-Set in New Lilith
-Charles Jonathan Michaels
-Father, Jack, works in Research and Development
-Mother, Rebecca, is a public defender
-Chuck is an average kid, he enjoys comics, movies and video games.
-His family is lower middle class, but Jack and Rebecca both work long hours and make personal sacrifices to ensure their son wants for nothing. 
-Due to this, Chuck is often left alone for long periods of time and retreats in a world of fantasy. 
-The company that Jack works with becomes involved with one of the city's crime lords who takes special interest into Jack's work. 
-Jack had been working on bio mechanical augmentation to help those with muscular disabilities and paralysis. 
-Instead, the crime lord saw the potential to weaponize the technology and tried to bribe Jack. When that didn't work, they moved to extortion and eventually murder as they killed Rebecca to make Jack comply. 
-The murder of his mother awoke something new inside the sixteen year old Chuck who felt as though his eyes had been opened for the first time. The failure of the police in handling his mother's case made Chuck realize just how far New Lilith had fallen. 
-Unbeknownst to both Chuck and Jack, both were Hyperhumans with Jack's technical prowess in part due to his own abilities. Chuck on the other hand had the ability to mimic the abilities of those close to him and so adopted his father's. 
-inspired by his fantasy world, Chuck put together an outfit and arsenal before hitting the streets as he sought to solve his mother's murder. 
-But it would seem fate had other plans as Charles discovered a bank robbery in progress. Interfering, Chuck met two others like him and that night, the Mavericks were born.