Iain shares an apartment in the Reeve Residential block with Ruby and Manny. He's basically a nice guy; none too fast but with a respectable facility for information retention and retrieval.
Age: 20
Marital status: Girlfriend - Louise McKinley
Powers: When struck with sufficient force, Iain's bruising process is instantaneous and highly resilient - in effect, the struck area is immediately armoured. This happens quickly enough that even the initial impact is cushioned, not unlike the action of an airbag. (It's been theorised that there is some low-level precognition at work to react to blows so rapidly, but tests have proved inconclusive.)
Iain also has some degree of augmented strength and endurance.
Manny Elfman
Manny shares an apartment in Reeve Residential with Iain and Ruby. He's a quick thinker but forgetful when it comes to little things like names or coursework. Nonetheless, everybody loves Manny.
Age: 19
Marital status: Single and loving it
Powers: Manny says what you want to hear. Or rather, he says what he knows will most likely provoke the desired reaction in you. In an unconscious process, he rapidly skims the subject's mind and analyses their response patterns, drawing a line between what he wants and how you think. There's no active mind control at work so he can't force you to do anything you don't actually want to do - but he's really, really persuasive. Potentially the most powerful telepath on the planet.
Ruby Wilde
Ruby shares an apartment in Reeve Residential with Iain and Manny. She has a distinct problem with authority but is trying to work through it. Means well.
"Ruby Wilde" is not her birth name.
Age: 19
Marital status: Single
Codename: "Capacitrix"
Powers: Ruby has an abnormally strong bioelectric field, which she can harness in a number of ways. Most obvious is the lightning she can expel seemingly at will; less ostentatious manifestations include the mimicking of infrared remote control signals and triggering department store alarms. She recently learned to lift herself off the ground by directing a surge of energy towards the floor - she can't go high or fast, it takes a lot of effort and the damage to the ground is considerable, but it remains an interesting development.
Julian "Coach" Harper
Julian has had his powers since the age of seven, and they are as natural to him as walking is to most baselines. Living with enhanced abilities from such an early age meant that superheroism came just as naturally - he couldn't justify sitting back while people were in danger from situations that were relatively harmless to him, but at the same time he didn't want to give up his privacy. So, his costumed identity was born.
Many years on, Julian is now an old hand. When a friend of a friend asked him to coach a bunch of schoolkids in using their own special abilities, well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Age: 29
Marital status: Unknown
Codename: Therm
Powers: Therm is an energy manipulator. He absorbs almost all forms of energy and expels it as heat - though once it leaves his body he has little control over it, so he doesn't exactly fling energy bolts. Instead, he creates an intense aura of thermal energy around his hands, which releases with explosive force when he punches. He can generate this heat from any part of his body, and by surrounding himself in an envelope of superheated air he can even fly. His major weakness is radiation - not only is his system unable to process it but it quickly floods his system, leaving him with no energy to expel. As a side effect of Therm's ability to absorb energy, he is able to "see" in the dark (by reading the infrared spectrum).
BONUS! See Therm's initial costume sketch.
