic telepath [[Headlock]], who had been using his mental abilities to torment her further[footnote=12]%2$s[/footnote]. As a result of [[Headlock|Headlock's]] mental abuse, Aurora's numerous personalities had been refused into the original two, with a more secure and assertive Jeanne-Marie personality effectively co-habiting with Aurora's personality. Unlike her original manifestation, Jeanne-Marie and Aurora equally felt comfortable in the association with [[Alpha Flight]]. Aurora and Jeanne-Marie shared their body and powers all-but-harmoniously, until external situations began to accentuate the core differences in the personalities. Aurora supported her brother?s decision to publicly out himself as a homosexual. Jeanne-Marie remained morally opposed to her brother?s ?lifestyle.? Langkowski grew closer to Aurora, and his evident consideration of resuming their relationship escalated the subdued ill will between Langkowski and Northstar. When the Canadian government dissolved [[Alpha Flight]] and [[Department H]] for the third time, Northstar immediately quit the team[footnote=13]%2$s[/footnote]. The loss of her brother and the instability of the Alpha Flight team seemed to trigger further fracturing of Jeanne-Marie?s psyche. Perhaps rebelling against Aurora?s continued attraction and affection for Langkowski, Jeanne-Marie initiated a relationship with teammate [[Wild Child|Kyle Gibney]]. That relationship ended when Gibney left the unsanctioned Alpha Flight for a role in the American government group X-Factor. Aurora began to seriously loose herself to psychotic episodes[footnote=14]%2$s[/footnote].

When [[Department H]] restarted for the fourth time, Aurora was abducted by [[Epsilon Guard]]. The then-former X-Man Havok and his newly reconstructed Brotherhood 'rescued' Aurora with the aid of [[Image:Aurora_5.jpg|left]]Nate Grey (X-Man)[footnote=15]%2$s[/footnote]. Her MPD condition had become as fragile as ever. Aurora became the dominant personality, and Jeanne-Marie was again forced into the recesses of her mind. Aurora allowed the other-dimensional Dark Beast to perform an array of genetic experiments. These procedures also cast ill effects on Aurora, although Northstar this time seemed unaffected. Aurora began to develop delusional schizophrenia, as was evident when Jeanne-Marie fled to the desiccated ruins of Madame Dupont's School for Girls, where she was reunited with her brother[footnote=16]%2$s[/footnote]. Shortly afterwards, both Aurora and [[Northstar]] briefly reunited with the remaining original members of [[Alpha Flight]] to stop the release of a biologically volatile [[Weapon-X III|Weapon X]][footnote=17]%2$s[/footnote]. In the fray, Aurora was exposed to the sentient bacteria inhabiting [[Weapon-X III|Weapon X's]] body called Thetagen-24, which attempted to over-take her already-fragile mind. After the self-destruction of [[Weapon-X III|Weapon X]] by the host's mind, Aurora was freed from the physical effects of the bacteria, but not without further damage to her fractured mind.

Aurora remained with the renewed [[Alpha Flight]]. She and Langkowski had grown close again, but if they had fully resumed their relationship is unclear. The team aided friend and former colleague [[Wolverine]] in his attempt to infiltrate an AIM[footnote=18]%2$s[/footnote] facility in order to free the original [[Guardian I|Guardian ]]. There, Alpha Flight found and freed fellow former [[Alpha Flight]] member [[Snowbird]][footnote=19]%2$s[/footnote].

After joining her team-mates and [[Wolverine]] in battling the sorcerer Mauvais, Aurora?s mental condition deteriorated then apparently exploded into a full mental breakdown. Langkowski oversaw Aurora?s transport for psychiatric care, but was distracted from the transport by an endangerment to other Alpha members. Without Langkowski?s protection, Aurora was captured by former team-mate and lover [[Wild Child]] as a part of the newly reformed [[Weapon-X Program|Weapon X program]].

During her imprisonment/impressment among the Weapon-X Program, Aurora was attacked by fellow inmate/slave operative [[Sabertooth]]. Sabertooth physically tortured Aurora as a means of psychologically torturing Wild Child. The attack left Aurora severely scarred and seemed to have given Jeanne-Marie dominance in the personality struggle. Seeking protection while recuperating, Jeanne-Marie instigated a romance with the [[Weapon-X Director|Director of Weapon X]]. The relationship was not healthy, and exposed the fragile, fractured psyche to further psychological stress and outright abuse. A new personality, very cold, calculating, and uncaring, seemed to emerge.

When the besieged Weapon-X Program was broken up, Aurora fled with the [[Weapon-X Director|Director]] and her former Alpha Flight teammate [[Box IV|Madison Jeffries]]. The fleeing trio ended their flight in a night-darkened desert(presumably, somewhere in the American Southwest), where the dominant personality (in what seemed most to be either an enraged Jeanne-Marie or the fourth person) beat the [[Weapon-X Director|Director]] for his pattern of abuse and attacks on her. [[Box IV|Madison Jeffries]] tried to stop Aurora from beating his master to death, but she pushed him aside and continued her attack on the Director. The dominant persona inexplicably decided to leave the [[Weapon-X Director|Director]] alive. She abandoned him and Jeffries in the desert.

Jeanne-Marie?s mental state further deteriorated, most like due to both the psychological turmoil of her life since the final disbandment of the Alpha Flight she had worked with and separation from her brother that had lasted for a minimum duration of months and perhaps for up to two years. Neither Northstar nor Langkowski had any clue as to Jeanne-Marie?s location, health or status from the time she had been abducted by Weapon X. The weakest aspect of Jeanne-Marie had returned, and again attempted suicide against the warring personalities, this time by gunshot. This attempt was stopped by The Children, who exploited Jeanne-Marie?s mental vulnerabilities to recruit her into their battle against the [[X-Men]]. The [[Children of the Vault]] had also kidnapped a mentally destabilized Northstar; they boosted the powers of both twins and manipulated or brainwashed the twins into attacking the X-Men. Why the Children chose Northstar and Aurora as their soldiers is not fully revealed; considering the mysteries remaining in the origin and parentage of the twins?and the mysterious deaths of two sets of couples who were parents to one or both of the twins?it can be speculated that the twins may have a connection to the Children?s lost society.

Following the defeat of The Children, Rogue delivered both twins to the [[S.H.I.E.L.D]] helicarrier in an attempt to reverse the multiple layers of brainwashing that each twin had undergone since the disbandment of the version of Alpha Flight on which they had both last served. The process itself did not cure the twins. However, proximity and mutual connection to the same mental-manipulative machinery allowed the twins to again merge their powers. Pooling their powers in this way during the fight between [[Rogue]]?s X-Men and [[Exodus]]? [[Acolytes]] on the SHIELD helicarrier restored the mental states of both twins.

Aurora and Northstar both left the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier in the company of the X-Men. It is unclear how the mental restoration effects the MPD suffered by Jeanne-Marie; judging that most adult memories re-experienced by Jeanne-Marie while connected to S.H.I.E.L.D. machinery were Aurora?s memories, if the duality of Jeanne-Marie?s MPD still exists, Aurora is in current dominance.

Aurora and Northstar both went into private lives of semi-retirement, but both responded with Dazzler to Emma Frost's emergency APB for assistance in defending the X-Men's new base of operations in San Francisco from the Skrull invasion.

Aurora and Northstar responded with Dazzler to Emma Frost's emergency APB for assistance in defending the X-Men's new base of operations in San Francisco from the Skrull invasion. Shortly thereafter, Aurora stood by IGNORED while Cyclops invited Northstar to join the X-Men to fill the X-Men's need for a speedster.

A short time later, Cyclops invited Northstar to join the X-Men. Despite the fact that Aurora also possesses power sets that Cyclops felt the X-Men needed and that she was standing RIGHT THERE when Cyclops invited her brother, Aurora was not invited to join the X-Men, and no one present thought to ask if she would or could.

==Footnotes==
1. Alpha Flight vol.1 #9, 1983
2. Alpha Flight vol.1 #1, 1983
3. Alpha Flight vol.1 #19, 1984
4. This is believed to be an incongruity between writers.
5. Alpha Flight vol.1 #20 - 21, 1984
6. Alpha Flight vol. 1 #50, 1987
7. Alpha Flight vol. 1 #64, 1988. At this point, Walter Langkowski's mind had possession of former teammate Snowbird's body. Possessing the body of a former demigoddess, and using the form of the Great Beast Tanaraq, whom he had shared his original body with, both groups laid claim to him.
8. Alpha Flight vol. 1 #81, 1990. Northstar went missing in Alpha Flight vol. 1 #50, 1987
9. Alpha Flight vol. 1 #95, 1991
10. Alpha Flight vol. 1 #98 - 100, 1991
11. Alpha Flight vol.1 #101, 1991
12. Alpha Flight vol. 1 #104, 1991
13. Alpha Flight vol. 1 #130, 1992
14. X-Factor vol.1 #116, 1995
15. X-Man vol.1 #43, 1998
16. Alpha Flight vol. 2 #9, 1998
17. Alpha Flight vol. 2 #17, 1999. This is the third known person to bear the mantle of Weapon X. The first two were Wolverine, and Garrison Kane, now of Weapon X.
18. Advanced Idea Mechanics
19. Wolverine vol. 2 #142 - 143, 1999

==Powers/Abilities==
Aurora's mutant powers include the ability to utilize the atomic motion within her molecules to propel her body through the air at superhuman speeds. Theoretically, Aurora has the potential to travel at speeds approaching light itself. She has a strong resistance to physical stress and temperature extremes, allowing her to stay unharmed when she utilizes these speeds.

'''Accelerated Metabolism:''' Both Aurora and [[Northstar]] have a boosted metabolism that can be used to heal wounds quickly.[footnote=20]%2$s[/footnote]

[[Image:Aurora_6.jpg|right]]'''Calming Light:''' Aurora has the ability to send out a calming strobe light, that calms the target, inducing feelings, emotions and memories that make them at peace. It has been commented that under the influence, it feels like the target were on Novocain. It is powerful enough to calm the most hard-headed of targets. It can also be used to break telepathic control, as like that seen in a battle did against [[Headlok]].

'''Concussive Blasts:''' Aurora has the ability to send out powerful concussive blasts that has been known to do considerable damage. She has been shown to project these from her body in a series of concussive bursts. At one point, when Aurora was in serious danger, the Jeanne-Marie personality unexpectedly took over and released a large explosion[footnote=21]%2$s[/footnote]. This explosion had killed all people in the vicinity, destroyed buildings and other structures, leaving a large crater in it's wake. Aurora herself was unharmed by this energy release.

'''Durability:''' As a side-effect of partially robbing her molecules of their atomic motion, the binding forces within and between the molecules increase. This enhances the sheer toughness of Aurora's entire body. This effect gives her skin enough durability to withstand the ravages of wind, friction and air turbulence. Due to the alterations by the [[Children of the Vault]], the twins gained superhuman durability. To what extent is yet to be revealed, as noted by Northstar, ?You can?t damage me, [[Rogue]]. The same force that shields me from friction takes the power from your blows?[footnote=22]%2$s[/footnote]

'''Flashbang:''' Originally, while in contact with her brother, the pair could combine their mutant abilities to emit bursts of light. However, after Aurora chose to have her powers altered by [[Sasquatch I|Dr. Walter Langkowski]] to "cloak" her from mutant-detection devices such as Sentinels, she discovered that she could produce light on her own while, touching her brother adversely canceled the ability. It appears that this may have become undone in recent years, returning this ability to its original state.

'''G-Force Compensation:''' Both [[Northstar]] and Aurora have this ability. When the X-Men's aircraft, the [[Blackbird]], was going down, [[Northstar|Northstar's]] super-speed automatically compensated for the G-force difference while, everyone else felt the inertial impact[footnote=23]%2$s[/footnote]. It is presumed that Aurora's ability in this is the same as her brother's.

[[Image:Aurora_7.jpg|left]]'''Lightning:''' As well as having light abilities, Aurora developed the ability to emit lightning blasts.[footnote=24]%2$s[/footnote]

'''Light-Form:''' At one point, Aurora was capable of transforming into a being of pure light, and could shine a calming light out from her that would give people hope. The extent of what this form was capable of was never explained.

'''Pyrokinetics:''' Due to the alterations by the Children of the Vault, the twins gained a new ability by touching hands it generates a massive pryrokinetic attack that destroys the surrounding area and people instantly with it. The full capacity of this attack has yet to be revealed, but it incinerated [[Iceman]]?s body[footnote=25]%2$s[/footnote]

'''Reflexes:''' Aurora has heightened reflexes, to the point of going through an entire apartment complex, checking all the rooms and taking out the survivors in just mere seconds. Her reflexes are far above the average human, but often at times [[Northstar]] and Aurora are shown not to have any at all. It is possible that the twin's reflexes react in direct proportion to the speeds they are currently employing; thus when flying in hypervelocity, they can reaction to barriers they see, but when not employing their speeds such as while standing still, they cannot react to something nay faster than a normal human.

'''Speed:''' Through an act of concentration, Aurora can channel a portion of the kinetic energy of the atomic motion in her body's molecules in a single direction. This can accelerate her body in velocity in direct proportion to the amount of kinetic energy she has tapped. She is theoretically capable of going 99% the speed of light, but is limited, due to she would sustain great damage to herself and the environment if she reached that sort of speed. She can safely go Mach 10 without causing any damage. She also has the ability to accelerate parts of her body, such as punching a target up to a hundred times in a less than a second. Aurora has been shown to dodge multiple lightening bolts at once, zig-zagging between them from an attack by [[Ranark The Ravager]][footnote=26]%2$s[/footnote]. She is even capable of reading at super speed, as shown when [[Northstar]] read a briefing on [[Omerta]] during [[Alpha Flight]]'s [[World Tour]][footnote=27]%2$s[/footnote] . Due to the alterations by the Children of the Vault, the twins gained the ability to tap into their full speed potential. Such as the duo speed blitzed [[White Queen]] faster than 1/100 of a second and Northstar moved the speed of light to alter Cyclops?s optic blast to take out his teammates. They seemed to suffer no damaging effects for reaching this speed[footnote=28]%2$s[/footnote].

'''Speed-up Molecules:''' After the genetic modifications from [[Weapon-X Program|Weapon X]], Aurora could accelerate the molecules within an object by touch, causing the target to tear itself apart from the subsequent stress generated upon it.

'''Strength:''' Due to the alterations by the Children of the Vault, the twins gained superhuman strength, sufficient enough for Northstar to rip open a steel door and Aurora to use her fingers at twice the speed of sound with enough force to pierce even steel. This is partly due to the twins experience by turning momentum into power. Yet using her speed, she is capable of delivering punches that can even hurt the Hulk.

'''Telepathy-Block:''' Due to her multiple personalities it?s almost impossible to read her mind or take control. [[Headlok]] and [[Brain Drain]] have had great difficulty to try to do these feats to no avail. As if she becomes under attack she merely switches the personality and becomes unreadable. She?s ?difficult to control, impossible to predict?dangerous beyond doubt?

==Powers/Abilities Footnotes==
20. Mentioned in the 'Northstar' limited series, 1994.
21. Alpha Flight #109, 1993
22. Uncanny X-Men #393, 2001
23. Alpha Flight #119, 1994
24. Marvel Two-in-One #84, 1982
25. Alpha Flight #108, 1992

==Respect Thread==
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