Nia Nal (Earth-38)

Nia Nal was a reporter at CatCo Worldwide Media who eventually became the vigilante superheroine Dreamer.

Interning at CatCo
While she tends to have a history of being punctual, Nia was late to her first day at CatCo where she then rambled to Kara about her troubles only to then realize the person she was talking to was the same person she was working under the wing of as an intern. She then introduced herself to her, and offered her coffee to make a good first impression. She was then comforted by Kara who saw her as being similar to her before going into a meeting together.

For Nia’s first assignment, she wanted to work on a feature on National City’s fashion district. After Kara viewed it as something that is something slight rather than something more. She then elaborated on it not being slight, which impressed Kara and she then elaborated about the middle of East City being a hothead of crime now changing to be infused with color and life, and that her article is one about community, growth, and hope. Kara told her to pitch the article in this exact way to James. However later when Mackenzie pitched her fashion idea before her, she shied away from speaking up. Nia later confided in Kara about being unable to speak up as she was intimidated by James being CEO as well as MacKenzie’s connections and was afraid of speaking up as a result.

Nia was asking James if as editor-in-chief of CatCo was going to write an editorial on where the paper stands regarding the issue of the president being an alien. He responded that they’re focused on the facts for now. Later that day she fell asleep on her desk, and after being woken up she went out to get coffee. After asking for espressos, she waited in line. While doing so, she witnessed Querl Dox’s image inducer device glitch and the store owner not only turning on him but bringing out his employees to physically assault him. She stood up for him by standing in between Querl and the attackers then afterwards telling him she’ll be reporting on the cruelty they displayed at CatCo before demanding he gives Querl the pizzas and walking him out. Querl asked her if she wanted to get to know him and she told him her name, stating that if he truly wants to find him he will.

Back at CatCo, Nia went into James’s office to tell him about what happened. James told her they’ve been getting a lot of calls like that and awareness is important. She uses this to bring up her idea from earlier regarding the editor-in-chief making a statement about the attacks. When he noticed she’s quite passionate about this, James sat next to her and asked her to speak her mind. Nia proceeded to come out as transgender, having been attacked and denied because of who she is. She proceeded to state that she felt the responsibility to stand up and make a difference, by holding a mirror to a bully’s face before asking him to hold a mirror to the entire city; as the only way to survive would be by truly seeing each other. James thanked her for sharing her truth and her passion, but said that the readers who share the values already know the truth but doesn’t want to editorialize out of fear of being biased. Nia finished the conversation stating that when innocent people are being attacked, it’s not about balance it’s about justice.

That night, MacKenzie bullied Franklin for being an alien and so James confronted her to which she apologized. Afterwards, he told the newsroom that he won’t be tolerating hate within the walls or on the pages and that it is their duty as journalists is to expose the truth. Nia having been there, mouthed a thank you. When Supergirl had fallen, and it was all over the news Nia proceeded to ask James not to be Guardian again after having woken up from a nap. She proceeded to state that she read that one can be prosecuted for multiple instances of the same crime. James pointed out his confusion as she earlier asked him to act, Nia pointed out that she is aware of not sounding like herself but in this instance something bad is likely to happen she senses. He then responded to her that heroes go out there even when they know something bad is going to happen. The following morning when there was an attack at a city fair, James walked out nodding at Nia as he left to suit up as Guardian. Later that day, Nia came to James showing him that even though there was no indictment, a far right anti-alien site is using his appearance fighting villainous aliens at the fair as if Guardian is an anti-alien vigilante on their side.

Crisis on Infinite Earths
Nia and 3 billion people eventually made it to Earth-1, only later to be killed by Antimatter along with the rest of the people on Earth-1.

Powers

 * Human-Naltorian Hybrid Physiology:

Abilities

 * Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant:

Weaknesses

 * Dream Interpretation:
 * Intermittent Precognition:
 * Power-Dampening Cuffs: