Julia Freeman

For her Worldkiller personality, see Purity.

Julia Freeman
Biological Information
Status	Deceased
Universe Information
Home universe	Earth Thirty-Eight
General Information
Occupation	Music student (graduated) Worldkiller (in secret; formerly)
Family	Lawrence Freeman (adoptive father) Molly Freeman (adoptive mother)
Alter ego	Purity (formerly)
Actor	Krys Marshall

"I am the scalding light. I am the flood that sweeps away sins. I am the word and cry of justice. I am Purity."

—Purity to Supergirl^[src]

Julia Freeman was a Kryptonian Worldkiller known as Purity. Julia was a musician National City, living a normal life. In early 2018, Julia's Worldkiller persona emerged, triggered by a combination of Reign's awakening and an accident where she was crushed between two cars whilst saving her friend. Julia was captured by Reign to fully awaken Purity. She eventually joined Reign and Pestilence to try and destroy Earth to make it into New Krypton. In the final battle though, Supergirl and Alex Danvers were able to help Julia overcome Purity. Julia was fatally stabbed by Pestilence, but took the latter out with a scream before dying, surrounded by Supergirl and Alex.

Biography

Early Life

Purity was one of the three genetically engineered Kryptonian Worldkillers, along with Reign and Pestilence. In the wake of Krypton's destruction, she was sent to Earth as an infant to grow strong and awaken once Reign was ready. Her pod presumably landed on Earth around 1989, the same time as Reign.

In 1993, she was adopted by Lawrence and Molly Freeman being named Julia Freeman. As she grew up, Julia developed a passion for music and studied at the University of Cincinnati - College-Conservatory of Music. There, Julia met Vanita Ripson, who was her roommate, and the two of them became best friends.

Awakening and capture

A decade later, Julia and Vanita discussed the latter's new job as they walked home. Suddenly, a runaway car came hurtling towards them and Julia pushed Vanita out of the way. When the car crushed her, Julia was able to recover after a few seconds and push the car away, much to her and Vanita's shock.

Later she had gone home, listening to some music in her house. Unaware of Supergirl and her team raiding her place, she was terrified when she saw them, and begged not to be hurt, but when threatened by Alex Danvers, who did not by any means trusted the Worldkiller’s human side, it triggered Julia’s Purity persona. Purity had then taken down the agents of the D.E.O. but J'onn managed to arrest her.

Afterwards, she was sent to the D.E.O to be interrogated separately by both Supergirl and Alex, both of whom were hoping that they could gain more information on Reign and the other yet-to-be-identified Worldkiller through Purity. But because they were asking her questions to which she does not necessarily hold the answers to, Purity simply contented herself in getting under the Danvers’ skin, evading and tauntingly re-directing the conversations with either of the sister to their own insecurities and vulnerabilities, to even openly mocking the part of herself that is Julia, saying that she was just "a mask that had to be worn" until the time passes for Purity and her brethren to emerge. She specially rattled Alex who, in turn, was needlessly and aggressively condemning towards the captive Worldkiller due to her past failures with Reign and it did not take long for Purity to glean through and discern that deep down, Alex was still hurting and taking her frustrations out on her powerful prisoner. Frustrations that Alex herself had a hand in the making and, deep down, Alex knows that presenting herself as a tough front before Purity wasn’t mitigating the former’s regret at any rate.

That rocked Alex to her core, forcing her to leave Purity’s containment area and trying to suppress her tears. Seeing how hurt her beloved sister was, Kara confronts Purity finally seeing the Worldkiller for what she was from Alex's perspective - a thing dedicated solely for destruction.

Purity escapes the D.E.O. with her crystal.

As Supergirl, Kara swears she’ll see to it that it would not come to that. Left at either side of the containment, she and Purity (who was rather pleased to have gotten inside her enemy's head) trade boasts and insults (Game of Thrones' Dothraki-style) in Kryptonese. At that point, Purity’s own beacon crystal to the Juru’s Fortress of Santuary suddenly activated in Winn's lab, cutting off all the D.E.O. establishment’s power grid and enabling Purity use of her sonic powers again. Using them to break free from her imprisonment and incapacitating Supergirl, the Worldkiller proceeded to the said lab to collect her crystal. She then flew off after retrieval.

However, she was followed in the subway and forced into battle against Supergirl and her allies who, despite the sonic blockers that Winn crafted and provided them with, began to fall one-by-one before the Worldkiller's raw might until Alex reached out to the part of her that is still Julia, apologizing that her stubbornness prevented her from acknowledging that. Reign then arrived after Julia's breakthrough and threatened Alex's life. Julia offered her life for Alex to be spared. Reign concedes to Julia’s offer, since the latter's retrieval was the former's priority (at the moment) anyway; she addresses her now-inactive kin as "sister", telling Julia that they will find together the third of their triumvirate, Pestilence, and become unstoppable once they do. And grabbing her, Reign then flew Julia away.

Forming the trinity and death

After Pestilence had become active, Purity came for her, glad they were together before they left for L-Corp to pick up Reign.

After the team found the Fortress of Sanctuary, a battle ensued between everyone and the Worldkillers. In the process, Julia and Pestilence killed each other. After her death, her and Pestilence's powers were absorbed by Reign who escaped before the fortress collapsed.

Personality

• As a civilian
• As Purity

Julia in her civilian persona.

Julia was a kind, caring, selfless and moral individual. She pushed her friend Vanita, out of the way when she saw a car (moving out control) coming at them, despite knowing the fact that she could be killed. Julia can also easily be frightened, like when she discovered that Supergirl and the D.E.O. were in her home.

Julia as Purity.

As Purity, Julia was cold, cruel, sadistic, ruthless and aggressive, she was unfazed by Alex Danvers' threatens of being incarcerated for months, as she saw right through the latter's arrogant and tough demeanor (mainly due to her empathic powers) she also mocked Alex by stating that "you want me weak, because you weak, you had your chance of happiness, but through it all away, and now you're just a broken little doll" (referring to a breakup with Maggie Sawyer; which is not entirely untrue).

Powers and abilities

Powers

• Altered Kryptonian physiology: Julia's physiology was altered due to genetic experiments and dark magic from Kryptonian Polytheistic Witches. Normally Julia's capacities were no greater than a normal human of her physical conditioning, However, once charged by the energy of a yellow sun and metabolized into her body, she becomes able to perform a variety of otherworldly feats. Due to her dark magic enhancements, her powers were naturally greater than any normal solar-powered Kryptonian. It was said that she was born from Rao's fire. It was unknown if she was more powerful than Superman, but it was likely that she was just as powerful as him, as she had been on Earth for at least 35 years; the same number of years that Superman has spent under the Earth's yellow sun, but had augmented, much more potent powers, making Julia one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse.
  • Sonic scream: Like Siobhan Smythe, Julia can vocally emit a focused, high frequency sonic scream that was powerful enough to knock a fully grown Kryptonain feet away into a wall. She was also able to knock Supergirl unconscious with her scream; after analysis done by Winn, he confirms that Julia emits a specific sound frequency intended to be particularly harmful to (presumably normal) Kryptonians. That said, it was also probably just as effective against Daxamites, seeing how Mon-El himself reacted after he became recipient to the world killer's augmented vocal outburst in Julia's home. Her scream can also be used as a force projectile, as she was able to break down a whole train station just by screaming at it.
    • Sonic inducement/Sound projection: With a slight clench of her hands, Julia, was able to induce vertigo, vibration, and a sonic sound in her immediate vicinity, extending outwards omni-directionally in an expanding sphere-like fashion from where she was. She was able to shake and vibrate the whole D.E.O. facility, and cause anyone near her to feel the effects of a migraine, and have ringing in their ears. The effects of the ability even allow her to stun, explode, and push back multiple objects at once, and even stun normal humans, as shown when she almost knocked out Winn while using this ability.
  • Empathy: Julia says she was able to "see" into people, and was able to read peoples personalities, and look deep into their psyches - though it was unknown if this was merely perceptive insight on her part when she mentally profiles an individual she meets. Unlike a telepath, she cannot see into their minds, or read thoughts, but she was able to feel emotions, experiences, and personalities from people within a matter of minutes, just like she did to Alex Danvers, noting that the human was antagonizing her in captivity because of the emotional baggage that Alex was carrying (from her break-up with Maggie) and that belittling someone as powerful as a world killer, despite being human, was the agent's way of voiding her own vulnerability.
  • Super strength: Julia had demonstrated a high level of super strength, as she was able to break Supergirl's legs by slamming them into the ground, after contending with and eventually beating Supergirl in a one-on-one brawl, and managed to nearly choke her to death, as well as punch Mon-El into a stand, which shattered on impact. It was unknown if her super strength is as powerful as Reign's, but from her demonstrations of super strength, she was likely stronger than Supergirl.
  • Flight: Julia had the ability of self-propelled herself through the air at tremendous hyper-sonic speeds. Though she had only been seen using this ability once, it was implied that she can fly at speeds as fast as Supergirl, and had been shown to be able to hover and levitate as another application of her ability to fly.
  • Invulnerability: Julia was able to take multiple punches from Mon-El and Supergirl, without being fazed. She was able to fly through a hard glass wall without showing any signs of damage as well. She also survived being crushed by two cars.
  • Worldkiller link: The Worldkillers appear to have a link with each other using Reign as a nexus point. This was evident as no Worldkillers awoke until Reign did. Julia did not have children so this did not inhibit the development of her powers like Reign and only woke after Reign did.

Abilities

• Expert combatant: Julia, as Purity, was a capable fighter. She was able to keep with Supergirl, effectively dodging streams of the latter's heat-vision at close range, and Mon-El in hand-to-hand combat - culminating to even beat them; Purity even succeeds in putting the former through a head-locked back-breaker move that damaged the other Kryptonian's legs and compromising her locomotion, rendering Kara virtually helpless and putting her out of the fight by the time of Reign's arrival. She could also fight on par with J'onn J'onzz before defeating him.
• Singing: Julia was adept at singing.
• Multilingual: Julia was capable of fluently speaking English and Kryptonese.

Weaknesses

• Split personality: Julia's full powers were not truly available to her own discretion. Apart from her invulnerability, only in moments of extreme stress can she access some of her other powers, and not at full capacity. Once her programming was awakened, as Purity, she had full access to her powers, but becomes completely unaware of it. Her separate persona as the World killer is completely void of all her past memories as Julia and upon reverting to her normal-self, remains completely oblivious to all actions as Purity. Though according to Purity herself, Julia was fully conscious even while the former was in control; the latter just doesn't remember it when Julia's conscience resurfaces. Just before she died, Julia regained control of her body and was able to use her powers, being able to kill Pestilence.
• Vocal cords: If someone was able to grip her throat tight enough, her vocal cords will be inoperable and she will not be able to scream.
• Sonic dampener: This technology could dampen Julia's sonic scream but due to her augmented physiology, it probably won't dampen this power fully.

Trivia

• She is lactose intolerant.

Equipment

• Purity suit: Julia wears a protective suit as her super-villainess alter-ego, Purity.

Appearances

Supergirl

Season 3 "Fort Rozz" "For Good" "Both Sides Now" "In Search of Lost Time" (mentioned) "Of Two Minds" "Trinity" "Shelter from the Storm" (mentioned) "Make it Reign" (indirectly mentioned)