Alison Blaire

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Alison Blaire

Portrayed By

Blake Lively

Age

Gender

Female

Affiliation

None

Race

Mutant

Type

Daughter of rock legend Katherine Blaire, Alison performs as the masked incognito singer, The Dazzler. She spent her teenage years in London, but after her mother's death by suicide or overdose, she's relocated to New York, where she hopes to start over.

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Biography

Powers

Light Powers <Overview>

Biography

Birthday: November 6, 1991
Position: Celebutante
Fame: Famous mother, life lived in tabloids
Family: Katherine Blaire, mother (deceased); Carter Blaire, father (estranged); The Evil Stepmother

Background

Alison Blaire, only child of Carter and Katherine Blaire, was born on Long Island, New York. Even from the time of her birth, her life was far from normal.

Her mother was the lead singer for the 90s hard rock band, Knob. They'd enjoyed some moderate success early on, and in the year after her arrival in the world, even managed to hit number one on two occasions. They spent the next seven years wavering somewhere in the Billboard Top 100.

During their heyday, the band all got stupidly rich. Alison lived in a huge house, went to the most prestigious private school in the area, and spent her holidays travelling around with her parents on tour. There were parties at least once a week, and a natural performer, Alison always managed to be the apple of everyone's eye. It was the life of a rock princess, and she loved every minute of it.

Of course, what goes up must come down… Fame hadn't been easy on the band. These were blue collar kids who had just hit it lucky and they really weren't prepared for the strain and stress of being rich and famous. Drugs, drinking and driving, bad relationships, affairs… and her mother seemed the worst for attracting attention. As Alison grew, she found her family splashed about the pages of the tabloids, learning about her parents' crumbling marriage and her mother's affair with her piano teacher when a classmate gloatingly showed her the candid vacation shots in US Weekly.

When their basist ODed and died, it tore the band apart. Alison, who had known all the members almost as members of the family, was devastated. Meanwhile, the rest of the band was having some real issues with her mother's spotty mental health: manic depressive, she could be driven and ruthless, or utterly apathetic and flaky. And when it came to the public, she loved the spotlight and it loved her. She was the beautiful and charismatic lead singer, and the press and public just gravitated towards her, or so she said. It didn't matter, the band fell apart after several serious fights.

Her mother fell into a funk, started drinking heavily and spent more time off at their manor in England, working on one failed vanity project after another. Her father, who had always disapproved of the wild rock and roll lifestyle (as much as it was Katherine's wild ways that attracted him in the first place) and unable to deal with more of Katherine's bullshit, took the ten year old Alison and relocated to Arizona, filing for divorce. Katherine, too busy sulking in England, didn't contest it and offered healthy alimony and child support in exchange for open visitation rights.

Her dad remarried not six months later. The woman was, in Alison's opinion, a complete bitch. She didn't really seem to like having Ali around, though she played at being happy family when Carter was in the room. Since she was stable, and seemed to make Carter happy which got him off Ali's case, Alison kept her mouth shut about how her step-mother treated her the rest of the time.

School was going okay at least. She wasn't the strongest student, but she managed to make passable grades, and her GPA was pulled up by her music marks. On her teacher's insistence she signed up for the talent show, and it was during this performance that her powers first manifested. Just as she was reaching the bridge of the song, she got so focussed in the music that her body suddenly released a brilliant flash of light, blinding everyone in the room except for her. The school wrote it off to a glitch in the electrical system, but Ali was left to wonder… And a bit of experimenting confirmed her fears: she was a mutant.

In secret awe, Alison began to play more with her powers and was fairly quick to discover that she could create colours and patterns. One day when she was lying in her bed in her darkened room, listening to her favourite CD of the day and making a little light show on the ceiling, her stepmother walked in; her music at top volume, she hadn't heard the woman hollering to turn it down. There was no A/V equipment here, and in the dark room, it was just too obvious the source of this strange light. With mutants making headlines at the time, her stepmother freaked out and started screaming at her, disowning her, and Alison wasn't holding it together much better: accidentally (she insists!) blinding the woman temporarily in a flash of white light. A few days later after they'd both calmed down enough to talk, they struck a deal: Alison would leave to live with her mother and her father would never need to find out he had a freak for a daughter. Ali sort of expected her father to put up more of a fuss, but once Carter and Katherine had hashed out what this would do to the child support payments, Alison was sent off on a chartered flight.

Her mom was doing much better, balancing her mental illness with drug therapy. More stable now, she had managed to get started with a solo singing career in Europe and Japan, though she'd yet to break into the Top Forty in the US. But she was making a lot of money off of more than just royalties again, and she and her darling daughter lived the good life. Mom put her in a posh alternative school with some philosophy about fostering learning by allowing the child to grow at her own rate. Ali took this to mean she could blow off school whenever she wanted, which turned out to be quite often. It's hard to get too excited about Calculus when you were up until 3 am hosting a rager with your mom's manager.

Luckily for her, the school had a focus on the arts, and her music marks were enough to get her through with a GPA that got her into the music program at King's College London (and her mom's name and money may have helped a little there as well).

Her first few years were a complete wash, lost in a fog of drinking, sex, drugs and rock and roll. After a close call involving a long night in the ER and a stomach pump, she was involuntarily put in rehab and spent the summer break fighting her demons (full coverage on page 9 of the Mirror).

Upon release, she calmed down and actually managed to do pretty well in her last two years of schooling, though she never did have much patience for the theory and classical lessons. She was a true rock star's daughter, with a love of the stage. The music department's own productions were a little tame for her taste and she had to be careful about using her powers too openly since the A/V department would begin to notice something. Really, she knew that she shouldn't use her powers at all in public performance, but her inner diva could not be denied. Her gift was too special not to share with the world.

So she began looking into open mic nights and even managed to book a few tiny little venues, just coffee houses and pubs who liked to be able to advertise live music. She took the stage name Dazzler, not wanting to attract the negative publicity that her mother's name might carry, plus it seemed a little safer if she ever was caught in using her powers. Being the spitting image of her mother, she also took to wearing a kitschy disco-inpired costume and a blue mask that covered only her eyes and then flared out along the sides of her face.

And it was a blast. She got her B. Mus. and started performing in various venues around town. For the first time in awhile, it felt like things were really falling into place. Which is, of course, when they fell apart. On October 31, 2015, Katherine Blaire was found dead in her countryside manor. Alison was the lucky one to find her. The debate still rages in the remaining fan forums whether it was an accidental overdose or suicide. Even Alison isn't entirely sure which it was.

Not that she afforded herself very much time to think about it. Dazzler disappeared from the stage and Alison went into seclusion. A few months later, after getting her mother's estate in order, she boarded a plane to the US. Wanting some time away from the paparazzi and reputation the Blaire family enjoyed in the UK, she decided to go and spend some time in New York.

The whole thing left Alison with a few life lessons. For one, cliche though it may be, life is short. She is now determined to live her dream and become a star - but to do it her own way. Someone in the depth of her very blonde head is a crazy idea of outing her alter ego as a mutant. Of course, she needs to build up a fan base first.

Powers

Light Powers <Overview>

Alison's power is such that she can turn sound waves into differing types of lights. Ordinarily, this light will manifest itself in regular bursts of plain white light containing all the colours of the spectrum. However, with varying degrees of concentration, Alison can alter the colour, brightness, direction, and duration.

It takes only minimal concentration to change the colour of her lights and to turn them into small, simple patterns. She can makes these dance and very finely control their direction as long as they're kept at the usual brightness. Increasing the brightness is the most taxing of her abilities and to make a light brighter than a 200W incadescent bulb requires at least half her concentration (meaning she can continue singing OR some minimal fighting).

Her power defaults to 'off' so that she has to consciously will it to happen. There's a minimum threshold for the volume of the sound she can use as well: about the level of a human voice in speech for smaller effects, and raised in a shout or song for her larger effects. While she can use any source of sound to the same end (the noise of a car crash or a symphony of equal duration are the same as far as her powers are concerned), she prefers to use music as the familiarity and rhythm makes it easier for her to focus her powers. There is no limit to the amount of sound she can absorb and release as light.

Blinding Strobe

Alison can, with great effort, produce a blaze of light that is several thousand watts and capable of blinding people temporarily. Currently, she is only able to make the blast of light last for three seconds and then must rest for at least ten minutes before she can use it again. If she pushes herself, she can bring it up to five seconds but she will be too exhausted to use her powers again for the next hour and may even risk passing out.

The effects of looking directly at her during this power use will blind a normal person for about sixty times as long as the duration of the look (so looking at it for one second blinds a person for about a minute). People with heightened senses may find this increases, depending on their sensitivity to light.

Equilibrium Upset

With great focus, Alison can create a confusing and chaotic pattern of flashing and wildly moving lights that will upset the balance of anyone looking upon it. She can keep this up for about five minutes provided her focus isn't broken in that time. Balance is usually restored within a few seconds of her turning off the power or the victim having the wherewithal to close his eyes.

Entrancing

She has also learned how to use these patterns to put people into a trance or a dazed state. Depending on their level of suggestibility, they may go completely into the trance or they may just suddenly find themselves sluggish and unable to move quickly. Alison can keep this up for ten minutes provided her focus isn't broken and the person doesn't close his eyes. However, under the effects of this entrancing power, it may be hard for him to think or be able to close them. The effects of the trance fade within ten seconds once the light source is gone.

Self-Protection

Part of Alison's mutation protects her eyes and ears so that her own powers and outside sources don't hurt her. She cannot be blinded by light or deafened by loud noises, regardless of the source. Even extremely loud noises do not cause her discomfort or have any negative side effects for her.

Logs

2016/01/23: BeDazzled	alison brooklyn hotwire lorna
2016/01/11 - Mommies Dearest	alison emma
2016/01/06 - Dance With Me	alison scott
2016/01/03 - Moving In	alex alison
2016/01/02 - Just Add Milk	alison scott
2016/01/02 - Celebutantes and Slave Trade	alison jubilee
2016/01/01 - Serendipitous	alison scott
2016/01/01 - NYE in NYC	alison scott
2016/01/01 - Angel of the Morning	alison scott

Storylines

List of events character has been part of.

Watch For

Her mother's fame and her habit of ending up in British tabloids making her a little bit infamous.
Her utter inability to actually deal with reality.
Her astounding addictive personality.
Her dislike of the press and gossip.
The fact that she still has not yet allowed herself to deal with her mother's death.
That she is going to try to launch a career as the masked singer, Dazzler.

Quotes

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate." - Emily Dickinson

Set List

Thank You For the Music by ABBA

Thank you for the music, // The songs I'm singing. // Thanks for all the joy // They're bringing. // Who can live without it, // I ask in all honesty. // What would life be? // Without a song or a dance, // What are we? // So I say thank you for the music, // For giving it to me.

Celebrity Skin by Hole

You want a part of me? // Well, I'm not selling cheap. // No, I'm not selling cheap.

Club Thing by Yoav

And one thing's for sure, one thing's for certain // That if you get behind the velvet curtain, // You'll see, there nothing's as sweet as it looks on my TV.

Smoke Baby by Hawksley Workman

And I have never felt // Quite this close to hell. // All this rock and roll baby, // Only time will tell. // But we're young now, having fun now, // On the town now, Get around now. // It's fine for now, // But someday we'll settle down. // But not now, baby.