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“I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills.”

Hayden Watt

FC: Kristen Stewart Birthdate: August 31, 1990 Species: Mutant Abilities: Air Manipulation Affiliation: Pro-Equality Profession: Firefighter Gender: Genderfluid (Zie, Zim, Zir, Zis, Zieself) Sexuality: Not Heterosexual

Personality

✔ Courageous, Kind, Playful ✖ Careless, Destructive, Reckless

Biography

Hayden had it easy- or so zie thinks. Zir hippie parents may have moved around a lot the first seven years of zir life, but as soon as zie complained about how hard it was to make friends, they settled down and bought a home. This was the typical behavior from zir parents. While they certainly punished zir for bad behavior, they tried to prevent the bad behavior in the first place. They encouraged zir hobbies, and they funded every trip zie wanted to go on. 

Hayden loved zir life for a while, but zir parents calmness and the perfection of zir life started to bother zir when zir best friend snapped, “You wouldn’t understand! Your life is perfect!” Then when zir parents responded with nothing but love and kindness when Hayden came out as both genderfluid and not straight, Hayden reached the end of zir rope. 

Zie shouted at zir parents, packed up, and ran away to the capital of zir hope state. Zie bounced from home to home until one day the apartment that zie was in set on fire. 

Hayden felt a sudden thrill that zie never felt before as zie suffocated the fire with zir ability. Finally that itch had been scratched, but now zie needed more. 

Zie left to Hestia where zie went to a technical school and eventually became a firefighter. 

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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

Rosalie Peterson

FC: Emily Browning Birthdate: November 5, 1984 Species: Werewolf Abilities: Shapeshift Affiliation: Pro-Equality Profession: Lawyer Gender: Female Sexuality: Demisexual or Asexual

Personality

✔ Responsible, Compassionate, Organized  ✖ Crass, Inhibited, Disconnected

Biography:

The Petersons were one of the first families to move into Hestia alongside William Atlas. After hundreds of years struggling to barely survive out with the humans, the Petersons were more than glad to finally find a place where werewolves could survive and even thrive. Through hard work, the Petersons eventually even became one of the founding families of Hestia. To this day they still help new families find their way in Hestia and even give out low interest loans to those who want to open up small businesses. 

This legacy made the eldest Peterson daughter’s life far easier than most of her fellow students at Atlas Academy. Her parents taught her how to deal with shape shifting, and they even had a little party for her after her first shift. While it seemed a little strange to her, it made the change a lot less stressful for her and her siblings. 

She found this wasn’t true for many of her friends. Some would simply be shunned which was sad, but she was startled to find that many of her friends had been abused because of their ability. She ended up convincing her parents to take in many kids during the time that she was in high school, but it still didn’t feel like enough for Rosalie. 

One summer night while nursing one of her friend’s wounds, Rosalie had enough, and she finally realized her calling. She was going to fight for mutants. 

She went back to school with a new passion that startled all of her teachers. She started to get all As, she joined four new clubs, and she started debating with just about anyone that would listen. 

Who would listen to Rosalie go on for hours about social justice? Her parents. They spent every waking moment with their ears turned towards the bright girl who could out argue literally anyone. She had a quick wit, an amazing understanding of law, and she had an even more developed sense of justice. 

She was everything a law school could ever want or need which was where she went. Rosalie flew through school with little to no hiccups and at the top of her class. 

After school, she opened up an office in Hestia where she does a lot of pro-bono work for children at Atlas who are trying to free themselves from their parents. 

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“ Absolute power corrupts absolutely .”

Nicholas Cain

FC: Evan Peters Birthdate: January 23, 1993 Species: Mutant Abilities: Ballistic Scream Affiliation: Pro-Equality Profession: Paramedic Gender:Male Sexuality: Up to Player

Personality

✔ Adaptive, Persuasive, Helpful ✖ Violent, Aggressive, Dogmatic

Biography:

Nicholas’ parents never saw him coming. The Cains were two very in love humans who figured that sense the economy was doing well that they could finally have that child that they had been talking about for five years. They bought parenting books, built a beautiful nursery, and excitedly prepared for the child that they were sure would bring a whole new level of happiness to their already perfect life. 

But no amount of preparation could have prevented the terror that was Nicholas. 

As soon as he came out of the womb, he came out screaming, but his scream was no normal scream. His scream was so loud and powerful that his parents, the doctor, and the nurses’ earbuds all burst instantly from the sound. Not only that but the doctor and the nurses went flying towards the wall. The only thing that saved Nicholas from dying from hitting the concrete was the quick thinking of his deafened father. 

When everyone healed from their injuries or at least were stable, one of the nurses pointed the Cains in the direction of Hestia and signed to them (as they were both deaf now) that Hestia would be able help.

They immediately headed in that direction, but they never quite made it. While driving over the mountain, Nicholas began to sob and scream once again. This time it rocked the car so much that it went tumbling over the side of the mountain. This left Jeremy a very lonely and hated orphan. 

Hestia’s orphanage had quite a few kids, but none were as terrible as Nicholas. His screams were horrible, and they had to leave him with one deaf nurse in a house all to themselves until hew was old enough to learn to not do that. 

And learn that he did. He was constantly beat by the nurse when he cried, and he learned quickly that his ability was to be feared and hated. 

The older that he got though the more he realized that this didn’t just apply to him. All mutants had powers that were far too much for any one person to have. He realized that he had survived all of this for one reason. He had to get rid of mutants. They were too powerful, and Cameron’s revolution has only made him more passionate about his cause. 

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“ Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. ”

Nydia Martinez

FC: Michelle Rodriguez  Birthdate: August 2, 1984 Species: Mutant Abilities: Superhuman Strength and Durability Affiliation: Pro-Equality Profession: Police Officer Gender: Up to Player (Pronouns: She/Her) Sexuality: Up to Player (Some degree attracted to the same sex)

Personality

✔ Brave, Self-Sufficient, Resilient ✖ Zealous, Insensitive, Deceitful 

Biography:

Nydia’s childhood was a pretty happy one. Her father was a history professor, and her mother was a probation officer. That meant that they easily supported their little girl’s interests. Nydia got to try anything under the sun as long as she pouted a little and batted her eye lashes. She had her parents wrapped around her little finger. 

The only things she was not allowed was to date. Her father was extremely protective, and he didn’t trust teenage boys. He hoped that if she was busy she wouldn’t take an interest in boys. 

He was right. She didn’t take an interest in boys. At seventeen, Nydia finally told her parents that her ‘best friend’ was actually her girlfriend, and introduced Alejandra Ortega to her parents. She had been secretly dating Alejandra for two years and had been waiting to make sure that the relationship was serious before informing her very conservative parents. 

Out of shock and mostly homophobia, her father kicked her out of her home. Alejandra, her five year older girlfriend, took her in, and even helped her move out of her house. Alejandra made a hard time much easier for the poor girl, and for another year she lived with Alejandra in pure happiness while she tried to graduate. 

When she did graduate and told Alejandra that she wanted to go to college and get a job, Alejandra broke down into sobs asking if she wasn’t providing enough for Nydia. Not wanting to bite the hand that had been feeding her, Nydia comforted Alejandra and decided to be an at home girlfriend. 

For three years, she lived like this, but Alejandra seemed to be becoming more and more toxic. She blamed Nydia for anything that went wrong. She fought with Nydia and demonized her friends so much that she was completely isolated by the end of three years. Nothing Nydisa did was right, and she felt like she was treading around mines if she ever mentioned that there was something wrong. 

Then Alejandra crossed the line. In the heat of an argument about an innocent text to Nydia’s mother, Alejandra struck Nydia. She apologized and said she wouldn’t ever do it again, but the damage had been done. Nydia finally could see the scars that Alejandra had created.

She packed her bags, called her mother, and went to a women’s shelter. 

While there, she saw an advertisement for the army, and she knew instantly that was where she needed to be. As a sign of rebellion, she shaved her head, and then she applied. With little to no trouble, she was almost instantly recruited, went through basics, and then deployed to Afghanistan. 

There in Afghanistan she helped stabilize some areas, and she was even there in Kabul to make sure that women were safe to vote. She knew that many of them were illiterate and uneducated, but she was just happy seeing women gaining some sort of power in their lives. 

Much like she had in the services. While she served seven tours, she found a community of strong women who had each other’s backs. She was no longer isolated. She finally put her civilian life behind her and buried herself in the services. 

For her last five tours, she was deployed to Fallujah, Iraq. She was there to train the locals for the Iraqi Defense Forces. For fifty-one months, she was in Fallujah working with the civilians doing different things. 

Then the last couple of months she started to feel sick. So much so that she passed out one night after throwing up all over a civilian that she had been talking to. 

The next thing she knew she was back in the states under the care of the DIA. They informed her that after being hit by so much artillery with depleted uranium Fallujah’s air had become saturated with particles from the uranium. They knew that it would cause cancer, but what they couldn’t explain was how instead of finding cancer in Nydia’s lungs they found strengthened muscle cells. 

Over time Nydia and the DIA realized that she was now a mutant who had superhuman strength and durability. She was practically impenetrable, could go miles without breaking a sweat, and she could pick up things seven times her size. 

The DIA realized that Nydia could be something much more than a super soldier. She could be a spy. They informed her that in Hestia there is a insurgency going on that is threatening to overthrow the government of America, and that they were terrorist. They asked her to spy on the citizens of Hestia, and to report back to them anything that she hears. 

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Michelle LaCroix

FC: Viola Davis Birthdate: August 11, 1965 Species: Merfolk Abilities: Speed Swimming, Enhanced Senses, and Aquatic Adaption Affiliation: Pro-Equality Profession: Treasurer of Hestia Gender: Female Sexuality: Up to Writer

Personality

✔ Resilient, Ambitious, Observant ✖ Observant, Insecure, Distant

Biography:

If you don’t know who Michelle Lacroix is, you must’ve living under a rock for the past decade.

Born into a family of twelve merfolk in New Orleans from a very early age she learned that life was hard for black merfolk like her. The Bible belt was hard to grow up in when every time she turned her head some street was named after a confederate soldier. The history had made her home state a battleground every single day for Michelle LaCroix. With her kinky natural hair tied in a headscarf and her fist in the air, Michelle attempted to stand up against the tyranny of racism.

She was one of the most curious and bright children in her classes, but her dyslexia made things far harder than they were for her siblings. She had to try ten times harder to learn the same material as the other students in her class. Her struggles were exacerbated by a systematic attempt to get her to try to quit school. The counselors told her that it’d just be best for her, and the teacher eventually gave up trying to help her at all.

However, she did eventually graduate which became one of her proudest achievements.

After finishing high school though she wanted to do more with her life, but there weren’t many options laid out of her.  She had considered swimming off into the ocean to join most of her fellow black merfolk who had built themselves a good life underwater. However, her father had a heart attack the year before, and her family needed to help to keep afloat. So she started to work as a waitress while she saved back money to eventually go back to school, because if she was not going to go underwater after she was going to make sure that she would never have to struggle the same way her parents had to.

While working she met a young man who swept her off of her feet, and she got married in 1988 when she was twenty-three years old. She moved with him to St. Bernard’s Parish Louisiana to get closer to the ocean to make things easier for her to relax in the ocean every once in a while, and things were starting to look up for her. They both had jobs, and maybe they weren’t rich, but they were happy. She was getting closer to her goal of going back to school, he was sweet, and at that point her mother had gotten lucky enough that one of her kids became a doctor who helped keep her in her home as long as possible.

Then in 1992 her dreams of going back to school were completely crushed. Both she and her husband were happy about a child, but there was a bit of resentment that she harbored towards their new child for crushing her dreams. However, after she saw his face she decided that after he was eighteen she’d go back to school. Maybe then he wouldn’t need her, and she could pursue her dreams again.  

For a while, life was sweet for the little family. Things were hard since she was a waitress and her husband was a fisher, but they had all the necessities. They struggled to get a better life, but tried to not let that struggle take over their lives. They were mostly happy until a disaster struck them.

2012 brought a terrible disaster to Louisiana. Katrina. Her husband had refused to leave his home due to a fear of someone taking it while they were gone. Then when the hurricane hit, their home flooded. They all ran up to the roof where they tried to wade out the ocean.

Then the water started to crash up around her ankles, and for the first time ever her son discovered that she was a mermaid. Then to her surprise just as his head went under the water for the first time gills grew on his neck, and he started to grow a fin at the same time.

Michelle and Jeremy, her son, tried to carry her husband to safety as they swam towards anything that wasn’t submerged, but her husband didn’t have the same stamina and oxygen that they had. They let go of him for just a second to take a breather, and he fell below the surface. They tried to get him back above the water, but they couldn’t find a solid surface to knock the water out of his lungs. He died on her back while she tried to get him to dry land.

When they finally got to safety where they stayed with a couple for a couple of days, Michelle was shattered into tiny fragments. Michelle lost her home, her job, and her entire family. The only one she was able to save was her son. Devastated with the loss of her husband and family, Michelle didn’t know how she was going to move forwards. How was she supposed to raise and support her son?

While she tried to get help from FEMA, she slowly became enraged with George Bush’s reaction to Katrina, and as things got worse and worse she decided that she was never going to end up in the same situation. She was going to begin anew, and she was going to build a whole life on her own.

She moved all the way up to Hestia in Washington that she had heard about from other merfolk. While there, she got some help from sympathetic merfolk who helped her get a steady well paying job. She saved back and took out some student loans, and she went to college finally. She struggled, but now she was more stubborn than ever to finish with a degree, and she did. She got a Masters in both accounting and political science.

She then started work at work a firm and worked relentlessly until she was recognized again and again and again for promotions and managing positions. Finally, she worked her way up to the treasurer of Hestia where she is the most powerful and respected woman of the city.

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