Alara
Born a slave of the Vine, servitude was all that ALARA knew. After the nomadic Visigoths of Loam settle in Nebraska, he is captured by an unknown party. Six months later, he awakens in California with an insatiable hunger and a giant silver arm with a red dot on the shoulder. Alara becomes a nomad, supporting himself on various farms with illegal work crews, never staying too long for fear of being caught with his strange arm.
Arida
An upbeat, but neurotic, small-town librarian, curious ARIDA spends her days diving headfirst into research. After a traumatic event in her teen years, she found herself able to manipulate water into steamy clouds, illustrating moments from her favorite novels and imagination. Determined to understand where this mysterious power came from, Arida puts her research skills to work investigating psiots at a hospital in Idaho.
Detective Thomas Cross
A downtrodden former detective for the Seattle police department. Known for helping Seattle’s troubled youth, Cross was well-respected by his fellow officers and the community at large. In the line of duty, he was shot in the spine, causing partial paralysis. Discharged, Cross is without purpose until he is offered a contract he can’t refuse: a mysterious organization has found that his DNA is a rare match needed for a top-secret program. Six months later, Cross awakes with full use of his legs and no explanation of where he is or what has happened. Enter GEIST, the ghostly Mister Hyde to Detective Cross’s Doctor Jekyll.
G. Rhea Eaves
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Rhea Eaves has a secret: she’s part of an underground LA fight club. Nursing a deep, unquenchable thirst for violence and bloodshed, Eaves feels no physical pain following a six month disappearance. She keeps to herself, finding other people’s emotions bleeding into her own- but maybe she can turn them back. Her French Bulldog, PETUNIA, is always glued to her side, and Eaves is quick to snap at anyone who tries to separate them.
Glich
GLICH, or Glinda Chambers, is a PRS agent and powerful technomancer. She was hired by team mentor Galushi to help the would-be-heroes infiltrate The Facility and extract a kidnapped member of the team. Glich suffers no fools, and her efficiency and blunt exterior camouflage an excitable nerd.
Livia
Livia has seen her fair share of crazy. Hailing from a mysterious, faraway place, Livia somehow finds herself in Boise, homeless, hungry, confused, and unable to find her way home. As a child her mother told her magnificent stories of a long lost heroic father who she has been on the hunt for her whole life, without success. But now that she’s manifested her ability to open teleportation portals, who knows where the hunt could take her?
Dike (Dee-Kay) Unaka
Dike is a young overachiever who is obsessed with being the best human he can be. A star student and athlete, he had his pick of the litter when choosing a college. Lately, he lives in America with his uncle, but he spent summers in Lagos, Nigeria with his parents. When Dike learned about Toyo Harada taking over the Somali coast, he made a trip to east Africa hoping to join his ranks and "evolve." When he was turned away, his pride was heavily bruised. "No" isn't a word he hears often. While he's been focusing on his studies and acing his way through college, being turned away has continued to haunt him. Many people believe Dike wears suits because he's an overachiever, but even he hasn't figured out that he's trying to be more like Toyo. When Dike found out about this meet up to activate latent Psiots through the dark web, he got excited. His bruised pride and need for acceptance had slowly begun its turn into rage and vengeance as he had taken it upon himself to rid the world of Toyo Harada. He believed that if he was able to activate himself he would have the power to make Harada not only notice him but fear him.
Dot Wilson
Dot is what many of her friends would consider a chameleon. She has spent most of her life shifting from one social group to another trying to find her place. Despite never fully committing to any group she has found herself an abundance of friends from many different walks of life. Her charm has a way of getting her the things she wants though she never seems to ask. While many people found themselves in fear of their own safety upon their names being released to the public in Harada's papers. Dot found herself comforted and supported by those closest to her.
Jay Goldston
When Jay was young, he was a bright kid and very artistic. He vied for approval from his doctor parents. He wasn't the studious type; more of a procrastinator with the ability to cruise by. He was always open-minded and although he was very superficial, he was a kind-hearted young man who wanted people to feel GOOD VIBES. He now deeply wants the approval and love of everyone he meets but goes about it in all the wrong ways. He wants to be cool and chill, but deep down he's terrified of being alone. Despite his aloof attitude, there's an unawakened intuition that seems to spark only when in dire situations.
Karen Lemon
As a child, Karen was a shy girl who found escape through comic books. Sick of being bullied, she pretends to be over-confident to keep everyone at bay. Her motto? "Fake it till you make it." As an adult, she will use her fast wit and sharp tongue to take down anyone who threatens to break that veneer. She'll never show it, but she looks to outside approval for validation rather than trusting herself. She is hoping to find that validation by being activated as a Psiot and becoming a real life super hero.
Noa Castillo
Noa is an only child who was raised primarily by the strong women in her family. She is a descendant of brujas—witches. Growing up, she moved from place to place. Accordingly, she learned to avoid getting too attached to people. Castillo means "castle." She is a fortress of secrets, but like any stronghold, she has weaknesses.
Rin Satou
Rin is a rebellious young woman who grew up always looking for someone to give her the attention she desires. Rin's mother abandoned them when she was eleven and her father travels for work month's at a time. Rin's older brother, Toshi, was tasked with raising Rin and her younger sister, Suki, who challenged his patriarchal structure of their family every chance they could. At the age of 18 she left her family behind to join the Harbinger Foundation. Little is known of her from that moment on.
Flatline
Flatline is a member of the H.A.R.D. Corps combat unit working for Project Rising Spirit. Their mission is to hunt down and neutralize rogue psiots. Members of H.A.R.D. Corps are given neural implants that allow them to access a variety of psionic powers in the field. These implants can also be detonated by their handlers at any time. Flatline has a terminal illness and chose to join H.A.R.D. Corps since they could make sure she's at least mobile in the short time before her death.
Punk Mambo
Victoria Greaves-Trott is a Mohawk-sporting, voodoo priestess. Dwelling in the bayou outside New Orleans, Punk Mambo helps the wayward, troubled, and damned remedy what afflicts them for a price.
As a teenager in 1970s London, young punk rocker Victoria was abducted by Hougan, a lecherous voodoo priest. Much older than his youthful appearance suggested, the houngan- then operative under the name Joe Mayhem- collected Victoria and other young souls like her, forcing them into debauched rites and practices that fueled his immortality. Victoria observed Joe's rites closely, and on breaking free, used their power for herself. Years later she would return to London to exact her revenge on Joe Mayhem and so-called friends who had placed her in his power. Ever the rebel, Punk Mambo left Mayhem humiliated, but alive.
It was Punk Mambo who Jack Boniface turned to when he was trying to rid himself of the loa that gave him his powers of Shadowman. And when MI-6 needed an occult expert to guide a team into the Deadside, they naturarlly turned to the most mistically accomplished British national they could find. When this team went missing, Punk Mambo would enter the Deadside side-by-side with Ninjak to retrieve them. There, the two of them faced a Shadowman slaved to the will of the villainous necromancer Master Darque. Ninjak and Punk Mambo sudbued Shadowman and returned the lost team and the fallen hero into the hands of MI-6.
