Lampito (Champion)

Lampito, originally from Sparta, now fights for New Colchis.

Origin: Natural
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary Powers: Martial Arts
Secondary Powers: Shields
Other Powers: Flight, Fitness

Lampito, born in Sparta, moved to New Colchis after the Peloponnesian War. She belongs to Orion's Hammer.

Biography

Since leaving Sparta, where she was instrumental in ending the war, she has been sent as an envoy to Paragon City, where she offers Paragon women instruction in the ancient martial art of pankration.

Battlecry

• Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς

("With it, or on it.")

Inspiration

Lampito originated in the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes:

Greek

Λυσιστράτη

ὦ φιλτάτη Λάκαινα χαῖρε Λαμπιτοῖ.
οἷον τὸ κάλλος γλυκυτάτη σου φαίνεται.
ὡς δ᾽ εὐχροεῖς, ὡς δὲ σφριγᾷ τὸ σῶμά σου.
κἂν ταῦρον ἄγχοις.

Λαμπιτῶ

μάλα γ᾽ οἰῶ ναὶ τὼ σιώ·
γυμνάδδομαι γὰρ καὶ ποτὶ πυγὰν ἅλλομαι.

Καλονίκη

ὡς δὴ καλὸν τὸ χρῆμα τιτθίων ἔχεις.

Λαμπιτῶ

περ ἱερεῖόν τοί μ᾽ ὑποψαλάσσετε.

English

LYSISTRATA

Welcome Lampito!
Dear Spartan girl with a delightful face,
Washed with the rosy spring, how fresh you look
In the easy stride of your sleek slenderness,
Why you could strangle a bull!

LAMPITO

I think I could.
It's frae exercise and kicking high behint.

LYSISTRATA

What lovely breasts to own!

LAMPITO

Oo ... your fingers
Assess them, ye tickler, wi' such tender chucks
I feel as if I were an altar-victim.