Fleur-de-Lis

Noelle Avril, known as Fleur-de-Lis, was a French covert operative who served with Département Gamma before becoming one of France’s representatives among the Global Guardians. During her time with the team, she was sent against the forces of Dr. Klaus Cornelius and Krieg, whose organization had kidnapped chemist Jeremiah Duncan. Noelle infiltrated their operation, freed Duncan, and destroyed the research facility responsible for holding him.

After the Global Guardians lost their headquarters, Noelle returned to independent work and later became involved with French intelligence again. She joined Deathstroke and André Chavard in pursuing Count Jacques Tavolara, the Tuxedo, a criminal tied personally to both of them. Tavolara had previously left Noelle for dead and caused the loss of her unborn child, giving the mission a personal weight beyond her professional assignment. She later served briefly with the Ultramarine Corps, where Gorilla Grodd’s mental manipulation temporarily turned several members of the team against their allies.

Appearance: Fleur-de-Lis has medium warm-brown skin and a compact, athletic build with broad shoulders, a defined waist, strong thighs, and a solid muscular frame beneath her armor. Her eyes are blue beneath straight pale brows. Her hair is bright white, cut into a short layered bob that curves around the sides of her head and ends just below the ears, with thick uneven bangs swept across the forehead. She wears a fitted dark slate-gray armored bodysuit with segmented paneling across the chest, abdomen, arms, and legs. A muted red fleur-de-lis emblem is centered high on the chest, while large crimson shoulder plates cover both shoulders and carry darker decorative markings. A gray harness crosses diagonally over the upper torso and connects into circular reinforced fittings near the shoulder, while the abdomen is protected by overlapping rigid plates secured with rows of small fasteners.

Her waist is wrapped by a dark utility belt with a rectangular central buckle, attached pouches, and additional straps extending around the hips and upper thighs. The legs are covered in heavily reinforced gray tactical armor, including large angular thigh panels, articulated knee guards, and layered sections following the calves. Her forearms are wrapped in ribbed gray protective material beneath fitted dark gloves, with additional armor around the wrists and elbows.

Personality: Noelle is disciplined, pragmatic, and accustomed to operating without public recognition. Her intelligence background makes her comfortable with infiltration and lethal danger, while her years working independently leave her resistant to depending heavily on a team. She maintains professional control even when missions become personal, though the history surrounding Tavolara demonstrates that she does not easily forget betrayal or violence committed against her.

Deathstroke is a former lover and later operational ally, with their shared history complicating the missions that bring them back together. André Chavard is an important connection within French intelligence and works alongside her through Département Gamma. Tuxedo is one of her most personal enemies because of the injuries and loss he inflicted upon her. The Global Guardians provide Noelle with her most prominent superhero affiliation, while the Ultramarine Corps later gives her another place among international operatives and heroes.

Fleur-de-Lis possesses extensive cybernetic enhancement that grants her enhanced strength, durability, stamina, and reflexes. Her augmentations allow her to fight at a superhuman level, and she has held her own against Midnighter in prolonged close combat. She remains an expert martial artist and covert operative whose fighting style combines those enhancements with extensive weapons training.

She is highly skilled with firearms and throwing weapons, carrying compact ranged weapons alongside blades that can be thrown accurately during combat. Her augmented reflexes make those weapons considerably more dangerous, allowing her to transition rapidly between gunfire, thrown attacks, and hand-to-hand combat rather than relying on a single weapon.