backstories/character bios for my webcomic main characters:
growing up, emma rain was one of those weird kids who didn’t have any friends. she drew a lot & didn’t talk all that much, and although she was friendly to everyone, just kept to herself. she lived in a tiny town called hillville where everyone knew everyone, and her best friend was old mr. pocket from the antique store. after her dad died, mr. pocket adopted her. emma had had her superpowers for as long as she could remember, and the minute she graduated high school she hightailed it out of hillville, shaved her head, got a degree in art, went to a couple pride parades, and moved to the big city, where she started superheroing as her part-time gig after watching the local news one too many times and getting fed up. she had been a sorta superhero back in high school, but not really and she’s just now getting into it fully. she’s a little insecure and reclusive when it comes to other superheroes, but she’s working on getting out of her shell a little more. what could go wrong?
chloe winters was a Teen Superhero(tm). she’s been hardcore heroing since she was 14. she was part of a superhero team that disbanded when chloe was 18, but don’t ask her why cause she won’t tell you. she transferred schools after her freshman year of college and became the new face of superheroing in carson city. she met dragon two years later and a year after dragon & winter pole were the city’s dynamic duo, they got a sweet gig going with collin carson, local billionaire and superhero enthusiast. now chloe works for collin’s company as a personal assistant and kinda third wheeled around collin and dragon until she found herself living with the pair of them in collin’s mansion. it’s a good deal, and assuming chloe can forget her tragic past and maybe even help out the new hero in town, verity volant, everything will be awesome.
skylar jones has lived in carson city his whole life. he grew up normally, with his the most unusual thing about him being that he actually liked math class. when he was dared to eat a ghost pepper when he was a senior in high school, discovered that he could breathe fire. it wasn’t a great day for him. he then spent the next few years toasting marshmallows with his breath and trying to figure out how to blow on hot stuff to make it colder and not set it on fire. once he mastered the art of fire breath, he realized that the city only had one superhero but most other cities had a lot of them, and winter pole had only been doing heroing in carson city for a few years so she had a lot to clean up. then skyar’s brother got attacked by a roaming Monster, so he really felt the need to help out. he made a costume, started helping winter pole, accidentally bumped into collin carson after an interview with carson co. to try and get a janitorial job, and fell in love. next think skylar knew, he and collin are dating and skylar has a job as a video game tester, collin decides to fund him and winter pole’s heroing, and all three of them are living together in collin’s mansion. weird how these things work out. so yeah, everything’s looking up skylar, even though collin made some weird synthetic wings to help aid in the “dragon” look and there’s a really persistent reporter trying to get info on the heroes. but everything’s gonna be fine, really.
collin carson grew up as a billionaire, decided superheroes were awesome, and decided to become one. sadly, he didn’t have powers but his older sister secretly did, and while she was trying to keep 13 year old collin from killing himself, got really badly hurt and ended up having to move to a private island to keep herself alive & sane. collin blamed himself, and decided that heroing was a no-go. but his passion came back with a force when the winter pole, established hero with tons of experience and also happening to be super awesome, moved to carson city. collin dedicated himself to trying to get her attention, but then he got sent away by his parents to learn the “value of work”. whatever. he came back a few years later when his parents decided to move to the island where his sister lived, and before he could try to figure out a new approach to getting winter pole--and this “dragon” person--’s attention, he met skylar jones and immediately fell in love. pretty convenient, as it turned out. collin is happy to help skylar and chloe with funding, and lodging, and they let him do sciency stuff with gadgets, so they’re all happy. even when chloe decides that verity volant needs to join their little crew, and even later, when emma decides it’s a good idea to bring literal children into the mix. what and ever. maybe if he keeps being a good example to the public and helping the city in all the ways he can, his parents will let him see his sister again. hopefully.
natalie robinson is not technically a reporter, she’s a photographer, but a lot of people mistake her for one. probably because she’s pretty nosy and likes asking questions about what she’s photographing, and probably because she likes to stretch the truth and claim to be a photographer. whatever, her partner appreciates her extra help. anyway, natalie and her partner were sent to carson city to figure out collin carson’s deal now that he’s back in carson city and now that he’s the ONLY carson in their city. unfortunately, natalie doesn’t care about collin carson and would MUCH rather take pictures of the local superheroes, especially verity volant, who make’s natalie’s bi heart explode a little whenever she sees her. except, of course, natalie has NO CHANCE with a superhero, but with emma rain, the artist she met while doing some freelance photography for an art magazine? natalie’s chances with her are WAY higher. too bad emma seems to have some sort of secret....
sophie white developed her powers when she was 3 and her mom freaked out and sent her into the foster care system. she learned to control her powers pretty early and repressed them down super deep because she blamed her powers for her situation. when she was nine, instead of switching families she was sent to a summer camp and met dylan, who she immediately hated. the feeling was mutual and they played pranks on each other all summer long, until camp was over and sophie was placed into her new home and across the kitchen table was dylan. after that, they became inseparable and were dependent on each other. when they were eleven, they got kidnapped by a shady organization to test their new machine. the machine duplicated a person’s powers and gave them to someone else, and once the machine was used on them dylan got sophie’s powers. she teleported them out and they escaped. they decided that it was too risky to stay in the foster system and lived on the streets until they were found by verity volant...
dylan henry’s parents were killed by a monster when he was little, and he grew up bouncing around in foster homes. when he was 9, he was sent to a summer camp where he met sophie. they immediately disliked each other and were enemies throughout the rest of camp, playing pranks on each other and stuff. but when henry got back and sent to a new foster home, he discovered that sophie was also there and therefore also in the foster system. they became friends after that realization and were inseparable at the foster home and in the new school they were placed at. after they got kidnapped and dylan got sophie’s powers, sophie went right on repressing the powers again and dylan mastered them, thinking they were pretty cool. they lived on the streets and only needed each other, but then they ran into verity volant....
anna ellis has has powers since [redacted] and as a [redacted] she [redacted]. but then [redacted] and she quit. shortly after, she [redacted] which led her to [redacted]. she lives in [redacted] and tries to stay away from [redacted]. all she really wants is to [redacted] since she still loves [redacted] but she’s afraid. she stays away and uses her powers to [redacted]. maybe one day she’ll come back, but not yet.
bianca ellis: bianca is anna’s daughter. she’s 6 years old and doesn’t know what’s going on or what her mom is afraid of. if she has powers, they haven’t developed yet.
to be clear -
emma -- verity volant, born with the powers the powers of flight & light manipulation
chloe - winter pole, born with ice powers (think elsa from frozen)
skylar - dragon, developed fire-breath powers
sophie - shadow, born with teleportation powers
dylan - shadow, gained teleportation powers by the machine
