Okay, so I know I'm past the due date, but I came up with the concept a while ago and didn't want to waste it.
Superhero Duo: Song and Dance!
Codenames: Warsong and Sworddance
Real names: Eric and Vanessa Snow
Warsong is Half-Indian, and Sworddance is Half-Native American.
Publicly, they have no official statement on ethnicity.
Power: Vocal based reality manipulation
History: As far as the public knows, Eric and Vanessa are siblings. Or depending on who you ask, possibly husband and wife. The truth is, they are currently divorced.
Eric and Vanessa Snow first met when auditioning for a dance troupe. They were both professional dancers, Eric having gotten his Masters degree in performance art and Vanessa having majored in Vocal Performance before getting caught up in her natural athletic and dancing abilities, and dropping out of college to go to a specialized Dance School.
They had a natural chemistry that lead them to becoming dance partners, ranking in several championships, and performing several times. They worked well together, and began dating on the side, and were eventually engaged.
On their wedding night, Eric had planned to serenade his new wife. They had both performed profesionally many times, and he'd heard her sing beautifully, he felt it would be romantic to return the favor. However, something odd awoke in his voice, and... they had an interesting night.
They discovered that on a limited basis his Song could bend reality, probability, and in some ways the human mind to his will. A sweet lullaby to send the hearers into a trance, or simply slow them down as if moving through heavy molasses.
A fast paced pitch to increase the speed of an object, or through various vocal modulations, actually limited control over an objects path.
Speed, strength, trajectory, a complicated tapestry of sound could shape nearly anything. At first, Eric didn't know what to do with his new-found ability. But as time wore on, he grew the desire to do something good for people. Dance and performance had been his passion, but his days of being an entertainer were over. Eric and Vanessa retired.
And some time later, Warsong and Sworddance were born.
Vanessa doesn't actually have any real powers of her own. They pretend she has a mystic sword that she can control with her mind, but really, she just holds it and occasionally Eric will control it with his song. She does play a vital role though.
For Eric to Sing properly, he is mostly stationary, and he doesn't really have any finesse or fine control most of the time. Vanessa has been partners with him so long, and she has such an innate sense of pitch, music, and rhythm, that she can flow through his song like a fish swims. His song strengthens and amplifies her, and she can bend herself around it as she dances to negate or amplify its effects on her.
When initially entering the Hero Business they had a bit of a problem. Their found an agent to work with who was pretty flexible, he didn't need them to go through much extra special training or anything. It was a connections thing, they'd already been pretty famous. But because of that, they needed a good cover story, and part of the deal for them going into the hero business was that they needed a good gimmick.
Thus the tale was born, as they first started, of being brother and sister. It was a great act, and they grew lots of fans. It was also the source of the strange native american and belly-dancer themes to their costumes, neither of them actually having much identification with their respective ethnicities, and their agent apparently not really noticing that he'd gotten things reverse anyways.
In any case, the stress of hero business eventually proved to be the end of their marriage. They're still best friends though, they spend all their time together, and they don't really work well with anyone else. (not that they haven't tried)
As it is, they're pretty comfortable. To the point where they've stopped caring about their public image, and for that matter, the public doesn't really seem to care either.
The tabloids have gotten pretty used to how weird a couple/siblings/whatever they are, they are.
Every once in a while, they announce that they're going to retire. And then they don't seem to ever get around to it.
EDIT: And yes they do fight crime half-naked. They're both into Performance Art. what do you expect?
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