Faora Hu-Ul

"A good death is its own reward."

- Faora to Nathan Hardy. Faora is General Zod's Sub-Commander/second-in-command of the Sword of Rao. Faora was a student under the teachings of Lyta-Zod and she invented the killing Kryptonian marital art technique Horu-Kanu.

She became a war criminal for siding with Zod and Lyta's rebellion to turn on the High Council of Krypton, prior to its destruction, however the rebellion failed and her, along with Zod, Lyta and the war criminal Kryptonians were imprisoned on the Black Zero and sent to the Phantom Zone for eternity.

When Krypton exploded, Faora was freed. Her fellow Kryptonians prepared for 33 years. Among those years, Faora and the Kryptonians underwent a cryostatis process to retain their youth and later discover a distress beacon coming from Earth, where the Scout Ship laid dormant until Claire activated it.

Upon arrival to Earth, Faora takes a personal interest the naturally born Kryptonian, Claire Kent and attempts to convince her to join, though Claire reclines, but is seduced by Faora and the latter takes a personal interest in Lois Lane as well. Claire manages to convince Faora that she can decide for herself and feel emotions, thus Faora betrays her people and falls in love in Claire and Lois as she takes residents on Earth.

Physical Appearance
Faora is a gorgeous athletic woman with short black hair and blue eyes. Her usual attire is her Kryptonian skin suit in the color scheme black and wears Kryptonian Battle Armor over it with a black cape attached and is built in with its own visor and Breather. During her time on Earth, she lets her hair grow at a neck length, but makes sure it stays short and she grew accustom to wearing casual human clothes.

Personality
Like all Kryptonians, Faora was genetically engineered through the Genesis Chamber and had her role to Krypton's society selected for her, thus during her growth development, he mind was wired to think, behave, and act as a soldier, leaving no room for free will, she has has a hard time developing a different lifestyle than the one she only knows since growing up.

Faora appears as an apathetic individual, who is very cold, ruthless, sadistic, and malevolent, though this was not always as originally Faora was a curious, but somewhat emotionless young girl, who got along with her sister, Vala. She loved her younger sister during their time growing on Krypton's military guild, however, that day changed when during on a mission against another alien race, Faora experienced the worst pain as she lost her sister, thus that sealed her emotions away and became the cold warrior she is present until she meets Claire.

Faora has a weak viewpoint towards species that are not Kryptonians as she along with every Kryptonian see anything non-Kryptonian as barbaric and pathetic race. She already didn't like humans due to being fragile and weak, though she has only made a few exceptions to the likes of Lois Lane and Bruce Wayne. When Claire was going through humanity's hate against her, Faora's viewpoint dropped further and she grew to despise humans as how ungrateful they were being for the help they were given by Superwoman, making her lose respect for them except for Lois and other exceptions.

When she is around Claire and gets to know her, she begins to return to her original state, prior to her sister's death and allow Faora to develop the ability of free will by turning against Zod and her mentor, Alia-Zod. She shows emotions during Krypton's destruction and affection for Claire and Lois. She mourned when Claire met her end by Doomsday's hand.

Powers

 * Kryptonian Physiology: Due to growing on Krypton's harsh environment and gravity, Faora's bone structure are much stronger than a typical human, thus even on a Red Star, she will be stronger than a human, however, when under a yellow star, her cells will absorb the solar radiation and gain immense physical attributes and abilities, though coming to Earth, she did not breath Earth's atmosphere to gain the full set of abilities until she adapted. Faora is strong as other typical Kryptonians, though she falls short among those such as Claire and Kara as they have been exposed to Earth's sun for years, so Faora makes up for her lack of power with her highly military skills.
 * Solar Radiation Absorption: Faora's powers are dependent on the solar radiation (energy spectrum) of a yellow star to fuel her powers and abilities. Her body is metabolizing the yellow solar radiation to convert it into a vastly superior amount of energy to fuel her tremendous level of abilities, meaning her body is like a nuclear fusion that powers a star, like hydrogen converted into helium. The longer Faora lives and her body absorbs solar radiation, the stronger she will grow. Due to only being recently exposed to a yellow star, Faora is not on the same level as Claire or Kara, so she needs time to ever reach their level but makes up for it with her combat skills.
 * Superhuman Strength: Superwoman possesses immense levels of superhuman strength that is virtually incalculable and limitless as she can carry, lift, and exerts very millions tons of force, possibly billions tons of force.
 * Invulnerability: Faora's body is virtually indestructible, allowing her to withstand all forms of harsh conditions and punishment from conventional weaponry, explosives, or metahuman attacks. During the invasion on Earth, Faora withstood massive explosions, exposure to both temperature extremes, falls from great heights, high-caliber bullets, anti-tank depleted uranium rounds, Maverick missiles, plasma bolts from Kryptonian weaponry, and Superwoman's heat vision. The only thing capable of getting through Faora's invulnerability were immensely powerful individuals such as Kryptonians, magic, or Kryptonite.
 * Regenerative Healing Factor: Thanks to exposure under a yellow star, her body heals at a constant accelerating rate. Any wounds she suffers can be instantly healed from yellow star exposure as during the night when there is no sun, her body will not quickly heal as it does around daytime.
 * Superhuman Speed: Faora can run and react at hypersonic speed. During the battle in Smallville, she was able to outmaneuver Claire and take down multiple American soldiers within seconds and before they could react.
 * Flight: Faora can move against her own gravitational field as Earth's weaker gravity allows her to propel at hypersonic speeds and even going beyond the planet' atmosphere. She can travel at Mach speeds to break the sound barrier.
 * Superhuman Stamina: As long as she remains exposed under a yellow star, Faora will not suffer fatigue or never grow tired.
 * Superhuman Vision: Faora's vision possesses superhuman eyesight that consist a range variety of sensory capabilities such as telescopic, infrared, ultraviolet, X-Ray, and gamma-ray visual that allow her to see the entire electromagnetic spectrum. As she was once younger, her senses were overwhelming until she mastered them. She cannot see through objects built based on lead or Kryptonian metal.
 * Heat Vision: Using the solar energy stored within her cells and solar reserves, Faora can emit beams of intense heat from her eyes, manifested as two laser-beams of fiery energy. These beams can be made less intense and work undetected. The intense heat from these beams can metal through durable objects such as steel, thick layers of ice, or even Kryptonian metal.
 * X-Ray Vision: By focusing her vision, Faora can see through objects or people, passing by layers of matter to see their insides. Only known material that prevent her from seeing through are lead and Kryptonian metal.
 * Superhuman Hearing: Faora is able to hear at low or high frequencies, allowing her to pick up on numerous sounds such as the voices of people, heartbeats, including infra/ultra-sounds. She can hear sounds at far distances, letting her know where to detect danger or know someone in need of rescue. When her Breather was broken, she was unable to handle all her senses at once abut after adapting to Earth's Atmosphere, she could smell just fine.

Abilities

 * Gifted Intelligence: While she didn't have the intelligence on the level of Zod, Lyta-Zod, Jax-Ur, or Jor-El, she is still quite intelligent as she can use Kryptonian technology and understand the mechanisms, even a few technology that not even Claire is aware of, despite having studied the Kryptonian archive. Faora is genetically engineered to become a soldier, so her military knowledge in terms of leadership, intimidation, and skills are outstanding.
 * Expert Leader: Faora's fears in the past have placed her as Zod's Second-in-Command/Sub-Commander. She will act as Zod and Alia's right hand in managing the other cadets if none of the two are available. During the Kryptonian Civil War, she lead troops against the Sapphire Guard on Krypton and other alien races successfully.
 * Multilingualism: Faora is native to her world's language and help taught Claire how to speak Kryptonese. Upon arrival to Earth, she learnt to speak English fluently.
 * Master Combatant: Faora has trained her entire life to become a soldier. She was trained under Lyta-Zod, who acted as her teacher. Faora was infamous on Krypton's military and she was responsible for creating the Kryptonian martial arts technique, Horu-Kanu. Many Kryptonians feared her and becuase she was Alia's successor, she was known as the Tigress of Zod.
 * Indomitable Willpower: Trained as a soldier for all her life, Faora has great discipline, determination, and willpower that boost her ability as a formidable fighter. When she was expose to Earth's atmosphere, she manage to endure the pain of her overwhelming senses to mock Claire that she would see to it that millions of humans would perish. In order to betray Zod and Lyta, she needed to gain access to her full powers so Faora adapted to Earth's atmosphere in seconds.

Weaknesses

 * Kryptonite: Kryptonite is a xenomineral that can weaken or kill Faora from long exposure. There are some varieties that can affect her.
 * Red Star: If under a planet near a red star than a yellow star, her body will absorb the solar radiation, causing her to lose her immense physical attributes and other abilities, making her weak at a human level.
 * Earth's Atmosphere (formerly): Apparently while Earth's atmosphere can grant the rest of Faora abilities and full power, her body cannot handle all the senses at once and it too strong, which is why she wears a Breather, but it restricts her from using flight, superhuman senses or her full power. After betraying her collegues, she adapted to the atmosphere in just a matter of seconds from her harsh training back on Krypton to work through the pain and is able to breath Earth's atmosphere just fine and use all of her powers.
 * Magic: Mystical objects, weapons, or individuals whose powers are based in magic can harm Faora as the mystical properties disrupt the the wavelength of the invisible force field surrounding her body that grants her invulnerability.
 * Lead: Faora cannot see through objects based off of lead.

Equipment

 * Battle Armor: Apart of the Kryptonian Warrior Guild, Faora wears Kryptonian battle armor over her skin suit, along with a black cape. It is extremely durable to all forms of human weaponry as it withstood explosions, bullets, and punches from Kryptonians under a yellow star. It also has its own Breather.
 * Combat Knife: Faora carries a traditional Kryptonian Knife that is durable and sharp to not exactly hurt Kryptonian skin but hair or facial hair. It can harm metahumans greatly.

Claire Kent
Upon meeting Claire or as she refers to her by her Kryptonian name, Kala-El, Faora was quick to take a personal interest and from Claire's perspective, Faora studied her very thoroughly. At first Faora is very straight-forward and flirty with Claire, even during their fight in Smallville as Faora had no qualms in getting too physical, for Claire's sake. Later when they met again as Faora attempted to plead her into joining her race, Claire turned down and through an exchange conversation of believing Faora is capable of feeling emotions, Faora revealed what pushed her to become fearsome and cold soldier as she lost her sister. She told the truth, something which she's never said to anyone except to Lyta.

This makes her interest in Claire interesting as Claire brings out something inside her she never thought she was capable of feeling. Faora did try to reel Claire, even going far as to seducing her, while Lois was watching. After their session, Faora's feelings for Claire grew and left her confused, creating a conflict with how she views her Kryptonian colleagues and the genocide of Earth as the death of humans would emotionally hurt Claire. Because of her doubt and pleading to her superiors to spare Earth, this cause her to be turned against her comrades and locked in a cell, but Faora manage to escape and help Claire in saving the Earth.

Her love for Claire goes far as to having to fight her mentor, Lyta and kill her, something that hurts her, but not much as how it would hurt Claire to see everyone she loves dies. Faora understood that Claire killing Zod was necessary. At the end, she was glad Claire realized her feelings for her and Lois, thus the three were in a relationship, sharing each other. Faora had a hard time learning her new emotions and free will but with Claire and Lois's help, she learned.