Anything is better than the emptiness and hopelessness
Suffering is where I see the truth, in you
You’re the arsonist that makes sense of this, I can’t resist
In the flames, I feel a part of you, you
Raised in an insular fundamentalist cult of magic-users, Lakaiia (or 'Kay', aka Cinder), eventually learned more of the outside world and came to resent the organization for sitting out numerous incidents and tragedies that powers like theirs could have prevented. Striking out on her own, she eventually joined the Hearts of Steel superhero team and put her powers to use in emergency response.
Underneath a quietly hard-edged exterior, maintained in part to cope with living in a world she was kept out of up until her late teens, beats the heart of unfailingly resilient and selfless fighter who will stop at nothing to keep others safe even if it means pushing her abilities well past safe limits.