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#22 - Doctor Mid-Nite
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When our heroic team of player characters brought down the sky, one of the Justice Leaguers returned to Z'onn Z'orr was a Justice Society member as well - Doctor Mid-Nite! Surprisingly, though many outside of the comics community don't seem to know my dear boy Pieter, he was actually an extremely prolific star of the first decade of the 2000s. Pieter Cross, a blind man and a doctor, rose to prominence with the JSA, becoming the superhero community's resident surgeon, doctor and mortician. Considered by virtually everyone as Earth's greatest doctor, the return of Mid-Nite to Z'onn Z'orr would have been considered an unqualified success, except for one small stipulation. His Nite-goggles were irreparably damaged into the mass teleportation event that injured many on arrival in Washington from the JL Satellite.

Since that point, Mid-Nite has served as a wise man, a veteran with experience for Spirit. But he also has been tested with an occasionally unbridled rage, the rage of a man who has fought for relevancy for years, overcome his disability, and now finds himself back in his starting place, back in the dark once more. It's just another painful reminder that this crisis can, in an instant, steal everything... but more insidiously, it can leave you with a lingering scar, the sort of phantom limb scenario that has a much more painful psychic toll than physical one. Mid-Nite's emotional trauma doesn't end with his blindness however. As Roz'etta has recently read in Paul Lincoln's first chapter of Legacies, Mid-Nite has been intimately involved in Sue Dibny's murder from the first moments after Ralph Dibny discovered his wife's burned, lifeless body.

Mid-Nite was the one to discover footsteps on Sue's brain. Mid-Nite was the one to make an accusation against the Atom - when, in reality, it was his ex-wife who accidentally killed one of the most beloved fixtures of the community. And Mid-Nite, even in Z'onn Z'orr, still is in custody of Sue's body. In a way, he's been holding onto her, holding a torch for Sue, for months. And as this crisis drags on further and further, a man living in darkness - in more ways than one - must be brought back towards the light if there be any hope of Spirit turning his new mentor back into the hero he's known to be.

Hint: An enemy to some in Z'onn Z'orr -- but a highly valuable asset to others.