Lord Grallyx (The Demon and the Butterfly)
One universe's version of Lord Grallyx was a demonic “Salamander Lord of the Elemental Court” from the dawn of time. After a billion years trapped inside a sun, he was actually summoned to the 775th Universe by Laura Drake, who teamed up with Jenny to stop him.
Description
Physical appearance
At full power, Grallyx appeared as as a huge, flying, fluid, flaming silhouette of a six-limbed reptile with six eyes and a forked tail; the core of his body was red, with his eyes glowing yellow and an aura of flame of that same colour shrouding him. After his fire was burned away, however, he was reduced to his true organic form of a small green lizard, still with six legs, six eyes and a forked tail, wearing a very tiny golden crown. In this form, he could walk on all six (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly) or stand on his hind legs. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A)
Personality
Grallyx was arrogant to the point of cockiness, secure in his supposed invulnerability and his superiority to flammable mortals. He was seemingly motivated by a sheer love of destruction and mayhem, (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly) though his destructive drive may also have been born out of vengefulness to a degree, as he most resented the Disciples of Golden Light for putting an end to the Time of Legends and sealing all the powerful early-universe beings like him away “like dust under a carpet”. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A)
Powers & abilities
Grallyx was ostensibly immortal, having survived a billion years at the heart of a sun. As a Salamander Lord, he could summon and control fire, including to bulk up his tiny organic form into a building-sized, flying creature of pure fire who could effortlessly lay waste to a countryside. However, this fire was still normal fire, liable to be snuffed out with ordinary water, and once completely extinguished, Grallyx was powerless to set himself back aflame, or to otherwise defend himself from being placed in an ordinary tank. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly)
Biography
Origins
In his home universe, Lord Grallyx was originally a Salamander Lord of the Elemental Court in the “Time of Legends”, a time early in cosmic history when many other powerful beings like him roamed the universe. Eventually, however, a faction or people known as the Disciples of Golden Light declared that the Time of Legends was over and they had to clear the deck to allow for mortals to have their turn. Among many others, they thus overpowered Grallyx, (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A) sealing him into the heart of a sun, hopefully forever. He spent a billion years there, waiting for his chance and plotting vengeance. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly)
Summoned to Mystepolia
In the 775th Universe, scientist Laura Drake, who, by that point, was dating Jenny, developed a device called the Triangular Bisector, intended to open a small portal to the heart of an alien sun in another dimension and safely funnel powers from it. It wasn't designed to allow physical beings to travel between the dimensions, and Laura did not realise that this was possible, as Grallyx, waiting for his chance, did not make a move until Laura organised an official demo at the Museum. Then, at last, Grallyx pushed his way through, damaging the Bisector in the process. After mockingly thanking Laura, he broke out through the roof and flew out towards the countryside outside the city, beginning to lay waste to it despite the Mystepolian army's best efforts to stop him. Meanwhile, however, Jenny climbed onto the stage, helping to steady Laura, who was spiraling into irrational guilt. After calming her down, Jenny tried to use the Bisector again to summon the Disciples of Golden Light so they could trap Grallyx again, but it backfired and she received a blast of shifter energy which briefly knocked her out. However, she quickly woke up, newly-infused with the energy, which allowed her to start shifting objects from other universes into her grasp.
Jenny and Laura chased after Grallyx in Laura's Bubblecopter, whereupon they got Grallyx's attention and Jenny used a great discharge of shifter energy to summon a huge amount of water atop Grallyx, which doused him and extinguished his fire, leaving only a small and very confused lizard whom they carried back to their apartment and placed in a tank. Some time later, they went over the event back in Laura's room, with Laura explaining that the news coverage of the incident had actually gotten her more investors to further develop her invention, and also pointing out that they had received thanks from the soldier whom Grallyx had been about to kill when Laura and Jenny swept in. Jenny continued to claim to Laura that her powers had completely faded after the large discharge of energy she used to defeat Grallyx, which was secretly not the case. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly)
While work on repairing the Triangular Bisector was ongoing, Laura resumed “playing” with an old, more rudimentary invention: the Interdimensional Ham Radio. She started to get messages from “interdimensional busybodies” who'd apparently been watching her and Jenny, and agreed to answer their questions to keep them talking, also talking Jenny and Jimmy into answering any questions directed at them. One of the “busybodies” asked to speak to Grallyx, who agreed to answer, expounding upon his backstory. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A)
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