Match-Stick (Cheryl Kositsky/Koh Sahtskee)



As all Pyronians, Matter to Energy manipulation, expressed as fire. However in Cheryl's case she can cause anything to burst into flames as her semblance is dangerously exhibited.

from Infancy to a Complicated Childhood.
Cheryl's flame semblance was so strong, she came out of her mother's womb on fire. Her parents feared the her, and left her infant self on an asteroid to starve. WITCH Agents found the flaming infant and brought her to their ally, White Fang to care for her. Finding her powers a bit much to deal with, they consulted Dr. Phineas Horton who developed a serum to neutralize her powers till she could control them.

Cheryl was raised in 1920's Oklahoman family and lived as a normal human being. In her teens, she started a relationship with a local African American boy, Chuck New Haven. After some Sons Of The Serpent (White Supremacist Group) harassed Chuck for dating her, Cheryl discovered her fire powers and drove them away. When her family found out that she was dating a black man, they threw her out as saw it was sinful.

Chuck and Cheryl tried to start a life together in nearby Tulsa, Oklahoma. However when Chuck fell a foul of the law when an white teenaged elevator operator accused him of whistling at her. This brought a firestorm of outrage from local newspapers who declared they couldn't have this disrespect happening to their White daughters, and the Serpents tried to seize Chuck in response.

The Attacks
Cheryl began to battle the Serpent's forces, and she earned the moniker, "Devil Girl" fighting them. The White citizens of Tulsa machine gunned and bombed the black neighborhoods in their city in response, which is now remembered as The Tulsa Riot. Chuck took Cheryl's son they had in the confusion, and headed for Texas, thinking Cheryl died in the attack. She was captured by The Sons Of The Serpent who planned to ritually kill her. Government Men however raided The Son's hideout and rescued Cheryl from them. The G-Men where Agents Of The Secret Empire, who did a favor for WITCH in rescuing her.

Joining the Dark Side (From White Fang to W.I.T.C.H.)
Cheryl learned about her alien heritage and how WITCH had helped her as a child. She became their Agent, serving as a scientist in White Fang and learning her trade from Whitney Frost after World War II.

In the 1960's, she became the assistant to White Fang Leader Dr. Destructo and helped him in his many efforts to annihilate Colonel Bleep of Futurian Interplanetary Intelligence Agency and his deputies, Scratch & Squeak. Her platinum blonde hair caught fire when she was attempting to forcibly take magical wood that made up Squeak's body, and Bleep used his Futurian rays to disable her dangerous semblance during a fight to save his deputy. Badly burned, she spent a decade recovering from her wounds.