PLOT:
Given her history of slavery and torture it's no great surprise that the events of Final Crisis would be so haunting for Kory. The very enslavement of her thoughts, her soul. When the Justifier helmet was placed upon her head she lost herself. And that's probably why she was more than happy when Mr. Terrific asked her to use her powerful flames to erradicate the final traces of Darkseid's Anti-Life devices. It had taken two weeks but the Flashes were finally able to attain most of the helmets from across the globe and stockpile them in a giant bombed out
Blüdhaven warehouse. Presumably it took considerably less time for Kory to destroy them.
But that wasn't the end. Sometime later, Intergang footsoldiers would show up in Metropolis adorned with the vile contraptions. And the mere sight of them would send Kory into an uncontrollable fit of rage. It took the combined might of a Daxamite and an Amazonian to restrain her from obliterating the wearer. It was obvious that something was wrong.
At the recommendation of her friend Donna Troy, Kory sought out the help of Dr. Claire Foster. Treating a Tamaran princess is no simple task, and the treatment had it's bumps. But the good doctor began to sense that this goes far beyond a case of post-traumatic stress disorder. From looking at her face, it'd be hard to tell that this was the same Tamaran princess. Her joyful
temperament seems to have completely disappeared. And not without cause.
A quick trip through the Titans compound in New York makes it obvious that the other Titans seem to be moving on. Dick Grayson, the boy she still thinks of as her true love, no longer loves her. Now he has a new life, new responsibilities as Batman. And where does that leave Kory? The other Titans have similar situations. Everyone is moving on except for Kory. Yet shockingly, when the offer comes for Kory to join the big leagues in the Justice League, she refuses. Something inside of her makes her wonder if she even wants to be on any team.
That morning, as she rises and ascends to the heavens alone to watch the sun rise she asks herself, "Why are you here Starfire? ... Why are you here?"
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