#grimstonepark

“Hiding what is in pure sight gives me excitement like no other.”

» ABOUT

NAME: Cassandra Dawson  AGE: Twenty Seven POWER: Cloaking OCCUPATION: Prohibition Bartender TOWN: Grimstone Park

» HISTORY

Coming from the wrong side of the tracks makes everyone look down on you even before they really get to know you. It’s like if after one look at your clothes and the way you handle yourself they know that you’re not worth the time or effort. Cassandra Dawson has dealt with that all of her life. Her clothes were always a season or two behind if she was even that lucky. Her parents tried to give her and her older sister as much as they could but money was always tight so when it came time to get the girls' clothing it was usually hand-me-downs or stuff from the nearby thrift shop.  As a young girl, Cassie was often bullied for the way she dressed. She hated being poor all she wanted was to be like the other girls in her class that always seemed to have the newest fashions, shoes, and the cutest guys in their arms.

As Cassandra grew older the feeling of wanting to have more than what her parents could give her also grew. She became obsessed with the idea of getting what others had. The desire to possess what she couldn’t drove her to take what she believed she deserved. At the age of thirteen Cassie discovered that she was special, she possessed a superpower, one that could assist her in taking anything she wanted. She began shoplifting, at first it started with small things such as nail polish and lipstick, but once she was able to control her power it escalated to taking clothes and really just anything she could get her hands on. Some things she kept others she sold and that’s how she made money to keep up with the façade of a life that she leads. Of course, she had to be careful to not let her parents find out what she was up to. However, her parents found jewels in her room and they did the only thing that they could think of, they called the police. Cassie was nineteen when she was discovered and taken to Lake Grimstone

What she believes to be her parents’ betrayal is still fresh on her mind. While at first, she hated feeling trapped she came to realize that because no one there knew who she was before arriving in the town this allowed her to pretend to be what she had always wanted to be, one of the girls that get everything they wanted. Being in Lake Grimstone hasn’t changed Cassie at all, she still believes that she’s better than where she came from, still has a desire for things that aren’t hers, and refuses to work for them and instead just takes them not caring who she hurts in the process. She does resent that out of the two towns, the government put her in Grimstone Park, the town that in the outside world would be viewed as the wrong side of the town one. 

» CONNECTIONS

NATALIE ANDERSON - Cassandra dislikes everything about Nat, mostly because the girl is everything Cass has ever wanted and still wants to be. 

CHARLES PHILLIPS III - Why she told Charles about her life is still a mystery to Cassie but she did. She told him the whole ugly truth and for the first time, she was glad that she had because Charles doesn’t judge her.

LANDON MILLER - Landon is someone that like her, has a not so great past. She can see that he is hiding something, but because she doesn’t want her own past to be known she doesn’t push too much to know more about him. 

“The more you adapt, the more interesting you become.”

» ABOUT

NAME: Levi Williams AGE: Twenty Two POWER: Reactive Adaption OCCUPATION: Up to Player TOWN: Grimstone Park

» HISTORY

For fifteen years Levi believed that there was nothing remotely special about him. He was average, worse than average actually. He was so plain that not even the bullies picked on him, why would they? There wasn’t anything that they could get out of him, he wasn’t smart and he didn’t have money, he was just a speck in the world. That was how Levi saw himself, as an insignificant speck in the world and it didn’t matter how many times his mother told him otherwise. Levi hated everything about himself from the way he talked to the way he presented himself. He often tried to change his ways but no matter how hard he tried the changes never stuck. He was destined to live an unextraordinary life. Or at least, that was what he believed.

Levi had just turned sixteen when his life took a turn for the best, according to him. In an attempt to fit in with the cool kids, Levi did something that he otherwise would have never done, he jumped into the freezing cold lake. It was supposed to have been a stupid dare that would end with him being accepted, but the dare went horribly wrong when Levi’s lungs began to fill with ice cold water. Arms splashed around the water in an effort to keep himself afloat, but he was growing tired. His arms burned and his body began to feel heavier and heavier until he was no longer able to fight for his life. Everything around him went black and he was no longer able to hear his classmates. The next thing that the young boy knew he was in an ambulance being rushed to the hospital. According to the doctors and his mother, his heart stopped for a couple of minutes but he was lucky and came back to life. Lucky. For the first time in his life, he did feel lucky. Most of his classmates went over to see him, granted it was because a lot of them felt guilty but still they were there. Instant popularity wasn’t the only thing that he got out of his little stunt, though, no there was something bigger and better in store for him. Shortly after his incident, Levi discovered what really saved him that day at the lake, a superpower. Levi possessed Reactive Adaption and when he began drowning his power took over. At first, he was completely lost and confused as to what was going on with him but after the government reached out and explained his power, Levi saw it as a chance to start fresh especially after being told that he was going to be moving into a town with more people like him.

Levi has been at Lake Grimstone for about six years now. He is still trying to learn to control not only his power but also his urge to constantly use it, though, that control he craves isn’t as strong as the craving that he has to explore his ability further. What Levi doesn’t know and what few government agents do know is that every aspect of his life was planted in his mind by the government. Levi has lived in Lake Grimstone since birth, his parents both possessed powers and are Lake Grimstone residents. When Levi was born everyone, including the doctors, thought that he was stillborn, however, it had just been his power protecting him. When the government realized that he was in fact alive they did study after study on him, he was a “miracle baby” after all and they wanted to know just how evolved the children of two mutants really were. The studies ended shortly after his fourth birthday when they were no longer able to slow his accelerated aging. The government keeps a close eye on Levi which makes him feel special and thankful to them, of course if he knew the truth, that his real parents are also in Lake Grimstone and that they continue to mourn his death, then his feelings towards the government might be a completely different.

» CONNECTIONS

MILES HALL - Levi has heard much about Miles Hall, but he isn’t entirely sure if everything he has heard is true or just exaggerations. However, what Levi doesn’t know is that Miles is his biological father.

NATALIE ANDERSON - He trusts Nat, even if she constantly tells him that she feels like he is hiding something. They are now trying to find out what that something is.

DAMIEN HALE - Damien and Levi seem to have gotten off on the wrong foot and now no matter what Levi does nothing seems to make things better between them.

“The future can changed but the past is set in stone”

» ABOUT

NAME: Danielle Catton AGE: Twenty Eight POWER: Post-Cognition OCCUPATION: Up to Player TOWN: Grimstone Park

» HISTORY

For as long as she can remember Danielle has always been one of the guys. She used to hate hanging with girls, she has warmed to them now, but still finds that boys are more in her comfort zone. Most of the girls that she has known have always been petty and bitchy which is something that she hates. Guys, on the other hand, aren’t like that and while she knows that most can be pricks at times, she still thinks that’s a little better than dealing with the constant girl drama that she often saw other girls dealing with. Danielle believes that most guys see her as one of the guys, which helps in how comfortable she feels around them. She fails to realize that most guys see how extremely good looking she is and that they would kill to get her in bed. Part of why she fails to see that is because she has never had a boyfriend, another reason why she believes that guys think of her as just one of them, what she doesn’t seem to see is that they are actually scared of how tough she seems to be.

Danielle is a confident, kind and an all round nice girl for the most part. Of course she doesn’t come without bite sometimes, but she generally steers clear of trouble so she doesn’t really need to show that side of her all that often– unless of course you mess with her friends. She’s interested in most of the things that society likes to say are for guys which makes her that much more attractive to them. It’s because of how she was raised, though, in a household of two older brothers and one younger it was hard to get away from sports and guy-type activities. But she loved them even then so really it was only her mother complaining.

Danielle was completely freaked out when she first found out about her power, one day in school she fainted, or that’s what everyone thought, when in reality she was seeing the past, or rather flashes of it, she didn’t see anything that looked particularly meaningful or that she needed to worry about, well except for the fact that she could see the past as if it was happening right there and then, but it freaked her out a lot. After just a few months of having had those flashbacks, Danielle was taken to Lake Grimstone to be with and to train with others like her. Much to her surprise, she actually quite likes Grimstone Park. She likes training her power on her own schedule, and she’s made friends with the guys and even some girls in her new home town.

» CONNECTIONS

JACE MURPHY - Danielle has a slight crush on Jace, but suspects that he doesn’t reciprocate it

JADE ROBERTS - An actual girl friend Danielle has managed to make and keep.

JOANNA HUGHES - Joanna is someone that Danielle just can’t stand. They have been forced to train together on occasion and it’s always ended badly.

“Protection comes in many different forms.”

» ABOUT

NAME: Hunter Cullen AGE:  Twenty Nine POWER: Pain Empowerment OCCUPATION: Up to Player TOWN: Grimstone Park

» HISTORY

Growing up, Hunter never understood why whenever he got hurt he never really stayed down crying over the pain. If he fell, he would get back up, and even though he felt pain, he just went on about his day as if everything was fine. According to his parents Hunter had always been that way. When he was learning to walk, many times he would fall and while most babies cried, Hunter did not– he just got up and tried again. As he got older, he realized that after getting hurt he didn’t just walk it off, he actually became faster and sometimes stronger. Being the curious child that he was he started trying to test his theory that pain made him better. Hunter started by picking fights with kids twice his size and even though at first he would get pummeled, after a few punches he could feel an energy surge inside of him making him stronger and able to fight back.

As he continued to get older, the fighting no longer gave him the rush that he wanted and he began to look for more ways to get hurt in order to end up the better version of him—as he often called himself when he felt his power surging in him. That was when his reckless behavior started. Hunter, more often than not, pulled stunts that could get him killed, or at least get him a bed in the hospital for a few days if not more. However, instead of that he would writhe in pain on the ground for a few minutes and then he would get up as if nothing had happened. Those that saw his daredevil displays couldn’t understand why he never stayed in pain for too long. Hunter had no real regard for keeping his power under wraps and he often pulled his stunts in extremely public places. The government soon caught wind of Hunter and his stunts and they flagged him. After seeing his act in person they went to his home and explained to him, and his parents, that he had to be taken to Lake Grimstone. 

Hunter has been at Grimstone Park for a few years, and he has had it with the whole town. He’s sick of living there and resents the government for trapping him into their stupid experiment. Although he does not precisely have the means to sabotage the experiment, he’d very much like to try.

» CONNECTIONS

CHARLOTTE MARTIN - Because of the frequency of his injuries, Hunter spends a lot of time with Charlotte. He’s almost grown fond of her.

AUBREY GALLAGHER - Aubrey is one of Hunter’s favorite people. He often goes to Grimstone Point to hang out with her, or tries to drag her to Grimstone Park

PETER MULLIGAN - Peter and Hunter make perfect training buddies, due to their compatible powers. They’re not exactly friends, but they do work well together.