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Full Name: Daniel Kingston
Pronouns: He/Him
Age: 17
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 140
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown - Dyes it black
Distinguishing Features: N/A
Origin: Mutant
Team: Excelsior
Base: Avengers Academy
Alignment: Chaotic good
Hobbies: Cooking, Dancing, Gossiping

History

The adopted son of James and Casper Kingston, Danny was never a child without love. Although born in Genosha, his earliest memories are of New Orleans after James and Casper moved there following the collapse of Genosha. Pops worked at an auto shop, the strong order of oil caked into Danny’s early memories, and baby Danny was always dazzled and amazed at the outfits his Pape put on and the glitter, shimmer, and glamor of his shows. He remembers sometimes when Papa would be him because Pops had a guest at home and he always terrorized the backstage areas if they had one, wearing Papa’s feather boas and shoes even if they were too big. And when Pops would come pick him up, the half hearted scolding was seconds before the fond sigh, the quiet click of the camera, and a kiss on the forehead.

Although he was an only child, and he made sure to milk that he was with, Dorian was such a constant presence in his life, he felt like a sibling rather than just a friend. They’d watch Saturday morning cartoons, playing superheroes as their favorite show, She-ra and the Princess of Power, played in the background. When Danny whined at his parents to put him in dance classes so he could be a performer like Papa, his first solo performance was danced to the theme song and he demanded Dorian be there.

Of course, Danny was an impulsive wreck, moving through interests like clothes. One week it was painting, the next it was roller skating, and the cycle continued until he stumbled into cooking. The truth of the matter was, his family wasn’t known for their cooking skills. Pops had picked some up to feed the family and Papa wasn’t allowed in the kitchen unsupervised after the cupcake incident but sometimes Danny was craving a specific food and when he was, everything else was terrible and deserved to be trashed because it wasn’t the food so he decided he learn how to do it himself. As is expected when a 10 year old decides to cook without consulting his parents, the end result was an absolute mess but Danny had a blast through the entire process, even when half of it ended up on the wall. He was then also promptly banned from being in the kitchen unsupervised but got that lifted as he grew into the art.

Before his mutation presented itself, he planned to become a chef with his own shows and restaurants. He started his own Filterella, KingstonsKitchen, and grew it into a Snikt! and has a decent following that he likes to randomly pop on live with. He also posts random updates about his day under #shitIdo for easy filtering because he likes to and he finds it fun to include more people in his life (hear about how awesome and pretty he is).

Although he knew his family was wary about the x-men, he was always a little jealous when Dorian talked about his time there. He got to go to a hero school and Danny was stuck in normal New Orleans. They’d had dreams of being superheroes together when they were kids but between Danny’s struggle to stick with his interests, Pop’s general disapproval of superheroes, and a million flashier, easier things to get into, the interest faded until F-Day. His powers presented before Dorian’s and the old dream of theirs seemed realistic again. Sure he teased Dorian about getting powers first and sure he had to twist Pop’s arm to get him to agree (James barely lasted a day of tears and the cold shoulder before he relented) but with their approval, Dorian and Danny headed to Avenger’s Academy, bright eyed and bushy tailed, together.

Yes, it was hard and yes, it was a culture shock and yes, he called his parents sobbing to come pick him up because he missed home more times than he could count on one hand, but now, he's fully committed to rocking this Superhero thing. Superheroics are super interesting, the normal classes are bearable, and getting to set things on fire and looking fly as fuck doing it was right up his alley. Kicking butt in the Contest of Champions and taking top spot would just be the perfect thing to take home to Pops and show him this was exactly where Danny was supposed to be.

Personality

A difficult one to stay mad at for long, Danni is a highly energetic, fun loving, touchy feely golden retriever. He makes friends as easily as he breathes, and he attaches quickly and deeply with little more than a few days' time. He bounces rather than walks, sings rather than talks, and finds something to enjoy in every situation. He can make sunshine out of rain clouds and always has a shoulder to lean on, a hand to hold, and a conversation to ease away the sting of all the unpleasantness life brings. He's silly and ditzy, seemingly directionless at times, but he cares deeply for those around him.

Of course, he isn't all fun and games. Danni's emotional state can fluctuate wildly, especially when he feels like he isn't being included or appreciated. He is used to being able to command all the attention at home, doted on left and right by his parents and family, but handles rejection, real or perceived, very poorly. He's the waterworks kind of kid, rather than the feet stomping, ground pounding kind, and he'll start sniffling if he even gets an inkling someone might tell him no. He is demanding of people's time, rarely pausing to consider that maybe not everyone likes a gangly teenager in their lap yapping away at a mile an hour, and rarely respects people's personal boundaries, always pushing, pushing, pushing until something snaps.

Traits

• Signature Attack: Elemental Blast (Hotshot) - Danni has spent two years training his control over his Hotshot, giving him an edge when making an attack with it.
• Clueless - Danni's difficulty to focus on any one thing often leaves him vulnerable. He has trouble on Vigilance checks to spot hidden or invisible things. Enemies have an edge of Agility checks to sneak near or past him.
• Quick Learner - If Danni fails an action check, he has an edge on the check if he tries the same action again on his next turn.

Tags

• Hounded
• Heroic
• Linguist: French
• Mental health condition (ADHD, PTSD)
• Mentor (Ser Nemo)
• Obligation: School
• X-Gene
• Young

Basic Powers:

• Flight I: Danni soars into the sky.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Effect: Danni can fly. His combat flight speed is equal to his rank times his Run Speed. outside of combat, they can move at three times his Flight Speed.
• Accuracy 1: Danni is an ace with ranged attacks.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Duration: Permanent
  • effect: Danni adds +1 to his Agility damage multiplier, and they gain a +1 bonus to Agility checks other than attacks.
• Accuracy 2: Danni is a sharpshooter.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Duration: Permanent
  • effect: Danni adds +2 to his Agility damage multiplier, and they gain a +2 bonus to Agility checks other than attacks.

Elemental Control (Fire):

• Special Effects triggered by a fantastic success -
  • Fire: Sets target ablaze, dealing 5 Health at the end of each of the target's turn.

• Elemental Burst (Fire): Danni Hotshots an enemy.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Range: 10 Spaces
  • Effect: Danni makes a ranged attack against an enemy in line of sight. If the attack is a success, it inflicts regular damage. On a fantastic success, the enemy takes double damage instead and the elemental type's special effect.
• Elemental Blast (Fire): Danni hurls a fireball.
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Burst, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Range: 10 Spaces
  • Cost: 5 or more focus
  • Effect: Danni makes a ranged attack with an edge against an enemy in line of sight. For this attack, add +1 to the character's Agility damage bonus for every 2 points of focus they spend. On a success, an affect target takes that total damage. on a fantastic success, an affected target takes double that total damage and suffers the elemental type's special effect.
• Elemental Barrier (Fire): Danni conjures a wall of fire.
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Blast, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Cost: 5
  • Effect: Danni forms a wall of fire within his line of sight and up to 10 spaces away per rank. This covers up to 2 spaces across (vertically/horizontally) per rank. Danni makes an Agility check and compares the results against the Agility defense of any target in the affected spaces. On a success, Danni chooses which side of the barrier the target winds up on. On a failure, the target chooses. On a Fantastic success, the target suffers the element's special effect too.
    Attacks against the barrier are against Danni's Ego defense. Any attacks against it that do 10 points of damage or less are instantly absorbed, and the barrier continues. If an attack does more than 10 points of damage, it destroys the barrier. Either way, the attack leaves those behind the barrier unharmed.[e
• Elemental Protection 1 (Fire): Danni envelopes himself in fire.
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Barrier, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard or Reaction
  • Trigger: The character is attacked or otherwise in danger.
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Cost: 5 Focus
  • Effect: Danni protects himself with fire. Any attacks against him that do 10 points of damage or less are instantly absorbed, and the protection continues. If an attack does more than 10 points of damage, it destroys the protection. Either way, Danni remains unharmed.
• Elemental Prison (Fire): Danni envelopes enemies in a dome of fire.
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Barrier, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Cost: same as Danni's Elemental Protection power.
  • Effect: Danni picks a point within their line of site and traps any chosen targets within up to 5 spaces times his rank in a fiery prison. The character makes an Ego check against the targets' Agility defense inside the spaces. On each success, Danni traps the target inside the perimeter. On a fantastic success, targets suffer full damage and the element's special effects too.
    Attacks against the barrier are against Danni's Ego defense. Any attacks against the prison are absorbed as if against Danni's Elemental Protection power. If an attack does more damage than Danni's Elemental Protection power can absorb, it destroys the prison but no one inside is harmed.

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Full Name: Leah Rose Jordan
Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 16
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 198lbs
Gender: Female
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown and slightly curly... And weirdly coarse.
Distinguishing Features: She has multiple scars in random places all over her arms, back and chest. Most of them are old.
Origin: Mutant
Team:
Base: Avengers Academy
Alignment: Chaotic good
Hobbies: Boxing, traveling and reading

History

Mayra Pavon was born in southern Arizona as the child of a very bad man. Her life was relatively simple for most of her early childhood, except for her father being away on business trips a lot. Mayra's mother was a high school teacher, and her father was allegedly an account and lawyer for a large corporation. In hindsight, how he managed to do both seemed unbelievable, but neither was true. By the time Mayra reached the age of 12, her father had told her about his secret life, and her mutant genetics. He ran a test on her in his secret lab years ago, and planned for that day. Carlos Pavon told his daughter than he, too, was a mutant who went by the name Imperator. He was gifted with superhuman intellect, and had found a way to build things no other person could by applying this power to the field of engineering.

Imperator was a high-profile mercenary who worked for people he did not disclose to Mayra, and wanted to bring her under his wing. His reasons were varied, but one of them was to teach her to control her new abilities. Mayra wasn't given a choice, and so for the next two years, she was trained extensively in close-quarters combat by a man who could outthink her every move five minutes in advance. It was painful, being knocked on her ass every time she attempted to make a single swing on him, and it put a massive strain on her relationship with both Imperator and her mother, who believed she was simply away with her father on business trips. She never fully understood why things had to be this way, and she eventually rebelled against him in an act of rage.

One day when she was home, she confessed everything to her mother. Mayra told her everything, about her being a mutant, about the so-called training, even about Imperator's workshop. Unsurprisingly, she didn't believe most of that, but it didn't matter in the end, because Carlos Pavon came home just in time. When his wife questioned him, he didn't even react before he shot her. The whole house fell in on them. Imperator was a superhuman genius, but in his own hubris he failed to account for the possibility that Mayra's training had been more productive than he realized. There is nothing left of that house but a veritable mountain of stone and rubble.

She ran, and ran, and ran.

The rest is somewhat blurry in her mind, but she walked through the Arizona deserts for hours on her own, before eventually flying away on a rock when she came down from the emotional rollercoaster of watching her mother bleed out, and possibly burying her father alive. Mayra eventually found the Avenger's Academy, and used the opportunity to live a different life than what was destined for her. All she hopes now is that no one uncovers her history, or digs into legal records to see if her name is Leah or Mayra.

Personality

Leah has always been somewhat tough to read. She often prefers to just deal with problems the hard way and not make any attempt to convey how the feels. Letting people in or opening up is hard for Leah, because she feels weak and insecure when others have to go out of their way to tend to her. Leah regularly puts on a brave face and treats herself like she's invincible. Not out of arrogance, but out of a desire to be as little of a burden to those around her as possible, and because she has unresolved, bitter feelings towards his past that she doesn't want others to know about. None of that means she doesn't care about others, though. In fact, Leah can be viscerally protective of others who are in a position where they can't protect themselves. The victimized, the weak, and wounded are people she feels great sympathy for.

Beneath that stony exterior is a girl who feels conflicted towards herself. Deep down, Leah knows she can't deny where she came from, but refuses to acknowledge this and buries any trace of her home. Leah craves the act of living her own idea of being untouchable, she wants to be the strongest person in the world and build the highest walls because she's afraid of what could come back to haunt her. At the same time, Leah wants to be close to her friends, as much as possible, so she can be a part of their lives and be there for them when they may or may not need help. Even if she won't admit it to anyone, Leah is stuck between her insecurities and her own compassion for others. This can sometimes lead to self-destructive tendencies in which she exhausts herself to help people, but refuses to let them do anything in return.

Traits

• Abrasive: Leah rubs people the wrong way. She has trouble on Ego checks when persuading someone to help her, but an edge on Ego checks when trying to intimidate someone.
• Battle Ready: Leah is always mentally ready for battle, getting an extra 30 focus.
• Quick Learner: If Leah fails an action check, they gain an edge on the check if they try the same action gain on her next turn.

Tags

• Heroic
• Hounded
• Linguist: Spanish
• Mentor (?)
• Obligation (School)
• Supernatural
• Young

Basic Powers:

• Brawling: Leah is hard to hit.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Effect: Leah can use her Melee defense score against Agility attacks too.
• Mighty 1: Leah is superhumanly strong.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Effect: Leah is treated as one size bigger for lifting, carrying, and throwing things. She also adds +1 to her Melee damage multiplier, and she gains a +1 bonus to Melee checks other than attacks.
• Mighty 2: Leah could lift a bus.
  • Prerequisites: Mighty 1, Rank 2
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Effect: Leah is treated as two sizes bigger for lifting, carrying, and throwing things. She also adds +2 to her Melee damage multiplier, and she gains a +2 bonus to Melee checks other than attacks.
• Sturdy 1: Leah has protection from physical damage.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Effect: Leah's body is so sturdy that she has Health Damage Reduction 1.
• Sturdy s: Leah has protection from physical damage.
  • Prerequisites: Sturdy 1, Rank 2
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Effect: Leah's body is so sturdy that she has Health Damage Reduction 2.

Super Strength:

• Clobber: Leah's pummels her foe with enough force to knock them flat.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Effect: Leah makes a close attack. If the attack is a success, the enemy takes regular damage. On a fantastic success, the enemy takes double damage and is knocked prone.
• Smash: SMASH!
  • Prerequisites: Clobber, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Cost: 5 or more focus
  • Effect: Leah makes a close attack with an edge. For this attack, add +1 to Leah's Melee damage bonus for every 2 points of focus she spends. On a success, an affect target takes that total damage. On a fantastic success, an affected target takes double that total damage and is stunned for one round.

Elemental Control (Earth):

• Special Effects triggered by a fantastic success -
  • Earth: Target moves at half speed for one round.

• Elemental Burst (Earth): Leah fires off a boulder.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Range: 10 Spaces
  • Effect: Leah makes a ranged attack against an enemy in line of sight. If the attack is a success, it inflicts regular damage. On a fantastic success, the enemy takes double damage instead and the elemental type's special effect.
• Elemental Barrier (Earth): Leah raises a wall of earth.
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Burst, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Cost: 5
  • Effect: Leah forms a wall of earth within her line of sight and up to 10 spaces away per rank. This covers up to 2 spaces across (vertically/horizontally) per rank. Leah makes an Agility check and compares the results against the Agility defense of any target in the affected spaces. On a success, Leah chooses which side of the barrier the target winds up on. On a failure, the target chooses. On a Fantastic success, the target suffers the element's special effect too.
    Attacks against the barrier are against Leah's Ego defense. Any attacks against it that do 10 points of damage or less are instantly absorbed, and the barrier continues. If an attack does more than 10 points of damage, it destroys the barrier. Either way, the attack leaves those behind the barrier unharmed.
• Elemental Grab (Earth): Leah snares an enemy in earth.
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Burst, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Range: Varies
  • Cost: 5
  • Effect: Leah makes an Ego attack against a target's Melee defense within 5 spaces times Leah's rank. If the attack is a success Leah grabs the target with Earth. On a fantastic success, the target is pinned and suffers the element's special effect. Breaking free requires a successful Melee check against target number 20.

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Full Name: Dorian Stephen Gray
Pronouns: He/Him
Age: 17
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 170lbs
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brunette
Distinguishing Features: Left Ear Pierced
Origin: Mutant
Team: Excelsior
Base: Avengers Academy
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Hobbies: Gaming, Foodie, Traveling, Pranking

History

Life wasn't exactly normal for Dorian, especially towards the beginning. It's hard to recall his earliest memories, but if he thinks hard on them he always remembers a silhouetted man holding him and singing to him as an odd colored light surrounded them both. Later on in his years Dorian would learn that those earliest memories were of Max, his dad, using his magic to make his way home after grueling missions just to be able to put him to bed and say goodnight. While Max was away on missions his Appa, Ben, would always make sure to stay as present within his life as possible. The house they lived in was always warm and lively, and Appa made sure that Dorian felt as though he belonged.

Appa, ofcourse, was the stricter of the two. Always trying to teach him life lessons while his Dad simply wanted to have fun and enjoy what little time he had with his kid. At an early age Appa tried getting him to play a sport, to be normal whatever that meant. He rolled his eyes at the idea of football, didn't much care for track, tennis, or even soccer. But if he had to pick one he'd settled for baseball. The uniforms were cute enough, and it didn't involve as much running. So he was fine with it. The real joy came from seeing his parents' face light up everytime he hit the field. Win or lose they always supported him.

Years would pass and he lived next door to the Kingston's, knowing them as his second family and viewing Danni as his own brother. When he reached 7 years of age, Dorian was invited to come back with his Dad to Xavier's School. Ben wasn't exactly fond of the idea. No, to say that would be a massive understatement. The night the idea was brought up, Dorian was supposed to be asleep in his room. But as kids tended to do, he wasn't where he was supposed to be. He snuck out of his room, wanting to see if he could sleep with his dads, but as he rounded the corner towards their room he heard yelling. Muffled by the thick wooden doors of their home, but it was clear the subject matter was him and the school. Tears welled in his eyes as he quickly and quietly made his way back towards his room.

He had no powers to speak of and his Dad was still busy with the X-Men, but here he could learn, start school, and be closer to Max. Ben and Uncle Casper, had told him stories of this place, of his father Xavier and how horrible the man was. Dorian wasn't sure what to do. The following weeks were quiet in the household, facades placed before him as they pretended to be fine. Finally he spoke up. He wanted to be at Xaviers. He's spent so much time around other normal kids, he wanted to be around mutants for a change, even if the idea scared him a little.
When they arrived Dorian clung to his dad's pant leg as he entered, prompting Max to pick him up and carry him on his shoulders as they made their way through the expanse of a mansion.

It was different for Dorian, children and mutants running all around him and learning to control their powers while he was merely here to learn the basics. It was about this time that Dorian had begun to romanticize heroism and sword fighting. He waited for the day that they would visit the Kingston's each week, the adults getting together to talk about whatever it was they spoke of and him and Danni could sit in front of the television and watch their weekly show of She-Ra. It lit a fire in him and made him understand why his father did what he did even if it was with the X-Men. To be a hero, to save the world, and to know that even they have flaws and can be anyone, it spoke to Dorian in a way that he hardly understood. How any ordinary person could be a hero. So he studied the sword, he mimicked fighting techniques off the show, and most importantly he had his best friend and brother alongside him to fight crime with. It was just like the theme song said 'with mighty sword and flame we'll never fail you when you call our name.'

That was when another one of Appas life lessons came in. One day, after years at the academy, he had decided to take him somewhere private. Somewhere personal to him. It was his very own grave. There was a bit of heaviness to Dorian's chest, the idea that he was staring at the grave of his own Appa who stood right beside him. He wanted him to promise that he would be careful, to be safe. He needed to see just how dangerous being a hero truly was. And while Dorian had agreed to it, he didn't fully understand at that age, nor does he now. After all, Appa died before the Mutant Circuit, before his family was capable of bringing others back to life. To him, much like any other kid his age, he was invincible. But he'd never tell his parents that.

Dorian learned, and grew, spending most of his time at Xavier's and until he hit the age of 13. Life got a little weird there, he developed powers, found out he had the x-gene, and scared the crap out of his parents. That was the first time that Max had taken him and Ben to an old library, asked Doctor Strange and Wong for access to books on Astral Projection, and spent a majority of his time learning and teaching Dorian about his powers, the dangers, and ways to control them. Strange was...well strange. It was like Dorian's father was a different person around him, and it showed him a new side of his father he never got to see. But his childhood wasn't all study and practice, there were days, sometimes weeks, that Max would have off and even if he looked tired he would always come with a surprise. Family trips to Disney with the Mutant Underground, and those his father had met along the way of his life, impromptu vacations to Italy, Spain, Rome and more even as James protested.

Dorian was never a kid with wants. When your father has the power of magic, and can take you across the planet in less than a second of time then the world is quite literally your oyster. He always loved the trips with just the three of them, four if they could convince the Kingston's to allow Danni to come with. Dorian had heard tales of Max's...mishaps in his younger years, but that seemed so far ago and it always made him chuckle to see them all flustered with his dad's random worldwide trips. Sometimes they would just pop in with me, barely tell Uncle James, leave with Danni, then return less than a minute later having asked us to get the most touristy clothes we could find while gone. When we'd pop back to the Kingston's place we'd have large sunglasses, a splotch of sunscreen on our nose, and bright noisy clothes, it was one of the times Dorian could hear his father just laugh at the chaos and look on their faces. Sadly those Vacations would have to wait till summer once he turned 14, but it was a happy kind of sad.

Though Dorian couldn't see his family as often, he still had Danni. They got accepted to Avengers Academy (AA if you were one of the cool kids) and it was everything that they had worked for. Dee and Danni taking on the world and becoming heroes! There were...a few incidents where dad had to come in. Apparently the school didn't like it when someone possessed the lockers doors and flung them all open to scare other students. Or when someone snuck out of their room because it was too quiet. Really most of Dorians pranks were frowned upon, but someone had to livin' up the place, and a few of those pranks were just great pogger moments. Now its Junior year and its time to see what more they could learn about heroism and combat!

Personality

Dorian tries to be the life of the party. Alongside his best friend Danni, he never wants to let a moment die, trying to keep up the momentum and live life to the fullest. Ofcourse, all of that is pretty easy when your father has the ability to create things on a whim and your uncles command death and life respectively. Dorians never needed to consider any consequences because as far as he has been concerned there never were any. It's this sort of mindset that has lead to his more reckless behavior and allowed him to become quite the devious Prankster. After all within his first year at AA, Dorian spent a massive amount of time out in the field. Not caring for the physical education portion of his lectures, he decided to toss bird feed into the field and blow a whistle every day to call upon some pigeons. After a months of preparation when it came to the annual track meet, the coach blew the whistle only to have an insurmountable amount of pigeons flock down towards the fields and create utter chaos.

Dorian isn't all pranks and chaos however. He cares deeply for his friends and would do anything he can to help them. After all if he's learned anything from bith TV and real life, it's that the bonds you form along the way are what end up mattering the most in the end. He values loyalty and comradery amongst all else, and believes that friends shouldn't keep things from each other because it's the easiest way to allow a wedge to tear them apart. Though he's very doubtful that anything could ever tear him and his bestie apart.

Traits

• Signature Attack (Disrupt Person) - Dorian makes this attack with an edge.
• Surprising Power (Possession) - Dorian ignores rank and origins when selecting this power.
• Signature Attack (Possession) - Dorian makes this attack with an edge.

Tags

• Heroic
• Hounded
• Mentor (Ser Nemo)
• Obligation (School)
• Signature Weapon (Sword?)
• Sorcerous
• X-Gene
• Young

Possession:

• Phase Self: Dorian can become as intangible as a ghost.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Effect: Dorian and his clothing become intangible and can move through anything as if it wasn't there. Nothing can physically affect him, nor can he affect anything that is not phasing with him.
• Phase Walk: Dorian can walk on air.
  • Prerequisites: Phase Self, Rank 2
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Focus: 5
  • Effect: When phasing, Dorian can move in any direction and through anything a their run speed, as can anyone or anything phasing along with him.
• Quick Phase: Dorian can become as intangible as a ghost in an instant.
  • Prerequisites: Phase Self, Rank 2
  • Action: Reaction
  • Trigger: The character is attacked.
  • cost: 5 focus
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Effect: The character and their clothing instantly become intangible.
• Partial Phase: Dorian can me a portion of himself tangible or intangible.
  • Prerequisites: Phase Self, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Cost: 5 Focus
  • Effect: Dorian can make any portion of his body and clothing tangible or intangible.
• Disrupt Person: Dorian can hurt someone with his phasing powers.
  • Prerequisites: Phase Self, Rank 3
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: instant
  • Cost: 10 Focus
  • Effect: Dorian makes a close attack. On a success, the attack does normal damage, ignoring any Health Damage Reduction. On a Fantastic Success, the attack deals double damage, ignoring any Health Damage Reduction and the target is stunned for one round.
• Disrupt Electronics: Dorian can scramble electronics by moving through them.
  • Prerequisites: Phase Self, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: instant
  • Cost: 5 Focus
  • Effect: Dorian can scramble electronics when he moves through them while phasing, causing them to shut down or crash. In the case of Tech Reliant powers, they are unusable for one round while they reboot.

Magic (Demonic Set):

• Possession: Dorian takes over someone else's body.
  • Homebrewed Power , Changed Agility defense to a contested check.
  • Prerequisites: Cursed, Rank 5.
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Cost: 20 Focus
  • Effect: On the first possession attempt, Dorian makes an Ego check with trouble against an Ego check of the target with trouble. On a success, Dorian takes over the the target's body completely. On a failure, further attempts of possession do not give the target trouble.
    Dorian's Ego Defense is the target number for any checks to end the possession.
    If Dorian attempts to harm someone with the possessed body, the target gets to make an Ego check to end the possession. If the target has the Heroic tag, they gain an edge.
    If Dorian attempts to harm the possessed body, the target gets an edge on the check. If they have the Heroic tag, they get a double edge.

Telekinetic:

• Telekinetic Manipulation: Dorian can handle physical things with his mind.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • range: Varies
  • Effect: Dorian can manipulate objects in line of sight with his mind. His maximum range is 5 spaces x rank. If someone would prevent Dorian from taking control of an object, Dorian makes a Logic check against their Agility defense.
• Telekinetic Attack: Dorian can punch or choke somebody with his mind.
  • Prerequisites: Telekinetic Manipulation, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Range: Varies
  • Cost: 5 focus
  • Effect: Dorian makes a Logic attack against the Melee defense of a target within 5 spaces times rank. If is is a success, it inflicts regular damage. On a Fantastic Success, the damage is doubled instead, and the target is stunned for one round.

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Name: August Perlman
Alias: Depression
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Powers: Symbiote - August was infected with the symbiote Depression, giving him access to the following:

• Super Strength
• Pseudopod Generation
• Danger Dense
• Healing Factor

Personality Traits:
Goofy ~ Gullible ~ Friendly ~ Anxious ~ Energetic ~ Airheaded

Summary:
August was used to doing clinical trials here and there for the odd bit of coin. Anything to help put food on the table besides his dead end job in corporate America. Besides, the pills they usually gave weren't half bad either. So when a new company had reached out about a trial, he hopped right in. It was a multi day process, screening and vetting everyone who would be allowed in. Finally he was brought into a room, large, real sterile type shit. Various glass tubes and strange boxes lined shelves and tables, with some odd cylindrical tanks against the wall.

It was far more advanced than any one he'd done before, but nothing he couldn't handle he figured. He was placed inside a tank, another boy in the one to the right of him. Trails began, and not much had happened. Then, his neighbors tank went dark, pitch black kind of dark. August began to wonder if his would too, until the tank exploded. The blast was enough to free most of the subjects, but so close to August it sent him flying into a shelf on the wall. A strange multicolored viscous slime was released from the impact, and August was covered in shards of broken glass. One minute he was blacking out, the next the slime was gone, and then suddenly all his wounds were gone.

The blonde kid ravaged the scientists and August just wanted to get away, a voice in his head speaking to him about insane things and hunger. Just when he thought he'd gotten out, a white van pulled up and captured him and a few others. Next thing he knew he was at C.A.G.E. talking about Depression and getting Bupropium as a daily additive to his meals. Which certainly helps keep his Depression happy.

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Name: Depression
Alias: N/A
Age: Unknown
Gender: Unnecessary
Powers:

• Super Strength
• Enhanced Reflexes
• Enhanced Durability
• Danger Sense
• Healing Factor
• Pseudopod generation
• Toxin production: Depression’s claws inject a toxin that induces lethargy and emotional instability over time, quickening with repeated doses until it's target is paralyzed physically and emotionally.

Personality Traits:
Curious ~ Impulsive ~ Friendly ~ Protective ~ Intelligent ~ Opportunistic

Summary:
Born of Venom, Depression has only known the inside of its containment facility for its whole life, starving and lonely. When experimentation at the facility started and experienced catastrophic failure, it gave Depression the opportunity to slide into the perfect host: August Perlman. Shifted to C.A.G.E. shortly after, Depression has experienced a life of luxury, meals twice a day and a constant stream of new experiences daily. Still, Depression wants to know the feeling of stretching their legs and regular meals won't keep them satisfied for long.

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Name: James Daniel Kingston
Alias: Caduceus
Age: 42 (still looks mid 20s)
Gender: Male
Powers: James is an omega level mutant. His powers manifested at age 14.

• Omega Healing Factor - James's healing factor allows him to heal anything shy of death. He is capable of transferring this to another individual, but must maintain contact through the process. He's honed this power himself and with Dr. Sinister during his time on Genosha when trying to work to unfreeze the Mutant Underground. His control over it allows him to understand most issues in a person's body.
• Reactive Adapability - James's body automatically changes to external environments and threats. His internals do not!

Personality Traits:
Patient ~ Protective ~ Affectionate ~ Reserved ~ Stubborn ~ Optimistic

Summary:
Born in Oregon, James grew up in a single father household. Some of his favorite memories are summers that smell liked like oil and grease, stains on his clothes, working with his Pops in his mechanic shop. When his powers manifested, he kept them hidden for fear of anti-mutant extremism and instead reckless experimented with the limits of that power. It wasn't until he met his first mutant friends, Max and Sunshine, that he learned it wasn't actually a terrible thing and that he was deserving of being cared for despite it.

During his time with the Mutant Underground (his so called friends instantly forcing him to flee from society), James formed an inseparable friendship with Max and Ben and found the love of his life, Casper. Although on the bad path, James fell in love with the kind and affectionate goof underneath the drugs and the fear and decided in the wake of the Mutant Underground and the destruction of Genoshia to raise a family together. Since their relocation to New Orleans, James has been steadily investing and purchasing business and land in the French Quarter to create a quiet replica of their home on Genosha so that his family would never have to suffer like that again.

Extras:
James Kingston
James runs an underground clinic that takes anyone.
James keeps the family at whatever age they want to be.

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Name: Peadrus Neacal Macleod
Alias: Nicholas
Age: 614
Gender: Male
Powers: Nicholas is a mutant and a witch.

• Illusion Magic - Nicholas weaves illusions in the physical world, misdirecting and misleading those who would persecute them.

Personality Traits:
Aloof ~ intelligent ~ Observant ~ Judgmental ~ Self-Serving ~ Patient

Summary:

The Macleod twins are relics of a time long gone, born in the 15th century. Growing up in a secluded village a few days travel south of Forres, it wasn't until they past their first century when they experienced the first taste of religious extremism a d watched their village and their people burn in its rancor. They fled Scotland for the New World after that, leaving behind what few survivors there were forever.

From there, Nicholas and his brother, Barty, were always on the move and rarely set down roots for long than a few decades at a time. The longest they stayed somewhere was New Orleans during the 1800s and when their lover tried to kill them after revealing themselves to be the descendant of an enemy they'd made at the end of the 16th century, the twins adopted an even more nomadic lifestyle and numbed themselves in a haze of sex and drugs.

However, they found themselves back in New Orleans nearly two centuries later when the rumors of a school for the strange, supernatural, and magical was founded and flourished. They enrolled and even though they'd not know a moment of peace in nearly 5 centuries, they hoped this would be different.

Extras:

• Link to Nicholas's Strange Academy Sheet

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Name: Thu Anh
Pronouns: She/her
School and Year: Senior, Strange Academy
Distinguishing Features: N/A
Origin: Magic: Demonic
Team: ???
Base: Strange Academy

Traits

• Quick Learner - If Thuy fails an action check, she gains an edge on the check if she tries the same action again on her next turn.
• Battle Ready - The character is always ready for some sort of trouble. Add 30 Focus.
• Bloodthirsty - This character likes hurting people-even killing them. After they knock someone unconscious, they must make a Challenging Ego check (TN 13) to keep from continuing to attack them until they are dead.
• Weird - the character has something weird (or even wonderful) about them. This causes people to have strong reactions to them, both good and bad. They have an Edge on all Ego checks to persuade people inclined to like them and trouble on all Ego checks against people inclined to dislike them.

Tags

• Cursed
• Supernatural
• Sorcerous
• Hounded
• Young
• Obligation (School)
• Mentor (Vision)

Basic

• Discipline 1
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Effect: The character adds +1 to their Ego damage multiplier, and they gain a +1 bonus to Ego checks other than attacks.

Magic (Cursed)

• Hellfire Chains
  • Prerequisites: Cursed, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Range: 10 Spaces
  • Cost: 5
  • Effect: The character can attack anyone within 10 spaces per rank with chains covered in Hellfire. Make an Ego attack. On a success, the target takes regular health damage. On a fantastic success, the target is grabbed and paralyzed too. If grabbed, on each subsequent round, the character can make an Ego check against the target's Resilience to inflict regular Health damage and regular Focus damage. Breaking free requires a Melee check with a TN 20.
• Penance Stare
  • Prerequisites: Cursed
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Effect: The character makes an Ego attack against a target within 3 spaces per rank. On a success, the target takes regular Focus damage. On a fantastic Success, the target takes double damage and is paralyzed for one round. Characters with the Heroic tag take half damage.
• Sense Sins
  • Prerequisites: Cursed
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Effect: The character looks into the target's eyes and makes an Ego check against the target's Ego defense. On a success, the character can sense what horrible things the target has done. On a fantastic success, they can sense what sorts of horrible things a target intends to do in the immediate future.

Magic (No Set)

• Brain Drain
  • Prerequisites: Rank 2
  • Action: Reaction
  • Trigger: The target is grabbed.
  • Duration: Instant
  • Cost: 5 Focus
  • Effect: The character makes an Ego attack against a target's Vigilance. If it successes, the target takes regular Focus damage, and the character heals half that much Focus for themselves. on a fantastic success, the character heals their full Focus instead.

Elemental Control (Hellfire):

• Special Effects triggered by a fantastic success -
  • Hellfire: Splits damage equally between Health and Focus.

• Elemental Burst (Fire)
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Range: 10 Spaces
  • Effect: Thu makes a ranged attack against an enemy in line of sight. If the attack is a success, it inflicts regular damage. On a fantastic success, the enemy takes double damage instead and the elemental type's special effect.
• Elemental Blast (Hellfire)
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Burst, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Range: 10 Spaces
  • Cost: 5 or more focus
  • Effect: Thu makes a ranged attack with an edge against an enemy in line of sight. For this attack, add +1 to the character's Agility damage bonus for every 2 points of focus they spend. On a success, an affect target takes that total damage. On a fantastic success, an affected target takes double that total damage and suffers the elemental type's special effect.
• Elemental Barrier (Fire)
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Blast, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Cost: 5
  • Effect: Thuy forms a wall of fire within his line of sight and up to 10 spaces away per rank. This covers up to 2 spaces across (vertically/horizontally) per rank. Thuy makes an Agility check and compares the results against the Agility defense of any target in the affected spaces. On a success, Thuy chooses which side of the barrier the target winds up on. On a failure, the target chooses. On a Fantastic success, the target suffers the element's special effect too.
    Attacks against the barrier are against Thuy's Ego defense. Any attacks against it that do 10 points of damage or less are instantly absorbed, and the barrier continues. If an attack does more than 10 points of damage, it destroys the barrier. Either way, the attack leaves those behind the barrier unharmed.[e
• Elemental Protection 2(and 1) (Hellfire)
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Barrier, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard or Reaction
  • Trigger: The character is attacked or otherwise in danger.
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Cost: 5 Focus
  • Effect: Thuy protects themselves with hellfire. Any attacks against them that do 20 points of damage or less are instantly absorbed, and the protection continues. If an attack does more than 20 points of damage, it destroys the protection. Either way, Thuy remains unharmed.
• Elemental Reinforcement (Hellfire):
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Protection 1
  • Action: Reaction
  • Trigger: Damage gets through an elemental power.
  • Duration: Instant
  • Cost: Varies
  • Effect: Thuy can transfer any Health damage that gets through an elemental power that grants protection to their focus instead, leaving their protection intact.
• Elemental Grab (Hellfire):
  • Prerequisites: Elemental Barrier, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Concentration
  • Range: 5 x Rank
  • Cost: 5 Focus
  • Effect: Thuy makes an Ego attack against a target's Melee defense. If the attack is a success, the character grabs the target with their element. On a Fantastic success, the target can also be pinned and suffers the element's special effect. Breaking fee requires a successful Melee check against TN 20.

The Macleod twins are relics of a time long gone, born in the throes of the Renaissance and the rise of the printing press. The twins lived a relatively sheltered life in northern Scotland. Travel was difficult in the 15th century and their coven was content with the village well south of Forres.

However with suspicion and fear of the supernatural rising out of Germany and carried on in ink, it wasn’t long until the witch hunts of the mainland spread to the Kingdom of England and beyond. When they were not yet twenty summers old, Elanor Cobham found imprisonment for life for treasonable necromancy and Margery Jourdemayne was burned at the stake in a market square. Both were once well connected and well established in their communities and yet it did not save them. Fear amongst the populace was encouraged and manipulated in a twisted game by the nobility of England and they sent their inquisition north, carrying Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum.

They thought their village safe, nestled quietly in the foothills in the shadow of their mountain. The village traded less, hunted closer to home, and year by year became less and less present in the world. Their magic flourished and the children of the village played without fear and time was meaningless.

However, there were enough stories for the inquisition to find it.

They struck at night, the comfort of a century unbothered lulling them to safety. They carried torches and pitchforks and rope and kindling. The stench of burning flesh and the screams of men, women, and children carried across the hills into the uncaring darkness. Their family was not spared this horror. Their parents fought, like the others, but their murderers came prepared and their magic found no hold. A special pendant, bearing the mark of the Inquisition of England, was pressed against their coven and their magic broke and failed and the witches found themselves powerless.

If not for the ego of the Priest of Forres, the twins would not have been so lucky as to carry the horrors of their village with them. It was the children they could not bear to see hurt and as the Priest tossed the torch upon their own parents, the twins struck. Illusion and Enhancement, hand in hand, wove the death of all. Fire springing forth, spewing from their parents' mouths, finding purchase in the flesh of friend and foe alike. According to the Inquisition, the Devil himself dragged the village to hell in his wraith and none survived.

But the truth was, the twins burned it to the ground. Entranced in their domain, the twins set an uncontrollable blaze to consume the Inquisition and fled with the few survivors they saved. Neither of them were prepared to mourn their people nor handle the grief of those still living. They travelled the Scottish countryside, incorporating a few of their broken coven into new ones each time they stumbled across them until the twins found homes for all.

Sickened by the murders they committed and terrified of the newly created Church of England, the twins escaped England to the New World with Sir Walter Raleigh and assisted in establishing Roanoke. They were withdrawn and quiet, focused on working and presenting a godly image as they worked to find a way to escape. In 1591, a young girl introduced herself to the twins as a vampire and expressed her interest in turning and controlling the settlers. The twins agreed to help in exchange for their own freedom and kept the settlers calm and controlled until she struck. They disappeared into the wilderness for another two decades and reemerged in 1608, joining the citizens of Jamestown.

Their magic ensured questions about their age disappeared on the tongue, kept them well fed and unbothered, even as plague and famine ravaged the settlement. Poor planning had left the colonists without water and poorer tempers wore the relationship with the native people thin. The twins watched without interfering, only stepping in to help with the revolution of 1676 when Nathaniel Bacon ousted Governor Berkley. However, they disappeared when Berkely returned and began hanging those involved.

The twins reappeared some short years later in Salem, Massachusetts, where they found a distant relation, a child of one of those they saved many moons ago. They lived peacefully for a decade, before the witch trials started again. The twins watched as their history repeated itself but this time, the saviors they were had long been lost as they themselves condemned their kin to the flames. It had been too easy, when suspicion fell on them, to plant the devils’ iconography on her and invite the Salemites to find it.

During the 18th century, the twins shuffled from place to place and avoided the growing tension between England and the colonies. They would eventually find themselves in Boston, working in The Green Dragon Tavern. With the rise in tensions against the Crown, the twins once again found themselves assisting in the growth of revolution. Their magic wove privacy around the founding fathers, illusions making them unnoticeable and enchantment easing the concerns of questioning soldiers. Gossip from the RedCoats were a little louder in the tavern and lips a little looser. In the Siege of Boston towards the end of the revolution, the tavern was burned to the ground and the twins lost their home again.

They migrated west with the Louisiana purchase, settling in the melting pot New Orleans had become. When the War of 1812 was declared, the twins decided they would stay out of it and kept to their own business. Intending to stay this time, the twins put down roots. Peadrus entered the workforce as a teacher, using his illusions to age and die as necessary. Again, they decided not to intervene with major events and keep their heads down so they could finally stay in one place.

Unfortunately, a threat to their growing home appeared and the twins found themselves stepping in again. In 1815, whispers made their way to the twins that Andrew Jackson was poised to lose his final skirmish. Outnumbered and outgunned again, the British had the upper hand and were poised to strike the next day. Under the cover of darkness, Peadrus slipped the pair behind the British lines and Pàrlan messed with Edward Pakenham’s head. In the morning, the British assault was disorganized and messy, leaving them with 2,000 dead and wounded. Jackson went home a military genius and the twins contently settled back into their lives.

It was in the Gilded age that they joined a “coven”. A wealthy plantation owner found fun and mystery in the supernatural and the twins, curious to see if it drew any real bumps in the night, offered to participate. The word coven, the twins realized, was loose indeed and it became more of a gathering of debauchery and decadence. Some real powers floated in and out: a moody Asgardian goddess, a vampire, the occasional sorcerer or witch, a demon, an eldritch horror, a Moon Knight, and even a Ghost Rider once. They passed a decade in a pleasurable haze of drugs, sex, and wealth until Marcus.

Marcus was an easy sort, energetic and eager and the twins were drawn to him like a moth to a flame. The three of them became close friends and eventually, they opened up about their magic and found acceptance. Marcus joined them at their home, broke bread with them, and even helped Peadrus at the schoolhouse. He’d blown in from the growing west coast, scars waved away as civil war injuries, and slotted himself perfectly into their lives.

Which was why, when he tried to kill them, it shattered their trust forever. Marcus was a vampire hunter, a descendant of Sir Walter Raleigh, who had discovered the truth and swore to save his people from the clutches of the Devil. The twins part had been discovered through a mix of magic and torture and Marcus was tasked with eradicating them. The resulting fight was entirely one-sided, the twin’s magic unsuited for direct engagements, but their spells managed to find purchase and they broke his mind, leaving him at a workhouse where he’d work out the rest of his miserable life in deplorable conditions.

The Twins followed the Klondike gosh rush, settling in Seattle for a while. Although they had worked odd jobs at the beginning, the twins opened their own speakeasy in 1920 as the aggressive prohibitions against alcohol were signed into law. Although their magic was used in a pinch, the pair more often sold out their competitors to the authorities (and offered a hefty discount) to ensure their business was safe and enshrined as a center of the underground community. After the end of prohibition, they stayed until the end of World War 2 and sold their bar.

The twins found themselves in Memphis, enrolled in a local high school to keep up with the world at large. It was there they met Elvis, a struggling guitarist with a unique hillbilly style and a blend of cultural music that inspired the worst in people. The twins saw the desperation for fame and fed on it, weaving magic behind his back that made the people love him. He walked out of high school signed by a record label and the twins rode his fame, and more, for an easy life. Nothing more than a charm here, a hex there, and drugs, sex, and music numbed everything else. They were… concerned for their stability when Elvis was drafted was unfounded, the early work they did still holding strong with the addition of records made on his leave. They lived on their golden egg, rode it plenty too, up until the early 1970s when they decided to slip out of bed one night and never return. They didn’t hear of his death until 2001.

This would repeat over the next few decades, clinging to blossoming talent, building their careers for an easy life, and then abandoning and forgetting them when they moved to their next project. Rarely would the twins stick their necks out or get themselves involved in world affairs - they left no footprint, no tracks or marks, no paperwork for someone to find them. Occasionally, they would rehome a werewolf, get a vampire out of the sun, direct a baby witch to the proper herbs and books, but each time they charmed their memories, or never let them see the real them, so that what happened in New Orleans would never happen again.

Of course, whispers of a school for the magically talented reached even them. They believed it a lie, a falsehood circulated by hunters and madmen alike to capture their kind and kill or keep them. They never knew which was worse. But with the itch to settle down again growing, they found themselves back in New Orleans, the French Quarter louder and busier than ever before, and it was true.