Character Introductions: Benji Riggs

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Fast Facts

Supers Name: Nightmare

SA Classification: Villain, on Watchlist

Pronouns: They/Them

Age: Just turned 19

Birthday: June 16th

Height: 5′2″

Powers: Can manipulate fear and nightmares; manifest common phobia things as long as someone nearby has a strong fear of that; knows everyone’s biggest fears; can induce sleep paralysis

Favorite Music: Bebop and classical

Favorite Food: Oreos

Bio

Ben’s parents died when they were three, although they never knew how or why. All they know is that when they were a toddler they went to live with their grandmother and older brother, Carter. Ben was super close with their grandma and loved her so much. But regrettably, she wasn’t a very good guardian, as she was often very ill and bedridden, and by the time Ben was eleven she was losing most of her memories to dementia. This meant that Ben was primarily raised by their brother, who was eight years older than them. Carter was... bad news. He is and always had been a manipulative, cruel psychopath. Carter has similar powers to Ben, but his domain is not fear, it is dreams and ‘daydreams,’ which are essentially hallucinations. He’d psychologically torture and terrorize Ben, to put it simply, all while tricking Ben into trusting and believing that he was good. He was also the one who instilled Ben’s phobia of making noise, as he worked from home and didn’t like being disturbed. Even after they’ve been out of Carter’s house for two years, Ben still won’t talk except in very rare circumstances. To Carter, Ben was his property, and he never let them go out, have friends, or attend school. Instead, Ben did online classes. They like to say that pushing them so hard in school is the only thing they are grateful to Carter for, because his insistence on pushing them to their limits meant that, by the time they left him, they had already gotten their associates degree from an online community college program. (It’s in website design and development, in case you were curious. They wanted something they could get a job easily with.)

Online school was also how they met Morty. They were both taking an elective course on Supers law and were paired for a project. The fact that they were both Supers came up, as well as their powers, and when neither was freaked out by the other’s powers, they became close friends. It was Morty who helped Ben eventually run away from Carter when they were seventeen. The two of them lived together for a short while, and it was the best time of Ben’s life. Until Carter had to ruin it. He wasn’t too happy with the idea of Ben leaving, considering he felt like he owned Ben, and when it was clear they weren’t coming back on their own, Carter started hunting them down. Both Ben and Morty went on the run from Carter, though it was incredibly difficult as Carter could find Ben any time they slept through their dreams. Everything was made doubly worse when the Supers Association started chasing Ben too. Because Ben is an empathetic type, whenever they are afraid, other people experience that fear too. When they have panic attacks or flashbacks, which is fairly frequently, there can be serious repercussions on anyone in the surrounding area. The SA decided they were a Villain doing this intentionally, which is the last thing they are doing. Morty eventually left Ben to go back to the SA, to try to convince One Eye that Ben is not a terrorist or Villain and that they deserve amnesty based on the very laws the two had been studying when they met, that work to not-demonize Supers with little control over their powers.

And that’s about where Nightmare at the Lily Pad Inn starts - with Ben on their own running from Carter as Morty tries to fix things with the SA.I’ll hopefully do another post on Morty and Oliver soon, as well as something detailing their relationships together because it’s complicated and i want to make things very clear.

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19.Whats the strangest way two OCs have met? 

(Sparks Fly) In the early drafts of Sparks Fly, Sparky met Hall and Scout by being a hostage when Scout was trying to kill Hall. He was very annoyed, but more so because of the inconvenience. In one draft (2 i think) he was trying to escape a museum after stealing from it and couldn't because they were fighting outside. Horribly rude. 

20. What non-related OCs have known each other the longest? 

(Necro-fam) Eris and Kit, though that’s sort of just because they are so fucking old. 

21. Which ocs knew each other the shortest before becoming close friends?

(Hell in High Heels) Kitty and Hattie. It’s an arranged marriage story but to be fair to them they were fuck buddies before anyway. You know, the whole fuck your nemeses bc she’s hot and you’re hella lesbian, get caught by a corrupt and horribly sexist organization, have to marry each other because of publicity reasons... a Tuesday. 

22. Which OCs spend the most time together?

(Necro-fam) Kinda everyone in the necro-fam. They’re sort of being hunted so they stick really close. 

23. Which OCs have fought with each other the most?

(Hell in High Heels) Kittie and Hattie. Again, nemeses and all. Uh for more current story - (necro-fam)  Eris and Amais. They are brothers, but Amais sort of wants to gut Eris so although there’s not a lot of head to head fighting, there’s a lottttt of animosity. For actual active fighting, in the same story Kit and Mila bicker constantly. 

24. Do any OCS have friends they haven't met in person?

(Nightmare at the Lily Pad Inn) Morty and Ben didn’t meet in person for the first like... four or something years after becoming friends. They were online friends at first, and then helped each other escape abusive home lives. Good beans all around.

25. do any OCs have imaginary friends? 

(Nightmare at the Lily Pad Inn) I actually have an answer to this, which I didn’t think I would. Ben has their monsters that they made to help them cope with everything with Carter, and you know. their fear powers and shit. They used to bring them into reality a lot more, but then only do it for protection nowadays. In the same story Jazzy has imaginary friends too, but she’s 5 so. Oh also in Wildfire, Winry has a lot of imaginary friends that she can make real. She’s also a kiddo.

26.Does OC have a hard or easy time making friends?

I’mma be honest I think all my OCs are social trainwrecks lmaooo. There are some here and there though that are good at it - Kitty (Hell in High Heels), Kit and Mila (Necro-fam), Matty (NLPI), but for the most part they struggle. Even some of those have difficulty, like Kit, she’s technically dead and no one but the necromancers can see her, and Mila is sort of being hunted. If it weren't for those two things, they’d have tons of friends, and Kit definitely did before she died.

27. How did OC meet their best friend?

(Necro-fam) Kit and Eris met when Kit showed up to Reap Eris and Amais’ parents who had died in a fire. So you know. Real pleasant first meeting, but they made it work. in NLPI, Ben met Oliver when they both were at the Lily Pad Inn seeking a safe place.

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Character Introductions: Matty Greene

Fast Facts

SA  Classification: They’re not a Super, but they are on the Watchlist

Pronouns: He/She/They, it varies

Age: 30 

Birthday: September 29

Height: 5′0″ 

Favorite Food: strawberries 

Favorite Tea: Lavender 

Bio

Matty is a normal human, and so they had a pretty normal life. Their grandmother ran a nice bed and breakfast called the Lily Pad Inn, which their mother took over eventually. They grew up there with their sister, Anna, and had a fairly normal childhood. Their parents didn’t get along, though they were both nice, and eventually got divorced in Matty’s sophomore year of high school. After then, things were a lot better. They went off to college where they majored in premed. They worked as an EMT throughout college, but they weren’t a fan, and eventually they realized they didn’t want to do medical school. They wanted to help people, but that wasn’t how they wanted to do it. Instead they went back to the Inn to help their mom out for a few months until she decided to hand it fully over to Matty.

In college, Matty had a boyfriend who was real nice at first. But he turned out to be really awful. Matty however, is a sweetheart and is bad at setting up boundaries if it means he can help people, so they never broke up with the dick. That is, until a year after they graduated, when Matty realized they were pregnant. Then they kicked the douche out. Matty will put up with a lot against himself, but they knew that their boyfriend would hate them having a kid, and was not about to let him hurt their kid. They had their daughter, Jazzy, a few months later when they were 25. 

It was right about when Jazzy was born that the Lily Pad Inn became a shelter for Villains. It wasn’t intentional, not really, but a Villain came in one night asking for a room, and Matty gave them one. They didn’t realize the Villain was on the run until the SA showed up demanding that Matty let them get the Villain. Matty said absolutely not, and because of them, that Villain didn’t get arrested. She spread the word that the Inn would keep you safe, and eventually 90% of Matty’s customers were Villains needing a safe place. In the end, they don’t regret it at all, and are much, much happier this way. They’ve found their way of helping people, and they stick with it. The Inn is known all over as a sanctuary for Villains and it’s grown bigger than Matty could ever have expected, and they love it. 

In the end, the Inn being a safe haven turned out better than they could have imagined even, because it was how they met their now husband, Blue. Blue was a Villain who came in for safety, and kept coming back, and, well. Shit happened. The two of them got married a year and a half before the story starts. Jazzy is now 5 years old, the Inn is well established, and Matty is so well known for standing down the SA that One Eye is intimidated and leaves the Inn alone. So... yea. Matty is the sweetheart cinnamon roll with a spine of steel who’s willing to show absolutely anyone love, and trust me when i say you don’t want to mess with Matty. And yea!

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Character Introduction: Oliver Heart

Okay, FINALLY we can get to Oliver’s intro post!! And by finally I mean i finally have some fucking power in my house and time to write. It’s been a time this week guys. So let’s just jump right in!

Fast Facts

Supers Name: Time Master

SA Classification: Rogue Party, on Watchlist.

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Officially 18, but he can’t remember for certain

Birthday: He celebrates January 12th because that’s the first day he remembers. I’ll explain later.

Height: 6′1″

Powers: Time Elemental  so time manipulation; precognition, etc

Favorite Food: Applesauce

Favorite Animal: Dogs.

Bio

Like Morty, Oliver’s got a bit of a memory problem with his childhood. He can’t remember a darn thing about himself prior to when he turned ten (and got his powers technically). He woke up in the SA hospital, and was told his name was Oliver and that he’d been in a car accident that killed his parents. He has no idea if that’s true or not, because One Eye does have a habit of kidnapping Elementals and erasing their memories to make them loyal to the Supers Association, but Oliver also has a habit of not realizing he’s walking into streets. Mind you no one but the other Elementals actually know he’s an Elemental, I explain that more here, but I wouldn’t put it past One Eye to know anything ngl. He’s pretty sure it was One Eye honestly, considering he can see into the past, and his own past... but not the first ten years. He’s not really happy about it, but there’s not much he can do, and he doesn’t particularly care, in all honesty.

Since he had no where to go and was just a kid, Oliver wound up staying with the Supers Association. He went to one of their schools for a while, though the Director in charge of the branch nearest to the school often came to him for predicting the future. He wasn’t particularly a fan of that, but he didn’t know how to say no. The more they asked him for help seeing the future, and the more he had to use his powers in school, the more unstable he got. He started forgetting what time period he was in, forgetting long gaps of time, getting confused about what had already happened, and so on. It wasn’t too bad yet, and they thought he was just forgetful.

But then he collapsed time. Oliver’s a nerd, to put it really simply, and he always has been. He loves history, which is part of why Time chose him, he loves learning, and he’s curious about everything. He was 100% that kid in class who asked so many questions the teacher got annoyed and his favorite words are “well actually...”. And in a Supers school, where cliques are huge and determined by power, he tended to get bullied. His powers weren’t fighting based and he was annoying, so they didn’t like him. When he was thirteen, there was an incident and it scared him enough his powers lashed out, and time collapsed. It was only for a few minutes, he fixed it easily enough, but it terrified the SA when they realized just how powerful he was. If he collapsed time fully, then the world would basically be destroyed because physics doesn’t like that much. So... yea.

The Supers Association, in all their shitty government organization with little to no oversight way, took Oliver to a facility for older Supers who could no longer control their powers. Overall, it was a nice place. He got taken care of, there was a big garden, it was just a retirement home, essentially. Except for the small fact that they drugged him to the point he barely knew his own name. At thirteen. Without any real consent (his legal guardian was the SA as a whole, and as a minor he didn’t have any say in it). Sparky found out about this, because of course he did, and, well, he made a fuss. Stole all Oliver’s case files and plopped them in the lap of a nonprofit legal group that worked to protect Supers rights. They made a case to get him free considering it was completely unlawful, the SA argued that he was dangerous and they were allowed to deal with dangerous Supers as needed, yadda yadda yadda, it goes to the Supreme court and is super televised, and in the end Oliver’s case wound up securing a ton of rights for minor Supers. A lot of the shit the SA had been doing, like the kidnapping Elemental kids and erasing their memories, essentially arresting powerful young Supers without calling it that (they’d put them in facilities that were similar to juvie but called a training thing, not a jail thing even though they weren’t allowed to leave), stuff like that, it was no longer allowed. At all. Young Supers did have rights before hand of course that protected them, but the loopholes were officially closed. It was a HUGE deal, especially for Morty and Ben, though neither of them actually knew Oliver at that point. But Morty was kidnapped and had his mind wiped, and was held essentially hostage by One Eye, and Ben is a powerful Super with scary powers that would definitely have been targeted by the SA earlier. So this was really big. A lot of strong Super kids got released, and soon after the case an oversight committee was created to protect minor Supers. It’s probably the only comprehensive oversight the SA has (and even then, comprehensive is a bit wishy washy) but it’s so much more than previously.

As for Oliver himself, he got released and was no longer being drugged, but the damage had been done. The drugs destabilized his powers, and his confusion increased exponentially. He started losing himself in time, when he’d see, hear, feel, and fully believe he was in some moment in the past, sometimes for hours at a time. He rarely could tell you the date, started living a few minutes behind or a few minutes ahead even when he was present, had a few instances of things from the past showing up in his place... not great. As a compromise with the SA, the court decided to assign him a full time carer, Emory, who made sure he ate, drank water, and didn’t hurt himself. Which he did. A lot. Always on accident, of course, but things happen when you were in your living room and then you’re suddenly experiencing a battlefield. Lots of running and falling because objects that are physically there are not there for him. Not a lot of fun. He also got a service dog who he named Edison, just to help keep him calm and ground him.

Things were pretty okay after that, other than dealing with the whole, getting lost in the time stream thing, until time collapsed again. Again, it wasn’t Oliver’s fault, he got panicked because he saw a Really Bad Future and thought he was trapped there since he doesn’t normally realize that the time he’s seeing isn’t the right one. It was an apocalypse, and in real time bodies suddenly appeared in the streets, buildings collapsed because another building shoved itself into it which tends to break some laws of psychics and all... yea. no one got hurt, just terrified, and he brought it back after about twenty minutes with Edison and Emory’s help. But yet again, the SA was scared, and since it could technically be considered a Villainous attack, since no one could tell if the bodies were from the present time or the past and there was property damage,and technically he was an adult then since he’d just turned eighteen, so technically they were allowed to put him back into a facility all drugged up. Which they did. Again. This time though, he did have an adult who was on his side, and Emory busted him out. Sometimes having temporary amnesia powers and being a retired spy comes in handy for her. ;) She brought him to the Lily Pad Inn for safety until she could get the SA off his ass, which is where his story picks up in the book!!

Sorry that got so long, ugh, but Oliver’s story is complicated and a load of not fun. There’s a lot of not fun in general. Tragic backstories anyone? Every Supers gotta have one! But at the very least, his pain wound up helping a lot of people, and if you ask him, that means it was worth it. Anyways, here’s the tag list: @shadow-maker​ @merigreenleaf​ @albatris​ @ageekyreader​ @mo-is-writing​ lmk if you want on or off as always, either for this story or in general!! or the DHU in general there’s a list for that too lolol.

Character Introduction: Mortimer Heart

Fast Facts

Supers Name: None

SA Classification: Rogue Party, on Watchlist

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Officially 19, yes we have another complicated age one sorry folks

Birthday: April 4th (it’s actually his adoption day but he celebrates it as his birthday) Height: 5′9″

Powers: The Death Elemental. Can hear/see ghosts, reanimate corpses, can tell when someone’s going to die soon, gains strength from areas with lots of deaths such as hospitals or battlefields, can kill someone with a look although that takes a lot of concentration, can sense death, freaks everyone out because hes a spoopy boi

Favorite Food: Anything Spicy, but probably Indian food.

Favorite Animal: Does not like animals and is annoyed I asked. If pressed, probably snakes.

Bio

Guess what folks we’ve got another one with memory problems! Yayy!! Though to be fair, One Eye didn’t have to do much here. Morty was adopted (read - bought) by One Eye and brought to America from an orphanage in Siberia when he was six years old, so he probably wouldn’t remember anything anyways. Like Oliver, One Eye grabbed him because he’s an Elemental, and the SA kinda wanted to collect the whole set of them and was not afraid to do whatever it took to reach that goal, hence why so many are in America. They weren’t supposed to be, One Eye just didn’t give them a choice. Anyways, the clever amongst you have probably already noticed that Morty’s last name is the same as Oliver’s, and this is intentional. Just like in the USA we call people who can’t remember their names or unidentified bodies John/Jane Doe’s, in the DHU America, they call them Sam Heart’s (because it’s my world and I can make gender neutrality a thing if i fucking want). Oliver did have a first name that they let him keep, and Morty got named that by One Eye because the man is not creative (guess what he named the fire Elemental? Blaise. Yes I did that intentionally dont at me). But both of them use the Heart last name because they don’t know their own. Just some fun worldbuilding for you.

You might also notice that I said Morty got adopted at six years old already as an Elemental, even though Elementals get chosen at 11-13 years old. I didn’t mess up. Death is a tad different in that it picks it’s Elemental early. The first time they see death, be it an animal or a person, they get their powers. For Morty, there was a home break in, his dad got shot, he got his powers and accidentally killed everyone in a half mile radius, and eventually was found by authorities. There weren’t any records of him, so no one really knew much about him and just guessed his age. Hence the officially 19, and his birthday being the day One Eye swept him up. He does not remember the break in happening, or the orphanage, but he still gets nightmares of flashes from it. Fun!

Once he was with the SA, he was kind of kept prisoner. One Eye sort of raised him (in that he’d check in at certain points and otherwise Morty was left with nannies who hated him because he’s creepy), and he wasn’t allowed to leave the headquarters office. He did online school, which is how he met Ben, learned how to repress his powers because One Eye wouldn’t let him use them since they scared him, and was just generally a very bored, very frustrated, and very done with authority child. One Eye did a lot of fucking with his mind, placing blocks that made him afraid of using his powers, and trust me that DEFINITELY fucked him up a lot. After he meets Sparky in “Sparks Fly” he started to sneak out to meet with the triad more and more, getting in more and more trouble, until he just decided to stay with them when he’s 16. The three of them become even more of his pseudo dads than they already were, and it’s pretty good. He gets along best with Sparky, loves Hall and Scout even if he fights with them a lot, and really relies on them. He never quite got along well with Lucia though, because she was one of the Heroes who babysat him for a while. Even though she was the only one to take him on field trips or who’d turn a blind eye if she knew he was just running to the triad’s place, she was still part of the SA, and damn does this boy have a problem with authority and the SA now. A year or so later, he leaves the triad to help Ben run away, and that’s about where the book picks up so we’re going to stop it there.

And that’s Morty! He’s contrary, angry, hates authority, but is also so sensitive and caring and sweet with Ben and we love our little death boy okay he’s a Good Bean. Anyways here’s the tag list: @mo-is-writing​ @albatris​ @shadow-maker​ @merigreenleaf​ @ageekyreader​ @knightedwriter​ insert usual if you want on or off just let me know you guys get the gist. ;) love you all! Up next i’ll probably do Matty and Blue, and then we’ll be done with the intro posts for Nightmare at the Lily Pad Inn!