Legacy
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In a world where only 1% of the population is gifted with unique abilities, or "superpowers", either by accident or on purpose, it may not be as simple as "good" versus "evil". Not when each individual has their own agenda, seeking glory, seeking influence, seeking destruction... Not when some "super families" have built up generations of legacies to uphold, passing down the family ability with each successive generation - along with the family goal.
In New York City, supervillain sidekick Archer, AKA Vanessa Nguyen, is eager to finish her training and become a supervillain in her own right. But it's not easy coming from a small time villain family where the legacy is just to play henchman for the big time Sinclair family who holds political power as well as supernatural. And Vanessa's still got to worry about graduating college with her political science degree. So maybe being a supervillain isn't everything she hoped for. But at least she's not just a regular person, or even worse, a superhero. Right?
Meanwhile, newly inducted superhero Bluejay is trying to figure out his own role in the world with no family legacy to speak of - save for the fact that as Cameron Elliott, he's a fifth generation Columbia University legacy. Needless to say, he's certain if his family found out about the extracurricular activities that kept his GPA at less than a 4.0, they would not be happy.
So what happens when the two worlds of these misfits collide?
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