Description: One of many people who have developed a gyft while living in the city and decided to make it everyone else's problem. Maribel came from a large and boisterous family, and she grew up as someone that actually thrived within Nocturnia. When her power manifested in early adulthood, she changed career paths and became a guard for hire. Technically. She's worked legitimate jobs and as extra mafia muscle. Though she may tell you she likes the excitement of the latter, the former is much preferable. Especially after a few bad jobs screwed up her personal and love lives.

Her latest position with the Silver Canary is the best she's had since... ever. She gets paid well and normally doesn't have to worry about much in her day to day. Although the money is a large part of who she chooses to work with, Maribel does have an honorable streak in her. Maybe ironic given her occupation and the nature of the city, but she gets attached easily. Her 'code name' is actually just her maiden name; she prefers it to her legal one but hasn't cared enough to go through another name change since her divorce.

Gyft: Air Force

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Description: The daughter of a former detective. Or, rather, the former daughter of a former detective. Maya was emancipated in her teenage years after one too many close calls due to her father's occupation. Among other reasons. Even after leaving her old life behind, she was never safe. Muggers, kidnappers, and killers were a very real problem in the city. All just as bad as the corrupt men her old family had chosen to throw their lot in with. She lived in constant vigilance, aloof and alone in a dead end job within the walled city.

Until she got caught up in yet another hostage situation (some small time gang with ambitions way above their ability), and met Adel by chance as he was poking around the area. After being set free (technically, as all the Canary had done was open their cuffs and the door and left them to save themselves), Maya sought him out. The fact that she, a civilian, had actually managed to find him got her hired. Well, that and her useful gyft. If she was going to find herself in sticky situations no matter what she did, then she figured she might as well give up and lean into it.

Gyft: Bio-Sonar

Description: While Walter is now known as a bit of a private eye in the district of Grey Square, he was once the proud owner of an antiques store. Unfortunately, as the rise of Gyfts gave powers to people who really shouldn't be trusted with a water gun his store became the target of local thugs when he refused to pay protection money. When Walter's own gyft allowed him to elude the thugs planned ambush, the thugs burned his store to the ground in an act of revenge shortly before the police arrived.

Without his store to fund his life, he was briefly put to work as a private contractor for Leon's division by helping identify the origins of any objects that may have been of historical value or reference during the police officer's various busts. However, after being able to detect a cache of drugs that was sealed inside of each 'lucky cat' statue that had been uncovered during a drug bust, Leon has kept him on as a more permanent contractor for special cases in which the police need assistance.

Gyft: Vibrational Echolocation
When Walter's skin comes into contact with a solid surface, he can send out a pulse that echoes out a distance of approximately sixty feet from the point of contact which travels along all objects in physical contact with the surface he has touched. Effectively, this gives him a brief 3d image of his surroundings. The more solid an object is, the better it shows in the image he retrieves from his gyft. So while wood, metal, and stone would give him a crisp image, loose dirt, water, and gel-like substances give him a poor image. While he does use this gyft to reveal secrets about his surroundings and can even sense where people are by the contact of their bodies with a solid surface, this power would do nothing reveal a subject or details that are floating or otherwise suspended in the air through non-physical methods.

Description: A brilliant student at the College of Gyfted Studies, Barbara excels at the technological aspect of higher education, with a particular talent for Biophysics. Secretly, she dreams of being the person to unlock the origins of the Gyfts and why some people seem to have them and others don't. She has published two papers in the local science magazines, which has earned her the attention of Nocturnia PD. In exchange for participating in what Leon refers to as an 'extended work study', she is given a healthy(funding wise) scholarship and is often collaborated with when Gyfted persons are brought in on criminal charges.

Gyft: None

Description: The angry, enigmatic leader of an unknown organization. Flint often uses code words in his lectures to his members and to-be inaudible. Some upper echelon members claim the ‘Book of the New Order’ has over five hundred instances of code words, ensuring that no one outside can even remotely understand what the in-the-know members are talking about.

There's a reason Flint is so conflicted in his emotions and quick to blow a fuse. Not many years ago, he was, in fact, a mafia boss with a healthy number of districts under his command. That was, at least, until an unknown opposing mafias leader kidnapped his daughter, and demanded he kill his wife or witness his daughter die. It was an impossible decision, but at the behest of his wife, she sacrificed herself. He was given back his daughter after the deed was done, and his enemies took him as a broken man.

Little did they know, as Flint escaped his districts with his daughter, and his mafia crumbled, a new man would be born of the ashes. A man whose Gyft was born out of extreme suffering, and a man who would do anything to ensure that mafias are wiped off the face of the earth.

Gyft: Unknown.