#novusopen

Jason Todd || Red Hood || 16 || Human || Rank 1 || Curran Walters

✘ Red Hood is OPEN.

“I don’t wanna learn to be no crook. I just boost what it takes to survive.”

BIOGRAPHY:

Jason Todd was the child of Willis Todd and Sheila Haywood, being raised in Gotham City his whole life. His mother was forced to relinquish custody on Jason when Willis married Catherine Todd. His mother was a drug addict that died of an overdose, and his father spent most of Jason’s life working for a mafia man. Leaving Jason mostly in the care of his stepmother, who raised him the best she could until his father and stepmother died at the hands of the very employer that his father worked for. Now homeless, Jason made most of his living off of petty theft and ripping off car parts for cash. 

One night, Jason came across a fancy vehicle parked in an alley, this was an opportunity that no one in his position could pass up. However, he only managed to steal two of the tires when the owner of the car, a well-known wealthy businessman. Instead of the man being angry, he offered to help him. He told Jason that he had previously been in touch with a school that recruited his son Dick. The man adopted and cared for Jason and gave him a stable living environment until he got in touch with the school, and sent Jason on his way to Novus Academy.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Agent Training/General Studies

Erik Lehnsherr || Magneto || looks 20 || Mutant || Rank 2 || Douglas Booth

✘ Magneto is OPEN.

“You want society to accept you, but you can’t even accept yourself.”

BIOGRAPHY:

The man now known as Erik Lehnsherr was born Max Eisenhardt, the son of a middle-class German Jewish family in a secluded area of Germany left behind by the time. Here the family struggled his whole life with discrimination and hardship against a powerful group of Neo-Nazis, hell-bent against the people of the area, even going so far as opening back up the old holocaust concentration camps and taking prisoners. At the young age of only 13, his town was attacked and burned while his family was captured and executed, but Max survived, potentially thanks to the early manifestation of his amazing ability. He was sent to an old Nazi concentration camp where he was forced to do the unthinkable. He was made to torture and murder his own innocent people for his captors as a Sonderkommando. After years of this task, all Max allowed himself to feel was emptiness for the sake of what was left of his frail sanity.

His ability, though manifested, was weak and hardly detectable due to the weakened state the camp kept him in. Even Max only noticed minor strange anomalies and discarded them, thinking they were only tricks of the mind, but one day when one of his captors attempted to force him to harm a small child. This pushed Max overboard and thus his full ability was shown. He reached his arm out to the child through a metal fence. The gate began to twist and bend to nearly an unrecognizable state, along with other metallic objects in the camp. Soon the base was flattened, his captors all dead and the other prisoners freed, though they didn’t run. They just looked at him, terrified of the man’s strange ability. They all escaped together, leaving the boy who saved them alone.

This huge magnetic anomaly attracted the attention of the government agency, S.H.I.E.L.D., who offered him shelter, training and people like him all in a place called Novus Academy. The man had his reservations about this place and these people, he wasn’t sure how well he could trust them, but like before, he was sure he could escape if he needed to now that he knew of his abilities full potential. He agreed to go with them under the parameters that he would receive a new identity. Now known as the man named ‘Erik Lenhnsherr’. Erik joined the roster of the school.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies

Jackson Hyde || Aqualad || 18 || Superhuman || Rank 1 || Nathaniel Potvin

✘ Aqualad is OPEN.

“Yes, I have gills, and no, you cannot touch them….”

BIOGRAPHY:

Jackson Hyde (Kaldur’ahm/Kaldur) has always had a pretty average life growing up, nothing of it was ever too special or out of the ordinary. He had two loving parents he’d always remembered being in his life, who had two everyday jobs to pay for their average sized house in New Mexico. If you were to ask anyone the only thing out of the ordinary was the boy’s severe fear of water, keeping a ten-foot distance between him and any body of water. When it rained his father would give him permission to take the day off school and do his work from the house, and when it came to the beach, he wouldn’t even think about going. He couldn’t quite remember where his fear came from, he couldn’t remember his father telling him from a young age not to go near water. Maybe if he did the boy would have questioned it more than he did.

It wasn’t until he was nineteen, one afternoon he was doing nothing more than walking home from school when the weather changed in a split second. Storm clouds began to roll over, gusts of wind picked up and what started slow and then hit all at once. It started to rain. He was in his front yard by this point, so close to the safety of living his life in ignorance. But it was too late, the moment it started to rain on him his eyes started to glow, streams of tattoos along his body began to light up. His hands grew webbed, and suddenly it all felt right. The rain at his fingertips he could control, he could move it and for a second he seemed hypnotized by it. By the thing he’d feared his whole life, and suddenly it felt like home.

But the moment was interrupted as his father rushed outside of the house, finding his son on the lawn in such awe of the one thing he’d tried to keep hidden from him his whole life. And in a split decision, he loaded him into the car and drove. The whole ride was silent, Jackson didn’t dare speak a word. Instead, he just stared out the window, watching the scenery pass until they finally pulled into the driveway of a seaside cottage. He remembered wondering how long his father had this place for, and why exactly he had it. 

Still silent the two of them piled out of the car, his father leading him inside before finally speaking. He started telling Jackson everything, from birth until now. He told the boy that they weren’t his real parents, that his real mother was killed when he was just a boy due to experiments he survived. That his father had been missing from that moment onwards, that he was brought to the surface world before he was old enough to speak from an underwater colony in Atlantis. There was more he was going to say, Jackson could see it, but before he could manage a man stormed into the cottage, almost killing his father before turning his sights onto Jackson.

That was when agents swarmed the cottage, he didn’t know how they’d found him so fast. But the men in suits offered him a safe place in a university for students just like him while he learned to control his abilities.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies

Raven Darkholme || Mystique || looks 18 || Mutant || Rank 1 || Jennifer Lawrence

✘ Mystique is OPEN.

“ I’m not sorry I sent you to hell, you know. I hope it was awful. I hope you suffered. I hope it broke something inside you that can never be fixed. It makes me happy to think that. You deserved it, every bit of it. You’ve murdered. You’ve betrayed your friends. You may not wanna remember it anymore, but that’s who you are. You’re no better than me.”

BIOGRAPHY:

As her name implies, very little is known about the life of Mystique. Being a shape-shifter and a deceiver, it isn’t even clear what her real name is. In her “normal” form, she goes by the name Raven Darkholme. However, this too may be an alias and Mystique’s real name may be something entirely different.

Mystique’s life and upbringing are completely unknown. The earliest records of someone by the name Mystique can be traced to shortly after World War II. During this time she appears to have mastered her shape-shifting abilities. With her powers she began impersonating and conning people. It doesn’t appear to have been out of greed or malice. Mystique was always in need of money and a stable life. She did not have that on her own so her only way was to steal it from someone else. She often took the identity of someone who had recently died of natural causes or forged identities of people from distant towns. Most of her activity was in America and Canada. However, her cons often were exposed. Sometimes others found out. Other times she got bored and sought something different.

Eventually, Mystique began employing her talents in the criminal underworld. Under the name Raven Darkholme, she began her life as a spy and saboteur for various organizations. She eventually graduated to assassinations, theft, and extortion. Her skills were on par with that of military training. It isn’t clear where she received this training, but it made her a force to be reckoned with. These skills along with her shape-shifting abilities allowed her to become one of the most feared names in the criminal underworld. Her services commanded enormous sums of money. Yet despite this wealth, she was unable to forge a life for herself. So when allowed herself to fall into one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s “traps”, she knew the choice they would give her. Jail or their facility.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies

Natasha Romanoff || Black Widow || looks 20 || Superhuman || Rank 2 || Jane Levy

✘ Black Widow is OPEN.

“My name is… Madame Natasha… but you… can call me The Black Widow!”

BIOGRAPHY:

There are varying accounts of Natalia Romanova’s early life. One account states that in 1928, Nazis set the building in Stalingrad that Natasha and her mother were living in on fire, her mother threw her out the window to a Russian soldier before dying in the fire. The soldier’s name was Ivan Petrovitch, and he watched over Natasha for her entire life, remaining by her side as her “foster father”. When Natasha hit puberty, she was taken to Department X, where she and a group of 28 other orphaned females trained in multiple forms of combat and espionage at the “Red Room” facility.

 Over the years she was bio-technologically and psycho-technologically enhanced: an accounting that provides a rationale for her unusually long and youthful lifespan. Memories of training ballet in the Bolshoi Theatre were implanted in her brain as artificial memories and she was ready to be sent on her first mission. Infiltrate Novus Academy. However, the agents at Novus knew of Natasha’s affiliation with the KGB and thought it would be best to have the girl closely under their surveillance. With that, Novus sent the girl an official invite to join their ranks.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Agent Training/General Studies

Wanda Wilson || Lady Deadpool || 18 || Mutant || Rank 1 || Jennette McCurdy

✘ Lady Deadpool is OPEN.

“I love this gun. I mean I like shooting things generally, but this gun I want to marry.”

BIOGRAPHY:

Not much is known about Wanda’s past and what is known has been classified. She was born into the opposite of the ‘ideal family’ in the outskirts of a small town in Ohio, where she spent most of her time being the problem child. Making friends with only the voices inside her head, children stayed away from the girl and the ones who did approach the girl, soon found out why she was always alone. At age 17, her family moved to Washington D.C. where she got mixed in with the wrong crowd and soon dropped out of school and ran away from home to travel the country and make a living with her natural talent of firearms and swords.

Turning 18, she joined the military and though she was one of the more physically superior recruits, there was only one fault; her mouth was almost never closed, which constantly caused her to get into trouble and eventually blindly volunteer for the Weapon-X program. Surprisingly, Wanda was one of the few, more successful volunteers managing to escape with only a broken mind and a newfound regeneration power. After a month of living on the streets, she was approached by representatives of Novus. Wanda was willing to fight the agents but she was quickly outnumbered and disarmed and taken to Novus where she stayed until she willingly agreed to behave and join Novus’ ranks.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Agent Training/General Studies

Hal Jordan || Green Lantern || 23 || Human|| Rank 2 || Dacre Montg

✘ Green Lantern is OPEN.

“In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power, Green Lantern’s light!”

BIOGRAPHY:

Hal Jordan was born in Coast City to Jessica and Martin Jordan as the middle child. As a boy, he idolized his father, a test pilot who worked for Ferris Aircraft. At age seven, his father died in a plane crash right before his eyes. Despite his family’s wishes, he still idolized his father and continued following in his father’s footsteps. On his 18th birthday, he showed up at the Armed Forces Career Center before it had even opened. 

Two years later, a dying alien and a member of the “Green Lantern Corps” crash landed his starship in the Californian Desert. Hal was the first one on site. Having selected a replacement officer for his position, the ring chose Hal Jordan for his ability to overcome great fear. The ring and it’s abilities were explained to him and he inherited the mantle of Green Lantern. Acting as a galactic police officer, it was his job to serve and protect all life in Sector 2814. He learned there were other Green Lanterns all across the universe, all monitored and empowered by mystical creatures called the Guardians. Hal received training from some of the best the Corps had to offer. 

As Green Lantern, Hal Jordan patrolled the galaxy and took missions in space, however, he continued to spend his time at home on earth, working at Ferris Aircraft. One day, he was met by some men from a government agency called A.R.G.U.S. who asked him about the alien spacecraft that had crashed in front of him and the ring he acquired. Eventually they explained who they were and asked him to accompany them to Florida to attend a school that would give him everything he needed to become the best Green Lantern he could become. He agreed and headed to Florida.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies

Leslie Willis || Livewire || 19 || Superhuman || Rank 1 || Saoirse Ronan

✘ Livewire is OPEN.

“This thing is my whole life. All righty, if I can’t stay in the game by playing by the rules… Then I’m sure as hell gonna burn the game board. In fact, you know what I think? I think I need a bigger venue.”

BIOGRAPHY:

Though born a simple human, Leslie Willis was always in her own way shocking. After graduating high school at the top of her class, Leslie attended a popular university in Metropolis, Kansas, though her only reason for going there was their radio opportunities. Soon her internship at the local college radio station turned into a full-time job where she had her own late show. Leslie used her time to address controversial topics no one else would touch on. No one was immune to the shock jock’s venomous words, not even Superman. She took cynical joy in bashing on the Man of Steel during her broadcasts.

One evening during a severe thunderstorm warning, Leslie was hosting a rock concert in honor of her first year anniversary working at the radio station. Ignoring her producer’s warnings about the coming storms, she demanded the show go on. As the show started, a huge bolt of lightning struck the stage and it caught fire, trapping the DJ. Another bolt was headed right for the stage, but she was saved by none other than Superman who pushed her to safety and took the shock. The lightning ran through one of the wires and electrocuted Willis.

When the girl woke, she saw that her skin had turned ghostly white and her hair turned blue. On the television in her hospital room, they spoke of the incident. One live reporter, a co-worker of hers, insinuated that Superman, fed up with her criticism against him, may have pushed her into harm’s way to punish her for her arrogance. She blamed Superman for her transformation caused from the freak accident, refusing to take the fact that she should have shut down the concert that caused her transformation in the first place. Angered by the thought, Leslie ripped the alarm clock from the wall. She was about to whip the clock at the television when it suddenly turned on. There was no power to it and no batteries in it. She discovered she could manipulate electricity, but she wasn’t the first to know this.

Soon after her waking up, two people representing a government agency were in her room. They detected strange electromagnetic frequencies that traced back to her and insisted she come with them to a place called Novus Academy where she could train and learn to become a hero. More vigilante justice was the last thing she wanted. That’s what got her into this mess in her mind so at first, she declined the offer but soon enough, their insisting sounded more like she had no other choice.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies