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[sub][color=black]April Kingston-Gray[/color]
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[indent][sub][b][color=42A9FF]   M I S C E L L A N E O U S[/color][/b][/sub]
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	[color=42A9FF]Aliases:[/color] Princess, April Raine Olsson 
	[color=42A9FF]Hero Name:[/color] Cascade
	[color=42A9FF]Birth Place:[/color] Los Angeles, California
	[color=42A9FF]Age:[/color] 16
	[color=42A9FF]Birthday:[/color]  April 15th, 2022 
	[color=42A9FF]Gender:[/color] Non-binary
	[color=42A9FF]Pronouns:[/color] She/her (for now)
	[color=42A9FF]Sexuality:[/color] Lesbian 
	[color=42A9FF]Build:[/color] Runner
	[color=42A9FF]Body Modifications:[/color] Pierced lobes
	[color=42A9FF]Habits:[/color] Biting their lip, tugging on their hair
	[color=42A9FF]Hobbies:[/color] Scuba Diving, Surfing, Crocheting 
	[color=42A9FF]Social Handle:[/color] RainieDays15
	[color=42A9FF]Medical History:[/color]  Bipolar II, Far-sighted 

	
[color=42A9FF][b]►[/b] [b]Fears[/b][/color]
	Spiders
	Abandonment
	Earthquakes

[color=42A9FF][b]►[/b] [b]Toxic Traits[/b][/color]
	Self-Deceptive
	Toxic Positivity 
	Judgmental 

[color=42A9FF][b]►[/b] [b]Likes[/b][/color]
	the Ocean
	Camping
	Board Games
	Crafts
	Iced Coffee
	The feeling of sand between their toes 

[color=42A9FF][b]►[/b] [b]Dislikes[/b][/color]
	Dresses
	Corporations 
	Climate Change 
	Slime
	All-Nighters 
	Their body[/color]
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[INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] A B I L I T I E S[/color]
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[indent][sub][b][color=42A9FF]   P O W E R S  &  S K I L L S[/color][/b][/sub]
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	Hydrokinesis
	Ice Generation
	
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	Surfing
	Environmental Science
	Scuba Diving
	Basic First Aid
	Mathematics
	Arts & Crafts
	Gymnastics
	Hand to Hand Combat
	Batons

[color=42A9FF][b]►[/b] [b]Languages[/b][/color]
	English
	French 

[color=42A9FF][b]►[/b] [b]Possessions[/b][/color]
	Vial of water from the River Styx, one use only
	Collapsible batons 
	Crochet supplies
	Handheld gaming console
	Childhood barn owl stuffy[/color][/sup]
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	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.[/hider]

[Hider=General History]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. [/hider]