Nia Nal (Earth-38)

"I'm different, Miss Danvers, but so is everybody. And I don't know when that became such a bad thing. The greatest gift we can give each other is our authentic selves and sharing that. Sharing our truth is what will make us strong."

- Nia Nal to Kara Danvers

Nia Nal was a Human-Naltorian hybrid, a reporter of CatCo Worldwide Media, and former political speechwriter. She was also the daughter of Paul Nal and the late Isabel Nal, the younger sister of Maeve Nal, and the girlfriend of Querl Dox.

After her mother's death, She embraced her powers and became the superheroine known as Dreamer to assist Supergirl in the battle against the Children of Liberty, eventually joining the Superfriends.

Biography
Nia Nal was born on Earth to Paul and Isabel Nal, a human father and Naltorian mother. She has an older sister, named Maeve Nal. Nia was raised in Parthas, a community where aliens and humans peacefully coexisted. Although bearing a rigid emotional attachment to Parthas that imprinted her there, Nia desired a life outside of the domain she grew up in.

While born physically a boy, at a young age, Nia realized she was really a girl. Her family offered their unconditional love and support during this time. While she struggled against intolerance and hate-fueled attacks, including being denied service at establishments, Parthas' acceptance towards those who are different nonetheless allowed Nia to flourish as a transgender girl. As a result, she developed a penchant for justice and a strong desire to help and protect others who faced similar prejudice due to their identities. When she was 15, Nia once broke her nose during a game of kickball.

Powers
Human-Naltorian hybrid physiology: Nia is a human-naltorian hybrid, as her alien powers are accessible to one woman of each generation from her home planet, Naltor, and were (apparently) common enough that Nia understood what was happening when her powers unexpectedly started to manifest.

Abilities
Expert hand-to-hand combatant: With Nia's precognitive powers, she has displayed the beginning signs of an unpolished yet skilled hand-to-hand combatant; as she was able to block a punch from Menagerie and knock her out. With some training from Brainiac 5, Nia's combat skills have improved to the point she is able to fight blindfolded. Nia gradually becomes a seasoned hand-to-hand combatant; as she is able to fight on par against Menagerie and Hat respectively. Nia also proved capable of subduing a few Liberty Agents with pure ease.

Weaknesses
Open interpretation: Being a relative novice in the ways of dream interpretation, Nia could misinterpret or misconceive what her prophetic dreams allow her to foresee. For example, Nia failed to interpret the omen she received about her mother, Isabel, dying of a spider bite; she mistook the ink that Maeve used for her artwork to be lethal poison, as that was the cause of Isabel's death in Nia's perceived dream. In actuality, the black fluid in Nia's dream was merely a representation of death and Isabel's demise in the real world, while destined to be by poison, was to come from a spider's venom. This was implicated in Nia's dreams by the cobwebs she saw when her mother died. Intermittent precognition: Nia's precognitive powers—be it dreamt or even glimpsed while awake—have a fixed duration that denotes how far she can see into the future. So far, the powers allow Nia to only foresee from mere seconds up to within a minute's worth of a certain event; any occurrence to happen after that is entirely beyond her ability to anticipate. This may leave Nia extremely vulnerable to subsequent assaults or when repetitively under such executed upon her by the opposition. For example, despite being fully garbed in her Dreamer suit and having apparently foreseen a confrontation with Menagerie, Nia was nearly bitten from behind by one of the hostile alien's serpentine creatures but rescued by Supergirl just in time. Nia even explicitly admitted that she dreamt nearly all the details except for Supergirl grabbing the creature and saving her in the process. Power-dampening cuffs: Just like with any other alien, Nia's powers can be dampened by technology specifically designed to weaken her powers.