Stella D'Argento

Chiara d’Angelo loved to wish on the stars as a little girl, and studied them as she grew older, with her telescope as her most prized possession and stories of astronomers like Galileo and Cassini in mind. It was no surprise to her family that Chiara chose to attend university to study astronomy and astrophysics.
Watching meteor showers was a favorite summer pastime, but Chiara was thrilled when she actually witnessed a small meteorite impact in the countryside nearby! Rushing to investigate, she found more than she expected: the glowing “star fragment” imbued her with its silvery-white light and vanished. Chiara almost chalked the strange experience up to a dream until she discovered she somehow possessed light-generating powers!
When a political protest at the university turned violent, she used her powers to help, and established herself as Stella d’Argento, the Silver Star, sometimes called the “Star of Italy” in the press. The masked “Stella” is the darling of the Italian media and, thus far, no one suspects bookish and bispecaled Chiara d’Angelo is the glamorous, glowing heroine.