Harley Brattain

Ikaros Harley Brattain

In the world of Deja Pascal-one of beauty, hope, and endless perfection-lurked a darkness. The bloody, cold reality of World War II and its unnumbered shattered lives lay just beyond the trees of their home. Death and loss were unreal to her in the blissful isolation of French hillside until the day a black car carrying a man in a black suit arrived. Watching from a hiding place in the woods, Deja looked on hopelessly as her parents were thrown into the back of a Nazi truck. Pallid and weak, her father, Luc, returned two years later. She never saw her mother again. Compounding the loss of her mother and the effect of the camps on her father, Deja lost her closest friend and confidant in college some years later. Deja's spirit broke from loss, and she became depressed, finally culminating in her taking her own life. Despondent and without hope, Luc, a scientist by trade, decided to use his greatest invention, a device he coined, the Spirit Box, to save her soul from death and bring her back to the world as a time-traveling, robotic being suffering for a second chance at a real life, one with meaning and love. Adventuring through ancient Greece, native America, and other fantastical times, she evolved into something more, something greater-a spirit with purpose. The Deja who left the world a saddened young woman came back strong and potent. She came back as Ikaros.