Oh goodness there are so many xD
Maya-Soni (OWWD) is a mismanifested blue AmhTalan girl. She was born in the Mark Shut, a militant Talan community in the mountains, but despite manifesting as Red, she didn't grow to the 'right' size (she's a good size, since she's Blue, but they didn't realize that), and they sent her away. She grew up with her A'Omhi, Ryo-Talan, and a small family that had taken responsibility for the two of them. They eventually were arrested for not being properly registered, and along the way got shuffled in to a trader, who sold them to Ikantara. (We hate this man, he's nasty.)
She met Zara-Sonili there briefly, though she did focus most of the time on trying to keep herself alive, and then on trying to protect Ryo-Talan. (In their relationship, Ryo-Talan had previously taken on a more protective role, but things kinda. Got a bit turned around there.) Eventually, the pair of them escape, and move to another AmhTalan community, the Serpents Lair.
A lot of Maya-Soni's struggles come from either her separation from Ryo-Talan or her own self as she grows into her correct manifestation and learns her full abilities. She learns to read, which is something she wanted to do since she was really little, and is super happy she can access books that are written in the way her language acquisition is set up for (lettric). It's honestly really cute. 🥺 She just wants to read and chill with her A'Omhi and it's so cute.
Mark-Kaili (OWWD) is a Green human-mothered EmhTalan (half human, half AmhTalan). She is also freaking awesome again and I think she deserves the world and a lot of peace.
She grew up in the Serpent's Lair, which is really discriminating based off of bloodline, so as an EmhTalan, she faced a lot of difficulties growing up, especially with access to education. Her mother ended up teaching her and her little sister a lot from home, though she taught them really different things.
Her sister, Abeni-Saira, was born blind and unable to walk, and needed a lot of help as a tiny. Mark-Kaili took a smaller role in that, and really did have a good time as a child. She picked up calligraphic rune writing and other aesthetic runework, and really liked doing those.
Since she was small, she wanted to be a doctor, and when she was finishing her schooling program, she was able to get a job as a nurse or assistant (she couldn't work any higher, being EmhTalan) for a small Eul (redrange) clinic. She mostly ended up working with kids and helping mothers with laying. She didn't do as much with hatching or live birth as she wanted,
So things happened and Abeni-Saira was kidnapped, and Lair started rounding up EmhTalan, separating them off, generally trying to keep them contained and even more discriminated against than they already were. At that point, Mark-Kaili's mother had already left, since it was dangerous for her, as a human. Mark-Kaili lost her job (temporarily) and then couldn't go see her father easily, it was a whole mess. She did get her job back, but had limited authorization, and wasn't allowed to work with kids anymore.
When it became clear that Lair was heading in the direction of genocide, Mark-Kaili was one of the few in a position to get information in and out, and orchestrate several mass escapes. In the end, the majority of the EmhTalanic population of Lair managed to escape.
During that time she kind of got a reputation for being insane; she did everything she could to the point where some people thought she was going too far -- evacuating some AmhTalan sections, making risky trips to places she would likely have gotten killed, mostly looking for her sister.
After they all get out she becomes a medic for the Amud Mark, though she really misses the kids she saw at Lair, since she was their regular medic and saw them a lot.
Anyways she's just a powerful bean that I love very much.
Marwon Pollan (DJune) is a martial arts instructor. He primarily teaches the Iminethi form, Kestho, though he is one of the few full Castani there is. He does teach Cast, an Andjani art, though it's technically forbidden. (dj/DJ is said closer to zr, it's a voiced post alveolar retroflex fricative, ʐ in IPA).
Cast is his primary martial art, and he achieved the rank not only of Mallercastani, but DJancastani, or master of the high forms. Basically, he can use Cast in all its magical ability, specializing in Mallercast, a form that focuses on control, or 'self-power'.
As a whole, Marwon has amazing self-control. He teaches effectively, though he gets frustrated that for the most part, he needs to teach the children of Iminethi nobility, who are the oppressors of his people (Mardusq and Andjani). He lashes out in interesting ways, usually ways that hurt no one, and seems at most mild sarcasm. It's often a sort of insult that they miss, so he does have to be careful, since even though he can't legally teach Andjani students, his small school has become somewhat a refuge.
After one particularly difficult student, Marwon rescues DJune, and finally uproots himself from the city and takes him to the mountain, where he helps him work through his trauman and come to be a powerful DJancastani, though he does try surpress that DJune is Zocastani for as long as possible.
Midi (Acids) is a being known as an Acid, meaning he can't be hurt by a heck ton of things (poison, corrosives, even temperature and illness have limitted effects). Which also means he's immune to a lot of medicines and has terrible interoception. It's a mixed bag, really.
He's trans, he/him, agender, lesbian, not transitioning. He really likes looking more fem and wearing skirts and the like, and they suit him really well. ^-^ He's very sweet and I love him. He likes shiny things, looking pretty, trying art that he can't quite get down right.
He is also an adorable nerd. About a lot of things.
When he was growing up outside the normal organization for Acids, he had no idea. He's also a lot less developed than I wish he was, since the whole project has been on hold for ages, so... sadly I don't have much more for Midi other than that he's Anvil's girlfriend and they are a very couple.
Mercy On High (PF) grew up in a justice organization known as Lighthouse, which focuses on training members to use special abilities and making them into the perfect justice force. It is really effective and actually does keep peace, though within the force itself things can really be terrible, especially with the ends some kids are forced to in order to become who Lighthouse wants them to be.
Mercy was lucky and he realizes it; his ability (undetermined) seems really useless for any use they could think of for it, so he was allowed a lot of choice in what he did, and ended up being assigned to a non-combative investigation force that mostly investigates within Lighthouse to find areas to improve for the personnel.
In order to graduate his training, he's required to do a two month project where he shows what he learned by working on an unclosed case. He choses to work on the disappearance of his cousin, Heaven On High, who disappeared when they were both around twelve, seven years before. No one was able to find any trace of her after one of her missions, and despite a lot of effort being put in to find her, there were no leads found.
While he's looking, Mercy runs into someone who ends up abducting him, and his confidence in Lighthouse as a whole is eventually shaken when he's starting to view it from different eyes, eyes that are more ready to see the faults. And he works out what happened to his cousin so there's that too, a nice whole mess. xD
He's just this innocent kid, really, starting to take his first steps into the adult world and getting some real screws thrown his direction, learning to confront his idealism, generally making a mess.
Martin (Freaks), who I also call Martin the Martian or Martin the Warrior (nope I didn't steal the name from Redwall nopeeeeee not meeee), is a boy with rock-manipulation powers. He grew up without his parents, raised by his abusive older brother and his (not abusive) older sister, in a Martian port city. He grew up without much education, and mostly worked on learning how to protect himself and use his power, before his sister managed to find a job that would also give him a little learning at the same time (effectively keeping him both away from home and out of trouble for a good while). He eventually got old enough that he moved out, then he was kidnapped by scientists who wanted to study his power.
He's bilingual, speaking both a descendent of Spanish and a descendent of English, usually in the combination seen at Martian port cities in that area. He's also fairly strong, but not overly so. In friend groups he tends to adopt e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e. and Become Parent Friend.
He breaks some of the kids out of the facility, using his power, which he normally suppresses by biting his lip (distracting himself), so that his power would be underestimated. He gets a crack in the wall, and himself and several other kids escape into the forest outside, where he takes on an active role in trying to get them back home, to Mars and the other planets they were on. (To be clear they're all from human settlements). He doesn't want to go back himself, since he doesn't feel he really has anything there to go back to.
Stuff goes down and the poor boy, he feels like he's responsible and gets hurt trying to save others, ends up needing saving himself. :<
I love this boy and he does not deserve any of what happened to him.
Matthew/Mental Math (Freaks) is one of the kids with Martin. He's about the same age. While he doesn't have as established a backstory, he does have a pretty firmly established character.
Math has a telepathy power that lets him into the minds of others. He also can play with some minor mind control things. Nothing too powerful, but he can really mess some things up, so you don't want him in there.
He's terrified of mind control, somewhat ironically. He hates the idea of losing control of himself, which is why some of the hivemind powered kids scare him -- he's convinced that at some point one of them, the James, is going to come after him, before they escape.
Within the escaped group he is one of the older and more responsible members, though he's also the one that's least motivated. He was on a list to be sent home anyways, so he ends up being counterproductive and often tries to get everyone to just go back.
Mara (Freaks) was kidnapped with her younger sister when they were doing an interplanetary custody switch from their parents to their aunt. She has a water manipulation, while her sister has fire, and frequently ended up doing damage control in the facility, especially when her sister would go a bit stir crazy.
She ended up falling under a mind control that was placed on a lot of the older kids, and though she's partly there, she's mostly under their control, which is distressing for her sister, who can't see the ways Mara is subverting the control on her own.
Eventually she manages to get completely free, and tries to stop her sister from starting a major forest fire, but unfortunately she can't, and is killed trying to put it out.
Aaaaaaaand because I know you wanted this oneeeee ;D
So I did a post about Zara-Sonili just a bit earlier, and I mentioned her son, Kaile-Aur.
To sum up, in case you don't want to go back down, Zara-Sonili was captured and ended up with an experimentor. She died protecting her egg, though she lived long enough to name her baby. She named him Kaile-Aur, which means 'closest to peace', because to her, he was the closest thing she had to peace.
Unfortunately, she died before anyone could get to her, and left baby Kaile-Aur with the experimentor, who monitored his growth and took terrible care of him. Eventually, a couple world-hoppers, Ghost and Vyola Starling, went on a mission to the lab to get the notes so someone in their network could preserve it. They didn't know much beforehand about conditions and weren't expecting to find a nearly-dead baby, but they did, and when the building was evacuated due to a fire, leaving him behind, they scooped him up as well as the book and adopted him.
They didn't have a way of knowing that Zara-Sonili had already named him, and so they named him themselves. Mobius, an impossible thing.
Mobius grew up in Living Library, a semi-sentient library between worlds. He grew up with a big sister and a really wonderful extended family on his mum's (Vy's) side, and a less-wonderful extended family on Ghost's, as well as a considerable found-family.
When he was still young, he was kidnapped by interworld radicalists who wanted to restrict travel. They told him they would give him back to his birth family, not knowing that they were all dead, and when they couldn't find a place, they inserted him back into the timeline to be sold as a slave.
He was sold to an experimentor, Retakori, until his parents found and freed him, but by then he was a very scarred and hurt boy. He didn't talk for months after they found him, and recovery was overall slow.
This was where a major part of his spiritual journey started. Coming to terms with what had happened, learning more about faith in a way that isn't just belief. He found a lot of comfort in depictions of Christ, but was constantly frustrated by the fact that most he could find eliminate scars from sources other than the nails of the cross, specifically whipping scars, since those were some of Mobius's most prominent, so he started developing the artistic skill he needed to paint a realistic depiction of Christ, through his own eyes.
Since this boy can't stay out of trouble, he does end up in a toxic relationship with a girl who manipulates him and drives his mental health to the edge before his family realized and separated them, and recovering from that took a lot of work too, especially realizing his value as an independant person.
He eventually grows into a successful artist who paints between worlds, and who loves his wife and his own children in the same way he loves his entire family. He does his best to cope with having a longer lifespan than his sister and with his parents' death, when it happens, and some of his best paintings after the one of Christ are done in memory of them, of Library, of Infinity (his sister).
I really love him and he's wonderful. 🥺
In AUs, he has other names (Kaile-Aur, Rohe-Esoku, and other names in smaller AUs).
