I was not satisfied with Hyperia's first costume, so I decided to redesign it yet again. This is the third version of her costume- but I think this time it'll stick!

HYPERIA

A New Orleans native, Angelique de Montsalvat became a public figure during the mid 1920s as part of the emergent group of 'Mystery Men' who took it upon themselves to combat crime. In her early twenties, Montsalvat moved to Chicago where she operated under the name of Eos as part of a trio of heroines known collectively as The Furies: Eos, Miss Fury and The Woman In Red. Gifted with above-human strength and the ability to generate blinding beams of light (the source of those powers never revealed to the public,) Eos was always the strongest of the Furies. Eos was also one of the more radical member of the team due tor her desire to not only take down the gangsters who were profiting from the black market created by Prohibition, but also her refusal to uphold Prohibition itself.

The Furies were instrumental to the fall of Capone's empire and the death of the gangster himself- a victim of asphyxia resulting from a rigged fire in one of his warehouses, a trap intended to kill the Furies. Once Capone's ring was dismantled, the Furies disbanded and returned to their regular lives.

When World War II broke out, Eos was disturbed by the pacifist movement brewing stateside which kept the United States from interfering in the conflict. Without the backing of the furies, Montsalvat could not garner public support in favor of intervention due to the prejudice against her as a black woman.

Montsalvat arranged to travel to France, where she worked as a member of the Resistance, often paired up with musician-turned-agent Josephine Baker while the chanteuse worked as an ambulance driver for the Resistance. Throughout this period, Montsalvat demonstrated an exponential growth in her powers, which eventually attracted the attention of the Red Sparrow Unit- a team of Mystery Men and Women assembled by the Allies and who recruited Montsalvat into their fold for a critical mission against a hidden Axis facility. Montsalvat left the Prosper resistance network for the Red Sparrows in July- later that month the majority of the members of the French Resistance network were captured, with the sole exception of Noor Inayat Khan, codenamed 'Madeleine.'

The assault on the hidden German facility was successful, though costly: The Red Sparrows effectively shut down the facility, but not before the head of research -Lydia Armbrüster- attempted to activate the Dämmerung, a prototype superweapon capable of phasing everything in a twenty-mile radius into some sort of 'phantom dimension.' Eos commanded the rest of the team to evacuate while she attempted to stop the weapon and Armbrüster. Against all odds, Eos was capable of containing the destruction- the entire facility disappeared, but the rest of the area and the Sparrows were left untouched. The Reich's war progress was checked and refocused into other research venues.

After the war, Eos was recognized as a heroine of war among many others. In 1951, Josephine Baker traveled to New Orleans in order to meet with Marie de Montsalvat, Angelique's mother, and deliver firsthand the letters and journals that Eos had kept while as a member of the Resistance but which were never sent for reasons of secrecy- rather, they were entrusted to Josephine to hide before Angelique departed for the Red Sparrows. These documents ranged from letters to her mother in which she candidly disclosed her horror at how far men could fall into insanity, to essays on the nature of freedom and equality. This collection of documents was published, among the works of many other authors, during the turbulent times of Civil Rights movement under the title "The Dawn Will Come."

Eventually Eos became part of popular culture, as a distant historical figure, a heroine and an inspiration, grown larger than life the further away in time she remained.

And then, on New Year's eve of 2002, sightings were reported of a woman who appeared to be identical to Eos- going by the name of Hyperia. Claiming to be, indeed, the long-lost superwoman, her powers were many times greater than those that Eos herself had exhibited towards the end. For the past thirteen years Hyperia has worked tirelessly in the modern world as a founding member of the New Furies and also the philanthropic Montsalvat Foundation, claiming that she no longer saw a need to maintain a secret identity.
Most people have accepted that Eos has returned, but there is a loud number of people who question the likelihood of such an occurrence- and who are suspicious about the fact that she refuses to discuss where she was for the last seventy years- and why she hasn't aged at all.