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Ezequiel Aloíso Endelela Omaandaxa aka Centelha Azul, resident superhero of Luanda, has been having a... complicated go of the superhero gig over the past two years. An only child from a loving family, he grew up admiring superheroes and folk heroes whose legends were inescapable in the troubled times he was born into, and longed to be one some day, to be able to make the world a better place and help people like they did. This wish was granted, but not in the way he had expected.

Like many superheroes, he inherited his powers, which manifested when he was eleven, from a relative. Unlike most, it was from someone he was never aware he was related to, forcing him to confront his family about his real parentage when his superpowers manifested and no one he was aware he was related to had any superhuman abilities. In all of Angola, there was only one other person with the ability to manipulate both light and shadow, a supervillain from twenty years ago who had recently reemerged to take through illicit means what wealth in Luanda was not already controlled by those at the top. The original Centelha was a murderer, a thief, a glorified self-serving assassin and, once upon another time, his mother's best friend. He could have been Ezequiel's father if he could have seen him as more than the successor to his company, the continuation of his legacy, but after a year of trying to connect to him, eventually became clear to Ezequiel that his father's love for him had limits. Unable to convince his father of the error of his ways and cease hurting people, the young photokinetic fought him to a standstill before managing to subdue him so he could be taken into custody. It was the right thing to do. That didn't mean it didn't hurt him to have to do it. He was and is an idealist who believes in the power of change. To see a man who could have been family refuse redemption cut deep, and has left Ezequiel increasingly somber and heavy-hearted. This is not how things were supposed to happen.

While no statement was ever made to the press regarding the second Centelha's parentage, everyone could put the age gap and the identical powerset together to know that somehow, the good and righteous Centelha that fights for the people and against corruption is the son of the cold and brutal one that helped cover it up for thirty years, though thankfully no one ever put together their civilian identities. Public perception to him has been mixed, ranging from enthusiastic to suspicious, but Ezequiel has to persist out of his own twisted sense of moral obligation. The weight of everything his father has ever done to hurt others presses down upon him, drives him to be a better person, in the hopes that he can make amends for it all. All he has ever wanted is to be a good person, to make his parents - his real parents, those that raised him - proud, to be someone who left the world better than he found it. Combine this with his perfectionist complex and a determination that could move mountains, and he's just as devoted to everything out of the mask as he is in it; whether it's schoolwork or soccer, when he's into something it becomes an all-consuming endeavor.

Of course, he's also fourteen and therefore not a very good judge of what he should and should not get into, both in regular life (just ask his best friends about his terrible taste in girls) or in his superhero life (just ask his parents about his inability to leave anything to the proper authorities). He may be good at maintaining an air of outward calm, but he's just as human as anyone else, much to his frustration. Attempting to be a good person and rise above the less savory instincts he's inherited from his father has left him often fumbling on how to act, what to say and what to do. It's not the pressure of being a superhero that's getting to him, it's the fear of becoming a supervillain. And to conquer that fear, he feels he must be nothing short of a perfect superhero, for the sake of his conscience.