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This is the forum designated to working out my character Vademel. Here I'll be discussing/debating her abilities and the like with anyone who feel they should be involved.

As is Vademel is a member of an alien race who are best described as warlike and simple.
The planet they reside on is mostly swamp with deep bogs, ponds and rivers and with little sunlight. Because of the high water content on the planet the species is amphibious, possessing gills that allow them to breathe in water as well as on land, eye films , and long powerful tails to propel them through the water.
This race is physically imposing, resembling a cross between lizards and humans , and wield terrifying strength and durability once they reach past their adolescent stage, reaching near kryptonian levels if they live long enough. They also posses the ability to absorb or consume various types of energy including but not limited to electric, solar, and light (though magic energy is thus far out of the picture.) doing this increases their already imposing physical abilities and absorbing enough energy allows them to release a concentrated beam of it from their mouths.

The desire to have as much energy as possible, and thus be the strongest of their kind, drives this race to find as many sources of energy as they can. Many of them build homes and villages around points of the earth that generate small amounts of geo-energy, resulting in in one of the few semblances of civilization they posses . They frequently squabble and fight over these spots , each aiming to absorb as much energy as they can, however the highest known point on their planet to them, a mountain known as Bright Rock in what passes for their language, is almost constantly bathed in sunlight and consequently is the best source of energy known to the species.
Bright Rock is the most contested piece of land to this race as the one who owns the spot is indisputably the strongest.


On to Vaddy Specifically.
Since her species absorbs energy to fuel their abilities, and she lives on a planet where energy is nearly constantly available no matter where you go , she's naturally going to be very powerful.

The solution to this is a simple inhibitor collar, a device that essentially tells her brain to limit her strength. This is going to be a necessity at the beginning when she's an adolescent since you don't want an alien baby that can crush a pickup with her tail throwing a full powered tantrum, but after she goes through her metamorphosis/ maturity cycle , she'll insist on wearing it.
This will be due a great deal because she is afraid of being shunned by the only planet she knows as home.

As one of her kind raised on earth by humans she knows for a fact that she is different from anyone else on the planet . She's seen how the media presents aliens and unknown entities in the media (namely in movies and games) , almost always as malevolent and powerful forces of nature capable of decimating an entire population with ease. She fears this is how the world sees her and more so fears how the people will react if she loses control of her abilities and kills someone.
She'd rather limit her immense power to be accepted , rather than use it to be a conqueror like she would be on her planet

At the moment I'm not focusing on the race's preferences so much as their physiology which brings me to your last couple of questions.
Energy doesnt really sustain her like godzilla and raditation, it's more like sunlight to a kryptonian, it kind of just makes her stronger
She doesn't necessarily absorb energy in the way you described,. It would have to be something external like the aforementioned solar energy or electrical. If she came in contact with the speed force she wouldn't so much embody it so much as just consume the energy from it. Though if she did that I think that would slow down nearby speedsters but then again I don't know much about them beyond the Flash tv program.


Her actual back story is still in the works but right now the best idea I have is that her egg was scooped up by a rover or probe exploring her planet or maybe there was an expedition to it and the egg got picked up. Bottom line her being on earth is completely accidental.
As for her inhibitor, she'd be brought up in captivity since unlike superman she can't exactly blend in, and she's a thus far unknown species to humans so experimentation and limitation would be necessary in order to get close and study, as well as keep her from blasting holes through walls every time she throws a tantrum.
Maybe S.T.A.R or Palmer would take her in to give her more of a nurturing but kind of isolated upbringing

As far as the nurturing bit, well you don't raise a dog with abuse and neglect, that's how you get something wild, untamed and overall just unpleasant.
Raise something the right way and you get something strong and loyal, like one of those K9 unit animals....I used to work with dogs a lot , that's where this analogy is coming from.
Besides based on what I've seen from S.T.A.R they don't usually treat living entities terribly. Except on the Flash show, they kept superpowered bad guys in what was basically a private supermax. But anyway, I'm not sure they'd treat an extraterrestrial that shows intelligence, which she does have (just not oodles and oodles of it) as just an object to be shaped into a weapon of war. After her abilities start to develop, even then though they take time and actually increase as she gets older.

Which brings me to another point about Vaddy and one of the questions of her physiology.
Her race has a sort of life cycle that is separated by metamorphosis of sorts.
They start off small, pale and relatively weak (though she could still crush someone with her tail if she really wanted to), this is going to be called Vaddy White for easy reference.
After a year on the home planet the young leave the environment where they're laid to seek out their families and spend four or five years developing. Learning to fight and hunt more effectively , that kind of thing. During this time they're absorbing energy and when they've gotten enough they find the nearest source of energy and make a kind of cocoon that they stay in for several days until they break out , more human looking and sporting scales.

This is essentially the young adult form I will call Vaddy Black (because her scales are black) . It's at this point she's developed more both physically and mentally. She can process language around her, absorb more energy and actually hold her own if she needs to.
She'll also experience a massive burst of hormones as she's driven by the desire to breed and I'm hoping this will take her on a brief rampage, the aftermath of which causes her to realize she's dangerous and will have her request to have the inhibitor on at all times.

If she gets past this point she can grow into her Chieftain form which is where she'd be comparable to kryptonians at her base level, but she wouldn't necessarily need the inhibitor since she'd be more developed and know how to limit herself.

This process is going to take years in RP time and if S.T.A.R wants to weaponize her thy'd need to wait until she's at least in her Black stage. Though they could analyze her ability to fire raw energy from her mouth but at an adolescent it'd be too weak to get a lot of mileage out of given the fact that there's other heroes who could fire more powerful attacks with a cough