Name:Jackson DuCarthy
Species: Human
Age: 17-19(still not sure at the moment)
Gender: Male
Personality: Jackson is a soul that is haunted by his past deeds, sent to the lodge in an effort to rehabilitate him as well as keep him out of the public eye. He often refuses to talk with most people, not because he doesn't wish to interact with others or is innately anti-social, but because he's simply afraid, both for his own well-being and their own. This fear causes him to often mistrust those who try to get to know them, making him come off as cold and disinterested with everything around him. However, despite his misgivings, jackson is a kind soul at heart and can never refuse a soul that is in need of help, no matter how trivial the matter maybe. He is always ready to give his all to any task that may help another person, even at the cost of his own well being, having a habit of getting in over his head from time to time.

Despite his supposed indifference, Jackson is a very observant individual, always watching those around him in order to both ascertain their intentions and read between the lines if they appear to be going through some turmoil. He just doesn't know better, and despite his lack of people skills, often trys to be the 'hero' in that he wants to help people with their problems, even when they don't ask him too. However, he's never forward or honest with these intentions or feelings, keeping his investigations either purely observational or using his powers to give him a better read on the person he's decided to help and figure out the issue that is plaguing them and the best way to face it.

Appearance: Jackson is around 5'4 and resigned to the fact that he's likely never going to get any sudden growth spurt at his age to make it so that he isn't always one of, if not the, shortest guys in the room(though he must admit that it makes it easier for him to fade into the background). His hair is cut short-ish, dark raven locks hanging just a bit past his ears, but only a bit. His attire of choice is often a black hooded sweater or jacket, a plain, dark grey t-shirt, dark blue jeans, and dark-colored sneakers.
Powers: Clairvoyance: A basic medium ability that allows one to see into the world beyond death, it's a necessary skill for any task that a medium wishes to accomplish, as it enables them to view, communicate with, and combat beings that are normally undetectable by the human senses as they flot the line between their world and our own. In short, this is the ability that allows a medium to interact with denizens of the land of the dead, from departed souls to spirits that have roamed the other land since time began and anything in between. This ability also has useful effects for the living, as it enables a medium to read a person's aura. Everyone's aura is unique to them, much like DNA or fingerprints, and can provide a skilled medium with an immense amount of information about any given individual at a glance. A skilled medium could learn someone's emotional relationships with other people(by seeing how their aura's react with each other), tell the exact state of someone's physical and mental health at any moment in time, and even read emotions to such a degree that they can predict another person's actions and intentions with a terrifying level of accuracy, along with countless other applications, the most widely known(but rarely achieved) skill being that of predicting the future of anyone on person by using their aura to peer into the weave of fate itself.

At his current level, Jackson is able to pick up on someone's general emotional state, though his connection with Ignota allows him to better read into the more negative emotions someone feels, enabling him to pin down with some accuracy some possible causes of these feelings, though things can get a little jumbled at times due to his relative inexperience. One thing that he is much better at is using one's aura to read into their physical well-being that, when mixed with his own medical knowledge, allows him to quickly diagnosis what is wrong with an individual with near unerring accuracy.

Object Reading: This ability is when a medium reads the residual aura of an individual from objects that they come into contact with, specifically those that bear some sort of importance to the individual in question. By using such an important object, a medium is able to focus their senses and synchronize their own aura with that of the person the object belonged too, allowing them to essential become that person momentarily, at least in their mind. By doing this, they're able to retrace an individuals movements up to the point where they were separated from the object, the length of which one can look back depending on the skill of the medium, the importance of the object to the person, and the length of time said item has been in that person's possession. This can also be used to pick up fragments of the individuals thoughts, as well as using it in a ritual to divine their location, though the exactitudes of it depends again on the skill of the medium and the bond the target holds with the object in question. Also, if an object holds a strong importance to or is owned by several people, then it's hard to read said object due to the intermingling of residual aura's upon it.

When it comes to Object reading, Jackson is more skilled than a child his age should be, but in the grand scheme of things, it's something he only has an average understanding of, and thus, his readings aren't entirely reliable, though he's got a decent chance of getting the general idea of things.

Astral Projection: Astral projection is the act of pushing one's aura out of their body along with their conciousness, forming a spiritual body in the land of the dead that can peer into that of the living, making it a great way to scout out an area or building without risk to the medium. It also gives them a stronger connection to the other world, increasing their ability to perceive and read aura's due to the lack of interference that is present in the world of the living, as well as being able to maintain their focus better due to the lack of human restrictions. However, this ability comes with many dangers, the foremost of which being that the user's physical is completely vulnerable and open to possession by any spirit that wishes to if they don't make a special magical circle around them first to protect it. Even with these circles, it's all to possible for a spirit to wonder by that is strong enough to simply break through the seal. As such, it's often seen as a skill that should only be used when absolutely needed, lest you open yourself and everyone around you to danger. Not only that, but the astral body itse;f isn't exactly the most sturdy of forms, and if you happened to get wounded in this form, a similar wound is likely to form upon your physical body as well, with death in this world often leading to deah in the real world as well.

This is one area where Jackson truly shows his natural talent as a medium. Astral projection is a skill most mediums aren't even to attempt until their late twenties, and yet he has not only attempted this art many times before, but his skill with it is often considered prodigical. He can slip into and out of his body with ease, able to travel up to a mile in any direction before his connection to his physical body becomes strained, and can spend about 4 hours outside of his body without any risk to his health. On top of this, he's also developed enough skill and familiarity with his astral form that he can even summon his spiritual constructs in order to defend himself from the more hostile denizens of the land of the dead. Despite his ability and love for this power, he often makes a point to use it as sparingly as possible, and never without the proper circle, as the thought of spending the rest of his days as trapped between the worlds of the dead and the living while some other being puppets his body and lives his life terrifies him.

Spiritual Energy Constructs:As essential as ritual casting for the act of driving out dark spirits and evil departed, this ability allows a medium to reach their aura across the plane that divides life and death so that they may do battle directly with the being in question. The actual shape and strength of this ability is tied to the skill, willpower, and strength of aura that a particular individual has. Some mediums are even skilled enough to borrow the aura from others if their own is deficient, though this is considered one of the Black Arts among Mediums and, while not strictly forbidden, is heavily frowned upon due to the possibility of killing the donor.

For Jackson, he's generally decent at forming constructs, mostly forming grasping objects like tendrils, chains, and hands from anywhere within 10-15 ft of him. Said constructs are better suited for restraining spirits then banishing them, allowing him to perform the proper rituals needed to more permanently remove such denizens of the other side. However, these constructs are both invisible to most non-mediums and they also can't interact with the world of the living without the help of a powerful other that has bonded with the medium.

Spirit Bond(Ignota): Many Mediums, in order to increase the scope of their abilities, create a close bond with spirits from the other side. The exact effects depend on the subject of the bonding, but the most often chosen recipient of this bond is a recently departed human being, as they are often the ones most open to a contract in order to feel what it's like to live again, but also the least likely to successfully take over the medium.

For Jackson, he bonded with an ancient spirit entity that feeds on negativity and dark emotions, a abyssal shadow that hung over all of humanity in dormant slumber until Jackson awoke it from it's rest by reaching the furthest reach of it's mind during a deep dive into the realm of the dead. The two became bonded on behalf of Ignota, who instantly clung onto this new sensation he felt all of a sudden and refused to let go. As a result, whenever Jackson calls upon Ignota, he gains a noticeable increase to his proficiency with his abilities, most strikingly being that of his constructs.

When using his constructs like this, they take on a black shadowy appearance, surrounded by a dark fog that radiates feelings of dread upon those who look upon it, which now includes those not normally able to view such phenomenon. The sheer immensity of Ignota's existence, as well as how inter-connected it is with all living beings, especially sentient ones, make it so that tendrils of it's power are able to act upon both this plane and the other one simultaneously. Jackson is also able to create better, stronger, and more versatile constructs in this way as well. The best example of this would be his ability to form a 'Shadow' which is a tall shadow humanoid that possess great strength, speed, and agility.

Strengths:Medical Student: He's been studying medicine for quite a while, so he can be a decent provider of first-aid, as well as keeping people from worsening their condition.
Ritualist: A number of rituals are needed in order to do a mediums work, and Jackson knows them all by heart. While these do have an effect on the world, they're nowhere near impressive or powerful enough to be call super powers, as they mainly serve to detain the spirit to one area or item, weaken the spirit, or banish it from the place of haunting, among other things. A supportive set of skills that require several preparations, reagents, and time to properly function, but are often necessary to ensure that a medium survives encounters with particularly dangerous denizens of the other world.
Observant: As stated before, Jackson is a highly observant individual, often taking the time to pick apart at every detail of a scene and every word in a sentence to try and peace together possible meanings from them.
Weaknesses:
Beacon: Despite how much it improves his skills, Jackson avoids invoking Ignota's powers in all but the most life-threatening of situations due to the fact that it acts like a huge signal to denizens of the other side. This draws all manner of dark spirits and evil departed to him, and while his body can't be possessed or haunted while his soul is inside it due to his connection with Ignota shielding him, those around him are not as lucky and can be used to indirectly harm him as a result.

Not a fighter: He has no abilities or skills(such as martial arts) that help him in a real world combat scenario that don't require Ignota, meaning that he's practically defenseless in super-powered confrontations and best stay out of the way other-wise.

Background:
Misc. Notes: (anything important to the character that should be known, but for whatever reason doesn't fit into any other category)

Name:
Nora Minder

Species:
Human

Age:
21

Gender:
Female

Personality:
Nora is very much the absent-minded professor stereotype. When she's at work on a project, it's usually all she can think or talk about, and she'll fuel herself with coffee and take-out to push through the all-nighters she willingly enters for the sake of the project. She is very competent and confident within her field of expertise. Her focus is so tight that she will often neglect her personal safety or awareness of her surroundings while she is working on "just one more adjustment."

However, get her outside that comfort zone (which includes basically any social situation or even just going outside at times), and she becomes withdrawn, hesitant, insecure, and shy. She relies heavily on the encouragement of others to keep going when she does not have a project, or when she is assigned to a task (like being in charge of the lodge) for which she feels she has no expertise.

Appearance:
Nora is a pale blonde human female standing at about five foot one inch. Her slightly wavy short hair is done up in a bob, with strands regularly dropping around her blue eyes and wide face. She wears a slender pair of glasses with rims supporting the lenses, though when she adjusts these glasses, they regularly catch the light and mask her eyes every so briefly. She has a medium build slightly shrouded by the perpetual white labcoat she wears over her usually rather boring and practical shirt and tan slacks, the latter supported by suspenders usually quite artfully under her labcoat.

Powers:
While she doesn't have any actual super powers per se, she has such a knack for anything related to high technology and superscience that she often can come up with a jury-rigged device from available materials to counter a particular problem - if she is given time to assemble the device and deploy it. Expect to see her doing a lot of "reversing the polarity" or "adjusting the frequency" or maybe even just kicking the device to make it work properly.

In other words, she is essentially the scientist from action movies who makes weapons, gadgets, and vehicles for the heroes.

Strengths:
Her energy and motivation are unstoppable when she's working on a supertech project, and she is a specialist in all the relevant scientific fields to creating super-powered equipment, or equipment meant to combat supers (which includes robots, cybernetic enhancements, vehicles, weapons, and gadgets). Even when encountering entirely new things, she has a fair-to-good chance of identifying any properties relevant to her fields of interest.

Weaknesses:
She needs glasses to see properly; she's blind as a bat without them. She also needs to be wearing her lab coat to feel secure enough to do anything. Not to mention she gets depressed and demoralized easily when she has to do something outside the bounds of her usual work, and requires encouragement from others to remain functioning. She's also oblivious if she's focused on something, so it's very easy to sneak up on her when she's in this state (or difficult for her friends to drag her away from danger).

Background:
Nora Minder was teased as a young girl about her scientific interests - even in an enlightened world in a progressive location like Segaso City, children can still be very cruel. This has resulted in Nora being comfortable only in those areas she has direct control and interest in, leading to her social ineptness because she has deliberately focused her savant skills on building technology. Her focus on her schoolwork and neglect of the rest of the world allowed her to graduate early and become an intern at Cybertronics Unlimited, where her knack for developing advanced combat systems and devices was quickly turned to great advantage and advancement in the company.

However, her enthusiasm for her work - and her disregard for her own safety - have had their drawbacks. Most recently, a humanoid vehicle design of hers exploded violently and took nearly an entire lab with it. Miraculously, no one was seriously harmed, but the property damage was high enough that Nora's manager was pressured into arranging her "extended leave" to become the administrator of the lodge. The company can't afford to let her go, but until her lab is rebuilt, they don't want her causing any further damage, so they've shunted her off to a PR project in the hopes that she'll return with a fresh perspective and have learned a valuable lesson about collateral damage.

The assignment to the lodge is a punishment to her initially. She is worried that it won't go well, and it's depressing for her to be suddenly put in charge of others while simultaneously being deprived of a project to focus on. She plans on using every free moment of her time to stay cooped up in her room and try to figure out why her previous project exploded - and fix the issue so she can go back to what she feels she does best. It is only the presence of Boxcar that keeps her from completely losing hope and curling into a ball.

Misc. Notes:
Nora has a transponder that corresponds with the shock collar around Boxcar's neck. This allows her to shock him at any time she deems it necessary, or to communicate with him and locate him if he is not physically present. See Boxcar's sheet for details on what else the collar does.

Name:
Boxcar

Species:
Wolf! The kind on four legs, yes

Age:
Approximately 34 in wolf years

Gender:
Male

Personality:
Boxcar is intensely practical and dislikes it when others react too emotionally to a situation. He grumbles a lot and complains about the way "two-leggers" rely too much on stuff like "feelings" and "clothes" and "hands." He outwardly resents being treated like a "doggy" (though he secretly adores being given treats, belly rubs, pettings, and cuddles). He is often critical of people for being too soft.

But he is also still by nature a pack animal, and forms strong ties of loyalty to anyone he considers part of his "pack," even unconsciously. He will fight violently to the death to protect those under his care, and his advice, though gruff, comes from a heart that wants to do good, even if sometimes it doesn't come out that well. He is a wolf, after all; social nuance among two-leggers isn't his forte.

He is full of snark and will give his opinion bluntly, yet he is confused when people respond negatively to his statements. Mostly he just wants to be free, and he despises the cadre of scientists who benefit from his super power while keeping him caged like an animal. He prefers to be enigmatic about his origins, and is not above telling tall tales of how he became the way he is.

Appearance:
Boxcar is a gray wolf with white facial markings and underbelly fur, as well as several minor gradations of black, gray and white fur all over. He also has a curious pair of markings above his eyes that look suspiciously like eyebrows, which he uses flagrantly as part of his facial expressions. He is about as big and heavy as an average human, just on all fours instead of upright. He has startling yellow eyes that peer out from his furry face. He is usually wearing a collar (see misc. notes below for details on what it does).

Powers:
Aside from having human intelligence in a wolf body, Boxcar has the ability to sniff out super powers. What this means is that he can identify if someone has a super power, what type it is, and whether it is about to be activated. For example, he can tell if someone has a magic spell in effect on them, and whether it's a good or bad enchantment. He can tell if someone is psychic, cybernetic, has mutant/meta-gene powers, or any number of other power origins.

This power can be defeated - a cyborg could have parts specially designed to sound and smell like normal body parts, for example, or a magician may cast a spell that makes their magic undetectable. But as a general rule, if a power or weapon is about to be used, he can detect it and react accordingly.

Strengths:
Boxcar has the lean body of a wolf, including a sense of smell and hearing that goes well beyond that of a regular human being, a fur coat that protects him from cold weather to a degree, and he can certainly run a lot faster than most two-leggers. He also has the intelligence of a human, so he can make better use of his body than a normal wolf would. He has a feral agility and ferocious nature that lets him bound into battle for a bite, then leap away to evade injury.

Weaknesses:
Boxcar has no hands, and therefore, can't use weapons or tools with anywhere near the effectiveness of anyone who has opposable thumbs. He is somewhat color blind, too. He is often treated like an unintelligent and dangerous animal by strangers.

Background:
Boxcar is the result of a special genetics project done by a small rogue company that was bought out by Cybertronics Unlimited. It is unknown whether he is a wolf who was granted human intelligence, or a human transformed or transferred into a wolf's body, or something else entirely. The scientists in Cybertronics don't really care, since they are only interested in his unique ability to sniff out super powers, and have been trying to replicate this ability electronically.

Since these efforts have not turned out anything successful, and since the corporation decided to sponsor a lodge for superpowered individuals, it was determined to send Boxcar along with Nora as a way to further test his power while adding security and protection to Nora. This represents the closest chance to freedom Boxcar has yearned for, but he's stuck with a shock collar to force him to stay with Nora. He awaits an opportunity to get away, though he recognizes that Nora is certainly no harm to him and could certainly use his help...

Misc. Notes:
Boxcar has a shock collar around his neck. The collar is designed to go off if he goes outside a certain distance from the corresponding transponder (which is currently in Nora Minder's possession), or if he ever threatens the holder of the transponder with physical violence. This is designed to prevent him from escaping corporate custody or damaging the transponder. The collar also allows him to be tracked down electronically, and it keeps track of his vitals and the use of his power as data stored in the collar for later analysis. A small side benefit is that the transponder also acts as a communicator between him and the one holding the transponder.