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Full Name: Percy Theo Novikov
Pronouns: He/Him
Age: 14
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 116
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Homosexual
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Distinguishing Features: N/A
Origin: Mutant
Team: Excelsior
Base: Avengers Academy
Alignment: Neutral Good
Hobbies: Playing piano, reading

History
Percy is the second child of Avengers Dominika and Maria Novikova, also former agents of SHIELD. His parents were part of the West Coast Avengers, regularly jaunting off to go save the world (or at least, the west coast of the United States). When the Avengers then transitioned from having limited and fixed rosters to becoming a global force where any Avenger could be called to respond at any moment, the family remained in San Fransisco. His parents would be taken off to work with a teleporter, whereas Percy and his sister Diana (three years his elder) would be put in daycare with the other Avengers kids.

Growing up, Percy was never really interested in playing with other kids. He liked to read, devouring just about any book that he could get his hands on. The classics were always his favorite. He was obsessed with Ancient Greece and its mythology, imprinting heavily on the Percy Jackson series (after all, he had the same name as the protagonist). When he wasn't reading, he would be off exploring, sometimes ending up in areas he had no business being. And when those and his other hobbies failed him, he'd watch reality TV with his moms and sister - he loved to criticize the outfits. It was his favorite part.

His sister's mutant power manifested first, as she displayed the ability to teleport. Percy was slightly jealous, thinking up what sort of cool power he might get. He had a little diary he carried around with him, where he'd record anything that could potentially be the sign of a power manifesting - ironically, he missed his power when it first came about. He had been wandering around in Chinatown and didn't notice that he could roughly understand everything that was being said. It was a few months later that both of Percy's abilities had manifested.

He properly noticed his first power when out at dinner with his family, when he calmly ordered his food in fluent Italian, despite only speaking English and Russian. His secondary power, a variation of his sister's power, he discovered while at school in gym class. It was dodgeball day and Percy suddenly disappeared and reappeared about ten feet away, just as a ball had been about to nail him in the head.

His sister had already been attending Avengers Academy for a little while before Percy was enrolled. It's his first year at the institute, as well as his freshman year of high school. And while he won't admit it, he's a little bit excited.

Personality
Percy does not behave like a fourteen year old boy - he's spiritually much closer to an angry old man. He looks down on pretty much everyone, assuming that they're too thick, stupid, and/or clueless to make the observations that he can. He doesn't trust others to take care of things, having a tendency to micromanage. Of course, Percy is exceptionally brilliant and bright, meaning that not only is he egotistical and a bit of a narcissist... he's usually correct. People tend to be incredibly frustrated by him, for good reason.

However, Percy is incredibly and fiercely loyal. Family - by blood and the ones he choose - mean everything to him. He would destroy the world for the ones that he cares about, a viciously positive train he inherited from his mother Novikova. Other people in the world don't really matter to him. In his mind, it's he and his against everyone else, billions of souls who just cannot matter as much.

He's snarky and sarcastic, and prone to dark humor. No one would describe him as nice, but he can be kind to those he deems worthy. He doesn't care what other people think about him. As long as his loved ones are alive and healthy, they could see him as the devil and he'd be fine with that.

Traits

• Determination - Percy never gives up, even when he feels like he's at his worst. While demoralized, he does not gain trouble on all actions, though he still cannot maintain concentration or spend further Focus.
• Connections (Avengers) - Percy's mothers are members of the Avengers. By making an Ego check, Percy can call on his moms to provide help in the form of clues, information, or resources.
• Quick Learner - If Percy fails an action check, he gains an edge on the check if he tries the same action again on his next turn.

Tags

• Hounded
• Heroic
• Mentor (Ser Nemo)
• Obligation (School)
• X-Gene
• Young

Teleportation

• Blink: Percy teleports a short distance away.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard, movement, or reaction
  • Trigger: Percy is attacked.
  • Duration: Instant
  • Effect: Percy teleports into a clear space he can see or have been to, up to his rank in spaces away. If someone was about to attack him and he is now out of reach or line of sight, the attack automatically fails. If he is still within reach or line of sight, the attack has trouble instead.
• Blink Barrage: Percy teleports rapidly around an opponent.
  • Prerequisites: Blink, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard or movement
  • Duration: Instant
  • Cost: 5 Focus
  • Effect: Percy teleports several times in quick succession and winds up in a clear space they can see or have been to, up to their rank in spaces away. Any attacks have trouble against them for one round.
• Blink Together: Percy teleports himself and one other person a short distance away.
  • Homebrewed Power - mixing elements of Blink and Teleport Together
  • Prerequisites: Blink, Rank 2
  • Action: Standard, movement, or reaction
  • Trigger: Percy is attacked
  • Duration: Instant
  • Cost: 10 Focus
  • Effect: Percy teleports himself and one other person he is touching into a clear space he can see or have been to, up to his rank in spaces away. If someone was about to attack him and he is now out of reach or line of sight, the attack automatically fails. If he is still within reach or line of sight, the attack has trouble instead.
    If the target does not wish to be teleported, Percy must grab them first.

Omniversal Travel

• Time Blink - Percy leaps a short time into the future (seconds) and reappears.
  • Homebrewed Power - mixing Blink, Instant Replay, and Time Travel.
  • Prerequisites: Rank 2
  • Action: Standard, movement, or reaction
  • Trigger: Percy is attacked.
  • Duration: Instant
  • Cost: 10 Focus
  • Effect: Once per battle, Percy time travels one round into the future, reappearing in a clear space he can see or have been to, up to his rank in spaces away. If someone was about to attack him, the attack automatically fails.

Translation

• Understand Spoken Language: Percy can get what someone is saying.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Effect: When Percy encounters an unknown spoken language for the first time, he can make a logic check vs TN 13 action check to puzzle it out. If he already knows any other version of the language, he has an edge. On a success, he understands and can speak the language. On a Fantastic success, he permanently understands and can speak it and never need to make a check again.
• Understand Written Language: Percy can figure out what someone has written.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Action: Standard
  • Duration: Instant
  • Effect: When Percy encounters an unknown written language for the first time, he can make a logic check vs TN 13 action check to puzzle it out. If he already knows any other version of the language, he has an edge. On a success, he understands and can read and write the language. On a Fantastic success, he permanently understands and can read and write it and never need to make a check again.

Basic Powers

• Brilliance 1: Percy puts his brain to work.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Effect: Percy adds +1 to his logic damage multiplier, and he gains a +1 to Logic checks other than attacks.

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Full Name: Nadja Anthony Maximoff-Stark
Pronouns: She/They
Age:
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Sexuality: Asexual
Eye Color:
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Origin: Mutant
Team: New Mutants
Base: Jean Grey School
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Tags

Melee Weapons

• Fast Attacks: Melee attack targets two close targets within reach for half damage, or normal damage on Fantastic result.

Chaos Magic

• Jinx (Cost 5 Focus): Ego vs. nearby target’s Ego defense to cause trouble on all actions, possible lose next standard action.

Elemental Control (Energy) (Moonlight)

• Elemental Infusion (Cost 5 Focus): Close attack gains special effect on Fantastic result.
• Elemental Burst: Agility vs. ranged target’s Agility defense, special effect on Fantastic result.

Extra Stuff:

Jake has no memories prior to the start of the RP. All he knows is that his name is Jake and he is meant to be at Strange Academy. He can understand English when spoken to him, but no other languages. He cannot read any language. His name is on the list of new students for the incoming last, just Jake, no family name or other indication as to who he was and where he came from. No one else seems to remember him either - but how could they? It's a brand new year at Strange Academy and he's a brand new student. And as for a student just appearing with a severe case of amnesia, it's hardly the weirdest thing to have ever happened at this school.

The only other clue to him is that he is magical - not a conjurer or a diviner, not a necromancer or an artificer, but instead something more unstructured, more untamed. The ambient magic of the school seems to intuitively listen to him, allowing him to channel wild arcana in a way few others could - as free flowing and lawless as chaos magic, but emanating from the magic of his environment, rather than borrowing from some entity such as Chthon.

But despite the fact that he is a mystery even to himself, Jake is happy. He loves meeting new people and making new friends. He doesn't quite understand them, but he wants to. He wants to make them happy - he wants to see them smile and laugh. He makes undying bonds quickly and if Jake befriends you, he'll do anything for you, no matter the cost. Life is a gift and the world is beautiful - and nothing is more special than the people he has devoted himself to.

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Full Name: Nancy Rebekah Kel
Other Names: Nance
Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 19
Birthday: December 31st
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Aroace

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Nancy has bushy brown hair, helped into shape by a series of perms. She has dark brown eyes and an almost olive undertone to her skin. Her build is skinny and lean, the sort of person whose ribs are just a little too visible. Her nails are often chipped and short, both resulting from an unfortunate habit she has of biting them when stressed. In terms of fashion, Nancy dresses in outfits that are considered fashionable for the time period, but a bit eclectic and strange at the same time. She wears irregular blazers and button ups, bowler hats, unusual earrings and vests. While not against skirts and dresses, she's far more likely to wear shorts or pants. Nancy has a bit of resting bitch face, but the alternative is a mischievous grin.

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Self-Perception: Nancy isn't really sure who she is at the end of the day. If she looks past all of her bullshit, she doesn't know who that person is that remains. Sure, she's funny and clever, she is extremely loyal and has a bit of a short fuse - but to a certain extent, those things feel fake. She feels sometimes like her life is a role she's meant to play, that it doesn't truly belong to her. Does she like things because she genuinely likes them or because she's supposed to? For instance, does she enjoy music because it is a genuine passion of hers, or does she enjoy music because her twin brother does? Or because her absentee father was a musician? Does she enjoy archery because she likes it or is it just her talent at the sport deceiving her into thinking it's a passion of hers? Who is the real Nancy?

Presentation: Nancy is a stubborn, somewhat hardened individual. She laughs and she smiles, and she hangs out with folks and spends time doing things she enjoys, but there's almost an aura of hidden pain behind her actions. This is the most exemplified by the way she hates touch - that only a select few people are allowed to hug her, to hold her hand, without a verbal assault ensuing. She's quick to anger, and once enraged, she can take things too far.

She is a little out of sync with the world, yes, but she is funny and clever. She is fiercely loyal and speaks her mind. She fulfills her promises. Her dry wit and sarcasm endear her to her friends, to those chosen few she allows herself to get close to. She is judgmental, but not catty. And at the end of the day, for all of her faults, she is a good person.

Fears: Nancy is claustrophobic and has a fear of drowning. She also is terrified of losing her twin brother, Zeke - whether through death or just from him pulling away.

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Nancy grew up in poverty alongside her twin brother, Zeke. Their single mother raised the twins after their father walked out, citing his growing music career as more important than his family. She had been young when it happened, but old enough to understand - old enough to harbor resentment towards him, for the little seeds of anger to grow in her young heart. Anger that she claimed was directed at her father, but really belonged to herself, as she hadn't been good enough for him to stay.

Despite that, however, she really did have a good childhood. They didn't have tons of money, but her mother made sure that they never really went without. They went to camps often, where Nancy discovered her love of archery, of photography, of music. Her mother encouraged her to pursue her dreams and passions, to be herself. When the seizures started, she received the medical care she needed, with both her mother and brother learning what they could to help her to manage the condition. And when she was failing math class her senior year, her mother helped her after her shift, teaching her trig in a way that made sense to her.

And while her brother has a strong sense of what he wants to do in life, that same certainty has eluded her. She got a job at the mall in high school because it was the right thing to do. She graduated school instead of dropping out because it was the right thing to do. Now, facing down court ordered community service at a summer camp, time seems to be slipping through her fingers. She thought she'd know by now who she was supposed to be - to be someone more than just Zeke's sister, someone more than an abandoned daughter. Learning about wicca has helped, allowing her to better understand the forces in the world around her - but she still hasn't found her path quite yet.

Maybe she'll finally figure it out. Camp's a magical place, after all.

Relationships: Zeke - Nancy's twin brother. They've been through everything together, and for better or worse, they are inseparable. She cannot conceive of a world without him in it. Her life would feel somewhat directionless without him in it. He is also one of the only people she really trusts to be there for her in the case of a seizure - to keep her safe in one of the most vulnerable moments.

Demi - he comes into the shop quite often, usually to talk to Zeke. She's pretty certain he has a crush on her brother, but Nancy hasn't said anything. On some level she's afraid that if she mentions it to her brother, he'll fall in love with Demi, and the two of them will go on to be happy together. A future where Zeke would spend very little time with her.

Education: High school diploma. Nancy has no plans to attend college - she struggled enough to graduate high school. The only scenario where she attends college is one where Zeke begs her to do so.

Crime: Trespassing - she was caught in a condemned house alongside her brother and the band.

Camp activity: Archery, camp sing-a-long (with Zeke)

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• Singing
• Bass Guitar
• Archery
• Photography
• Wicca
• Songwriting

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• Anger management
• Driving
• Electronics
• Map reading
• Swimming
• Math (she has dyscalculia)

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Faceclaim name: Winona Ryder (Heathers)
Hex code: #9370DB
Song:

April was young when they discovered their powers, only eight years old. At the time, they were living with their grandmother in an old rundown apartment in Southern California. The two of them were on the couch, watching reruns of Family Feud when it happened - when the quake hit. The apartment shook and swayed, their grandmother acting quickly to get them both under cover, as the world seemed to begin to crumble. It wasn't the direct impact of the quake that killed their grandmother, however. A fire broke out, caused by a downed power line. Their building was set ablaze. The smoke infiltrated their top floor apartment, and the fire escape had been rendered inaccessible in the earthquake. The building hadn't been up to code. It was only the activation of their mutant powers, the ability to shape and control water, that prevented April from perishing too. An instinctive thin bubble of protection had formed around them, allowing them to hold on until rescuers came - a pair of mutants, just like themself.

They still can't remember the fire, nearly a decade later. Their memory goes dark after the quake hits.

Initially, April was raised by their grandmother. Their parents had died when they were just a baby in an accident, and they had no other surviving family members. Still, their early childhood was good. Their grandmother didn't have a ton of money, having barely saved enough for herself for retirement, but April had rarely gone without. They learned to mend clothing, to spend time exploring the outdoors rather than going to fancy restaurants or amusement parks, and to embrace the more simple joys of life. They went to school, made friends, and learned whatever skills their grandmother decided to impart - namely, her love of fiber works.

That all changed, however, when the quake hit. Their grandmother perished, leaving April an orphan once more. They were adopted by a pair of mutants from New Orleans, James Kingston and Max Gray - the same mutants who had rescued April from the fire that had ravaged the apartment in the aftermath, healing in seconds damage that would have taken months to recover from. The trauma took longer to recover from, even after being brought into a joyous and loving home - one with four new dads and two new brothers. Their new dads placed them in therapy almost immediately, and while it took a few times to find a therapist they were comfortable with, they eventually started to make progress - slowly but surely. They were very quiet for those first few years, skittish and uncertain, and plagued with nightmares of what had happened. They looked at the ground as if it would open up at any moment and destroy their world again.

The first person that they opened up to was their new brother, Danni. Their other brother, Dorian, wasn't around as much. He was at Xavier's school, a place for mutants. When they realized that was what Xavier's was for, they ended up regressing, hiding away in new spots in the house and refusing to talk until their parents figured out that April was terrified they'd be sent away, too. By age nine, they were regularly crawling into Danni's bed whenever they had a nightmare. By age ten, it had become habit. Age eleven is when things finally started to come together for them, when they started to feel secure with their family and their new life - no longer becoming mute whenever Dorian would come to visit home from school. When he moved back home at thirteen, they were excited to have their brother - a bond that quickly strengthened and grew, until they were as attached to Dorian as they were to Danni.

While their new siblings had always dreamed of being a superhero, April hadn't shared that ambition - at least, not at first. Their powers were linked to their emotions, and for the first few years, the pipes in the Kingston-Gray house were perpetually at risk of freezing. Their parents tried to teach them to use them, but so much of the challenge was how linked gaining their powers was to the loss of their grandmother. Their brother was more interested in how they could play with their powers - a combined approach that somehow ended up working. Small training sessions with the parents, extra trips to the therapist, and then playing with Danni were how April learned to accept their powers as part of themself.

So when Danni and Dorian both developed powers, and started asking after attending Avengers Academy, April wasn't interested in going to learn to be a hero, not entirely at least. They were scared of being left behind. So at fourteen, they left their home - again - and started new. They didn't room with Danni and Dorian their freshmen year. They didn't see their old therapist anymore. And it was hard. It was incredibly hard. But they didn't want to let people down - didn't want to disappoint their family - so they kept it all in. Bottled it up. Lied and convinced themself that everything was fine - that they weren't terrified of being alone, that they didn't have a crush on their roommate Katya, that the nightmares hadn't gotten bad again, that they hadn't cried when they started noticing their body change in puberty.

But even given that, they did come to love the school. They loved being able to learn new things, they loved getting to be in California again - and they found themself more and more inspired by the day, thinking about the things that they could do, the sort of person they could be. They loved the ocean. Maybe they could help save it. They loved their home, loved New Orleans. Maybe they could help fight the next hurricane. These ideas started to swirl in their head, culminating in a genuine desire to not just do well at AA, but to excel.

3+ paragraphs that must include the following information:
1) how they came into their magic
2) why they decided to come to strange academy
3) a key event that shaped their personality and morals
4) what their hope is for the future

For centuries, a gift has been passed down in the di Angelo family from mother to daughter, rarely ever skipping a generation. For each witch, the gift is different, as unique as its wielder. Florence's mother, Valentina, brews potions and other remedies; her grandmother, Sofia, can reshape flesh to her desires; and her great-grandmother, Ana Lucia, could erect great constructs, crafted only from bone. Yet for just as long as the di Angelo women have been witches, so too have they been cursed. A terrible curse, transforming the witch into a mindless monster, filled with rage and bloodlust. Her great-grandfather had passed when Ana Lucia transformed, her newly razor-sharp teeth more than suitable to pierce through his chest, as she devoured his heart. She hung herself in shame the next day. Sofia used her gifts to help victims of the war, reshaping their features into ones that were more recognizable; she was slain by monster hunters and died alone. Valentina has lasted the longest of any di Angelo witch in ages, yet she has abandoned her craft entirely, and spends her nights sleeping in chains. And even with such measures, her transformations are increasing in frequency; she has little time left.

It is into this context that Florence di Angelo was born, the seventh child of a seventh child - and the only daughter in her generation. Her family lived in Venice, as her father was a caretaker of the nearby island, Poveglia. While two of her eldest brothers were already grown, with spouses and children of their own, they lived in the same home - all thirteen of them, squeezed into a space far too small. All of the adults worked, with the exception of her brother's husband - he stayed behind, minding the younger children while the older ones attended school. Most of Florence's fondest memories of childhood are with him. He would take them all on outings across Venice, teach them to read and to write, and played games with them whenever they wished. In some ways, he was more of a parent to Florence than her mother or father ever were.

At age six, Florence could no longer stay at home with Stefan - instead, she was due to attend scuola primaria.

3+ paragraphs that must include the following information:
1) how they came into their magic
2) why they decided to come to strange academy
3) a key event that shaped their personality and morals
4) what their hope is for the future

Poveglia Island

As his mother Dominika was a mutant, he was also obsessed with the idea of his X-gene activating. He wanted to be like the heroes in the stories, in the legends - and some of them had powers. He used to theorize that Hercules might have been one of the first mutants, rather than strictly a demigod. He had a little diary he carried around with him, where he'd record anything that could potentially be the sign of a power manifesting. He tested himself regularly, monitoring how much weight he could lift, how fast he could run, spending hours attempting to move objects with his mind - and ironically, he missed his power when it first came about. He had been wandering around in Chinatown and didn't notice that he could roughly understand everything that was being said.

He first properly noticed this power when out at dinner with his mothers at age 13, when he calmly ordered his food in fluent Italian, despite only speaking English and Russian. His secondary power, the ability to teleport, he discovered while at school in gym class. It was dodgeball day and Percy suddenly disappeared and reappeared about ten feet away, just as a ball had been about to nail him in the head.

Percy is the only child of Dr. Dominika Novikova (Mama) and Dr. Naomi Levy (Mum). Dominika and Naomi had been friends while they both worked at SHIELD, where Dominika had been stationed in the field as an enhanced fighter and scientist, and Naomi was employed as an archivist. Their paths temporarily drifted apart, as Dominika was fired from SHIELD for her involvement in the creation of Ultron with Dr. Hank Pym and then became engaged to one of her fellow agents, although the engagement did not last. She relocated to California to continue to work with Pym, as well as joining the West Coast Avengers. Similarly, Naomi received an offer to work at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Los Angeles. With the two of them both again in the same area, they reconnected and became something a little more than just gal pals. And after their wedding, they conceived Percy by IVF.

Growing up, Percy was never really interested in playing with other kids. He liked to read, devouring just about any book that he could get his hands on. The classics were always his favorite. He was obsessed with Ancient Greece and its mythology, imprinting heavily on the Percy Jackson series (after all, he had the same name as the protagonist). His mother, Naomi, encouraged and nurtured this obsession, regularly bringing him new books to read and impressing upon him the importance of understanding cultures and societies of the past to better understand the present. His mothers were hardly surprised when Percy was diagnosed as being on the spectrum - both of them were as well.

Beyond books, of course, he also loved to explore - a passion that connected him more with Dominika. She had had a similar wanderlust at his age, although his parents did not at the time realize the extent of his roaming. He would routinely end up in areas he had not business being in, and once his mutant powers had manifested, his teleportation gift allowed him to escalate into petty crimes, such as shoplifting (alcohol). In other times, though, his parents would adventure with him - Naomi had her pilot's license, and the three of them would climb into the small family plane and just fly.

But his life was by no means easy. Beginning in elementary school and continuing through middle school, Percy was severely bullied. The other kids picked on his height, his name, his personality and sexuality - and he was somewhat powerless to fight back. He was thrown into lockers and trash cans, shoved down in gym class, pelted with dodgeballs - all of the classics. It was this bullying that drove him to binge drinking, viewing alcohol as a tool to allow him to quiet his emotions and steady his mind. At the same time, it also pushed him away from a more childlike, kind, and sweet personality, into one that was more quick to anger, more guarded, more hardened to the world and the pain it could inflict.

So when his powers developed, Percy was more than thrilled to leave his old classmates behind and apply for Avengers Academy. It was a logical choice. His mothers had been SHIELD agents and superheroes - he had the pedigree for it. And at AA, he could learn to control his powers better, to acquire the skills needed to be a classic hero, to be an adventurer - to explore and see things no one else had ever known. And yet, as much as he was excited to be going to this new school, he entered the Margaret Carter Institute paranoid and afraid, seeing the ghosts of his old bullies in the faces of all he met - even in the face of his soulmate, Dorian Gray.