Argent

Argent is an international superheroine and honorary member of the Teen Titans.

Background
Argent was born in London under the name Antonia Louise Monetti, though she preferred going by her nickname “Toni”. She had a very strained relationship with her parents growing up, since they heavily disapproved of her goth like interests and rebellious habits. However, during an accident, Toni was exposed to a strange form of energy which left her with the power to fly and manipulate energy from her hands. Running away from home, Toni became a superheroine under the name of Argent. She traveled across the world, mostly in commonwealth countries, fighting crime and saving lives. This earned her a high reputation among other superheroes.

Personality
Before becoming Argent, Toni was a goth loving and tomboyish girl. She had a rebellious attitude and had a strained relationship with her parents because of their disapproval to her interests and behavior. She also disliked her birth name of Antonia, always wanted to be addressed by her nickname Toni. Despite this, she had strong morales and desire to do right. Immediately after gaining her powers, she decided to use them for the good of others and became an international superheroine dedicated to protecting innocent people.

After becoming Argent, she became much more responsible, serious, and committed into her new role. Argent maintains a calm and composed disposition in her role as a superheroine, bordering on stoic. She is rarely phased by surprises and tries to show off an image of professionalism when she fighting villains or saving lives. But despite her seemingly distant and loner lifestyle, she is by no means anti-social as she gladly accepts help from others and will work alongside other heroes without fault when the situation arises. After joining the Teen Titans she forms close bonds with her teammates bordering on familial.

A possible explanation for Argent’s rebellious attitude and habits may have been that she secretly felt like she did not feel comfortable with being just an ordinary girl, feeling as though she did not truly belong to the lot of society she was born into. By acquiring superpowers and becoming a traveling heroine, Argent was able to finally gain the freedom she wanted and thus sought to do good with her freedom as well.

Calling all Titans
Argent‘s travels eventually take her to New Zealand, where uses her powers to repair a dam in the middle of a large canyon. While repairing the dam, Argent is met by the Teen Titan member Starfire. Starfire inquires about Argent’s identity making sure she is indeed the young heroine. While she does confirm this, Argent calmly asks Starfire who she is as well. After Starfire introduces herself, Argent asks her if she is a Teen Titans member. Starfire answers yes for which Argent stoically states her catchphrase of “cool” before attempting to finish fixing the dam. Starfire happily offers her assistance in repairing it, which Argent accepts when the dam increasingly falls apart. While assisting the fellow super-heroine, Starfire warns Argent about the Brotherhood of Evil and provides Argent with a Teen Titans’ communicator to use incase she is ever in need of assistance. Argent accepts the communicator and is thus officially made an honorary member of the Teen Titans. She also takes a particular fondness to the communicator since it is partially black; her favorite color.

With her mission complete, Starfire leaves to rejoin her teammate, while Argent finishes repairs on the dam. However, after she is finished, she is confronted by the Brotherhood of Evil’s leading strategist, General Immortus. Initially, Argent believes him to be alone and prepares herself for battle. However, she is caught off guard when he reveals he has brought an entire legion of robot soldiers; equipped with jetpacks and heavy blasters. Knowing she is outmatched, she retreats with the robots pursuing her. During the battle, the robots destroy part of the dam as Argent attempts to fly away. She contacts Robin with her communicator and asks for assistance. Starfire heads back to assist her but will not be there for some time. In the meantime, Argent’s attempt to escape is cutoff by General Immortus, who personally tries to attack her with his hovercraft. She manages to knock him back using her powers, but his soldiers attack forcing Argent to fly away. As she is relentlessly pursued and shot at by the attacking robots, Argent uses her powers to defend herself. As the battle rages she manages to destroy half of Immortus’s robots. However, while one squad of the robots concentrate their fire on Argent directly, which force her to form a large shield to defend herself, another sneaks up behind her and blast her. She is instantly knocked unconscious, but before she can fall into the running water below, one of the robots catches her and takes her prisoner. With the battle won, Immortus and his surviving robots return to the Brotherhood‘s secret headquarters in Paris. After Robin is captured and brought to the base, the Brain presents to him some of the multiple honorary Titans he has captured. Argent is among them, being shown to Robin unconscious as one of her robot kidnappers carries the insensate girl over its shoulder.

Like with the other captured Titans, Argent was was flashed-frozen in a tube by Professor Chen and his scientists, and then displayed with her comrades on the Brotherhood’s “trophy case” at their secret base in Paris, France. Fortunately, however, the Titans that managed to escape the Brotherhood’s onslaught attacked the base. During the ensuing battle, Argent and the others were unfrozen by Mas y Menos, whereafter they promptly joined the fight. During the battle, Argent fought and defeated Johnny Rancid. Following the battle she  joined all the other Titans in Jump City to arrest Dr. Light before going to back to England.

Sometime following her return home, Argent joined the newly formed Titans North, under the leadership of Red Star.