Girl on Fire (Alicia Keys)

NAME/ORIGIN

Character name
 Girl on Fire
Song/Album
 "Girl on Fire"/ Girl on Fire
Act
 Alicia Keys
Writer
 Alicia Keys
Release Date
 2012


ABILITIES

Powers
-Is aflame
"She's on fire" 
-Is immortal (as long as there is an Earth, anyway)
"Longer like a highway" (cf. "The road goes on forever")
-Impervious to fire
"She's walking on fire"
-Sense intense suffering at great distances
"Feeling the catastrophe"
-Flight
"She knows she can fly away"
-Leaves a trail of fire where she walks
"She's got both feet on the ground/ And she's burning it [the ground] down."
Skills
N/A
Attributes
Unknown
Vulnerabilities 
Water, lack of oxygen, whatever would hurt a fire
Formidability
"She's not backing down"
Attractiveness
Very: "Hotter than a fantasy"
"You can try, but you'll never forget her name"
"Everybody stands as she goes by"
Is especially attractive to women: "'Hottest of the hottest,' girls say."
Hard to physically look at: "So bright, she can burn your eyes"
Source
Geothermal energy (speculative)
Goals
"She's gonna let it burn"


POSSESSIONS

Weapons
N/A
Amulets
N/A
Objects
N/A
Clothing
N/A
Vehicles
N/A (can fly)
Dwelling
The crater of an active volcano...
"She's living in a world, and it's on fire"
...on Iceland
"She's on top of the world"
Milieu
House fires, forest fires, war zones-- anywhere engulfed in flames


BIOGRAPHY

Gender
 Female
Age
 "Just a girl," relatively speaking for an immortal; the Earth is young in astronomical terms.
Physique
Is 20,000 feet tall
"She's got both feet on the ground,,, She got her head in the clouds"
Is a fire, although shaped like a girl
"She looks like a girl, but she's a flame"
Ethnicity
Fire elemental
Origin
Earth's molten core (speculative)
Ancestry
Child of Mother Earth
Profession
Firefighter (see Other Notes below)
Education
N/A
SES
N/A
Relationships
None: "Nobody knows that she's a lonely girl/ And it's a lonely world"
Pets
N/A


PERSONALITY

Morality
Good
Intro/extrovert
Introvert
Intelligence
Above average
Emotions
Very high EQ
Sanity
Sane
Enemies
Arsonists, people careless with fire (so, same as Smokey the Bear) 
Narrative Function
Protagonist
Other Notes
Girl on Fire is a sentient flame. She is the child of Mother Earth, born from its molten core and birthed through an Icelandic volcano. When she emerges, she reaches to the sky... and her gigantic form seems distinctly feminine to humans.
When she feels that a major fire has happened, she flies to the scene. By instantly burning off all the combustible material present (including oxygen), she stops the fire by limiting its scope. So rather than making it worse, she literally fights fire with (a stronger) fire-- herself. Yes, the building or patch of forest is completely burned away... but only that place is affected (it was on fire already) and the fire does not spread across a town or forest.
Once people learn her method works, she is lauded and celebrated. She seems so very obviously dangerous-- and she may cause some collateral damage-- but she learns to wait until all humans and animals are evacuated before she touches down.
She can't do anything for floods or tidal waves, which would drown her; if she touched down, the rising steam would be very destructive. As far as  tornadoes, or hurricanes, she can help burn off some clouds preventively, but once these storms start, they would drown her or snuff her out.
She is some use in mitigating the effects of blizzards, like clearing roads, once the storms have stopped. She can somewhat contain volcanic eruptions, and certainly guide the lava away from inhabited areas. In earthquakes, she can help stem the spread of gasoline-leak or natural gas line-leak fires until someone cuts off the supply line for the fuel. And she can help stop oil-rig fires the same way.
For all the good she does, no on can really relate to or communicate with her, so she is lonely. 



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