Story Ideas

Finished Characters

A/N: For more context, feel free to read the Plot Point chapter.

Trigger Warning: Mentions of self-harm and suicide.

Opal, a very hotheaded girl, is around 16 but isn't sure. She comes from a home that concealed her pyrokinesis from the government to avoid her being taken to be experimented on. She has very pale skin, as she isn't allowed to go outside, has freckles and deep red hair. One eye is emerald green, the other is fiery red. Despite seeming brash, egotistical and confident, she heavily depends on other people's opinions of her and is immensely vulnerable. Her parents kept her hidden away, so her social skills are very poor, and she has a tendency to lash out at people. She ties her entire self worth to other people, and lives for them. She is somewhat similar to Asuka Langley Soryu and Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis mixed with Kayo Hinazuki from Erased and Katsuki Bakugo from MHA, with deep rooted self hatred and mental illness that has been utterly concealed from anyone else. Since she fakes who she is, she thinks everyone else is fake too, and is deeply insecure about who she is, because she doesn't really know how much she's faking. Opal is fueled by her rage, which, despite what people believe, is actually highly repressed. Opal hates the world for everything it has done to her. Due to romance sprouting in the group, she will begin to feel unwanted and unloved, and will become immensely unpleasant to be around. She is amazingly powerful, but has little control. Her arc will mainly focus on her mental health and finding her own self worth, while trying to detach herself from Azrael, who she secretly worships and has associated with her health, hoping that he can save her. Due to this, once she finds out how Azrael is in love with Damien, she will begin to detest Damien and use him as an outlet for all of her insecurities. She will also begin to hate Maya, who she thinks is a perfect little doll, representing everything that she hates. Eventually, after Maya's supposed death, she will begin to spiral. Opal's background is fittingly tragic. She grew up in a town named Decina, with about 50,000 people. Not a small town, but hardly a major urban center. It is in Virginia, decently far inland at the foot of the Blue Ridge. Opal is an orphan, her parents died from mysterious circumstances. She grows up at an orphanage, but her powers cause her to be hated and alienated, all except for one boy named Lyra, who has whitish lavender hair and pale skin. He is adept with an acoustic guitar and will often play songs for Opal to calm her down. They are best friends, and, unbeknownst to Lyra, Opal is in love with him for saving her. At some point, the bullies at the orphanage attempt to kill Opal, and Lyra intervenes and is killed. He bleeds out in Opal's arms, with her weeping over his lifeless body. She loses control, and her rage leads to her fire swirling out, incinerating everything in her path in black flame. The entire town is destroyed, and Opal is just sitting there, in a scorched crater, with a locket that she can't open that belonged to Lyra. It has a white gold chain, studded with rubies. At some point in the series, the locket will open, revealing a picture of her, with a fire opal interior. Opal breaks down when she sees this, sending her spiraling, and eventually leading to her attempted suicide. Opal has another ability. When she is in an especially heightened sense of emotion, she loses control and The Blackflame comes out, a repressed alter from the trauma of her childhood. The Blackflame is named very aptly, for the flames she produces are black. She has no control, but near limitless power, and lashes out at everyone around her. She is the embodiment of the hate that Opal keeps locked inside.

Maya is a 16 year old girl who was born in a lab, implanted with the ability to teleport to wherever she can see. Despite this background, the researchers who raised her acted as a family, and treated her like a daughter. At the outbreak of the war, the blast on the east coast had Maya on ground zero, surviving due to her teleportation mechanism warping her outside of the main timestream until she can return without being fatally wounded, meaning that she was ripped from her family as they died almost instantly. She was placed back into the burning crater that was her home city of New Jericho. She had always struggled with mental illness, but she had a wonderful support structure, but now she is spiraling into a severe depression and feels as if life is not worth living. She meets up with the others a few miles outside of Atlanta, having teleported along the road from New Jericho. She and Damien will begin to get close, bonding over their shared suffering. Eventually, some event will reveal the scars on Maya's arms where she has been cutting herself. Damien, still traumatized by his past, will decide to form a reverse suicide pact with Maya, where as long as one of them is alive, the other is forbidden to kill themselves. Damien and Maya will fall deeply in love, a relationship based around mutual support and helping each other cope with trauma. Maya is a short girl, about 5'2", and very light. She is skinny, but doesn't look neglected, just naturally small. She has short pitch black hair in a pixie cut, with a blue streak and a purple streak in it. Her eyes are a cool green. She is very pale, and she doesn't have very good social skills, being a very shy and quiet person. She has glasses, but doesn't need them that much, her vision is just blurry without them. She is shockingly wiry, not that strong, but far stronger than people would think. She is athletic, and people tend to underestimate her. She is very agile and has near superhuman reflexes, enhanced by the implant within her skull. Every time she teleports, it hurts her head, and if she teleports too much, she gets migraines. As she teleports, a small amount of radiation is released from the energy released when the fabric of spacetime is punctured. Eventually, this will kill her, deteriorating her mind a miniscule amount each time she teleports. It will take years, but it will happen, and that was something that the researchers were trying to solve. Eventually, she will sacrifice(maybe?) herself to save Damien and Opal. Her arc entails slowly being able to forgive herself and let go of her self hatred, and gradually working towards an equilibrium with her mental health, where she is no longer suicidal but not okay. As her relationship with Damien progresses, Azrael will continue to be jealous, but he respects both Damien and Maya, and will act as if nothing is wrong. Maya, who has amazing emotional intelligence and can read people very well, will confront him and ask him what is happening, where he will reveal to her his feelings toward Damien. Maya, unsure of how to react to an Azrael nearly in tears, along with Opal trying to ruin her life, begins to wonder if the group wouldn't be happier without her. We watch as she continues to suppress her emotions and contemplating suicide until she reaches a breaking point, and Azrael will talk her down. They will grow close themselves, and become very close friends. Maya's purpose is oftentimes the inverse of Opal's, tying the group together instead of driving conflict between them. After her death, which is penciled in at best, Opal will have to reckon with herself, Damien will spiral into multiple attempts on his life, thwarted either by Azrael or Eli, and Azrael, in his own grief will run away, only to find Damien making one final attempt on his life, and rescue him, revealing his love at the same time. Should Maya secretly survive outside the timestream, she will witness this, brokenhearted about Damien, trying to send messages to show that she still lives and that their pacts still holds. Maya is inspired by Vin from Mistborn, Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis, and one of my OCs, Kara. Addendum: I plan to fully kill Maya at the hands of Samael.
Addendum II, Electric Boogaloo: Maya will die when the group is kidnapped and taken to a facility in the Rocky Mountains in Book 3