THE ALCOTT ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE

LEGACY (WHO WERE THEIR PARENTS?)  OR DISCOVERED (WHAT MADE THEM SPECIAL?): that moment when you find out your father is BRUTUS SPARLING, once a loyal Brutal student, now a prominent member of the breach. Thank goodness, this information is not currently known. 

HOW MANY YEARS HAVE THEY BEEN AT AAE? He has been there currently for going on two years. 

SPECIALTY & LEVEL: Emotional Manipulation & Seduction / Level 3

WEAKNESS(ES): Not being in control of his life & actions, his mother Naomi Cooper

BIO (LONG OR SHORT AS YOU WANT): He was the golden child for one Brutus Sparling, the one to continue the family should his own life comes to an end. The Plan B; to ensure the survival of the Sparling line. When one has one night stands, most would leave and never come back but he had other plans. Enter Erikson Sparling, known mostly as Eric. Son to Naomi Cooper, he was a beautiful boy who grew up to be a fine man. A smooth talker in all ways, he uses his words and other assets to get what he wants in his life. Perhaps, it comes from his father’s blood, but he has always been good at seducing and manipulating. It’s not out of spite or a sense of evil, but when he wants something, he’ll make sure he has it.  However, something within him constantly beat, telling him to do more with his life. Enter Alcott Academy. His mother told him that his father was once a student, but that was all she knew. If he were to do anything, start there. Being a legacy meant more than he thought it did, but he was not there to ride on his father’s success. He was his own person, with or without him in his life. One did not expect him to be a part of the Brutals, for when one looks at him, it’s not what is expected. But, to underestimate him is to ensure your failure. 

ALLEGIANCE TO AAE (LOVE IT? HATE IT?  ARE THEY UNDERCOVER FOR SNOW? DO THEY WORK FOR BREACH?): At the moment, loyalty is to his mother, but his mother wants him to be safe and AAE is safety incarnate. He has no reason to not be loyal to the school —- right now, at least. But when you have two siblings who happen to be teachers and BREACH agents, one’s allegiance can begin to change.

BIO: Born into an affluent family, Inara quickly learnt how to get her own way using specific speech patterns alone. She has a voice as smooth as honey, and responds well to pressure, barely flinching until she has to; to reach for her sword, most likely. This interest stemmed from what was simply a pastime of the social elite in her area, beginning with fencing and then taking to practising in private, studying different types of swords and branching into a wide range of melee-type weapons. Sharp, stabbing weapons are her favourites, but she also is particularly proficient with flails.

She knew that her parents and family members would disapprove of a lady taking up such a violent and deceptive profession, but one way or another, she got around them.. Either through sweet words, or physical threats. Inara doesn’t speak of her family, probably for good reason.

SPY EXPERIENCE: The woman was briefly employed as an undercover agent, but following an incident where various men ended up with awful fatal stomach wounds, she was brought back and kept out of sight as the whole event blew over. For a while her career seemed to be over as she was seen as a danger for her quick temper, but her skills could not be ignored and it was agreed that they could not be wasted. Thus, she was recruited to teach upcoming spies. For the first year she was monitored as she taught, then she was marked as safe and allowed to teach independently being watched. No more mishaps have occurred, yet.

LEGACY (WHO WERE THEIR PARENTS?)  OR DISCOVERED (WHAT MADE THEM SPECIAL?):

Mabel Pines is the granddaughter of Stanley Pines, a world renown researcher of the paranormal, needless to say highly intelligent, and great-niece of Stanford Pines, an ex-conman who now uses his skills of deceit and fraud for the government, although his history with them is in the darker gray area, leaving his true intentions unknown. Mabel’s father has been working in the CIA as a hacker and has a wide range of skills and knowledge involving computers. Her mother is a field agent/stay-at-home mom. She took less missions after Mabel and her twin brother were born.

HOW MANY YEARS HAVE THEY BEEN AT AAE?: First year.

SPECIALTY & LEVEL: Level one, diplomacy and deceit. She’s been acknowledged for her aim and tactics in combat. And she’s talented in craftsmanship and forgery. She’s quick to notice things as long as her emotions aren’t distracting her from the truth.

WEAKNESS(ES): Heights. Claymation, though more manageable than since she was a child. Her family. Most of all, her emotions. Once you earn her complete and utter trust, she’ll trust you over anybody despite the situation at hand, a lethal trait to have, especially since the breach. She’s too forgiving for her own and the school’s good. She runs more on instinct than logic. And then there’s the whole Bill Cipher incident from when she was twelve… fortunately for her, the night terrors have stopped.

Mostly.

BIO (LONG OR SHORT AS YOU WANT): 

For a family of spies, Mabel grew up in a pretty normal family. Sure, her dad knew how to break the firewall into files from North Korea, her mom’s ‘business trips’ often included her leaving for months on end and all communication from her could end up completely in French, and her brother was able to decode the entire Kryptos cipher when they were ten, but it was pretty solid. Mabel and her brother even met their great-uncle Stanford Pines, his legal name to her knowledge, and grandfather Stanley Pines, who had an entire bunker for the apocalypse with multiple monsters frozen inside.

The moment she and her brother were invited, they jumped on the chance to join a spy school. However, Mabel’s optimistic and cheery personality clashed the school almost instantaneously when she arrived. She knew of her own potential, she couldn’t have survived the Bill Cipher ordeal otherwise, but saw how her own assets worked against her.  Deceit and forgery prove to go against her morals of lying. Her natural instincts in battle are hindered by her hate for malice against others. Academics have never been her strong suit. Her instinctive nature must be overshadowed with a logical one. Her positive outlook on life gets ridiculed by her teachers and peers for being unrealistic in their eyes. 

Fortunately for her, her kind and helpful nature guilt others enough to not to be mocked for much else, if not silently judged. She is looked down upon, her peers believing the only reason she got in was because of her lineage, which she slowly begins to believe. Despite that, she’s willing to do combat to an extent and her loyalty keeps her from exposing too much during interrogation. She has an intelligence is above average to a point, her grandfather being a tutor during her childhood.

It doesn’t hurt that she’s determined to make her family proud either, even if it kills her.

ALLEGIANCE TO AAE (LOVE IT? HATE IT?  ARE THEY UNDERCOVER FOR SNOW? DO THEY WORK FOR BREACH?): She’s undecided. 

BIO: River grew up very wealthy and had the advantage of the finest education money could buy, just as well considering her status as a prodigy. Having graduated university at the youthful age of 13 with a BS in physics as well as several minors, including dance, mathematics, and Chinese, she had just entered into a graduate program when she was recruited by the AAE instead, where she passed with flying colors. After graduation she spent two years in the field before returning and taking up the position of teacher.

SPY EXPERIENCE: Despite her youth and the relatively short period of time that she spent as a full-fledged spy, River proved to have a mastery over every subject available to her while a student, and a variety of different field missions have proven her to be intelligent, resourceful, and practically unmatched in close-range combat situations. She has an instinctive grasp of body language, a remarkable ability to predict human behavior, and fine-tuned spacial awareness and control of her body, allowing her to learn and apply with ease dance moves, fighting techniques, and even different postural quirks. In team missions, she has often taken leadership roles due to her ability to assess and think on her feet. Solo, she specializes in assassinations, with several to her name. River has also played secret bodyguard multiple times, both for officials and for other team members, due to her combat skill and her inconspicuous appearance. She is inevitably the ace in the hole, as nobody expects from such a slight girl the fighting ability she has demonstrated.

Bio: His route to espionage wasn’t exactly straightforward; ‘discovered’ at the age of 20, a year after his expulsion from Cambridge nipped a career as a quantum physicist in the bud, Dirk has always been considered a wild card. It’s hard to see him as more than comic relief sometimes, but he is a living example that not all good spies come in well-tailored suits. Even now as a full-fledged professor at the Academy his unconventional teaching methods and flair for theatrics have many students and even some colleagues unsure about his skills – an image he certainly goes out of his way to cultivate. However, as a gifted con-man with a flair for thinking outside the box he is a valuable asset to the profession and academy.

Spy Experience: Undercover missions were his specialty and while his colorful backstories and rather conspicuous aliases raised many eyebrows among his colleagues, they realized sooner or later that sometimes it is easier to hide things when all eyes are on you. He quickly became somewhat of a legend among the spies for his unorthodox methods and despite his late start quickly rose up the ranks. Nowadays he is mostly brought in as a specialist, contracted for particularly tough cases that need a touch of ‘je ne sais quoi’.

BIO: Having lost her mother at young age, Henrietta was raised and homeschooled by her father, a brilliant yet incredibly eccentrict physicist and engineer. Soon having adapted her father’s attitude and ideals, she started to become just as eccentric and as socially incompatible as her father, her research as well as inventions having started to derive from socially acceptable norms and becoming more and more dangerous and questionable. Eventually, her father - a ‘consultant’ for Alcott Academy, decided to introduce her to the headmistress, who saw potential in the young woman; someone that was willing to stray from the moral compass and was willing to think outside the box without remorse. While her social skills around colleagues and students are rather low, her professional skills are out of question, and there isn’t a system she cannot hot-wire, no bomb she cannot defuse.

SPY EXPERIENCE: It was by assisting her father that she was introduced to the world of espionage and intelligence, but it wasn’t until her employment at the Acadmy that she got some basic training. Despite her petite built, she is rather skilled at hand-to-hand combat - mostly due to the fact that people tend to underestimate her - and is also able to handle firearms with a fair precision.

BIO: 

Ursa lived a mundane life, a herbalist for a mother and a politician as a father. Majoring in both theatrics and linguistics, Ursa figured she’d have a life that followed a certain pattern; grow up, go to school, graduate, get a job, get married…That was it and she was content with it.

Having a double major in both screenwriting and theatrics, Ursa had little to no experience as a spy. She worked as an actress in a performance troupe; growing adept to using makeup, creating roles and acting. Her skills as an actress was above par and she adapted quickly to her situations.

When an underground ring of drugs came up and seeing her father’s struggle in trying to find ways to absolve the problems, Ursa offered her expertise to create a role and go undercover to collect intel with hopes of potential arrests. Enlisted as a civilian confidential informant, Ursa went underground for several months.

Upon the completion of arresting the leader, Ursa’s skills to work as an undercover person and her expertise as an actress was often employed (though they never gave her the title “spy”, it was just easier for her to use that word than the long “civilian confidential informant); she wasn’t a trained agent but she can put up quite the act when needed to. Keeping a cool and composed head (as if she was improving on stage), she works to keep her head in the game.

SPY EXPERIENCE: Very little to none, she has no combat experience in the field other than what she has learned from staged combat. Ursa has, on multiple occasions, employed her skills as an actress in assisting to gather information on targets.

ALLEGIANCE TO AAE: Loyal to the core. it would take a great deal of bribing/threatening/so on to get her to break her loyalty to AAE. Her only skills as a spy entailed being an undercover agent; with her skills in creating identities, Ursa offered her skills and expertise to the Academy with hopes of helping upcoming spies to create "prefect” covers and how to keep them. As someone who is in the field of creating identities/disguises, her loyalty does come to question from time to time, but she does, without hesitation, prove her loyalty to AAE when in question.