She’s begging for her mother to give her limits and to actually put an effort into getting to know her. Starfire allowed her daughter to dye her hair, purchased for her or otherwise gave her money to purchase the black uniform, allowed her (or more likely took her) to get her nose pierced, bought her makeup, allowed her to decorate her room with cringy occult symbols, etc. and it’s easy to see how a superhero could be a bad parent – after all, they are out saving the world, not rearing healthy children, who have to somehow stay with somebody at home and are (like most kids born after 1975) abandoned to the public school system.
This can take lots of forms – absentee parenting, abuse, etc. But whose attention is she trying to get?Īt the heart of this auto-allegory is an accusation through the stand-in of Starfire: bad parenting. She wears the standard black, dyes her hair the standard black, has standard body piercings, and wears the standard boots and stockings. Starfire’s daughter represents (I believe) the author’s self-image: She’s fat, unattractive, and puts on a uniform of “noncomformanity” designed to signal how she feels to others. Auto-allegory is about much more than aesthetics, but the aesthetics do in fact have meaning, meanings which authors like this will seldom, if ever, acknowledge.
As an adult, the Treehouse became a regular meeting place for Mar'i and Ibn.I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that she modeled the teenager after herself, probably in multiple ways, as we will see. Cyborg gifted Mar'i the Treehouse, a pocket dimension described as a “little pocket of Tamaranian atmosphere inside an itty-bitty trans-warp singularity,” as a birthday present when she was a child.Starbolts: Mar'i, like her mother, has the power to channel and project solar energy into destructive blasts called "starbolts.".Twenty years after the events of Kingdom Come, she attended Bruce Wayne's funeral in the company of her father, Ibn, and two children: a small boy and teenage girl. After these events, Nightstar worked to help build a metahuman community on the New Oa satellite after the UN gave the metahumans nation status. As a result, they survived the UN's nuclear strike. When her father was attacked by the cyborg 666, she flew him to safety. During this time, she met Ibn al Xu'ffasch, to whom she was attracted. When Superman came out of retirement after the destruction of Kansas, she joined Batman's "Outsiders" team - against the wishes of her father, who joined Superman's Justice League. Her differing ethical philosophy on crimefighting combined with Dick's grief over Kory's death put her in conflict with her father, straining their relationship. She also shares a close relationship with her grandfather, calling him “Grandpa Bruce.” At some point before the events of Kingdom Come, her mother died.Īs Mar’i grew older, she realized that the world she lived in was not the one her parents knew and defended and became the vigilante Nightstar in response. As a result, she was fairly close to her father, considering him her “hero” since childhood. While Mar’i visited her mother on the Tamaranian Outpost outside of the Vega System every summer, she was primarily raised by her father on Earth. When Mar’i was young, she became terrified at the possibility of her parents (and particularly her father) dying.Īt some point in Mar'i's childhood, Dick and Kory broke up and Kory returned to Tamaran to rule alongside her brother Ryand'r. Mar’i was initially raised by both of her parents on Earth with the help of her adoptive grandfather Bruce Wayne and other Titans.
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