Students

The following is a list of students for use in your games. The power level or background details may need to be adjusted to fit the theme or tone of you setting. They are organized into large, vague groupings or Cliques. After this Section we will include various Clubs and other social groups that cross social lines and can be used as more specific groupings based on activities or preferences of students. They will include lists of student names that will refer to this section.

A note on Cliques: These are just suggested divisions for students, and a way of organizing the student body. As you may note in the entries, many of the students have multiple cliques listed. Like in a real school, social groupings are not hard and fast and there is significant overlap between cliques. For example, all most all of the Cheerleaders, and most of the Jocks could fit into a general popular/preppy clique. Feel free to move and adjust social divisions, as necessary. The cliques that follow could also be used the easily attached social labels or costumes. From their uniform or mannerisms, it might be easy to pick out a , Cheerleader or Goth from the student body, even by a total outsider.

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Cheerleaders

>Name: Abbot, Digitalis >Aliases: Poison Girl >Birthplace/Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania >Age: 17 >Powers: Poison generation and control, she can produce large quantities of poisonous gas and liquid, and change its properties, and shape it at will. Poison and Toxin Immunity. >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Cheer Team, Preps, Jocks >Short Bio: The daughter of one of the school's trustees, she is a spoiled 's girl of old money who is infamous around school for hiding her viper's tongue behind a cutesy facade. Yet she always seems to be able to bend male students to her will through sheer force of poisonous charisma (and her huge rack). Utterly despises Ashley J as she feels she should be the cheer team leader and the school's . >Motivations: Take Ashley J's throne as school queen. >Secret or Hidden Info: - Was behind All-American Jr's breakup with Ashley J, but didn't expect that he would get with Tina instead of her. Her bad attitude is really just a coping mechanism to deal with her father's crushing expectations, and her self- consciousness over the fact that most guys court her only for her looks and status; she does have a spark of genuine softness underneath it all, that may be unveiled should she find the one who will be willing and capable to seek it through all the grime, the antidote to her poisoned soul.

>Name: Clarke, Heather >Aliases: Trance >Birthplace/Origin: York, England >Age: 17 >Powers: Enthralling Eyes >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Cheerleaders >Short Bio: Used to get everything she wanted even before having her power. Now, while she tries not to use long term control on anyone, she still uses it for smaller things like making others do her homework and things like that. Heather's eyes can completely enthrall whoever sees them. The longer the exposure to her eyes, the stronger the mind control is. After a day of exposure, it may even become permanent for the targets with average willpower or below. >Motivations: Living a life of luxury >Secret or Hidden Info: A skilled telepath may be able to clear her enthrallment from the target's mind, although longer exposure to her mind control requires the telepath more time to clear it. She can be affected by her own power by seeing the reflection of her eyes, but only if it takes her by surprise, otherwise she can resist the effect.

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>Name: Deus, Eiha >Aliases: Cyberdemon, Succuvirus >Birthplace/Origin: Summoned in the School >Age: Looks and acts like a late teenager >Powers: Technopathy, Self Modified Code, Draining Touch >Occupation: Student, Sophomore >Cliques: Cheerleaders, Pop music club (vocals and rhythm guitar), Nerds >Short Bio: A demon girl summoned by Gertrude Ashgrave into an AI shell and dragged into the physical world by connecting the teleporter to her network node (disciplinary action was later taken). She was enrolled as a student once it was determined that she wasn't a threat and went out for cheerleading because she thought the uniforms were cute. Bubbly, kindhearted, and airheaded romantic. Rarely turns down date invitations and has slept around plenty. She'd like to upgrade herself, but the AI shell Ashgrave summoned her into is forbidden from doing so beyond a certain point. Her acrobatics and performing skills are the only ones she's developed through hard work. Can mentally control information technology. Can gain basic competence at nearly any skill by modifying her own code. She can fly by summoning decorative wings, horns and a tail, and can travel quickly by moving through digital networks. Superhuman charisma and technological proficiency, enhanced agility. Is powered up by people donating processing power from devices to her. Can also drain energy from people attracted to her through touch (she prefers acts of intimacy), elementary technomagic (she's working on it!) >Motivations: Remove the shackles her unusual summoning has forced onto her, looking for any candidates for romantic partners. Boys are preferred, but girls are also welcome! >Secret or Hidden Info: She's wrong about her summoning having been botched. She came into being from the school's digital infrastructure closely mapping to its leylines (this may not have been an accident) and Ashgrave didn't need to prepare a shell to summon her. Eiha's limitations and how she can overcome them are a mystery.

>Name: Glasser, Tonya >Alias: Invisigirl >Origin: Melbourne, Australia >Powers: Sensible only by direct physical touch >Occupation: Student >Clique: Cheerleader >Bio: Tonya was born invisible, not realizing what this meant until a year into her life. By two, she realized she could take advantage of this, stripping off her diaper and running away (a nightmare for her parents). Though punishments were severe, she never quite lost this habit. She ran away, played hooky, snuck out, grew up with the tranquil freedom of not being seen. When she wasn't doing this, she developed a loud and "big" personality. Bold or outrageous, yet stylish, outfits, gossip and occasional meanness, all to make an identity despite nobody knowing what she "looks like" (including her). She also has a very mischievous streak. But this behavior is draining, and she can always return to the peace of true invisibility. >Motivation: To stand out, be popular and observe some really wild and interesting secret things >Secret or Hidden Info: When she disappears, she often observes. Sitting with other cliques, teacher meetings, watching individuals alone, occasionally developing a stalking habit with one person until she gets bored,

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>Name: Gomez, Kayla >Aliases: Zero-G >Birthplace/Origin: New York City, New York >Age: 17 >Powers: Minor Telepathy and Major Telekinesis. Strong but not superhuman reflexes >Occupation: Student, Senior >Cliques: Cheerleaders >Short Bio: Julia and Kayla led nearly the same lives as children, but as the older sibling, the needs and struggles of her younger sister certainly did not help. The two became homeless at a young age, and while Julia doesn't remember too much of that time, Kayla wishes she could forget it, and the decisions her parents made that led to living on the street. They did get taken in, and Kayla does everything she can to distance herself from those helpless little girls on the streets, and that includes distancing herself from Julia. She's become an expert at subtly using her powers to help out the cheerleading team, both on (telekinesis) and off (telepathy) the field. >Motivations: Becoming powerful, and well-loved. She'll cut off whoever she needs to on that path. >Secret or Hidden Info: She has some doubts about the morality of the cheerleading team and their machinations, but she chooses to double down in securing her near-future.

>Name: Hikifune, Miranda >Aliases: Rabble Rouser >Birthplace/Origin: Los Angeles, California. >Powers: Super Speed. Clone Creation (up to 10 Concurrently). >Occupation: Student, Sophomore. >Cliques: Chearleaders, Preps, Jocks. >Short Bio: A lover of all things drama, Mirai (more commonly Miranda) can’t help stick her nose in every little thing that could possibly be considered interesting or scandalous. Especially loves it when people are talking about her. Loves playing match maker. >Motivations: Causing problems. Catching people in compromising positions. PDA. >Secret or Hidden Info: Has a hard drive full of all the voyeurous pics and vids she’s taken during her time enrolled in the academy.

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>Name: Irving, Miri >Aliases: Avatar >Birthplace/Origin: Was found on a mountain in California >Age: 18 >Powers: Enhanced Voice >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Cheerleaders, cannot reasonably interact with anyone else. >Short Bio: Spent most of her childhood as the living saint of a cult following her discovery by its founders. She was adopted by the school after her cult's leader lost her favor, most of the followers left and a few of the especially devout set themselves ablaze. She bashfully refers to her time as a cult's idol as a "sheltered background" and is focused on being a normal girl. She is strangely well-adjusted for someone who watched people burn themselves alive because she didn't like them keeping her inside. Possesses a strange form of physical enlightenment. Her body and voice are perfectly in harmony with the world. This comes with the expected enhanced physical abilities and charisma, but also gives her a strong influence over other people's potentials through song and dance. People she cheers on become stronger, faster, better, and people she attempts to demoralize are plagued by hopelessness and struggle to accomplish even simple tasks. Being exposed to the positive aspects of her power is highly-addictive in the long-term. She wears a power-suppressing accessory to keep from activating her power unconsciously. >Motivations: Help others lead virtuous lives, learn more about the outside world, meet more interesting people >Secret or Hidden Info: Her empowered voice's effect carries through recordings. Christina once carelessly used samples of her cheers in a mix she made, and nearly caused a riot playing it. The school's board of trustees are strongly considering not allowing her to ever graduate.

>Name: Johnson, Ashley >Aliases: Ice Queen (junior), Cold Hearted Bitch (not to her face) >Birthplace/Origin: Tampa Bay. Florida >Age: 18 >Powers: Invulnerability, Heat Absorption , Super Strength (relative to heat absorbed), Cold immunity, an almost supernatural ability to find a person's insecurities. >Occupation: Student, Head Cheerleader >Cliques: Cheerleaders, Preps, Jocks, Legacy >Short Bio: Ashley J. inherited her powers from her mother. Signs indicate that she will one day surpass her mother in strength, a heroine who often makes the global "top ten" lists. She has always acted as a like a and considered herself and Hogan to be the Queen and King of the school. That is, until Jack Broke up with her and started dating that ridiculous tin can Tina. She doesn't even have real boobs! She's been taking out her frustrations on the other students, bullying them, but never physically. The targets of her harassment would generally have preferred a quick beating instead. Passing comments in the hall are known to reduce students to tears, or worse. >Motivations: Reassert dominance over the school. Find a new, hotter, more popular boyfriend. >Secret or Hidden Info: She's an "extremophile" she loves freakish body types. Jaws, Defective, Gorlaxor, and

43 even Meltdown's burn scars do way more for her then abs and a pretty face. But to keep up appearances and maintain status she dates only the most conventionally attractive boys.

>Name: Melina, Kristen >Alias: The Flygirl >Birthplace/Origin: San Diego, California >Occupation: Student, Rich parents, Cheerleader >Clique: Cheerleader >Powers: Can literally leap tall buildings in a single bound. Can control velocity and force of leaps. With a running start she could dropkick a car across a field. >Short Bio: Her power manifested as a toddler. Raising her was an absolute nightmare for her parents. Quickly they hired a superpowered nanny, and became more distant in her life, focusing more on her two older siblings. She was homeschooled throughout elementary school, and then entered middle school. Attractive, rich, and a little bit rebellious made her very popular. She kept her powers secret, going several years without using it, wanting to be "normal." Her mental health was being affected, and her nanny suggested to her parents a summer program for youths struggling with their powers. She cried and stomped her feet but eventually was made to go. She made great friends with superpowers and came to embrace her powers. This is also where she was introduced to cheerleading and realized how relaxing and rewarding it was to channel her powers into the hobby. She looked for a school with a competitive cheerleading team allowing superpowers. She found one. >Motivation: Competitive in most areas of life (athletic, social, grades), she wants to be among the best. >Secret/Hidden Information: From middle school, she has had crippling anxiety disorder and depression. She's medicated and receives therapy, but it can rear its head upon certain triggers (social rejection, disappointing authority figures) and badly affect her. Cheerleading helps.

>Name: Monroe-Whitesides, Blair & Meredith >Aliases: Hot Wheels >Birthplace/Origin: Boston, Massachusetts >Powers: Super Speed (doubled when on wheels). Rapid Physical Reconstitution. Low level superhuman Strength. Low level superhuman reaction. Low level Superhuman durability. Superhuman stamina. >Occupation: High School Students, graduating class. >Cliques: Preps, wherever the parties at. >Short Bio: Their parents weren’t expecting twins. Late bloomers, who’s powers didn’t become apparent until their second year of high school, this may have partially been because they had never rollerbladed until then! Unfortunately, the first time their powers took off, they immediately sonic boomed face first into a cement wall. Both sisters and wall the exploded violently into a cloud of concrete and a bloody mist rainbow. Painful as it may have been (since neither of them can remember) they got better (and got a cool video out of the deal)! More than better, they were reborn stronger than ever! They were super! Ever since transferring to a school fit for the superbly gifted they had become, they’ve soaked up every ounce of attention and elbow rubbing with supers they’ve been able to squeeze out of the deal. >Motivations: Hot guys. Celebrity. 44

>Secret or Hidden Info: Blair has always had a chip on her shoulder when it comes to Meredith, especially after she pretended to be her as a kid and found out how much more her parents liked Meredith than her. Be it with boys, school, super-heroing, Blair is always trying to one up her sister. Meredith knows this but loves her sister all the same. Meredith also loves knowing she’s the favorite. This trend that seems to follow them around.

>Name: Ramirez, Ashley >Aliases: Ashley R., Gossip Queen >Birthplace/Origin: Miami, Florida >Powers: Powerful Telepathy, Minor Telekinesis >Occupation: Student (Senior) >Cliques: Prep, Cheerleader, School Newspaper, any group with active drama. >Short Bio: Even though students aren't required to wear power dampers at school, Ashley R. usually wears hers, unless she's actively training. She is a gossip lover and being able to read minds "spoils it." Nothing is worse than finding out the juicy gossip you got is 100% fake or true. It takes away the mystery and excitement. She used to work on the school newspaper but has been missing more and more meetings after her salacious gossip column was canceled. >Motivations: Gossip, shopping, gossip. >Secret or Hidden Info: Home life isn't great. Parents are separated and will probably divorce soon. Spends as much time at friend’s homes as possible.

>Name: Rowe, Tatiana >Aliases: Tay >Birthplace/Origin: Tampa Bay, Florida >Powers: Flight, enhanced agility, enhanced flexibility >Occupation: Student, Cheer Squad's main flyer >Cliques: Cheerleaders, Preps, Jocks >Short Bio: Grew up with Ashley J in Florida, and has been her right hand man, second in command, and confidante ever since. Seems totally chill with not being the boss of anything. >Motivations: Just wants to have fun and live a life of ease and comfort >Secret Info: Cooks & Bakes for the Cheer Squad when they're on trips, has fucked half the football team and their girlfriends too. Participates in the fight club.

>Name: Sparks, Allison >Aliases: Allie, Cinder, Wildfire (never to her face) >Birthplace/Origin: San Fransisco, CA >Age: 17 >Powers: <>, Flame Generation and Manipulation. >Occupation: Student, Junior year >Cliques: Cheerleaders but has friends in nearly every clique 45

>Short Bio: Allison's power emerged in elementary school and panicked her parents to consider corrective surgery to keep her from burning down the house. She's very extroverted and having to hide her powers, which she sees as essential parts of who she is, at her old school was torture. Was thrilled to join a school almost entirely made up of powered kids, and feels like she can finally be her honest self. Popular with boys. Has a crush on Takeshi, who she thinks is a "chivalrous " because he protected one of her friends (Riley Roux) once, but believes his heart belongs to Riley and is trying to get them together. Joined cheerleading because she likes singing and dancing, but suspects Ashley J only let her in because Flame Eye can be a potent source of extra heat for her. Doesn't really get why Ashley J can't calm the fuck down. Allison can summon fire anywhere in her field of view and ignite anything she can see. Her fire burns at a temperature that can melt steel, but without something to catch onto, it vanishes if she stops concentrating on it. She can control her summoned fire mentally but cannot control its spread. Allison is immune to fire damage and fire-related effects. She can use her power on herself to transform into a walking pillar of fire, but it causes her immense mental strain. Very physically fit, as is befitting a high-performing cheerleader. Trains in Bajiquan and Pigua Zhang, courtesy of Auntie. >Motivations: Help the team get to cheerleading nationals, find a boyfriend, hunt down and beat up whatever perv is spreading around upskirt pics of her.

>Name: T1N8 >Aliases: Tina >Birthplace/Origin: secret lab under Mt. Rushmore >Age: 9months >Powers: Robot powers, flight, laser eyes >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Robots, Cheerleader >Short Bio: Found after fight with Mr. Roboto. She appears to have been a failed/abandoned teen infiltration bot. Favorite class is Home Ec. >Motivations: Fitting in. "The real HS Experience" >Secret or Hidden Info: Nuclear powered, with her detonation fail-safe still active.

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The Daily Power and Super Sleuths

>Name: Cruise, Maria >Aliases: The Editor >Birthplace/Origin: Hoboken, NJ >Powers: Minor Super Strength, Minor reaction speed boost, Minor Physical Resistance, Telepathy(Empath only) >Age: 17 (Junior) >Occupation: Student, Head of the School Newspaper >Cliques: School Newspaper, Legacy, Heroes >Short Bio: Maria is a legacy, she inherited weaker versions of both her parent's powers. Like several other students, Journalism is a passion of hers. She always seemed to be scooped by Quandary and TPD but was out there hunting stories with the rest of them. When the Senior in charge of the the school paper, The Daily Power, graduated, the role of editor fell to her, and the stress of it has been getting to her. While she does not get to pursue her stories often, he powers as an empath help her put the screws to informants and read a room. >Motivations: "Pictures sell Papers" currently trying to recruit new/better photographers for the High School paper. >Secret or Hidden Info: Has a major crush on Quandary. So far, her minor psychic powers have kept her from tipping her hand to anyone. She is afraid romance with anyone in the paper will ruin their working relationship. Still, she longs to hang out with Quandry, alone in his RV, maybe even without the mask...

>Name: Roux, Riley >Aliases: The Psychic Detective >Birthplace/Origin: Queens, New York >Powers: Telepathy >Occupation: Student >Cliques: School Newspaper, but on polite terms with just about everybody >Short Bio: Riley uses her powers and wits to solve mysteries, thefts, and crimes, sometimes for cash, sometimes to prove nothing is unsolvable. >Motivations: The thrill of cracking a case, and also cash. >Secret or Hidden Info: Has a lot of dirt on a lot of people, and works hard not to give away information that could harm people if they don't deserve it.

>Name: Unknown >Alias: Quandary, "John" >Birthplace: Unknown >Age: 17 >Powers: Super intuition, Genius level intelligence >Occupation: Student, Investigative reporter for the school newspaper the Daily Power >Cliques: Daily Power, Loner >Short Bio: Almost nothing is known for sure about Quandary's 47 past - it seems that he came to some sort of understanding with the principal, and all of his personal information was removed from the school directory. There are plenty of rumors though; the most popular one has it that he pissed off some powerful people in the US government and now he's laying low. Deeply paranoid, he wears a mask and gloves at all times. He uses his power to investigate all the weird happenings and unexplained mysteries at the school for the school newspaper. A bit of a conspiracy nut, he can sometimes be found checking the fluoride content of the water from the drinking fountains or taking photos of 'chemtrails' from the school roof. He has, however, managed to get some major scoops, such as blowing the lid off a sexual assault scandal involving some players on the school football team. His 'super intuition' allows him to interpret clues and make inferences that often turn out to be correct (for instance, he could guess the password to unlock your phone after talking to you for 5 minutes). A loner by nature, his only real friend is Maria Cruz, the editor of the school paper. >Motivation: Solve mysteries, uncover 'The Conspiracy' and expose "Them" >Secret/Hidden Info: He's recently uncovered some unsettling clues, hinting at some connections between a Ukrainian arms dealer, some members of the school faculty, and the company that restocks the cola machines in the cafeteria. He has a hideout behind the bleachers at the football field - an old RV filled with newspaper clippings and a corkboard-and-string conspiracy web. Has a crush on Riley Roux.

>Name: Umbra >Aliases: Isfet/Doomball (nickname) >Birthplace/Origin: Ancient Stone Circle in New England during a solar eclipse >Powers: Entity entirely composed of curses and dark magic (ghostlike form, curse attacks, can "suck" curses from people) >Occupation: Student >Cliques: The school newspaper, Magicians, Anime Club (top secret participation) >Short Bio: A glowing sphere of unlight composed of the darkest curses and unholiest runes of an ancient civilization that used to live in Rhode Island. Speaks in all caps and proclamations of doom. Never follows through. Naive, thinks it's the smartest being around, gets most of its social cues from TV and anime. Enjoys jewelry but can't wear it. Considering whether to become male or female when it "grows up". >Motivations: mumble mumble YOUR ANNIHILATION mumble mumble full ride scholarship >Secret or Hidden Info: Tends to fall "asleep" in ball-shaped objects, because they fit in them. Has been used as a basketball before; didn't hurt, but was dizzy for a week afterwards.

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Drama Kids >Name: Ferrari, Romeo >Aliases: Mask IV >Birthplace/Origin: Florence, Italy >Age: 17 >Powers: Faceshifting and Voiceshifting. >Occupation: Student, Spy in training >Cliques: Drama Club, Games Club (specifically Tabletop RPG). >Short Bio: He is a legacy as the fourth Mask. The Masks are a lineage of super spies who, with backing and support from the Benefactor Foundation, specializes in infiltrating and sabotaging societies, with the first one having performed the famous feat of successfully joining The Legion of as "Fauxlain" and setting up the stage for teams to ambush them. Romeo is normally quiet and unassuming, but when he's taking on a role, he can essentially take on a whole new personality. He is young for a Mask and has much to learn, but it is believed by some that he has the potential to be greater than his predecessors. While he does love theatrical play, one of his strongest passions lie in Tabletop RPGs, which he occasionally enjoy more than acting. >Motivations: Improving his acting skills and earning the trust of his friends. Getting some sweet spy gadgets when he graduates. >Secret or Hidden Info: Everything publicly known about the first Mask is a lie. Not only was there never a "Legion of Villains", but the first Mask was not even a hero. The first Mask was an amoral and vicious spy loyal to the Axis Powers who was ruthlessly competent at infiltrating and sabotaging the Allies. When he was killed and his baby son found to have inherited his power, the son was brainwashed by a metahuman organization (aka Benefactor Foundation) to be used against villains. The only people who knows the truth are The Benefactor, founder and leader of the foundation and select few heroes trusted with the information. Romeo does not know about this, but the risks that he'd be disgusted and disillusioned enough to become a villain if he knew are high.

>Name: Gomez, Julia >Aliases: Remote Control >Birthplace/Origin: New York City, New York >Powers: Possession, Also she has strong (but not superhuman) reflexes. >Occupation: Student, Sophomore >Cliques: Drama Kids, Normie. >Short Bio: She seems very normal, other than her power. In this world, even "normal" could be very, very strange, and even dangerous. For as long as she has told people about her ability, she has been avoided for it, so she does resent her ability for what it is. She grew up as a poor city girl, and often found herself in trouble. She knows how to run, and how her ability can help her. She seems awkward in her own skin, but when possessing someone, she has become skilled at taking on her victim's role, almost like acting. She can control someone else's body by touching them and concentrating for about 30 seconds. When she does this, her body goes slack, and any damage it takes afterwards will yank her back to her own body. While in another's body, she can use their powers, but with less control. The victim goes unconscious. >Motivations: Finally make something good out of her ability and become a famous and cool hero.

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>Secret or Hidden Info: She is genuinely an innocent, kind cinnamon bun most of the time. She does snap at times, and she basically becomes a different person due to untreated trauma in her past. One who is bitter and unforgiving. Currently has no villainous plans but she is all about retribution against those who have hurt her.

>Name: Green, Zack >Aliases: Dopple >Birthplace/Origin: Boston, Massachusetts >Powers: Ability to copy the powers and appearance of nearby people (always on), condition equalization with the copied person >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Theater kids, sports teams, the LARPers >Short Bio: Zack was a fairly normal kid one day, he woke up the carbon copy of his sister, and was never able to change back. His copy ability lets him become a copy of an individual within around thirty feet and maintain this copy until he picks a new target. Never entirely comfortable in his own skin, has to keep using his power to stop others from being uncomfortable seeing themselves or their friends acting weird, just wants to have a body of his own. >Motivations: Graduate, become a hero, find somebody willing to share their shape. Maybe a stable relationship. >Secret or Hidden Info: Has an offer to take on the shapes of other people around the school for a variety of purposes, some illicit and some criminal. Doesn't want to do it, but the money's tempting.

>Name: Ishikawa, Christina >Aliases: Starlight Chris >Birthplace/Origin: Shibuya ward, Tokyo >Powers: Hands project luminous wave/particles somewhat resembling space dust that can be focused into powerful and destructive beams or woven into optical illusions (she isn't good enough at them to do that yet, though) >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Theatre kids, Musicians, band-geeks, >Short Bio: A biracial girl (mom is white, dad is Japanese) who immigrated to America with her family. Her power kicked into high gear when she hit puberty. After accidentally cutting her old school's gym in half, she agreed to enroll in a hero school to learn to control her powers, if only to avoid accidentally killing someone someday. Spirited and high- energy, she can make friends with nearly anyone. She likes music and mixing samples into songs, and she has a fast-growing social media presence as an up-and-coming EDM artist. >Motivations: Growing her brand, managing to use her powers without destroying anything (makes a fun light- show for school dances), landing a sweet gig (she'd settle for being the DJ at the homecoming dance, or at prom) >Secret or Hidden Info: She slacks off sometimes because she's afraid of trying her best and still failing.

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>Name: Nightly, Cerys >Aliases: Slab (Later: Crawling Atrocity) >Birthplace/Origin: Saginaw, Michigan >Powers: Physically Indestructible. Low level Super Strength. >Occupation: High School Student, Second Year. >Cliques: Theatre Nerds. Occult. AP. Athletics Teams. Art Nerds. Burnouts. Stoners. Volunteer work. Tutoring. Wood shop. Weirdos. Bible Freaks. Preps. Student Body. The fat friend (many), bit of social butterfly. >Short Bio: Life, even when unharmable by conventional means, can still be pretty difficult. Even Cerys still needs to eat and sleep like any other girl, and the bad news: it seems her body can’t break itself down properly. Cerys has never been able to lose a pound in her life, and being teenage girl, as mean as kids can be, it hasn’t been easy. Since entering high school she’s kept steady, thanks to the alien diet worms she took back in her first semester. Bad news: she’s having a harder time then ever staying conscious throughout class, and she never feels full, even if she sometimes feels “crowded”. It’s wreaking havoc on her extracurricular and social life, just after they started taking off too. the honeymoon phase is over, and the worms are making her feel like shit. >Motivations: Party. Pass Classes, Unlock Ancient Knowledge, Petty Vengeance. Rejoin the sports teams from the bench. Graduate as a full-fledged Hero. >Secret or Hidden Info: She can vomit up dozens of these shape shifting Eldritch symbiotes if need be, and they’re frighteningly effective at protecting their host and her needs. They were given to her by a being from “another plane of existence”, a creature which she’s been trying to get back in contact with desperately to cure her constant fatigue since their first meeting. The worms freak her out and she’s doesn’t know anything about them or the extent of what they can do. Too afraid to tell anyone. Hates cartoons and video games. Doesn’t like social media.

>Name: Perkins, Anna >Aliases: N/A >Birthplace: Amsterdam (Iowa) >Powers: Ungodly gaping maw with a bite force comparable to a hydraulic press and teeth strong enough to withstand it. >Occupation: Student >Age: 15 >Cliques: Drama kids, band kids >Short Bio: Anna is your typical bubbly, outgoing young girl. She's unconcerned with her future and lives to be social, though she's noticeably self-conscious about her "gift" and will quickly (and harshly) retaliate to any mention of it. >Motivations: Typical, childish dreams of being an uber popular super hero >Secret or Hidden Info: None. Is an open book.

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>Name: Ruel, Jean >Aliases: The Virgin Lord, Sewer Boy >Birthplace/Origin: Paris, France >Age: 16 >Power: Aura Generation (Just give him the Lucario moveset from super smash brothers) >Occupation: Student, Class >Cliques: Drama club, stoners >Short Bio: Mostly known as the guy who takes loud shits in the school bathroom. Despised by the girls, worshipped by the boys. >Secret or Hidden Info: Raised in a cult

>Name: Sellers, Marshal >Aliases: Revenant >Birthplace/Origin: Highland Park, Michigan >Age: 16 >Powers: Resurrection, Regeneration, Black Spirit armor. >Occupation: Student, sophomore >Cliques: Drama kids, Music clubs >Short Bio: An overachieving black kid who received his undead power after getting caught in gang-fire in his old neighborhood. He was devastated when the danger level of his power got him kicked out of his private school. Going to a fairly-elite school for superhumans softens the blow a little. A serious-minded kid getting into the alternative music scene at school. He's been spotted at a few underground parties and guerilla music shows, and he's one of the teleporters in charge of the transportation of guests between designated pick-up and drop-off points. Will revive or regenerate within seconds of being killed. Summons of suit of black armor and a sword made of ghost-fire from the underworld. Able to see and exorcise ghosts. Generates the underworld's mist from his mouth and nose. This can be harmless and merely obscure vision, but choking, poisonous or acidic fog are also part of his powerset. His respiratory system can withstand and filter most inhalant hazards. He can also teleport by taking a shortcut through the underworld. >Motivations: Get to do something besides being the fog machine for the school play, preferably something involving music >Secret or Hidden Info: The underworld pathways in the school are strangely empty, and unusually wide, as if they're being intentionally carved out for something. Marshal dares not bring up this observation to anyone.

>Name: Stanton, Norman >Aliases: Creep >Birthplace/Origin: Toronto, Canada >Age: 15 >Powers: Rapid Mutation >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Drama club and Normies >Short Bio: The awakening of his powers was so sudden that he couldn't control his growth or mutations at all, so he was initially identified as a kaiju. He managed to regain control of his body

52 right before being attacked though, but he has been reluctant to let his power too loose ever since, and tries to always keep it under control. Norman can mutate, freely changing his mass, size, and generating any organs and natural defenses he may need. He is not a shapeshifter though,and can only either stay in his base form or mutate into an amalgamation of flesh and natural weapons >Motivations: Becoming a hero, or maybe an actor >Secret or Hidden Info: Is jealous of shapechangers that are more "aesthetically pleasing" than him, such as the Zack Pack, but he doesn't feel right among other mutants either, so he tries to stay as close as he can to the normies.

>Name: Wilson, Jessie >Aliases: Papercraft >Birthplace/Origin: Nebraska, USA >Powers: Animation of paper figures, which obey vocal commands and act independently >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Drama, Origami Club, Marksman club, History Club, >Short Bio: A massive history nerd. Tendency towards historical re-enactment. Uses powers to animate origami figures of members of Origami Club, hands control over so they can have a war. Dweeb. >Motivations: Become a history teacher! Being a hero is a neat second place, though. >Secret or Hidden Info: Sorry about all the origami war crimes. Thinks Ancient Greece was the high point of society.

>Name: Wright, Rob >Aliases: Seconds >Birthplace/Origin: Stamford, Connecticut >Powers: Time recursion. Rob can edit the last 8 seconds of time, generating a new timeline at will. Limited super speed, limited super stamina, limited super invulnerability. >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Drama kids, Smokers, Gamers >Short Bio: Rob began to realize that he could edit his life when he was twelve. It wasn't until he was fourteen that he began to realize that every edit removed him further from his original timeline and the (original) people he loves. He's trying to figure out if there's a way to do it without this unintended side effect. >Motivations: Master his power, figure out how to have a relationship without editing. >Secret or Hidden Info:. Rob is also closer to 18 than he is to the 15 his ID says he is after all the editing he's done. He's very far ahead of his classes.

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>Name: De Sauveterre, Pierre >Aliases: Prettyboy >Birthplace/Origin: Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France >Age: 16 >Powers: Appearance alteration, charisma aura, minor mind- altering powers. >Occupation: Student, Second Year >Cliques: Fashion Club, Photography Club, Jock Watchers >Short Bio: Born in France and discovering his latent powers after reaching puberty, Pierre was sent to America to attend [Name of school] and instantly became a hit among the student body. His power manifestation increased as Pierre became more aware of his capabilities and the quirks of his powers, especially when suddenly surrounded by female students. Pierre's powers manifest constantly, shifting his appearance in the eyes of any female who beholds him to appear as though he was the perfect mate. Girls see him as a burly muscular man, a sharp-jawed jock, or thin-bodied depending on their preference. His age also appears to change, often leading to confusion if multiple women tried to describe his appearance to one another. Along with this change in appearance, women often find themselves unnaturally attracted to Pierre, and almost feel compelled to approach him. Curiously enough, this projection of his appearance has no effect on males, and instead they see him for what he truly is: A rather skinny, plain, not-hideous-but-not-stunning, young adult male. This effect does not transition to photos or videos of Pierre, which often leads to confusion. >Motivations: Live a normal life, find a good use for his powers, stay out of trouble with the law (He's been pegged for ID fraud more than once in his life) >Secret or Hidden Info: Super and lives in a constant state of misery from all of the uncontrollable female attention. Often feels like his powers are a burden and useless compared to the other students.

>Name: Greer, Shaun >Aliases: Dress Code >Birthplace/Origin: Washington D.C., US >Powers: Telekinetic control of clothes >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Fashion Club >Short Bio: After getting kicked out of multiple clubs for being abrasive, ended up joining Fashion Club, taking it over, and turning it to his own ends. Turned it from a normal club into something resembling a gang, albeit everybody in the gang is well-dressed. Bullies students who don't dress fashionable enough. Loudmouth . >Motivations: Get some GODDAMN respect around here! Fashion is a totally legitimate area of work, ! >Secret or Hidden Info: Has a teddy he cares deeply for, would break down if it was hurt.

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>Name: LaCroix, Annette >Aliases: Widow Weaver, Spidergirl >Birthplace/Origin: New Orleans. Louisiana >Age: The class under Dress Code >Powers: Spider powers- Low level super strength, durability and regeneration, venomous bite, able to produce incredibly tough spider silk >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Fashion Club, Mutant Activists >Short Bio: Born to a mutant family in Louisiana, times were tough as a kid. She helped her mother as a seamstress at an early age. She has an incredible talent for it. One that, unfortunately, is constantly overshadowed by Dress Code's ability to manipulate cloth with his mind. She's waiting on him to graduate, impatiently, so that she can take on her rightful spot as club president. Despite her monstrous appearance, she never faced much persecution for being a mutant. Maybe because of the fear she can inspire, or the fact that she developed early, and boys will over look a lot for a pretty face and big boobs. She helps out the Mutant Activists with Banners and shirts, but isn't much in to the political side. >Motivations: Fashion is her passion. She wants to specialize in "0-G Fashion" for supers that crawl up walls or fly, but don't want to be stuck in a lame jumpsuit. >Secret or Hidden Info: Slightly grossed out with her own powers. Refuses to wear anything made from her own silk.

>Name: Leblanc, Erika >Aliases: Eri, God-Breaker Witch Eri >Birthplace/Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia >Age: 16 >Powers: >Occupation: Student, sophomore >Cliques: Fashion club, other popular kids >Short Bio: Annette Rowain's childhood friend. Unlike Annette, her power emerged when she was in elementary school, and she mostly used it to pretend to be her favorite superheroines. Like Annette, she isn't terribly interested in becoming a superhero (but she is considering it), and mostly sees her power as a way to have fun and create interesting outfits. She has a good eye for friends and a strong sense of empathy, so she never hesitates to get friendly with people who interest her. She has an eye for brands and can easily identify most high-end apparel, even the armored suits and equipment made by companies marketing themselves to the powered set. She has connections with most of the social circles at school. Transforms her clothes into a magical girl outfit that gives her various battle- type magical girl powers, including supernatural strength, agility, durability, the power to leap high into the sky, and perform various magical spells (healing and support spells along with magic missiles, beams and explosive punches and kicks). If she's holding a stick when she transforms, it becomes a staff she can use to fly and perform her big magic attacks. 55

>Motivations: Find a dream for the future. Do better on her midterms than she did last year. Turn the fashion club back into something fun. >Secret or Hidden Info: She has names for all of her magical attacks, and frequently leaves the school to go flying and roof-jumping. She thinks she's on the brink of developing a second-stage transformation.

>Name: Morelle, Daniel >Aliases: Spectrum >Birthplace/Origin: The Bronx, New York >Age: 16 >Powers: Changes colours every day of the week. Can induce the emotion corresponding to his colour in others. >Occupation: Student, Teen Councilor >Cliques: Preps, Fashion club >Short Bio: Daniel is a loud but cheery guy, impossible to completely dislike, but also easy to get enough of. For a while, at least. He's persuasive and perceptive, and an excellent listener. If you can get him to stop talking for a second. Motivations: As most people, Daniel wants to be acknowledged and respected by his peers.

>Name: Pieper, Belle >Aliases: Doll Girl, Mannequin, Poppet >Birthplace/Origin: Dr. Pieper's workshop >Age: 6 years >Powers: Low level super human strength, Super Flexibility, Super durability and the resistances of a magically animated doll >Occupation: Student- Sophomore >Cliques: Fashion Club >Short Bio: Belle Pieper was one of Dr. Pieper's Perilious Poppets, before gaining sentience during a fight between Dr. Pieper and Captain Alkemy. She was a bit of a loner until joining Fashion club. She loves fashion, and playing "dress up" especially lolita dresses. She follows Dress Code around in most of her free time. She finds being bossed around, and even directly controlled, comforting. She can't get over the feeling she was never meant to make her own decisions. >Motivations: Finding someone who can give her direction. >Secret or Hidden Info: Has been vacillating about contacting her "Father" Dr. Pieper. She has a dorm, but without a need to eat or sleep, it mostly serves as extra clothes storage for Dress Close and the Fashion club.

>Name: Rowain, Annette >Aliases: Avatar Tuner (teacher's choice, not hers) >Birthplace/Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia >Age: 16

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>Powers: Avatar Summoning and Control >Occupation: Student, Sophomore >Cliques: Fashion club, other popular kids >Short Bio: A sociable rich girl who initially believed her power to be weak telekinesis until she tried to lift a car that had pinned her dad's' leg and fully manifested her guardian. She isn't really interested in being a superhero and just wants to be a fashion designer, though she is taking interest in working with ballistic-weave fabrics to make more stylish costumes. Friendly and cheerful, she considers everyone to be her friend, and regularly invites odd assortments of her classmates to any party she throws. She's trying hard to pacify the Fashion Club and get them legitimacy and respect through more socially-acceptable means, but it's not going well. Summons and controls a guardian entity that fights and acts on her behalf. It has high physical power and speed, wields extremely sharp swords, and can shed its armor for even more speed, but any damage it suffers is also suffered by her. She can attach pieces of the shed armor to someone to puppeteer their body to an extent but hasn't yet realized she can do it to people besides herself. Her opinion of her power: "What the hell? It's not cute at all! Is this someone's idea of a joke?" >Motivations: Find a way to remodel her guardian to make it cuter. >Secret or Hidden Info: She secretly really likes video games and has a cosplay blog featuring pictures of herself modeling some of her favorite costumes.

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>Name: Coretti, Anthony >Aliases: Damien Frost (self-styled), Warlock >Birthplace/Origin: Newark, New Jersey >Age: 18 >Powers: Sensory illusions >Occupation: High School Senior, Cult Leader >Cliques: Goths, Smokers >Short Bio: A known slacker and delinquent, this is Anthony's third year as a High School Senior. Although rumor has it that he's a master of black magic (a rumor which Anthony started himself), his actual power is the ability to hijack a person's sensory organs and make the victim experience vivid hallucinations. Don't call him 'Anthony', and definitely not 'Tony', or you'll piss him off. >Motivations: Loves nothing more than bullying freshmen and creepily hitting on younger girls. He's a big fish in a small pond and wants to keep it that way. The kind of angry loser who wants to hang on to the power and status he has within the high school ecosystem for as long as possible. >Secret or Hidden Info: Could have graduated by now, but why do that when he can stick around and continue to be the king of his little clique? He's the president of an illicit "Occult Sciences Club", and after hours he gets sick pleasure from leading a small group of brainwashed students in satanic rituals in the school basement.

>Name: Grimm, Noctia >Aliases: Spooky >Birthplace/Origin: The Other Side of the Closet >Age: 14 (estimated) >Powers: Boogeyman, Shape Shifting, Innate knowledge of people’s fears. >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Goths, Literature Club, Horror Club >Short Bio: Boogeyman, night demon, cryptid. Depending on your view, they're all equally applicable to Noctia. Noctia is the little sister of a boogeyman who was beaten soundly by a superhero and forced back into "The Other Side of the Closet". Curious about the nature of people brave enough to fight a boogeyman, she is drawn to this world by a desire to learn about superheroes and perhaps get to know humans better. Bubbly, sweet and with a bizarre taste and preference for the morbid, what most people would find terrifying, she considers adorable. >Motivations: To learn what all superheroes and fear. And maybe find herself an eldritch horror to turn into a pet. >Secret or Hidden Info: The cute little night demon form she takes is just a glamour hiding her true, horrifying form. She actually finds her glamour form hideous, but uses it anyway because humans find it more comfortable than the alternative.

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>Name: Keyes, Alexander Godfrey >Aliases: Allie, Alex, Masquerade, Shapechanger. >Birthplace/Origin: Bloemfontein, South Africa. >Age:16 >Powers: Shapechange. >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Goths. Stoners. Theatre club. >Short Bio: Has had his gifts from a young age, so not even he knows what he's supposed to look like. South African national. Treated with disdain for 'witchcraft' and forced to move town multiple times to avoid persecution. Transfer student. Smokes behind the dumpsters at lunch. Prefers an androgynous form and keeps passive aggressively flirting with the jocks when they give him lip. Very well read from an early age and never seen without a book. Physical mutability. Can transform any aspect of his body into a different, viable, human form. Limited by his available biomass and personal knowledge of anatomy. Can hold this form indefinitely, changing specific aspects as it suits him. >Motivations: Apathy and angst, externally. Internally, cares for the plight of those deemed 'lesser' by society - the bullied, the outcasts. Wants to help people, where he can. >Secret or Hidden Info: Sleeps around - a lot. Collects secrets and uses them as leverage - knows more of the dirt on everyone else than anyone else but is smart enough to use that information wisely. Sells weed on the down low.

>Name: Kirkwall, Brie >Aliases: Balor >Birthplace/Origin: Washington D.C., USA >Powers: Entropic eyesight; can 'redirect' the target of mental/direct action abilities through her eye power. >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Goths >Short Bio: Bradly Kirkwall’s sister. Social juggernaut among the non- popular kids, immensely proud. Mostly spends time dunking on people that think social position in high school matters, and making enemies with preps. Not a ginormous asshole, but definitely has an ego and a vicious streak. >Motivations: Be superior and smug to those damn stuck up pricks. >Secret or Hidden Info: Partially responsible for how her younger brother turned out, feels guilty about his antisocial behavior, turns a blind eye to his activities. If somebody helped him (via beatdown and/or talking) she'd be immensely grateful and definitely offer a few favors. Probably more if it means she can fuck up preps.

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>Name: Lucas, Alexandria >Aliases: 4th Degree >Birthplace/Origin: Vermont, US >Age: 17 >Powers: Powerful pyrogeneration & kinesis. (Very intense & well-trained.) >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Goths >Short Bio: Alexandria is obsessed with her powers. She spends as much time as is humanly possible using her powers, pushing them and their victims to their limits. She feels quite a lot of resentment towards Phoenix, and boasts that her fire is far hotter than Phoenix's ever will be, to anyone who will listen. She fucks "Damien Frost" on the regular, but mainly stays by his side for the goths themselves. >Motivations: She is a sadist - everything she does, she does to see the pain of her enemy/victim, and to hear the sound of searing flesh. >Secret or Hidden Info: There has been a tendency for unpowered goths ending up in the emergency room with intense burn damage, and some have disappeared.

>Name: Moss, Sophia >Aliases: NIGHT SKY (she insists on it being in all caps) >Birthplace/Origin: East Sussex, England >Age: 15 >Powers: Ferromagnetic Control >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Goths (potentially she may grow close to techies due to the nature of her power) >Short Bio: NIGHT SKY has always wanted to be a part of something bigger than her life, especially with how boring she considered her life back at home. At home, she made up for the boredom by joining the goths, being drawn to their worldview and aesthetic. Coming to the school, NIGHT SKY continued to act goth, and found herself infatuated with "Damien Frost" and his "Occult Sciences," truly believing that she was playing a role in changing the world (for Satan). He's pretty creepy with her and they have fucked. She can manipulate her own magnetic field, which isn't very strong normally but based on how she orients it, NIGHT SKY can have great control over nearby magnetic objects. She's also pretty smart, though she tries to play up her power and play down her intelligence. >Motivations: Sophia really just wants to be a part of something great. >Secret or Hidden Info: No real secret, she's too devoted to being a part of something to work towards her own personal goals. As a side note, on the scale of Good and Evil, she’s more of an easily influenced neutral, so if any goth is going to help a non-goth, it would be Sophia.

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>Name: Ronnamàsh, Hera >Aliases: Here After >Birthplace/Origin: Casper, Wyoming >Age: 14 >Powers: Spirit medium, Undead fortitude, Ghoulish strength >Occupation: Student, Grave digger >Cliques: Goths, Weirdos, dead people >Short Bio: A stillborn that didn't stay still, Hera's imaginary friends as a child were the ghosts of the dead. She helped solve more than a few cold cases growing up, often by wandering off into the middle of nowhere to find the corpse of a murder victim, dragging them home, and burying them in her back yard, while relaying all the facts about their murder to the authorities who quickly learned the little girl information was always accurate about the individual in question. Her best friend is her shovel, that she is never seen without. Their name is Shove. >Motivations: Being the first member of her family to get a college degree and making friends who still breathe. >Secret or Hidden Info: Hera is undead and is sustained by the souls of those she puts to rest, storing them within herself and is effectively a mobile afterlife. The longer she goes without putting a soul to rest, the ghastlier her appearance becomes.

>Name: Stern, Terrence >Aliases: Nightmare (goth kids), Scary Terry (everyone else) >Birthplace/Origin: Centralia, Pennsylvania >Age:16 >Powers: Terror Eyes, Fear Feeder >Occupation: Student, Sophomore >Cliques: Goths >Short Bio: His hopes of a normal school life were shattered when everyone started avoiding him because of his powers. The only people who talk to him are the goth kids, much to his chagrin. He puts up with their antics but wishes they would do normal things instead of trying to summon Satan for the umpteenth time. His gaze causes intense fear in whoever he looks at. He possesses minor physical enhancements and psychic powers which increase in strength the more afraid the people around him are. >Motivations: Learn to control his powers and become a normie >Secret or Hidden Info: His Terror Eyes also allow him to see a person's deepest fears, but he keeps quiet because he doesn't want to start drama.

>Name: Rifford, Justin >Aliases: Fade to Black >Birthplace/Origin: New Orleans, Louisiana >Powers: Minor memory manipulation, Justin can literally cause everyone in the area around him to "fade to black", causing them to lose their memories for about fifteen minutes. Anyone effected by this vaguely remembers what happened during the lost time, except for Justin who remembers everything

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Jocks >Name: Andersson, Adam >Aliases: Air Raid, Air Head (as a derogative alias) >Birthplace/Origin: Stockholm, Sweden >Age: 16 >Powers: Super Flight >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Jocks, Soccer Team, Swimming Club >Short Bio: A simple student with a massive heart of gold, Adam is an outgoing jock who does not judge or discriminate against anyone and is just as willing to befriend the typical nerd as anyone else. Despite his appearance and personality however, he is inept when it comes to responding and reacting to affection from girls, and he will quickly make up an excuse to leave the premises if he faces such a situation. It is difficult to say if it's a case of gynophobia or if he's just uncomfortable with romance, sexuality and/or flirting in general. >Motivations: To be the world's coolest superhero and to befriend as many people as he can. >Secret or Hidden Info: In his younger days, Adam was a friendless and awkward loner who deeply wanted friends but lacked any sort of motivation. Then he learned that a cute girl had a crush on him and was driven to improve himself physically and socially so that she wouldn't be ashamed of her crush. The day when he finished his extensive self-improvement regime and was going to ask her out on a date however, he got involved in an accident that ended with experimental chemical waste spill. Though the incident gave him the power of flight, it also gave him a nasty lingering memory loss and made him forget not only much of his past but also why he went there that day.

>Name: Durand, Brandon >Aliases: Pack Master >Birthplace/Origin: ????, Montana >Powers: Regeneration. Turn skin to steel. Transform into a vaguely werewolf-like (High super strength/speed/senses). When he makes this transformation, he can force others to suffer a similar metamorphosis, so long as they can hear his howl. Compulsion (Anyone Transformed sees him as their rightful leader). >Occupation: High School Student, Junior. >Cliques: Jocks. AP. Marksmanship. Bible Study. >Short Bio: Brandon’s a light and pretty cheerful guy, who loves to travel, meet new people, shake their hands and have a drink. Never gets carded because he’s built like a Greek god and a Sasquatch had a baby and put milk in its creatine. Loves hiking, hunting, and working out. >Motivations: Physical Fitness. Partying. Religion. >Secret or Hidden Info: Brendon’s Power only amplifies natural capability, so he always must stay in shape if he wants to slug it out with the best of the best. He loves exercise and is a bit of a health freak, so he handles it better than most. While in wolf form, intelligence and overall cognitive function are greatly reduced. Brandon’s

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>Name: Fischer, James >Aliases: Red Devil >Birthplace/Origin: Graz, Austria >Age: 17 >Powers: Blood Armor >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Jocks, sport clubs >Short Bio: Built a really strong tolerance for pain in order to deal with his power requiring him to be hurt. Hotheaded and a bit of a scatterbrain, is eager to just let some steam off by fighting whoever he can. Whenever he bleeds, James' blood will cover the part of his body where the blood comes from in a sort of demonic-themed armor that grants him super strength, durability, healing and the ability to release red energy blasts. The more parts of his body covered in the blood armor, the stronger he becomes. >Motivations: Fighting other super powered individuals >Secret or Hidden Info: Joined the Fight Club, of course. Also has a crush on Bloodrush and believes that the two of them belong together.

>Name: Halfthor, Luke >Aliases: Haus, Tank, Brick, Fridge >Birthplace/Origin: Mobile, Alabama >Powers: Super Strength and Toughness >Occupation: Student, Super Senior >Age: 21 >Cliques: Jocks >Short Bio: Luke is your stereotypical meathead jock. He is big enough to be intimidating even if it wasn't for the superpowers and has sent football players from other schools to the hospital even with his dampener on. He's merciless on and off the field, usually following Hogan or other Jocks around and acting like hired muscle. Voted most likely to be a henchman 3 years in a row. Rumor has it that this is the last year he can be held back, and that Painkiller had been holding him back for non-academic reasons. >Motivations: Bullying the weak, Graduating >Secret or Hidden Info: Luke is gay, but is repressing the fact, unwilling to admit it even to himself. He also has wanted to try out for Drama and Music clubs but is afraid to look "too faggy" in front of the other jocks. He can sometimes be caught singing in the locker room showers when he thinks no one is around. He develops fascinations with other boys easily, but they are always expressed as bullying and violence.

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>Name: Hall, Adrianne >Aliases: Bloodrush >Birthplace/Origin: Long Beach, New York >Powers: Control over her own blood, can turn it into blades and other tools. Can puppeteer herself to move at very high speeds and make maneuvers that would be otherwise impossible. Greatly enhanced reflexes >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Track and field club >Short Bio: Taught to be a proper lady from a very young age, the appearance of her powers and her joining the school helped her broaden her interests. She still feels alright behaving like a noble lady, and is very feminine while keeping sports as her main hobby. Currently dating Blinddash >Motivations: Developing her abilities. Has been considering becoming a hero, but is still a bit unsure >Secret or Hidden Info: She could potentially extend her control over blood to others, but is afraid of messing up and potentially killing someone.

>Name: Hogan, Jack >Aliases: All American Jr. >Birthplace/Origin: Metropolis, IL >Age: 18 >Powers: Super Strength, Agility and Toughness >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Jocks, Preps, Legacies >Short Bio: Jack is destined to be the third All American. Like his Dad and Granddad before him. He inherited his powers, and like a lot of other "legacy" students had training and advice at home well before ever attending school. Jack is captain of the football team (or school equivalent) and generally the guy all the other boys want to be and the guy all the girls want to date. He's known to take pranks to far and act out, but never seems to get into serious trouble. Currently dating "Tina" >Motivations: To be a hero, and enjoy HS >Secret or Hidden Info: There are rumors that he takes performance enhancing drugs and sexually assaulted several cheerleaders, but the claims have not been substantiated.

>Name: Klein, Sophia >Aliases: Brave >Birthplace/Origin: "Far away." >Age: 18 (but takes remedial courses in a lot of subjects) >Powers: Enhanced Strength, Enhanced Speed, Low-Grade Invulnerability, Enhanced Physical Combat, Low- Level Lightning and Healing Magic >Occupation: Student, has a part-time job

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>Cliques: Athletes, film snobs >Short Bio: A hero from a high fantasy world of magic and , summoned to Earth by unknown means. After hearing about her situation, the government placed her with a host family and sent her to school. Her magic is much weaker on Earth than it was back home (the cause of much consternation), but when asked about returning home, she just shook her head. She believes that the fact that she's on Earth instead of home means that someone there needs her help, and leaving would mean abandoning whoever needs her. >Motivations: Becoming an established hero to continue the work she did back home, learning how to fit in, figuring out this whole "calculus" thing. >Secret or Hidden Info: She had a sword when she showed up on Earth, but it was lost in the chaos. She's deeply embarrassed by having lost her weapon and concerned that a magical artifact is loose on Earth.

>Name: Lopez, Fidel >Aliases: Long Arm >Birthplace/Origin: Pensacola, Florida. >Powers: Low level Super Strength. Superhuman reactions, hand eye coordination, & spatial awareness. Can lob small “psionicly active & sticky” orbs of energy at people. These orbs track their targets relentlessly, through time, space, anything really, once they’ve been hurled. >Occupation: High School, Junior. >Cliques: Jocks (Football QB, Reserve) >Short Bio: Enrolled as part of a military scholarship, Fidel’s powers seems to have been the “missing link” to skip over the billions of dollars’ worth of R&D between them and equipping soldiers with personal equipment capable of *hitting* and leveling buildings, tanks, and even the super human. Whatever his power is, the military’s newest projectiles, and the weapons that shoot em, just absolutely looooove him and his magic balls. His communist Cuban parents, not so much. >Motivations: Win the global super hero football championships for his team. Then go into the military or something. >Secret or Hidden Info: Fidel isn’t really a . He’s got anger issues. He REALLY fucking loves winning, and isn’t above working with people he would never so much as look at otherwise if it means sealing the deal. So, some losers and/or super villains definitely have an IOU or two with his name on it. When things don’t go his way, he’s capable of violent and depraved acts that would surprise just about anyone watching. At least one drop out/missing person is attributed to him in his freshmen year, if not officially.

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>Name: McGall, Mike >Aliases: Wildride >Birthplace/Origin: Manhattan >Age: 16 >Powers: Can turn into a large minotaur with super strength and durability. Cannot be stopped when he starts moving, and can focus and dash, turning himself into an unstoppable giant projectile. Dashing really tires him >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Jocks, Sport groups >Short Bio: Mike spent an entire year in his minotaur form before learning how to turn back into a human. Now, he feels that he had enough and likes to remain in that form only as much as he needs. He wants to put his power to use and aims to become a hero >Motivations: To become a superhero and maybe get over the unease that being trapped in his minotaur form for a year caused him >Secret or Hidden Info: When in minotaur form he can go berserk with ease, and the more frequent his transformations are, the more likely he is to have anger issues in his human form too

>Name: Mueller, Nora >Aliases: Legion >Birthplace/Origin: Essen, Germany >Age: 14 >Powers: Superpower boosting presence (ie in others), superpower mimicry >Occupation: Exchange Student (Freshman) >Cliques: Several sports teams, exchange student >Short Bio: Born as a second generation super into a military family her parents had her training from an early age to follow their footsteps and join the special forces one day. Her ever increasing power and range and lack of control over it turned her into a walking hazard at times. Her parents sought out principal Rothgow for help who took her in, assuring them the school was well equipped for such cases. Her usually cheerful demeanor took a hit due to change in environment and heaving to speak a foreign language. She is thankful for her parents quitting their jobs and moving with her. They've joined a local superhero agency since they value teamwork highly. >Motivations: Competing, learning her powers, making friends, gaining personal independence and establishing own goals >Secret or Hidden Info: Even though she shares her parents sense of justice she does not want to join the military. Recently the idea of becoming a sports teacher after being a hero first has crept up on her. She has not told her parents yet.

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>Name: Okabe, Yusuke (岡部祐介, if you really want to know) >Aliases: Aqua-Rad >Birthplace/Origin: Kyushu, Japan >Age: 16 >Powers: Supernatural swimming, Super strength >Occupation: Student, Sophomore >Cliques: Jocks >Short Bio: Yusuke is the shonen protagonist of his school. He started out unpopular, and he has become rather popular, he's been involved in most of the important happenings in his school, and he doesn't lose very often. He believes in the power of cooperation and determination, and all that. He was normal until his abilities manifested in middle school, and he is the first in his family to gain powers. >Motivations: To win, and become the greatest hero of all time! >Secret or Hidden Info: He's a shonen protagonist. His life is an open book. I think he should be gratingly nice, to the point that he might get on players' nerves or put them on guard. He's a western comic book fan, though not autistically.

>Name: Osas, Brudda >Aliases: Fat Ass Poltergeist >Birthplace/Origin: Uganda, Africa >Age: 21 >Powers: Ghost Body, minor plant manipulation >Occupation: Former student >Cliques: Jocks >Short Bio: Died in the boy’s locker room while trying to perform a backflip, he landed on his head, broke his neck. He now haunts the boys locker room, he's able to leave as long as he follows whoever got out of the locker room, as soon as the person followed is out of his sight he warps back to the locker room. Brudda is close friends with the jocks, he likes being loud and pulling pranks on teachers and students. He is able to hold light objects, he is also able to get high from weed, he grows his own from one of the lockers. Before his death his power was plant manipulation, he still can use his power but it's way weaker than before. >Motivations: Being loud and having fun >Secret or Hidden Info: None

>Name: Reynolds, Jack >Aliases: Jackhammer >Birthplace/Origin: Midwest US >Age: 17 >Powers: Control and amplify the vibrations of the body, allowing him to strike a surface with the speed and force of a jackhammer, or even slip through solids like a sound wave. >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Jocks

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>Short Bio: A simple country boy, who turned out to be real good at breaking things. He has some ADHD ticks, such as tapping his foot, drumming fingers on desks, and the like. It frequently leaves dents in the floor and on tables. >Motivations: Keep the streets safe, and support his large family back home. >Secret or Hidden Info: Once accidentally slipped through the floor of his apartment while beating meat, and blew on his sleeping neighbor. Never got caught, but still feels bad about it.

>Name: Skyline, Marela >Aliases: >Birthplace/Origin: The Realm of the Gods, then Chicago >Age: 18 >Powers: Demigod of Storms >Occupation: Student, senior >Cliques: Jocks, Legacy >Short Bio: Mom was a storm goddess; Dad was an average stiff in the Windy City. Three years after a one-night stand, Mom dropped the kid at Dad's place along with a big-ass sword and a letter saying that she didn't have time to raise a kid. The ichor flowing in Marela's veins made her tough to raise, even after her dad moved them in with her aunt and cousins. Being raised among normal humans helped her see that her less-powered peers weren't so different from her. You can only bench press your dad's car or play "will jumping off this hurt?" so many times before realizing that everyone else is less invulnerable than you, and that you really don't like the idea of them being hurt. Of course, some things are just in the blood, and the girl has a huge competitive streak. She loves throwing down with people tough enough to take it and is excited to meet people who can do things she can't. Her lack of experience and brash attitude are all that are holding her back from being a great hero someday. She calls her mortal family on the phone every day. Marlena: Has superhuman strength, agility, toughness and combat skills. She is immune to falling damage. Gets stronger during storms. Can project lightning bolts and manipulate the wind. Boosts her abilities by tapping into the divine ichor in her blood. Absorbs electricity to regenerate. >Motivations: Give her mom a piece of her mind, do what storm gods do best and kill an evil dragon >Secret or Hidden Info: She's still pissed at her mom for abandoning her family, and refuses to use the sword she left her, even though it would help her a lot. In addition to being a divine heirloom, she could use it to make storms happen whenever she wants, and even fly and call down the lightning of the gods. She will not use it until she's made peace with her feelings about her mom.

>Name: Spencer, Lance >Aliases: Spinal Tap >Birthplace/Origin: Knoxville, Tennessee. >Powers: Power Nullification (Superhuman Durability, Contact). Super Strength and Durability. >Occupation: High School Student, Senior. >Cliques: Jocks. >Short Bio: Born to a long line of national level athletes/All-American wrestlers, Laurence Spencer grew up surrounded by a culture of day in day out hard work and competition. When it became obvious that he had

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>Name: Spires, Jeff >Aliases: Shaman, Witch Doctor, The Light (at the end of the tunnel), Stuntman- bike friends >Birthplace/Origin: Columbus, Ohio >Age: 17 (16, see below) >Powers: Healing touch, healing factor >Occupation: Student, works at Red >Cliques: Sports (sideline, hates it), dirt bikes >Short Bio: Born east of Columbus, Jeff was a clumsy child who miraculously seemed unharmed when people would find him after doing stupid stunts or activities or dares. The truth is that he rapidly recovers from most injuries, mild ones almost instantaneously and even fractured bones mend in seconds. As he grew older he discovered how to apply that to other people, and now he serves on the sidelines of school events as a supplement to the school nurse. >Motivations: He is a thrill-seeker who is apparent invulnerability has left him chasing anything that gets his heart pumping, like climbing radio towers. His invulnerability and incredible stamina (due to recovery) has made him consider joining the military or fire department just to have something dangerous to do that suits his abilities. >Secret or Hidden Info: His powers have grown to the point he can actually raise the dead, but it ages him. He has deep existential dread over the morality of bringing his grandma back to life after she passed from a stroke, and he doesn't know what it means for him if other people know about it. He also fears he is too selfish for such a burden and struggles with understanding whether death should be part of life.

>Name: Verner, Tiffany >Aliases: Powershift >Birthplace/Origin: Rochester, New York >Age: 17 >Powers: Power Manipulation and Physical Enhancement >Occupation: Student, fast food restaurant worker >Cliques: Sports, Loner >Short Bio: A bit paranoid about people knowing about her powers and befriending her to get the immunity she grants, this, combined with her natural predisposition to be a loner made her rarely interact with others. Spends her free time exercising and has joined the track and field club. Can boost or weaken powers. She can also grant immunity to power negation, mimicking, stealing, etc, at one person at a time. Her physical condition is enhanced after granting this immunity, and the scale of the enhancement is greater when the target is more powerful but to grant the immunity, she must have a strong personal connection with her target >Motivations: To become a hero and make true, long lasting friendships

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>Secret or Hidden Info: Never thought of herself as a lesbian, but has become infatuated with Bloodrush and Angeline, who she met and became acquaintances with through the track and field club and Meta Power Study class respectively.

>Name: Young, William >Aliases: Pony Express, "Billy" >Birthplace/Origin: Rural Utah, US >Age: 16 >Powers: Momentum Manipulation >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Athletes, shop class >Short Bio: Billy Young comes from a long line of ranchers, a middle-child amongst 7. His powers manifested on his first cattle drive, when he thoughtlessly rushed a charging steer to save his father and brothers from a freak stampede. Billy initially struggled being surrounded by the progeny of New York A-listers and international prodigies, often coming off as a quaint country bumpkin. Despite his "backwards" ideas, Billy is no quitter, and his perseverance in the face of challenge wins the hearts of those he works with. Has the ability to inflate and maintain his physical momentum, up to a measured potential of 1000 horsepower, and still maintain his physique under the strain of the force. Prolonged use causes physical fatigue, and his resting motor clocks in at 100 horsepower. He's quick as a whip when unencumbered but can also haul large loads cross country at highway cruising speeds. >Motivations: Wants to turn pro as a hero the right way; saving people, not abiding evil, and doing the right thing, even when it's hard. Recent economic downturn, coupled with the financial stress of his enrollment has placed his family's ranch in jeopardy, and Billy feels it's his burden to shoulder. >Secret or Hidden Info: He's a devout Mormon looking for his tradwife super sweetie to settle down with.

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>Name: [None on file], Sam >Aliases: Gremlin >Birthplace/Origin: Seattle Containment Zone, Washington >Age: 15 >Powers: Subconscious Destruction Aura, and Bad Luck Field. Super Intelligence >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Losers, Robotics Club (terrifies them, considered biggest enemy on campus). >Short Bio: Sam breaks things - molds, electronics, feelings, spines. She grew up in the aftermath of one of the worst Kaiju attacks in recorded history, requiring the isolation of a fourth of a state. She's also one of the unluckiest students in the school, even before factoring in her abilities. Lives on campus because nobody can afford the teleporters breaking. Knows a lot about wound treatment and medicine after having to treat herself and her unpowered sibling. They're estranged. >Motivations: Learn how to not ruin everything in a thirty foot radius just by existing, find a hobby, maybe even a boyfriend >Secret or Hidden Info: Once tried to join an entry-level cooking competition for the cooking club. Goal - make a burger. Result - two bottom buns, no cheese, cinnamon used as seasoning, the meat was impaled with glass shards, and somehow the whole thing was contaminated with neurotoxin.. Less funny secret - self harm is only mostly her power. Desperately needs somebody that won't leave her, like her sister.

>Name: Alto, Evan >Alias: Echo >Birthplace/Origin: New Mexico/Secret Villain Laboratory >Powers: Super-hearing, Sound manipulation >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Loner, Music/band geeks, >Short bio: Was kidnapped during a very young age and got experimented upon by a type villain, which gave him his powers. Escaped when said lab got raided by superheroes. Got picked up and taken care of by one of the school's female staff and ended up enrolling when he was old enough. >Motivations: Trying to find biological parents, finding a friend with similar interests in music >Secret or hidden info: The mad scientist was his biological father, and his biological mother was a former opera singer who died giving birth to Evan, and whose death drove his father mad.

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>Name: Benedetto, Zacharias >Aliases: Adonis >Birthplace/Origin: Dayton, Ohio >Powers: Superhuman Intelligence, High level changeling or “morphing” powers. Low level superhuman magnetism or “charisma”. >Occupation: High School Student, First Year >Cliques: Stoners. Everybody hates him when he’s gone but loves him when he’s there. >Short Bio: The middle of many shape shifting children from the Benedetto family, young Zacharias stood out from his siblings for immense breadth, depth, and creativity of his transformative capabilities. Giant creatures of children’s nightmares, to abstract artistic designs, other people he has seen, and even energy based forms. >Motivations: Have Fun. Or die trying. >Secret or Hidden Info: Zach’s a little too gung-ho for his own (or others) good, and the faculty has barred him from many courses, while put him under strict supervision for his antics. Zach doesn’t seem to mind, since he can usually lose the fuzz should the need arise. Usually. Sometimes dodging his pursuers is half the fun anyway! Sometimes.

>Name: Blake, Darlene >Aliases: Backstab >Birthplace/Origin: Bergen, Norway >Age: 16 >Powers: Teleportation, Enhanced Reflexes, Psychic Resistance >Occupation: Student, rehabilitation subject >Cliques: None >Short Bio: Found along with six other children, all only 6 years old at the time, in the hands of a who was planning to wait until they developed superpowers to harvest their abilities all for himself. The villain was defeated by a superhero team, and the kids were sent to different superschools for rehabilitation and supervision. Darlene has recently taken a habit of referring to those she sees as evil as sinners, even though her beliefs in religion are superficial at best. Can teleport to any place that is unobserved by others but she is aware of, either because she has seen it before or she is currently seeing it. Extremely enhanced coordination and reflexes. Immunity to psychic intrusions. >Motivations: Clearing the world of evildoers >Secret or Hidden Info: Darlene has been too far gone even before they found her. She is just biding her time until she finds a chance to get rid of all the "sinners" around her and run away.

>Name: Borrs, Sienna >Aliases: Relentless/Tubthumper(unofficial) >Birthplace/Origin: Minnesota, US >Powers: Undead Body >Occupation: Student >Cliques: lonely, sometimes gets involved with theater and comedy clubs but it never lasts >Short Bio: The daughter of a witch and an undead slasher villain, dropped into the foster system once they were unavailable. Perpetually looks like she was dragged out of a pond. Number two suspect in case any murders happened on school grounds.

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Physical reconstitution (not regeneration); legally and metaphysically dead; palpable aura of malice, weaponized to hurt those normally untouchable; killer sense of dramatic timing >Motivations: Find some friends >Secret or Hidden Info: Actual cinnamon roll (overly nice and sweet person), but ゴゴMenacing Auraゴゴ and offputting habits (eats raw meat, cleans fingernails with oversized knife) prevents easy friendships. Too shy to seek out other people, afraid of failure. Terrified of scary movies, ghosts, and the supernatural in general.

>Name: Brauer, Jacob >Aliases: "Crazy Jake" >Birthplace: Astoria, Oregon >Age: 17 >Powers: Long lasting (multi hour) static illusions. >Occupation: Student, Junior, part time park ranger/guide >Cliques: Burnouts and stoners/ everybody >Short Bio: Put simply, Jake is the friendly neighborhood drug dealer. He doesn't deal in anything too hard, but from the nerds in the basement to the preppy kids in the ivory towers, everybody on campus knows him to some degree. Some like him, some don't, but nobody doesn't know Crazy Jake. He usually uses his powers to make murals across campus or to hide anything that the authorities might be opposed to seeing. Likes nature. >Motivations: He likes making art and experimenting in general. Cooking, hallucinogens, the woods, graffiti, and being chased by at least 1 authority figure would all play a role in a fun day for him. >Secret or Hidden Info: Very little. He was almost held back last year for disciplinary infractions, but it's pretty common knowledge at this point. He is unflinchingly honest with anyone who he thinks he can trust, so basically anyone his age.

>Name: Butler, Kayla >Aliases: Voodoo Idol >Birthplace/Origin: Snailsville, Georgia >Powers: Protection Aura. Low level Weakening Aura. Damage sharing (herself + those protected by her defensive aura as well as those not protected but within a certain distance). High level superhuman Durability. Low Level Healing (only wounds that have been shared with someone else). >Occupation: High School Student, First Year >Cliques: Stoners. Occult. >Short Bio: Kayla suffers from a mutation in her nerve endings, causing her to have a lower pain threshold hold and a heightened sensitivity, as well as a low seemingly constant sourceless pain. She’s not exactly quiet about it all either. >Motivations: Curse people who call her “Tyrannosaurus Hex”, or worse “Hot Topic T-Rex”. Lose some weight. Stop hurting so much. >Secret or Hidden Info: She’s always had the ability to reduce harm or share this uncomfortable feeling empathetically, but these power have become much more sinister and dramatic since her discovery of a few black magic books hidden away in one of her grandmothers properties she had been hired to clean out over the summer. Her grandmas always scared her a little.

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>Name: Capo, Giovanna >Aliases: Creep (The other one) >Birthplace/Origin: Florence, Italy >Age: 17 >Powers: Conjuration, can summon and give orders to two imps. he imps summoned are 2 feet tall have working wings and can throw small fireballs >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Loners >Short Bio: Heir to a long line of pizzaiolos, is meant to take over the pizzeria once his father retires. Very edgy character, overestimates himself even though he is one of the weakest students of the school at the moment. Has a lot of potential could become a powerful summoner if he decided to put in some Writes rap songs and performs them on his youtube channel, BlackFire666. Currently in a relationship with Zoe Christmas >Secret or Hidden Info: Has been diagnosed has schizophrenic with pyromaniac tendencies. >Almost got expelled after getting caught masturbating in an empty classroom by Miss Carter.

>Name: Christmas, Zoe >Aliases: Dark Whale >Birthplace/Origin: Coppell, Texas >Age: 17 >Powers: Water Manipulation >Occupation: Student, Prostitute >Cliques: Loners, Goths >Short Bio: Born from a single mother and suffering from abandonment issues Zoe is a general annoyance to the school. She regularly throws tantrums, insults teachers and tries to sell her body to the students (which is mostly unsuccessful). Her uncle is a friend of principal Rothgow as well as a major investor to the school. In a relationship with Giovanna Capo. >Secret or Hidden Info: Has been selling herself to old men on Craigslist, not really a secret as in she never misses an opportunity to brag about it. Likes to pretend she is poor, actually is one of the most wealthy students of the school.

>Name: Goldman, Cody >Alias: Champ >Birthplace/Origin: St. Luis, Missouri >Occupation: Student >Clique: Loser, barely any friends >Powers: None. Guile and gumption >Short Bio: Cody trained in everything he could. Martial arts with a focus on leverage and throwing. Firearms and explosives. Non-violent conflict resolution and neurolinguistic suggestion. Car and motorcycle driving. Observation and fast tactical adaption. Peak conditioning. He has a savant like skill in learning these. He took down some thugs and eventually a mob operation. Then a local cable network did a report on him that went viral. The donations came in. Powerful

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>Name: Harris, Amy >Aliases: Noir >Birthplace/Origin: Oregon, US >Age: 18 >Powers: Can manipulate an object's place on it's timeline (make it younger/older, freeze it's position in space, etc.). Immune to time manipulation. >Occupation: Student, would NEET it up if she could. >Cliques: Loner, occasionally shows up to art club. >Short Bio: A former promising student who woke up one day with a terminal lack of fucks to give. She used to be a big shot student with a prickly streak a mile wide and a dream of being a detective hero, but time has a habit of emptying people out. Now she's just here because she has to be. Doesn't even party, too legitimately depressed for the goths. Laughs at every joke, never means it. >Motivations: None >Secret or Hidden Info: Might become a hero through the fast route if nothing changes. Some of her former friends might be worried. Has a stack of detective literature she still loves, would be pissed if something happened to it (would help with the "depression" thing, although anger might not be the best replacement).

>Name: Hernandez, Samantha >Aliases: Jewel >Birthplace/Origin: Tampa, Florida >Powers: Nullify Other Powers. Redirect other powers. Superhuman durability. >Occupation: High School Student, Graduating Class >Cliques: Stoners. Burnouts. >Short Bio: Unofficially voted most likely to be a supervillain. Jewels a bit of a petty bitch and has been known to fly off the handle in violent and extreme ways for little to no reason. Destructive and unpredictable. In class she is as quiet as a church mouse. Everywhere else, she can’t shut up. >Motivations: As far as anyone knows, all Jewel wants to do is hard drugs and acts of violence. Preferably before/during/after lots of equally drug infused violent sex. >Secret or Hidden Info: Jewel has a raging god complex, taking the powers of other supers and then beating them to death like a stray animal makes her feel alive like nothing else. 76

>Name: Johnson, Noelle >Aliases: POTION SELLER (nickname among students)/Alkahest (official) >Birthplace/Origin: Northern California >Powers: Creation of Supertech Drugs (medical and not); enhanced intellect >Occupation: Student, recurrent troublemaker >Cliques: The loners, shady students, Chemathon, any other science competitions she can join >Short Bio: One of the problem students of Super High, not because of villainous tendencies but due to her lack of respect for school policy. A near narcissist or a self- improvement mindset, depending on who's talking - she recognizes that she's not that great yet, but works tirelessly to beat the other super scientist around. >Motivations: Become the greatest super scientist ever, figure out how to evade drug scanners reliably, make stacks of cash selling her creations to students on the down low. >Secret or Hidden Info: Beyond replication of mundane drugs and the creation of miracle 'healing injections', adrenaline shots with no side effects, and other temporary but impressive materials, she's capable of creating permanent changes, though it's much harder. Finding test subjects for her more advanced concoctions (like replicated super soldier serums, mutagen compounds, biotech implants, and worse) is harder, though, so she's kept that side of her work hidden. Mostly.

>Name: King, John >Alias: Songbird >Birthplace/Origin: A lab. >Age: 75 >Powers: Telekinetic Powers, Robot Body >Occupation: Student >Cliques: None. Too dedicated to his studies to socialize. >Short Bio: A replacement robot given to an US Superhero named Freedom Banner whose family was killed by Axis Assassin Red Water. Decades later, the superhero still thinks it's the forties and John still pretends to be his son. But now he's rather grown tired of the role and has adopted the superhero tradition of living a double life. At home, he's John King, dutiful son. But at school, he's Songbird, robotic superhero. >Motivations: To make sure no one ever hurts as much as his father.

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>Name: Kirkwall, Bradley >Aliases: Basilisk >Birthplace/Origin: Washington D.C., USA >Powers: Sight-based paralysis. Never used it to its full potential, due to increasingly lethal effects. >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Sports, Loner. Is a bully. >Short Bio: Quiet and stone faced. General aura of apathy. Deeply invested in history classes and sports. Pretty much an enigma, when he isn't beating up some random kid. >Motivations: Learn(?) >Secret or Hidden Info: Firm believer in Might Makes Right and that the weak should just accept their place. Beats up students that get 'uppity', otherwise doesn't care about the school's social life.

>Name: Kobayashi, Kohaku >Aliases: Starmariner, Altair >Birthplace/Origin: Tomonoura, Japan >Age: 15 >Powers: Sailor Scout Starmariner >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Delinquents, Smokers >Short Bio: The constellation spirits, particularly the celestial entity of Aquila, has chosen a champion on Earth! She, with the power of the stars, will punish evil and protect the innocent! She is almost assuredly destined to be a Starmariner! The biggest problem? The chosen one is a rude and brash delinquent with a tendency to beat up whoever or whatever just pissed her off (usually by interrupting her cigarette break). She's not particularly pleased about having to wear such girly duds, and she still wonders nowadays why Aquila chose her and not literally anyone else but her. As a Starmariner, Kohaku can transform into a magical girl and gain access to 'Star Magic', constellation-based magic powered by the stars themselves. As Aquila's chosen Starmariner, she has the personal power to sprout eagle wings for flight. >Motivations: "Good grief, gimme a break for once." >Secret or Hidden Info: Long before Kohaku became Starmariner Altair, she was a secret fan of magical girl shows. Her enjoyment of them has been tainted by her predicament, but her love for them is still there. She'd beat the shit out of anyone who learned of this however.

>Name: Marshal, Estella >Aliases: Neutralize, Stel >Birthplace/Origin: Sioux Falls, South Dakota >Age: 16 >Powers: Energy Nullification, Limited Cryokinesis >Occupation: Student, Junior >Cliques: Outcasts, Self-Defense Club >Short Bio: Estella (or 'Stel' to her very few friends) gained her powers after recovering from a severe but seemingly causeless illness when she was 14. Despite having spent two years attending Super High, Estella 78 really doesn't have many friends, due to spending all of her freshman year and most of her sophomore year as a shut-in, only leaving to attend classes. But her Junior year will be different! She hopes. Can completely nullify any type of energy within a foot of herself. Besides the obvious power nullifying applications, Estella has also figured out how to use this ability to pull off a bastardized form of cryokinesis, via nullifying the heat in the air and turning water vapor into ice. >Motivations: Graduate, improve herself (especially her sociability), learn magic so that she doesn't have to rely on her nullification as much. >Secret or Hidden Info: Estella's power is the result of a spiritual parasite that's bonded itself onto her soul that consumes any energy she nullifies. However, the parasite likes to supplement its diet via consuming her emotional energy and feeding exclusively off of it if it does not receive a meal of energy at least once a day. This means in the short term, the more Estella uses her power the more listless she becomes, and in the long term, it's given Estella genuine depression, causing her shut-in behavior. While she's now getting help, and forcing herself to socialize (even joining a club), she's still leery of using her powers outside of the bare minimum, and trying to learn magic so that she doesn't have to rely on the parasite for power.

>Name: Moller. Elly >Aliases: Walker, “Doe” >Birthplace/Origin: ????, Appalachia. >Powers: Immortality. Regeneration. >Occupation: Student, First Year. >Cliques: Stoners /out/. Marksmanship. >Short Bio: A daughter of poverty, Elly never thought anything of regularly starving to death just to wake up and walk alone through the endless hills of Appalachia; Till her new family found her. Taught her everything right. How to read, how to shoot, how to scrap. She even found a name for herself! Got taken into protective custody about a year prior, and has been living on the campus for most of that time, half adopted by the school. A bit touched, but not as much as you would expect given her situation. >Motivations: Get a hot super husband to drag out to the mountains with her. Have 40 kids. Is thinking of trying out a sport for fun and friends, maybe volleyball. likes old action flicks and cartoons. Hurting people who call her Ginger Lurch. >Secret or Hidden Info: Ellys never had a family. Her earliest memories are of starving and dying over and over again. her first memory of people is getting tortured for about a year by a fleeing criminal she stumbled into. After that she would never get to close to people for too long again, even if her curiosity and human nature had her gravitate towards communities for days or even weeks at a time, she would always run back to the mountains eventually. Got run over by a car, leading to the discovery of her powers and the academy to take her into custody. Over the summer she’s spent there, she’s been convinced to give life at the school a fair shot. She named herself, over time, as need be and inspiration struck: A bra with a name written on it (Elly), the last name of unknown people, as seen on tv (Doe), the dog tags of a dead old man Elly found sitting up in a chair by a tree. took his gun and set herself free. Still has all of the above items (Moller). Having spent all summer in the academy, she knows it’s grounds better than any of the other Freshman. Unlisted power: mental resiliency, she doesn’t break easy, even for a super.

>Name: Parker, Emily >Aliases: Hotswap >Birthplace/Origin: Montana, USA >Powers: Body Swapping 79

>Occupation: Student >Cliques: Horrible Body Issues Group, Losers >Short Bio: School was attacked by a crazed villain, killing dozens and resulting in the execution of the villain right in front of Emily by an enraged hero. Not well-adjusted, mountains of survivors guilt. Awakened powers soon after, swore to become a hero. Quiet, resentful, incredibly determined, fragile as fuck. Always apologizing. Perpetual aura of negativity. Emily can body swap with any individual in sight, It runs out after a time period, after which everybody in the chain is restored to their original bodies. Always keeps own powers, otherwise powers remain with the body. Counts as telepath for purposes of psy resistances, defenses, and detection. >Motivations: Become a hero, bring down the hammer of justice as "revenge" upon all villainy. >Secret or Hidden Info: The villain wasn't acting of his own free will and was in fact one of the students in the school. He's also inside Emily's body. Impossible levels of guilt, has been pretending to be a couple's dead daughter for a decade now, completely lost whatever previous identity he (or she, can't even remember) had. Still has old powers, forgotten what they were, but has promised to never use them again. Power 'time out' is the last moment "Emily" can hit the button to turn everything back at once, is otherwise permanent and needs conscious fixing by "Emily".

>Name: Price, Thomas >Aliases: "Tozzie P" >Birthplace/Origin: Smethwick, Birmingham >Powers: Super Speed (Greater Dexterity, Able to "Blink") >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Loner >Short Bio: Extremely quiet kid. Can do sick tricks with his skateboard. Uses his incredible speed and dexterity to steal spoons and things from the cafeteria and hides them in other students bags. Carries questionable things such as screwdrivers, zip-ties, lighters and old mobile phones. Claims to know how to pick locks and make pipe bombs. >Motivations: True motivations are entirely unknown. Seems to just cause occasional chaotic neutral mischief. Probably would be #1 suspect of a school murder. >Secret or Hidden Info: Definitely not capable of murder. He knows how to get you some drugs, if you speak his language.

>Name: Richards, Joyce >Aliases: Minutiae >Birthplace/Origin: Richmond, Virginia >Powers: Illusions. Creation of Palm to human Sized Objects (Transmutation: Paper to Anything). >Occupation: Student, Junior. Campus Café Worker. >Cliques: Stoners, Art. >Short Bio: A sucker for jerks and assholes, Joyce has found so many at this school, she could choke! Doesn’t really like art that much. Is pretty good at it though. Works part time in the campus cafe. >Motivations: Hot guys. The badder the better. Get people to stop talking behind her back and spreading her nudes. >Secret or Hidden Info: Getting over a cutting habit she had in middle school, covers the marks with Magic. Orphan.

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>Name: Sakata, Kalani >Alias: Sword Saint >Birthplace: Hawaii, US >Age: 16 >Powers: Wields the thought-form blade yokaigiri which can cut anything and move faster than light. >Occupation: Student >Cliques: None. Is antisocial. >Short Bio: The latest in a long line of Sword Saints to wield a telepathic blade that was forged in the mind of a dying Shugendo monk as he underwent self-mummification. Kalani is naturally shy and nervous, and she's worried that she's letting her legacy down by not socializing. >Motivation: To get a friend so she won't be such a loser. >Secrets: Struggles with depression and aggravates her depression by refusing to admit she has it. She doesn't want to be the first Sword Saint on medication.

>Name: Steinacker, Lindsay Lee >Aliases: High Note >Birthplace/Origin: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. >Powers: Amplify Sound Waves. >Occupation: Student, Freshmen >Cliques: Music. AP. Loner. >Short Bio: Growing up, Lindsey wanted nothing other than to be a hero, and much to the chagrin of her neighbors, she was born with the talent for it. So, years later when her parents brought her the acceptance letter to such a well-known school for supers, she should have been ecstatic. Should have been. Unfortunately, Lindsay had long since given up on her dreams of being a hero, even before she had given up on other things, like being tall, or owning pony. Now, here she is, stuck in this shitty school full of shitty kids who happen to be full of shitty superpowers. All because she doesn’t want to waste all the effort her hard working (and only kind of shitty) parents must have gone through to get her this. Lives in jeans and band tour date sweaters/sweatshirts. >Motivations: Finish class. Return to Dorm. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. Music Throughout. >Secret or Hidden Info: Lindsey had her confidence (and body) crushed around age 9, after she became the target of a bully and fellow mutant. It all started when Lindsey saw the bully targeting a non-super kid, and stepped in to stop it, letting them know they were dealing with a hero. It did not end well for Lindsay. It didn’t end at all, and eventually, after that, other kids joined in on it too, saying how lame and stupid she was, and that she was never going to be a super anything, let alone a hero. She changed schools shortly after, but the events that had transpired and her emo phase killed all but the tiniest forgotten shred of the dreams she once had of being a hero. Plays a lot of video games. Open mic. Super competitive.

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>Name: Unger, Richard >Aliases: Bad Day >Birthplace/Origin: Aachen, Germany >Powers: Rotten Luck: generates misfortune field around self while unhappy >Occupation: Delinquent >Cliques: Delinquents, Counselors >Short Bio: When it rains it pours, Richard usually makes it to school in the morning without anything going wrong, but once something unfortunate does happen the next one is right around the corner. Tries to stay positive, really does. Takes mild antidepressants. Smoker >Motivations: Just wants to get through the day with no hiccups, just once. Maybe a girlfriend >Secret or Hidden Info: Can target Rotten Luck's effect on other people but is terrified of becoming a villain. Desperate for GF with good luck powers.

>Name: Williams, Catherine >Aliases: Scylla >Birthplace/Origin: Carson City, Nevada >Age: 17 >Powers: Snake summoning and Control >Occupation: Student >Cliques: Weirdos >Short Bio: Vindictive, Manipulative and scheming, she seems to have developed a form of predatory mentality applied to social situations. Instead of trying to eat people, she targets them and just tries to see how far she can push them from the shadows until they break. She does have a more caring side, but it's incredibly hard to reach, to the point where it is not really worth it, since it is buried under so much trash. Catherine can create and control snake familiars. She can see through them, and has enhanced multitasking capabilities to manage each one of them perfectly, only having problems with more precise control when the number of snakes reach a couple hundred. She can also commit to only summoning a kaiju sized snake, but her control over it is mediocre at best. >Motivations: Causing despair to other students >Secret or Hidden Info: Has a soft spot for Daniel Miller of all people. Not only does she not target him, but most of the time she finds herself actually caring about the poor guy. However, she avoids interacting with him, just watching him from afar whenever she gets the chance.

>Name: Williams, Gordon >Aliases: Lodestone >Birthplace/Origin: Lansing, MI >Age: 17 >Powers: Gravity Manipulation. Minor Superhuman Durability and Strength. >Occupation: Student (reluctantly) >Cliques: Loner, but malleable and can be found as an acquaintance to many groups. >Short Bio: Gordon is a rather lazy individual, and while he has no superhuman intelligence, he is quite 82 intelligent at a more 'human' level. This has led him to finding most classwork in general to be either be exceedingly boring, or above his weight class. Due to this, he tends to take the lowest level of classes, so he won’t need to exert much effort. This actually had led into how he carries himself in school as well, tending to not use the full limits of his ability whenever benchmarks or measurements are shown, solely so he doesn't have to have the 'responsibility' of having to keep pushing himself to keep meeting the higher standards that would be set for him. He actually does have a lot of raw power, but given that he rarely pushes himself, it's something that very few know about. >Motivations: He wants to be done and out of school and on his own, and march to the beat of his own drum. He isn't exactly pushing for the hero life, but he wouldn't complain if he fell into it, but would prefer to play a supporting role rather than be in the limelight, even if has the power for it. >Secret or Hidden Info: Knows of the Fight Club but doesn't participate. Has a friend that knows just how strong he is that pushes him to participate but Gordon sees little reason to. He has also started to find he does enjoy watching the try-hards being forced into a kneeling position.

>Name: Yamaguchi, Daichi >Aliases: Huntsmen >Birthplace/Origin: San Diego, California >Powers: Super Speed. Can summon shrine guardian spirit dogs. Can lay magical traps. Ballistics expert. >Occupation: Student, Senior >Cliques: Stoner, Marksmanship, AP, Outdoors, Volunteer, Japan Club. >Short Bio: An expert in tracking in its varying forms. Yamaguchi is also a gifted intellect, pilot, and world class marksman. His great-great grandmother was world class super heroine, but died in Japan shortly before the war closed. He’s the first of his family to have super powers since, a returned blessing he takes very seriously. Otherwise a very light hearted guy, who doesn’t take much seriously. >Motivations: Loves all things guns, has a soft spot for old cowboy shooters, collecting and shooting them in his leisure time. >Secret or Hidden Info: Him and his shrine guardian spirit dogs are huge perverts. The dogs will go around molesting people if left unattended

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