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[sup][sup][h1][b][center][color=black] F O R  W A Y W A R D  Y O U T H S[/color]
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[color=silver][sup][i]"No child left behind."[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
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[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Joanie Porter[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]May 24th[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]18[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Single[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Female[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Bisexual[/COLOR][/sub]


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[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Height[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]5”4[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Hair Color[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Brown[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Eye Color[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Brown[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Hometown[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Cader City[/COLOR]

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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   St. Dymphna’s Staff[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Mrs Laleh Qadir[/b] is the director of St Dymphna’s and the quiet centre of the entire house. She is a former social worker who has spent most of her adult life dealing with children who have nowhere else to go. She knows every resident’s history, even the parts they refuse to speak about, and she carries that knowledge with a kind of gentle gravity. She does not raise her voice and she does not threaten. She simply looks at a child until they understand that she sees them clearly and expects better from them. Joanie respects her more than she admits.
[b]◼ Mr Silas Brannock[/b] handles maintenance, night supervision, and the thousand small tasks that keep the house running. His ability creates a subtle perceptual deflection that makes people overlook the house entirely when they walk past it. The city believes it is a quirk of the neighbourhood. Silas knows better. He uses his power to keep the residents safe from unwanted attention, and he treats the children with a mixture of dry humour and protective instinct.
 [/color][/sup][/indent][indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   Wayward Youths[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Amina “Mina” Qureshi[/b] arrived at St Dymphna’s shortly after Joanie, yet it took years for Amina to finally open up. Her powers take the form of a stress triggered surge that heats and illuminates her blood, allowing her to release short bursts of flame or intense heat before the strain forces her to stop. A panic attack triggered the first flare of her powers and frightened the people around her. Amina has never explained what happened after that or what finally brought her into the system, and Joanie has learned not to push. She’s always bracing for something to go wrong, and she hides her glowing arms beneath long sleeves even in the heat of summer.

[b]◼ Trey Abdemi’s[/b] story runs along a similar line, although he hides it behind jokes and a bright smile. Trey can generate temporal shields that freeze a moment of time around him, creating protective bubbles that stop anything from entering until the effect collapses. Whilst not a destructive power, it was enough to cause enough tension at home that he ran away before eventually running out of places where he felt wanted. Trey tries to be the protector of the group, even when he is scared, and he uses humour to keep the others calm.

[b]◼ Franklin Wójcik[/b] is a boy with a gentle heart and a frog like appearance. His skin has a faint green cast, his eyes are wide and reflective, and his movements have a springy, amphibian lightness that he tries to hide beneath oversized clothes. He longs to join Joanie, Trey, and Mina and watches them with open admiration, but he knows the city is not kind to someone who looks like him. 
 [/color][/sup][/indent][indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   Antagonists[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray] The man known as the [b]Icelander[/b] is an Icelandic expatriate whose presence in Calder City stretches back far longer than anyone can verify. Some claim he arrived during the early years of the Gray Death. Others insist he was already an adult decades before that. He never confirms or denies the rumours, and his appearance has changed so little over the years that people whisper about slowed aging or a mutation that altered his biology. 

The Icelander avoids the spotlight and uses intermediaries for most of his dealings. He sees superhuman abilities as resources and views young people with unstable powers as opportunities. 

[b]Harborlight[/b] is the Icelander’s primary base of operations, an underground club inside a renovated warehouse near the docks. It is known only through private invitations, encrypted group chats, and word of mouth. To those who enter, it feels like a secret world. The lighting is warm and industrial, the music is loud, and the crowd is a mix of students, influencers, minor criminals, and superhumans who want a place where they can exist without the city watching. In the centre of the main floor sits a steel cage that the staff call the showcase ring. The club advertises the matches as exhibitions of power, a celebration of what altered people can do, with the crowd treating the fights like a sport.

Anyone with experience in Calder City’s underworld knows the truth. The matches are illegal. The fighters are often desperate or manipulated. The injuries are real. The money that changes hands is significant. The Icelander watches every match from a private balcony and studies the fighters with quiet interest. He uses Harborlight as a recruitment ground, a place where he can observe young superhumans in action and decide who might be useful to him. Those who impress him are approached. Those who refuse sometimes disappear.

His hirelings move through Harborlight as part of the show. [b]Detonator Dane[/b] works security and steps in when a match becomes too violent. [b]Silt[/b] drifts through the rafters and listens for conversations that might interest the Icelander. [b]Breaker[/b] acts as a hype man and occasionally enters the cage to thrill the audience. Together they turn Harborlight into a perfect trap, a place where the Icelander can observe, recruit, and control the flow of talent in Calder City’s hidden world.
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent] St. Dymphna’s Home for Wayward Youths began as a parish refuge in the early nineteen tens. It was a simple townhouse run by a small congregation that offered beds and meals to children who had nowhere else to go. When the Gray Death struck a decade later, Calder City was overwhelmed by the number of young survivors who had lost their families. Many of these children were healthy, but the city was still reeling from the pandemic and needed any available space to house them. St. Dymphna’s was one of the few buildings that could be repurposed quickly, so the city took over its operation and folded it into the early social care system.

As the decades passed and hereditary alterations became a normal part of life, St. Dymphna’s continued to receive children who had slipped through the cracks. Some had minor abilities that made their home lives complicated. Others simply had nowhere else to go in a city that was growing faster than its support systems. The townhouse aged, the funding fluctuated, and the neighbourhood changed around it, but St. Dymphna’s remained a constant presence. It became known as a place that could handle complicated cases without ever being formally designated for superhuman youth. It was a home that shaped by a century of societal change, carrying that history quietly in its walls.

Today St. Dymphna’s is an old building with peeling paint and mismatched windows, but it still serves the same purpose it did a hundred years ago. It shelters the young people who have nowhere else to go, whether their challenges come from the legacy of the Gray Death or from the ordinary struggles of growing up in Calder City. 

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Joanie Porter grew up in a cramped apartment with a mother who worked too many hours and a stepfather who drank too much. Arguments were a daily occurrence. Her stepfather shouted, slammed doors, and blamed Joanie for everything that went wrong in his life. She was ten when her seismic ability first reacted to her fear and anger. The floor buckled. The walls shook. A section of the apartment collapsed and the entire building had to be evacuated. No one was killed, but the damage was severe enough that social services intervened immediately. Joanie never went back.

St Dymphna’s has been her home ever since. 

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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT] [b]Seismic Projection.[/b] Joanie has the ability to release controlled or uncontrolled bursts of kinetic force that behave like small, localised earthquakes. The energy originates from her body and radiates outward through the ground, walls, or any surface she is in contact with.

Joanie’s greatest challenge is control. Her power is tied to her emotional state, and strong feelings can cause the ground to tremble even when she does not intend it. She has developed coping strategies at St Dymphna’s, including breathing exercises and grounding techniques taught by Mrs Qadir.[/INDENT][/COLOR]
[INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P E R S O N A L I T Y[/color]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT] Joanie’s time at St. Dymphna’s has shaped her into someone sharp and quick to defend others. She has a rebellious streak and a fierce instinct to protect anyone who reminds her of the frightened child she used to be. She wants to help people, especially kids who feel trapped or powerless, but she knows that staying safe means hiding her ability and keeping her emotions under control. 

She’s quick to anger though, and struggles to hold her tongue and not act rashly.
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]Joanie has no grand plans about becoming a superhero or donning spandex. For now her primary goal is to keep those around her safe and to survive into adulthood. She’s already decided that college isn’t for her and that she’ll need to find herself a job now she’s turned 18, a prospect she’s not too thrilled about.

But sadly, fate may have other plans that the ordinary life she wishes to live.

Joanie and her fellow wayward youths will soon find themselves gaining the attention of Calder City’s underworld, as the mysterious Icelander, and his club Harborlight, sets their sights on them.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][/COLOR][/INDENT]