Firecracker

[Full name: Misty Tucker Gray [Codename:

• Firecracker (current)
• Sparkler (formerly) [Alias: Gun Show Freak [Gender: Female [Species: Supe [Age: Late 20s to Early 30s [Ethnicity: Caucasian-American [Occupation: Former Child Pageant Contestant, Former Camp Counselor, Superheroine, Member of The Seven, Author, Social Media Influencer, Podcaster, Actress, Documentary Filmmaker, News Anchor for Vought News Network/Political Commentator

[Appearance: Firecracker is a woman in her 30s with a beautiful, somewhat flirtatious face and a somewhat noticeable resemblance to Valorie Curry. She has a beautiful, well-defined face with prominent cheekbones and blue eyes, along with full, shapely lips, dark lipstick, and red hair styled in delicate waves that reach her shoulders. Firecracker has a large bust, approximately a D cup, with a full figure and strong shoulders. Her corset-like waist creates a dramatic contrast to her hips, giving her a curvaceous, wide-legged and toned physique with thick thighs. Despite her defined curves, her arms and legs show slight muscle definition; she's somewhat plump and curvy. She has typical Caucasian skin and stands 5'6" tall. Firecracker wears a form-fitting Super Suit in red, blue, and gray. The inner bodice is blue camouflage with a front zipper. The outer vest is red and gray with a high collar. The shorts are also blue camouflage. The outfit revealed a clear cleavage, emphasizing her sexy physique, and featured predominantly American flag colors to reinforce her image as a patriotic hero. She also wore red fishnet gloves and silver arm guards on each forearm. A black belt with a silver metal buckle bearing the American symbol was worn. A black holster was attached to her right leg. [Nude appearance: Firecracker has large, D-cup breasts that are voluptuous and big with dark brown nipples, a hairless vagina, and a large, thick butt.

[Powers from Compound V:

1. Sparkle Generation: She is able to generate sparks by snapping her fingers.

2. Superhuman Strength: Like most Supes she has superhuman strength making her stronger than humans and some Supes, as shown when she manages to fight superhumanly strong Supes like Kimiko.

3. Superhuman Durability: Like most Supes she has superhuman durability making her more durable than humans and some supes, as shown when she resists Kimiko's superhuman attacks and blows and can also withstand being thrown through a wall. She was able to withstand a beating from Starlight who has great super strength.

4. Regenerative Healing Factor: Firecracker has a healing factor that allows her to recover faster compared to ordinary humans as shown when she recovers in just one day from the injuries Starlight caused.

5. Superhuman Hearing: Firecracker possesses superhuman hearing, allowing her to hear better than humans. Like all Supes, she can hear higher frequencies that humans cannot. [Skills: Charisma, Manipulation, Gunmanship, Social influencing, Oratory expertise

[Goals: Ruin Starlight's reputation as revenge for humiliating her during her childhood and Seduce Homelander and gain his favor (both succeded), Kill The Boys and Assist Homelander and Sister Sage with their plans (both ongoing)

[Crimes: Mass murder, Terrorism, Conspiracy, Fraud Death threats, Aiding and abetting, Incrimination, Slander, Assault, Corruption, Propaganda, Pedophilia, Statutory rape, Torture

[Type of Villain: Vengeful Propagandist

[Information: In her youth, she was the young heroine known as Sparkler and was a part of the same Christian Supe pageants as Starlight. After the former spread indecent rumors about her, her reputation was permanently ruined, leading her down into a darker path. Since then, she became a redneck alt-right online conspiracy theorist who amassed a large cult following, and eventually was recruited into the Seven by Sister Sage for her charisma, influence, and her hostile relationship with Starlight herself. She is portrayed by Valorie Curry, who also played Emma Hill in The Following.

[Personality: Misty Tucker Gray, better known by her superhero name, Firecracker by Firecracker's personality is based on the southern hillbilly stereotype: extremely racist, transphobic, homophobic, judgmental, and hypocritical. While she admits to not believing the more outlandish conspiracies she propagates, she is still incredibly intolerant (calling Sister Sage "one of the good ones," clearly implying a bigoted view on African Americans). She seems indifferent to her audience at best—and disgusted at worst—since she views them only as props to advance her own reputation and success. She also is irrationally petty, vindictive, immature, and vile. While her adolescent past in which Starlight orchestrated a cruel bullying and false allegation of sexual misconduct against her does result in an understandable level of grudge, her execution of vengeance far exceeds the original crime; Starlight did the wrong thing as a child pressured by her overly competitive mother, and didn't realize the consequences of her actions, whereas adult Firecracker is free from external input and does realize the consequences and is in fact aiming towards them, hoping to destroy her childhood rival's entire life. She relentlessly spews endless false accusations of drug peddling, thievery, fraud, child prostitution, murder, and money laundering; then, from access to Vought resources, she publicly exposed Starlight's abortion, not only forcing an emotionally devastating event into public scrutiny, but also recontextualizing it as evidence of her being a "baby-killer." All of which she does will malicious glee, and zero empathy. Her spiteful attitude is emphasized when Starlight tries to apologize for her past misdeeds, as she not only rejects the attempts, she counters with an insistence about her aims to destroy her life. Despite proclaiming strong Christian values, it is apparent that it is merely a smokescreen that she uses to not just ensnare a fundamentalist audience, but also excuse any wrong she may have committed, such as refusing to take responsibility for her statutory rape of a teenage boy, as she deceptively yet successfully frames it as some sort of noble trial that Jesus Christ sent (the irony of this crime is that she was once falsely accused of undertaking it, except as a willing victim). She may be attracted to Homelander because of his power, or may be just aiming to increase her portfolio; regardless, another hypocrisy as she condemns sex outside of marriage, yet hopes to seduce Homelander, thus she betrays her own cited morals if it can help her gain clout. Her superpowers thus far are either weak or hidden; either way, whenever danger confronts her, she immediately falls into cowardice, and desperately tries to escape. When engaging in violence, she relies entirely on firearms, which reinforced the likelihood that her powers are ineffectual. She seems to be adept at flaring up the emotions of her extremist audience, as well as provoking emotional breakdowns in her targets. However, it seems like her arrogance or unexceptional intellect can make her underestimate how extreme the reactions in her victims will be, because when Starlight finally confronted her, she seemed shocked upon receiving a brutal beating. Even though she is horribly racist and cruel, Firecracker does appear to hold one redeeming quality, which is an aversion to actual violence and murder. When Homelander brutally split Webweaver's torso in half, she was visibly distressed and horrified, which is notable since she is typically enthralled by Homelander, believing him to be infallible, and yet she didn't appear to agree with his murdering. Arguably, she could be okay with death, but she is only unable to be witness of it when it is particularly gruesome.

[Biography:

1. Early life Just like every other Supe, Firecracker's parents allowed her to be subjected to a dose of Compound V by Vought-International just after her birth, which granted her the ability to generate sparks, as well as enhanced strength and durability. She comes from a very poor family, which didn't even have a backyard for her to practice her routines for the Supe Pageants. In spite of this, she was extremely talented and worked hard to beat her peers for the next 3 years, to no avail. One of these peers was none other than Starlight. In one of these pageants, she had made it into the finals, where she would face off with Starlight. Unfortunately, just before the event, Annie spread the rumor that the only reason why someone like her made it this far into the competition was because she had been bribing the judges with sexual favors, despite her only being 13 at the time. When she confronted her about the rumor, Starlight only insulted her further, calling her a fat slut and refusing to talk to her. Obviously, a rumor of such gravity wouldn't die down just like that, so it kept tormenting her until she was forced to drop out the pageant circuit altogether. It is because of this rumor that she decides to antagonize Starlight and her followers, accusing them of sodomizing children, paralleling Starlight's claims about her.

2. Truthbomb with Firecracker It is later revealed that when she was 28 years old, she worked for the Christian-Supe movement, Capes with Christ, where she would meet a 15-year-old boy and eventually have intimate relationships with him, which would be recorded by an unknown party. Years later, she would start an YouTube channel named "Truthbomb with Firecracker", where she would spew out conspiracy theories and flat-out lies to her public to give them "purpose" in their miserable life, to the point of becoming a leading voice in the "Alt-Supe" internet movement. Though it's hinted that she doesn't truly believe in most of the things she says and that she's only saying them to appeal to her followers and for revenge, she doesn't seem to care, instead enjoying telling them the "truth" as she puts it. In her time as an online personality, she would meet and befriend a like-minded fellow Supe by the alias of Splinter, who saw her as an obsession and as a love interest, which she selectively elects to ignore.

3. The Seven She was eventually recruited by Sister Sage to join the Seven.

[Weaknesses

• Psychological

1. Inflated Ego: She displays an arrogant overconfidence in her personal skills and abilities that far exceeds her own capacities. As demonstrated while she was fighting The Boys with Splinter after getting ambushed before gaining the upper hand, when she stops in middle of it to record a livestream after The Boys's members had been knocked down, getting distracted enough to allow Billy Butcher to get the jump on her before knocking her out. Due to becoming Homelander's new "favourite", she became even more excessively smug and condescending towards others than she was before, she also seems to irrationally overestimate her personal value and worth to Homelander, as she missed the facts that his attitude remained fairly hostile and dismissive away from feedings, and his utter disgust at her coughing displayed a little contempt and disregard for her. Also, while Sister Sage set her up by arranging a fundraising telethon event, that she would host, to provoke Starlight enough to trigger a physical confrontation, Firecracker failed to understand that she was being set up or to expect that Starlight would actually try to attack or hurt her.

2. Biological

• Brute Force/Limited Durability: Despite being more durable than humans, Firecracker can still be stunned, knocked unconscious, and killed by extreme force. Butcher knocks her unconscious by hitting her in the head with a crowbar. After outing Annie January's abortion live on TV, an enraged Starlight was shown easily beating her to a pulp with every punch Annie threw at her, making Firecracker bleed, and she would've been killed if Annie went even further with her punches if not for Mother's Milk's intervention.

• Anesthetics: Regardless of Firecracker's status as a Supe, anesthetics can still affect her and render her unconscious. At Tek Knight's manor, Annie injected Firecracker with an anesthetic, causing her to fall unconscious immediately.

• Lack of Combat Expertise: Firecracker has little to no combat abilities beyond basic marksmanship, as when Kimiko easily overpowered her during their fight and was forced to run away from The Boys when Splinter died. She also had no defense against Starlight when she violently lashed out on her for revealing Starlight's abortion on live TV.

• Worsening Health: Firecracker has started suffering medical side effects from the artificial cocktail of breastmilk lactation medication she has been taking in order to produce milk to breastfeed or pump the milk into bottles for Homelander, including enlarged heart palpitations, coughing fits and shortness of breath.

• High Frequencies: Due to being a Supe, Firecracker is susceptible to high frequencies. When a high frequency is playing, it can induce immense pain and temporarily neutralize her.

[Equipment: Super Suit, Glock 43