Training Team: Tempest Archives

07: J. Chandra // Diplo

Power: Fear

The youngest child of a large extended family of businesspeople, Chandra at first saw Frazer College as an escape from the worries and pressures of home. Soon, though, they realised that the same anxieties and conflicts could be found there. When Chandra’s Mark arrived, they found they could do something about this: they could control fear, calming others and taking their worries away. What better role to play, in a conflict, than the one who spreads peace and harmony? Quickly, people started looking to Chandra as a leader. Yet, under the guise of the peacemaker, Chandra has a secret. They can increase fear as well as reduce it, stirring up people’s anxieties, playing on the things that lurk deep in their mind. And they know that, if war comes, the dark side of their power may be the weapon they need to win.

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08: M. Beck // Ice Wall

Age: Senior Student, Origin: Salik's Boxing Club, Greenland, Training Team: Tempest /

Power: Forcefields

Beck was born in Denmark and didn’t move to Greenland until they were 12 years old. Their parents loved their new country. They kept talking about how wonderful it was to be closer to nature and living in a small community, but they didn’t seem to notice how much Beck struggled to adjust. Beck, on the other hand, saw what the move did for their parents: how their mother didn’t eat two painkillers for breakfast every morning, how their father drank much less than he used to. So Beck kept their mouth shut about their own issues. Maybe there’s a reason their powers let them create a forcefield between themselves and the world. Beck was heartbroken when the boxing club fell apart. They are desperate to gather the old gang once more.

Content warning: Alcoholism

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09: M. Juarez // Crucible

Age: Senior Student, Origin: Noasha Outreach Laboratory, Berlin, Training Team: Tempest /

Power: Metal Manipulation

Kicked out of their home at a young age due to their family’s fear of their Mark, Juarez developed several survival strategies. Their naturally fancy personality – foppish, femme, flamboyant – made them an unthreatening joke or weakling to most, and hid their ruthlessness until it became necessary to use. A near-deadly altercation that occured between Juarez and trigger-happy corporate security forces after Juarez snuck into a corporate R&D department brought them to the attention of Noasha Labs, and the Labs were intrigued by their power of control over metal and offered them a place to stay. Juarez viewed this as blatant mercenary attitude on the part of the scientists, but considered it a fair trade for meals, education, company and safety – until the lab got sabotaged, from the inside. With the one place they thought they could trust betrayed, Juarez retreated to the Mistry Academy they’d heard the researchers mention and tried to plot a grand plan for the safety of all Marked. The lab’s failure had already shown that thinking small was not enough…

Content warnings: Homelessness, abandonment and assault

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10: C. Honeythunder // Honeythunder

Age: Senior Student, Origin: Circus of Human Wonders, United States, Training Team: Tempest /

Power: Bullet Time

Back in rural North Carolina, Honeythunder always thought they were slick. They used their Marked ability—a burst of accelerated perception and movement that made the world seem to slow around them—in small, reflexive ways. Leaping between the traincars that rattled past their bedroom at night. Dodging the college kids’ cars up in Chapel Hill. Shoplifting. They picked pockets as much for the challenge as the money. They were good at it, too, thanks to their Marked ability. But not so good that Cameron Redlaw didn’t catch them in the act. Cameron taught Honeythunder how to extend their their powers for longer and longer, showing them how juggle more and more balls. After Cameron’s death, Honeythunder toured with a celebrated artistic circus as a juggler, but soon realised they would not learn what they needed to know. Instead, they came to Mistry Academy. They arrived as a angry young person with a chip on their shoulder, but, in their time at Mistry with others like themselves, Honeythunder has mellowed.

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11: A. Lee // Hush

Age: Senior Student, Origin: Wonder Park Vigilantes, Alaska, Training Team: Tempest /

Power: Sound Control

A. Lee grew up in Wonder Park with their mother, a sometimes-addict who ended her marriage to A. Lee’s father with what was locally referred to as a “Spenard divorce” – she shot him after a particularly brutal beating. For their part, A. learned early to keep their head down, to keep their door closed, and to keep their mouth shut. It was no surprise when their Mark arrived: it gave them power over sound, including, most preciously, the gentle gift of complete silence. A. Lee’s mom only saw dollar signs and effectively sold her child to the government after their gift manifested. By this time Lee had bonded with the other neighborhood Marked, and even done some vigilante crime-fighting. When A. was taken to a secure facility at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to await “testing”, they spectacularly broke Lee out. D. Rautenbach went to prison, their destructive hands positive proof of the earlier murder, the entire feckless Joseph clan went to ground in the wilderness, and A. bummed a ride Outside with a long-haul trucker. A. Lee overcompensates for their constant fear and anxiety. They know their power hasn’t been fully explored, and want to use it to make others like them safe, perhaps even if it means some collateral damage.

Content warnings: Domestic violence and abuse

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12: E. Jordan // Inferno

Age: Senior Student, Origin: The Body Snatchers, London, Training Team: Tempest /

Power: Heat Control

Forced to leave Jamaica to avoid persecution, Jordan found themself just as vulnerable as a migrant in the UK. When Jordan’s papers were stolen, they had no evidence that they had any right to remain in the UK and fled onto the streets. With a vague promise of papers and threats of deportation, Jordan found themselves manipulated into working for a crime boss. Jordan tried to find a way out of the criminal life, but the threat of arrest was around every corner. When Jordan was sent to kill former street hustler, Taylor, they saw their opportunity to escape. Instead of burning the Old Chapel to the ground, Jordan agreed to help Taylor bring together the North London Marked and find a way to the Mistry Academy. Up until now fighting has been the only thing Jordan knows, but with a new start comes new possibilities and maybe fighting isn’t the only way.

Content warning: Persecution

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50: P. Mukherjee // Showstealer

Age: Staff, Origin: The Remarkable Marked Alliance, Training Team: Tempest /

Subject: Marked History
Power: Fireworks

Mukherjee grew up just outside Bradford, the youngest and most volatile of three siblings. When they found their Mark, nobody was surprised when their power turned out to be fireworks. But when their experiments with their powers caused a near-fatal fire, they left home and resolved to find out how to truly control themselves. Their first real test was meeting O’Reilly, but they were losing against them when Dr Mistry showed up. After a tense stand-off the three of them headed back to the Academy, but Mukherjee has never forgotten or truly forgiven it. They joined the Remarkable Marked Alliance as soon as they could, calmer but no less stubborn, and specialise in causing distractions. They are well-liked by the students for their quick sense of humour (which has gotten the whole team into hot water several times), but Dr Mistry’s death has sobered them. Without her, Mukherjee isn’t sure what to do next for the first time in their life.

Content warnings: Fire, being cut off from family/friends

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