Longshadow

Tye Longshadow is an Apache teenager who, until recently, lived in El Paso with his mother, Shelly, and her boyfriend Maurice Bodaway. He's friends with Jaime Reyes.

Longshadow is a Native American of Apache ancestry, with the power to grow giant-sized. He a member of the Justice League.

Background
Tye lived in El Paso with his mother, Shelly, and her boyfriend Maurice Bodaway. He and his mother's boyfriend never got along with each other. The both of them would get into shouting matches with each other. Tye ran away from home often, normally after one of these fights but always came back after a few hours or a day. That is until the day when he and Maurice argument went pass just shouting. The two got into a brawl the two ended up rolling around on the floor and Tye gets the upper hand. He ends up chocking out Maurice. After the Tye runs away for real. He took the bus to Houston, and called his friend to meet him. His friend tries to convince him to return home but Tye refuse. Finally his friend convinces him to meet him at statue of Cochise near the bus depot. On the way he is knocked out and carried away. When he awakes he strap to a table with others teens in the same situation. His capture is Grodd, Tye is terrified by the huge ape and more so the fact he can speak. Grodd does experiments on him and the other teens trying to activate his meta gene. After a few weeks of this the Justice League discovers Grodds plot. After a battle the League saves the teens though the damage is done all of them now have active meta genes and powers. The League decides to take the teens to Star Labs where they can learn their powers safety and can be monitor. The teens stayed at Star Labs for a few months learning how to use their powers but Tye grows uneasy about being cooped up in the lab all the time. He convinced the others that this is no better than being in Grodds lab. The teens use their powers to escape Star Labs causing damage of the building knocking out the power. The teens make their way to bus station. Each of the other teens call their families and plan to return to their homes but not Tye he did not want to go home, one of the other teens said he can go home with him. The teens wait around for the buses to take them back to their home towns. Tye falls asleep on a bench while waiting. They were not there long before Star Labs sends a taskforce to retrieve the teens, because of the damage and the powers the taskforce were armored and armed with none lethal stun lasers. The Teens took the taskforce the wrong way and fought back against them. It is then still asleep Tye powers flare up and for the first time his astral form grows to giant size. He rips off the roof of the bus station and collects his friends fleeing the taskforce. After fleeing the taskforce members of the Justice League found them and talked to them. They convince the teens to return to Star Labs. The Teens stay at Star Labs for about a year learning to control their powers. Tye was the first to leave returning home to his mother and Maurice. Life was pretty normal for him now at home, it doesn't hurt he can bigger and stronger then Maurice. Though he grows restless and decides to travel a while. He kept finding ways to use his powers to help people. He then is approached by the League and asked to join. He agrees to it. He became a hero among god like men.

Personality
Honor: He has a strong sense of honor and what is right and wrong. He lives by his own moral code, a driving force in his life that leads him to protect others from danger and the evils of other people. He cannot stand by when he sees injustice being done or others being hurt. This also leads to him stepping in to protect others. Moody: He is far from captain sunshine when it comes to personality. He always seems to be on the grumpy side though in truth that just how he is. He shows little emotion to others and sometimes this cause him to come off as cold or angry. Untrusting: He has issues with trusting people in charge more so those in charge of him. If he put someplace for his own good he wants to leave it. He can follow orders but will question the orders the whole time.