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Sethunya and Neo are the younger children of Katlego and Kagiso Tsholofelo and were brought up in a household full of gadgets and stories of heroic adventures. Neo blossomed under his mother's tutelage, but Sethunya shrunk away from the family tradition of superheroics. She shunned the intensive physical training programme set up by her mother and did everything she could to get her mother to forget about her. In truth, she craved her mother's attention but didn't feel worthy of it, especially after she began to put on weight as a child.

Her older brother died and the family were shocked. But the shock soon gave way to a renewed interest in saving the world, so that others wouldn't have to suffer the same tragedies as they had. Kagiso shot to the forefront of African uberhuman activity again, as she had in her youth. She became Peacemaker and brought her family along with her... up into the bright lights of the media.

She joined her family using one of her father's parhelion bodysuits and travelled across central and southern Africa as adventurers and goodwill ambassadors, although Sethunya hated the spotlight which was thrust on her family. She always stood at the back of promo photographs and never managed to say much apart from a few mumbled words to reporters. Her brother Neo was always the one with the voice and the looks. Sethunya preferred her books and the use of her father's science laboratory.

After her brother was transformed by the evil priestess, Nepythys, Sethunya felt even more inadequate. Now her attractive and gregarious twin brother had super powers. She decided to make herself more than just a body in one of her father's bodysuits, and designed malleable fire tubes which she used to create a flame throwing unit. She dubbed herself Firebird and managed to reclaim a little of her confidence.

Not long after she was attacked by Gazelle, who was working for The Hunt. The two young women fought a vicious battle which left Sethunya with a broken leg and concussion, while Gazelle was forced to retreat a little singed. Since that time the two have fostered bad feelings towards each other and they are more than ready for a rematch. Sethunya has never felt such anger towards another person, but Gazelle's cutting words combined with her bone-breaking attacks has brought Sethunya into a new world: the world of the superhero where people actually do get hurt and sometimes even die.

Like the rest of the Africa Force 5 team, Sethunya wears one of her father's parhelion bodysuits. The bodysuit increases the wearer's strength, provides limited flight capabilities and a protective force field. Since the onset of her twin brother's powers Sethunya has been driven to give herself something unique as a member of the team. She has developed a set of malleable fire tubes and a flamethrower unit so that she now has access to intense flames which she is careful to use only against adversaries and not the environment around her (when she can help it). Her costume is made of fire resistant material and she has outfitted herself with advanced sensory equipment.

As Firebird, Sethunya wears the parhelion bodysuit which is a skintight blue costume with light grey panels on the sides of the legs and arms, a darker grey for their gloves, boots and mask; and a black belt which displays the team logo. Each member also carries a concealed communicator in their ear. Sethunya is heavy set and has thick black hair which she tries to control by pushing back behind her into a ponytail. It usually looks like dreadlocks tied back by a hair tie.

Sethunya is currently a student at a Pretoria university in South Africa. She is studying for her doctorate in chemistry, and usually wears dark rimmed glasses and oversized shirts when studying.