Alexis Keyes
“Darkness”
Date of Birth: January 3, 2049
Race/Ethnicity: Roma American
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 160lbs.
Hair: black
Eyes: green (wears reading glasses)

The middle sister of five girls, Alexis inherited her father’s ability to generate heat generating particulate matter that she calls ‘black heat’. When it became clear that Alexis’s powers were beyond her father’s scope to teach and her mother’s patience to clean up after, she was sent to the Academy to learn. There, she met Laurel and Ian and became the defacto leader of the trio; driving most of their adventures with her swingshift emotions and impulsive nature.

Alexis ultimately decided to ‘give back’ to the Academy and become a teacher rather than move to the west coast with Laurel as Ian did. Over the years, she became distant and more than a little guilty over the trouble she had caused her friends in her youth.

This all changed when Alexis discovered the Academy’s betrayal and bought it to the attention of the only people she knew she could trust; her old friends. Alexis was initially resistant to the idea of using her powers for super heroics, but as threats such as Morganna and Project Tome emerged, she accepted the responsibility of being tactical leader of the Descendants, even being the one that finally named the group.

In civilian life, Alexis has become romantically involved with Ian, and has taken the lead in advancing psionics rights and founding a school for psionics to fill the void left by the Academy’s downfall. She now works as a power use and creativity instructor at the school in Mayfield.

Alexis uses her ‘black heat’ in a number of ways, including projecting it offensively, levitating herself and other objects, and starting fires. By carefully arranging the particulate matter she generates, she can also become invisible, but doing so makes her blind. She wears a ballistic cloth body suit in battle as well as a scarf made of transitional material that allows it to become a rigid staff or elastic rope.

Ian Smythe
“Chaos”
Date of Birth: April 21, 2049
Race/Ethnicity: Mixed European American
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 159lbs
Hair: brown
Eyes: brown

A California native, Ian grew up as the brain to his brother’s brawn. Both Smythe brothers developed powers of fluid density control; with Ian having more raw power, but his older brother, Isaac, having far better fine control. Ian entered the Academy to follow in his brother’s footsteps and soon fell in with Laurel and Alexis, who he harbored an unrequited crush for.

After the Academy and college, Ian chose to move to Washington State to take a development job with Brant Industries, becoming Laurel’s neighbor and even dating her for a time. When Alexis came to him for help, the Academy Enforcer, Prometheus, ended up igniting a gas main and destroying Ian’s home in his efforts to apprehend Alexis. Both out of a need for vengeance and a sense of duty to the captured kids, Ian proposed a raid on the Academy’s Langley campus. The raid ended with Ian confronting and being gravely wounded by Prometheus.

Once at Freeland House, Ian managed to start a relationship with Alexis and seems content on staying at the House and looking after the younger residents. He seems to have no qualms letting his talent at engineering go to waste, but throws himself wholeheartedly into super heroics instead.

As Chaos, Ian wields his power over the density of fluid matter to create powerful air currents that are capable of striking down enemies or supporting his weight while he is wearing a special wind catching cape. He can also use his power to manipulate other fluids, such as water, compacting them to the point of solidity or pressurization (even in situations normally not possible), or thinning them out to the point that they don’t provide buoyancy. He has also recently been taught by Isaac how to use his power to create a fuel air bomb.

Warrick Kaine
“Alloy”
Date of Birth: November 1, 2057 (relative age due to stasis: 18)
Race/Ethnicity: Italian American
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 123lbs.
Hair: black
Eyes: hazel

A resident of Brooklyn, New York, Warrick always dreamed of becoming a hero like those he read about in comic books and fantasy novels. When his psionic powers manifested in the form of metal control, he became one in order to protect the other kids in his neighborhood from gangs looking to avenge themselves for his actions.

As the prelate Damascus, Warrick nominated himself as sidekick to his real life hero, The Whitecoat. After a series of flubs, the Whitecoat finally bought Warrick’s ‘career’ to the attention of his parents, who decided that if their son wanted to be a prelate, he would have to do it the ‘right’ way; by learning how to harness his powers at the Academy.

Unfortunately, Warrick drew the attention of the Academy, which placed him in stasis for ‘data collection’ for over a year before he was rescued in Ian and the others’ raid on the Langley campus.

Following his rescue, Warrick quickly made friends with Cyn and the two of them formed the first super heroic team, called Lifesavers, Inc. Warrick flourished at Freeland House, making more friends that he’d ever made in New York, and finding a love interest in Christina “Tink: Carlyle. He also maintains constant contact with his family, especially his younger sister, Tammy.

Warrick wields the power to shape metal to his whims, both on the physical level and at the atomic level; able to transmute one metal into another at the cost of great damage to surrounding metal objects. He usually uses this to create supernaturally hard armor around him or to disarm his opponents. His ‘metal sense’ can distinguish one metal or form of metal from another as well as amount of stress or damage to a piece. Warrick compares this to a second sense of taste. Magically altered metal and particulate metal has been shown to resist his powers and muddle his metal sense.

Warrick also has the ability to ‘summon’ two metal tentacles that typically anchor themselves to his arms. Named Isp and Osp, the tentacles are at least semi-independent beings, capable of communicating with Warrick and keeping knowledge secret from him. Their ‘bodies’ are formed of liquid metal and they change their shapes to suit their tasks, from blades to spider like legs for typing. Beyond that, Isp and Osp are also phenomenally strong, easily able to lift and carry Warrick and another person.

Cynthia “Cyn” McAllister
“Facsimile”
Date of Birth: December 12, 2056 (relative age due to stasis: 17)
Race/Ethnicity: Irish American
Height: usually 5’8”
Weight: usually 178lbs.
Hair: white
Eyes: usually green (naturally purple due to albinism)

Born to an abusive family in North Carolina, Cyn faced her father and brothers’ ire for being born an albino; something her father insists means that she isn’t his child. Things only became worse when her psionic ability of perfect shapeshifting and accompanying six-fold increase in her appetite manifested. Her father and brothers quickly discovered that even small electrical shocks were enormously painful to her and sent her powers haywire.

Eventually, Cyn made her way to the Academy, where she was once again abused in the form of being kidnapped and held in stasis for two years before being rescued and bought to Freeland House.

With a fresh slate in Mayfield, Cyn has become close friends with Warrick and has taken Laurel as a sort of surrogate mother after finally getting her chance to confront her family about her treatment. She now considers the Descendants to be her family and fears losing them more than anything. Due to her poorly adjusted upbringing, she has had trouble dealing with her jealousy at Warrick and Tink’s relationship and has struggled with what her feelings actually are. Nonetheless, she is forceful and opinionated, mirroring Alexis’s younger days as she tries to force Melissa to ‘have fun’ her way and dragging Warrick and Juniper into everything she does.

Cyn is a consummate shapeshifter, having complete control over her biology. This allows her to not only mimic others, but to form entirely new guises, grow claws, wings, or armor, and stretch or strengthen her own limbs.

The price for this vast power is that Cyn’s metabolism works overtime, requiring her to eat six times that of a normal human female her size and more if she uses her power extensively. If she ignores this need for too long, her skin will break down and metabolize any organic material it touches. Further, her highly efficient cellular makeup makes her extremely vulnerable to electric shock, which causes her to lose control of her powers.

There, Juniper did her best to ingratiate herself with the other teens, though she is frequently made the butt of Cyn’s jokes for her sunny disposition. Though she isn’t particularly close to anyone else at Freeland House, she approaches the Descendants’ activities with excitement and gusto, though she rarely seems to take missions – even missions that directly threaten her life – seriously. Juniper pursued and eventually became involved with Adel Miller, whose supposed lack of personality is also the butt of many of Cyn’s jokes.

Juniper possesses a heat sense and the ability to lower the temperature of an area or object, causing objects to become so cold as to turn brittle. She also uses this ability to freeze water vapor in the air into shackles, shields, or weapons. On at least one occasion, this power was shown capable of reducing ambient temperature enough to freeze air.

On top of her powers, Juniper also possesses military level skills with thrown weaponry, field surgery, and battlefield control. Recently, she also won a Koshiki Motors Genokaze flying motorcycle in a raffle. Whether she will use this in anything other then a civilian capacity remains to be seen.

Time in the cell damaged Kareem’s body and by the time Kareem was freed from his confinement, his body had fallen into a deep coma, leaving his astral projection as his only method of communication. Despite this, Kareem made fast friends at Freeland House, particularly with the depressed and reclusive Melissa even before Laurel created a network of devices that allowed Kareem to communicate via computer screen and speakers and travel miles from his comatose body.

Possibly due to his unprecedented lengthy exposure to the astral plane, Kareem has developed abilities that utilize and manipulate the plane in some way, allowing him to shape the local reality on the astral, to attack the astral bodies of material creatures, and to read and touch the minds of others.

Following an encounter with astral entities, Kareem was forced back into his body, which awoke from the coma and it has become unclear what powers he has retained apart from his ability to sense and read minds. As he attempts to adjust to life on the physical plane once more, he has rather swiftly fallen into a relationship with a protomorph girl named Desiree.

Melissa Forrester
“Hope”
Date of Birth: March 12, 2049 (relative age due to stasis: 17)
Race/Ethnicity: Irish American
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 110lbs.
Hair: red
Eyes: green

Melissa was sent to the Academy in hopes of controlling her ability to exude mood enhancing stimulants, which had driven her to depression due to never being able to trust the emotions of others. At the Academy, she was roommate to Alexis who made constant overtures of making her part of her circle of friends, but was always rebuffed.

In the winter of her first year at the Academy, Melissa as kidnapped and remained in stasis for nearly a decade before Alexis and company unexpectedly rescued her from the Langley campus. Horrified at how much time she’d lost, Melissa fell into her old patterns, rejecting Cyn’s attempts to make friends. She did, however, find a kindred spirit in Kareem, who was a literally removed from a normal life as she was spiritually.

Melissa initially looked down on super heroics except in cases that directly affected her, but her attitude has changed since being reunited with her family and the younger brother she never knew and coming to understand the need to protect them.

With minimal combat ability, Melissa relies on her mood elevating power to distract enemies while concentrating on applying the healing touch to the fallen. Neither power is without it’s price, however. Though Melissa now has control of her mood power, she can only elevate existing moods, which means that she ma actually increase an enemy’s resolve of bloodlust. Her healing, likewise has the side effect of causing ravenous hunger in the subject, possibly to the point of starving them to death in the process of healing them.