Moonbeam/Sunlight

Moonbeam/Sunlight was a Death Comedian turned head mafioso of the notorious gang known as The Solstice. He single handedly brought The Solstice up from a small time gang to a threatening super power.

Early Life
Moonbeam/Sunlight was born on December 21st, 1914 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was an unwanted child to an abusive father and a prostitute mother. He was born at exactly midnight on December 21st. His mother would only see him during the day, and when she went to work the streets his dad would take care of him. This is the product of his two names as they would each call him Moonbeam or Sunlight, depending on the time of the day they had him.

This carried over to his daily routine and any members of The Solstice caught calling him by the incorrect name were promptly murdered. In 1926 his father had sex with a different prostitute resulting in the birth of his half-brother Bill. Moonbeam who was only 12 at the time promised to give his brother the care he never had as a child.

Moonbeam's passion was stand up comedy, but he found his jokes to be too intelligent for the audience and never made it anywhere. This wasn't until he drew a gun onstage and killed two hecklers during a show, after that everyone started laughing.

This caught the attention of Equinox, the then leader of The Solstice, who called a meeting with Moonbeam. Equinox offered Moonbeam a position in The Solstice and in 1942 Moonbeam joined.

In the Solstice
Moonbeam worked as a cleaner for The Solstice in his early days and revelled in the money that he was making. He called upon Bill to help The Solstice too and Equinox welcomed him in with open arms. He saw some promotion within his ranks but knew he could always do more within The Solstice. After many years doing menial jobs for Equinox Moonbeam sought for some more power. It was then that he made a plan with Bill to take over The Solstice. In 1955 they formed a concise plan, but couldn't put it into effect for another year.

Moonbeam's whole plan involved as little blood spilt on his own hands as possible. This was where he decided to use Bill, the much more combat smart brother, to do the murdering. He decided that his first target was Equinox's right hand man Damien Night. Moonbeam told Bill on a job dealing with a small Italian mob to give away their attacking location and then shoot down Damien himself. The Italians would believe they killed their target and Bill could slip out the way they came in.

Equinox quickly found out from the autopsy report that Damien was shot in the back and ordered ruthless mercenary Volodya Yermolai to eliminate Bill. Moonbeam heard this and tried to intervene. Moonbeam pleaded with Volodya to not kill Bill, but Volodya said he would always get his target. Knowing he couldn't defeat Volodya in combat Moonbeam had to come up with a different plan to save his brother.

Moonbeam knew about Equinox's prized position-- a mask with healing powers that was even able to bring people back from the dead. Moonbeam broke into Equinox's mansion and stole the mask for himself. He hurried home to find Bill dead and horribly mutilated but used the mask to bring his brother back to life. When Bill was conscious he asked what happened and Moonbeam told him Equinox had to pay.

Bill, completely blind but extremely powerful from the mask, and Moonbeam headed into Equinox's house. Bill gunned down Equinox and as he bled out he tried to crawl for his mask. When he opened the vault and found the mask gone Moonbeam approached him wearing the mask and laughing. Equinox begged for his life but Moonbeam just responded by stabbing Equinox in the throat until he died. It was then, in 1956, that Moonbeam became the head of The Solstice.

The Solstice against DHQ
In the initial years after Moonbeam's control, he took his psychotic tendacies and brought them over the entirety of The Solstice. Mafia related deaths skyrocketed and Moonbeam began to pay off cops and lawyers to look the other way. A few years after getting bored of all the crime, Moonbeam's attention was put into a more national perspective. He used the mask of his to siphon power into his then wife Maddie Kenny as a sadistic experiment. In the end Maddie lost free thought and was turned into a calculated killing machine. Moonbeam gave her the alias 'The Tropic of Cancer' and used her as his personal assassin.

As a result of Moonbeam being much more judicial with his mask use The Guild was able to track him down as the owner. In 1967 Moonbeam responded by getting his men to place a car bomb in The Guild's leader's car. After this The Solstice found a new enemy in Dangerusque Headquarters.