While Paul was also recruited by a professional adult villain, he wasn’t being trained as a protege the way Emma was (as I recall), but simply serving as a thug / mook.
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(Thank you, btw, for the reminder of “Dinosaur Island” – that thread was awesome.)
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Editorial says: Leaning toward Hunter as the Protege (not ‘batman/robin’ style) or the Nova.
(I like Protege because it makes Vic being the joined EVEN MORE INTERESTING.) Then again, I like the Nova because then they’d share an origin story… @fragolakat - what do you think?
@fragolakat: Why did Hunter miss so much school last year?
- Why is the reason so annoying to you, personally?
@Margie: What are the rumors about Hunter’s family? Are they true?
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Almost forgot: @insomn14 What is the most annoying thing about being friends with with Paul (Problem Child) ever since you were kids?
From Sync’s VO narration: “Eh, Paul… We were neighbors growing up, but then Paul got super powers! And then instead of using them for help people, he decided to be a dick, get in with the wrong crowd, and now–worst of all–they’re just letting him join Phoenix Academy like nothing happened!? That’s not fair!”
EDIT: Oh, I just wondered if both Roddy and Paul had the same love of superheroes/superpowered people as kids, but Paul got into the wrong crowd and got involved with some Power Broker-style enpowerment gang.
Also, Sync keeps getting paired up with him for gym. The unstoppable force against the untouchable object leads to a lot of “He just keeps dodging!” “Well yeah, if you tapped me I’d fly into a wall!”
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I’ve got two pitches for a Transformed student. If either of these sound interesting, start asking questions once you’re ready.
Captain Marble
A typical student who went on a field trip and wished on some local Monkey’s Paw equivalent for “the perfect body - you know, like those statues of Greek gods”. So they got turned into… a living marble statue. Might be too close to Joe, though.
Seven-Year
The subject of an accident or experiment. It turned them partially invisible. Normally some percentage of their body is invisible, but it’s never 0% or 100%. They can force the invisibility into certain parts (like their head or arms or whatever), but it’s like flexing a muscle - it becomes harder and harder to maintain. So basically sometimes they look like they’re missing a limb, while other times you can see through the skin to see skeleton or organs. For this reason they stay tightly covered up most of the time. Their name alludes to a broken mirror - seven years’ bad luck.
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I like them both, but Seven-year seems like a really cool dynamic to get into the group.
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I like this. To quote my father “I have to wonder what kind of powers he has to feel confident pushing supers around.” And in looking at the protégé play book I saw there is power mimicry, which would definitely answer that.
Hunter and his mentor Greywand (and Vic?) were traveling around searching for a lost relic that could seal away the mentor’s nemesis, Phantom Lord. In doing so, they carelessly destroyed numerous artifacts, including several from Kiln’s own culture. They ultimately found the relic they were looking for, but it failed to seal away Phantom Lord.
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Quoth Margie:
There are rumors about Hunter’s family being part of a cult – which is maybe how Hunter got his powers, unholy sacrifices, all that jazz.
It’s not true. They are part of a very quiet, ascetic religious sect, but conspiracy theorists gotta conspiracy theorize. Which doesn’t help Hunter, his disposition, or his trust of other people. Why bust your butt trying to be a good guy when everyone assumes you’re not?
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((And, not to jump the gun, but I have a thought for a Nomad, once we get there.))
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Couple more named slots I’d like to sort out.
VIC
@insomn14 What did Vic get arrested for last year?
@garrett Vic has a finsta account that would… cause him some serious problems people found out it was his. It’s also crazy popular. What’s up there?
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Pictures showing a variety of delinquent activities with a variety of delinquent kids, some of whom are on the Clean Slate program - and some who got rejected from it. Might be some underage drinking going on, for example, or power-assisted graffiti and vandalism.
Is Vic funding these activities to have bad-boy friends? Is he reaching out to people he hopes to bring to the side of law and order? We’re not sure, but it looks bad.
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Things I learned today …
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Just saying, btw, that I am finding this a fascinating group of people we’re coming up with, as defined by “Ooooh, wouldn’t it be cool to play them as a PC?”
Not that I have any desire to give up Joe, mind you, but I have a half-dozen further thoughts on most of them that I’d love to follow up on. 
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At the same time, it can be easy to lose sight of the goal here, which is to build up relationships and situations for the PCs we do have. Past a certain point, more detail on an NPC doesn’t help with that.
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True. That’s why I’m restraining myself from endless (but, yes, not-helpful) fanfic. Though I do have a “Joe talks about the kids in his class” post in mind once we’re done.
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Which is one reason I thought, today, thay maybe the transformed who’s a statue might better, since he DOES have something common with Joe, and makes a good foil/contrast? I dunno.
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We’re waiting, I think, on a question about Vic to Mike, but he sounded pretty busy today, so I’m going to get a couple more questions going:
@Dave What is the thing about Nono that makes you legitimately nervous?
@Margie When did you realize Roy is stalking you? (“I have not” is a valid answer.)
@garrett There was a bonfire beach … thing that sort of spontaneously happened a few weeks before school. Why were you there, business, boredom, or pleasure? Who, surprisingly, tried to flirt with you, and was it predictably terrible or surprisingly … not … horrible.
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I’d defer to @Dave personally - do you like how either of the pitched Transformed ideas works as a foil for Joe?
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A combination of business and boredom - Alex knows that some students here keep in touch with juvenile delinquents with powers, or actual villains, and is basically AEGIS’s “our man in Panama” for Modern Generation villains. Beyond that though, eh, why not? It’s a change from staring at screens all the time.
Cristiana “Chris” Drake, aka “Hellblade” (Doomed playbook). A very short girl from the country who was cursed to wield an infernal blade, punishing evil, but at risk of falling to temptation and becoming a demon. She sits directly in front of Alex on the seating chart (I didn’t plan this, I rolled for it).
Alex’s NPC reaction roll was a 5, so they are probably uninterested. I mean, it’s great to hear about crop yields and wheat cross-pollination, but after the first 2 minutes, who cares? Still, Chris has it pretty rough, having just broken up with someone (so the flirting was just rebound anyway), and Alex wouldn’t mind helping her avoid demonic corruption and/or point her in the direction of an interested party.
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