Urban Jungle Girl

Lady Cynthia Hart was born to a family of British nobility. Her parents were on a diplomatic mission to Orphicten when the bombs fell. Suddenly marooned in the urban jungle, they made their mark amongst the street gangs of Orphicten. For the first fifteen years after the wars’ end, the fought tooth-and-pistol before being killed by savage native criminals. Their infant daughter was left abandoned. Found by the sentient motorbike, Zuba, and raised in the ways of the urban jungle. As it stands, Lady Hart knows herself solely as Urban Jungle Girl.

Marv Smalltown

Barry and Mary Smalltown moved to Orphicten during the war to take advantage of the city’s booming war industry. After the war they wanted children, but found themselves unable to conceive; so some years later they adopted an infant orphan named Marvin. But the world had moved on and Orphicten was rusting. Like most people employed by the war industry, Barry and Mary hadn’t earned enough to save and couldn’t move on. But Barry was struggling to find work. While they were raising Marvin to believe in right and wrong, Barry was doing odd-jobs for the Mikos Family. Marven was ten when he found out, and never took money from his father again, instead getting whatever odd jobs he could. Arguments were frequent between Marvin and Barry in those days. In his mid teens one particularly savage argument resulted in Marvin striking his father in front of some colleagues. His father was knocked unconscious in an instant. When his father’s colleagues stepped in Marvin beat them all. More came later, and left after Marvin threw a car at them. Marvin had left the Smalltown home by the time Barry had returned from the hospital; setting out to clean up Orphicten. Now in his late twenties, Marvin Smalltown has been living on the street for nearly a decade. He’s tried and is still trying to clean up Orphicten. But the criminal is clever and Marvin is ever-idealistic. They’ve drawn him into their web and learnt to work around him. He takes out individuals, even the big bosses. But every one he misses scales up the ranks. One day Marvin Smalltown may clean up Orphicten, but that day is decades off.

Detective George 'the Yank' Washington

With allegations of ties to the Mikos Crime Family, brutality, and drug running left Detective Washington with only two options for his career. One; early retirement or two- join the Villain Squad. The Villain Squad, a colourful name for Orphicten’s SCU (Special Crimes Unit, handles Supers). So George ‘the Yank’ Washington chose the latter.

Arcane Armoury

Jonathan Gale Jr. is the son of one of the worlds’ mightiest mage’s. While Jonathan senior holds a seat on the Council of the All-Seeing Order, John Jr. displayed no magical ability whatsoever in his youth. In fact, John has always displayed an inability to practice or be affected by arcane energies of all kind. Described by his father as a magical ‘black hole’, John was the reason his mother- an arcane partitioner herself –left John senior when their son was an infant. Moreover, John has been regarded by his father’s colleagues as an aberration at best, a monster at worst. Still, John has studied long and hard to work even the simplest spells. But while weak, John was clever and over many long months he weaved minor spells after spell together, creating a suit of arcane armour. From the armour, John could pluck any combination of the hundreds of spells weaved into it, essentially channelling them into a solid conjured item. While the other mystics have yet to stop treating John with scorn, they have come to treat his with the respect an equal deserves.

Snatch

Snatch’s real name is unknown, though her alter-ego is dubbed Debby B-Cool. Allegedly, Snatch had her real identity stolen by Wulpurga and now must serve her infernal mistress in order to earn it back. Every now Wulpurgis Night, when Wulpurga walks the earth, she will give Snatch a new task. But until Wulpugris Night, Snatch is a free agent. Either way, the twenty year old hip-hop chick is known as a high-class thief.

Shadow

Shadow isn’t a villain. It’s a drug that creates them. Shadow’s growing popularity is attributed to its side effects. Not only does anyone under the influence of Shadow gain the Overconfidence Hindrance, it also grants the user powers. Specifically these are Altered Form and Dark Vision. A hit of Shadow causes the users eyes to film over with a strange black liquid. This liquid additionally coats their limbs, generally from the knee and elbow down; giving them their stretch effect. Shadow junkies are generally easy to spot, as the more they use it the blacker their limbs and eyes become stained, with some of the most hardcore being permanently pitch.

Owlman

Project 23 was a long time ago. But the Supervillian, Chimera, managed to dig up its research. Super-science had come a long way since World War II, and so Chimera assumed he could iron out a lot of the kinks and problems in the Owlman process. All he needed was a test subject. Robert Blake was a gambler deep in dept to the Mikos family. Going with Chimera turned his luck around. Becoming Owlman gave him a job as a Supervillian for the family. Now doing special jobs for the Mikos family, chiefly handling the Supers when they come calling, Owlman is a real life urban legend. Owlman is good friends with the other Mikos super-thug, Mothman.