History Characters / HereticalEdgeCrossroadsAcademyStudents

* BrokenPedestal: Felicity idolized her mother as a child. So when Joselyn suddenly ditched their family for some random guy, Flick was so hurt and betrayed that all of her love for the woman turned into bitter hatred.

* ArcherArchetype

* ChildSoldiers
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Distressingly common among Bystander-kin students.

[[WMG: Deveron Adam's Team]]

[[spoiler: He's actually been a student at Crossroads before, having graduated in 1922 along with Flick's mother. He was heavily involved in her revolution. And with her. They were (and technicaly still are) married. He's the father of her twins.]]

** BrokenAce: Very much so.

* BrilliantButLazy: He's an exceptional student when he makes an effort... but he no longer cares enough to do that.
** [[spoiler: It's an act. He cares a great deal - but his plan requires him to pretend to phone it in, and he already graduated once.]]

* SuperSenses: Gained enhanced senses from a few Strangers in his first year.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Deveron was a lot friendlier in his first year at Crossroads.
* TookALevelInKindness: He mellows out quite a bit a few months into the semester, becoming a much better mentor.

* UndyingLoyalty: To [[spoiler: his wife, Joselyn]].

[[spoiler: Tabbris has been riding along in her body for the last eight or nine years.]]

* AmazonChaser: Reacts to the sight of Nevada slaughtering a group of zombies the same way Columbus does.
* ArchEnemy: Fossor.

* BattleCouple: She's in two, with Avalon and Shiori.

* BoomStick: Flick's Heretic weapon is a kinetic burst-staff, which is a staff that charges up and releases bursts of kinetic energy in various ways. With it she can fire off blasts of force powerful enough to make YourHeadAsplode, DoubleJump by firing off a blast while she's in the air, and lay down invisible concussive mines that explode on physical contact. And it's a stick she can hit people with.
** It later gets upgraded by Nevada, who adds a portal that connects it to a canister full of sand and an alternate mode which transforms it into a bow.
* BoringYetPractical: It's not as flashy as other powers, but the huge stamina boost Flick gets from killing an [[CanisMajor amarok]] allows her to fight and exercise for long periods of time without even sweating or panting.

** [[spoiler: RebuiltPedestal: And that hatred shifts right back into love when Felicity learns the [[TakeMeInstead reason]] Joselyn left.]]

Flick's roommate. Avalon is the daughter of Gaia Sinclaire, the Headmistress of Crossroads Academy. [[spoiler: Her birth name is Hannah Owens and she was a student at Eden's Garden before Gaia adopted her. She had to leave when her teammate tried to rape her and she killed him - rather brutally - in self defense.]] She's a bit... prickly.

She's five feet, eight inches tall with long, pitch black hair. Very well-endowed and beautiful. Wears the skirt version of the uniform with light blue trim. Development track. Uses gauntlets which are capable of projecting solid light weaponry such as blades and claws, as well as tools for actual work. Bystander-kin, but she's been part of the Heretical world since she was eleven, so she might as well be Heretic-born at this point. Her Heretic-aura is pale green.

[[spoiler: She is a descendant of Hieronymus Bosch, something that not even she is initially aware of.]]

[[WMG: Andrew Bruhn's Team]]

[[folder: Stephen Kinder]]

Gavin Rish's roommate. Short at slightly under five foot five, but muscular in build. Uniform is lined with blue for the development track. Weapon is a long spear. Heretic-born. His Heretic aura is pale yellow.

[[folder: Gavin Rish]]

Stephen Kinder's roommate. Very tall, though quite thin boy whose uniform is lined with the white of the security track. His weapon is a shotgun with three barrels. Heretic-born.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Well, duh.

[[folder: Aylen Tamaya]]

Koren's roommate. Native American girl, tall and regal looking. Wears the skirt version of the uniform with red trim for Explorers. Weapon is a mechanical hawk named Sovereign. She's a bystander-kin with some secrets of her own.

[[spoiler: Not remotely a bystanderkin. Bastet and Sonoma's daughter.]]

* AnimalEyeSpy: Aylen can see what Sovereign sees. Which, ''technically'' would be a SurveillanceDrone, but Sovereign is realistic enough for this.
* InstantArmor: Sovereign can transform to cover Aylen in a suit of full body armor.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: For her mothers to rescue her grandfather, the reaper who became the Heretical Edge.]]
* RobotBuddy: Come on, who wouldn't want a mechanical hawk for a pet?
* TranquilFury: She maintains her composure when someone insults one of her teammates while letting Sovereign go after them.
* UnevenHybrid: [[spoiler: She's a quarter-Reaper through her mother Bastet and part werecrow through her other mother Sonoma.]]

[[folder: Rebecca Jameson]]


Shiori's roommate. Just under five feet tall, tiny girl with black hair cut short into a pixie cut. Wears the blue uniform of development. Her weapon is a massive cannon that doubles as a backpack. Heretic-born.

* BackpackCannon
* SmallGirlBigGun: Even more so than Scout. Not only is Rebecca's gun bigger, she's also shorter.

[[WMG: Cameron Reid's Team]]

[[folder: Cameron Reid]]

The mentor for Vanessa Moon's team. Also a much better mentor than Deveron. Black tomboy with an affinity for lizards. She wears the pants version of the uniform with the Hunter track’s green trim. Uses a pair of short swords of unknown ability. Bystander-kin.

* DualWielding: Uses two short swords.
* ParrotPetPosition: She has a pet lizard that rides on her shoulder.

[[folder: Vanessa Moon]]

A shy girl who surprisingly chose to take the Explorer track. Vanessa would spend all her free time in the library if her teammate and roommate Erin didn't push her into being more social. She's Bystander-kin, and was recruited by Crossroads out of the foster care system. She lost her family when at age seven when they were attacked by a Stranger and wound up being separated across multiple words. Vanessa accepted Crossroads' offer in order to find them.

Of course, the situation is a bit more complicated than that. Vanessa and her twin brother Tristan's father, Haiden Moon, was an Eden's Garden Heretic. Their mother, Sariel, is a Seosten, formerly of the Empire. Both defected from their respective factions to get married. The Stranger that attacked them was one of Sariel's former comrades attempting to drag her back into service. On the plus side, being [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]] has given Vanessa and Tristan some neat [[HybridPower powers]].

* {{Foil}}: For Flick and Shiori. Despite her near-crippling shyness Vanessa might be the most well adjusted of the three of them since she lacks Shiori's [[InternalizedCategorism self-loathing]] and Flick's abandonment issues as well as her intense [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilt]].
** Vanessa and Shiori both have a Stranger for a mother (a Seosten and a vampire, respectively). But Sariel Moon was present for Vanessa's early life, while Jiao gave Shiori up for adoption when she was an infant. Therefore, Vanessa easily sees through the Crossroads propaganda about Strangers while Shiori completely buys into it.
** Like Flick, Vanessa's mission in life is to find and save her family. Unlike Flick, Vanessa was actually present for the event that split them up and grew up knowing the truth of what happened.
* HalfHumanHybrid: This is the root cause of her perfect PhotographicMemory. Her mother is a Seosten. She starts to grow into more Seosten powers as time goes on.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: Her brother Tristan looks like a male version of her.
* IWillFindYou: Vanessa's goal in life is to find her scattered family.
* PhotographicMemory: She remembers pretty much everything she sees. Names, dates, the fourteenth word of the third paragraph of page 153 of that book she read last month, ''everything''.
** This is a hybrid power. It's full, absolutely perfect memory, and it also provides a limited defense against memory magic.
* ShrinkingViolet
* SuperSenses: Gains telescopic vision in the course of being on the Explorer track.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Potatoes. Vanessa ''loves'' eating potatoes.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Twin Sister Instinct]]: Vanessa loves her brother fiercely, and is just as desperate to find him as their parents.
* UnwantedAssistance: Vanessa understands why Erin is always pulling her out of the library to be more social, but she would really rather stay in and read. She's not doing it for pleasure (although she does enjoy it), she's trying to find any information that might help her find her family. She's also researching what exactly her Stranger mother is.
* WeaponSpecialization: Her weapon is a whip that can exchange inanimate materials from one object to another.

[[folder: Zeke Leven]]

Malcolm's roommate. Zeke is a Heretic-born student who chose the Security track. His weapon is a shield with various offensive functions.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: "Abhorrent" is probably overstating things, but Zeke has a crush on Sands that she is aware of and does not reciprocate.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Much like Sands ([[spoiler:at first]]), Zeke is firmly convinced of the AlwaysChaoticEvil of both Strangers and Eden's Garden Heretics.
* ButtMonkey: Every other appearance has someone embarrassingly shut him down.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Seems to be Sands' opinion of his crush on her:
--> '''Sands''': Our parents used to make us play together as kids and he was a selfish jerk then too. Now he thinks I should be his girlfriend or something just because we spent some time in the sandbox when we were five. I ate worms back then too, and you don’t see me doing that anymore.
* FantasticRacism: On top the standard "all Strangers are monsters" line, Zeke also looks down on Bystanders. Flick explicitly compares his use of the word Silverstone to "the way ''certain'' people used derogatory terms for people who weren’t Caucasian."
* {{Jerkass}}: Zeke is an asshole. An unpleasant, patronizing asshole.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: At one point he insists that Denuvus is made up in a room that includes [[spoiler: Nevada]], who has an ''extensive'' history with Denuvus.
* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Mother, Unlike Son]]: Zeke's apple didn't really fall far from Sophronia's tree as much as someone picked it up and threw it. The lady is a lot more personable than her youngest son's personality would suggest. [[spoiler: She's also a reformer while he's a hardliner.]]
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Zeke has roughly twenty older siblings, the natural result of having a parent that's almost a thousand years old. He's the youngest by a number of decades.
* MommasBoy: Zeke's mom is his hero, and she almost dotes on him in turn, sending him regular care packages at school.
* SmugSnake: Often right before the aforementioned shutting down.
* SpoiledBrat: His condescension and entitlement complex are the result of his mother being on the Committee.

[[folder: Erin Redcliffe]]

A Heretic-born student. Erin takes it upon herself to make sure Vanessa (who is also her roommate) gets out of the library often enough to have a social life.

* CoolSword: Her weapon is a sword that's enchanted to [[BlowYouAway control the wind.]]
* HappilyAdopted: By Nolan Redcliffe.
* ParentalAbaondoment: Erin's biological father left their family when she was three to run off with a girl on the colonies. Her mother was killed when she was around 8.

[[folder: Rudolph Parsons]]

A very pale Heretic-born student with white-blonde hair. Travis Colby's roommate. On the chubby side. Wears the investigation track’s purple trim. Weapon is a bow and arrow. Heretic-born.

[[spoiler: Later transferred to another team to replace Roxa after her disappearance. Tristan takes his place on his old team.]]

* ArcherArchetype
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Cruelly subverted when he shows up a few minutes after Flick wishes he was still alive... because she unconsciously activated her new necromancy powers and made him into a zombie by accident.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In brutally offhanded fashion by Manakel.]]
* NiceGuy
* MeaningfulFuneral: [[spoiler: His funeral is used by the Crossroads leadership to symbolize the defeat of the Strangers that killed him (who are not actually defeated and just manipulating the Heretics into thinking they are). His friend Doug is not amused.]]
* MellowFellow: A generally laid back guy. At least until you start insulting people he cares about.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: To Isaac's assignment to get his team to incriminate Flick to the Committee. Rudolph keeps messing it up by revealing details about how she recognized Fossor's name, which in turn raises enough questions about the situation to keep them from going full InspectorJavert on her.]]
* TheStoic: He doesn't emote much because of the way his father (who was born and raised in Victorian England) raised him.

[[folder: Travis Colby]]

Rudolph's roommate. Black guy of average height with a body builder’s physique. Wears his hair in cornrows. His uniform has the purple trim for the investigation track. Uses a long, heavy sword with explosive properties. Bystander-kin.

* CoolSword: It makes things go boom.

[[folder: Malcolm Harkess]]

Zeke's roommate. Stands an inch under six feet, handsome in an obvious jock sort of way. Square jaw, with hazel eyes and a stare that turns into a glower easily. Uniform has the blue trim of developers. His weapon of choice is a sledgehammer that is capable of instantly transporting its wielder to any of the last ten spots that the hammer struck. Bystander-kin

* AlwaysSecondBest: He's a talented fighter, having been trained before coming to Crossroads, but both Shiori and Avalon are better than him.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Applies a straightforward sense of good and evil even to human conflicts like the AmericanRevolution, citing the presence of vampire redcoats in his vision as proof of who the good guys were.
* TheRival: To Avalon in their combat class. Katarin often pairs them up to spar, and they apparently don't like each other. He really wants to beat her just once.
* {{Teleportation}}

[[folder: Tristan Moon]]

Vanessa's [[HalfIdenticalTwins Half Identical Twin]] brother. He's an exceptionally talented gymnast, apparently near Olympic level when when was seven years old. He got sucked into another world by the stepping-stone that sent his parents to different worlds. Tristan eventually ended up with the Meregan, but can't return to earth because the magic that sent him there is keeping him there. He meets Flick and Shiori on their homeworld. He's only about twelve at that point because he spent five years TakenForGranite with the Meregan.

After another five years, the Meregan manage to get him back to Earth by "anchoring" him to Flick, just a few weeks after they first met. Thanks to the TimeTravel, he's back to being the same age as his sister. Tristan then enrolls in Crossroads Academy as a transfer student and reunites with his sister.

* BookDumb: He's not great with studying or mathematics, which drives his highly academic sister a little nuts.
** Mainly because he has no interest in academic work. He's actually quite smart, though not as smart as his sister.
* BigManOnCampus: He becomes this within days of transferring to Crossroads Academy.
* CheerfulChild: Despite what happened when he was seven, Tristan managed to hold on to a cheerful disposition up to the age of twelve (which is how old he is when he first meets Flick and Shiori thanks to time spent TakenForGranite). It cracks at times, as is to be expected, but his excitement over being on a spaceship is proof that his cheer is completely genuine.
* HalfHumanHybrid: His mother is a Seosten, his father is a Heretic. And much like his sister, he gets a neat HybridPower out of it, his inhuman physicality.
* HalfIdenticalTwin: When they were children, Tristan looked like a male version of his sister. Judging by Flick's descriptions though, they eventually grew out of this.
* InnocentFanserviceGuy: The Meregan have no nudity taboo, a trait Tristan inherited after years of living with them. He's [[NakedOnArrival completely nude]] upon reuniting with Flick on Earth, and is bewildered by her freaked-out reaction.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He can't remember the names of his family or the details of how he got sent away from Earth. ''Some'' memories of Vanessa are restored when they reunite, but only enough for him to remember who she is.
* NewTransferStudent: He joins the student body of Crossroads Academy a couple of months after the semester starts.
* PrecociousCrush: Flick and Shiori are the first human girls Tristan met in five years, right at the onset of puberty. He grew up with the memory of them and still has a bit of a crush on them when they all end up the same age. He also was enamored with Avalon when he first met her, but he seems to have focused on Flick.
* SpikeShooter: Through the use of metal "feathers" he can grow.
* TakenForGranite: Spent an extended period of time as a statue. As a result, he has temporarily biologically five years younger than his twin sister, until time travel related shenanigans undid that.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The stepping stone that sent him to the Meregan world is keeping him there. They've sent him back to earth three times. He returned seconds later each time.
** Later, they finally get around this by binding him to an "anchor," although he's still technically trapped because he has to be in the same dimension as the anchor in question. He's initially anchored to Flick, though Gaia later shifts the anchor to Vanessa.

[[WMG: Marina Dupont's Team]]

[[folder: Marina Dupont]]

Marina is a tall, pale, willowy girl with short brown hair who wields a corseque of unknown special ability. Heretic-born. Her uniform is the skirt version, and has the blue coloring of the Development track.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Her team doesn't fully trust her with their secrets, [[spoiler: which reaches tragic levels when everyone on her original team save Doug either dies or disappears and she can only blame herself because she doesn't know anything about what's really going on.]]

[[folder: Jasmine "Jazz" Rhodes]]

A fairly tall black girl at a couple inches short of six feet, with long hair that’s evenly dyed purple on one half and pink on the other. Jazz wears the skirt version of the uniform with the Explorer track’s red trim. Her weapon is a falchion whose blade separates to reveal a barrel that produces flames which the wielder is capable of controlling via motions from the sword itself. Heretic-born.

Jazz is a member of the Torchbearers, an independent Heretic group that periodically sends students to Crossroads Academy and Eden's Garden for instruction to become Lightwalkers, the Edge-Heretics who lead the group.

* EveryoneHasStandards: She's very reluctant to come around to the idea that Strangers aren't evil], but agrees that ending the revolution by rewriting people's memories was an unambiguously evil act.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Comes around to the side of the revolution during Uprising, as she sees Alters acting like people.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When she finds out [[spoiler:Roxa is a werewolf, she starts to think that the reason Roxa didn't become evil when she became a werewolf is that the Edge protected her. Roxa, who has a number of good friends who are werewolves and were never Heretics, is pissed at Jazz or saying these friends are inherently evil.]]
* InspectorJavert: Jazz becomes one of the most deeply suspicious of her team when they learn Flick knows something about [[spoiler: Roxa's disappearance.]]
* {{Invisibility}}: One of her powers to to turn herself an anyone touching her invisible. This also dampens potential observers' senses of smell and hearing.
* IShallTauntYou: Jazz is quite good at manipulating her opponents.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: While Flick was separated from the team during Lessons, she and Jokai started dating.]]
* [[NormalFishInATinyPond Tiny Fish in a Normal Pond]]: [[spoiler: Jazz isn't weak or incompetent for a normal first year. But she is a normal first year, she's stuck in Seosten space, and her teammates are all abnormally strong and highly motivated. She's in way over her head.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Her sword produces controllable fire.
* SuperSmoke: She can shift into a state of light red smoke.
* TheoryTunnelvision: Jazz starts with the assumption that [[spoiler: Roxa's disappearance]] is an integral part of some nefarious plot. It was actually a complete accident. This colors her perception of all the information she gets.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Having a real reason to fight beyond obligation does wonders for her effectiveness.]]
* TheUnchosenOne: The Torchbearers periodically send the absolute ''best'' of their students to Crossroads Academy and Eden's Garden for instruction. Jazz herself is not one of those chosen few. She was simply the only Torchbearer child available after all the other candidates were killed in an attack.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Jazz is quite a bit more cunning than some people give her credit for. Her InspectorJavert tendencies led her to a number of wrong conclusions, but that changes once she gets a clearer picture of what's going on. [[spoiler: Isaac writing her off leads to her cutting off his hand.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: To Isaac and the Seosten, who are manipulating her and her team to incriminate Flick to the Committee. All the team counts, but Jazz and Doug are the ones they have the easiest time with.]]

[[folder: Paul Calburn]]

Paul is a cocky yet very gentlemanly boy from Kentucky on Marina's team. He’s six foot even, with sandy hair and a fairly average, unremarkable face. Wields a pair of hand-axes that he has nicknamed Pain and Panic. Each target struck by the weapons subsequently receive the physical damage dealt to every subsequent target (multiplied if dealt to the same target) struck by that weapon within the next 10 minutes. Wears the green trim of the Hunter track. Heretic-born with an orange Heretic aura.

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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: A mild case, but Paul is noticeably sure of his combat prowess and doesn't like it when someone bests him. He's not mean about it, but it's there.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards all his slightly younger teammates, as a result of his actual younger brother's death.
* ElementalPowers: He can divide himself into neat pieces. Those pieces can then replace their missing body parts with elements like water and fire. So if you cut him in half, you have to deal with two of him.
* ICallItVera: He names his axes Pain and Panic.
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: He's killed by Isaac so a Fetch can take his place.]]
* TheLeader: Paul considers himself the leader of the team. Whether the others agree is an open question, but he does have a habit of playing peacekeeper and keeping everyone on track. [[spoiler: This is part of what gets him killed. He was level-headed enough that TheMole had to keep wiping their memories to stop them from just talking to Flick and gets taken out so said mole can have an easier time getting the team to incriminate her.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Not him, but the Nocen Stranger that replaces him.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: His younger brother Rex died in an accident he could have prevented if he hadn't been busy with a game. It still haunts him, and his mother still blames him.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Paul eventually becomes suspicious of Flick's skills rapid growth in skill and concludes that she isn't an ordinary student. He's right about that, but he thinks she's some kind of spy when she's really receiving extra training and getting attacked more often.
** He also thinks its ridiculous that a supposedly Bystander-kin student was able to survive the peridle attack without a scratch and kill an Amarok. Again, he's right, but he never considers that Avalon or her and Flick's team did most of the heavy lifting in both cases.
* SouthernGentleman: Gives off this vibe. Paul is very polite, always holding the door and offering to help people.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Posthumously screws up Isaac's plan to replace him and control their team by previously telling the others to overrule him by vote if they disagreed with one of his decisions.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Paul's not fond of horses after an incident when he was eight and one bucked him off.

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[[folder: Roxanne "Roxa" Pittman]]

Roxanne is a blonde ‘surfer’ type girl who looks more like she belongs on a beach than fighting monsters. She's on the same team and track as Paul Calburn, she wears the green of the Hunter track on her pants version of the uniform, and her weapon is a mechanical cougar that transforms into a floating weapons platform/hoverboard. Bystander-kin.

[[spoiler: Turned into a werewolf by Lemuel in her interlude.]]

[[spoiler: Left Crossroads permanently, joining Mateo's pack in Spy Hunt 26-01]]

* AngstWhatAngst: Even by Heretical Edge standards Roxa had a terrible childhood. It doesn't show. At all.
* {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler: She's forcibly turned into a werewolf by Lemuel.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* {{Determinator}}: Roxa is not the type of person to break under pressure. Not matter how much the odds are stacked against her, she will keep fighting, no matter what.
* HealingFactor: All Crossroads students obtain one early on, but Roxa's essentially gets supercharged when [[spoiler: she becomes a werewolf]].
* LittleMissBadass: As a child, Roxa stabbed her last foster father in the hand when he tried to smack her around and then ran away to spent the next eight years of her life living on the streets.
* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler: By Field Trip Roxa has fully embraced being a werewolf. If other people don't like that? Tough. She's done with being embarrassed or ashamed about it.]]
* KryptoniteFactor: [[spoiler: Downplayed. Silver weapons cancel out a werewolf's healing factor. Roxa also has redundant organs and another, lesser healing factor, so it's not as nearly dangerous to her as it is for other werewolves. A silver blade through the heart didn't stop her when it would be a near instant kill on a normal werewolf.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father went to prison for murdering her aunt, and her mother died not long after when she was a toddler.
* RobotBuddy: Gidget, a mechanical cougar that can transform into a hoverboard loaded with guns.
* SpareBodyParts: After killing a Jekern, Roxa starts growing redundant organs to take over bodily functions if the main ones are damaged. [[spoiler: When combined with her werewolf-empowered healing factor, it makes her really, ''really'' hard to kill.]]
* StreetUrchin: She ran away from her last foster home at the age of nine and lived on her own until Professor Pericles approached her.
* SuperSpeed: She's clocked at sixty miles per hour while sprinting.
* TookALevelInBadass: Roxa BEFORE [[spoiler: getting turned into a werewolf]]: Average first year student. Roxa now: Probably the strongest first year, roughly as strong or even stronger than Flick, who can mop the floor with two other first years at once. [[spoiler: She's also fought Hunahpu and Xbalanque Heretics with her pack.]]
** Because she's a [[spoiler: werewolf like him,]] killing [[spoiler: Lemuel]] let her gain copies of ALL his powers.
* [[SurferDude Surfer Girl]]: One of her favorite things about Crossroads is that it has some of the best surf she's ever seen. Appropriately, Gidget transforms into a hoverboard for her to ride.
* WhatTheHellHero: She's understandably pissed to discover that Flick accidentally [[spoiler: pulled her into Eden's Garden, leading to Lemuel turning her into a werewolf, costing her a home at Crossroads]].
* WillNotBeAVictim: This is ''the'' thought that drives her when things get tough. [[spoiler: When Lemuel turns her into a werewolf]], she survives by deciding that she's '''''not''''' going to let him win.

[[folder: Douglas Frey]]

A short, skinny boy whose messy blonde hair is always covered by a black New York Rangers hat. Douglas wears the blue uniform for the Development track, and his ‘weapon’, such as it is, appears to be a simple black fountain pen. However, drawing any simple object (sword, ladder, door, shield, rope, etc) with the pen will allow that object to be stored within the pen’s memory. The pen may hold up to ten separate objects in its memory at a time. Whenever he wishes, the wielder may conjure a physical copy of that object that lasts for about ten minutes. Heretic-born.

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* ArtAttacker: Can create stored objects with his pen.
* GenreSavvy: Would rather [[spoiler: talk to Flick about what's going on than report her to the Committee]] because he doesn't want to be "the character that comes in and fucks everything up because [[KnowNothingKnowItAll he thinks he knows what's going on, but he's wrong.]]"
* InspectorJavert: His entire team counts, but Doug does most of the initial work in investigating Flick after Roxa's disappearance, and his power to ask Questions is a central part of it.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Between his above moment of GenreSavvy and [[spoiler:his using his once-a-day power during the conversation]], he manages to completely derail [[spoiler:Isaac's plan to help the Seosten by exposing Flick and Gaia to the Committee.]]
* SwissArmyWeapon: His pen can make any simple object.
* TheoryTunnelvision: Like Jazz, Doug twists a lot of the information they learn about Flick and what she's doing to match their false conclusion [[spoiler: that Roxa's disappearance was an intended goal rather than an unlucky accident]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Like most students, Doug dismisses Wyatt Rendell as an incompetent goof. He's visibly shocked when he glimpses how [[CrazyPrepared dangerous]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity the man]] [[WeakButSkilled really is]].
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Along with Jazz. Isaac and his Seosten benefactors have an easier time manipulating the two of them to incriminate Flick to the Committee than the rest of their team.]]

[[folder: Isaac Acosta]]

Isaac is a Hispanic boy with long, curly black hair and an incredibly expressive, daredevil style and personality. Loves to be the center of attention/clown, and enjoys making people laugh. Is incredibly out of place with Gordon as his roommate. His weapon is three-headed flail that is capable of launching any or all of the three spiked balls to function as independent flying drones to either spy on or attack the enemy. His uniform has the red trim of the Explorers. Bystander-kin.

[[spoiler: He's also a psychopath recruited by the Seosten.]]

* AttackDrone / SurveillanceDrone: The balls of his flail can become either.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Killed his own sister. Only regrets not dragging it out for longer.]]
* BadassDecay: Justified. Isaac is dangerous, but most of the things he does heavily rely upon [[spoiler: Seosten support and being BeneathSuspicion]]. Without those advantages, he's much less of a threat.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Begins his interlude by torturing a pixie.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Murdered his sister because she was hogging the TV and making too much noise.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: Issac acquired an enormous number of powers when he [[spoiler: killed Professor Katarin]], but he has no clue what they are. According to WordOfGod, he may have had danger sense powers warning him of [[spoiler: Jazz's sneak attack]] but he had no clue what the powers were saying and so didn't respond.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler: Tells Paul a lot (but not everything) about his status as TheMole just before he murders him.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: The traitor who so loves the shock on the faces of those he kills dies in shock when the person he though was here to extract him slits his throat.]]
* MasterActor: Considers himself to be this and holds a grudge against his sixth-grade teacher for only letting him be a tree in a play. [[spoiler:This came in handy when he had to pretend an intruder had killed his sister when he himself was really responsible. It also helps him play as TheMole.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: He was "tailored" by the Seosten to be on of their agents in Crossroads, and helps murder Professor Pericles.]]
* NeverMyFault: He never seems to consider the possibility that he's at fault when a plan goes awry. [[spoiler: The way his teammates derail his attempts to get them to point the Committee at Flick, for example. Isaac treats this as evidence of their stupidity, never realizing that his inability to manipulate them says more about his intelligence than theirs.]]
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Repeatedly touches his roommate Gordon after the other boy makes it clear that he doesn't like it.
* {{Sadist}}: Genuinely enjoys the look of shock on Alters' faces before he kills them.
* SmugSnake: Isaac is intelligent, but not as smart or effective as he thinks he is.
** He also has no ability whatsoever to properly assess threats,[[spoiler: calling Jazz an idiot even as she plays him for a sucker.]]
** And even if he actually WAS every bit as smart as he thinks he is, he's still made many people vastly more intelligent, dangerous and experienced than he is very, very unhappy with him.
* {{Teleportation}}: He can transport himself and/or anyone he's touching anywhere that is both within his line and sight and unobstructed by physical objects (so he can't do it through windows).
* UnskilledButStrong: [[spoiler: Gains a lot of powers from killing the century old Katarin, but doesn't have enough time to figure out how to use those powers.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Isaac's nasty side shows when [[spoiler:he kills Paul and reveals he's TheMole for the Seosten]]. Everything involving him after that incident relates to it.
* WolfInSheepsClothing: Isaac is a ''lot'' more ruthless and cruel than he lets on. [[spoiler: In reality, he's a flat out PsychoForHire.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Chayyiel kills him as he no longer has any information useful to Athena or Gaia's conspiracy and she doesn't want to chance him causing problems. Also he disgusts her.]]

[[folder: Gordon Kuhn]]


A dark-skinned boy who is overly serious all of the time, with very little sense of humor. Gordon carries what looks like a cross between a blackpowder rifle and a gangster’s tommy gun that splits apart into a shield and sword. Wears the white trim of the Security track. Heretic-Born on Marina's team.

Gordon is yet another hybrid. His father is a Hrimthur, his mother is a Heretic.

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* AnIcePerson: Can freeze anything that touches him, courtesy of his parentage.
** Can also neutralize ice effects that touch him.
* {{Foil}}: To Shiori Porter and the Moon twins. All four students are hybrid students within Crossroads.
** Shiori and Gordon both have negative reactions to being surrounded by Heretics with their heritage. The difference is that Shiori directs that toward herself (at first), while Gordon directs it to his classmates.
** Gordon and the Moons all understand that Heretic propaganda about "Strangers" is just that, propaganda. But Gordon can't look past his distrust and fear of the people who would probably kill him if they knew what he was, while Vanessa and Tristan don't hold that attitude against their indoctrinated classmates.
* HalfHumanHybrid: His mother was a Heretic, yes. His father is a Hrimthur, a Norse ice giant.
* HatesBeingTouched: Because he's afraid he'll lose control of his skin temperature and expose himself.
* InspectorJavert: Towards Flick, but Gordon's motivations are slightly different than his teammates. [[spoiler: They want to expose her as a spy, Gordon wants to question her about where Eden's Garden might be keeping his father.]]
* InstantDeathRadius: [[spoiler: Once he stops holding back his ice powers everything that gets too close dies.]]
* IWillFindYou: Gordon's mission in life is to find his missing father, an Alter that was enslaved at Eden's Garden.
* MixAndMatchWeapon: A gun that becomes a sword and shield.
* NoSenseOfHumor: Noted multiple times to almost never laugh. He can't bring himself to relax around Heretics.
* PowerIncontinence: His ability to freeze things defaults to on and has to be deliberately suppressed.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Freezing attacks are utterly worthless against him, as expected from someone who has to consciously decide NOT to freeze everything around him solid.
* TheSpock: He's too emotional to really count, but he does try to approach most things with a logical mindset.
* TheStoic: Absolutely nothing visibly surprises Gordon. Ever. [[spoiler: Even when Flick starts dropping world-shaking revelations like the Seosten being responsible for the Bystander Effect and creating Crossroads, he remains outwardly calm.]]

[[WMG: Miles Cleary's Team]]

[[folder: Miles Cleary]]
Bystanderkin ... ok, actually a hybrid whose parents were kidnapped when he was six. Has a swarm of robot bees with lasers that can form various weapons and tools as his Heretic Weapon.

* BeeBeeGun: A recursive one at that.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half Kejjerfiet. AKA Boogeyman. The nice kind.
* SuperStrength: Could punch another teen across a room BEFORE using the edge. Hybrid power.

[[folder: Chas Mena]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not quite evil so much as manipulated into committing VanHelsingHateCrimes, but the whole team refuses to kill a pregnant Alter even before Miles does his reveal.

[[folder: Jason Trips]]


* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not quite evil so much as manipulated into committing VanHelsingHateCrimes, but the whole team refuses to kill a pregnant Alter even before Miles does his reveal.

[[folder: Kaleigh Ruffin]]
Short red head with a temper and a kind heart.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not quite evil so much as manipulated into committing VanHelsingHateCrimes, but the whole team refuses to kill a pregnant Alter even before Miles does his reveal.

[[folder: Royce Jacoby]]
Heretic-born Slavic-looking blond boy.


* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not quite evil so much as manipulated into committing VanHelsingHateCrimes, but the whole team refuses to kill a pregnant Alter even before Miles does his reveal.

[[folder: Emily Perry]]


* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not quite evil so much as manipulated into committing VanHelsingHateCrimes, but the whole team refuses to kill a pregnant Alter even before Miles does his reveal.
[[/folder]]

[[WMG: Other Students]]

[[folder: Norbit Drish]]

A second year student at Crossroads and a friend of Deveron's.

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Not fond of his first name. He prefers to be called Nizzle.
* GeekPhysiques: He's a scrawny guy, or at least as scrawny as you can get after spending a year at Crossroads.
* LastNameBasis: Nobody calls him Nizzle. Most people just use his last name. He's cool with that.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Hue]]

An upperclassman.

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* DistractedByTheSexy: Namid has this to say as Flick leaves her and Hue behind.
--> '''Namid''': You know, dude, the last time I checked, the Baykok files weren’t stapled to her ass.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Hue thinks so, if his reaction to finding Flick and Shiori hugging is anything to go by.
* MomentKiller: He and Namid manage to interrupt Flick and Shiori ''just'' as Flick is bringing up their mutual feelings.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Namid]]

Another older student, one who looks Native American. Related to Litonya, on the Committee.

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Lives in a world where every manner of mythological creature exists, and yet laughs off the idea that angels could be among them.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FaceOfAThug
* MomentKiller: She and Hue kill a potential moment between Flick and Shiori together, but Namid double-taps it by kicking the two out of the room.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Harper Hayes]]

Another student in Flick's year who joins the Hunter Track in her second semester. She ends up grouped with Flick, Doug, and Russel as the newcomers to the class.

[[spoiler: She's actually Lancelot/Guenevere, infiltrating Crossroads as part of her personal mission to resurrect King Arthur. For more information, see Independent Heretics.]]

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* GenkiGirl
* ThePollyanna: She's very friendly. At one point she brings candy for everyone on a hunting trip.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Russel Bailey]]

Another new transfer to the Hunter track.

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* FormerTeenRebel: And that "former" is pretty recent. Something happened before his second semester at Crossroads to make him drop the attitude.
* {{Goth}}: Or at least he dresses like one.


[[/folder]]

* SmallGirlBigGun: Her CoolGun is as long as she is tall.

* [[CoolGun Cool Minigun]]: And it transforms into Sean's pet!

* CoolGun: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Triple. Barreled. Shotgun.]]

Rudolph's roommate. Black guy of average height with a body builder’s physique. Wears his hair in cornrows. His uniform has the purple trim for the investigation track. Uses a long, heavy sword with explosive properties. Bystander-kin.

* BladeOnAStick: One that can create copies of itself that repeat whatever action it last preformed.

* BladeOnAStick: A Corseque is a type of polearm that has a single spike and two smaller blades embedded on the sides.

* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler: By way of full on HomosexualReproduction.]]