Name: Zoey Kasimir
Alias: Reaper
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Appearance: Standing at 6’2’ Zoey is a rather tall woman, and due to her active lifestyle has a fair amount of muscle packed onto her body. Her red hair is such a light shade that it almost appears to be orange, the strands falling straight down to her mid back, though more often than not she has bangs falling into her face. Said face has rather elegant, if harsh looking features made up of sharp, hard lines with high cheekbones and brows near constantly furrowed above her grey-blue eyes. Sadly this all adds up to Zoey having a natural ‘resting bitch face’, often appearing to be judging everything about you with a single glance.

Due to her upbringing nothing she wears makes her more approachable either, often consisting of slacks and button up shirts or high brand sleeveless tops, topped with a pair of sunglasses she probably spent too much on considering a single outfit would go into the triple digits.

The only exception to this is a specific outfit, made to be as inconspicuous as possible. Reaper’s costume is simply a pair of loose jeans, gloves, an oversized hoodie, and runners – all in black to match the theme, of course. The only thing that makes it stand out at all is that on glancing beneath the large hood Reaper is always wearing a full head balaclava – a cloth head cover – with the only openings being two eye holes; though her eyes are constantly blacked over anyway. No skin is on show, and the size of the hoodie combined with a chest binding helps to hide her gender as well.

Occupation: Owner of various companies.

Family: Alyssa Kasimir [mother, deceased]. Zaden Kasimir [father]. No family on father’s side; grandparents, aunt and cousins on mother’s.

Personality: Zoey is rather bitter and sarcastic, despite trying to appear more elegant than she is. Even with her efforts to be aloof and untouchable she can be quick to fluster or anger if the right buttons are pressed, and will lash out. She’s a bit thoughtless, and at times with her biting attitude can be a bit of a bully. Truth be told it’s rather accidental though, as Zoey is too preoccupied with her own problems to care about harassing others. She’s taken to finding distractions as well and can easily focus on something completely off topic, such as thinking ‘what would I say to this mugger if I did wear a spandex superhero costume?’ while completely jumping him.
Also, since she’s had everything provided for her Zoey is rather naïve about ‘common’ life as well as the value of a dollar – for example she’s legitimately never been on a bus before, nor understanding of why people would want to go on it either.

Notoriety: Unknown.
Class/Level: Class 4 / Yellow
Powers/Abilities: Zoey is for all intents and purposes a darkness elemental. The main part of being this elemental is that she can sense the same darkness in others; however no one is pure sunshine and rainbows so it acts more like a sixth sense of ‘beacons’ to people, excluding young children. In large cities it’s like being surrounded by a sea of these beacons all melding together into a gelatinous blob, only a few ever standing out from the larger picture, and with concentration she can ‘separate’ those beacons approximately a block around her to pick out locations in the overall mass.

Were it only this Zoey might have her hands full with vigilante work, but thankfully that rather useless if constant part of her abilities isn’t what makes her a threat. Zoey’s specialization is the ability to solidify shadows to create things as needed, her ‘signature’ being claws made of darkness – stronger than her grip and farther than her reach. However she can also form them into other things, such as barriers that would be too weak to do more than slow a bullet but would solidly stop a body if she’s fast enough. Her father as another example could use a shadow as thin as a needle to perform minute details his hands were too large for or even create temporary connecting veins in a human’s body, so precise were his shadows. In terms of shadows Zoey can also perform a ‘shadowstep’ of short distances by stepping into or forming a large enough shadow to disappear into them to another. Obviously this power set is most useful at night when there’s less light sending her power source scurrying, but its’ not impossible to use them in the sunshine and light – just weaker. Even her own shadow can be used to an extent.

The last useful piece of her powers is that when concentrating, particularly in the heat of battle, Zoey feels no pain – which isn’t always a good thing as she’s as delicate as a normal human. Only her own logic at seeing her wounds would let her know when the time to retreat is, and leaves her paranoid of her back in particular.

Visually, as an elemental darkness tends to react around her. Sometimes her shadow tends to ‘wisp’ little tendrils of smoky black up and curl around her legs when she’s idle, or her eyes can be darkened to hide their color.

Other Skills: Money. Sambo martial arts. Keeps fit with a personal gym. Is a surprisingly avid hunter, becoming quite patient waiting for ‘prey’, and knows some trapping techniques as well as how to handle a rifle. Lastly has the ability to laugh at her own jokes and not feel self-conscious about it.

Equipment
Mace – Yep, a bottle of ordinary mace. Zoey tends to forget about it since she’s so reliant upon her powers however.
First Aid Kit, including a mirror! – Because Zoey can’t feel pain until a scuffle is already over she always comes prepared in case she misses any deeper wounds, hiding a small first aid kit within the confines of her hoodie. It comes with a small make-up mirror stashed inside to check the extent of damage to her back when necessary.

Bio: As the first and only child to the Kasimir family Zoey was the pride of her parents’ life, and with their social status never had to want for anything. While both her parents came from upper class families their fortune truly came from her father, as aside from successful companies passed down the family line Zaden Kasimir himself was a talented surgeon who was very highly sought after. He had a near hundred percent survivability on his performances, even the more dangerous ones, due to the least kept secret in his medical ward – Dr. Kasimir wasn’t a normal human.

It was within days after her birth that it became apparent Zoey took after her father, and in more than just his sharp features. He was of course overjoyed and Zoey started learning even before she could walk to use her powers, identical to his. Her mother was often playfully exasperated with her father, but for years they were a happy family unit. It was only when Zoey started school did she start to realize her life wasn’t perfect. She was six when the exasperation was no longer playful, and the affectionate whispers her parents shared with upturned lips turned to harsh accusations and clenched teeth. Though they held on as long as they could to their marriage, at least for the sake of their daughter, the escalating disgust was coming to its very inevitable conclusion.

Yet it never came to that, but Zoey feverently wished that it did.

It was around when the ‘divorce’ word was finally being vocalized that the route was violently derailed. An accident happened – Zoey’s mother had been out shopping when, out on the streets, she kneeled down to pick something up and lost her balance, falling in the path of an incoming vehicle. She didn’t even make it to her husband’s operating table. While Dr. Kasimir was briefly looked at due to their known impending divorce, it was obvious he wasn’t a part of it – the accident was even caught on surveillance camera.

Following her mother’s subsequent funeral Zoey withdrew into herself, much to her father’s concern. It’s what prompted him to dismiss a good portion of their staff and quit his job to fall back on their savings to spend more time at home with his little joy, his work no longer centerfold to his day. He taught her more about her powers over the years, immersed himself even in her school and taught her all about how important image was. When she was older they began having annual hunting trips where Zoey was taught how to track, to trap and most importantly just get to spend some time with her only parent. The hunting was scary at first, but as a darkness elemental as well her father had a distinctive beacon to her, which only became more pronounced after her mother’s death.

When it came time for her to start high school Dr. Kasimir finally returned to being a surgeon, though he signed Zoey up for sambo martial arts as well and even hired a bodyguard – female, and not much older so that she wouldn’t feel oppressed. Zaden was rather pleased they hit it off, but his worry knew no bounds, he wanted his little girl to be able to take care of herself. He even got her to carry mace – something she let him know she found useless. They had powers, Dad. But he insisted, and she relented. Yet as his hours at work once more grew and Zoey grew more confident in her prowess is when the ideas started. Vigilantism. What better way to also use her abilities for good, like the man she looked up to? Her grades were decent, but definitely not enough to follow in his footsteps and be a surgeon or anything. It was a whimsical and surprisingly optimistic thought, and before long Zoey found herself sneaking out and beginning to foil purse snatchers and muggings in the underbelly of their city. Her newfound bodyguard initially attempted to dissuade her, but as Zoey couldn’t be convinced otherwise – and really, what better way to practice her self defense? – Jasper was joining her charge. What few criminals there were wiped out quickly – Zoey lived in a good neighbourhood in a good city. She found herself getting more and more into it despite a lack of activity, soon looking through back logs of crimes by sneaking into the local sleepy precinct via her shadowstep and going through cold cases.

It was going through these that she came across the box – Kasimir, A.. Her mother. Figuring at first someone filed it wrong it still sent an ache through Zoey, and it was morbid curiosity that had her slowly taking the box and opening it. It was there, scrawled in the pages of an old notebook that Zoey found out why this box was in cold cases. Turns out it was a misfile due to some loose notes scrawled at the top, yet one in particular stuck out to her.

‘On video victim appears to have been yanked forward’.

It was such a small thing. Obviously it went nowhere, there was no one around to yank her forward – it was even on video so the half-hearted scribble was discarded. On video. A video sitting in the box, dusty and unseen for years. Something Zoey never wanted to see in her life if she could help it. And one, stupid, mistaken note had her taking it out to see for herself.

As soon as the video started Zoey knew it was a bad idea, but like a train wreck couldn’t tear her eyes away. When her mother kneeled on the sidewalk to pick up her dropped wallet Zoey knew exactly what was coming and finally averted her gaze from watching her mother’s expression on the grainy video as she pitched forward. That’s how Zoey saw it.

Rewind. Watch. Rewind. Watch. Zoom in – the grain stayed but so did the darkening pixels around her mother’s wrist in the old surveillance video. As Zoey’s mother grabbed onto the wallet that had fallen just off the sidewalk something barely seen wrapped around her wrist, and from the motion of her body pulled her forward. It was such a tiny detail, it was no wonder no one picked up on it – most would probably even dismiss it as bad picture quality. It was impossible for anyone to have pulled her forward after all.

Anyone except someone who had the ability to solidify shadows.

Denial set in quickly, and as quick as Zoey could shove everything back together and back in place she was out of the precinct – and out of the city. The constant shadow stepping had her exhausted but she ended up in the hunting grounds her father took her to every year. Hours after the sun went down and Jasper alerted Zaden to his daughter’s disappearance he found her, and despite all the denial, the rationalization, as soon as Zoey saw him it came pouring out. A slew of vile words, accusations, he lied to her, but most of all one burning question.

“Why?! What was the point?! What – did you want to bang another woman? She was your wife! Was it money? She was going to divorce your crazy ass and take half of your precious fortune-“

“She was going to take you away from me.”

No denial. No softening. Just a simple fact that took the wind from Zoey’s sails and left her gaping at him. What do you even say to that? What can you say to that? There wasn’t a happy ending to this tale. He had asked her what he could do to fix this, to make her happy – and she told him nothing would make this okay. So Dr. Kasimir did the last thing he could, and gave his daughter justice. The next morning he had turned himself in, admitting to what and how he murdered his wife. There was only one thing he was adamant about – between his money, connections, and private doctor it was soon known he was the only one in his family with even a hint of these abilities.

Unable to stay in her family home with all the bittersweet and corrupted memories Zoey soon threw herself headlong into the workings of the family companies, moving across the country to the base of Kasimir Realty in New Haven with Jasper following dutifully. As the new head of the Kasimir family it was easy after all. For a few years she kept her head down, didn’t show her powers and almost grew to resent them. More than that she grew to resent this damn, corrupted city with its rampant crime and she grew to resent the rush she got the first time she stepped in to help someone again.

It’s what Zoey always wanted, after all.

Name: Zane Wulf
Alias: Black Knight
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Appearance:

Occupation: Private Detective
Family: Peter Wulf (foster father, deceased), Marcus White (Father, deceased), Evaline White (Mother, Deceased)
Personality: Zane is a stoic man, with a strong sense of justice. This often leads him to go beyond the law to punish those who use their influence or technicalities in the legal system to escape conviction. He tries not to form emotional attachments, as he has lost too many friends and relatives to put himself through that pain again, but his natural empathy draws him in to his clients and takes every case as personally as you can get.

Notoriety: None (Zane), Wanted (Black Knight)
Class/Level: Class 2 / Yellow Level
Powers/Abilities: Black Knight's Armour: Zane's power is based around an armour that manifests itself around him when he wills it. While wearing that armour, Zane is ten times stronger than he normally is, can run up to 40mph, and is immune to most kinds of gunfire. In addition, the armour can produce blades for him to fight with, usually a longsword as that's the weapon he's most comfortable using.
Other Skills: Zane is a trained sword-fighter, and hand-to-hand combatant. Even without his armour, he is able to disarm an armed gunman from ten feet away without too much of a hassle. As a private detective, he is skilled in seeking out information and in well versed in matters to do with the law.
Equipment: A well cared for wooden sword, which he uses in his detective work.

Bio: From a young age, Zane's parents had taught him to uphold the roles of a knight. To be a man of justice and smite down all evil in his path. By the time he was five, he had started learning kickboxing at a gym, under the tutelage of Peter Wulf, a close friend of the family. Life was good for the young boy, as he trained day and night to become a true fighter. However, two years later, tragedy struck. His parents were caught in a fight between gangs, and were killed. Zane was training at the time, and so escaped that fate. It was at their funeral that he promised them to become a knight of justice, and make sure no one else would experience that level of pain.
Peter took Ryteb in as a son, as he had always wanted a child but never found the time to settle down. In addition to teaching Zane kickboxing, he also educated him on the path of the longsword, and fighting with smaller blades, like knives. In pursuit of his goal of justice, studied to become an officer of the law, and even succeeded. But he became disillusioned with them, as the precinct keep shoving crimes under the rug, as apparently they "weren't important enough" to be investigated. After doing some digging, he found that many officers at the precinct were taking bribes from the gangs to look the other way. When he learned of this his rage just exploded out, and he unlocked his powers for the first time. Seeing the potential of this armoured form, he quit the precinct to become a private detective, while waging war on the gangs that plagued his city. This war claimed the lives of everyone he cared about, from his friends, to his lover, to Peter. He continues the fight alone, one case at a time, trying to save his city from the scum who wish to put themselves above the law.