Family

Real Name: Minako Sasaki-Sutton Nicknam: Mina Sex: female Birthdate: May 2, 2026 Height: 3'10 in 2031 Weigth: 48 in 2031 Height: black Eyes: dark brown

Mina was born in the Montauk beach home of Tory Sasaki-Sutton and Adrian Sutton, during the events of the Council attemping to rewrite history from their "out-of-time" fortress in Cimerora. By age 5, she's curious, bold and fearless (too fearless according to Tory), but also empathetic and loyal. She knows she's cute. She uses it to her advantage.

Kimi has commented that her light tan complexion, combined with how Mina gets a dusting of freckles during the summer, is going to make Mina "dangerous" in her late teens.

No powers demonstrated, but she's 3rd generation mutant on Tory's side and 2nd generation on Adrian's. Occasional “weirdness” happens around her—lights flicker, little sparks fly, and sometimes she seems to know things she shouldn’t. Nobody’s surprised.

Codename: CBX-1 Real Name: Christopher Blake Height: 5’10” Weight: 180 Sex: male Birth date: Aug 17, 1975 Hair: Brown (gray) Eyes: Brown Ethnicity: white (English/Scottish)

Christopher Blake grew up between factory floors and university halls, the son of a machinist who believed discipline was the purest form of intelligence. By twenty he was designing control systems for next-generation aircraft; by thirty he was consulting for defense think-tanks. A classified project in his early career—one that blurred the line between innovation and exploitation—left him convinced that technology without conscience was just another weapon. He resigned, poured his savings into a garage lab in Newark, and founded CBX Industries with a handful of engineers who believed that science could protect instead of dominate.

Under Blake’s leadership, CBX expanded from boutique R&D shop to global powerhouse, specializing in applied robotics, clean-energy systems, and adaptive armor. He designed the first CBX-1 Power Suit himself—a prototype equal parts symbol and shield—and still keeps it locked in his private hangar as a reminder that the world’s most dangerous machine is the one with purpose but no ethics. His charisma is understated, his authority absolute; even rivals admit that when Blake walks into a room, the air feels calibrated.

After the deaths of his sister Elaine Sutton and her husband Malcolm, Christopher became legal guardian (from 2011 to 2016) to their teenage son Adrian Sutton. The arrangement was practical at first—trust funds, boarding schools, structured recovery—but he soon realized that Adrian needed connection more than protection. When CBX opened its New Jersey branch, Blake invited Reiko Sasaki to relocate there, knowing she would bring both expertise and compassion. Together they built a quiet community of scientists, neighbors, and surrogate family that anchored Adrian’s adolescence.

Publicly, Blake is the face of ethical innovation: philanthropist, futurist, and occasional speaker before the United Nations on the governance of emerging technologies. Privately, he maintains secure channels with Vanguard, Hero Corps, and independent metahuman teams, offering them equipment and logistical aid when bureaucracy fails. He dislikes the word weapons and forbids its use in CBX facilities, but he’s pragmatic enough to know that peace sometimes requires leverage.

To the Nyx Collective, Christopher Blake is part mentor, part moral barometer—the man who proves that conscience can coexist with genius. To the wider world, he’s the rare executive whose greatest invention might be restraint itself.

Married Reiko Sasaki March 2017.

Codename: Inazuma Real Name: Reiko Sasaki Height: 5’5” Weight: 120 Sex: female Birthdate: May 6, 1978 Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Ethnicity: Japanese

Reiko Sasaki was born and raised in San Francisco, California, the granddaughter of Japanese merchants who settled in the Bay Area before World War I. Fluent in Japanese and English, she grew up navigating the complexities of a deeply-rooted Japanese-American identity in a city proud of its diversity but not always free from prejudice.

Her life changed in early adulthood (age 19) when her mutant ability—electrical generation and control at a phenomenal scale—manifested during a freak power outage at college. Adopting the codename Inazuma, she quietly aided Bay Area authorities and played a covert but crucial role in the Rikti War. To the world, Inazuma was a living storm; to her family, Reiko was a dedicated mother doing her best to keep her daughters safe.

After divorcing Ji-hwan Oh, Reiko faced the challenges of single motherhood. When CBX Industries opened a major West Coast facility in Newark, California, she was recruited for her technical skills and leadership. It was only later, as projects required unusual electrical calibration, that her secret powers became clear—revealed only to a handful of trusted colleagues, including CBX founder Christopher Blake.

In 2011, at Blake’s request, Reiko and her daughters relocated to New Jersey, where she took an executive role at CBX’s new branch and helped anchor a community for other relocated employees and families. Known locally as a reserved, capable professional and a nurturing neighbor, she kept her heroic identity hidden from all but a select few.

Married Christopher Blake March 2017.

Codename: Yabu Real Name: Kenji Sasaki Height: 5’10” Weight: 190 Birthdate: Jan 27, 1989 Sex: male Hair: Black Eyes: Black Ethnicity: Japanese

Kenji Sasaki is an ex-yakuza boss, now setting up his own organization in the underbelly of New York’s K-Town, Chinatown and Flushing neighborhoods. He is a well trained combatant himself but prefers to keep his hands clean these days. He is a mutant, the powers having manifested when he was 17 and he used his ability to control pain (to increase it or harden others against him) to torment. He doesn’t use his powers that much any more, but they are a secret trump card that he can rely on when he needs to soften someone up.

In 2013, Kenji moved his operations to New York, after an organized "vice squad" style crackdown on the remnants of yakuze. At first in New York, he ran protection rackets, counterfeit luxury goods (like high end clothes and fake purses), and a couple of massage parlors (although the women that work there are not trafficked but are well compensated, usually college students). Kenji is serious when he says that he’s trying to be “legit”, it’s just that his idea of legit means no violence – he provides protection to the Asian-American communities in New York, funnelling the body that his crew is paid right back into the communities. He uses that for positive PR, and to hide the few questionable areas he still operates in: drinking, gambling, massage parlors, and his booming online business. He also has many legitimate businesses, such as ramen shops and at least one Korean BBQ restaurant. He is usually found in his ramen shop in Flushing. Since 2022, Kenji has "reunited" with his cousins (Kyung-mi and Tae-ri) and has them eat dinner at his Flushing ramen shop once a month.

In 2022, he “acquired” a failing video streaming startup – the majority stock holders were gambling addicts and lost their stake in the company at his tables. He cut staff, hired a new dev team (hiring Adrian as a "founding software engineer" -- although Adrian is self-taught from reading the foundational computer science literature -- based on Reiko's advice that Adrian was smart enough to learn and that Adrian didn't care about how much he'd get paid), and pivoted their operations to adult-oriented content, rebranding as SupaFans (supe/meta only content creators, same type of content). Now, the site is booming, thousands of content creators, millions of daily hits, and a sweet 30% skim off the subscription fees. He has no need to delve into crime any more, not with the amount of money he’s making on this venture.

He (operating with the name Yabu in criminal circles) is known by authorities to have contact with Tub Ci Tang (leader of the Tsoo), who is currently imprisoned in the Zig (Zigursky Prison, an ultra-max facility designed to house supes, but also known to be escapable with right bribes or just the right set of powers). Kenji feels like he has found a kindred spirit with Tub Ci’s recent decision to return the Tsoo to their more honorable past as protectors of their community (albeit, protectors with a price) and not just as drug trafficking thugs.

His mother, Noriko Sasaki, is Reiko's oldest sister, and for a brief time when Reiko and her daughters first moved to Osaka, they lived with Noriko (and Noriko's husband).

He’s not part of the Helix. He finds the concept laughable, but if it keeps his cousins happy, he obliges. He will call Tae-ri or Adrian with warnings if he hears anything. Sometimes he’ll decide that they need to learn a lesson and will try to trick them into helping one of his plans, putting them at risk in order to “build character”.

Name: Enma-Ō (Japanese for the Judge of the Dead) Organization: Enma-kai Real name: Ji-hwan Oh Height: 5’10” Weight: 195 Sex: male Age: 52 Hair: Gray Eyes: Black Ethnicity: Japanse

Ji-hwan Oh was born in Seoul to a family of expatriate Japanese engineers. His upbringing crossed borders—Korea, Japan, and Singapore—each relocation feeding an instinct for adaptation and control. By his late twenties he had earned degrees in mechanical engineering and business strategy, founding Oh Dynamics, a consultancy specializing in high-efficiency energy systems and advanced materials. What began as legitimate industrial design soon expanded into quiet partnerships with governments and private defense contractors.

Ji-hwan met Reiko Sasaki through a shared research symposium in Tokyo, impressed by her theoretical work on bio-electrical stabilization. Their collaboration produced both children and breakthroughs, but philosophical differences grew with success. Reiko believed technology should serve life; Ji-hwan believed life was simply another form of energy to be directed. When she refused to weaponize her research, she left the company and the marriage without hostility—but with finality.

He married Reiko's best friend Min-hee Cho -- Reiko was the matchmaker -- and moved back to Korea. Within 3 years, he had built a new family and life. Two sons Min-jun (born 2011) and Joon-ho (born 2013). He never missed any financial obligations that were agreed upon in the divorce from Reiko (spousal support, child support, healthcare costs, etc). At Reiko's request, he did not contact the daughters, as she felt the contact would confuse them and cause difficulties for them growing up in America.

The following decade saw Ji-hwan evolve into something larger and colder than a businessman. His network of defense brokers, shipping magnates, and disavowed security contractors consolidated into the organization now known as the Enma-kai—a transnational syndicate that treats innovation as currency. Enma-kai deals in arms, data, and illicit biotech, a shadow economy reflecting CBX Industries in every way but conscience. Within that circle Ji-hwan acquired the nickname “Enma-Ō,” borrowed from the mythic judge of the dead. He neither claims nor rejects it; the brand keeps investors loyal and enemies afraid.

He has never sought revenge against Reiko or their daughters, regarding them instead as proof of a life lived before his transformation into a corporate myth. To him, morality is a luxury for those not tasked with maintaining order. He sees men like Christopher Blake as idealists doomed to build worlds for pragmatists to inherit. Yet, despite his ruthlessness, Ji-hwan remains fascinated by what Reiko built in his absence—a family and a legacy defined by compassion rather than control.

In the modern era, Ji-hwan stands as a shadow across CBX’s successes: brilliant, efficient, utterly unrepentant. Whether enemy, ally, or necessary evil depends entirely on which side of the balance profits more that day. To the world he is a name that moves markets; to those who knew him, he is the warning that intellect without empathy becomes tyranny dressed in a business suit.