21

Male

Farran has thick black hair, yellow eyes, and pale skin; he stands at 5'7". He usually wears all black, with the occasional hint of red or gold; a short-sleeved shirt, a hoodie, pants, and Converse. A gold chain with a pendant shaped like a horse's head is always on him, hidden under his shirt. He's thin and not too strong, built more for running than fighting.

Farran is a quiet young man, utterly convinced that he is a monster. He's a loner, more by choice than nature; when no one is near him, there's no one he can scare. It takes time and determination to truly befriend him. For the most part, he'll either stay away to protect them, or assume they're talking to him out of greed. One wouldn't think it to look at him, but he's capable of getting into a towering rage.

Farran is an orphan. Until he was ten, he had his older brother to take care of him; then they came for him. The government had no interest in Farran. They wanted his brother, who was both a powerful mutant and wanted for various charges of theft and physical assault. They took him away, not finding Farran, who had been securely hidden. So it was that the young boy came to be on his own.

His powers came to him during puberty. As he grew taller and his voice changed, his power grew. It started out small, just isolated incidents at first. Then it grew powerful. Everywhere he went, people got uneasy; if he was upset, his power grew stronger. Some people were terrified; some got angry. It grew so that Farran left destruction and chaos wherever he went.

It was shortly after his 21st birthday that the government caught up to him. They had tracked him by the miasma of fear he left in his wake, and arrested him for being a public menace. At least, they tried to. For the first time, Farran weaponized his power, incapacitating the officers sent to take him in. He escaped then, but they came after him again only weeks later. This time they were smart. They shot him with a tranquilizer before he even knew they were there, and he woke up in a cell. Shortly afterwards, he was moved to ORB.

Farran's power is fear, plain and simple. Just by being around him, a person starts to get uneasy and faintly paranoid. If he focuses his power on someone, he can bring their greatest fears to light, trapping them in a hallucination of their worst nightmare. He can trap up to three people at a time in these hallucinations. Another power of his is a kind of miasma; it's not as potent as the hallucinations, but it's still scary. The miasma appears as a purple fog, out of which specters of monsters and demons appear. The miasma is more widespread, but not as powerful as the hallucinations; therefore, it takes just as much out of him.

Farran has trust issues, insomnia, and suicidal tendencies, which crop up every now and then. He's not too strong, and knows very little about fighting.

Victoria James

27

Female

Victoria stands at 5'10'' and weighs 130 lbs. She has long, blonde hair that falls to her back and has light gray eyes. Her skin is fair. Victoria usually wears make-up in light shades of red, pink, or blue. Her clothing consists of trendy styles, girly clothes, but is always a fan of a t-shirt and jeans. She isn't muscular or toned.

Victoria also wears a necklace with a small, crystal heart that was the source of her powers.

Victoria is strong-willed and determined. She doesn't back down from challenges when they are posed and is eager to prove herself outside of being a superhero. She respects her powers, but feels she doesn't deserve them given her lifestyle up until recently. She is kind of self-absorbed, but that is mainly due to her upbringing and has been trying to think more about others than herself. She prefers the company of others as opposed to being alone and loves being the center of attention.

Center stage: that's where she belonged.

Victoria always had a passion for singing and dreamed of being on stages across the world. Her parents encouraged her craft and bought the best training they could buy. Training and training to be the best she could be, Victoria was pushed to her limits to become a great performer.

When she was of age she struck out on her own, heading to New York. The cold hit of reality knocked her down a few pegs when she was denied access to the big stages. Instead she contented herself to performing in small bars and on the street, while working in a clothing store to support herself.

She finally made it big and was able to perform on a huge stage, opening for a band that was touring. It was then that she got her foot in the door and started having a following.

Shortly after she turned 25, a superpowered attack on the venue she was performing at left her wounded and hurt. The attacker had the ability to use cosmic rays in beam form and only found out about his powers by accident. The attack left him and many others wounded and few dead. Victoria suffered after effects from the cosmic rays. Her parents flew in to visit her as she was in the hospital, in a coma. They left her a crystal heart necklace and some flowers.

It took 12 days for her to finally awaken. She still felt sick and uneasy still. She sat up in her bed and looked around, seeing many cards and gifts from her fans, her agent, but what struck her the most was the small, shiny crystal next to her bed. She picked it up and admired it. As soon as she touched the crystal, she felt a small vibration from it. Shocked, but curious, she held on to it more and felt it pulse. She put it on and it continued to pulse until it finally stopped. She didn't think much of it until the next day when she went to reach for the TV remote to change the channel and formed a crystal shield around it.

During one of her rare uses of her powers, Lloyd witnessed her and reflected on her abilities. He later sought her out and found her on stage during one of her performances. He left his card with her bodyguards asking to meet her after she sang. Curious, she allowed him. It was there he told her he knew of her powers. She was scared at first, but he assured her he was no danger. Instead he had work for her. He liked her powers as well as her singing ability and requested she come work for him. Unknown to her Lloyd's true purpose and work, she agreed and was later employed as part of S.C.A.R.

To this day, she still is unsure of how she got her powers or why she did. Was it due to the cosmic after-effects? Was it pre-destined? was it from the crystal heart itself? She doesn't know, but she does know she can use the powers in her own way.

Victoria has the ability to create crystals and use them at her will. The crystals themselves are clear and can be any shape and size, depending on how much power and focus she uses (large crystals would cause her to become unconscious if kept in control for too long). She uses these crystals in a variety of ways, from offensive to defensive measures.

Offensively, she can launch crystal shards at her enemies in various sizes, though she prefers short crystal-like daggers as her main weapon. She can also create crystal bombs that detonate in crystal shrapnel.

Defensively, she can form her crystals around her body as a protective shield from bullets and elemental attacks. She can also form crystal walls and other tools at her disposal.

Crystals can shatter with enough force. Sound attacks are her biggest weakness. Victoria can hold her crystals for periods of time with enough focus and power, but if controlled for too long, she becomes strained and weak and may eventually pass out, leaving any crystal she had uncontrollable.

Victoria has a fan base due to her performances, but they don't know about her powers. She preferred to remain anonymous about it. She doesn't go out crime fighting, but has used her abilities to help some people.

David Jackson

37

Male

Standing 5"8', he's not extremely big or small. He's rather slim, and has little muscles to show. With his brown hair and dark brown eyes, he is often called normal. Though his time in ORB changed how he keeps himself. Clean shaven, and with very short hair. He dresses in the same, almost Spartan, way. With a tight shirt and trousers, allowing maximum maneuverability. Above that, he wears a hoodie, and often with the hood on. But in such a way that you can still see his face clearly, but just not the back of his head. There is a reason for that. It hides the scars from the many surgeries they performed on his head.

When he goes on a mission, he wears a black belt with several useful tools like a wire cutter, a short piece of rope and other garage tools. From it also hang 2 sharp knives. So far, he couldn't get his hands on a handgun. But he would like to steal one when he gets the chance. He also wears a small bulletproof chest piece. It doesn't protect much beyond his chest and stomach, but doesn't limit his movement.

Straightforward and sometimes a little rude. David will rarely not say what he thinks, simply to spare another person's feeling. He strongly dislikes people who are not straight to the point about what matters. Never the less, he is a surprisingly caring person, towards mutants. His position towards average humans is somewhat divided. While he thinks that mutants cannot live without humans, the cruelty he sustained within O.R.B. made him somewhat cruel towards them.

David was born into a very loving but hard working family as the second child. His father got a job in Washington DC. Meaning he only got home quite late, and sometimes not at all. His mother worked-part time at the Town Hall and cared much for her children. At first her second born seemed like a dream child. He never got into any fights, nor got bad grades. While not much of a star player, he played a lot of American Rugby at his high school. Everything indicated that David would be a normal kid.

The truth was far from it. When he was 16, he somehow created a singularity in his sleep. Trashing his room. His parents, while loving, had a very conservative opinion about mutants. They weren't completely against the existence of them, as they knew that they couldn't help it. But they had the opinion that mutants should be treated like patience. As if they were ill. Scientists were to examine them and try to neutralize their powers. This made David too afraid to tell them about his powers. In secret he visited SCAR forums. When he turned 18, he ran away from home to join them. At first believing that they were fighting for the freedom of their existence.

But he was still a foolish kid. 3 years after he joined, he got caught in a raid. Surrounded, he knew he could only survive by surrendering. His time at ORB was brutal. Scientists were extremely interested in how he could control the mysterious Particle Zero. Various scans showed only a slight increase of brain functions when he used his powers. This resulted in a wide range of brain surgeries.

Zero Particle Manipulation - Modern science has always marveled at the illustrious graviton particle. Said to be the carrier of the weakest, yet most dominant force in the universe. They say that gravity was once part of a super-force. A combination of gravity, electro magnetism, weak- and strong nuclear force. They are wrong and right, to some extent. Gravitons do not exist in the hypothetical model of current scientists. The particle acting like it, is in fact Particle Zero. Which is more of a descendant from the primal Superforce.

The only thing known among the scientists of O.R.B. is that something like Particle Zero exists, thanks to David. He overheard them talking about it often. He can apparently manipulate them in such a way that they can be detected. Particle Zero, much like telekinesis, has an almost endless range of application. David's use is there for very limited. He can create temporarily small singularities, negate gravity or even generate kinetic force. All this however, starts near him. Zero Particles converge on him, and in a certain concentration start to glow purplish. From David himself, a projectile is launched (often "thrown"). Upon impact with solid mass, the projectile interacts with it. Be it by collapsing into itself (making the singularity), by creating a negative gravity field (lifting objects) or by exercising force on it (throwing or pushing things).

The ORB scientists knew barely anything of Particle Zero. But somehow they managed to create a small scale shielding device from the effects of the particle. While the device is not standard among ORB security forces, the devices can be called for easily. Meaning that if enemies get a chance to resupply, chances are great that Zero's powers are completely useless. (Unless of course, the enemy suffers from an indirect force from Particle Zero. For example, a gravity negation field will be negated. But if Zero would throw a singularity outside the field, the gravitational vortex forces may still pull the enemy away. Until the enemy is sucked so close to the singularity that his device can "destroy" the singularity.

A surprisingly good cook. David likes to prepare food for other people.