Element Lad/Reboot
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Biography
Trom
Jan's father Tarn Arrah was the leader of Trom, which had been discovered by RJ Brande some time ago. Tarn was the creator of tarnium, the element which was needed to create Stargates. Only Tarn and Jan were adept enough to create this element.
Tarn and his wife Garra were negotiating with the United Planets for membership when a squad of White Triangle Daxamites came and used their heat vision to destroy Trom. They had feared that the the transmutation powers of the people of Trom would allow the United Planets to become unbeatable.
Luckily, Jan and RJ Brande had managed to get off-planet in time, though they could do little else but watch helplessly while Trom was destroyed.
Disintegrate
Jan and RJ made it to Earth in time for Jan to create the tarnium needed to open a Stargate and transport the invading Daxamites to a red sun planet. Cosmic Boy invited him to join the Legion for his efforts, but President Chu blocked his induction. Jan then returned to Trom to transmute each Trommite's remains into a crystal monuement.
It was while he was doing this that he was attacked and captured by President Chu into attacking the Legion. Jan attacked the Time Institute and later fought the Legion at Gallan; he would have killed them all if Shrinking Violet had not been able to shrink some air molecules along with her to keep her from suffocating. She defeated Jan, who was brought to egion HQ for treatment. While there, a psi-scan revealed that he had been brainwashed; unfortunately, Chu had planted false evidence suggesting that Winema Wazzo was the one who had brainwashed him, and that he had seen a Sun Eater in space. This was actually a trap whereby Chu intended to force the Legion to work alongisde the Fatal Five, only for the Five to turn on them and kill them.
Legion
Luckily, Cosmic Boy and Invisible Kid had anticipated this and Jan was recruited into the Legion Rescue squad by Live Wure. The Squad was able to save the Legionnaires and stop the Fatal Five; Jan went on to help the Legion expose Chu's plot and undo all her actions. He also saved Leviathan by transmuting the Persuader's atomic axe into cheese spread.
Jan was inducted into the Legion immediately thereafter, though he would go on a leave of absence soon to finish his task of creating memorials for his people on Trom.
When Violet used the Emerald Eye to grant every Legionnaires' wishes, Jan's was to be invited by his parents to join them on their "journey" to the afterlife. Luckily, Saturn Girl sensed Jan's suicidal thoughts and was able to intervene before Jan seriously considered killing himself.
Transmutation
When the Legion encountered Mordru, they were able to keep him off-balance at first. Unfortunately, mordru was able to adjust to the attack and he defeated the Legion and turned Element Lad into crystal. In that form, Jan's seemed to be a lifeless husk until he woke up some time after. However, he was still immobile and could not control his powers. He was forced to sit out the Legion's battle against Mordru, until he was finally able to reassert control. He and Sister Andromeda joined the battle in time for Jan to seal Mordru's prison.
From then on, Jan was able to change his own body into various elements; however, he had trouble changing other objects unless he had transmuted himself first. These constant changes made him even more "spacey" then before, and he was constantly appearing absent-minded. One instance was when he was transmuting a wooden beam into an explosive mixture during a training exercise, which caused an explosion - but he had neglected to warn the other Legionnaires and hadn't even thought of doing so.
However, Jan proved to maintain his normal intelligence during a battle with the Composite Man, when he came up with the strategy of encasing the Composite Man in inertron and transmuting his air into knockout gas. Jan had acutely judged that the Composite Man hated his fellow Durlans so much that he would not use his native Durlan shapeshifting powers, which would have allowed him to escape from the prison easily. Instead, he tried using his acquired strength to break free, which only served to allow him to hyperventilate.
It was also during this period that Jan developed a close friendship with Monstress, even kissing her hand on Summer World. He also transmuted her green skin into orange skin, an act which caused Monstress to chastise him, but their friendship remained, of course.
Time blurs
In the Great Rift Disaster, Element Lad, Kid Quantum and Drake Burroghs were tasked with sealing the Rift itself. They were successful, but Drake's containment suit was destroyed and Jan, KQ2, and half the Outpost and those inside it were pulled into the Rift.
Thrown outside the material universe, Jan sealed his teammates in pure Green Tromium to protect them. He spent months calculating, longhand as the computers and clocks of the Outpost had ceased to function, how to get them back into the universe proper. Eventually, he succeeded. After a fashion.
He became separated as they crossed the barrier, and while they emerged displaced only in space from their origin point, thrown into a "Second Galaxy", he landed in the same place... billions of years earlier.
Transmutating himself into Green Tromium, he drifted for a long time. Eventually, he landed on a planet, and there, disappointed at the lack of life, began to "help it along"...
Progenitor
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Powers and abilites
Element Lad could alter the atomic structure of matter. This ability was most often displayed by Jan turning (or transmuting) one element into another, though he could also trnasmute multiple elements at a time to create mixtures. After his transformation by Mordru, he could also transform himself into other substances, and found it easier to "transmute" other substances by doing so.
After several billion years of practice, as the Progenitor, he could manipulate matter incredibly finely and on huge scales.
