Cast

The Descendants

Laurel Brant
Daughter of powerful industrialist and venture capitalist, William Brant, Laurel serves as both the group’s financier and over all technician. Her workshop is a monument to her pursuits in computer science, research and engineering.

It has been remarked that her psionic power of hyper-cognition makes her the third smartest person in the world, though she is far more compassionate and less serious than the stereotypical super-brain. When not working on a project, Laurel plays videos games with the younger Descendants and has normal, friendly conversations with Ian and Alexis.

Laurel has used her ability to retain information almost instantly to not only earn several degrees in mathematics, engineering and computer science, but she also knows six forms of martial arts and it is hinted that she still runs several shell companies despite her ‘in hiding’ status.

Melissa Forrester
Melissa was Alexis’s roommate at the Academy and spent much of her time rejecting her, Ian and Laurel’s offers of friendship. Ten years later, the trio discover that Melissa had been captured and put in stasis by the Academy, leaving her physically and mentally sixteen while they have aged a full decade.

Originally, Melissa was bitter at her powers; at her healing ability for making her teen years hell as various experts prodded, poked and sampled her in hopes of using her biology in a medical capacity, and her mood elevating aura for making the few moments she had without doctors harassing her socially awkward. Now, she is once more embittered by being temporally removed from society, a permanent outsider.

She rebuffs Cyn and Warrick’s friendship and finds a kindred spirit of sorts in Kareem, who is physically separated from the world in much the same way that she is mentally separated from it.

Warrick Kaine
Before his powers manifested, Warrick Kaine was a kind hearted geek with aspirations of becoming a super powered defender of the weak. When he discovered that he could control metal, he became a kind hearted geek that was a super powered defender of the weak.

Through means the other Descendants can guess at, Warrick manages to balance being a pop culture junkie with a Four Color code of morality and responsibility that proves to be as noble and naïve as it is infectious.

Warrick has proven to be a jack of all trades, master of none; showing aptitude in engineering, art and acting, but no spectacular talent in any of those fields. The only thing he does seem to excel at is playing the part of confident and bold knight in shining armor.

Isp and Osp
One of the feats Warrick is capable of with his power is the manifestation of two metallic tentacles with a reach of thirty feet and the purported strength to lift a truck. Though created by his power and capable of being ‘un-summoned’ the pair are actually separate, sentient entities; a rare phenomena among psionics.

Unable or unwilling to interact with organic beings aside from Warrick (to whom they are fanatically loyal) for any appreciable amount of time, the pair are often noted to engage in background activities, such as drawing, building houses of cards, or sunning themselves. Even Warrick admits that he doesn’t know what inspires their behavior.

Alexis Keyes
In the years after graduation from the Academy, Alexis had become a teacher at the Academy and grew increasingly more distant from her high school friends. When the Academy’s betrayal came to light, she turned to them for help, but hasn’t gotten over the guilt she feels for separating form them for so long.

Alexis tries to be a strict disciplinarian to the younger Descendants, but her own nature, long hidden by the mask she wore at the Academy, surfaces more often than she prefers to admit.

Among the three older Descendants, Alexis is easily the one with the greatest degree of control over her power; an enigmatic ‘black heat’ that she can use to levitate, attack foes, and assume a cloak of invisibility.

Cynthia McAllister
Mischievous, passionate and often abrasive, Cyn is the free spirit of Freeland House. Cyn is often the catalyst for misadventures among the younger Descendants and is very proud of that fact to the point that she makes forcing Melissa into social situations her personal hobby. She is particularly close to Warrick, who she drags wherever she goes like a security blanket and becomes spiteful if others don’t go along as expected.

Her ‘consummate shapeshifting’ ability means that with enough energy, she is capable of essentially any biological function, including, winged flight, accelerated healing, organ shifting, and color changes. Cyn can assume any form of proportionate mass, but the price she must pay comes in the form of an appetite about four times as voracious as a normal human.

The fact that she can control every cell in her body, making her effectively immortal as long as she retains consciousness goes a long way to explain Cyn’s assertive attitude and cockiness. It has been shown that electrical surges and strong sonic vibrations can ‘disrupt’ this ability.

Ian Smythe
A classic slacker/follower type at the Academy, Ian grew to become a well rounded, assertive man while working for Laurel’s father designing powered armor systems. His passion for doing what’s important and what’s right rival Cyn and Warrick’s own fervor and consequently feeds it. It was he that spearheaded the raid on Langley to free the younger Descendants and that episode also seeded within him a deep seated animosity for his former hero, the Enforcer Prometheus.

Since his arrival at Freeland House and the subsequent removal of his previous responsibilities, he spends a great deal of time maintaining his old friendships with Laurel and Alexis and finding ways to keep busy.

Ian has the power to control the density of fluid matter, but his control is lacking, resulting in most of his uses of the it manifesting in the form of crude, but powerful bursts of wind or flash boiling/solidifying water. Occasionally, he manages spectacular feats, such as stopping bullets with compressed air, or creating an explosion with condensed water.

Juniper Taylor
Before waking up in a compromised stasis cell in the wreck of an Academy transport, Juniper was one of Warrick’s classmates, though they didn’t really know each other. This trivial fact, plus her optimistic, bright-eyed attitude has earned her Cyn’s mild distain.

Juniper herself is either unaware of, or uncaring of this fact and treats the other girl as if they were good friends. In fact, aside from obvious villains, Juniper treats almost everyone as good friends.

With her power of intense cold generation, Juniper can turn even sturdy materials brittle enough to be destroyed by a well placed blow, as well as alter the environment around her. It is implied that she can sense body heat. Juniper is unique among her peers in that she only uses her powers in emergencies. She doesn't seem to like cold at all, preferring to seek out sunny places to warm herself.

Kareem Utt
Kareem suffers from psychic damage, presumably a result of his stint in stasis. As a result, he exists as a disembodied presence on the Astral Plane, only able to make contact through telepathy. Despite this, he retains a cautious optimism in all things, save the possibility of returning to his physical form.

The nature of the Astral, a universe composed of the residual energies of emotion, has increased his natural empathy manifold. He is essentially Melissa’s only confidant and subtly tries to encourage her to be proactive in improving her life.

Laurel in particular, has taken personal responsibility for Kareem’s case, creating several devices to make his new status quo comfortable while she investigates new options on how to heal him. Kareem, while grateful to her, insists that she take care of the others before himself.