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So you want to be a hero? Or better yet, a superhero? Get chosen for Bechtel International located in the Big Apple where only the top eight superheroes in the world work at? Join the Guardian's Eye and get stationed at a massive citadel in Saxon Switzerland, Germany? Or join the research, technology, and development organization, JaKobaMech, in Tokyo, Japan? Regardless where you work at, corporate or independent, and what you do, field work or support, you first need your Hero's license. Until you get that pretty little blue card, either attending one of the three registered universities, getting placed in the Special Heroes Assistance Program, or going to HeroCorp, using your powers beyond your household is considered a crime and you will be labeled as a vigilante and/or criminal. It's like using a gun without a permit. 

In a world where over half of the human population have gifts — gifts that vary in type, force, and potential — it makes sense that there is a need to regulate, maintain, and limit such power. The government has sought to provide as much help as they can, through law and order, as well as offer tools and resources to help the Gifted grow. With an oversaturation of heroes, finding a dime in a dozen is easy. Finding a superhero and a legend? That took time. The inevitable day did come where specialized-mission institutes for the Gifted rose from the dirt. Their mission: to train aspiring heroes in controlling their powers, pushing them in a safe and controlled space, and guiding them so they may maneuver in the real world with their abilities. 

Consider powers or whatever you want to call it — some people call it magic, some people call it sin — recognized as a formal resource and technology in today's society. Not only is power considered a resource but it is also a type of currency, energy, and tool. Powers are so important in society that they can change the game of politics, science, technology, media, and art. They can change the world itself, if you know how to use it.  

To obtain such gifts can happen through one of three ways. Through genetics, happenstance, or science. The most common and natural way is genetically. Through DNA one could get a gift like their mother or of their father or a combination of both, creating a whole new set of powers entirely. 

The Prime Board of Directors (located in Washington, D.C.), which sets the worldwide standard for Heroic and Support education, aims to see how far they can push students. Without a doubt, the world is waiting to see who will rise to great heights, from fame to glory. It’s the Board’s job to oversee the implementation of its policies and educational programs, keeping tabs on the three committees of the approved and registered hero schools (located in the United States, Germany, and Japan).

The saying goes you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. 

In this universe, the world belongs to 'supes' but not everyone with powers is considered one. A superhero is an idol who inspires and sets the standard in this evolving world of gifts. They protect their domain, they bring hope to the world and in the eyes of the ordinary, they're considered on top of the world. And you? You're trying to find your place. Starting with your education. 

In the late 1700s, Crystal Peak was settled by Thomas Crowne, James Cashmore, and Nicholas Cypress, brothers-in-arms, who shared a common belief that people like them, ones with peculiarities, needed a safe place to grow and just be. Not every country in the world was safe to those gifted. Like the Puritans with the Native Americans, there was the genocide of the Damned. The Damned was what some folks would call those with powers. They believed them to be cursed, carrying not a gift, but sin. A curse among men.  

Outside of Crystal Peak, which is land near Crystal Lake, just outside Salem Center, New York, little is known of this period and these three men, although there are stories. Stories of blood and sin. Stories of greed and jealousy. Stories of chains and shackles. For instance, Thomas Crowne is believed to have beaten his youngest son, Josiah, to death after the discovery that his own flesh and blood defiled a woman, a married one at that, and impregnated her. 

To most, this was seen with good intention but to Elspeth Crowne, his wife, she knew it was a vile deed and her husband spun an irresistible tale. Her husband was a jealous man who obsessed over the woman that was not his property. The woman was remarkably beautiful too... the story ends with the woman ashamed and unable to live in a town full of shortcomings, false hope, and broken promises. She disappeared in the night swearing an oath to never return. 

Those who knew of Crystal Peak at the time believed it to be the promised land, a place for angels and demons to coexist, but not for her. She saw and felt too much. She knew too much. Rumor has it, Josiah Crowne's remains are believed to be buried right under the Clocktower. 

That is simply a children's story, of course, and Crystal Peak, at least nowadays, is the place to be. In 1953, on the outskirts of town, by the Crestview Hill, Crowne School for the Gifted was created. It started off small, experimental, where the three C families would seek out lost souls and try to help them master their powers (and study them). It wasn't until 1968 where they decided to build a bigger school by the name of Crystal Peak Academy, in the heart of town, and shift Crowne School for the Gifted to Crestview College. They expanded and changed their name to reflect its broader scope of heroic discipline. 

Presently, Crystal Peak Academy is a world leader in Heroic and Support education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of education for those Gifted all around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential. Crestview College is considered their sister school. The Academy's application process is rigorous and open to everyone, including young adults whose history seems against them. For example, they are the child of a notorious villain but do not want to be associated with their parent. The Academy offers them a chance to change their path. 

At Crystal Peak Academy they seek diversity and inclusivity. However, it is still a place of business. They are aware of the expectations and criteria from the Board and as the best school in the world they have to abide and follow policy. For those that do not ace their entrance exam, from both written to practical, and win over the Office of Undergraduate Admissions through their application and essay, they are either rejected or placed in the Special Heroes Assistance Program at Crestview College. 

To visit Crystal Peak is something that many people dream of so those that get into even the "special" program usually do not refuse. To see the timeless place considered a rarity to men, a small world of its own, with a perfect blend of extraordinary beauty, eerie mystery, and enchanting charm would be a feat in itself. Secluded by woods, a hill, and a lake, a lake that shimmers at night as if it was filled with white crystals, Crystal Peak is a place where those that lived there all their lives are not many; a small town where everyone knows everyone and more often than not, they never want to leave. Those that visit and get to live there even for only four years of college are taken into a place of wonder, the real life Neverland. At least aesthetically it feels like magic is in the air but who knows, for such a lovely place, it could be heaven or it could be hell. There's only one way to find out.

This isn't an average college roleplay where you play a character with unlimited power expecting to finish all four years without any problems. If you finish all four years. Actually the day before graduation for the class of 2022, Thursday, May 5th, Crestview College, one of the oldest buildings in Crystal Peak, went down in flames, taking people with them. Students from both Crystal Peak Academy and Crestview College were sent home and graduation took place online two weeks later. There were casualties and all townspeople, regardless of how competent they were, banded together to bring down the inferno, making sure it did not spread beyond Crestview. 

The next school year, 2022-2023, dawns a new age. An age where Crestview College staff will join their brother school to teach the Special Heroes Assistance Program at the Academy and the first year where students will be required to participate in the Student Support Services, meeting with a mental health counselor bi-weekly and reporting to a teacher monthly to talk about their struggles, pressures, and all that good stuff. How can the Academy help you through your issues?  

On top of that transition and the trauma from the fire, the Academy and the Specials have never gotten along. Those that attend the Academy have been viewed to be arrogant and elitist, while those in the special program are considered just that. Special, less than, and not hero material. There was no evidence of what or who started the fire. People have their theories but with no evidence to back them up, there is no way the case can be solved. Those who lost people have not been given closure but they have been offered financial and emotional assistance from the Board during these trying times. 

Faculty and staff are hopeful that all their students can co-exist while following rules and regulations in the student handbook. At the end of the day, you came here to learn, you came here to master your powers, to discover new facets of your abilities, to find yourself, and to be given your hero's license so that you can join the ranks and make a difference. While you aren't guaranteed to become super, for all we know you might be in the Support Class not trying to be a hero in active duty anyways, the Academy will certainly try to optimize your abilities and make you comfortable in your own skin. 

Let's hope we can maintain the peace and survive the next year. 

As Ambrose Crowne, Dean of the Academy, once said, "Promise yourself, come hell or high water, you'll make YOU a priority and keep going. You're your longest commitment and if you quit in the process, you're quitting on the result. We're the Blue Ravens. Fly with your own wings and just know we're here to see you succeed."


So you want to be a hero? Or better yet, a superhero? Get chosen for Bechtel International located in the Big Apple where only the top eight superheroes in the world work at? Join the Guardian's Eye and get stationed at a massive citadel in Saxon Switzerland, Germany? Or join the research, technology, and development organization, JaKobaMech, in Tokyo, Japan? Regardless where you work at, corporate or independent, and what you do, field work or support, you first need your Hero's license. Until you get that pretty little blue card, either attending one of the three registered universities, getting placed in the Special Heroes Assistance Program, or going to HeroCorp, using your powers beyond your household is considered a crime and you will be labeled as a vigilante and/or criminal. It's like using a gun without a permit. In a world where over half of the human population have gifts — gifts that vary in type, force, and potential — it makes sense that there is a need to regulate, maintain, and limit such power. The government has sought to provide as much help as they can, through law and order, as well as offer tools and resources to help the Gifted grow. With an oversaturation of heroes, finding a dime in a dozen is easy. Finding a superhero and a legend? That took time. The inevitable day did come where specialized-mission institutes for the Gifted rose from the dirt. Their mission: to train aspiring heroes in controlling their powers, pushing them in a safe and controlled space, and guiding them so they may maneuver in the real world with their abilities. Consider powers or whatever you want to call it — some people call it magic, some people call it sin — recognized as a formal resource and technology in today's society. Not only is power considered a resource but it is also a type of currency, energy, and tool. Powers are so important in society that they can change the game of politics, science, technology, media, and art. They can change the world itself, if you know how to use it. To obtain such gifts can happen through one of three ways. Through genetics, happenstance, or science. The most common and natural way is genetically. Through DNA one could get a gift like their mother or of their father or a combination of both, creating a whole new set of powers entirely. The Prime Board of Directors (located in Washington, D.C.), which sets the worldwide standard for Heroic and Support education, aims to see how far they can push students. Without a doubt, the world is waiting to see who will rise to great heights, from fame to glory. It’s the Board’s job to oversee the implementation of its policies and educational programs, keeping tabs on the three committees of the approved and registered hero schools (located in the United States, Germany, and Japan). The saying goes you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. In this universe, the world belongs to 'supes' but not everyone with powers is considered one. A superhero is an idol who inspires and sets the standard in this evolving world of gifts. They protect their domain, they bring hope to the world and in the eyes of the ordinary, they're considered on top of the world. And you? You're trying to find your place. Starting with your education.


In the late 1700s, Crystal Peak was settled by Thomas Crowne, James Cashmore, and Nicholas Cypress, brothers-in-arms, who shared a common belief that people like them, ones with peculiarities, needed a safe place to grow and just be. Not every country in the world was safe to those gifted. Like the Puritans with the Native Americans, there was the genocide of the Damned. The Damned was what some folks would call those with powers. They believed them to be cursed, carrying not a gift, but sin. A curse among men. Outside of Crystal Peak, which is land near Crystal Lake, just outside Salem Center, New York, little is known of this period and these three men, although there are stories. Stories of blood and sin. Stories of greed and jealousy. Stories of chains and shackles. For instance, Thomas Crowne is believed to have beaten his youngest son, Josiah, to death after the discovery that his own flesh and blood defiled a woman, a married one at that, and impregnated her. To most, this was seen with good intention but to Elspeth Crowne, his wife, she knew it was a vile deed and her husband spun an irresistible tale. Her husband was a jealous man who obsessed over the woman that was not his property. The woman was remarkably beautiful too... the story ends with the woman ashamed and unable to live in a town full of shortcomings, false hope, and broken promises. She disappeared in the night swearing an oath to never return. Those who knew of Crystal Peak at the time believed it to be the promised land, a place for angels and demons to coexist, but not for her. She saw and felt too much. She knew too much. Rumor has it, Josiah Crowne's remains are believed to be buried right under the Clocktower. That is simply a children's story, of course, and Crystal Peak, at least nowadays, is the place to be. In 1953, on the outskirts of town, by the Crestview Hill, Crowne School for the Gifted was created. It started off small, experimental, where the three C families would seek out lost souls and try to help them master their powers (and study them). It wasn't until 1968 where they decided to build a bigger school by the name of Crystal Peak Academy, in the heart of town, and shift Crowne School for the Gifted to Crestview College. They expanded and changed their name to reflect its broader scope of heroic discipline. Presently, Crystal Peak Academy is a world leader in Heroic and Support education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of education for those Gifted all around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential. Crestview College is considered their sister school. The Academy's application process is rigorous and open to everyone, including young adults whose history seems against them. For example, they are the child of a notorious villain but do not want to be associated with their parent. The Academy offers them a chance to change their path. At Crystal Peak Academy they seek diversity and inclusivity. However, it is still a place of business. They are aware of the expectations and criteria from the Board and as the best school in the world they have to abide and follow policy. For those that do not ace their entrance exam, from both written to practical, and win over the Office of Undergraduate Admissions through their application and essay, they are either rejected or placed in the Special Heroes Assistance Program at Crestview College. To visit Crystal Peak is something that many people dream of so those that get into even the "special" program usually do not refuse. To see the timeless place considered a rarity to men, a small world of its own, with a perfect blend of extraordinary beauty, eerie mystery, and enchanting charm would be a feat in itself. Secluded by woods, a hill, and a lake, a lake that shimmers at night as if it was filled with white crystals, Crystal Peak is a place where those that lived there all their lives are not many; a small town where everyone knows everyone and more often than not, they never want to leave. Those that visit and get to live there even for only four years of college are taken into a place of wonder, the real life Neverland. At least aesthetically it feels like magic is in the air but who knows, for such a lovely place, it could be heaven or it could be hell. There's only one way to find out.


This isn't an average college roleplay where you play a character with unlimited power expecting to finish all four years without any problems. If you finish all four years. Actually the day before graduation for the class of 2022, Thursday, May 5th, Crestview College, one of the oldest buildings in Crystal Peak, went down in flames, taking people with them. Students from both Crystal Peak Academy and Crestview College were sent home and graduation took place online two weeks later. There were casualties and all townspeople, regardless of how competent they were, banded together to bring down the inferno, making sure it did not spread beyond Crestview. The next school year, 2022-2023, dawns a new age. An age where Crestview College staff will join their brother school to teach the Special Heroes Assistance Program at the Academy and the first year where students will be required to participate in the Student Support Services, meeting with a mental health counselor bi-weekly and reporting to a teacher monthly to talk about their struggles, pressures, and all that good stuff. How can the Academy help you through your issues? On top of that transition and the trauma from the fire, the Academy and the Specials have never gotten along. Those that attend the Academy have been viewed to be arrogant and elitist, while those in the special program are considered just that. Special, less than, and not hero material. There was no evidence of what or who started the fire. People have their theories but with no evidence to back them up, there is no way the case can be solved. Those who lost people have not been given closure but they have been offered financial and emotional assistance from the Board during these trying times. Faculty and staff are hopeful that all their students can co-exist while following rules and regulations in the student handbook. At the end of the day, you came here to learn, you came here to master your powers, to discover new facets of your abilities, to find yourself, and to be given your hero's license so that you can join the ranks and make a difference. While you aren't guaranteed to become super, for all we know you might be in the Support Class not trying to be a hero in active duty anyways, the Academy will certainly try to optimize your abilities and make you comfortable in your own skin. Let's hope we can maintain the peace and survive the next year. As Ambrose Crowne, Dean of the Academy, once said, "Promise yourself, come hell or high water, you'll make YOU a priority and keep going. You're your longest commitment and if you quit in the process, you're quitting on the result. We're the Blue Ravens. Fly with your own wings and just know we're here to see you succeed."

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This is an invite only rp. If you are interested, you can PM me and I'll consider more hands on deck. However, this is my first roleplay gming in awhile and this is a concept I care a lot about so I want to maintain my sanity and have a dedicated writer base starting with some of my friends. No hard feelings.
Regular site rules: No godmodding, no mary sues and gary stus, no cybering, don't be a dick, etc, etc.
No set posting order. Let inspo take you, even if you're writing flashbacks and waiting for the scene to move forward.
High casual rp - quality over quantity.
Real face claims in modern setting.
When entering action-based scenes or confrontations, communication is key. We are here to tell a story that may mean sometimes your character will lose/be defeated. Discuss in private how you see the scene flowing, make sure each writer involved is okay with the result and go with the wind.
This is a college and there are rules. You might have characters with powers but I will regulate it. Don't assume you can use your powers at any time, in any place. Like I said earlier, consider your weapon a gun. Choose when you want to take it out and understand there might be consequences.
I will be permitting just about any power but I'll be looking for weaknesses, flaws, and limitations. I want to see you explore the growth of your character which means they still have a lot of learning to do. Please try your best to balance and moderate your characters. Any powers which gives you control over another character, similar to a fight scene, please talk to writer in private and paint an interesting scene together, understanding its okay for your character to feel defeat.
Let me know if you're going on a hiatus. Communication is key. Please don't ghost me. I don't take that lightly.
Post C.S. in the OOC and wait for approval. Do not post anything in the character tab until accepted.
Tentatively we will have a three week posting period. I'm hoping we get to a place where a deadline won't be necessary and we carry the roleplay with momentum and inspo.
In the discord server I'll be posting lore, locations, teachers, etc, etc. I want this roleplay to be a collaborative story and part sandbox. I have a general direction but you can influence the story, you can help me build the town, build the world, build the future, and create history. Together I hope we make something great.
I trust that you've read the rules. No special requirement. If you want to do something, just poke me or something. I don't care.

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This story will explore controversial, mature, and dark topics. We will not stray away from subjects like: homicide, hate crimes, assault of any variant, substance use, terrorism, and many others. As a form of courtesy, please mention trigger warnings at the top of your post. This roleplay is influenced by many movies/shows (ie. The Boys, My Hero Academia, The Umbrella Academy) and universes (ie. Batman/Arkham City, Marvel, X-Men).


This is an invite only rp. If you are interested, you can PM me and I'll consider more hands on deck. However, this is my first roleplay gming in awhile and this is a concept I care a lot about so I want to maintain my sanity and have a dedicated writer base starting with some of my friends. No hard feelings. Regular site rules: No godmodding, no mary sues and gary stus, no cybering, don't be a dick, etc, etc. No set posting order. Let inspo take you, even if you're writing flashbacks and waiting for the scene to move forward. High casual rp - quality over quantity. Real face claims in modern setting. When entering action-based scenes or confrontations, communication is key. We are here to tell a story that may mean sometimes your character will lose/be defeated. Discuss in private how you see the scene flowing, make sure each writer involved is okay with the result and go with the wind. This is a college and there are rules. You might have characters with powers but I will regulate it. Don't assume you can use your powers at any time, in any place. Like I said earlier, consider your weapon a gun. Choose when you want to take it out and understand there might be consequences. I will be permitting just about any power but I'll be looking for weaknesses, flaws, and limitations. I want to see you explore the growth of your character which means they still have a lot of learning to do. Please try your best to balance and moderate your characters. Any powers which gives you control over another character, similar to a fight scene, please talk to writer in private and paint an interesting scene together, understanding its okay for your character to feel defeat. Let me know if you're going on a hiatus. Communication is key. Please don't ghost me. I don't take that lightly. Post C.S. in the OOC and wait for approval. Do not post anything in the character tab until accepted. Tentatively we will have a three week posting period. I'm hoping we get to a place where a deadline won't be necessary and we carry the roleplay with momentum and inspo. In the discord server I'll be posting lore, locations, teachers, etc, etc. I want this roleplay to be a collaborative story and part sandbox. I have a general direction but you can influence the story, you can help me build the town, build the world, build the future, and create history. Together I hope we make something great. I trust that you've read the rules. No special requirement. If you want to do something, just poke me or something. I don't care.

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The Invited: @Aewin@BrutalBx@smarty0114@NeoAJ@Venus@metanoia@Aces Away@BeastofDestiny@Melo@Hey Im Jordan@Legion02@Viciousmarrow

While I'm not against allowing more people in, if you PM me telling me your interest, I will decide on a case by case basis. Please read below.  

Pulling this from the rules: 
This is an invite only rp. If you are interested, you can PM me and I'll consider more hands on deck. However, this is my first roleplay gming in awhile and this is a concept I care a lot about so I want to maintain my sanity and have a dedicated writer base starting with some of my friends. No hard feelings.

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▲ Subzero

Brenna Marie Lancaster
Nickname(s): Bre, B, Lancaster

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
 – Winston Churchill

╟ December 20th (21) || Caucasian || Female || Outspoken atheist, registered Democrat  || Bisexual  ||  Single ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  Ms. Lancaster excelled in the problem solving and history sections of the written exam. Her leadership abilities, and risk assessment capabilities have been referred for evaluation. She was all too willing to endanger innocent lives.  

|| Practical test || Ms. Lancaster showed incredible aptitude with her Gifts, and proved to be a quick thinker throughout the exam. Strength and agility are abilities she will have to hone over her time with us.

|| Written essay topic || Ms. Lancaster chose to respond to the question, 'What was your greatest triumph?' She wrote a rather touching description of her attempts to get her mother into rehab. The applicant showed a masterful grasp of language and prose, though we may want to look at other options, given the contents of the essay.

|| Video supplement || Brenna Lancaster sits in front of a camera, younger, but poised as ever. 

"Why do I want to be a hero? Why does anyone? I grew up in the city, heroes are a way of life there. You can't walk down the street without seeing some kid dressed up like Bulwark or Captain Crimson. The only thing I can do with my powers is use them, so I might as well help people. And you know what, I'll be honest and say that I think I'd be good at it. Not just the fighting and the saving people, but the inspiring parts. The speeches and the glad handing and the intense poses. I was fucking born for this."

Brenna slips a stray hair behind her ear.

"Does that answer the question?"

S C H O O L
Crestview College

Y E A R
Junior

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Elemental

O C C U P A T I O N
Part-time at Etoile, a luxury boutique

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Clearview Street Residence Complex

I N T E R N S H I P S
Summer intern with The Five, a Boston based team. Worked on the administration side of superhero management.

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Subzero's reputation spread quickly. When you have power like hers, it's inevitable. Phoebe Masterson's little snowflake, the Ice Queen of Crestview, just as dangerous as she was beautiful. Brenna became known for a dark sense of humor, and a cold, unflinching desire for respect. Those who slighted her, learned quickly why others feared her. She was a beast in the arena, and she never forgot an insult.

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A B I L I T I E S
Cryokinesis. Brenna is able to generate and control ice, frost and snow. She is able to drop the temperature around her with a thought, to summon razor sharp snowflakes and piercing icicles. Her power grants her protection from the cold, empowering her rather than slowing her down. Conversely, extreme heat has been shown to affect her ability to process information, and control her abilities. She is limited only by her dark, dangerous imagination, and the toll her powers take on her body.

L I M I T A T I O N S
The cryokinetic muscle is not unlike those in your legs or arms. It is all too easy to overexert herself in a moment of rage or extreme stress. Overuse results in a hibernation of sorts, wherein, Brenna's body enters a coma-like state while it replenishes energy. Brenna is also weak to extreme heat. Her power begins to fail at temperatures incapable of sustaining ice, and she seems to suffer symptoms of heatstroke far earlier than your average human.

C O M B A T
Brenna is adept at ranged combat, relying on her power over ice to keep enemies at bay. One can expect to be dodging icicles thrown from all angles, and fighting off the creeping effects of frostbite. A fight with Brenna is an obstacle course, but her close combat is nothing compared to some of the masters at Crystal Peak.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Blonde | Straight (1A) | Straightened and worn down, hair framing her face.
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'8"
Body Type: Slender frame that's been toned by four years of hero training. She's no strongman, but she isn't the scrawny little girl who arrived on campus almost four years ago.
Clothing Style: Dark Academia | 1 2 3 4
Makeup Wise: Mostly natural looking (at least to guys) but her eyeliner and eyeshadow tend to be more fanciful, assuming she doesn't have gym that day.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: The number 13 just behind her ear

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Skin tight, snow white suit made from specially enhanced leather, designed to withstand extreme cold and more than a few bullets. A simple domino mask and pair of combat boots accompany the piece, and Brenna completes the ensemble herself, with a crown of ice.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
It should come as no surprise that the one word Brenna would use to describe herself, is 'cold.' She is a stoic wall of stone with most people, determined and focused on only that which serves her, no more, no less. With those few souls that Brenna has come to trust, she is somewhat warmer; she has a dark sense of humor and wicked wit that has endeared her to some of the thicker skinned students of Crestview. Cold as she might be, Brenna has a strong sense of right and wrong, and the bravery to do what needs to be done. Some might call her impulsive, or even foolish, but she knows exactly what she's doing. The fact of the matter is, for Brenna, the ends justify the means.

F E A R S
Tight spaces

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Erin Lancaster - Mother; a recovering drug addict living in New York. Contact with Brenna is limited to once every year, on Mother's Day.

Heatwave - Father; Missing, presumed dead; a former villain who seems to have fallen off the face of the earth, ever since his escape from prison shortly after Brenna's birth.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
In a world where gods walk amongst men, Erin Lancaster was painfully average. She grew up middle class, got an associate's degree at a local community college, and had her dreams crushed by the harsh streets of New York City by the time she turned twenty four. In the wake of her umpteenth failed audition, she found herself drowning her sorrows in a sleazy dive bar, dejected and ashamed. This is how she met Heatwave.

She was stumbling home from the bar, he was running from every cop in the city. Looking back on it, she wasn't much more than a hostage, at least in the beginning. That didn't matter much to her though. One moment, she was nobody. The next, she was the only thing standing between a notorious supervillain, and death by firing squad. He demanded they allow him to leave, and it was her who bought him the ticket out. When they had escaped, he told her she was welcome to leave, but she refused. She had wanted fame and fortune, but she'd settle for infamy and imprisonment, if it meant that people would at least know her name.

Her time with Heatwave was fleeting. Over the course of three months, she was spotted at a number of his crime scenes, acting as an accomplice in some capacity. The media, always begging for a story, ran with their version of Erin Lancaster; a frightened young woman, held captive and succumbing to Stockholm Syndrome.

Eventually, Heatwave's story ended like most villain's do; with a defeat. From inside a motel room, just outside of Boston, Erin watched as Heatwave fell, defeated by The Shining Spector. It was easy enough for her to feign innocence with the police. With Heatwave gone, everybody seemed to lose interest in her. The hard part came two weeks later, when she discovered she was pregnant.

So begins the story of Brenna Lancaster. Born out of complication, into even more. Erin had changed in her time with Heatwave, or at least, she had released what was always inside. She grew more and more unstable and it only got worse when he escaped from prison. She waited and waited, and then she waited some more. Heatwave never came for her, or her daughter. He'd forgotten about the waitress from New York City.

Brenna's childhood was volatile, equal parts loving and abusive. Erin was more than happy to regale Brenna with tales of her father, long gone, yet quick to explode in fits of rage. Brenna learned to tread across thin ice, long before she learned to walk.

Their relationship changed somewhat, when Brenna's powers manifested. Erin was once again, in close proximity to the gods she'd come to worship. Brenna became the center of her attention, an unenviable position. Erin cared very little about raising a hero; she wanted a superstar, an icon, a child that would shake the world. She took what little money she made, and devoted it to trainers for her daughter, people focused on raw power rather than control.

All this hard work was supposed to pay off, with an admission to Crystal Peak Academy. Instead, Brenna was relegated to the sister school, tucked away in some corner. Finally free from her mother, Brenna had been expecting a reward, a change. The only change was that at least here, her power earned her respect. As above, so below, goes the old saying. The same was true of Brenna. The ice she'd built around herself began to seep into her. By the time of the fire, she wasn't acting anymore. She was the Snow Queen, through and through. Cold, calloused, and, some might say, crazed. If she cares, it doesn't show. Love is a foreign taste on her tongue, and fear is so much sweeter.

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Anya Taylor-Joy, lightblue 
Pianist, chess player, and occasional sculptor.

▲ Aegis

William Arthur Blake
Nickname(s): Will

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
 – James Baldwin

╟ January 19th (22) || Caucasian || Male || Atheist, Independent (hard left leaning) || Bisexual  ||  Single ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  Mr. Blake exceeds expectations in all regards. He showed a clear aptitude for leadership and aced the knowledge portions of the exam. His decision-making trends towards "Unwavering Selflessness."

|| Practical test || In terms of wit and power, Mr. Blake is a force to be reckoned with. He's neglected his strength training (not uncommon with telekinetics) but his agility is on par with the rest of the applicants. While he is no more durable than your average young adult, he showed an incredible amount of resilience. His mental fortitude is quite strong.

|| Written essay topic || Mr. Blake chose to forego the traditional essay questions, in favor of one of his own making. He submitted a twelve page essay detailing his experience as the son of a well-know hero. Mr. Blake's response indicated a profound self-awareness, and a genuine desire to live up to his family's expectations. If he is anything like his mother, he will fit in well at Crystal Peak.

|| Video supplement || William Blake levitates a few feet off the ground, sitting straight up like an invisible chair is keeping him afloat. 

"I mean, there's nothing else for me. Not really. Hero work is what I've spent my entire life training for. I could get a job anywhere, but none of that really matters right? I can move shit with my mind, it would be selfish of me to just waste that. That's who I want to be. The selfless hero. I don't need a movie, or action figures, or costumes. I just need one kid to see me helping someone, and to decide that he wants to help other people too."

S C H O O L
Crystal Peak Academy

Y E A R
Senior

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Mental

O C C U P A T I O N
Warden at Crystal Peak

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Campus Castle

I N T E R N S H I P S
Interned over the summer at Give Back, a NYC based non-profit that matches Gifted individuals with local problems. He helped a lot of little old ladies.

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Will is... well he's Will. He's that upperclassmen that most freshman want to emulate, he's the example used by half the professors at Crystal Peak, he's kind of got a stick up his ass. Of course, that only makes it more enjoyable when he does finally let loose. That said, he's reliable and consistent, and there are worse things for a hero in training to be.

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A B I L I T I E S
Telekinesis - Will is a powerful telekinetic. He fucking better be, considering the convergence of bloodlines he has running through him. In his time at Crystal Peak, Will has moved on from the petty little parlor tricks he used to impress his friends in high school. He's grown stronger, able to lift a small car with focus and effort, and his control has far exceeded expectations. His last fight in the previous Tournament of Champions, ended after he pinned his opponent to the wall, using shards of concrete he'd broken off from the arena. No blood was drawn.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Will's ability is wholly based on his ability to concentrate. He's especially weak to Mental abilities, as his level of control steeply drops off when his perception of reality is altered. He is a powerhouse, and while nothing but a prolonged fight will do much about the raw power he is able to wield, a clever enemy can hamstring him with ease.

C O M B A T
Will is a bit of a wild card in a fight, having trained for years in different forms of powered combat. He might come in close, wrapping his fists in telekinetic force to deliver a devastating left hook, or he might stay back, keeping an enemy out of range while he flings them across the battlefield.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Dirty blonde | Wavy | A shaggy mop atop his head, usually swept up and out of his eyes.
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6'2"
Body Type: Slim, but toned. Will prefers lifting with his mind, but the physical rigor of the Crystal Peak curriculum has demanded he beef up his once string bean frame.
Clothing Style: Preppy/Polished | 1 2 3 4
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Small scar above his left eye, gold hoop in one nostril.

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Blue and white color scheme. A headsock that leaves his hair free, and a lightly armored bodysuit. Detachable, silver spikes ring his forehead, allowing him to use them as projectiles in a fight.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Will is a natural leader, a problem solver, a hero in the truest sense of the word. He's a stickler for rules and authority, a tightly buttoned up young man. He's naturally clever, and years of studying have made him almost insufferably smart. If he wasn't so nice, he'd be a know it all, but as it stands, he doesn't have a condescending bone in his body. If there is a dark side to Will, it only comes out when someone comes for his family. Plenty of people see him, and think him unassuming. They aren't wrong. Will doesn't exude power like some Gifted might, and he doesn't walk with any ego in his step. However, the people he cares about are not to be fucked with, and that's a lesson most need to learn the hard way.

F E A R S
Disappointing his family

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y

Melissa Blake - Mother; A retired hero who used to go by the codename, The Shining Spector. She's been retired for years, training Will and consulting with the family company in her free time. A kind, gentle woman, with a fierce heart.

Adrien Blake - Father; Adrien doesn't speak much to Will about his past. He knows that he grew up in New York, that he lived in Boston for a while, but not much else. He works in R&D for Cashmore Global, a job Alexander got for him back before he was born. Will doesn't know why. As far as he can tell, his dad and his uncle can't stand each other.

Athena Cashmore - Cousin; Fellow student at Crystal Peak and childhood confidante. William and Athena bonded through the trauma of growing up a Cashmore (or in his case, Cashmore adjacent), and together at Crystal Peak, they're one hell of a team up.

Damien Cashmore - Uncle; Melissa's older brother, and Athena's dad. Quiet, but certainly the more enjoyable of the two Cashmore brothers.

Alyssa Cashmore - Cousin; TBD

Matthew Cashmore - Cousin; In a lot of ways, Matty is the little brother Will never had. He feels responsible for him in a lot of ways, and he's taken him under his wing since he arrived at Crystal Peak.

Alexander Cashmore - Uncle; Melissa's oldest brother, and the current head of the Cashmore family. Alexander can be charming certainly, but he's also a ruthless shark. Still, he's bankrolled most of his family's lifestyle, so as much as he might dislike his uncle, he won't step out of line over a sour personality.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
From the moment Melissa Cashmore stepped onto the Crystal Peak campus, it was apparent that she would be a legend. Sure, her last name helped a bit, but Melissa had power, and drive, beyond that of her classmates. It was no surprise that she graduated top of her class, and moved into hero work almost immediately afterwards. She was in high demand, and soon, The Shining Spector was one of the greats.

Melissa enjoyed a longer career than most as a hero, operating for ten years before disappearing from the scene. It's not uncommon for heroes to step out of the spotlight after retirement, but even her family were left in the dark concerning Melissa's whereabouts in the months after her retirement. What Will does know for sure, is that when she finally resurfaced, it was with him and his father in tow.

Will wasn't a late bloomer, by any interpretation of the phrase. From the moment he could walk, he could pull toys across the room, using only willpower and innate gifts. His mother doted on him, and his uncle insisted on preparing him for the only life he could ever live; that of a hero.

The young telekinetic was raised on the Cashmore estate, with a host of tutors to train him and his cousins in the use of their abilities. His schedule was a full one, and normalcy was never a privilege afforded to him, or his cousins. They were Cashmores, like it or not. He might not carry the name, but his parents were always quick to remind him that he carried on a legacy anyways. Like it or not, he had responsibilities.

Many might've caved under the pressure, but for better or worse, Will persisted. Persistence has always been a strength of his. Will took the responsibilities thrust upon him in stride; failure was never an option for him. He would be a hero, or... well, he didn't really know what other options there were.

While Crystal Peak might've been a change of pace for others, it was more of the same for Will. He'd been training all his life, the only difference now was that he could sneak off to party if he wanted to. Spoiler alert: he never really wanted to. Will threw himself into his studies and training, the shadow of his family looming large at all times.

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Tom Webb, deepskyblue 
Hobbies include meditation, studying, and critiquing bad horror movies.

▲ Facade

Matthew Thomas Cashmore
Nickname(s): Matty, Matt

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
 – Ursula K. Le Guin

╟ March 22nd (18) || Caucasian || Male || Raised Catholic, registered Democrat  || Closeted Homosexual  || Single ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  While Mr. Cashmore's exam was mostly a formality, he shows great promise. His knowledge of history is excellent (as expected) and while he seemed to waver on the decision based questions, he would be a very promising addition to the Support class. I know his father is very adamant about his placement, but this is something to consider. 

|| Practical test || Physically, Mr. Cashmore seems far behind the rest of his class. He has a solid foundation in terms of hand to hand combat, but he does not seemed especially inclined towards violence. He scored well enough on the agility section of the exam, but his real strength is in his abilities. Shocking, I know. Mr. Cashmore exhibited a stunning level of psychic prowess, prowess that he seemed mostly unaware of. Even if he wasn't a Cashmore, acceptance might be necessary to ensure his powers are monitored. 

|| Written essay topic || Mr. Cashmore's essay was an uncharacteristically bold argument, suggesting more potential than initially clocked. He focused on the current failings of the hero system, particularly in regards to rehabilitation. While his thoughts were idealistic at best, naive at worst, his argument was well researched, and impassioned. He certainly cares enough to be a hero.

|| Video supplement || "Are you ready?" Matthew Cashmore is seated in a small, brightly lit room. His eyes look past the camera for a moment, before looking straight into the lens.

"I mean, everyone wants to help people, right? I don't think I'm special for that. The thing is, I think that's all I want to do. I don't need anyone to even know who I am. Honestly, I don't even need the fancy suit. There's not enough of us who are okay operating from the shadows, but I can do it. I don't need the attention or the praise, I just need to know that I'm helping."

S C H O O L
Crystal Peak Academy

Y E A R
Freshman

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Mental

O C C U P A T I O N
#Trustfundbaby

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
The Towers at Crystal Lake Commons

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If Matthew Cashmore had any other last name, he would've been a freak. He's shy and standoffish, and nobody likes a psychic, especially one that can pull your thoughts out and display them for the world to see. Luckily for him though, the Cashmore name offers a fair bit of protection. At his private school, kids found him "unique," and "funny," mainly because they were enchanted by his money and status.

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A B I L I T I E S
Empathic Illusions - Matthew is something of a psychic, something of an illusionist. He can't read minds in the traditional sense, however, he can pull the thoughts of others out into reality, shaping them into lifelike illusions. Fears, dreams and desires, even mundane thoughts, are fair game, allowing him to turn a battlefield into a minefield of lies and illusions.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Matthew is not a psychic in the traditional sense, and as such, has little knowledge of what he can summon. Currently, his illusions have no substance, and while they are convincing, they are little more than a fancy distraction in a fight.

C O M B A T
Matthew is a stealth based combatant, focused on distracting his enemies with psychic illusions, and getting in close enough to take them out quickly and quietly. Despite his unassuming stature, take downs are his specialty, thanks to years of training at Cashmore manor. Those bony elbows don't seem so frightening, until they're cracking into you from behind.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Black | Mostly Straight, somewhat wavy |
Eyes: Grey
Height: 5'8"
Body Type: Scrawny
Clothing Style: Type of Fashion | 1 2 3 4
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Self-explanatory

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Mr. Cashmore is still very much undecided on how he would like to visually present his superhero identity.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Awkward and shy, Matthew Cashmore is the definition of a wallflower. He's never felt comfortable in the spotlight, despite his family's status in the world, or perhaps because of. He is all too happy to sit back and let others take the credit. At times, it's almost a miracle to think he is the son of the great Alexander Cashmore. Matthew is quiet, where his father is assertive, content where his father is ambitious, and idealistic where his father is cynical.

F E A R S
Being useless, or a burden

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y

Alexander Cashmore - Father; A complicated, difficult man. Matthew's relationship with his father has had very few silver linings, and yet, he feels compelled to obey the man.

Alyssa Cashmore - Sister; She blames him for their mother's death, he thinks she's a gaslighting sociopath. So, standard sibling behavior.

William Blake - Cousin; Close friends throughout childhoot, Will and Matt have bonded over the rigors of growing up a Cashmore.

Melissa Blake (formerly Cashmore) - Aunt; The hero formerly known as The Shining Spector, she's a powerful illusionist who tried to fill in with Will's training.

Adrien Blake - Uncle; Melissa's husband and Will's father. Adrien doesn't come around the main house that often, but he can tell his father doesn't like him much.

Damien Cashmore - Uncle; Alexander's younger brother, and Athena's father. He much prefers him to his father.

Athena Cashmore - Cousin; Like with Will, Matt and Elena have common ground, in their distaste for the pressures and pitfalls of the Cashmore lifestyle.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Before Matthew was born, there was Alexander and Elena Cashmore, shining jewels of the Gifted world. Alexander had left the hero world behind, but he was never far from his old life. After all, Cashmore Global was built on the backs of Gifted and their abilities. For a time, the couple were happy, idyllic even. They were enjoying their seats at the top, and Elena's pregnancy came as a sign of hope.

They did not expect such a difficult birth. Matthew came into the world as his mother left it, and the only person to greet him was a despondent, broken, father. Alexander took little interest in his son's early years. He was cared for by nanny's, his aunts and uncles, his cousins, but rarely his father. Until his powers manifested that is.

When Matthew's potential began to reveal itself, some time after his eighth birthday, his father began their training together in earnest. Matthew though, was resistant to his powers. Despite his father's tutelage, he resisted the innate gifts he possessed, afraid to strengthen them for fear of what he might become. He'd seen the way his father used his powers, the way he commanded his employees with just a thought. He would not be like that.

Eventually, Alexander's renewed interest in his son faded away to nothing, and Matthew was left to hired trainers, focusing on hand to hand combat. Training was never his favorite activity, but he knew that he had little choice. William and Athena might carry on the Cashmore legacy in their own way, but they would never be him. His father expected him to make it into Crystal Peak, and what his father expected, his father got. Like his cousin, Will, there was never another option for him. Unlike Will, he's never been too happy about it.

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Shepard Alistair Frasier
Nickname(s): Shep


”Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
 –Kurt Cobain


╟ July 16th, 21
|| Caucasian - Scottish
|| Male
|| Atheist. Fuck Politics
|| Pansexual
|| Fucking Everybody╢


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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  “Of course I aced the fucking thing. It’s so terribly easy to know exactly what sort of things these people are looking for. A nice word here, a heroic gesture there, no problem at all, pal. Pretty sure I scored top of my class. Surprised? No chance”

|| Practical test || “Piece of piss, really. No one can out strategise me and my strategy here was simple. Hang back, let the Neanderthals do their thing then find the strongest of the bastards and hijack his body and show those trackers exactly how it’s done. They tested my own physical capabilities too, nailed it”

|| Written essay topic || “Well, I have them the usual spiel of it always being my dream of being a hero. Told them about Father’s time as an agent for Her Majesty's Secret Service and how I wanted to honor our family by following in his footsteps but in a more visible light. Yada yada yada, complete load of bollocks”

|| Video supplement || “Given my penchant for denim and leather I imagine the powers that be will deem me, the bad boy with the heart of gold whose ability to supercharge someone’s special powers makes me the ultimate team player. They’ll probably leave it out of the brochure that I’m slowly killing anyone I take over. What?  You want to cut that out? Why? Don’t you people want the truth? Fuck it. Anyway, hero licence, honor the family, that full gimmick. Buy the boy a biscuit I’m going for a drink”


S C H O O L
Crystal Peak Academy


Y E A R
Junior


C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Spiritual - Superpower Manipulation - Physical


O C C U P A T I O N
IT Technician


L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
The Towers at Crystal Lake Commons


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Bad boy does not cut it with Shepard. He may be pretty but there’s something ugly eating away inside of him; that much is obvious just by the way he looks at the people around him with such disdain. He is known as someone who treads the thin line between genius and psychotic and will be the first to announce that he is the smartest person in the room. He can solve mathematical equations in seconds, he is a computer whiz and regularly hacks into the school database and his fellow students' bank accounts and has managed to make himself a nice little side hustle with this. Most of the time, if he can help it, Shepard likes to keep himself to himself. He enjoys solitary sports like climbing or swimming and constantly wears headphones to tune out all the noise of other people. When crossed, Shep can be outright despicable and is not opposed to violence against any member of the student body.

Not without his good qualities, Shepard can be a kind and caring soul for those he believes have been wronged through no fault of their own. The weak and the bullied are his people and he would lay down his life to protect them.


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A B I L I T I E S
Possession: Shepard's main ability is to transfer his consciousness into that of another human being through the medium of physical contact. He does this by destabilising his personal quantum field and merging it with another. When inside a host, Shep usually acts as a voice inside of their head, he cannot control the motor functions of a strong willed person but any weak willed, willing or somehow impaired (ie a drunk or concussed) is much more easily manipulated. He can remain inside of a host indefinitely if he so chooses.

Ability Supercharging: A bi-product of his possession ability; when Shepard inhabits the body of someone with powers, he enhances their abilities in some way; i.e someone with super strength could become even stronger, someone with enhanced speed could go even faster, an energy projector might be able to increase their range etc. The enhancement fades when Shep leaves the body.

Intangibility: Shep can phase through solid objects and living beings at will. The use of his powers is accompanied by flickering, prismatic afterimages of his body as he quantum shifts through space. So far the only extension of this ability is that of the clothes he wears and not anything extra.

Invisibility: Shepard is able to pass in and out of the visible spectrum by breaking down his quantum field.


L I M I T A T I O N S
As stated above, one of the main limitations of Shepard’s powers is that he can only control certain types of people otherwise he simply is just a passenger in their body.

Shepard’s own body is massively unstable. In order to maintain his own corporeal form, he must routinely possess a host and actively take away some of their life force in order to extend his own and stabilise his body. When he has departed a host, Shepard leaves a little part of his own essence in them, this mostly means nothing but to a recurring host, it might mean hearing his voice, seeing his face, the thought of him occurring quite frequently.


C O M B A T
As a combatant, Shepard is known as a traditionally dirty fighter. With powers that lend themselves to support or to infiltration, Shep has to make himself useful on a battlefield somehow. He relies on sneak and surprise attacks and traditionally uses Greco Roman and catch-as-catch can style wrestling techniques in combat. Shepard like to tie people up in knots with quick and excruciatingly painful submissions after throwing them around with relative ease.


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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Brown | Short | Messy
Eyes: Green
Height: 5’11
Body Type: Lean & Athletic
Clothing Style: Rock & Grunge
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Shepard has both of his ears pierced. He also has a body littered with tattoos which include a dead tree rising up his torso, a rose on the back of his left hand, an an unkindness of ravens wrapping around his right forearm, scales of justice on his right shoulder, a spider web on his left shoulder,the trio of monkeys on his left forearm and a shipwreck on his back.


S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 


P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Cunning
Nihilistic
Hedonistic
Intelligent
Self Loathing
Aggressive
Introspective


F E A R S
Shep’s biggest fear is to fade away both metaphorically and figuratively. He is worried about a slow death much like his mother but he is also terrified that one day he will merge with someone or go intangible to the point that he can never return to himself and he will simply cease to exist.


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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Lord Alistair Frasier aka The Mist: Father (FC: Ralph Fiennes)
Lady Martina Frasier: Mother - Deceased (FC: Helena Bonham Carter)


R E L A T I O N S H I P S
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The Sluagh, a mythical demon in Scottish Folklore. Legend tells us that a Sluagh is the soul of the unquiet dead, spat back out of hell and unable to find peace. On dark, lonely nights the Sluagh flies across the darkened skies, seeking travellers to snatch up into their talons and drop back down to Earth, killing them and taking their souls for their own. Of course this is all myth and folklore….right?  According to the Frasier clan, maybe not…

In eighteenth century Scotland, somewhere deep in the Highlands, a solitary man walked a dusty trail. He was starving, near death but he was desperate to complete his journey. In his possession, the traveler held a a precious block of stone, black and glistening that had crashed down to Earth from the sky. It was his want to gift this stone to a woman of wealth, so that he may barter for supplies for his struggling farm. After encountering many perils on his trek, the traveler thought nothing more could stop him, until he met the Sluagh. In an act of desperation, he offered the stone to the demon, hoping it would save him. The soul taker claimed it in greed before snatching the traveler and flying into the sky. What the Sluagh did not anticipate was the cleverness of the man, who upon seeing the fires of a home as they rose, ripped the stone from the demon's mouth, causing him to be released from its grasp. The traveler fell through the roof of the home and landed on the bed of a fair young maiden. Fashioning the stone into a wedding band, he proposed to the maiden who would soon become the progenitor of the Frasier family.

A happy tale one might think but the Frasier’s believe not so much. They believe that after deceiving the Sluagh, that their clan would be forever cursed and that a piece of the monster lived within the stone. Over the years, many of the Frasier men have suffered horrendous deaths but also great and powerful blessings.

Alistair Frasier was one to receive such a blessing. In the age of heroes and villains and black and white, Lord Alistair worked in the field of grey as an Agent in Her Majesty's Secret Service. Known as the Mist, Alistair had the gift of being able to transform his physical body into a gaseous substance which allowed him to freely move around areas without being seen and even make his way through walls, a preferred ability when killing people for the Queen. Alistair never wanted to be a hero and was certainly not a great lover of attention. When he met and fell in love with Martina Cole, a scientist for MI6, he believed that it was finally time to give up the gun and retire, a thought which did not last. The couple moved back to Alistair's native Scotland and settled in his family’s ancestral estate in the Highlands. Shortly thereafter, Martina gave birth to their only child, a boy they called Shephard.

Life at Frasier Manor was anything but normal for young Shepard, with both of his parents in demanding jobs which took them away from home a lot. This meant that Shep was essentially raised by nannies and family friends. This set off a deep rooted resentment for his parents that very much continues to this day. One thing that his parents did bequeath to Shep was a disciplined outlook on life, as such he has always poured 110% into everything he does. As a child, Shepard’s chosen vocation was his academics as he thought it would be the perfect thing to make his parents proud of him. A boy genius, he aced every class, passed every test and yet for his parents, it was never really enough. As he matured, Shep took to music as a way of channeling his growing anger and frustration. He found solace in the words of Bruce Springsteen and Kurt Cobain. He found a brother in arms with the guitar twangs off Keith Richards and he found a passion and meaning beneath the top hat of Guns and Roses Slash.

Things changed on Shepard’s sixteenth birthday when his father gifted him the meteorite ring that clan legacy says was the one from the Sluagh legend. As soon as he placed the ring upon his finger, a strange sensation rushed through his body and in a blink, Shep was on the other side of the room where his father once stood…wait? He was stood there. He glanced in the mirror and recoiled in horror as the visage of his father stood staring back at him. In a panic, Shepard soon found himself flying around the room as a cloud of mist until finally after several hours, he was back in his own body and his father, after calming down, explained to the boy what had just happened. 

Alistair retold the Sluagh story to his son but with the added detail that the ring that Shepard now wore, had an uncontrollable effect on some of the men that wore it. Some of these men would develop abilities beyond that of mortal men and these abilities would always come with a severe drawback because of the demon that had cursed them all those years ago. Every Frasier needed to steal the life of another to keep their own going, the cost of doing business, Alistair called it. 

With the emergence of his powers, Shepard began to feel even more isolated as now he realised that even basic physical touch could cause adverse effects to the people around him. To add to his growing list of issues, Martina, Shep’s mother, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and the once brilliant scientist slowly began to lose her mind. Before her death, the last great thing she did was send Shep to Crystal Lake in the hopes that someone there would be able to help him and save him from himself.


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Shepard is a keen musician and plays the guitar, drums and the piano.
Shep wears headphones all the time, he’s not a talker.
Due to the nature of his abilities, Shep’s training is focused on infiltration and espionage.
Shepard works IT repair around campus and is often called upon to help fix training equipment as well.
Never question Springsteen in front of Shep or he will slap the shit out of you. That is all.
Energy Drinks & Craft Beer.

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James Alexander Tyler
Nickname(s): Asshole, JT, The One and Only King of Comedy

Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well
 – M.I.A.

╟ March 20th (20) || Caucasian || Cis Male || Atheist, Progressive || Pansexual ||  Single and Mingling ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  Mr. Tyler showed phenomenal prowess in the decision making section of the test, and displayed a mind more than competent enough for fieldwork. Based on his video supplement, one might not of expected such a high score, but there is apparently more here than meets the eye. If his scores on the morality questions are anything to go off of, Mr. Tyler will be a fine addition to Crystal Peak.

|| Practical test || Mr. Tyler put on an excellent showing during his practical exam. Speed was obviously off the charts, but his strength and endurance were impressive as well. It's clear that despite no formal training, he has kept himself in shape, and familiar with his powers. He still has much to learn in the control department, but he is certainly up to the task. 

|| Written essay topic || Mr. Tyler submitted an essay about three major heroes from the last fifty years, and the influences they had over society as a whole. A surprisingly well written piece considering the in-person interactions we had with him, he demonstrated a strong grasp of the repercussions heroes have throughout society.

|| Video supplement || James Tyler is sitting as still as he possibly can, which for him, involves an absurd amount of fidgeting. His foot raps out an impossibly fast rhythm against the floor

"I guess, if I had to say, I'm all about helping the little guy. Or, not the little guy, but the people who can't help themselves. My dad and my brother don't have powers, and, I don't know, I think I couldn't sleep if I didn't know that I was out there, making the world a better place for them. I mean, it's great that I can get from coast to coast faster than you can say 'Where the fuck did he go?' but it doesn't mean anything unless I do something with it, right? That's who I want to be.

S C H O O L
Crystal Peak

Y E A R
Junior

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Personal/Transportation

O C C U P A T I O N
"My dad's are rich as fuck, why the hell would I get a job?"

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
The Towers at Crystal Lake Commons

I N T E R N S H I P S
Interned with Nextwave this past summer, studying under famed speedster, Whiplash.

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Lovable and loathsome all at once, James is something of an acquired taste. He's not the type to hit the books day in and day out, in fact, he might seem like he doesn't take any of this seriously at all. Still, no one can say much about his antics, considering he regularly places in the top ten portion of his class. A prankster, a man-whore, and the guy who knows where every party is. Love him or hate him, James Tyler is an essential part to the Crystal Peak experience.

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A B I L I T I E S
James Tyler was blessed with the gift of super speed, as well as an enhanced physiology to support the intense speeds he can reach. He's fast, like, really fast. If the sound barrier were the law, he'd be in jail, cause all he does is break it. His speed is not limited to running either. He's able to move individual parts of his body at intense speeds, allowing for rapid fire punches, kicks, and other attacks designed to inflict bodily harm.

L I M I T A T I O N S
James may be resistant to insanely high speeds, but aside from his super suit, very little of his equipment is. That's fine by him though. Far as he's concerned, all he needs are Righty and Lefty. While James is hell to fight one on one, he's not without his weaknesses. Anything that restricts or impairs his movement is incredibly difficult for him to overcome, as are tight spaces where he is unable to build up speed.

C O M B A T
Simply put, fighting James Tyler is a pain in the fucking ass. He likes to attack in waves, moving too fast to hit before launching out of seemingly thin air to land a devastating blow, and continuing the cycle. James' biggest weakness in combat however, is his ego. He often falls into traps when he underestimates his opponent, and is far too fond of proving his prowess with words in the heat of battle.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Dark brown | Wavy | When it's long, he parts it down the middle, though most of the time it's just a shaggy, windswept mop atop his head
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'9"
Body Type: Muscular, gymnast's frame
Clothing Style: Streetwear | 1 2 3 4
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Scar along his right side from when he wiped out going Mach 2. Resistant is not the same as invincible.

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Skintight body suit made of specially designed kevlar, with pieces of body armor attached to the shoulders, chest, and knees. His mask is simply a pair of goggles, designed to transmit his view back to HQ and provide visual markers in a field operation. Goggles are also designed to track speed and trajectory, not just his own, but also those of his enemies as well.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
James is the best (or worst, depending on who you're asking) parts of his father's combined. Witty and resourceful like Jamie, but brave and outspoken like AJ, needless to say, he was a menace growing up. James is happiest when everyone around him is laughing, giving him a bit of a reputation as the class clown. He's high energy, in every sense of the term. Of course, as far as flaws go, James is full of them. He's impulsive, and arrogant, and all too often he seems to forget that he is not the center of the universe. He's lovable though, and much too fast to smack across the head anyways.

F E A R S
Responsibility. Ugh.

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Jamie Tyler (nee Callaghan) - Father; Polished and put together, Jamie is the Hero editor at the LA Times, focusing on the exploits of the countries most famous and beloved heroes.

AJ Tyler - Father; Owns his own autoshop line and gets involved with some more unsavory clientele on the side. AJ is the heart of the Tyler family in a lot of ways, and James' role model. Gifted with accelerated perception and reflexes, and enhanced healing. Don't challenge him to a drag race.

Nathan William Tyler - Older Brother; Two years older than Nathan, and unpowered. He's spent most of his life harboring a decent bit of jealousy towards his brothers, but he's a good kid at heart. Currently in talks to take over the Tyler family business one day.

Cole Phillip Tyler - Younger Brother; He'd be a genius, if he just applied himself. A botanokinetic who spends more time growing weed in his room than training for heroics. Too smart for his own good, currently working on giving Jamie a heart attack.

Katie Callaghan - Aunt; Jamie's sister and a famous actress, best known for her recent work in Brilliant: The Shining Spector Story

Molly Tyler - Aunt; Marine biologist, based out of Monterey. She watched the boys a lot when they were kids, and James has always enjoyed running up to Monterey to spend time with her.

Haylee Summerfield-Tyler - Grandmother; AJ's mother and an actress with an illustrious career behind her.

Dominic Tyler - Grandfather; AJ's father, retired from the family business, but always good for a beer, when James just wants to talk.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Jamie Callaghan and AJ Tyler weren't met to be the first time they met. Or the second. The third try though, well, that was something. Jamie was home from college, recently graduated, and AJ was doing his best to move past the cycle of addiction that had been plaguing him for years. The result? A risky rekindling, that grew and grew until there was no way they could run from it anymore.  They were married by twenty four, and had their first son, Nathan, by twenty six.

Jamie and AJ Tyler weren't expecting Gifted children. Sure, AJ had some powers, but nothing groundbreaking. Nathan had been perfectly mundane, normal in the most perfect sense of the word. James on the other hand, started manifesting his powers shortly after his second birthday. Ever met a toddler with super speed? It stops being cute very quickly. Jamie wrote about heroes for a living, but he'd never expected to have one living under his roof. He tried his best with James, but try as he might, Jamie was never good at letting go of control. AJ on the other hand, he knew what it was like to want to go faster, faster, faster.

James grew up trying to emulate AJ. He developed a love of fast cars, a stubbornness that drove both his dads insane, and an inclination towards caring way more than he should. James never got the training of a hero, hell, he hardly has the attitude. But god damn it, he has the heart for it, and that much was obvious to anyone who encountered him on his way to adulthood. 

Crystal Peak was always the goal. He'd been worried about acceptance, not that he'd ever admit that to anybody, but his Aunt Katie called in a few favors and made sure they took an extra hard look at his application. Hey, he's never claimed to be against nepotism, so don't come bitching to him about it. His acceptance was a milestone for the family, who'd yet to experience having an honest to god Hero among them. Even now, that day the letter came is one of his happiest.

James took to Crystal Peak like a duck to water. In Beverly Hills, he wasn't the only kid with powers, but he was one of the few who cared to actually do something with them. Sure, he didn't take it as seriously as some of the others, but hell, half of them were from  families that lived and breathed this hero stuff. Simply put, James Tyler is so fast, he had time for everything.

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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
 – Madonna

Sasha Ariel Delgado
╟ January 3rd (21) || Bisexual  ||  Single ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S

|| Written test ||  Frankly, my dad just drilled a lot of these questions into me with a ton of practice exams. According to him, I would’ve done really badly otherwise. He really stressed the importance of this test. But considering all the others who got in, I doubt it really mattered much regardless.

|| Practical test || Easy peasy. Beat up some villains. Rescue some people. These kinds of tests are made for me. What kind of hero can’t do this stuff? No doubt I got a perfect score here.

|| Written essay topic || Some expansive essay about hero history and the public perception of heroes throughout the last few decades. My dad told me the reviewer grading these loves this topic. I guess it worked out well enough, otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten in.

|| Video supplement || My brand is my adaptability. I can transform my body into so many different things! Big armored muscle? Check. Lightweight high-speed and stealthy? Also check. Manly man, good-looking woman. All that stuff these companies care about for some reason. You can make only a few cool action figures of other heroes. You can make dozens from me! Sure, some of these transformations can give children nightmares… but I’m sure others are into that shit!

S C H O O L
Crystal peak

Y E A R
Junior

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Personal physical, other

O C C U P A T I O N
Works at Etoile. They need that customer discount to stay afloat.

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
The Towers at Crystal Lake Commons

I N T E R N S H I P S
As a freshman, Sasha took an internship with their parents and high-ranked hero duo, Powerfist & Chemolition. Because their abilities allowed for similar kinds of physical power and muscle expansion, this internship was the perfect opportunity to learn how to best utilise their physical prowess in combat. Training against their father was also perfect training on how to fight opponents with similar and higher strength than themselves. Finally, their mother’s chemokinesis was pivotal in finding ways to utilise their powers in other ways.

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It should come to no surprise that Sasha is a bit of an enigma to most outside of their own class. “Wait, they’re the same person!?” is a common sentence uttered by those first learning of the many forms they take. But to those who know them, Sasha is known as fun-loving and fearless. They generally get along with everyone and are great at parties.

Sasha is also known as an avid tournament participant. Although their start in the arena was relatively poor, they have quickly made their way through the ranks during their freshman and sophomore years to a top contender. They use it as a testing ground for the many tricks they workshop, to varying (but consistently increasing) success. Like some kind of mad scientist, they have made some fans who like to see what crazy idea they have come up with next. They keep all other competitors on their toes as a result.

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A B I L I T I E S
Enhanced physique & self-biokinesis: Sasha possesses an enhanced body with increased physical attributes. They are also capable of manipulating every facet of  this body completely. They also have complete awareness of all events going on within their body.

Self-Biochemistry manipulation: They can exert absolute control over the molecules in their body and the reactions that occur with them. They can manipulate them at will. This can, for example, manipulate their metabolism to work better than a normal human’s, and process matter normal people can’t.

Body tissue manipulation: Sasha can generate and manipulate their body tissues, such as their muscles and bones in both shape and properties. This can be used to generate objects and structures, to enhance their body and for regenerating damage. They can exert absolute control over their own body cells and their functioning.

Change anatomy: Sasha can manipulate their body tissue to generate new body parts or even change their entire body to a completely different form. Using their manipulation of their own molecules, they can alter parts of their genetic code in the designated cells to generate nonhuman body parts.

Remote control: Sasha can still move and control parts of his body that are not attached, given it is in a certain range.

L I M I T A T I O N S
The main limitation on their ability is range. They can only exert control over their own matter within a limited range around themselves. In the centre of this range is a small organ normally located around their brain. Any matter that exits the range is immediately out of their control without exception. Even when still attached to their own body. Control is regained once it is back in range.

Temperature plays a large part in the control of their body. These influence how quickly the molecular alterations in their body are performed. Very cold temperatures may cause certain reactions they use to slow down so much that they are nigh unusable, leaving them unable to change their body once it has gotten too cold. At too high temperatures, their body might react more wildly and be harder to control. This may produce unexpected or unwanted results.

Many of their abilities rely on them changing their shape. These forms grant them certain advantages, but generally also carry disadvantages. A form strong against one opponent may be weak against another. Fighting multiple opponents can make it difficult for Sasha’s more specialised forms  to function, depending on their abilities.

The final limitation perhaps goes without saying. But there is absolutely no way for them to use their abilities on the bodies of other people. This is true for both harmful and helpful effects without exception. If it is not from their own body, they cannot exert any degree of control over it.

C O M B A T
On the surface, Sasha is a straightforward physical combatant with enhanced physical strength, endurance and regenerative qualities. And this is definitely where they excel. They are one of the most adept close-range fighters on campus. But there's more than meets the eye, their biokinesis lets them use their inventiveness to adapt themselves to specific situations. In particular, this can make them increasingly tricky to fight the more they learn more about their opponent and their abilities, as they can then adapt their body to render their abilities less effective. They may alter their physical attributes to utilise a completely different fighting style their opponent is ill prepared for. Or they may use their chemical self-mastery to negate abilities that chemically interact with their body. They have an incredibly wide toolbox that will surprise the unprepared.

The greater and quicker the changes they make to their body, the more grotesque the ability is to behold. It is not uncommon to see bones jut out or hear them snap and crack. Or to see flesh expand and amass in heaps as they start to grow. Hence, they are not the most family-friendly superhero on the block.

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D A I L Y  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Largely variable, usually brown
Eyes: Sasha has a thing for brown, but sometimes they might like a green
Height: However tall they need to be to reach the top shelf
Body Type: What kind of figure would you take if you could pick freely? Yes, be jealous.
Clothing Style: Sasha’s wardrobe threads the spectrum from incredibly girly to a masculine business casual. Though they generally prefer casual, loose fitting clothes.
Makeup Wise: Sasha has a large bevy of make-up. But it depends a lot on their appearance what exactly they’ll use.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Scars and tattoos don’t really tend to stick around. Piercings just get in the way.

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Sasha possesses a suit made with fibres that incorporate their own body cells. This allows them to manipulate this suit. This allows them to alter the suit much like their own body, preventing it from getting destroyed when they greatly alter their body as it adapts to their new form. The suit is skintight, and generally worn underneath normal clothing. Sasha can control the texture of the suit. When worn underneath clothing, it is generally the same texture as their skin so as to appear invisible. The cells in the suit are modified to serve as chemical storage. Most of all it is used for a great amount of ATP storage, serving as a large energy supply for Sasha to give them greater endurance.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Sasha is openhearted and free spirited. They live in the moment and seek to enjoy every one. Their mood may change by the day, and with it changes their form. Their ability brings them a freedom of self that they have embraced fully. Like a change of clothes, they will simply wear what brings them joy that day. 

With their good-natured and positive attitude they generally have little trouble connecting to other people. They find a way to talk with even the most difficult people. They are also empathic and quite perceptive of the emotions of others. Traits that combined give them little trouble being either a beacon of positivity or a shoulder to cry on. It made them many friends through campus.And it gets them invited to all the parties they love to attend.

They are ambitious and enthusiastic about their career path as a hero. With a lively imagination and lust for learning, they are always thinking on how to self-improve. Although their unfocused nature tends to have them chase too many ideas at once. They also tend to take up too many activities to try and brush up their resumé. They have a restlessness that can cause them to crash and burn sometimes if not kept in check.

Sometimes their optimism and enthusiasm can work against them, however. They can be altogether far too stubborn. They try too long to make failed ideas work, or take too long giving up on a lost cause. Their emotions may lead them where reason is necessary. They also have problems saying no when asked for help, or to defer them to someone who could help them better than they could in that situation.

F E A R S
Sasha also has a particular distaste for those who can manipulate or disable the superpowers of others. To not be in control of their body or to be unable to change their form brings them anxiety.

Sasha also secretly abhors ghosts,  for no amount of biological enhancement allows you to punch one.

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D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Father: Sebastián Delgado
Hero name: the Powerfist
Ability: Bioenhancement

Mother: Natalia Santana
Hero name: Chemolition
Ability: Chemokinesis

R E L A T I O N S H I P S
TBA

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Sasha’s story starts with his father, Sebastián Delgado, better known as the Powerfist. A crystal peak alumni who after graduation returned to his hometown of Buenos Aires. Here he co-founded the South-American hero assembly, or SAHA. A network of prominent heroes from the entirety of the continent that help each other out when necessary, He rose to prominence along with SAHA, quickly becoming renowned for his incredible physical strength.

One of SAHA’s biggest targets was the renowned vigilante known as Chemolition. Natalia Santana, dubbed the Cartel Killer, was responsible for high profile acts of terrorism targeting drug rings, blowing up their buildings accompanied by gratuitous fireworks displays as her calling card. Despite being self-trained, she gave practised heroes the slip numerous times. The Powerfist and Chemolition squared off many times. Their game of cat and mouse was the talk of the papers for a long time. But one day, Chemolition just told him the following.

“Look, I think I’ve done my piece. If you keep me out of jail, I’ll come willingly.”

And somehow that worked out. Sebastián instead convinced the legal bodies that giving her to HeroCorp would be the best move. And so she ended up with a licence and a position at SAHA, perhaps begrudgingly to some of the other heroes she’d squared off with. Oh, she also married Sebastián at some point throughout all of this and was with child soon after. Nobody knows when or how that all happened. 

Sasha was a… strange phenomenon. Even in the womb they were already shifting. Imagine being told your child has neither of the parents’ DNA… while not even being born. Well, that was not completely true. The DNA encoding their superhuman abilities drew clearly from both parents. Oh, they were also a girl where they were previously a boy. No clue how that happened.

And so Sasha grew up different. When they looked around they saw humans. People with this particular feature they called an identity. Something that made them… them. And who were they? They did not have an answer. For even their mind turned as much as a fleeting wind. And when their body followed, were they still the same person who they were before? Were they their father’s son? Their mother’s daughter? Or were they just a freak, as the other children dubbed them?

It took their parents encouragement and reassurement that they were nothing of the sort. That Sasha, just as much as any other child, had an identity to call their own. That, regardless of what appearance they took, they were still the same person. That they were born with the envious ability to turn into whoever they envisioned themselves to be. “Others only wish they could do what you could. So be proud, and be whoever you want to be.” 

It didn’t exactly stick immediately. But stick it did. Sasha admired their parents. For their parents were awesome and famous heroes talked about on TV. And they were their child. What was there to doubt? Sasha tried to embrace their fluidity. Collecting clothes, make-up and jewellery of all sorts. And their appearance became just like that, another outfit in the wardrobe. Their identity was freedom, for they were free to become whatever they wanted to be. 

And Sasha, wanting to inspire others just like how their parents inspired them, wished only to follow their footsteps to become an awesome hero. 
But perhaps this was easier said than done when your transformation process for anything beyond your outward appearance  came straight out of lovecraft…

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Sasha is the type to pick up many hobbies, they’ve dabbled in many different ones, but their greatest one is theatre. You can imagine how happy the theatre club is with a person literally able to fit any role. They also really enjoy singing, and have a collection of different vocal chords to fit different songs. They’re also crazy about fashion.

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
 – Harry Truman

Athena Emberly Cashmore
╟ September 12th (22) || Caucasian || Female || Bisexual ||  Single ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  Athena aced the exams. She clearly prepared a great deal despite this test being mostly a formality for someone with her background. Her decision-making skills displayed strategic excellence and an aptitude for teamwork. She is best described as painstakingly pragmatic, but without losing empathy for her fellow man.

|| Practical test || Athena displayed great in-the-moment decision making and intelligence. Her ability to organise and direct others is impeccable. She may have helped others succeed where they would’ve otherwise failed by facilitating teamwork amongst the examinees. While not physically strong, she was quick on her feet and capable of holding her own when she needed to.

|| Written essay topic || Athena took perhaps a rather unconventional approach to these essays. Instead of picking a conventional topic, Athena took a number of historical failures of heroes and analysed the mistakes made in the management and coordination behind the heroes. 

|| Video supplement || ”Look, any person with even a modicum of intelligence knows the hero they make an action figure of is just the frontman. Any team worth their salt has a leader who stays back and makes sure everyone else works smoothly. The grease on the wheels that makes sure they don’t fuck up and lose their precious followings. Companies know they need directors who tell their heroes where they need to be so they can put those awesome skills on display. I don’t need credit, I need results.”

Athena smirked.

”But I’m sure companies nowadays know how to make a mastermind marketable.”

S C H O O L
Crystal peak

Y E A R
Senior

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Mental

O C C U P A T I O N
Warden at crystal peak

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Campus Castle

I N T E R N S H I P S
Athena has done two internships in her time with crystal peak. Both were with Guardian Eye. Her first one was mostly with their strategy and communications department. For the second she actually received extensive battlefield training. This is where she learned to use most of her military equipment fully.

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Athena is imposing, and often intimidating. She always seems to be judging you and your worth. Perhaps it’s because she knows what you were doing last night. There is a reason Will is the more popular of the two. She is ruthlessly efficient and effective at what she does. Even if not everyone likes her,  everybody respects her. People do like to do group projects with her, though. You’re pretty much guaranteed a high score.

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A B I L I T I E S
Expert weapon user: She is particularly well instructed in weapon-based martial arts. She is also a trained marksman.

Telepathy: Athena is a powerful telepath, capable of receiving and transmitting great amounts of information over large distances.

Mental detection: Athena passively reaches out with her mind to detect the minds of others in  a very large radius around her. She can recognise minds like one does faces or voices. She can skim a mind to attain basic information; such as a name, a face and surface level emotions. This works instinctively when paying attention to a person or their mind, much like reading a face by looking at it.
She can focus to increase the range of her detection to incredible levels. If she is given some identifying information about a person, she can use this to find the mind of that specific person. She is capable of sending telepathic messages to anyone she can detect.

Mind wandering: Athena can project a part of her consciousness elsewhere. She can either appear within someone’s mind or dream, or she can astrally project herself. Her astral projection is visible only to those who she chooses, or those who have the ability to detect minds. She can not use her powers from her projection’s location.

Mental network: Athena can create and uphold mental networks between herself and others, linking their minds to each other with herself as a relay point. People within the network can telepathically communicate with each other.This communication overcomes language barriers, and can even establish communications with things otherwise unable of speech. She can establish a mental network with any mind she can detect.

Information manipulation and transfer: Athena can create complex mental images and information structures (tables, maps, ect) in her mind which she can transfer. Within a mental  network, she can also freely transfer information from herself and others such as sensory information, emotions, knowledge and memories from one person to another.

Psionic protection: Athena possesses a very powerful psychic shield, protecting herself fully from mental attacks and manipulation. This shield also prevents her from being detected by other psionic abilities. With mental networks, she can extend this shield to others.

Psionic inundation: One of her few offensive techniques. Athena can harness harmful psionic blasts to attack the mind of her enemies directly. Usually this is only enough to momentarily stun or disorientate a foe. But with enough exertion this can cause great mental damage and even unconsciousness. 

Psionic weapons: Athena can focus her psionic inundation into a phantasmal weapon. These weapons are weightless and do no physical damage, but greatly harm the target mentally when they pass people. They are capable of incapacitation and even death if enough damage is dealt. These weapons also destroy psionic shields.

Mind reading: Athena can read the mind of others, perceiving their thoughts, emotions and intentions. The closer she is to her target, the deeper she can delve into the mind, and the greater detail of information she can retrieve. Athena primarily uses this in combat in a predictive manner, learning where and how opponents are going to move before they do.

Mind manipulation: Although largely neglected and untrained, Athena is capable of altering the mind of others. She can inject, suppress or augment certain memories. Injected memories are crude, and can not be mistaken for real memories. But they do not leave the forefront of your mind, like an annoying splinter. Any alterations disappear after about 24 hours.

Shared mind: An ultimate technique of sorts. When in a mental network, she can completely leave her body for a time, leaving it behind as if she’s sleeping. She can then enter the body of someone she is in a network with. She perceives everything they do through their senses, but she can not control the body in any way. She is privy to all of this person’s thoughts and vice versa. This person can temporarily use all of Athena’s skills and knowledge as if it were their own. Athena is also capable of using her telepathic abilities from this body, as if it were her own.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Use of her psionic blasts become more difficult the further away they are. The further away they are, the less energy efficient her abilities become under this circumstance. These abilities are at their most efficient when she is directly touching a person. She is relatively low on options if confronted with long range combat. These abilities are also blocked by psionic shields

Her mind reading and inundation becomes less effective the more people she has to target. She is at a disadvantage when forced to combat multiple opponents.

Her physical abilities are not beyond that of any other trained human. This, combined with the relative lack of range in her combat techniques, makes direct combat a risky endeavour. She is a glass cannon, relying on dodging her opponents to stay in the game. She has a difficult time against any supe who can move faster than her or who makes dodging difficult.

Perhaps more awkwardly, her mind can literally wander off when she's unfocused. Although this is mostly under control nowadays, this can still happen while she's asleep. She accidentally wanders into other people's dreams on regular occasion.

Her support and detection abilities have no real weaknesses. But by nature of being support abilities, they are completely reliant on her team. No amount of mental communication will help someone who doesn’t communicate.

C O M B A T
Athena’s at her best commanding the battle from the back lines. Keeping track of opponent locations, coordinating her allies and providing them with tactical information and advantages. She is invaluable in large-scale operations and can make large teams operate far beyond the limits of normal teamwork. She can also provide long-ranged combat support if she has the right weapons.

In direct combat, she relies on her skill with weapons to bring her opponents down. She probes the mind of her opponent to predict their moves to know where to strike and where to dodge. She uses psionic blasts to create openings where she can.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Brown, shoulder length, usually left down
Eyes: Brown
Height: 1.7m
Body Type: Slim, but clearly toned through years of physical training
Clothing Style: Classic and elegant. Dark colours and whites. Wears a watch with her perso-assistant, Noctua.
Makeup Wise: Mostly natural looking with perhaps some strong eyeliner. Reserves some heavier make-up for the right occasions.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Earrings, quite a lot of them

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Athena’s suit is highly militarily specialised. It is a lightly armored suit, balancing mobility, protection and functionality. Thicker armor plating covers the vital areas and arms. Most of her suit is emblazoned with owls, her symbol. The colors are mostly purple and black.

Features:
Hi-tech Visor: Athena has a visor attached to her helmet with several advanced functions. It houses a perso-assistant called Noctua that can perform requests for Athena, such as search functionality both online or in authorised databases. The visor features a built-in scope and zoom functionality and mapping software that works based on visual input.

Weapons: Athena is equipped with weapons tailored to her powers. Her primary weapon is a long-range precision rifle that can fire bullets created by her psychic powers. She also has a side-arm that does the same thing for a shorter range. Finally, Athena has a staff for close-range combat that is capable of delivering electric shocks on impact to incapacitate enemies.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Athena is a leader, radiating authority and charisma both. Her confidence is unyielding and her mind sharp, which makes her an inspiring figure that naturally takes the leadership role in a team. She relishes in tackling difficult challenges and doesn’t back down easily. She is a great tactical mind and efficient to a tee. She always had a plan ready for the moment. Although she is adaptable enough to abandon her plans should the situation invariably change. Her internships have taught her not every situation can be planned for, after all.

She enjoys having a team of people to work with, and she strives to do right by anyone she works with. She can appear quite hard on the surface, demanding of others to work as hard as she does, but underneath is a caring soul who will show compassion and empathy when needed. With her powers she has seen plenty of times what happens when she pushes someone without giving them the emotional support they need, and she has taken these lessons to heart. 

Athena believes strongly in her own values, and isn’t afraid to speak up for what she thinks is right. She’d rather convince and motivate others than try to manipulate them to their cause through underhanded means. She believes a good leader needn’t lie or cheat or manipulate minds to get people to follow them. 

Though she is not without flaws. Her self-confidence can come across as arrogant. And she can seem rather condescending if you don’t share her views. She can be difficult to work with. She assumes control and expects people to fall in line. It is perhaps a bit overly arrogant of her to expect people to get in line so easily. Therefore, she tends to clash with people who challenge her authority. 

Athena tends to suppress her own emotions, particularly the negative ones, trying to maintain a perfect air of reliability, the pillar of people. To show the weaknesses others do would make her weak. And who would look to her for guidance if that is the case? 

She is also entirely too curious for her own good. Her power warps her sense of privacy to some extent. When it is easy for you to find people and listen in on them, the willingness to learn more can be quite overbearing at times. Sometimes she may end up listening in on something she shouldn’t have.

F E A R S
Loss of autonomy. Being in a family of mentalists does that to you.

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Father: Damian Cashmore (youngest brother of the Cashmore family)
Hero name: Mind blank
Ability: Psionic assassin

Mother: Marianne Cashmore
Ability: Telepathy

Younger brother: Atlas Cashmore
Ability: Psychokinesis

Younger sister: Irene Cashmore
Ability: Emotion manipulation

Cousin: William Cashmore
Friends and confidantes for longer than either of them can remember. Together they survived the trials and tribulations that come with being a Cashmore nowadays. Few things are scarier in the senior class than a Cashmore team-up.

Cousin: Matthew Cashmore
Athena likes Matthew. And even though he shares her sentiments, she unfairly associates him with his father too much. Still, she tries to suppress this bias.

Cousin: Alyssa Cashmore
TBD

Aunt: Melissa Blake
Will’s mother, but might as well be Athena’s second mom at times. Big inspiration.

Uncle: Alexander Cashmore
Nobody likes Alexander Cashmore

R E L A T I O N S H I P S
TBA.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Athena had never been born had her father not sold his soul to the devil.

Well, Alexander Cashmore technically wasn’t the devil, but he sure as hell was the closest thing to it that Athena had ever met. Because only the devil would take advantage of a brother’s woes over losing a loved one, a childhood sweetheart that he was set to marry. And after Damian Cashmore, not publicly known as Mindblank, an obscure hero who mainly worked from the shadows, had tried to forget his sorrows with gambling, there was Alexander to help… for a price.

A geas, a mental contract that could not be disobeyed. Damian accepted, perhaps still remembering his brother as the man he had once been. But Mindstorm had not been the hero he once was for a while. And so the hero Mindblank became an agent of Cashmore global and its tyrannical CEO, erasing competitors and stealing secrets from their minds.

And then came the arranged marriage between him and Marianne Goldwyn, from an equally prominent mentalist family. All arranged by Alexander and the Goldwyn patriarch. Neither party was truly happy with it. But disobedience was simply not an option. The only option they had was to enjoy their cage together. Well, so they were ordered, anyway.

Athena was the oldest child of this union, and two more followed before Alexander told them it was enough. Damian and Marianne never wanted a family like this. Their children were a living representation of their hell, the bolts that locked their cage. Their responsibility to raise through command rather than love. An anguish that Athena felt all too well as her mind sought out her parents’. An anguish that her parents tried not to show, because they didn’t blame their children and wanted to give them a better life than what they had.

As a Cashmore, Athena was subjected to rigorous training to be worthy of her “noble” heritage. At least here she wouldn’t suffer alone, for her cousins and siblings were subjected to just as much gruelling exercise. Athena was never given another option. She would get into Crystal peak and become a hero.

Athena wanted nothing else. Because if nobody else was going to bring justice, she was going to have to do it herself.

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Athena is the head of the chess club and a nationally accomplished player.

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Melissa Tiffany Carter
Nickname(s): Mel

Yeah we lost everything
We had to pay the price
 – Samurai(refused)

╟ 15th of June(19) || Caucasian || Female || Agnostic, no political convictions || Heterosexual || Single ╢

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|| Written test || "I know a lot but I tend to jumble and jump whever I try to write things down."
Miss Carter's written test scores were in the top 5% scores. Though she took frequent penalties over convoluted sentence structure and somewhat archaic vocabulary at times. Nevertheless, the factual information in her test is accurate and detailed. She possessed the insight and an understanding of the real world, especially in terms of the Gifted. Some concerns were raised when it came to her situational judgment tests. It would appear she answered with a heady mixture of youthful idealism combined with a sometimes somewhat morally grey approach.

|| Practical test ||"God this sucked. Look at me!"
To put it bluntly, miss Carter showed no real gifts in absolute physical tests. However, she surprised some when she was confronted with real problems by devising, on the spot, a mechanical method to overcome said obstacle. Her grades in strength, power, and agility are subpar even for a standard human. Though her frequent jogging has given her higher grades in endurance. So routine physical exercise will be required. She is a remarkably strong-willed and creative individual.

|| Written essay topic ||"I wrote about how I wanted to change the world by inventing solutions we are faced with today but also tomorrow. There's a lot that still needs to be done in this world. I don't want to be a superhero that flies through NYC to beat up villains. I want to the girl on the cover of Forbes, and take an interview about how my inventions changed the world."
Once again youthful idealism shines through heavily in miss Carter's writing. Still, her desires cannot be misunderstood. She clearly wants to help the world and she seems to understand her own strengths and weakness well enough. There is certainly a measure of personal glory behind her dreams but this is to be expected.

|| Video supplement ||"I send in a five minute video completely explaining my goals and potential. It was very professional even if I say so myself. It wasn't just me standing in front of a dia presentation. It was a full video, moving behind me as I talked. What did I talk about? The same as I wrote in my essay. I want to be an inspiration and use my inventions to solve the problems of today and tomorrow!"
Miss Carter's video supplement further exemplified that she is not an average Gifted willing to achieve a hero license just so they can use their powers beyond the confines of their home. She has clear goals and wants to exercise a positive influence on the world. Some of the Social Media Studies department have raised a few points though. It would appear that miss Carter is very factual and straightforward. When it comes to branding this could make her appear cold, distant, and maybe even aloof. Obligatory Social Media Studies should be absorbed into her curriculum.

S C H O O L
Crestview College

Y E A R
Sophomore

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Mental - Sub-superhuman intelligence and hyper-intelligence episodes

O C C U P A T I O N
N/A

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Clearview Street Residence Complex

I N T E R N S H I P S
Melissa ran a summer internship at New Solar Innovations LLC. A company based in sunny California with a goal to produce a clean source of high energy through methods like fusion. NSI is affiliated with the Cashmore corporation.

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Melissa - when she entered Crestview - finally felt like she belonged somewhere. She was a little off, of course. The girl never went far from her room without at least three pens and a notepad. Even then she just scribbled weird stuff even she couldn't decipher a few days later. So she was definitely seen as the weird girl, but she was the weird girl in a school filled with weird people. Beyond the weird "shell" she was nice and caring. Though sometimes fairly bad at catching social cues. Still, you could always have fun with her. Sometimes too much fun. Mel definitely pushed boundaries.

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A B I L I T I E S
Sub-superhuman intelligence - Melissa's intelligence in of itself is not considered superhuman. However, it is clear that this capacity was born from her episodes of hyper-intelligence and inspiration. Hence why it is added to her abilities. Mel can effortlessly learn physics, maths and chemistry. As if she has some sort of unique insight that makes understanding these complex topics easy for her.

Hyper-intelligence episodes - The reason behind her carrying around a notepad at all time is because sometimes she gets an episode of intense intelligence. She enters what she refers to as her "flowstate" when she just starts writing down words and equations with little regard of her environment. These moments of intelligence, while random in nature, often form the core of an invention that she will soon create. Said invention almost always push the boundaries of known physics and chemistry in strange ways. While scientists have made attempts to study these inventions, it was deemed more useful to have Melissa continue working to connect the seemingly unconnected dots for them.

Hyper-insight episodes - These episodes are akin to her episodes of Hyper-intelligence. However, these episodes differ in that they only happen when Melissa is confronted with a particular problem that she cannot seem to solve. These are uniquely only mechanical problems.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Limited field intelligence - While Melissa possesses a clever mind, it is limited in which fields it shines. Other fields like sociology, psychology or languages leave Melissa dumbfounded. Oddly enough even the production of music - something often associated to high intelligence - is extremely hard for her.

Limited Controlled Episodes - The episodes that Melissa gets are at their core very uncontrolled and unpredictable. It can happen at any time. During class, during sleep, during dinner or even social activities. This unpredictabilities has come into the way of a regular life more than once. Additionally it has actively harmed Melissa's quality of life. Amnesia medication seem to offer a measure of control, while anxiety medication seems to have a slightly heralding effect. However, Melissa has professed that she is not fond of taking these medications.

Obession - It is hard to say whether or not the episodes themselves invoke a sense of obsession or the promise of results that come from them. After an episode, it has been observed that Melissa will work tirelessly and obsessively to manifest the information or the insight she acquired.

C O M B A T
Melissa has seen only limited combat training and scenarios in her first year at Crestview. Her primary focus was to create the necessary tools. She has no unique style of combat yet.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Brown | Straight | Melissa often keeps her hair a little bit wild and unkept
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'6"
Body Type: Slim, not toned. She's not a very physical person.
Clothing Style: These days Mel often wears what is both comfortable and slightly rebellious in nature. | Examples of clothing items they wear frequently or that can be found in their closet
Makeup Wise: She does wear slight amounts of make-up at times. Though nothing heavy or complex to apply.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: She has a tattoo of a small fire on the inside of her right wrist.

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Melissa’s superhero outfit is far from complete. So far she has mostly been putting things together after school hours. It is armor made of perfectly fitting, curved plates. So far it's powered by self-designed batteries. The intended weapons for the suit are what she refers as “Energy Fluxation Projectors”. So far prototypes have only been able to project kinetic force.

The plates are painted black and gray.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Intense & Obessive
Clever & Awkward
Loyal & Impulsive
Idealistic & Unforgiving

F E A R S
Failing to live up to her expectations.

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Mark Carter - Father, plumber. Due to government interference Melissa only had limited contact with him.

Maria Lakemore - Mother, nurse. Due to government interference Melissa only had limited contact with her.

Miranda Kerr - Governmental Handler. After Melissa was taken into custody by the Goverment, she was assigned a handler. Despite the somewhat unorthodox upbringing Melissa bonded with Miranda. Over time she began to see the woman as a mother figure. The relationship is amicable and returned.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S
Nicholas Hult - Crestview Guidance Councillor - Nicholas, or Nick as Mel called him, was a man who immediately saw that she was a conflicted young adult. At the start of her freshmen year, he insisted on weekly one-hour sessions to both follow up on her academic and personal achievements. In the first two months, she hated those sessions. Yet Nick kept going and eventually broke through to Melissa. His directions in her first year at Crestview were invaluable as he corrected her sometimes somewhat neurotic behavior simply by slowing her down. Nearing the end of the year she wrote a letter to him thanking him for all the help he gave her and telling him she was looking forward to seeing her next year. That night the fire broke out. Mel lost the letter and Nick.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
There isn’t much to say about Melissa’s life. She was born as an only child into an average Ohio family. Both of her parents loved her deeply and completely. She went to average schools until elementary. When it became clear that Mel had both an exceptional intellect and some strange behavioral issues she was subjected to a secondary superpower test that is generally given to early teens.

When it became clear that she was indeed superpowered the government took her into custody immediately. She was declared a danger to her own environment. Her parents, forced by the government, signed an agreement to let her be raised at a dedicated facility. When she would turn eighteen she would be deemed safe enough to live on her own, gifted enough to study at an academy like Crystal Peak, or judged unfit for society. Luckily for Melissa, she was deemed gifted enough. Until then though, she was raised at the facility. With only limited contact with her parents.

Being placed at Crestview was a blow to Melissa’s self-confidence until she set foot on its grounds. She quickly grew to love the place for accepting her as she was. That all changed when the fire broke out. As a junior, she barely had any tools with her in her room when it started. She still remembers it spreading so fast. Too fast. She got out in time through sheer luck but couldn’t rush back inside. She didn’t have her suit or any tools to combat the flames. First, she cried, then she joined a bucket chain in a feeble attempt of others to extinguish the flames. The following days changed Melissa. For better or for worse.

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When Mel feels particularly overwhelmed she often goes jogging. She jogged so much now that when she does her body just takes over and her mind calms down. She says it works better than any medication she has had until now.

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Douglas Michael Wolff
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 – Friedrich Nietzsche

╟ April 12th (21) || Caucasian || Cis Male || Democrat, Atheist || Homosexual  ||  Painfully Single ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  Mr. Wolff certainly met our standards for intelligence and combat aptitude. However, his scores in decision-making and morality leave something to be desired. He is all too willing to risk innocent lives in pursuit of his goals, and his means seem unnecessarily brutal at times. I worry that his cynical world view, compounded with the identities of his parents, would make for a difficult case.

|| Practical test || Mr. Wolff showed impressive combat aptitude during his practical exam. While he might not be the most powerful Gifted we've seen, he uses his abilities with a cleverness that is almost frightening. He is a creative mind when it comes to combat. He displayed an excellent understanding of how and when to use his abilities, and his combat skills were impressive for an applicant with no formal training. Ultimately, I worry that rejection from either Crystal Peak or Crestview would take Mr. Wolff out of our view, and this feels like a colossal misstep.

|| Written essay topic || Mr. Wolff wrote a very compelling essay about collateral damage in Hero work, highlighting the rising stats and positing some possible causes behind the rise. Worth noting that he neglected to mention his personal connection to the subject, and some of his language implied a persistent focus on the topic. Like I noted earlier, we must be very careful not to subject Mr. Wolff to further exclusion or trauma on behalf of the Gifted community. 

|| Video supplement || "Look, if you're watching this, you've read my file. You know who I am, who my parents are. So I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I'm some perfect paragon of virtue. What I will say, is that I'm the person who does what needs to be done. I'm the one who can get the launch codes back, or steal the files that need stealing. Most heroes are hammers, which is fine, because most villains are nails. Some villains though, are tumors, and for a tumor, you need a scalpel. Let me be that scalpel."

S C H O O L
Crestview College

Y E A R
Senior

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Mental

O C C U P A T I O N
TA for Professor Morgan

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Clearview Street Residence Complex

I N T E R N S H I P S
Interned with The Watcher, a Subtlety focused hero who taught him a number of new stealth techniques.

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Life is good at Crestview, when you're a technopath under the protection of Phoebe Masterson. Everyone knows Douglas, because they have to. Sure, he's Phoebe and Brenna's lap dog, content to sit on the sidelines of whatever trouble they stir up. He's also one of the only kids in the school that can remotely access technology. Wanna know if your boyfriend's cheating on you? Douglas will waltz right into his DMs and give you all his dirty secrets. Need a nasty picture scrubbed from the internet? Douglas is your man. He's more than just a lap dog. He's campus IT and keeper of secrets, rolled into one little bundle of snark and cynicism.

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A B I L I T I E S
Technopathy - Douglas is able to control and communicate with technology in a way that far supersedes the abilities of any mundane techie. To him, computers are friends, willing to do anything if he asks nicely. The very building blocks of civilization whisper to him. From microwaves to virtual assistants, if it's powered by electricity or receives a signal, Douglas can feel it, speak with it, and control it. This ranges in application from remote piloting and activation, to full on control of a system, allowing him to push technology past it's intended function. When using his power to it's fullest extent, he can see through your phone camera, dig through your search history, and corrupt any file he'd like, all without leaving the comfort of his bed.

L I M I T A T I O N S
When in his normal state of consciousness, Douglas is unable to do much more than issue simple commands. If you could do it while sitting at your computer, Douglas can do it from a hundred feet away. In order to exhibit full control over a piece of technology, Douglas must actually shift his consciousness into the device, leaving his body vulnerable to attack. If he were to die in this state, there's no telling what would happen to Douglas' mind.

C O M B A T
Douglas relies heavily on the use of gadgets in combat, as well as his own weapons training. Douglas wields a handful of devices in battle, that he can interface with and use in the heat of battle. His primary weapon is a staff, lovingly designed by Abe Blackwell, outfitted with tasers on either end, and a sonic transmitter that was built to produce a noise high pitched enough that it'll bring a human to their knees. Both devices can be activated with just a thought. Also on his toolbelt are a set of remotely detonated smoke grenades, a small drone designed to inject an adversary with a highly effective sedative, and two specially made throwing knives, affectionately nicknamed Thelma, and Louise . The hilt of each knife is actually a drone, programmed to return to the sheaths on his ankles. Do not let him take out Thelma and Louise.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Black | Curly | Long, covering his forehead, both perfectly messy, and perfectly positioned.
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'10"
Body Type: Slender, yet toned
Clothing Style: High-end | 1 2 3 4
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Left ear pierced with a silver hoop

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Lightweight, hooded coat, bulletproof. Body armor underneath, laced with lights that he can operate on a whim. Combat boots with an ankle sheath for a throwing knife attached. A black mask with lenses connected to his virtual assistant, offering him real time combat updates when called for.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Douglas is a boy who's always been too smart for his own good. He's a scoundrel with a code, to clever not to con as much as he can out of life, but too altruistic to truly give himself over to a life of maliciousness. He believes in his own code of ethics, one that simply insists on punching up rather than down. No matter what, he's never gonna make the little guy his enemy. The big guy on the other hand? Well, there's nothing Douglas hates more than pompous asshole who doesn't deserve what they've got. When Douglas decides you're out, he'll make it his mission to expose you, consequences be damned. If he wasn't so sure that his way was the right way, this might be a virtue. However, Douglas only listens to those he respects, and his respect is painfully hard to come by. Snobby, self serving and smart, Douglas Wolff is the person the heroes need, the one who walks the line they're all too scared to walk.

F E A R S
The Cobra. He's the hero that killed his father, and no matter how many years pass, the phantom of him still haunts his nightmares.

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D I R E C T  F A M I L Y

Diana Wolff - Mother; The villain known as Blindspot. Currently imprisoned in a maximum security prison for villains, known by it's inhabitants as, The Pit. Charges include grand larceny, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder.

Anthony Wolff - Father; The villain formerly known as The Molecule. Killed during an attempted arrest of him and his wife Diana.

Dylan Wolff - Younger Brother; Seven years younger than Douglas and the reason for everything that he does. Douglas doesn't care about a lot, but he will never abandon his brother.

Jacob Wolff - Uncle; Formerly a contractor, he was paralyzed during the attempted capture of Gammadon about five years ago. He's taken care of Douglas and his brother, ever since their parents were taken from them. He's a good man, despite the cynicism and gruffness.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
In the timeline of Douglas Wolff's life, there is a time before the Raid, and a time after. Before the Raid, he lived with his parents in a penthouse apartment, enjoying a life of luxury. He always had a knack for technology and video games, and eventually he had a younger brother to share in his passions. There was always something to do, food to eat, friends to meet and mischief to make. Sure, that life might've been bankrolled by the myriad of shady jobs his parents never wanted to talk about, but things inside that penthouse were perfect. Until they weren't.

Douglas remembers the night of the Raid almost perfectly. The sound of glass shattering awoke him from his sleep. He'd thought it a dream, until he heard the fighting outside his door. At twelve years old, he stood in that doorway, too afraid to call out, too stunned to turn away, and watched his father get beat into submission by a creep in a cape. That night, everything changed.

His mother was arrested, and his father succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. It hadn't even been a team of real heroes who'd taken him down, just a bunch of amateurs fresh out of Crystal Peak, who'd caught a lucky lead. There wasn't even a funeral. Douglas and Dylan were forced out of the penthouse, had the majority of their possessions reclaimed as stolen property, and shipped off too Harris Point, Montana to live with their uncle.

Jacob Wolff was nothing like their parents, and he was unprepared for two young children to show up on his door. Still, he tried his best to protect the boys, and as Douglas' powers began to manifest, he did what he could with what little he had, to support his nephew. Grieving the death of his father and the imprisonment of his mother, Douglas turned to technology for comfort. With the manifestation of his gifts, he was never truly alone, not in a world where circuits and wires connected everything around him.

Those early years in Montana weren't perfect, but they weren't terrible. They settled into a routine, him and Dylan and Jacob, and eventually, Douglas started to feel safe. He should've known it wouldn't last.

Jacob was at work when the fight between Gammadon and Rapture touched down in Harris' Point. Rapture flew Gammadon into the ground so fast it created a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that almost destroyed the small town. Jacob had been three stories up, working on a roof when the quake began. He fell to the ground, shattering his spine, and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. The life that Douglas had begun to settle into was once again torn apart, by the people who'd supposedly sworn to protect him.

That day, Douglas made the decision to live life for three people: his brother, his uncle, and himself. His abilities allowed him to follow in his parents' footsteps easier than most, and with far less evidence. Pretty easy to wire yourself money and cover up your tracks, when you can hack an ATM with your mind. Douglas became the primary caretaker of the family, providing money that his uncle refused to question, and in the meantime, he set his sights on Crystal Peak. He was going to do anything in his power to get his hero license, and expose them for what they were: uncaring fucking monsters.

When acceptance letters rolled out though, it wasn't Crystal Peak that took him in. It was Crestview. Once again, the heroes of the world had refused him entrance into the circle of safety they provided one another. Once again, they'd relegated him to the shadows, better to be forgotten than dealt with. He took the slight in stride. He was better than Crestview, better than Crystal Peak, and he would show it to them all.

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Lisette Alexis Keene-Tatsuyama
Nickname: Lizzy

"I don't care what they want you to be. It's what you choose that defines you."
 – Kenji Tachimazu to Ferryn Lunaire, as written in Reika Tatsuyama's Theft of the Starsteel Crown

╟ July 7th (19) || Caucasian || Female (she/her) || Closeted Bisexual/Demisexual || Single ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written Test || "I expected there would be some difficult questions - nobody is ever truly prepared for everything. I could answer all the questions on the history of the Gifted fairly well, and I'm sure of my answers. It always pays to do research. On the other hand, I'm not entirely confident in the heroism section? I know I spent way too much time on some of them, but I made my decisions based on the information I had at the time. That's always been how I think about scenarios like that: what do I know, and how do I use that knowledge? I think the leadership questions were my weakest point, though, I've never had to do that sort of thing before."

|| Practical Test || "I knew going in that my limited toughness would be an issue. Sure, I've got fitness, but taking a blast to the chest like I did... it's good I had my armour, or I might have broken some ribs. Still, it stopped our enemy from attacking the VIP, and the goal was to get them to the extraction point unscathed. If that meant some of us had to take a few hits, so be it. I knew this wasn't going to be easy, especially working with people who were basically complete strangers, but I think we all contributed equally to the plan. My choice to breach through a separate window from the others took the grunts by surprise. That gave us an edge in the initial skirmish... but I think I was best suited to the outdoors sequence where I had more room to maneuver."

|| Written Essay Topic || "This wasn't easy. I'm not the best at essays. But I chose the question, 'If you had the means to change something about society, what would you change, and why?' I chose to highlight how I would build bridges between the Gifted and the Powerless, in particular by raising up the latter and wiping away the negative connotations that can be associated with the term. Their lives matter too. At the end of the day, we all deserve to be treated fairly, no matter what."

|| Video Supplement || Lisette is shown sitting on a couch, dressed in a collared shirt and jeans, wings carefully folded and with a steaming mug in her hands.

"I guess this is the part where I talk about my motivations a bit, isn't it? What learning in a place of prestige means to me? Well, here goes... I don't want to be the very best there is. Top of the class, the number one hero that makes headlines every other day and from whom everyone wants an autograph. That's not who I want to be. I want to be someone... someone who chooses to step to the fore so that others don't have to. Someone who stands up for the average person on the streets when others might hurry away. To be someone making a difference, helping change our world for the better... it's such a cliché, isn't it, now that I say it aloud. But I know that it's the simple honest truth. I want to be that someone. And I'll do everything in my power to get there. That's why I'm applying to Crystal Peak."

|| Overall Summary ||
Ms Keene-Tatsuyama's application suggests that she is an intelligent and idealistic young woman willing to push herself to greater heights. However, we believe she will require above-average levels of guidance and a specialised support network in place to help her with the challenges of day-to-day college life. Recommending Academy acceptance, supplemented with enrolment in a mentoring program.

S C H O O L
Crystal Peak Academy

Y E A R
Freshman

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Elemental / Personal Physical

O C C U P A T I O N
Part-time barista at Daylight Delicacies, the on-campus café and bakery

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
The Towers at Crystal Lake Commons

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Lisette made local news last year for intervening in an attempted robbery. A young woman on her way home from work was accosted by an armed thug, who drew a pistol demanding she hand over everything of value. It was then that Lisette, acting on instinct after hearing a yell from the man's would-be victim, ran to the scene and punched the armed man in the back of the head, knocking him to the ground. She kicked the gun away and called the police, and it was taken care of from there. That was the day she realised she had the power to stand up to more people like that petty thief, and began working on an application to Crystal Peak University to begin to develop her skills.

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A B I L I T I E S
Lisette inherited a combination of powers. From her mother, she is able to manipulate ice and snow, to the point where she can snap-freeze water molecules in the air and reshape it to suit her needs, or cause a localised snowfall in the air. From her father, she began to grow a fully flight-capable set of cream-and-white feathered wings in early adolescence, and has already taught herself to fly as part of her fitness regimen.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Lisette's powers are less effective in heated or dry environments, as there is less water to freeze into a form she can manipulate. She doesn't handle high temperatures well, and without maintaining direct control over the ice she is working with, her power over it often has a short duration and limited effectiveness; she needs to maintain concentration to prevent ice from melting when left to its own devices.

In addition, she is physically fragile as a result of her lightweight frame and hollow bone structure, and takes injuries easily without some manner of protection.

C O M B A T
At present, Lisette's fighting style is built primarily on basic applications of her power over ice. Video records of her practical testing show her snap-freezing a thick coating of ice about her person to protect herself, hurling shards of ice at her targets, and encasing her hands and forearms to engage at close quarters. She emphasises mobility in a skirmish, preferring to stay airborne and use her flight capabilities as an active defense.

Initial analysis of her performance in the practical test show that her techniques and methods need refining, as she is likely overlooking flaws of which she is unaware. Direct training is needed for this approach.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Natural Blonde | Straight | Shoulder-length, typically tied back in a ponytail or loose bun
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'9"
Body Type: Lightweight, slim figure.
Clothing Style: Casual, but will take any excuse she can get for formalwear. Anything she adds to her wardrobe has to be specifically altered to accommodate her wings. | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Makeup Wise: Practically invisible. She uses very little, unless attending some manner of formal occasion, in which case she tends to go all-out.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Lisette always wears a gold earring in her left ear, with an amethyst set into it. As far as she knows, this earring desn't have a match for the other ear.

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
At present, Lisette has no specific supe style, save for the snap-freezing of her ice armour into place over ordinary clothing. As she develops her reputation and resources, she might adapt her applications of her powers into a broader scope, which would require a need for personal armour that doesn't require her to maintain focus on it to keep her alive in a fight. This could focus on a single aesthetic of an angelic or icy theme, but would ideally combine the two.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Lisette is a dedicated and hardworking individual, who does her best to excel at anything she puts her mind to. This has, however, put a damper on her social capabilities. She is somewhat of a wallflower: a people-watcher rather than the center of attention, often feeling out of place in social situations of any kind, despite being willing to attend such events and do her best to interact with people. She prefers to hear about others rather than talk about herself, believing she isn't all that interesting. But when asked to help solve a problem or act as a confidant, she commits to it; as introverted as she is, she has a genuine desire to befriend people and be someone they can count on.

F E A R S
Deep down, Lisette's biggest fear is that of failure. Not just getting a question wrong, mind you, even if that stings a bit. It's about screwing up so badly that it sticks with you forever. Being scrubbed from the records, a pariah and outcast with nowhere to turn to in time of need.

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Parents:Biological Mother: Alissandra Keene. Capable of manipulating ice and snow, and passed this power down to Lisette. Nutritionist and part-time chef.
Stepmother: Reika Tatsuyama. No powers known. Teen fiction author; her urban fantasy "Starsteel Crown" series has been published in several languages. Married Alissandra when Lisette was twelve. Taught Lisette to speak, read, and write fluent Japanese.

As far as Lisette is aware, there are no prominent heroes or villains in her family ancestry.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S
Will Gray: Telekinetic. A licensed Gifted Tutelage Specialist/Counsellor, he helped Lisette learn to control her powers when they first began to manifest. She plans to keep him updated on her progress at the Academy.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Born and raised in surburban New York, Lisette's childhood was primarily in a middle-class household of just herself and her mother. Alissandra Keene knew the risks going in of raising a daughter alone, so she dedicated the vast majority of her life to caring for Lisette and showing her the value of true unconditional love.

(Addendum: Notes on Biological Father: Langston Wilde. Winged; Lisette inherited this trait, though the colouring of her feathers is cream and white as opposed to Langston's hawklike shades of brown. Works as a courier. Has little to no contact with the Keene-Tatsuyama family; Alissandra conceived Lisette via IVF.)

The Keenes' lives changed drastically when Alissandra met the novelist Reika Tatsuyama at a bookstore. Ms Tatsuyama was holding a book-signing event to promote the second book in her Starsteel Crown series. The debut novel, released eighteen months prior, was a smash hit among teen readers, and Reika's publisher was clamouring for sequels. Alissandra and Reika found more than friendship; they found love. Five years (and three books) later, they were married in a simple but elegant ceremony. Lisette, too, had come to love Reika as family by the age of twelve, and took both of her mothers' surnames as her own. Moving into Reika's fancy penthouse apartment shaped her experience of living as well, but her mothers made sure to temper her with a modest lifestyle despite Alissandra and Lisette being catapulted into the high life all of a sudden.

Lisette's inherited powers began to manifest at age thirteen, when she accidentally froze a glass of water halfway through drinking it. A week later, fledgling wings began to grow from her shoulders. In addition to Alissandra's guidance, her parents paid for a tutor, telekinetic Will Gray, to help her keep her powers in check. During her teenage years, she took to her training and her high school studies with equal intensity, learning to fly as part of a fitness regimen that Will had set up for her - though Lisette often lamented her parents' regular reminders to take a bus home instead of flying, routinely bringing up the point that flying to the top floor balcony, rather than taking the lift, is good exercise.

She hasn't been without her challenges: in the later years of high school, she was approached more than once by boys - and the occasional extremely shy girl - who wanted to ask her out on a date. But they were complete strangers to her, and she had been warned about this by her mothers, so she chose to turn them down every time. Until the football team's star quarterback asked her out, and her handful of close friends pressured her into saying yes. This turned out to be a mean-spirited prank organised by a heartless bitch of a cheerleader, and only drove Lisette further away from the idea of dating anyone despite her friends helping her recover. Even years later, she responds awkwardly to advances.

Like many teens, high school was a difficult time for Lisette. Having so much thrown at her in the span of a few short years meant she had very little idea of what she wanted to do with her life. Even with careers advice counselling, suggestions from her parents, and the occasional discussion with her manager at the café she worked for, she simply couldn't answer the question of what she wanted. So she took a gap year to try to figure it out, and her answer came late. She intervened in a back-alley armed robbery (see Reputation above), saving a potential victim - and that was what drove her to apply to Crystal Peak University.

With her acceptance to the prestigious academy, Lisette is hoping that a new chapter of her life will be written well, and that she lives up to the expectations of its staff. Having left behind her previous job, she interviewed for barista work at the on-campus café, Daylight Delicacies, and was accepted for her previous experience.

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Lisette is a good cook and a better baker, having learned recipes and the value of nutrition from Alissandra for much of her life. She particularly enjoys baking gifts for friends, and will generally always have something snackish on hand. She has recently started experimenting to make her own energy bars, as she expects they will come in handy during intense training sessions.
She enjoys a good novel when she gets the chance to relax and unwind, but prefers to dive into fantastical fiction of other worlds and made-up cultures over works set in the real world.

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Sylvia Fae Vargas
Nickname(s): Sylvie

If I think I'm right, then that means you're wrong.
 – Herself

╟ August 6th (19) || White || Female || Eww. Labels are icky. || Bisexual  ||  Single ╢

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|| Written test ||  “The what?”

|| Practical test || “Huh?”

|| Written essay topic || ”I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

|| Video supplement || ”Okay. So let’s get this straight. The check cleared, right? Here. Call this number. They’ll set you straight. Thanks.”

S C H O O L
”Crystal Peak Academy. Do I look like some kind of pathetic loser to you? Actually sad you would ask me what school I go to.”

Y E A R
”Sophomore. Duh.”

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
"Uhhh... I mean, is 'Really Good' a classification? Its um... Well, I guess they call its energy control? Energy manipulation? Look I can do stuff with light and 'positive' energy or whatever, okay?"

O C C U P A T I O N
"Do you know who my parents are? I am very wealthy, thanks. I do not need a job."

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
"Mom and dad said I had to live on campus, so I would “actually participate”. So Campus Castle it is. Great. Fantastic. I'd rather be anywhere else."

I N T E R N S H I P S
"Why would I ever need this?"

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Such a topic is a sore spot for Sylvia who has never really had any friends, mainly due to her haughty attitude and penchant for pushing people away. She's primarily known for being a sourpuss and not having anything positive to say to anyone. She generally makes things all about her and tends to be ignorant to the plights of others. 

"Everybody. Loves. Me. Yeah, really. I’m totally the best, and I’m so freakin’ rich it hurts. I have soooo many friends, and everybody wants to be me.

Eh heh… I mean, okay so maybe my friends don’t come over that often and I feel like people avoid me sometimes, but yeah I definitely have a lot of friends. Tons. Mom and dad are super popular, so I’ve got to be too."

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A B I L I T I E S
Radiant or "Positive" Energy Manipulation 
Simply put, Sylvia has the abilities to bring out the best in people, fire luminous projectiles, fly to a limited ability, heal herself and others, and protect herself and others by harnessing "positive energy". 

The primary applications of this power are:

Blessing: With a touch, or a "blessing" as she might call it, she can empower or even overclock someone's capabilities to an unknown extent, just not her own. Supers with powers find their abilities are suddenly more potent in some regard. For example, someone with the ability to fly might find themselves flying even faster than thought possible, or a someone that can fire energy bursts might end up with even stronger and more dangerous firepower. A normal civilian empowered by this ability would find themselves with superhuman athletics and speed. Typically the recipient of this ability finds themselves greatly exhausted for an day after its effects have worn off, which tend to vary anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours. This is doubly so for any non-Super recipient. Currently, she can only bless one individual a day and feels quite tired herself afterward. To be used with caution.

Regeneration: Sylvia can heal wounds and regrow limbs of herself and others with a touch, though she is unable to repair fatal wounds, such as decapitation. As a rider to this, she's blessed with immunity to disease. 

Luminous Rays: Her hands are capable of projecting beams of energy. The damage these rays can do are totally dependent on the time she puts into charging them. A hasty shot, for example, might hurt as much as being punched, while a charge held for a few minutes could do massive damage to one’s organs.

Glimmering Wings: Wings of pure yellow energy sprout from Sylvia’s back, allowing her to fly. However, this is harder to maintain than it seems, and currently she can only fly short distances or glide. These wings can also be used as a form of protection, but they may collapse if the attack is strong enough to penetrate it. 

Brilliant Bubble: With a wave of her hand, a majestic barrier appears to protect an individual from harm, but, like her wings, it can be penetrated with a strong enough attack. This barrier is currently strong enough to ward off bullets and standard energy bursts, but will not prevent someone from burning, freezing, being diseased, or suffocating.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Sylvia's abilities are a force multiplier. Her abilities are ironically incredibly strong when used in conjunction with others, while she does not play well with most people. So the greatest limitation to her abilities are Sylvia herself. If she were to find herself in a group that found itself benefiting from her abilities, they might also wind up using her as a crutch due to her ability to really up the ante when it comes to ones personal abilities.

C O M B A T
Preferring to stay out of the fray, Sylvia doesn't have much combat experience. In any mock scenario, she puts others between herself and whatever ever threat there might be. People are expendable when it comes to herself, and she will not hesitate to run if necessary.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Ginger, the styling depends on the day and her mood
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'7"
Body Type: Hourglass and very thin
Clothing Style: Expensive. You won't find any cheapo Walmart brand merchandise on her. Only the finest goods for Radiance.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: None. Uniquely, Sylvia has a hard time with piercings and tattoos since her body just heals quickly on its own and ink tends to get rejected out of her pores.

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
She doesnt really have anything iconic, nor has she really settled on anything. She's still currently workshopping the whole "super outfit".

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Sylvia is a vain, self-righteous, egotistical bitch. She is totally focused on status and belittling any that aren’t of the upper class. As the daughter of a heavily influential figure, Sylvia likes to think of herself as untouchable and privileged. Due to this, she has no problem being condescending and rude to the Academy’s higher ups. She appears to be more interested in keeping her looks up than getting any semblance of an education. 

Being the princess that she is, Sylvia stomps the halls with refined elegance and pulls strings to get her way. Men and women who are interested in her, for whatever reason, have next to no chance of dating her unless they are of elite status, although they may find it hard to get anywhere at all due to her prudish nature. She disdains those who don’t dress regally and take pride in their appearance. Fortunately, she tends to keep to herself unless she has the compulsion to say something.

Or... Well, that's how she acts. While her parents are exceedingly kind people, they belong to a whole new realm of belonging. They are upper class elites, and Sylvia has always struggled with balancing kindness and image like her parents. Getting close to others feels impossible, and the weight expectation has placed on her has truly ruined any sense of belonging she might've ever felt. Internally, she is a nervous wreck. There are plenty of people she really does like, but doesn't know how to tell them. She wants friends. She wants to be happy. She wants to feel like she has a place and a purpose, but the incredible position she and her family are from have hindered her ability to connect with others, so she expresses herself in negative ways. Time and time again someone has tried to break that barrier, only to find themselves heckled and verbally harassed. She doesn't really understand why she does this, but she's determined to try and break her habits. Maybe finally make a real friend.

F E A R S
A fear of ending up alone permeates Sylvia's thoughts often. What if she really isn't likable? She's also deathly afraid of needles.

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Joshua "Electrike" Vargas, 50 – Current President of Duke Energy. He comes from a long line of wealth and possesses the ability to manipulate electricity. He has a reputation as a gracious, self-sacrificial, and kind hero. At home, he is a very distant and judgmental father. He expects nothing less than the best of his daughter and has fostered high expectations for her future. Sylvia is very rigid around him.

Dr. Elise "Seraphim" Vargas, 47 – She's a part of the Board. Yep, one of the Directors even, and as a result, has a lot of power in the education system. Like Joshua, she also comes from a very prestigious family, the Seligs. Dr. Vargas is renown for her healing abilities. She is known to be one of the nicest superhumans, as well as very mild mannered and understanding. Of course, there's always a dark side when it comes to people this high up the ladder. Dr. Elise is extremely hard on her daughter and often dictates how her future is going be, regardless of what Sylvia really wants. Sylvia loathes her mother and her methods of keeping her on the straight and narrow.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Sylvia was born into prestige and power at a private birthing center in Durham, North Carolina. She was to be the sole heir to a dynasty helmed by Joshua and Elise Vargas. She didn't grow up with her parents though or at least, she didn't really see them much, as they were way too busy in their hectic lives to raise a child at home. Instead, Sylvia was raised and taught by a woman named Jennifer Ashworth, who also happened to be her mother's stay at home personal assistant. As a result, her life has mostly been sheltered and out of touch with reality. Never once has Sylvia sat foot in a public school, having had only the best of education handed to her. Even when she started attending her private schools, her parents protected her every step. No matter who she offended, who she stepped on, it never mattered and was neatly swept under the rug by her parents' money and influence. Sylvia's princess-like attitude is a direct result of having never been punished, but it also the source of Sylvia's isolation from the world. 

When Joshua and Elise did sit down and try to parent, they preached the necessity of image, and so their daughter learned how to strut for the cameras. Once the lenses dropped though, Sylvia was free to do whatever she liked. Well, until she started straying too far off the path her parents wanted for her anyway. Several times she tried to befriend or romance someone her parental figures did not approve of, only to see those people metaphorically whisked away. One even went missing once. She was only allowed to go to certain events and only able to do pre-approved activities. Her parents had put bars around her, so she mostly spent her free time playing MMOs where she could sort of pretend she was somewhere else. No, she's not allowed to tell people she still plays World of Warcraft.

Academically, Sylvia has only ever been average in any given subject. In fact, she only seemed to do well in computer science due to the fact that she was a closeted MMO addict. Her grades were definitely not good enough to her into the elite Crystal Peak Academy.

But her parents' money was.

A backroom deal was cut in some fancy restaurant somewhere in the United States wherein the Vargas family would generously donate an unspecified amount of money to school. As for Sylvia's? Well, maybe some paperwork was sent in by a third party on her behalf or perhaps some documents went missing. Either way, her acceptance was rubber stamped and never discussed. 

At first, she was excited to be out from the under the constant eye of Joshua and Elise, but her first year did not really pan out the way she wanted. She didnt make any friends, she still felt isolated, and the freakin' fire made things worse for everybody. If it were up to her, she probably would have left and tried anything else, but again, the long arm of the Vargas family makes it very difficult, especially considering their money is going to building a memorial at the remains of the Crestview. Coming into Sophomore year things are gonna be different. For real this time. Maybe.

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Sylvia likes her MMOs. She enjoys attention. She enjoys thinking that people like her. Currently, she is enrolled as Hero and Support majors with a focus in Medicine. She's... average at best at her subjects.

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The only thing that will make you happy is being with who you are
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╟ August 1st (18) || German and French || Cisfemale || Spiritually Christian and Liberally Democratic || Bisexual  ||  Single and always looking╢


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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  ”Uh…hi! My name’s Vivian. Vivian Lucasta. Wait…do I have to say my full name? Probably a good idea. 

Can I start over?

Vivian Diana Lucasta! This is gonna be my first year at the Academy, but uhm, my family has alumni status. All my older siblings: Dio, Dawn -- they both graduated with honors and I just wanted to keep up the family tradition. And I’m a wiz when it comes to tests. Honestly it’s one of my strengths. Father made sure of that, you know. I mean, he has been pretty adamant that I study-study…udy. So I know I did well enough to pass.”

|| Practical test || ”Erm…I’m not sure this is my specialty. My father, again he really wants me to join his alma mater, so he put me through some…intense tests. When my powers first developed, he hired some of the best, if not kinda scary, instructors. They worked with me day in and day out. It was hardly what I would call fun, let alone fair.” She sighs, lamenting at the memories of the horror she had to endure. ”But my powers did develop into something that, at the very least, he was proud of. Or happy. Or satisfied with. I don’t know which, but it’s still not my specialty. Offensive anything isn’t, but I think I can get by and do well enough…I hope. I have healing abilities, even if they still need work. I can control my solar energy intake to the point what I store can make me useful in battle, but I still need to work on my ability to actually fight. I never did get it down to a level that my father thinks it should be at…”

|| Written essay topic || Vivian squees in delight, feeling as bright and cheery as the first rays of the morning sun are. ”Oh yay! This was so much fun! Like really fun! Maybe just a tad embarrassing, but I wrote about my big sis Dawn. Full name Artemis Dawn Lucasta. She is a hero. Her hero name is, well, Dawn (but don't’ tell anyone I told you that!) Probably the best one who is from my family (sorry Dio I hope you can forgive me). She is a shining example of what it means to be a hero: she’s kind, powerful, so generous, and, if you can forgive my language, a total badass! Everyone in my family has abilities either light-based or solar-based, but Dawn is on a different level. The perfect example of what it means to be a Lucasta and a success in father’s eyes. She is the only one other than my little sister (who has shown signs of it) that can generate solar energy. I don’t know how she does it, but I just had to write about it and make it my focus!”

|| Video supplement || 
The camera flashes on. It’s an older camera, quality is rustic. It’s not like modern day cameras like you might see on Tik Tok and SuperGram, the Superhero-centric Instagram-replacement after Insta lost its place in the social media world. Not quite 90s but somewhere in the late 90s to early-2000s era of camera quality. Like the kinds that were used to film Bring It On and Legally Blonde. The setup itself is a multi-camera, multi-angel where it has the overall shot of a kitchen, decorated with vases of sunflowers spread throughout the counter space (mainly on the edge for the aesthetic). The kitchen itself is a mix of light yellows, whites, warm oranges, and a splash of pink to make everything pop.

And in the center, stands Vivian Lucasta, wearing a sundress with a white base and sunflowers spread throughout. Her hair is tied up in a high ponytail and she smiles brightly at the camera. “Heyyy!” She waved excitedly at the camera, both hands rapidly going back and forth. “My name is VIvian! Some of you may know me as the second youngest daughter of the Lucasta Family. And I know, I know people think of all-powerful heroes when they think of the Lucasta family. And I know a lot of people think we do a lot, but I’m not going to talk about my family. I just want to talk about me and what I think I can bring to the table.” Vivian snaps the left thumb and her index and middle finger of that same hand. There is a transition and a tray of blueberry muffins appears arranged in a pyramid, all stacked perfectly. “One of my favorite snacks! Or really breakfast if you prefer it.”

Vivian picks up one of the muffins, undoing the wrapping and snapping the top part off. She reaches for a butterknife and smears some of the high quality butter on it. And as she takes a bite, she makes approving moaning sounds as she chews. “So heavenly! My favorite!” Suddenly an aura of gold surrounds her, responding to her genuine delight. “I love to bake anything and everything: muffins, cupcakes, scones -- anything that you can possibly add berry flavoring to, but I really love blueberry. And it might seem odd to you because of the obvious presence of gold, but it’s true! I just love blueberry so much! And hopefully, maybe one day, I can share my love for it with everyone!”

As Vivian jumps, there is a transition of her standing to her laying down on the countertop, the camera pointed down on her, closing in on her smile. “I want to spread my light and let everyone know the warmth of the sun!”


S C H O O L
Crystal Peak Academy


Y E A R
Freshman


C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Superpower Manipulation - Solar Energy Manipulation, Solar Energy Absorption & Conversion, and Heliokinetic Combat


O C C U P A T I O N
Daylight Delecies - Though owned by the Lucasta family as part of their legacy status with Crystal Peak Academy, it is independently ran (as far as anyone is aware of). Vivian works there full time as a baker.


L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Cypress Apartments || Bedroom | Home Theater Setup If Viv was honest and voiced her opinion, she would prefer not to be given special treatment, but the Lucasta family motto is you never say no to Pierre Lucasta.


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For the most part, Vivian Lucasta is one of the sweetest girls you’ll ever meet in your life. As bubbly as she is kind and selfless, if anyone in this world -- or at least in the Lucasta family -- illuminates any room she’s in by merely standing in it, it’s Vivian Diana. And it is not because she feels she is deserving of such high praise. Honestly, for all intents and purposes, Vivian is pretty clumsy and humble, at that. She’ll never accept compliments, but actions speak louder, right? As stated, she’s selfless but it’s also her dedication (when she’s not goddamn boy crazy) that makes her stand out. She is a person who surprisingly endures the hardships she’s had to face in her life. That should speak volumes.


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A B I L I T I E S
Disclaimer about the Lucasta Family Powers: Everyone in the Lucasta family is capable of incredible feats that extend anywhere from light manipulation to fire and manipulation of the sun (or the energy given off by the sun). Nobody in the family nor the family records that extend several decades before Pierre took over the reins as the family patriarch knows. All that is known for certain is that every member has always shown a talent for these specific powers and once in a solar flare, they all overlap.

Solar Energy Manipulation
Vivan can manipulate the overwhelming energy the sun gives off on a daily basis. It doesn’t matter the kind of energy it is whether magnetic, nuclear, the immense heat -- because where Vivian’s true strength (at least at of current) lies is not in being able to use those individual properties as they were absorbed but rather converting them into pure energy that has traces of their insatiable (and to a degree, toxic) form and become a source of golden energy with traces of heat (especially when used offensively)..

Solar Energy Absorption & Conversion
In a nutshell, when Vivian remains still and in the direct periphery of the glorious sun and her rays, she can store an unreasonable amount of its direct, potentially poisonous rays, and not only store it in her body for future use (especially when she needs to use it and it’s night time), but her body naturally converts it into pure energy for her to use in whatever way she needs to. It’s like an advanced form of photosynthesis with the added bonus of possibly being able to shoot blasts and beams and orbs of golden hues.

Heliokinetic Combat
As a disclaimer, it should be noted that Vivian isn’t a skilled offensive fighter. That’s something she never managed to finely tune. That being said, she can do the bare minimum that could make her an asset against lesser foes. She can apply her stored solar energy into various (capped at three types as of current day) forms of offense
Solar Hand Blasts - Vivian's hands glow golden (could apply to both) and she shoots a continuous, albeit limited, volley of hand blasts at targets or a singular target. These blasts are usually shaped like orbs that explode upon contact with anything physical. The hand blasts, at her current level, when hit one-by-one may cause bruising/very minor burns.
Solar Bolt - In the same way as with the hand blasts, Vivian’s hand become engulfed in a golden aura-like substance, but instead of a volley of hand blasts, straight lines of a stronger kind of blast attack. They usually have a one-way trajectory, which makes it ideal for singular targets and less so for group efforts. When hit directly, the solar bolts are capable of knocking the wind out of someone; otherwise there is potential for mild to moderate burnage.
Concussion Solar Beam- By far Vivian’s most powerful offensive application of her abilities, Vivian is capable of firing off a condensed beam of solar energy that can leave whatever it hits out for a short while. She does this by holding her hands together. Typically when she uses her powers offensively, she wouldn’t have to focus her energy, but this specific application takes a lot out of her. She charges into either hand, focusing all of her energy from one hand into the other (in this case her left hand since that’s her dominant hand) and she unleashes a golden beam at any target (it has the potential to cover multiple targets if they’re close to each other)
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L I M I T A T I O N S
Though her feats with her powers are impressive, Vivian isn't without her limits. For one, though she can manipulate solar energy and absorb/convert its raw properties into pure solar energy that her body can safely use, she cannot generate it, which severely limits her ability to use it around the clock. It's why she has to store as much as she can and has to be smart about it (not always a case with Vivian). Natural occurrences may also hinder her ability to take in solar energy such as cloudy weather where the sun is partially or completely out of view, solar eclipses, specific points in the day where the sun is either too low to be at its full effectiveness or too high to be safely absorbed and converted.

Vivian's offensive capabilities are greatly hindered by her inability to maintain a violent or otherwise offensive mindset. It's odd that since her powers are greatly offensive and are made for an offensive combatant, yet she lacks the very thing that would maximize her potential using her powers. She also gets lost in her head, which could be potentially damaging to her health when using her abilities, especially when dealing with the sun and how one wrong move could send her to the hospital or worse. Just because she can manipulate the sun's energy doesn't mean she has complete immunity to the radiation and other damaging elements.


C O M B A T
Vivian's combat style is unrefined and not even a style. For the most part, her style is pretty basic in the way she uses her powers. Blasts and beams are the extents of her offensive capabilities, so there is much to improve on, especially with balancing that with endurance and reaction time.


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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Dirty Blonde w/ lighter highlights| Somewhere between curly and straight | Mid-back in length, it is styled simply in ponytails, buns (even space buns on occasion).
Eyes: Hazel green
Height: 5’6”
Body Type: Slightly hourglass-shaped with modest features
Clothing Style: Boho-chic | Jeans, shorts of both denim and more cotton-based materials, sundresses for summer and spring seasons. Lots of neutral colors and summer colors like light orange, yellow and neutral colors such as beige, white, and black. She has tons of accessories such as bead bracelets, light scarfs with floral patterns for those chilly days, hats ranging from knit caps to berets. Winter season typically has Vivian donning jeans, long-sleeve shirts, heavier scarves, and knit caps. || Vivian Style
Makeup Wise: Minimal applications but with colorful eyeshadow shades to compliment her blonde locks and hazel green eyes, flesh tones for lipstick (Vivian isn’t flashy about makeup).
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Vivian just has her earlobes pierced. She doesn’t have many scars worth mentioning -- just some lasting bruising that never healed due to her father’s extensive training. Vivian has one tattoo of a set of stars patterned like glitter on her right inner wrist, colored various shades of yellow and white.


S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 


Though a freshman and just starting out, Vivian has ideas for her supe costume and has a very rough, baseline costume. It's completely homemade -- or at least commissioned through ametuer means. A sundress that is yellow in color and has light orange and pink floral designs that comes to a stop at her mid-thigh and a white cloak that in its current form attaches to the dress and hovers over her face.

Updates desired: Eventually, Vivian sees herself having a full white cloak that covers her entire body, locking on and around her dress, draping over her body. Special material would be commissioned so that it would actually cling to her form and release when needed/required. There would be an emblem of a sun surrounded by flower pedals of the same design and shades of light orange and pink around it on the back of the cloak. The sun emblem would a golden sun that's radiant and beautiful but also envokes a powerful symbol of hope.


P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Bubbly ☼ Energetic ☼ Overtly Positive ☼ Easy to Please ☼ Friendly ☼ Lovable ☼ Carefree ☼ Overworries ☼ Prone to negative opinions about her ☼ Insecure ☼ Often forgetful ☼ Easily discouraged


F E A R S
Never being good enough. Vivian, despite her cheery disposition, has a very low self esteem and overall view of her own self-worth. As a result of her father’s harsh training and even harsher expectations of her to be great (like Dio and Dawn), she always had a feeling of insignificance. The alma mater of all of her family from parents to their siblings and her own attended is now going to be own and that alone is absolutely terrifying. What if she’s not good enough? What if she doesn’t prove herself to her father and the rest of her family? What if she’s not good enough?


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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y

Lucien Pierre Lucasta || 65 || Father || Retired Pro Hero; Current CEO of the Lucasta Organization || Face Claim: Stellan Skarsgard
Hero Name: Morning Star
Powers: Photokinesis, Light Aura, Photonization, Light Body (no longer accessible) -- Pierre is capable of many feats with his light-based powers. In his prime, he was a wreckingball who was a formidable foe. He could mainipulate light, generate it, create powerful explosions, and he had incredible endurance with his powers. Nowadays, though he can still fight using them, certain abilities withered with his chronological age.
Hanna Estelle Lucasta (nee. Sonnen) || 63 || Mother || Retired Pro Hero || Face Claim: Jessica Lange
Hero Name: Sun Maiden
Power: Solar Generation & manipulation; Solar Physiology -- Not only can Hanna generate and manipulate her own solar energy, but because of her prolonged use of her powers and constant exposure to the sun, she can assume a sort of ascended form where she becomes one with the sun. This form, in recent years, is nothing of its former glory.
Apollo Dion “Dio” Sonnet (born Lucasta but has since changed his name)|| 36 || Older Brother || Magician|| Face Claim: Max Riemelt
Hero Name/Alias: The Amazing Dio
Superpower: Illumination - when in a room with either natural light or artificial light such as LCD bulbs or screens, Dio can absorb it to make it dark or intensify it to make it brighter. He is masterfully skilled with it and uses it to his benefit as a magician.
Artemis Dawn “Dawn” Lucasta || 32 || Older Sister ||  Pro Hero - #5 of the Super 8  || Face Claim: Margot Robbie
Hero Name: Dawnstar
Power(s): Solar Generation & Manipulation || Solar Physiology - Dawnstar can generate her own source of solar radiation, forming it into waves of intense heat and other offensive means. Like her mother, she can assume an ascended form in which her body takes on the form, properties, and palette of the sun itself. It only lasts for a limited amount of time but it makes her a total powerhouse.
Cassopeia Star “Sia” Lucasta || 15 || Younger Sister || High School Student || Codename: N/A || Face Claim: Elle Fanning
Lucien Pierre “Luke” Lucasta Jr || 15 || Younger Brother & younger twin of Sia || High School Student || Codename: N/A || Face Claim: Ross Lynch
Powers (SIa): TBD
Powers (Luke): TBD


R E L A T I O N S H I P S
Please delete section if not applicable. 
Childhood best friends? Exes? Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Partner? Put anyone that is noteworthy to your character here.


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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Everyone and their mother would know the name "Lucasta". It has become a household name at this point. For five decades, ever since Lucien Pierre Lucasta, also known as Morningstar in his heroing days, the Lucasta family has not only been in the spotlight of being pro heroes, but they have been at the (or close to it) top of the food chain. Whether for glory, fame, or wealth (and in some cases, all three), The Lucastas have cemented their legacy as a family of heroes. Even Pierre's five siblings and their families have amounted to the same trio of success as Pierre, who now serves as the head of the ever-expansive hero family, Lucasta. 

The Lucasta's origins could be traced back to before the first recorded super was discovered. They originate from Spain and France while the Sonnens, Hanna's family, came from Germany. For the two families to come together, they both lived in upstate New York, not knowing that Pierre and Hanna would meet and create literal magic.

The legacy that the middle child, Vivian Diana, would soon have to live up to all started at Crystal Peak Academy. Her parents, Pierre, and Hanna Estelle Sonnen (now Lucasta) both attended that prestigious academy. It was there they fell in love. Pierre was said to be powerful and righteous and Hanna, while as gentle as the first rays of a sunrise, she was confident, sure of herself, and when Pierre got too much, it was said she blasted him with the full force of the sun. Of course, only they know but Vivian grew up on stories that her mother would squeeze in between her extensive training lessons. At some point, she wondered where that Pierre Lucasta was.

Not long after graduating and becoming pro heroes in their own right, at one point, they did both hold spots within the Super 8, but like all good things, it came to an end. During those days, the two of them were a team. Sunlight is what they called them. Sunlight because while Pierre held the absence of darkness in his hands, burning with a fire within that was matched by his arrogance, Hanna held the power of the literal sun in her hands, thus sunlight was born. When they both retired, which wasn't at an old age. They were both still in their prime, but something in Pierre changed. When he had children, he became more interested in the development of his legacy than protecting the city of New York. Hanna loved him, so she never doubted it.

Between their two families, which came from old money dating back from centuries ago, they amassed an incredible fortune. A fortune that would be used to further Pierre's personal mission to make the world know that the Lucasta family wasn't any less than the Cashmores or Cypress'. So he carved a name for himself, for the name of Lucasta. First came the first two children. So vain and arrogant, Pierre named them after greek gods. His oldest and easily his first disappointment, Apollo Dion. To Pierre's shock, his firstborn son showed very little evidence that he was going to be as great a hero as he was. He had powers, but it was simple parlor tricks as far as Pierre was concerned. He had the power of illumination, being able to make a room darker or brighter depending on his desire. Even though Dio had other skills, Pierre didn't pay him any attention, not like he did his second child and quite possibly the brightest star of the family. Artemis Dawn had her mother's central power but her father's drive. From combat lessons to languages to very extensive, bordering on abusive, physical and superpower training, he did what he tried to do with Dio: he pushed his first-born daughter to her limit and pushed that. 

And you know what? She rose to every occasion. Hanna tried to keep him in line. Tried to appeal to the man she knew and loved, but that taste of success pushed Pierre further into his insanity. She became his shining star. Dawn graduated with honors from everything: Crystal Peak Academy, the heroes she interned with, and even when she went on into her own. Everything she did was spectacular. She was a literal star.

And Vivian felt the brilliance of her sister cast a huge shadow over her. 

Vivian Diana Lucasta. She is the middle child. She was born in upstate New York (where all the Lucastas were born). Her name comes from two sources: Latin/Roman origin and means lively and her middle name, Diana, comes from Roman origin. The Roman Goddess and Roman equivalent of Artemis, which happens to be Dawn’s first name. Such a powerful name. One that breathes such life, yet when she turned ten, the age all of her siblings found themselves under the intense microscope of Pierre Lucasta, was when Vivian was never the same again.

His goal was to recreate his success with Vivian as he had with Dawn. Vivian, at the time, just wanted to make her father proud of her, because she had never known that. As sad as it is to say, that’s just something she never got. Her mother always made excuses, saying he was a driven man and she always tried to build Vivian’s image of her father by talking about how he was when he was a hero. Or even when she met him, yet none of that made any difference. Year after year, he trained her. Not only physically and in combat, but pushed her to learn languages, to test the limits of her powers. 

Right, her powers were a late development. Her powers didn’t surface until she was fourteen, which was three years later than Dawn’s powers surfaced. So at that point, she was at a great disadvantage in her father’s eyes. Another thing was that her powers were nothing compared Dawn’s. Just another disappointment in her father’s eyes and this enraged him. Vivian never seen him train her so viciously. Late nights and early mornings, she was up training mind, power, and body. Over and over again. On continuous repeat to the point that she was seventeen and, in his eyes, Pierre was seeing what he wanted to see when she was eleven years old.

Meanwhile, Vivian was so tormented yet still wanted to make him proud of her. She still wanted to make him proud of her. So much so that she applied for his alma mater. She did everything he wanted of her. And when she got accepted, even though she wouldn’t be anywhere near him, she still heard his voice in her head, telling her to do great, to not ruin his reputation. And in the back of her mind, Vivian worried for her younger siblings, Sia and Luke. As far as she knew, their powers hadn’t manifested yet and they were just a year older than she was when hers did. Without her there to take the full brunt of his attention, part of her worried for them…


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Lili Reinhart || #daa520/Goldenrod
🔅 Vivian bakes. Any reason she can have to bake, she will. Whether it’s for fun, fundraisers, to distract herself, to decompress, she will bake. 
She bakes almost anything she can, but what she really enjoys making are blueberry muffins, or really anything blueberry-related. She loves blueberries.

🔅 Music makes her happy. Like really happy. When she’s down or feeling like the world is ending, all Vivian has to do is pop on some indie folk and she feels better!
🔅 Vivian loves taking long walks, especially if it’s with her light, Hope. Also if it’s with someone cute. Definitely better with someone cute.
🔅 Defined jawlines are the cutest!

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Bexley Sarah Crosby
Nicknames: Bex, Snake, Walking History 


"In the end, we did all the damage that you could want, but the emptiness will go on and on." "And you could be my enemy and you could be my judge if you could start remembering all the time that you used up..."
 – Matt Berninger & Lauren Mayberry, My Enemy

╟ April 29 (22) || English/Welsh Caucasian || Female (she/her) || An/Com Feminist || Lesbian || Single, but not without benefits ╢


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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written Test || "I did well enough, I think. Good enough to be here, not that it would have mattered. I don’t really get the drive to go all out, yeah? I don’t need that shit botherin' me." - Bexley proved more than capable on her written exams, but that wasn’t the true worry when it came to her status.

|| Practical Test || "I’m not goin’ to be one of these supers who is just all about their powers and knows everythin’ they do down cold. I just figured out this was even possible a couple years ago. I have no idea what the fuck I can do. I’m still learnin’. But I’ve learned enough to fuckin’ get ya if you drop your guard.” - Given her status as a candidate wasn’t acquired until later in her life, Bexley did well considering the circumstances. Her raw knowledge of what she can handle was enough to get her through the test and if she applied herself, she could become a very effective operative for whatever organisation secures her talents.  

|| Written Essay Topic || Cracks in the System

"If they couldn’t find me until I did what I did, what other supers are out there? This whole system is fucked." - While the colorful language did little to further her case, Bexley’s unique situation was well-explained in her essay.

|| Video Supplement || The video is recorded on Bex’s Samsung S20 with the young woman lazed out on a couch, eyeshadow haphazardly applied as she stares dead-eyed at the phone camera, a Garbage-branded cropped t-shirt the only clothing visible.

"I’m not even sure I want to fuckin’ do this. Crystal Peak is a fuckin’ world away from what I know, I’m goin’ to stand out like a fuckin’ sore thumb, a bunch of kids who already know the shit they do, what they’re gonna be, ‘n me? I got not a damn fuckin’ clue about that shit. I know if I wasn’t crazy, I wouldn’t be in this mess. But, if y’all are gonna protect me, and keep me fam safe from all the fuckin’ fascist nutjobs out there, then I guess I don’t got much choice. If you lot can help me figure this shit out, figure out what the hell I got to do to make… whatever the hell I am… viable for somethin’ other than winnin’ bar bets ‘n petty larceny, then I guess I’ll play along for a while."


|| Overall Summary ||
Under ordinary circumstances, a case like Ms. Crosby wouldn’t warrant consideration from Crystal Peak. Not with her… abrasive personality. However, there are circumstances regarding her powers and how she came into them that behooves the academy to take her in and give her not only guidance but protection from those who would seek to take advantage of her situation as well as that of her family. Surely even with her sardonic and self-destructive tendencies, Ms. Crosby will find enough reasons at Crystal Peak to seek a full degree and eventually hero certification. At the very least, some important pieces of the super puzzle may finally be filled in.


S C H O O L
Crystal Peak Academy


Y E A R
Senior


C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Personal Physical, with hints of Elemental


O C C U P A T I O N
Part-time bartender at The Foggy Glass / Full-time guitarist/backing vocals for East of Eden


L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Cypress Apartments in a two-bedroom with her bandmate


I N T E R N S H I P S
Last summer, Bex interned at Marray-Finlay Tech, a research facility and animal sanctuary with its headquarters in Marietta, Georgia. It was tough being away from the band for the whole summer, but the Crowne family was insistent she take the opportunity. Not only to learn about the various work the company had been doing procuring natural neurotoxins from their collection of reptiles and amphibians but to also learn about the medical techniques being developed there in hopes that she could begin to use her powers to help people instead of just inflicting pain. She was not very interested in that path. But working with poisonous animals is pretty fun. She did make the Crownes fly her back for East of Eden gigs though.


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There are two schools of thought when it comes to Bex Crosby’s importance in the super community. To the majority, she is a rock star destined to burn out quickly. A poisonous element in the Crystal Peak system with her sardonic life views, her lack of respect for a good portion of authority figures, particularly the Wardens, and her makeup stylings that clearly should only be used for superhero disguises. To the minority who know exactly why Bex was accepted into Crystal Peak, she is an anomaly, an impossible opportunity to pass up. She is a walking artefact that could contain the key to discovering how supers got their powers, whether powers can be induced in the general population, how enhanced they can be, how they can be improved. She is to be protected at all costs… even if she herself is the person who least wants her to be protected.


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A B I L I T I E S
To a varying extent, Bex can create, control and repel toxic foreign elements that come in contact with her body, including all sorts of acids, poisons, and chemicals that would normally be fatal to human beings. She can ingest them and store them for use at a later time, usually when she decides to spit them at targets or enemies. She could deliver it via touch, but where’s the fun in that?
Since coming to the academy, Bex has been working on expanding her abilities beyond simple chemicals. The Crystal Peak faculty have been insistent that with her powers awakened, she should be able to control more foreign substances inside a human body, potentially removing cancers, tumors, and other diseases with the ease that she conjures the various toxins and pulls them into her body.

The ability to just force poison into bodies directly instead of spitting it in faces is just a bonus.


L I M I T A T I O N S
Once whatever chemical leaves Bex's body, she has no control over it, which means that collateral damage is always a possibility if she is relied upon as a main offensive threat. She also can’t generate anything herself. She has to ingest the element and store it to be able to use it in battle.
Also, her resistance to poisons means technically she can't get drunk, which depresses her greatly given her closest friend at Crystal Peak is able to do that at will.
Plus she’s not bulletproof. If the poison is frozen into a bullet and fired at her, it will kill her. But metal works a lot easier.


C O M B A T
Bexley has never been a fighter. She didn’t inherit her father’s physique or her mother’s athleticism, at least not in obvious ways. Maybe it’s buried under years of neglect, but she hasn’t bothered to find it. She is never going to be a straightforward brawler. She prefers to work in the shadows, waiting for the moment to strike with whatever poison or concoction she has in holding. It makes Bex and Eve a potent combo with Eve luring people in and Bex finishing them off. 

However, Crystal Peak demands some proficiency in combat, so Bex has been working on pressure point strikes. They don’t require much force, just a quick hand, and Bex has those from years of playing guitar. It seems to be coming along.


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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Naturally black, but dyed other colours at her whim | Wavy | Shoulder-length, occasionally tied up in a loose ponytail for certain shows.
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'6"
Body Type: Lightweight, little muscle tone if any.
Clothing Style: Leans heavily into the punk rock stylings of 80’s Britain, with some modern twists to suit her needs. She lives for music, and it shows in her attire with her leather + denim jackets and crop tops, her array of necklaces and chokers, all accented with spiked boots and black fingerless leather gloves.
Makeup Wise: Very heavy. She favours dark eyeshadow around her eyes, pale foundation, a collection of thick lipsticks and will wear it at all times. Got to maintain the rock star image even as poison drips from her lips.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Bex has two piercings in each of her lobes as well as her left nostril, usually favouring rings of various sizes in the holes. She has an East of Eden tattoo on her ribcage that has the dates of their first gig at the Glass, and room for other more prominent dates. She also paid to have her tongue split last May, allowing her to lean into her Mamba mentality, as well as freak out some norms. All it cost her was some blood. Easy trade.


S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Bexley hasn’t given much thought to her superhero look. She usually works in darkness, striking from the shadows, hence her look is very similar to her on-stage look… and her off-stage look. She sticks with the dark leather jackets and tops and darker jeans or leggings. She’s not built for movement, she’s built for a quick strike so what does it matter what she looks like? ”Not like I’m all that remarkable, anyway. People see some 'goth' chick and they just ignore me. It works.”


P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Again, this is a tale of two women. On the surface, Bexley has a healthy disdain for humanity. The stiff upper lip she brought over from Britain is usually scowling, much like the warning colours on venomous creatures of nature, as a warning to others to stay away. She is cold, uncaring and willing to spit trash on anyone, which makes her a perfect running mate for Eve Harding. The cynical women are quick to dish that philosophy out to whoever doesn’t ask. However, while Eve has the charisma and allure to balance her nihilistic views out, Bex doesn’t have that mask. She is pure poison...until you get to know her.

Once you break past the hardened exterior, Bex proves herself to be a loyal, capable friend. She will be caustic with the truth, but the veneer of contempt is lifted and it’s shown to come from a caring place. She will even be insightful at times. She isn’t lovey-dovey or anything. The lone attempt at showing feelings for someone led her to this place, and she’s not keen on repeating it unless she’s damn sure. However, she will be a considerate, thoughtful, downright human. Except with Zak. Too much sunshine makes her snap.


F E A R S
It’s definitely not death at this point, but the loneliness that led Bexley to discover her powers in the first place forever lingers. She puts up a tough rock star front but if she were ever forced to go solo against her wishes, she would soon be back in the same crippling doldrums that drove her to look death in the eyes and welcome it's embrace. And now she knows that she’ll have to resort to different methods. At least she has a ride or die band to roll with in New York, so those thoughts are at bay.


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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Parents:Biological Mother: Kerry Crosby (née Neville): A hospital administrator and part-time singer originally from Leeds, England who moved to Bristol in her 20s following a failed stint in a Spice Girls-inspired vocal act and married Ian Crosby. It is thought she has dormant powers similar to that of her daughter, but baseline tests have not revealed anything conclusive. FC: Melanie Chisholm
Biological Father: Ian Crosby: A roofing contractor and part-time guitarist in a Blur cover band called “Band 2” in Bristol, England. He has no known powers, although if asked, he will tell you he “can definitely lift that tree stump ‘n huck it over that Nissan Cherry.” FC: Russell Howard

The Neville side of Bex’s family contains her grandmother Linda (FC: Joanna Lumley), three aunts and numerous cousins that are rumoured to be under surveillance by the British and EU governments for potential signs of emergent powers.


R E L A T I O N S H I P S
East of Eden:
Alyssa Cashmore - Manager, Potential FWB in Training? If she can get past her obsession with Eve?
Evelyn “Eve” Harding - Co-leader of the band, Lead Vocals, Best Friend
Zac Lee - Drummer, Tolerated Ray of Sunshine
Krista Müller - Strings, Smol babe must protecc
Shepard Frasier - Guitars, student of the riffs, Confirmed Bi-lure
James Tyler - Guitars, student of the riffs, Is all right


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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Bexley Sarah Crosby was not born for greatness or history, or notoriety, or even mediocrity. She was never supposed to have all this attention on her. Attention doesn’t agree with her. Even with a mother who has a brief taste of fame in the early 00's as a member of Xenon Light and a father that still gets to taste the spotlight with his cover band, Bexley was never inclined to take after them in that way. Still, her father convinced her guitar lessons were cooler than piano lessons and her mom was always singing in the house so she was infused with musical talent from a young age. For the first decade or so, things were relatively normal for the young girl from Bristol. The first sign that she wasn’t going to be the next Theresa May came when she was 13. She was watching The X Factor with her parents and realised that she was attracted to Abi Alton for more than just her ability to play “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” for an audience. There was no chance of her acting on her blossoming desires then though. Britain was starting to open up to the LGBTQ community, but it still wasn’t welcoming, and would have brought some unwanted attention. So Bexley didn’t say anything.

In fact, it was two years before she said something. A girl in her Year 9 class, Emily Porter, looked like she was giving a vibe Bex's way. They collaborated in a couple class projects and even hung out a couple times outside of school. It went well. So Bexley took a risk and asked her to be her girlfriend. Emily was flattered, but straight. Bexley played it off like it was nothing, but Emily remembered and discussed it with a couple of her friends… who were less discreet and spread it like wildfire around the school. Bexley already had a reputation with her dark matter of dress, but adding confirmed lesbian to that dossier got her a lot of negative attention. Especially from football player Mason Davies, who decided he could fix Bexley’s issue. By force. He got her under a stairwell and broke new ground against her wishes. As Mason left, Bexley was horrified by what happened. Yet again, her solution was to not tell anyone. But it didn’t work nearly as well as her other secret. It ate her up inside. So a couple weeks after it happened, Bexley waited until her parents went out for one of Ian’s gigs, locked the bathroom door, grabbed the half-filled five-litre jug of Sechelle Bleach and poured it down her hatch. And that would be the story of Bex Crosby, dead at 15, unable to carry the weight of her own truths and the crimes committed because of them. She was content to wait for the release of death… but it never came.

Bexley waited in that bathroom for 30 minutes, then she had a snack, then she watched some TV. Not even a gurgle. When her parents came home, Bex finally came clean about something she did and showed them the empty bottle. They took her to a hospital but she was perfectly fine. The bleach wasn’t even present in her stomach contents after she was forced to vomit up the packet of salt and vinegar crisps she ate. It took a blood test to reveal that the chemical was now floating in her body, and unable to do anything to it. She was discharged from the NHS since nothing was actually wrong with her. She went back to school the next day, and yet again Mason Davies cornered her, intent on round 2. She responded by spitting in his eyes… and then watching him collapse to the ground in the stairwell, clutching his head in pain. Bex let him writhe there for 20 minutes, then finally decided to walk to a nearby pharmacy, use their phone and tip them to the student in the hallway. It turned out Mason got hit with a heavily concentrated dose of liquified chlorine gas and his corneas were burned away, leaving him blind and with his football career in tatters. When asked how it happened, Mason couldn’t tell them why he was in the stairway, so he pulled a Bex and bottled up. But the black-haired girl knew. Some research on bleach when it didn’t actually kill her told her that bleach plus the vinegar from the crisps made her spit deliver the toxic payload on her rapist. She told her parents, and it was time for far more rigorous tests. 

Over the next few months, Bex’s life was no longer school. It was various pokes and prods from… not even NHS doctors, special doctors she didn’t recognize. She ingested various corrosive liquids in a win-win situation. If she died, she died. If she didn’t, more stuff she could spit at sexual predators. Her parents were tested with miniscule amounts. Her father had a bad reaction to the diluted bleach but her mother… Nothing. Kerry was just as confused as Bexley was. She couldn’t handle nearly as much as her daughter and wasn’t going to chug bleach to find out but the conclusion was that Bex’s attempt to end her life activated some dormant genes in the Neville family line that enabled her to not only survive the toxic cocktail, but allow her to use the non-natural components of the chemical mixtures for defence. The genes were believed to be related to that of the first known hybrid human, Epiphania Lascaris, which meant the Nevilles could be direct descendants. It was a remarkable development… one that could prove the theories of Frederick Webb correct after all these years. It was dangerous. To those who believed superpowers could not be acquired or awakened in normal people, Bexley Crosby was now a major problem.

Unsure what could happen to Bex if someone more evil than a wannabe Ryan Giggs got a hold of her, the Crosbys decided they need to move somewhere that Bex could be protected, and since they weren’t exactly trusting of British authority figures after reading about what happened to Webb, they made a plea to the Crownes of Crystal Peak Academy to admit her for a proper education in the Gifted lifestyle. Bex was not warm to the idea and lazed on her application a little but the potential to have a descendant of the original Gifted on campus? The fact that she actually completed the tests was all she really needed. Bex was heading to America.

Miss Crosby wasn’t thrilled to learn Crystal Peak was farther outside New York City than she wanted and was prepared to spend a lot of time with her Yamaha Pacifica, setting up shop around campus… if she wasn’t spotted by another frosh named Eve Harding while picking out some “London Calling” by one of the cafe kiosks. The two hit it off very quickly, enjoying similar coffee tastes, musical stylings and negative views on life. Eve told Bex about her desire for a new band and they decided quickly to form a new group: East of Eden (A reference to the John Steinbeck novel as well as Ms. Harding’s nickname and Bex’s hometown being way farther east than New York). The group has steadily grown since the two of them started it, and it's done more than that for the Brit. It's given Bex more purpose than she had felt in years and served as a necessary release… especially since she found out her powers meant she couldn’t get drunk as alcohol technically poisons the system and her system rejects all poisons. But she knows it brings Eve joy so she tolerates it when her lead vocalist partakes.

It’s taken a while for Bex to embrace what happened to her, but she is finally in a better spot with things, which she grudgingly accepts is because she came to America. Her main goal now is to see the band succeed. If she can do something with these powers she’s gained, all for the better but she’d much rather be able to play her guitar, enjoy not hiding her sexuality, and tell everyone who finds her to be a monster exactly what they can do with their opinions.


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Her current guitar is a Yamaha Pacifica, but she would love to find an instrument that better suits her mood. She can only put so many vinyls on the Yamaha to mask the light blue finish.
Her favorite food since she's come to New York is fugu. She loves ordering it and eating the whole thing, just to watch the chefs squirm.
She designed the band's logo, using two mirrored capital Es with the o in negative space and tree branches on the left E. It's the only non-musical artistic thing she's done, and if you ask her to do another one, you will leave with holes burned in whatever clothing you're wearing.

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Ezekiel Damian Masterson
Nickname(s): Zeke

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
 – Robert Swan


╟ April 3 (20) || Mixed American (Mexican, Greek, Indian, European)|| Male || Pro-Bug Agenda/New Age Spiritualist || Bisexual  ||  Single ╢


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|| Written test ||  Mr. Masterson’s general knowledge scores in history, mathematics and writing were average at best, though he does have an unnatural understanding of biology, physiology, chemistry and etymology, despite claiming he’s never, “Touched one of those books in his life.” Seems more concerned with solving the immediate problem before him with little regard of how the outcome might affect those around him.

|| Practical test || Although Mr. Masterson has no raw, physical power, this doesn’t make him defenseless. So long as there are insects in the environment, he seems to be able to call upon them to his aid. They mostly seem to be a deterrent, though the potential applications could be limitless.

|| Written essay topic || Mr. Masterson gave a rather passionate essay on saving the environment, being a hero of the ‘trillions unseen and unheard’, and gave rather comprehensive and extensive (and explicit) details on the trending topic “#savethebees”. Though his ideologies of a hero are not from a humanitarian standpoint, his heart does seem to be in the right place.

|| Video supplement || “Why do I wanna be a hero? To save lives, you know?” Zeke chuckles nervously, wringing his hands together before sighing, “I don’t know man. Dad got his crazy fire powers from grandpa, who’s a freaking wizard by the way, and sis got those powers from dad. And moms? Hell she could make people act crazy, not like themselves, or even seduce them. You think I would’ve gotten a piece of that, but no; the only ‘Daddies’ I can seduce are Long Legs.”

“I guess… I wanna be a hero, cause I was always that weird kid in school. Always made fun of, that weird ‘bug boy’; shit kind of happens when you can talk to bugs all day. It’d be kind of nice if people looked out the window, saw me swagger down the street and say, ‘Hey, there’s that swarm kid, look at him go! He’s gonna save the goddamn bees.”


S C H O O L
Crestview College: (NHA)


Y E A R
Sophomore


C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Mental/Physiological


O C C U P A T I O N
N/A


L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Clearview Street Residence Complex


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Freshman year, Zeke had managed to make a few friends, and the folks that didn’t like him simply stayed away from ‘that weird bug kid’. After the incident though, with the rumors circulating around about his sister, he’s become a lot more standoffish towards those he doesn’t know, even aggressive in some cases. Only the few he’s still willing to call ‘friend’, don’t receive the brunt of his wrath.


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A B I L I T I E S
Entomokinesis - Ability to manipulate or control insects. Rather than from a purely mental manipulation as is demonstrated in psychics, Mr. Masterson’s form of control is through pheromones produced from his body. It seems the chemical signals are able to convey to the insect/s in question, what exactly he wants them to do.

Entomopathy - Ability to communicate with insects. The same pheromones and chemical signals that Mr. Masterson produces are also being emitted by insects and it seems he is able to receive these signals in communication. It’s not the same as having a conversation, but it seems the pheromones he receives travel to the limbic system, where they are processed as raw data. He doesn’t necessarily talk to them, but he can feel what their needs or present dangers are and in a way, see what they see.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Mr Masterson’s powers are limited to control/manipulation and primal communication. He cannot create any insects on his own and has to rely on the environment around him for any aid.


C O M B A T
Having to rely purely on his insects will get Mr. Masterson killed in a real field operation. Recommending basic hand to hand combat training for his first year, with the potential to take more advanced courses throughout the later years. We also recommended to him that he find a way to produce a steady supply of insects; he quickly asked about building an apiary.


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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Dark brown, mid-length and wavy
Eyes: Brown
Height: 6’3”
Body Type: Tall and lean
Clothing Style: Pretty much whatever you can find at a thrift store. Ratty looking flannels, t-shirts two sizes too big, jeans with more holes than not and a fair amount of converse shoes.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: ear gauges and a septum piercing and a tattoo of a hawk head moth on his upper right back


S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
“Do I really need a stupid costume? Can’t I just go out in what I’m wearing? Like seriously all I need to do is show up with a box of bees and that’s it, everybody gonna be runnin’ scared.”


P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Generally a lowkey person, tries to vibe with nature and the environment around him. That being said he’s wary of others, often preferring his arthropod companions over conversing with the mammalian ones. He acts on impulse, brashly reacting to situations, which can make it hard to converse with him properly anyway. His loyalty to those he considers family, blood or not, is unquestionable and he’ll happily come and bail you out at 2am on a thursday night.


F E A R S
Losing another member of his family


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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Father - 
Codename: Brimstone
FC: Aneurin Barnard

“Dad… both him and mom used to do some bad shit back in the day. Whatever they did at work, they never talked about at home, but we knew. It’s kind of hard to say anything good happened when your dad went blind because of a ‘work related incident’. It became more obvious when they turned themselves in and we didn’t live at home for a couple of years. It wasn’t long till everything went back to normal…well almost normal”

Mother - 
Codename: Psyche
FC: Jessica Alba

“Mom is a hot mess…both literally and figuratively. She still tries to do just about everything for us, always trying to be the best mom she could be. Nowadays it feels like her head is elsewhere and always looks tired. It wasn’t always like that though, not since big sis…”

Siblings
- 
Codename: Glitch
FC: Elizabeth Olsen

“Mel was always a little off, but she was like a big sister to me, babysat me and Feebs while mom and dad were away on ‘business’. Then she moved in with us… I think something bad happened to her folks that my parents won’t tell any of us about and I think it’s connected to how dad went blind… Either way, she was family to us, even before she officially was . Then things got even weirder with her and my parents after my sister died. They got into a huge fight and she stormed out; now no one knows where she is…”

- 
Codename: Syndrome
FC: Dytto

“Mia was the best big sister I could have asked for. She was always good to us and fucked up anyone who tried to mess with her kid siblings; pretty sure some of them had to go to therapy. When Mia got sick at first I didn’t totally understand it, how severe her condition was, or how badly the chemo was fucking up her body. It didn’t really hit me until she had already passed on…I miss her every day man…”

- 
Codename: Pyrite
FC: Simmer Bishil

“My absolute pain in the ass sister, I love her to pieces, but goddamn is she irritating. She’s always thought she was the smarter one, who always knew better than me, just cause she’s two years older than I am. It’s not like she was wrong or anything, not that I’d admit it to her face. Still…I’ve already lost two sisters, if anything were to happen to her, I’d lose my goddamn shit.”

Grandfather - 
Codename: ‘Masterson’
FC: Vincent Cassel

“Grandpa is that odd mix of really weird, but really cool at the same time. He got me a pet tarantula, well… kind of? It’s bigger than a normal one, like…the size of a guinea pig. I mean, that and it talks to me, something about a spell grandpa cast on it? I don’t really see him very often, but dad seems kind of on edge whenever he visits, especially since he started his new job.”

Pet? - 
“He’s my pet tarantula.. Well, a pet is a stretch, he’s more like a talking companion. Most of the bugs I interact with don’t actually talk with me, they just give me a signal or feeling as to what’s going on with them. Noah’s different though in that I can have an actual conversation with him, and he’s actually pretty okay with living a bougie life in his enclosure.”


R E L A T I O N S H I P S
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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Ezekiel is the youngest sibling of three, and outside of his father, the only boy in the family. Even at a young age, his powers became readily apparent, especially when his parents found him clapping happily on the floor, a circle of ants around him. The odd one out, he’d suffered through the torment, or tolerated the doting of his older sisters, always finding his way outdoors to commune with nature. There was a peace and serenity to be found outdoors that he couldn’t really have when he was around his siblings and better yet, there was plenty of life around to communicate with. His younger years were certainly happier ones, even after his father went blind and they adopted a childhood friend, Melanie Graves, life felt as happy and normal as could be.

Things don’t last forever though and Zeke learned that lesson the hard way when Mia was diagnosed with Cancer and succumbed to the disease within a couple of years. Then Melanie ran away from home and both his parents turned themselves in, leaving both him and his only remaining sibling in the care of an old friend of their father's. They spent the next three years living in a super bougie hotel while completing the rest of their high school education. It wasn't like they were shunted off to some foster care, but it certainly wasn't home and losing most of your family to different circumstance didn't help. Zeke spent most of his days being mischievous, pulling a few pranks here or there and taking the brunt of it out on Phoebe mostly; though she was sure to dish it back in her own way. Finally when Elijah and Gianna were released from prison, they could go home and live a life with some kind of normalcy.

Zeke knew that normal was never really among the status quo as tragedy struck again when the Crestview fire broke out, and rumors began to spread that Phoebe had started it. Another close call, another nearly lost sibling, Zeke made a decision. Things were never going to be the same again and he had to protect the people that were left. He wasn’t a powerhouse by any means, but he could be a benefit in another way. Environmental Sciences always felt the right choice, especially with how in tune he is with nature, literally talking to the ecosystem itself. So why not just follow Phoebe to Crystal Peak and kill two birds with one stone?


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Michael Andrew Stroud
Nickname(s): Mike, his parents call him Mikey; unsure if he likes either of these, prefers Michael

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil. – Hub

╟ March 15, (20) || Caucasian || Male || Agnostic, Registered Democrat || Bisexual? He has to try both ways to decide ||  Has Never Been Kissed ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  “I have spent my entire life practicing for this test. Getting into Crystal Peak has been what my life has revolved around for as long as I can remember… so, you’d think I’d ace it, right? I got a 65%. Please don’t tell my mom.” || While Mr. Stroud’s essay answers on history leave something to be desired, and his problem solving methods aren’t always what we would consider ‘ideal,’ it’s notable that he excelled in the leadership and morality parts of the exam.

|| Practical test || “I guess this test is different for everyone. I thought it was going to be like… ‘show us your power!’ type of experience, but it wasn’t. The teacher and I did some weird game where they played bad guys, and I had to stop them and protect some civilians. They laughed at me when I tried to talk them down.” || After reading his written test and essay, it’s a lot less surprising that Mr. Stroud attempted to talk the ‘villains’ in his scenario down from their plots of evil. He managed to hold them at bay and attempt his conversation for a good six minutes before the risk to civilians was too great, and he put a stop to it. Admirable young man.

|| Written essay topic || “It’s kind of personal, isn’t it?” || Mr. Stroud’s essay details an encounter he had with a person in New York City. Though powerless, Mr. Stroud describes this person as one of his biggest role models, and talks about how most of the world’s heroes could learn a thing or two from him.

|| Video supplement ||  “I really have to do this part? This seems a little… uhm, pretentious?”

Michael Stroud stares into the camera in what appears to be his bedroom. There’s a long pause, as the clearly exasperated young man tries to find the words he wants to say. How does one sell themselves to a college as prestigious as Crystal Peak? He should have written a script. Eventually, he speaks.  “...I just want to help people.” Another pause, this one more brief.  “Is that good enough?”

“Yeah, Mikey. That’ll work.”

S C H O O L
Crystal Peak all the way

Y E A R
Freshmen

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Almighty

O C C U P A T I O N
While not a paying job, Michael spends a lot of time in NYC working as a volunteer, often at soup kitchens or animal shelters. For money, he receives an allowance from his parents

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
The Towers at Crystal Lake Commons

I N T E R N S H I P S
Took one year after high school to work closely with Sentinel and the Coalition - Sentinel pushed for this, tough guy to say no to.

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Michael has been in the public eye for a while. Given who his parents are, it would have been impossible for him to not be, but coupled with the officially unofficial internship he has been working, people know who he is. It doesn’t help that he's selected neither a look nor a hero name.

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A B I L I T I E S
Superhuman Strength: Michael possesses inhuman strength. So strong, in fact, that it’s been ingrained in him that the world around him is one of cardboard; he has to hold back for the safety of everyone. This strength lends itself to his body as well - he is seemingly indestructible.

Flight: Michael is able to soar through the skies. He is not quite capable of breaking the sound barrier, but is interested in testing the limits of his abilities; something his parents never really let him do.

Heat Vision: Michael can fire freakin’ laser beams from his eyes. They are red, and they are very, very hot.

Super Senses: Michael’s senses are enhanced; i.e., he can hear extremely acutely, smell subtle scents, and his eyes are extra capable of making out fine details.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Michael’s main limitation is his lack of training. He relies too heavily on his natural powers and isn’t refined. Additionally, his mind isn’t exactly well fortified against psychic attacks. His super senses are often more of a hindrance than a boon; his super hearing can make it hard for him to concentrate — and picking out what noises he wants to hear vs doesn’t can be quite difficult at times, and loud noises can stunlock him somewhat. Adjusting to different levels of brightness can take longer 

Finally, and perhaps most importantly: he is deathly allergic to peaches. Being in too close of proximity to one can cause his powers to falter and him to lose his abilities. Consuming one could be fatal - he’s only had one in his entire life, and his parents thought they’d lost him that day.

Georgia isn’t too high on his superhero’ing dream spots.

C O M B A T
Still has a lot of work to do. Currently coasts on his sizable abilities, but could easily be outsmarted or outplayed.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Color | Type | How it's usually styled or worn
Eyes: Color
Height: In feet and inches
Body Type: Figure, build, etc.
Clothing Style: Type of Fashion | Examples of clothing items they wear frequently or that can be found in their closet
Makeup Wise: If applicable. If not feel free to delete.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Self-explanatory

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
As yet undecided. He tried out a few different looks during his time with the Coalition. He knows he wants a cape.

He wants a cape so badly.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
IAt first glance, it can be difficult to find flaws in Michael Stroud. He has been raised to be humble, gentle, and selfless person. For as long as he can remember, he’s been taught that his powers make him different but not better than other people. Resolutely noble, Michael has a strong sense of justice and right and wrong. He believes that there is good in every heart, and that it is up to the individual to better themselves to better everyone else around them. He holds himself to an extremely high standard, and he uses his powers to help other people because it is the right thing to do.

Beneath that, though? Michael is naive. He believes so strongly in his own values that he simply takes the rest of the world at face value, and believes everyone - especially his fellow Supes - hold the same values as close to heart as he does. He is a deeply trusting person, and easy to take advantage of. Michael is also surprisingly sheltered, given the life he’s lived so far. It was important to both of his parents that he not be exposed to certain parts of the world, and while it’s worked, it remains to be seen how he will handle the world on his own.

There is a lot of pressure riding on his shoulders, as he’s been told for a long time by his family that he is going to be the greatest superhero the world has ever seen. The stress of living up to that expectation often keeps him up at night.

F E A R S
That he won’t be able to live up to the heavy expectations laid on his shoulders.
Often has nightmares about his very early childhood, before he was adopted by Nathaniel and Serenity Stroud. He doesn’t know details and to be frank he isn’t interested in looking into it.

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Nathaniel Stroud: Michael’s adoptive father. A superhero by the name of Sentinel, Nathaniel leads the Coalition; Bechtel International’s premier superhero team.
Serenity Stroud: Michael’s adoptive mother. A superhero by the name of Barrage, she is a member of the Coalition with her husband.
Raelynn Stroud: His elder sister. Has a similar explosive power to her mother. Michael likes her, but thinks she goes a little extra sometime when apprehending a criminal.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S
Anthony ‘Tony’ Capello: The subject of Michael’s written essay in his entrance exam. Tony is a powerless man who lives in New York City. Along with his wife, he runs a charitable organization that functions as a soup kitchen and homeless shelter. Michael can often be found helping out there. Michael considers Tony to be one of the most selfless people he knows, and a big reason why he doesn’t believe Gifts make you better than an ungifted person.
Nemo: Purchased as a puppy for him on his 7th birthday, Michale named the golden retriever after his favorite movie. They are best friends, and Michael has already set up a routine with his mother so he can check on his dog before he goes to sleep every evening.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
For almost the entire first year of his life Michael was a nameless John Doe in a Cashmore Global lab. He had been taken away from his family by the company when they learned that he had manifested powers out of nowhere. Born to parents who were nothing, the young child had no right to power in the eyes of Cashmore Global, and they were going to find out how he’d gotten them. Shortly after he was removed from his parents, his parents were killed in a tragic car accident, and his birth certificate and other information about his family was ‘lost’ in an office move. Essentially, Cashmore Global had their perfect science experiment.

This lasted only eight months, until Sentinel heard about the experimentation being done. Sentinel wouldn’t stand for it, and he was a tough man to bargain with. By the end of that very same day, the baby was coming home with him. By the end of the week, he was adopted and named Michael Stroud. Sentinel would take it upon himself to train the child. Cashmore had agreed, so long as they were allowed weekly sessions with the boy to learn about his growth.

From a very young age, Michael spent long hours training not just with Sentinel, but the other seven members of the Coalition. It wasn’t until he was about twelve that his father told him he wanted him to become the greatest superhero in history. Even back then, Nathaniel seemed to believe that his young son had the power and the potential to save everyone.

Michael was a dedicated Boy Scout through all of his youth, and became an Eagle Scout before graduating. His father suggested it when he was younger as a way to hopefully instill good values in him, and Michael took to it very naturally. After graduating high school, his college of choice had practically already been picked for him: Crystal Peak Academy. Before he went to the Academy though, Sentinel had pulled some strings to make it legally acceptable for Michael to work with him and his team - on smaller missions of course.

Taking a year-long sabbatical, Michael got a feel for heroing and the backstage politics of it. After a year of working at it, Michael already knows he hates that part of the job, and he hopes to find a way that he can work on his own, though he knows his father dreams of him being on the Coalition.

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Michael enjoys camping
Michael struggles with sleeping. His mind races often, and he can be found hovering above the Coalition’s tower - or, these days, hovering above the Crystal Peak Academy.
Michael is a warm and accepting person, but his naivety may make it a bit difficult for him to find friends among his peers.

▲ Metal Man

Daniel Brian Helmsley
Nickname(s): Danny Boy

Greed,  for lack of a better word, is good.
 – Gordon Gecko

╟ January 1st (22) || White || Alpha Male || The Metal Man does not limit himself to such petty illusions as labels|| Bisexual  ||  Single and really needs a partner to keep him humble ╢

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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  This shit be coming to me too easy, bro. See, the thing is my psycho dad had me studying this shit from the moment I could walk and talk. He was like ‘Danny, one day you’re going to decimate the super world.’ And I was like, dude, what? I’m fucking six years old, why do you have me studying shit like the Supes in world wars? Whatever. Anyway, just call me Easy A. || Unfortunately, Mr. Helmsley did indeed ace the test. Trust me, we’re just as disappointed about it as you are.

|| Practical test || I got this super act down to a T. Arrive, save the day, smile and wave. || Though the young Mr. Helmsley was somewhat focused on the way he looked and was received more than doing a good job… he did succeed in the end.

|| Written essay topic || This is where the fun began! See, I have to convince the people who are reading my tests that I actually want to be a superhero. Which is like, I do… but what I really want is all the money and the fame. Pops is in jail these days, and look, the Supreme clothing does not come cheap. || He wrote about how you can live a better life by being a hero rather than a villain. There was some clear passion here, though his methods seem a little… misguided.

|| Video supplement || “I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking ‘why oh why would we let the son of public enemy number one come to our fancy pants little academy?’ Let me answer that question for you: You ever watched an anime before? Everyone goes nuts for the guy with the bad guy origins who turns out to be a good guy. And guess what? That’s me. I become a hero, I overcome the expectations and trials of who my dad is and boom. Instant star. I make a bunch of money, the companies make a bunch of money… everyone’s happy.” || Dammit he’s right.

S C H O O L
Crestview College → Crystal Peak

Y E A R
Senior

O C C U P A T I O N
Danny Boy has no time to work a job because Danny Boy has too much fucking schoolwork to do.

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Cypress Apartments

I N T E R N S H I P S
Has not had an internship, but also has (perhaps unsurprisingly) not looked for one.

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Danny had a bit of a struggle with the whole ‘son of a supervillain’ thing, but he knew that would happen going in. It’ll be part of his reputation all his life, and it’s something he plans on using to make himself a popular supe. Gotta keep the money flowing.

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A B I L I T I E S
Danny Boy here can turn himself into metal. While in his metal form, Danny has increased speed, strength, and massively increased durability. He reckons he’s invincible, and he’s yet to run into anything that can punch him hard enough to make him think otherwise. KO’d, sure once or twice (Fuckin’ Dog Day packs a punch, bro.), but he’s never had anything broken while in the metal form. He’s pretty confident he can get even harder too, but he hasn’t tried too hard.

L I M I T A T I O N S
Danny can only hold the metal form for a few hours at a time, and if he’s knocked out, the metal goes bye bye and so does his face if someone follows through. He’s also extremely heavy while in it, making it difficult for him to be driven or flown around. Extreme heat also fucks with him and makes it difficult to focus and maintain a metal form.

Overall, it’s a pretty simple, but fairly flashy power.

C O M B A T
Danny Boy here’s a bit of brawler. He can throw hands with the best of them, and take more than a few punches himself - both in his metal form and out of it. Ultimately though, on the battlefield, he’s a tank. Smack-talker Skywalker, Danny drags the attention of the enemies and dares them to try and take him down, and waits for the Boys to swoop in and handle business for him. It works out.

He’s also obsessed with the idea of team up moves, and tries to make some that work for himself and all of his buddies. It’s a work in progress, but he’ll be damned if it doesn’t work out in the end.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Brown Blonde Type Beat | Curly? Straight? Who knows. | Messy. Whatever’s convenient. He’s lazy, okay?
Eyes: Blue Green
Height: 6’3” (7’ in his metal form)
Body Type: Positively shredded, it’s like the guy eats nothing but protein. Also quite shiny in his metal form.
Clothing Style: Danny wears the kind of clothes one might expect from the heir to a mega-fortune. Designer names and tags from head to toe.
Makeup Wise: Danny paints his nails sometimes, thinks it looks super-fire. He used to be a make-up test dummy for his sisters and never really grew out of painting the nails.
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: N/A

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Dude. When you turn into a giant metal monster, spandex is your friend. I got a pair of stretchy spandex shorts that I wear when I’m up to those daring dos, and that’s fuckin’ it. They’re grey.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Cocky
Melodramatic
Drama King
Stupidly loyal
Headstrong
Never shuts up
The man with a plan

F E A R S
His motherfuckin’ dad breakin’ out of prison and demanding to know what the fuck he’s doing in a super hero college.

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Christopher Helmsley, Father: Currently Incarcerated at Carceris Island. Seems to still be running his criminal empire from the comfort of his cell, much to the frustration of authorities.
Bianca Helmsley, Mother
Sofia Helmsley, Older sister
Ryan Helmsley, Older brother

R E L A T I O N S H I P S
Danny is besties with the Boys. The Lads. The Crew. His people.
Danny has little to no strong feelings at this time toward the others.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Daniel Helmsley was born in California to Christopher and Bianca Helmsley, their youngest child. In his early years, Daniel was expected to learn about the superhero society that Christopher longed to one day control. Unfortunately for Daniel, he had gotten rather unlucky with his heritage; his father was the head of a longstanding, massive criminal empire that spanned across the entire world, and to top it all off… Christopher is a bit of a control freak.

Up until the very first day of his junior year of high school, when Christopher was taken in by Sentinel and his team, Daniel felt like he had no choice but to do exactly what his dad wanted him to. That was what everyone else in the family did, so how could he be any different?

Once his dad was in prison though… things kind of changed for him. There was no overbearing force breathing down his neck and telling him that he existed to further the cause of the family’s empire, or that it was his birthright to head the organization… there was really nothing, other than listening to his mother cry every night. (Dude, it’s been like four years and she’s still crying.)

In his senior year, Daniel came up with his master plan. If he could get into Super society, then he figured he had the perfect storyline to make a hundred movies, sell a thousand bucks, and most importantly: make himself his own goddamn money. After he’d gotten old enough to realize the kind of things his father got up, Daniel had decided he’d become a self-made man.

Or, at least a partially self-made man. He wasn’t about to be the type to say no to a small loan of a million dollars, or the credit cards his mother still paid off with the income from the legitimate businesses she and her husband had owned. Eventually, Daniel would make it on his own, but he’d take his sweet time getting there.

He spent most of his junior year and all of his senior year preparing for his master plan. The work he did with his father was given new life and new direction, and by the time he graduated high school his master plan was ready to be put in motion…

And then after he put in his application, he got sent to Crestview instead of Crystal Peak. He’s still reeling with disappointment in himself.

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His hobbies include:
Smoking weed
Drinking booze
Playing NBA 2k
Coloring books
Painting his nails
Trying to convince D-Day that his beast form would look sweet with a big ol’ purple bow
Shopping

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Kayla Melody Styles

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power…”
 – Washington Irvine

╟ December 2 (21 looks 16) || Caucasian || Female || Christian || Hetero  ||  Single ╢

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|| Written test ||  Ms. Styles’ academic scores exceeded expectations, given her lineage this isn’t all too surprising. However, most of the prompts involving hero work were answered with her saving as many lives as possible, often to the detriment of herself. While her intelligence is without question and her morals admirable, she has a lot to learn.

|| Practical test || Ms. Styles' performance with the power suit was quite impressive. Her strength, agility and endurance have been greatly enhanced. Although we were curious to see the full capabilities of the suit, we were advised by Dr. Styles himself that this was a prototype and not to go too hard on it.

|| Written essay topic || Ms. Styles' essay drew a great deal of inspiration from Bechtel's own Weaver, another powerless in a family of powered heroes, with the lofty goal to help others and save the world. Her heart is in the right place and she certainly has the lineage and assets to achieve these goals, but does she have the willpower?

|| Video supplement ||
Kayla says it with as much assuredness as she could muster, her stance an attempt at confidence, but her shaking frame and fidgeting hands give her away. The panel of professors and admins before her conferred amongst each other, which left the young girl to the thoughts in her head. Discouraging ones like an angry swarm, ‘why are you here?’ ‘You don’t have any powers?’ ‘you’re wasting your time.’ Some days these thoughts were too much to handle, today they came close, but the desire to be here outweighed the negative; until the silence was broken, and the swarm scattered.

“Ms. Styles,” spoke one of the instructors, “you’ve given an impressive display, truly you have, but what this school demands is not for the faint of heart. Even with your fantastic suit, I’m not sure if this school can take someone without-”

“Powers? Sir I’m not here because I have powers, I’m here because I want to be a hero, isn’t that what you train people here for?” She could feel a lump forming in her throat, but forced it down to continue on, “Ever since I was 6 years old I knew I wanted to be a hero, standing here, even now shows how dedicated I am to that belief.” She awaited an answer, unsure how the instructors would react to her outburst.

A woman’s voice speaks up, “I have a feeling, you’ll be able to handle yourself just fine here.”

S C H O O L
Crystal Peak Academy

Y E A R
Sophomore

C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Personal Physical/Energy

O C C U P A T I O N
Works part-time Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the campus cafe between 7:30am - 11:00am before afternoon classes and part-time work study on fridays and saturdays at the campus library between 3:00pm - 6:00pm

L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
The Towers at Crystal Lake Commons

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Ms. Styles doesn’t have any powers to speak of, yet she was able to perform a demonstration using a power suit designed by her father, Dr. Brennan Styles. The suit itself seems to enhance the user's strength, agility and reaction time. The suit also seems to have an enhanced jumping mechanism to allow the user to traverse greater heights and distances quickly. This will certainly help Ms. Styles to keep up with the other students.

L I M I T A T I O N S
We were informed by the doctor the suit is only a prototype, therefore it does have a limited power supply and is not entirely impervious to having its power drained, although it has some resistances to these forms of attacks, it cannot sustain these resistances for long.

C O M B A T
The suit seems to have a generalistic range of weaponry from non-lethal wrist mounted projectiles,based on Dr. Styles’ ionic pulses, to smoke and flash grenades as well as concussive shot rounds.

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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Platinum blonde hair, straight and neck length
Eyes: Pale blue
Height: 4’8”
Body Type: Petite (less than 90lbs soaking wet)
Clothing Style: casual, yet modest tops, jeans or jean shorts
Makeup Wise: minimal application
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: N/A

S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
A silver colored power suit to fit her body profile, electronics glowing an incandescent blue/white, the same coloring as her father’s ion powers. There is no discernable face, only a reflective mirror where a face should be.

P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Kayla’s greatest aspiration is to be a hero and she tries her best to live up to that role every day by showing kindness, compassion and empathy to those around her. Despite always wanting to help those around her, she can barely help herself stand on her own two feet. Born to a prominent family in the hero community without any powers doesn’t help her self esteem either. Regardless she is loyal to a fault, ready to help her friends in a scrap if they’re ever in trouble.

F E A R S
Her greatest fear is that she will never be good enough in the eyes of her family and peers, that her powerlessness will make her less than those around her. Outside of that, definitely spiders.

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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Father - 
Codename: Proton
FC: Misha Collins

“Dad is probably the smartest person I know, and I know a lot of kids say that about their parents, but he’s a scientist, started up his own tech and energy company, even built superpowers just for me. He’s always been my biggest support, always believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself. He seems preoccupied lately and I miss talking to him like we did when I was living at home. I know he’s busy running his own company and everything, but it feels different than before."

Mother - 
Codename: Leona
FC: Anne Hathaway

“Mom has always been the doting caretaker, she shows her love to my dad and I unconditionally, but to say she really loves plants would be an understatement. Mom said her biggest dream was to open up her own flower shop and she finally made it a reality. I just wish she hadn’t opened it so close to the college campus…though it makes sense given our lineage.”

R E L A T I O N S H I P S
Kayla’s family history does stem from the Lovelace line through her mother Elizabeth, which makes Kayla and Illuria cousins. They spent a lot of their childhood together, but it’s been years since they’ve interacted with one another.

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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
For as long as Kayla could remember, she’s wanted to be a hero. Having grown up around such influential people and heroes like her parents, how could she not want to be one? Every day she studied hard and tried to figure out when and what her powers would eventually be. As the years went on, however and no powers developed, her confidence slowly began to wane and eventually the reality of her situation was accepted. Kayla Styles, daughter of Dr. Brennan Styles and Elizabeth Lovelace-Styles, was born without powers; ergo she could not become a hero like her parents before her. 

The news for the young woman was devastating, but she couldn’t give up and wanted to continue to pursue her dream regardless. Her parents tried to talk her out of attempting to go to Crystal Peak, but was hellbent on this one goal in life. Rather than let her go at it with the clothes on her back though, her father had other plans and began development of a prototype suit for Kayla to use. When it was completed and finally presented to her, there was a mixed bag of emotions floating in Kayla’s brain. On one hand she could finally achieve her dream with this suit, but on the other hand, this was not something she had earned on her own, it was a tool to give her an advantage; in other words, she’d be cheating. Reluctantly though, after some convincing, she took the suit with her and now attends the academy to follow her dream.

After a difficult first year, struggling through her courses, but overcoming her handicaps with high marks, the young student returns, ready for what this year may bring. Though the new inclusion of Crestview students has her worried, she’s treating it like being a freshman all over again. Hopefully this time though, she’ll actually be able to make friends this year.

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Kayla likes to take walks through nature, photographing with an old canon camera and film

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Alyssa Deserae Cashmore
Nickname(s): Lyss, Lyssa


I like people. In the same way that people are so fond of dogs. They’re loyal, easily handled, clever and stupid. Just watching them is fun. And also, they love me.
 – Makima


╟ 04/01 (23) || Caucasian || Female || She’s secretive about labels || Gay  ||  Stalker Status ╢


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A P P L I C A T I O N  P R O C E S S
|| Written test ||  I think they’re a bit too obvious with what they’re going for here. Regardless, I did well enough. My father is who he is though, so I’m sure I didn’t do too well on the ‘secret’ part of the exam. Oops. || Her father must have told her what to expect, some of her answers are almost like she was mocking us.

|| Practical test || Poorly. Action is hardly my forte, I’m more of an infiltration and manipulation type. The guy in the chair, I think they call it? I did pass though. || She went inside the head of the teacher playing villain and broke his mental. She repaired him after a while… but for a minute there, it seemed like he’d never come back from that.

|| Written essay topic || I wrote about my father and how the things he does and the way he runs his company are possibly the grossest abuse of power in the history of humankind. I also spoke about how, despite his abhorrent methods and the fact that he practically has a monopoly, Alexander Cashmore’s intentions are (unfortunately) quite pure. || It was grossly philosophical.

|| Video supplement || “I’ve never really understood this part of the exam. Maybe I have a brand in mind, maybe I don’t. But aren’t there people who are paid a lot of money to handle marketing? Why do I have to do it? I’m not going to do someone’s job for them, so unless we plan to fire the publicists and marketers, I suggest you step aside and let them do their job — instead of asking an eighteen year old to have their entire future planned out.” || God I hate her.


S C H O O L
Crystal Peak Academy


Y E A R
Senior


C L A S S I F I C A T I O N
Mentalist


O C C U P A T I O N
Warden
East of Eden manager


L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T
Campus Castle


I N T E R N S H I P S
N/A
Alyssa is significantly more interested in running her father’s company, and sees heroing as a means to an end. To that goal, she has worked closely with him in the inner workings of Cashmore Global.


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Because of her last name, most people look at her with some level of respect. People who know her past face value look at her with a mix of fear and respect, always left wondering if she’s used her powers against them or not.


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A B I L I T I E S
Alyssa is a very powerful and talented mentalist, training from an extremely young age to learn how to use her abilities.

Telepathy:
Though it is mostly surface-level, Alyssa is able to read minds and communicate through telepathy. Despite her best attempts, she seems unable to mind control someone. This has been a great disappointment to both Alyssa and her father. However, she is able to communicate telepathically at short to mid ranges. (Think within a mile).

Memory Manipulation:
The meat of Alyssa’s power is here. Upon delving into someone’s mind, Alyssa is able to access their memories. She can view them intimately, as if she were in the memory herself. Additionally, she can change them, to make a person believe whatever she wants them to. She can also ‘delete’ memories from another person, though Alyssa personally considers this ‘going too far.’ In essence, Alyssa is a superpowered gaslighter. It works well for what she likes to do. She is able to do this at a range equal to her telepathy.

Memory Copying:
Alyssa can ‘save’ memories from other people in her own mind, copying them over for future reference. Pulling memories from another person requires physical contact. It is easiest if she can touch their head, but she’s been able to do it from a hand touch before. For Alyssa, a fuzzy or repressed memory would be vivid and easy to read. This ability is most helpful because it allows her to learn things other people might know - such as a language or the answer to last night’s math homework.

Perfect Recollection:
Alyssa has the ability to perfectly recall anything that has ever happened to her, as well as any memories she has borrowed from someone else. This gets very granular; she can remember exact smells, sights, and touches. Alyssa considers it a blessing and a curse… some things are simply better left forgotten.


L I M I T A T I O N S
Alyssa’s biggest limitation is that she would fold like paper if things got physical. She’s best at a range, and sometimes the mission just doesn’t allow for that. Additionally, some of her powers require physical contact, and most importantly: time. Pulling a memory that’s been repressed or one from a childhood, in the vivid detail that Alyssa does, is not an easy task by any means, regardless of how much she might act like it is.

She is not very adept at hand-to-hand combat. In fact, she’s rather bad at it. Punching and kicking is not her strong suit, and she’s well aware of that; she does her best to circumvent this using her powers, and is somewhat successful.


C O M B A T
In combat, Alyssa is surgical and destructive with what she does. It’s easy to beat almost anyone if she simply acts first.

She likes to pull out the ‘background’ memories people have. Making people forget to breathe, how to walk, or talk, or how to fight… doing it quick and dirty isn’t her favorite, and sometimes its not her best work, but it has proven to be rather effective.

The simple truth of the matter is Alyssa would prefer to not be in combat, and instead be a member of an intelligence team. Interrogation, manipulation, and negotation are much more her forte.


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D A I L Y  L O  O K S  &  S T Y L E 
Hair: Blonde | Straight | She likes ponytails?
Eyes: Green
Height: 5’1”
Body Type: Somewhat curvy
Clothing Style: Type of Fashion | Examples of clothing items they wear frequently or that can be found in their closet
Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: None worth noting, standard piercings.


S U P E  L O O K S  &  S T Y L E 
TBD (please davi i suck at this kind of thing)


P E R S O N A L I T Y  T R A I T S 
Collected
Calculating
Manipulative
Protective
Vindictive
Holds a grudge
Possessive
Confident
Charismatic


F E A R S
Alyssa’s fear is that her father will find out about her manipulation, and then she’d be left wondering if it was worth all the effort just to protect her brother if she loses her future in the process.


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L O V E D  O N E S 
D I R E C T  F A M I L Y
Alexander Cashmore: Alyssa’s father. She considers him one of the most valuable people to be on the earth. She has a lot to learn from him, and plans to take over his company and position of power. Also, she kind of hates him. It’s difficult.

Matthew Cashmore: Her beloved little brother. Alyssa cannot help but somewhat blame Matt for the death of their mother, but she ultimately feels compelled to shield and protect him from their father. Alyssa wishes he took more pride in his abilities and carried himself a bit better. These are things that are difficult to put to words though, and she’s made an almost subconscious decision to let Will handle him.

William Blake: Alyssa has a deep respect for Will. He may be a little tight on the rules for her tastes, but she is nonetheless impressed by the way he carries himself. Alyssa has already cracked under the pressure of the world around her, and William seems to thrive under that weight. How could she not respect him? If William were ever to break bad, Alyssa isn’t sure how she would handle it. Though she isn’t sure how he views her, she certainly considers him to be one of her rocks. At times, her only.

Athena Cashmore: Cousin; TBD


R E L A T I O N S H I P S
Evelyn Harding: Evelyn is the single most frustrating person in Alyssa’s life. Despite, in her mind, creating a neon sign that says ‘I want to kiss you’ and waving it around rapidly, Evelyn seems to either not notice or not care about all of Alyssa’s efforts in their relationship. Alyssa is not sure which one would be more insulting. One way or another, Alyssa plans to make Evelyn hers.


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Y O U R  L I F E  S O  F A R
Once upon a time, Alyssa was an only child. Some people in her life truly believe that Alyssa thinks this was a ‘better’ time, but the truth is to her it was just… ‘different.’ She can remember her mother, she can remember how she sounded, what she said, how she smelt, how it felt when she rocked her to sleep. She remembers all of those things fondly. Unfortunately, when her younger brother was born, Alyssa lost her mother.

This is something she has always struggled with. Though she knows it wasn’t his fault, she can’t help but somewhat place blame of their mother’s death on Matthew. When something so tragic happens to a child, dealing with the trauma is… difficult, and Alyssa found a person to blame. Perhaps it would have been a good idea to put the young girl in therapy, but Alexander Cashmore had no time or foresight for such a thing — so she had to deal with it herself.

It was a really unfortunate situation; Alexander seemed to not care about Matthew, and Alyssa had to often ‘deal with him’ herself, even at a young age. If Matthew cried, and there was no nanny, or auntie, or uncle around to answer the call, then it fell on the older sister to figure it out. This would only add to her resentment, and in a not-so-shocking turn of events, Alyssa eventually turned her frustration on her father as well.

Even though she was starting to resent him, she knew even at a young age that she was her father’s favorite. In his eyes, how could she not be? Even in her adolescent years, Alyssa used her powers to manipulate people to get what she wanted. When her father found out, Alyssa thought she’d be punished — perhaps in a similar way to her brother, who was practically abandoned by their father at this point. Instead, Alyssa found her father overjoyed at his daughter’s lack of morals.

Throughout her teenage years, she worked closely with him to learn the inner workings of the business, planning to take it over after she finished college — hostilely if necessary. By this time, Alyssa had mostly come to terms with her mother’s death. She learned to protect her brother, and that they were to depend on each other and help each other, even if she was fairly harsh with him. In her mind, pushing Matthew to be one of the best was the greatest way to make a thorn in her father’s side.

When Matthew turned eighteen, Alexander tasked Alyssa with the job of reaching into Matthew’s mind and reprogramming his memories to think he always wanted to do whatever his father wanted. If he was sent to college with the right mindset, Alexander thought, then he would grow into the ‘right’ person. Alyssa had to think and act fast, and tweaked her father’s memory to believe she’d already ‘fixed’ Matt.

To this day, she’s still waiting for it to blow up in her face; not to mention the surprisingly immense guilt she feels over it. Her darkest secret.


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Alyssa likes to play tennis
She is the manager of East of Eden
She considers herself Evelyn Harding’s biggest fan
As a senior, she plans to ‘adopt’ a freshman or two
She really likes strawberries. Like they’re her absolute favorite.

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