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“My mind is a place of true brilliance.”

JENNIFER FORDS

NINETEEN

SUPERNHUMAN INTELLIGENCE

ESTER EXPOSITO

OPEN

***TRIGGER WARNING: DOMESTIC ABUSE***

Giving Jennifer a quick look over will not help you determine what her power is, in fact you probably wouldn’t know her power until she spoke and even then it would depend on what she was talking about. Jennifer tends to not take things seriously and she loves to make people smile.  No matter where you catch the girl, you will never see her without a smile on her face and a joke on her tongue; that is just the type of person she is and always has been. When Jennifer was in second grade she discovered her power when she suddenly fully understood Algebra. A meeting was arranged between the school representatives and her parents, one would think that any parent would be thrilled that their child was a prodigy and her mother was, it was her father who was not at all thrilled. He viewed her intelligence as an inconvenience on him, since now the young girl would have to attend a boarding school. Because they were not in a position to pay for the school a scholarship was given to Jennifer.  The young girl quickly excelled in all of her classes and even on the numerous teams and clubs she joined the math team, the debate club, the swim team and the chess club.

However, her childhood was not all rainbow and sunshine, even though she tried to pretend that it was. I was always difficult when she’d go home for vacation; her outsmarting her parents never did her any favors, especially with her father. He hated how a little girl could know so much more than him and that often led him to feel inferior which would lead to him taking out his frustration on her mother and striking her. Too many times he did it in front of Jennifer and so when she was old enough to not have to go home, she wouldn’t. To make matters worse for the young girl, her teachers began to look at her differently. No longer did they just view her as a smart child, but as something else. Jennifer could pick up an entire chapter in calculus in no less than ten minutes as long as she could read it or listen to her teacher explain it once and she would be able to explain to the class in a way that the teacher couldn’t. The school began to get suspicious and it was then that they suggested she get an IQ test. Jennifer score was something that had never been seen before. Jennifer was just seventeen years old and her life was going to be changed forever.

Just a couple of days after the results of her IQ test two government agents showed up at her school. They didn’t say much, all they did say was that where she was going, Lake Grimstone, was for people as special as she was. Jennifer had seen enough movies about the government to know that there was no point in fighting them, so she didn’t. When she first arrived she was excited, she couldn’t wait to explore and meet others like her, but soon she realized that this was now he home and that she would never be seeing her parents again which huts her. Jennifer just hopes that now that she’s no there, that her father can stop hurting her mother.

POSITIVE: lighthearted, selfless, independent, caring. NEGATIVE: workaholic, emotional, guilt-ridden, impatient.

GABRIEL ROWLAND

Jennifer and Gabriel met the very first day she arrived and they instantly bonded over their love for video games and superheroes. They have gotten extremely close over the years and have formed a brother-sister sort of bond that neither of them had growing up, both being the only children in their families. Their relationship is more than just superheroes and goofing off, Jennifer has found that she can go to Gabriel with anything and even if he doesn’t understand or can’t empathize, he’s still listens and comforts her the best that he can.

WREN RODGERS

Wren and Jennifer’s relationship is a bit different than her relationship with Gabriel. Although they have become extremely close over superheroes and video games, they haven’t formed a brother-sister bond and instead they formed a best friend bond. Jennifer can go to Wren about anything and by anything, I mean everything. Wren is the only person she has ever told about the abuse her mother went through and the guilt eating her away from the inside. Although she’s close with Gabriel, she doesn’t think that she’d be able to tell him, not yet anyways.

HAROLD GARFIELD

When Jennifer found out that there was another person in Lake Grimstone who had the same power as her she immediately found them. Maybe he knew more about the powers than she did and they could help each other? Their first interaction ended in a lot of arguing for no real reason. They got off on a rocky start, maybe it was because of how much optimism Jennifer had for the conversation. Since that argument the two have been paired together for training, although something always happens that sparks another argument. They wouldn’t call each other friends but they also wouldn’t call each other enemies.

KHIANNA MALIK

JANEY FORDS is NINETEEN years old and possesses the ability of SUPERHUMAN INTELLIGENCE. She looks an awful lot like CRYSTAL REEDS, though she refuses to admit it. Fortunately, Janey is OPEN.

“My mind is a place of true brilliance.”

Janey’s Story

One look at Janey and you will never guess her powers. She never takes anything seriously and loves making people laugh. Janey is never caught without a smile on her face and a joke on her tongue. She found out that about her powers when she fully understood Algebra in second grade. Her parents were overjoyed at their little prodigy so they didn’t mind the large cost of sending her to a lavish boarding school. Despite the tough rules of the school, Janey kept her happy go lucky personality. Janey loved her school- she was on the math team, the debate team, swim team, lacrosse team as well as getting on the dance team. She had never danced in her life but she picked it up quicker than anybody which got her an automatic spot on the team. Her childhood was always very difficult, especially when she’d come home for vacation, her outsmarting her parents never did her any favors, in fact her father would often get frustrated that his little girl always had a right answer for everything. Because of that anger that raged on inside of him, he often hit Janey’s mother, never once laying a finger on the girl, for reasons Janey is still clueless about.

This was about the time when the teachers started to look at her a bit differently. They watched Janey more closely. She could pick up an entire chapter in calculus in no less than ten minutes as long as she could read it or listen to her teacher explain it once and be able to explain to the class in a way that the teacher couldn’t. Never did they suspect that she was a mutant— they just thought that she was exceptionally smart and driven. Her teachers suggested an IQ test and had been for years. This is where everything went wrong. Janey did perfectly on the test. She scored higher than 200, and that was when she was only fifteen. It easy for them to figure out that she wasn’t just a pure genius but also a mutant at the same time. The one thing that stood out, though, was how Janey could remember everything about anything; she remembered what she had for breakfast May 20th seven years prior.

That day, agents came to her school. They didn’t say much, all they did was tell her where she was going. Lake Grimstone. She had never heard of the place but she was told that it was for people “like her” as they called it. She got excited until she got there and realized that she probably would never be seeing her parents ever again. She misses her mother, she wants to be back home. she often wonders whether her mother still suffers the abuse after being away from home for so long.

Janey’s Personality

POSITIVE: lighthearted, selfless, independent NEGATIVE: workaholic, emotional, guilt-ridden

Janey’s Connections

Gabriel Rowland

Janey and Gabriel met the very first day she arrived and they instantly bonded over their love for video games and superheroes. They have gotten extremely close over the years and have formed a brother-sister sort of bond that neither of them had growing up, both being single children. Their relationship is more than just superheroes and goofing off, Janey has found that she can go to Gabriel with anything and even if he doesn’t understand or can’t empathize, he’s still listens and comforts her the best that he can.

Wren Rodgers

Wren and Janey’s relationship is a bit different than her relationship with Gabriel. Although they have become extremely close over superheroes and video games, they haven’t formed a brother-sister bond and instead they formed a best friend bond. Janey can go to Wren about anything and by anything, I mean everything. Wren is the only person she has ever told about the abuse her mother went through and the guilt eating her away from the inside. Although she’s close with Gabriel, she doesn’t think that she’d be able to tell him, not yet anyways.

Harold Garfield

When Janey found out that there was another person on the island who had the same powers as her she immediately found them. Maybe he knew more about the powers than she did and they could help each other? Their first interaction ended in a lot of arguing for no real reason. They got off on a rocky start, maybe it was because of how much optimism Janey had for the conversation or that Harold was twenty and she was sixteen and a new arrival on the island. Since that argument four years ago the two have been paired together for training, although something always happens that sparks another argument. They wouldn’t call each other friends but they also wouldn’t call each other enemies.

Khianna Malik

DANIELLE “DANNY” CATTON is TWENTY-ONE years old and possesses the ability of POST-COGNITION. She looks an awful lot like MARIE AVGEROPOULOS, though she refuses to admit it. Unfortunately, Danny is CLOSED.

"The future can change but the past is set in stone"

Danny's Story

Darynn has always been one of the guys, for as long as she can remember, she used to hate hanging with girls, she has warmed to them now, but still finds that boys are more in her comfort zone. She has always found girls to be petty and bitchy and she really hates that, she likes to think that the guys aren’t like that and she knows that most can be serious pricks at times, but she still thinks that’s a little better than the bitches the majority of girls are. She doesn’t realise that the guys actually see her as extremely good looking and most of them would kill to get her in bed, she thinks they see her in the complete opposite way actually. And that's because she has never had a boyfriend, but what she doesn't realise is that it's mainly because boys are too scared to go for her.

Darynn 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 gender defying things, and the fact she enjoys almost everything the guys do makes her that much more attractive to them. It's because of how she was socialised really 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.

Darynn was completely freaked out when she first found out about her power, one day in school she fainted, or so everyone though, really she was seeing the past, or at least flashes of it, she didn’t see anything that looked particularly meaningful and nothing to worry about but it freaked her out a lot. Darynn doesn’t mind Lake Grimstone, she gets along with most of the guys and some of the girls, although she is hoping to open up to them and become more girly so she can get the attention she’s always wanted from one of the guys.

Danny’s Personality

POSITIVE: friendly, kind, fun.

NEGATIVE: insecure, judgemental, calculated.

Danny’s Connections

Jace Murphy

Darynn is well aware that Jace just sees her as one of the guys and up until a short while ago she was okay with that. However now that she has spent more and more time with him she is really starting to like him but knows that he will never see her as anything more than just a friend. At times she feels like there might be hope though like when he says that she is pretty to look at but then he ends it with saying unlike my guy friends and hope fades. That is why she is forcing herself to stop liking him and instead just be one of the guys after all that is what everyone views her as.

Jade Roberts

People find it odd that someone like Jade and Darynn can get along and yet they do get along for the most part at least. Darynn likes how different Jade is from her and how she takes no crap from anyone of course it is that same attitude that at times causes friction between the two girls. Darynn as clueless as she is about having girl friends doesn’t take crap from Jade, yet they always seem to be able to stay friends most would consider it more of a 'frenemy' type of friendship than a real one.

Miles Hall

Hot and cold would be the best description for Darynn and Miles’ relationship, if you could even call it a relationship. They get along quite well for the most part but then there are times when everyone would swear that the two could not stand each other. It is very confusing for Darynn the way Miles acts towards her at times she feels like maybe she is getting through to him but then he pulls away making her put her guard up. The last thing Darynn wants is to get hurt and she’s heard that Miles is the type of guy that would hurt her and that is why she puts up a front of being distant with him but hiding her attraction is getting harder and harder for her.

Joanna Hughes