We Welcome the Heroes of Tomorrow to the Untold Stories Project
Greetings! If you’re on our old RSS feed for Something… Something… Dragons, or saw our posts elsewhere, then you got to hear the first three episodes of our brand new podcast that is a part of our Untold Stories Project Earth-Prime Tabletop Universe – The Heroes of Tomorrow!
This past week, you were thrown right into the middle of our teenage heroes engaged in battle with the Thieves Guild, but getting to know them will take a few more weeks. So, we’re giving you a little peek behind the curtain and a chance to get to know the students of Claremont Academy directly.
Bolt (Jason Beaumont)
Played by Wiccy
Age: 16
Jason’s young, single mother died the night he was born. She’d come to the hospital with nothing more than the clothes on her back and the hospital staff knew only that her name was Jaye, it was the one thing she would tell them. As they had no way to track down the new baby’s father or any extended family the Staff decided to call him Jason and turned he and his case over to the proper authorities. Eventually, Jason was given over to the care of social services where he bounced around several foster homes for the first four years of his life, before ending up in Beacon House Group Home on the south side of Freedom City.
Beacon House was grossly overpopulated and underfunded. The caretakers there were overworked, underpaid, ineffective, and negligent in their duty of care toward the children under their roof. This left Jason and the thirteen other kids with no choice but to fend for themselves, and each other, by whatever means necessary. For most of them that meant joining local gangs or participating in other various less than legal activities.
Jason’s intelligence and aptitude for mechanics and technology showed at an early age, but like many gifted and overlooked kids, he never flourish in the typical school environment. Instead, he was focused on his own interests and inventions, which often led to detention and other disciplinary action. At Fourteen, Jason simply stopped going to school altogether, spending most of his time in an abandoned garage that he’d turned into a sort of workroom and clubhouse. When he wasn’t in the clubhouse he was usually out trying to find, or steal, or earn money for scrap and parts from around the city for his various projects.
The night he tried to take a broken down motorcycle he found hidden in a bush during one of these supply runs changed his life forever. Not only did the motorcycle turn out to belong to Bowman, one of Freedom City’s well known Superheroes, but said hero caught him in the act. Instead of turning him over to the police, Bowman saw the potential that every other adult around him had missed and decided to take him under his wing. That night Bowman gave him a project and sent him off to the quiver. His time with Bowman was filled with superhero support training and hotpockets. Before either of them really realized what was happening Jason had become a full-fledged sidekick. He adopted the name of Bolt (only later to realize that he’d accidentally taken on a legacy name, thought he quickly earned the approval of the man who had once held it) and joined his mentor and the rest of the Freedom League Dark on the battlefield, doing his part in the mission to protect Freedom city and defeat the mystical baddie known as Una.
After Una was defeated, it was decided that Jason should attended Claremont Academy where he would train to lead Freedom City’s next generation of Superheroes, the Freedom League Jr. In order to make that happen, he needed to become the official, legal ward of one Fletcher Beaumont III aka Bowman and so in addition to his care, friendship, and purpose Bowman also gave him his name.
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Lots of adults and older kids around him liked to tell him that his dad was definitely in jail or dead or other terrible things as a way to shit on him and at least part of him has come to believe it. So much so that he has no interest in knowing who his father actually is for fear they were all right.
He’s not exactly the edgy teen type, but did grow up in a tough neighborhood, mostly taking care of himself. He knows how to fight and how to hide and he has parkour skills occasionally needing a quick get away.
He never had any interested in gangs, despite members of Toyboy’s and other gangs trying to recruit him.
Beacon House was a bit of a system cycler and a revolving door, so he never developed any special bonds or close friendships with any of the other foster kids, but some of the older kids would look out for him when he was younger and he tried to do the same for the younger ones who came after him.
Most of the kids at school either stayed away from or bullied the “passed over orphies” so developing friendships is a skill Jason never had any real chance to hone.
View Bolt’s PL8 Character Sheet here!
Cassian Quinn
Played by Kat
Age: 17
Cassian is a blonde haired blue eyed boy with tan skin He is a stereotypical pretty boy. His entire left arm and part of his torso is made of fluorite, there is a diagonal jagged scar that peeks out from over the collar of his tshirt which separates the gem side from the regular skin.
Cassian doesn’t have a stereotypical hero costume, he wears jeans, a white t-shirt and a black leather jacket with one sleeve cut off to show off his gem arm. The t-shirt has the word “Mortis” printed on it in black script.
Cassian was born in the mystical gemworld of Leifandi – a pocket dimension where magic originates from gemstones. An accident led to Cassian being taken from Leifandi to Earth, where the young man was found by the hero Resonant. He’s been enrolled in Claremont Academy for a few years now, but has refused to join the hero team until this year.
His powers mainly center around the absorption of kinetic energy, and redirecting it as flames.
View Cassian’s PL8 Character Sheet here!
Damian Irons
Played by Brandon
Age: 16
Damian is a surly teenager of Korean, Afro-Latino, and Italian descent. His anger hides and protects him from the pain, loneliness, and despair he has bottled up inside. He’s slim and of average height with average-length, straight, black hair.
Damian is a Silver Stormer, whose powers include the ability to control machinery – including the nanites within his own body. He is also the child of Cyrus Dillon and Carol Irons – versions of which who are now the Storm Breakers Professor Cephalapod and Doctor Irons. Damian is not dealing with the fact that his parents – who he believed to be dead – are now a human brain in an octopus body piloting a mech suit and an alternate-universe superstrong doppleganger.
It’s…. complicated.
View Damian Irons’ PL8 Character Sheet here!
Dr. Henry Barrister/Eddy Bear
Played by Alex
Age: 1
One part of the entity that makes up Dr. Henry Barrister is a spirit that has been around for many, many years, inhabiting one beloved toy after another through the generations.
The other part is a sociopathic teddy bear created by Toyboy, who has superstrength and a vile temper.
The entity came into existence during the Netherwar, and in the wake of Netherwar, Henry took over the body, finding himself as the beloved teddy of a young girl. When it became apparent that Henry could not keep the girl safe from Eddy, Henry instead enrolled himself in Claremont Academy.
View Dr. Henry Barrister’s PL8 Character Sheet here!
View Eddy Bear’s PL8 Character Sheet here!
Speed Demon
Played by Calvin
Age: 15
A speedster since a young age, Vincent always assumed that the constant pressure from his parents to develop powers was due to their background as physicists with a focus on superhuman abilities. Once his powers began to show, that pressure increased as they tried to teach him to become faster and faster. They eventually decided to send him to Claremont Academy, believing the school’s resources and training would prove useful in ways they couldn’t be.
After starting at the academy, Vincent finds himself wanting to be away from home more and more. Though he felt a need to be competitive and could be at times abrasive towards others, he also didn’t have his parents looming over his shoulder every minute of the day. After taking a short run to Freedom City to stretch his legs, Vincent was debating running away from home entirely when the sky ripped open and a massive three headed figure began terrorizing the city. Vincent quickly found himself trapped with other civilians by the massive mage’s army of demons and the crumbling debris of their rampage above. Before he could react, Vincent saw the oncoming red blur of the hero Overdrive. In a split second, the speedster had taken the crowd blocks away to safety. To the others it was in less than the blink of an eye, but Vincent’s senses could perceive what was happening, even though he was practically a statue in comparison.
Since then, Vincent came to realize his powers could be used for more than just getting faster. He could use them to help people too, in ways his parents never taught him. He’s still often impulsive, reckless and feels a need to prove himself to nearly everyone he meets but genuinely wants to do more with his abilities. However, their destructive nature often leaves him discouraged, regardless of how he tries to hide it.
Speed Demon’s powers come from his superspeed, however, his powers are flawed, causing him to generate heat in ways that most speedsters are able to avoid.
View Speed Demon’s PL8 Character Sheet here!
Wild Card
Played by Gemmy
Age: 14
Alex Selinofoto has always had a knack for trouble. They weren’t necessarily trying to cause anyone harm – they were just easily bored, and tricking people was a great way to cure that boredom.
They never knew their mother, and their father was distant (and not accepting of their gender identity), so they quickly found themselves spending as much time away from their home in Emerald City as they could, leading to the day that they discovered an abandoned warehouse filled with lava lamps.
When their powers of illusion first appeared shortly after the Silver Storm, Alex assumed that they were a Stormer. For a few months they embarked on a crime spree – of sorts. Using invisibility and illusions to sneak into homes and taking nothing – but leaving behind a lava lamp, which ensured that they knew that they would live rent-free in those homes forever.
However, a meetup with the Storm Breakers revealed that they were not actually a Stormer. Helping out with a disruption of the EC Pride Parade, they met their “Aunt” Eris, the Goddess of Discord. Eris stripped the young demi-god of a significant portion of their power (although still more than enough to cause problems for others), at which point the visiting Lady Liberty told Alex that they would return with her to Freedom City and begin classes at Claremont Academy.
