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🧩 Backstory — Adrian "Adrian" Sutton (Pulse)
Codename: Pulse Real Name: Adrian Sutton Date of Birth: March 14, 1998 Height: 6'0" Weight: 180 Distinguishing Marks: tattoo inner left bicep (GPS coordinates where the car crash that killed his parents and brother happend), tattoo right bicep (treble clef with 2 bars of a waltz), the letters "LEFT" across the knuckles of his right hand (he finds it funny) Trauma: car crash that killed his family; dead set on not letting himself and Tory drift apart through inaction again Affiliation: Helix (founder, only member)
Adrian Sutton was born in Linden, New Jersey, the younger of two brothers. His parents, Malcolm and Elaine Sutton, were ordinary people in an extraordinary world—his father a civil engineer, his mother a high-school English teacher who filled their house with books and music. Adrian’s older brother Nick was the athlete, the confident one. Adrian was the quiet kid who read lyrics and annotated paperbacks.
Everything changed on a rainy night in 2011. A tractor-trailer skidded across the Turnpike and crushed the family’s car. Nick died instantly; Malcolm and Elaine followed in the hospital. Thirteen-year-old Adrian survived without a single broken bone—an outcome the doctors could not explain. They called it luck. It was mutation.
Their deaths left Adrian the sole heir to the family’s assets and insurance: just over five million dollars, placed in a managed trust. His uncle, Christopher Blake—a senior figure at CBX Industries—became his legal guardian, moving Adrian into the care of a network of tutors and therapists while Blake traveled for work. The Linden house remained his home base, an empty echo of the life that had been.
Through high school Adrian retreated into literature and music. He wrote songs on an old Yamaha acoustic, translated Latin poetry for extra credit, and read until dawn. He preferred symphonies to parties and lyrics (good lyrics only, not Dylan or that bullshit Springsteen hack) to conversation. His grades were erratic—brilliant essays, indifferent everything else—but he had the means to coast, and a guardian who quietly allowed it.
When Reiko Sasaki and her daughters moved into the house next door in 2011 as part of CBX’s relocation program, she became a kind of neighbor-aunt who checked on him when Blake was abroad. Adrian barely noticed her daughters at first: Tory, the gymnast-cheerleader, and Kimi, the loud younger sister. Both girls were filed into the "fake smile cheerleader" bucket, and no more mind paid to either of them.
They lived parallel lives until 2015, when news broke that Tory had survived the Overbrook Asylum attack and destroyed a cult to save her classmates.
For the first time, she became someone Adrian could actually understand—another person who had looked death in the face and walked away changed.
He crossed the yard that night with a book in hand, awkwardly offering it like an apology and a confession. They talked. She learned he sometimes heard the hum of power lines in his bones; he learned she no longer slept through the night. That exchange began a quiet friendship built on mutual strangeness, punctuated by late-night talks and trading mixtapes across their bedroom windows.
Tory and Adrian went to prom together; a date borne out of being the only two in school who understood each other. It sparked a romance that last until the end of summer.
After high school, Adrian attend the Mason Gross School for the Arts, Rutgers University, majoring in Literature and Music Composition. His inheritance meant he never had to work. During college, he picked up side gigs as a session player in the NY/NJ rock and metal scene. In 2020, he got hired on as a session guitarist for an "experimental project" by pop start Lucia Pietrangeli (recording out of her Long Branch, NJ beach home). Initially confused (since she was, at the time, still known for bubble gum pop and synth heavy stuff), he worked on arrangements and songwriting during the spring and early summer 2020. He's the one that convinced her to make her next record a "concept album" about "metaphorical death and rebirth". She thought his riffs were sick, and the way mixed Italian into the lyrics was compelling -- she didn't care that it was supposed to represent her "public persona" warring against her "true self". He said that he managed to distill Pink Floyd's the Wall down to 9 good songs and 1 disc.
After graduation, he became involved in music production, working with artists in Brooklyn mostly. He didn't really care the genre they were working on, and he learned over the years how to produce everything from metal to reggaeton to hip hop. He was known to have Die Hard on a loop in the booth -- why? because he liked saying "yippee ki-yay motherfucker".
In 2024, when CBX Industries (his uncle Christopher's company) performed it's NASDAQ IPO, Adrian emerged from his shell and to the celebratory party. There he ran into his ex-girlfriend Tory -- they reconnected quickly picking up effortlessly where they had left off. As of the IPO, the shares of CBX Industries that Adrian had inherited when his parents died (they were early investors of Christopher's startup) were now worth $54 million.
- Tae-ri "Tory" Sasaki (Tsubaki)
Codename: Tsubaki Real Name: Tae-ri "Tory" Sasaki Origin: Composite (Mutant / Mystic) Archetype: Mystic-Kinetic Combatant Affiliation: Nyx Collective (Founding Member, Public Face) Date of Birth: May 21, 1999 Age: 24 Height: 5'6" Weight: 130 lbs Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Distinguishing Marks: tattoos along spine, tiny glyphs (Circle of the Thorns runes, naming each Circle leader she has defeated), tattoo of a camelia petal behind her left ear, has the letters (small font) AS on her left ankle (right where it's framed perfectly by the diamond anklet that Adrian bought her May 2024), clit ring Trauma: only around the Overbrook Asylum incident; is dead set on not letting herself and Adrian drift apart through inaction again Ethnicity: Asian-American (Japanese, Korean)
Born in Newark, California, Tae-ri Sasaki grew up the eldest daughter of Reiko and Ji-hwan Oh, both engineers at CBX Industries. When the marriage ended in 2010, Reiko transferred to CBX’s new Union County, NJ facility. The company covered relocation costs and bought a pair of houses in Linden, NJ—one for Reiko and her daughters, the other already occupied by Reiko’s colleague’s nephew, Adrian Sutton.
Through most of high school, Adrian barely registered Tory beyond polite nods and neighbor small talk. She was the cheerleader with a scholarship track; he was the quiet literature-kid whose uncle traveled constantly. Their connection only sparked after the Overbrook Incident in 2015.
At sixteen, after an away game in Essex County, Tory and several teammates were abducted by Circle of Thorns cultists and taken to the ruins of Overbrook Asylum. The coven’s ritual went catastrophically wrong: its energy surge fused with a latent anomaly in Tory’s genome, rewriting her biofield. The cult burned from within; the captives survived because she detonated pure mystic energy outward.
She carried the other girls to safety and collapsed at the asylum gates. The next morning every tri-state feed showed the “Cheerleader Who Saved Seven.” She never hid who she was.
The night after the news broke, Adrian-—awkward, trying to sound normal-—walked next door and offered her his old copy of The Odyssey, saying, “You’ve been through your own descent and return.” It was the first genuine thing anyone said to her that week.
From then on, they found quiet rhythm: she’d stretch in the driveway while he strummed guitar on the stoop; they traded playlists, philosophy quotes, and sarcasm. When prom season came, he asked—-hesitantly. She said no at first, uneasy around anyone without powers. So he told her. Demonstrated the energy aura he’d hidden since the accident that killed his family. That moment rewired both of them: finally, someone who gets it.
They went to prom after all—two kids trying to act normal while feeling anything but. They dated for the rest of the summer, but slowly drifted apart once college started. Both wound up at Rutgers, just in completely different worlds: Adrian buried in Mason Gross practice rooms and late-night studio sessions in New Brunswick, Tory juggling classes, therapy, cheer, and the early pressures of trying to turn “the girl who survived Overbrook” into something that made sense. It wasn’t some dramatic breakup so much as a long, quiet slide; texts took longer to answer, rain checks piled up, and by the middle of sophomore year it was easier—for both of them—to pretend the relationship had just quietly run its course.
Also, according to Kyung-mi, the internet says that Tory is "juicy” and “stacked” -- not rumor, just the Internet being blunt in their appraisal of her.
Kyung-mi "Kimi" Sasaki (Kimi Kami)
Codename: Kimi Kami Real Name: Kyung-mi Sasaki Origin: Mutant (Electro-Neural Kinetic Type) Archetype: Electric Melee / Super Reflexes Stalker Affiliation: Nyx Collective (Founding Member) Date of Birth: November 3, 2000 Height: 5'4" Weight: 118 lbs Hair: Dyed silver-lavender (naturally black) Eyes: Brown with faint blue corona when powered Distinguishing Marks: nose ring, tongue bar, clit ring, nipple piercings (barbells) Trauma: none Ethnicity: Asian-American (Japanese, Korean)
Born in Newark, California two years after her sister Tory, Kyung-mi Sasaki grew up in the bright hum of CBX’s West Coast research district — a place where electricity was literal background noise. Her father Ji-hwan Oh was an electrical engineer; her mother Reiko Sasaki worked in CBX’s materials division. When their parents divorced in 2011 and CBX relocated Reiko to Linden, NJ, Kimi was ten — loud, fearless, already addicted to motion and attention.
Her powers manifested at fifteen after a lightning strike hit the school’s metal bleachers during a summer storm. Kimi wasn’t just unharmed — she stood up glowing, heart pounding at twice the normal speed, hair smoking, eyes alight with static. From that day forward, her body generated and stored electricity like a living capacitor. Her nervous system evolved into a blur of micro-reflexes: perception, reaction, and movement all accelerated beyond normal human thresholds.
Where Tory became the heroic prodigy, Kimi became the chaos engine. She learned to fight by instinct — turning motion into rhythm, rhythm into impact. She developed a unique form of “stealth”: misdirection through overload. She talks, jokes, sings, sparks, and flirts so relentlessly that opponents’ senses flood — and in that confusion she strikes.
Kimi's SupaFans is a blend of explicit girl-on-girl videos, her multipart (and ever growing) "SupaSize Queen Kimi!" series (where she tries larger and large sex toys), and a series where her and Ethan are in different stores or locations with her having a remote-controlled vibrator in place and Ethan playing with the remote to make her squirm.
Jae-min "Ethan" Park (Aegis)
Codename: Aegis Real Name: Ethan Park Origin: Hi-Tech (Powered Armor) Archetype: Tech-Supported Brute / Field Support / Power Armor Affiliation: no affiliation Date of birth: July 19, 2000 Height: 5'10" (6'4" in armor) Weight: 165 lbs (325 lbs armored) Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Distinguishing Marks: bible verse (in Korean) on right bicep Trauma: none Ethnicity: Korean-American Hometown: Flushing, Queens, NY
⚙️ Origin Summary
Ethan Park grew up in a cramped Flushing apartment, the oldest son of Jae-Hyun "James" Park and Sun-hee "Grace" Park (Choi), with two younger siblings close in age (Ji-Eun "Rachel" and Hyun-woo "Daniel") and much-younger Soo-ah "Lily" (a "surprise" daughter). His parents sacrificed to put the family through school; his dad worked construction, his mom ran a bodega. From a young age, Ethan was the kid who took everything apart — then rebuilt it better, faster, flashier.
Obsessed with anime mecha, Korean variety shows, and Marvel superheroes, Ethan funneled his genius into robotics clubs and bootleg microcontroller hacks. He won regional STEM awards by high school and secretly interned for CBX Industries, sneaking into late-night fabrication labs and learning from techs who didn’t ask for paperwork.
By 21, he’d built the Aegis Suit: a modular powered exoskeleton, coded and printed from salvaged parts and crowdfunded upgrades. Where Iron Man had endless resources, Ethan had hustle and scrap. His suit wasn’t elegant, but it was fast, strong, and packed with tricks. He first field-tested it to save bystanders during a subway accident, earning viral fame as “the Flushing Iron Boy.”
Alison Montgomery (Seismic Storm)
Codename: Seismic Storm Real Name: Alison Montgomery Origin: Composite (Induced Mutant / Mystic Catalyst) Archetype: Seismic Controller / Weather Wielder / Public Intellectual Affiliation: Nyx Collective (Founding Member, Public Voice) Date of birth: February 27, 1996 Age: 27 Height: 5'7" Weight: 140 lbs Hair: Honey-blonde (naturally dark; often changes color) Eyes: Hazel Distinguishing Marks: ribs and hips are etched with razor-thin black geometric lines—nested triangles slicing through her nipple piercing, zig-zag “mountains” down her oblique, five perfect dots across her shoulder blades. Adrian calls them “the standard Brooklyn-dyke ruler-and-hangover starter kit.” She calls them none of your business and wears them anyway. Trauma: none Ethnicity: White (Irish/German-American) Hometown: State College, PA
🌩️ Origin Summary
Alison Montgomery grew up in Pennsylvania, the “weird kid” obsessed with myths, monsters, and the question of what makes some humans different. Her family tree always had rumors: a strongman great-uncle, a grandmother who “read the weather,” a cousin who could “run faster than cars.” None of it made sense until her first year of grad school at Columbia. During a field study at a pre-Columbian earthworks site, a ritual demonstration by a local mystic group went sideways — and something inside her snapped awake. The ground split, the air pulsed with static, and Alison found herself standing in the epicenter, unharmed and charged.
She emerged with the ability to sense and manipulate seismic and atmospheric forces, later realizing her mutant gene had always been there — the ritual simply unlocked it, permanently blending mystical resonance into her biofield.
Rejecting academia’s “respectability trap,” Alison left after earning her Master’s in Anthropology, pivoting into fringe science writing. She now lectures, debates, and trolls the likes of Joe Rogan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, championing the idea that metahumans have always been among us (“the real origin of ancient gods and monsters”).
Meanwhile, her real income comes from SupaFans: her skills in contour makeup, body art, and “chameleon” presentation let her create explicit, hardcore content under a dozen personas — and nobody’s the wiser. She occasionally ropes Kyung-mi into her content (applying her makeup talents and wig collection), most recently with Kimi being an on-camera "fluffer" for Alison's fan-request, big money earning 10-man BBC gangbang.
Michael Thompson (Backdraft)
Codename: Backdraft Real Name: Michael Thompson Origin: Altered Human (Fire-Mutagen Accident) Archetype: Fire Blast / Martial Arts Blaster, Super-Speed Affiliation: unaffiliated Age: 29 Date of birth: August 8, 1994 Height: 6'2" Weight: 215 lbs Hair: Shaved (naturally brown; singed by power use) Eyes: Brown Distinguishing Marks: full sleeve tattoos, both arms Ethnicity: White (Irish-American)
🔥 Origin Summary
Michael Thompson was born and raised in the shadows of Brooklyn, a bruiser from a rough family, fighting his way up from street corners to dive bars. He fell in with the Family, the notorious meta-mafia—working muscle for low-level collections and “accident cleanups.” A fateful night in 2016, a rival gang set fire to a chemical warehouse during a Family power struggle. Michael was left inside, but instead of dying, he absorbed the inferno, staggering out wreathed in flames and smoke.
The fire rewired his physiology: Michael’s body became a living engine of thermal energy, able to blast searing fire, withstand infernal heat, and move at blurring speeds by “riding the updraft.” His skin still bears faint scars, but the heat barely touches him.
The Family wanted him back as a living weapon, but Michael refused. He cleaned up, won joint custody of his two sons—Lucas (6) and Max (8)—and built a life between two worlds. His ex-wife keeps him grounded (and honest)
Maya Santos (Mosaic)
Codename: Mosaic Real Name: Maya Santos Origin: Mutant Archetype: Matter Molder / Plasma Weaver / Urban Artist Affiliation: Nyx Collective (Founding Member, Visual Specialist) Age: 22 Height: 5'5" Weight: 130 lbs Hair: Curly black, often dyed with colored tips Eyes: Amber brown Distinguishing Marks: tattoo left forearm (flowing mosaic of geometric shapes), tattoo right shoulder and upper arm (water color plasma burst), tattoo back of neck ("Con Corazón"), Trauma: none Ethnicity: Puerto Rican Family: Younger brother, Diego Santos
🦋 Origin Summary
Born and raised in the heart of Spanish Harlem, Maya Santos was always the “weird artsy kid” with paint on her jeans and clay under her fingernails. Her mutant gene activated at 15, triggered by a near-miss car accident that should have shattered her bones. Instead, the concrete around her seemed to melt at her panicked touch—reshaping itself to cushion her fall. Experimentation revealed that Maya could reshape and sculpt any solid material she could touch, as easily as molding clay. Over time, she discovered a secondary mutation: the ability to generate and manipulate superheated plasma—using it to cut, fuse, or even create dazzling kinetic murals in midair. She became a local legend—“the girl who can fix a busted fire hydrant or weld a sculpture with her bare hands”—before going public as Mosaic, founding Nyx Collective with Tory, Alison, and others.
Emi Evans (Muse)
Real Name: Emi Evans Codename: Muse Origin: Mutant Archetype: Telekinetic Empath Affiliation: Nyx Collective (founding member) Age: 27 Date of birth: August 30, 1996 Height: 5'7" Weight: 135 Hair: Wavy brown, usually tied back Eyes: Hazel Distinguishing Marks: clit piercing, belly button hoop (chain sometimes connecting to the clit piercing), septum piercing she usually regrets, nipple piercings Trauma: none Ethnicity: Japanese-American / White Family: Two younger brothers (fraternal twins, b. 2001); 2nd cousin to Tory/Kimi
🧬 Origin Summary
Raised in San Mateo, CA, Emi Evans grew up bridging cultures, family lines, and personalities. From a young age, she had an uncanny knack for “making things happen” from across the room, and for smoothing out drama before it began. Her mother was Naomi Evans (nee Sakurai) and her father was Thomas Evans. She has two younger brothers (fraternal twins, both born in 2001): Ryan and Dylan Her mutant gene awakened at age 20—during a college group project gone wrong, she stopped a collapsing bookcase with her mind, her hands full, her attention on helping others. The powers grew, and so did her empathy: she could sense and soothe people’s moods, lending courage and calm in crisis.
When she realized how far her abilities had come, she called her "cousin" (really a second cousin) Tory—now the “Overbrook Angel”—and joined Nyx Collective.